with me is nina trentmann from the wall streetjournal let's talk first of all about north and south koreambolic meeting between these two men. and quite a dramatic change from last year. ——. we saw a lot of tension between the north koreans and south koreans and the us. quite a change. i was koreans and the us. quite a change. iwas in koreans and the us. quite a change. i was in south korea are a couple of yea rs i was in south korea are a couple of years ago when tensions were quite high. it's quite a huge change. a few months ago, we were talking about military tensions rising. it can take credit for this. what kind ofa can take credit for this. what kind of a roll deep in the south korean president is playing because when he was elected, it was on the basis of, left me and i will bring us closer to north korea. that is one of the goals that the president has had. some of the credit has to be given to him. some of the dynamic might come from the fact that donald trump is meeting kim jong—un come from the fact that donald trump is meeting kimjong—un noon in a couple of times. the chinese

with me is nina trentmann from the wall streetjournal.'s get straight into it's take on the porton down delivery of its verdict. they are certain that this is novichok but at the moment, they're not saying where it came from. is not clear the moment where the nerve agent, which was confirmed as novichok, came from and this does raise the question of whether the uk government was too quick in accusing russia of involvement in that attack and also then having evicted russian diplomats from the uk, which then also was followed by similar action in the us and also then by one in russia. of course, it remains to be seen. rt is sponsored by the russian government, so a certain take on that. it can read between the lines here because of course, again, they are making the claim that russia has again denied any involvement in the poisoning and has offered its assistance to clear this up, so of course this is sort of a russian perspective on the. very much so, but it is interesting. i was reading the times, the british times newspaper, they use the

with me is nina trentmann from the wall streetjournal. let's get

nina trentmann from the wall streetjournal joins me now.e can focus on some we can focus on some of the other issues as well but obviously it is d—day, deadline day for getting these inequalities. they have already thrown up some intriguing, not to say rather shocking disparities in pay in some sectors. we have seen a number of interesting figures. interestingly, there was no sector where women were paid more, where men were paid less than women. letters interesting to see, it is carrying through cross sector. one of the things to point out that these figures where companies had to provide median and mean disparities and between male and female is also showing that in the end, many females did not work in leading positions in companies which mean that pay and bonuses are lower than for men. for example at ryanair, they were saying they have over 500 male pilot and only eight female then leads to a shocking gap of over 70%. that is one disparities which cannot be dealt with overnight. that is fair, isn't it? there is a tradition of certain s