with me is nina trentmann from the wall streetjournal.et's start with dallas news online, looking at the terrible attack in a church in texas on sunday in the middle of sunday morning meetings, a young man lets rip. yes. it is a tragic incident, once again. it is raising this question in the us, will it continue as it has done? as we heard before, las vegas was a couple of weeks ago, a similarly tragic incident, and there is this huge debate that we also have in europe, will this continue, and how far is regulation changing? i thought that is one of the things that dallas news talked about, which is since sandy hook, the killing and an elementary school, none of these calls for national regulation of changes have gone through, actually, the other way around, many states have passed legislation making it easierfor gun holders have passed legislation making it easier for gun holders to carry guns ina easier for gun holders to carry guns in a concealed way so that no one knows they are carrying a gun. in a concealed way so that no one knows

nina trentmann from the wall streetjournal is with us for the news briefing today.s far as he is concerned. yes, he has been very direct and concerned. yes, he has been very directand again concerned. yes, he has been very direct and again pointing out the fa ct direct and again pointing out the fact that big us is exporting less to japan than fact that big us is exporting less tojapan thanjapan is fact that big us is exporting less to japan thanjapan is exported to the us. the trade deficit is around 51 billion at the moment and trump has been pointing out that for example there is not enough american ca i’s example there is not enough american cars being bought by the japanese. it will be one of the pressing issues for the two of them amongst other issues such as the relationship to north korea and how to make the north korean regime stop its nuclear programme as well. quite an interesting and big topic they have in front of them. it is jampacked. it is all over the papers in asia, as you can imagine. nina will be back very shortly for the news that briefing. we h