with the north on whether pyongyang can send its athletes to the games south korea's president moon j.n. says his country is ready to negotiate on letting north korea joint next month lympics hosted by the south but he stressed that north korea's nuclear threats would be a major point in any talks. let's go straight to saul now and reuters senior correspondent josh smith it's good to see you could this moment there's a lump it diplomacy signal some kind of breakthrough and actually reduce tensions well that's certainly what officials here in seoul are hoping this is because something that south korean president. has been pushing for some time he has proposed to the americans for example to delay a major joint springtime military. drills until after the olympics they're hoping that. new year's speech maybe that opening that they've been looking for just a day to day per posed on january ninth to meet with north korean officials and discuss possibilities for their athletes visiting the games however there's been no response to that overtures from the north just yet ok and there's a bit of a tim

president says he is open to meeting north korean leader kim jong un if certain conditions are met moon j.n. says he has no plans to ease sanctions against pyongyang until it ends its nuclear program his comments follow tuesday's official talks between the two sides the first in more than two years. i keep myself open to any media including the summer with north korea if it's helpful for an improvement of self north. or settlement of the north korean nuclear issue but to have the summit some conditions must be established i think a certain level of success must be guaranteed at least nineteen migrants drowned when the rubber boat sank off the coast of libya another three hundred on other boats were rescued from the mediterranean sea on tuesday libya is where most migrants are trafficked farm as they try to reach europe temporary israeli checkpoints and roadblocks are cutting off the city of nablus and surrounding villages in the occupied west bank security forces are looking for the killer of an israeli rabbi the thirty five year old died in a drive by shooting near an illegal israeli settlement

i'm joined on and with a quick reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera south korean president moon j.n. says he is willing to meet north korean leader kim jong un when proposed a summit to resolve differences between the two nations of a pyongyang's nuclear program it follows high level talks on tuesday. two hundred. i keep myself open to any maiden including the summer with north korea if it's helpful for an improvement of self north relations or a settlement of the north korean nuclear issue but to have the summit some conditions must be established i think a certain level of success must be guaranteed israeli army has carried out raids on villages close to the occupied west bank city of nablus after and israeli rabbi was shot dead its declared the area to the north west of nablus a military zone. flooding and mudslides caused by a powerful storm in southern california have killed at least thirteen people some homes in santa barbara county were completely leveled many more were damaged forcing thousands of people to leave a judge just blocked the trump administration from ending a program

news out of these are our top stories south korean president moon j.n. says he's willing to meet north korean leader kim jong un would propose to falmouth to resolve differences between the two nations of the pell grants nuclear program this follows talks between officials from the two nations on tuesday. that israeli army has carried out raids on the villages close to the occupied west bank town of nablus soft and israeli settlers shot dead it's to clear the area to the south west of nablus. military. u.s. president donald trump's former advisor steve bad and has resigned as executive chairman of the right twenty news website breitbart this comes just days after around remarks bad and made about his son in the recently published book and fury. we're going to get more now on those attempts to reduce tension tensions between north and south korea we're joined by robert kelly professor of political science and diplomacy through some national university and he's joining us on skype i believe very good to have you with us on al-jazeera as always mr calley what tu

moon j.n. by phone on thursday trump says he hopes good results will come from planned meetings between pyongyang and sold the talks are set for tuesday and will mainly focus on north korea's participation in the olympics. save the children says thousands of pregnant woman and new mothers in revenge or refugee camps in bangladesh are urgently in need of care the aid organization says it expects as many as forty eight thousand babies to be born in the camps in twenty eighteen that's more than one hundred thirty women had they given birth often in unsanitary conditions without adequate medical help that are now more than eight hundred fifty thousand range of refugees in bangladesh and it's estimated that sixty percent are children and almost five percent are pregnant woman among the conflict and humanitarian advocacy advocates advise and i'd save the children he's recently returned from a hinge of camps in bangladesh he says there are limits to what aid agencies can do . it is six hundred fifty thousand refugees who came over in the space of just a couple of months into an area that wasn't really p

say look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world south korea's president j.n. has said he is willing to meet his north korean counterpart conjunction under certain conditions moon said denuclearization of the korean peninsula would be his goal in any talks with the north his comments come a day after the first high level talks between north and south korea in two years well a tsunami threat has been lifted after a seven point six magnitude earthquake shook the caribbean on tuesday night the tremor struck in the seat near the northern coast of honduras officials in honduras said shaking was felt across much of the central app for american nation however there have been no reports of serious damage. and french actress catherine dinner has criticized the meat to movement saying men should be free to hit on women in an open letter published in friendster new warned of a new puritanism as a result of the recent surge of sexual harassment scandals. from white house insider to banished outsiders stephen batten has stepped down as executive chairman of the right wing breitbart news network the announcement comes less than a week after battens withering criticism of tru

talks and that's very important i would say that you know little kim jong un made this overtures but this is really a triumph for the president of south korea moon j.n. who after all ran on the on the platform of having dialogue with north korea and defusing the crisis through diplomacy and when he came to office in may the first thing he proposed was to have military to military talks and also to have red cross talk so the families could reunite families that were divided by the korean war and now both of these issues are on the table and are going to be discussed so i think it shows it's a very very favorable light on president moon and his kind of cautious ins and careful approach in contrast to president trump's you know blustering and threatening approach and until it's interesting you mention trump because he came out today and said you know if i weren't involved they wouldn't even be talking about the olympics right now to be to you know talking or it would be much more. serious so i think in a way he feels like he can take some create and create here rather than in gene. well i think it's rather presumptuous of of trump to say that for one t