forward with something a lot more substantial an exchange for fully verifiable disarmament the north koreans are going to ball do you have any sympathy robot from north korea i mean they seem to been doing all of the running i mean at least they seem. to know more genuine genuinely interested in doing a deal with the americans to stage. i would say sympathy i can understand why the north koreans rejected the deal that trump offered them which is basically give up everything you have in exchange for big security guarantees and some aid packages in the trump tower and that kind of stuff i mean trump talking about condos i mean you know i mean if you're the north koreans are going to take that seriously no of course you're not right you're mr rounded by countries that don't like you right many of which would like to see you eliminated from the system altogether a nuclear weapons are just simply there there are great to turn against the sort of local security threats and nothing trumps but on the table comes even close that's not to say the north koreans made a good deal to us to the americans t

the same contempt for innocent victims abroad that you see visited upon the hapless subjects of north korean state and also that you see in north korea's belligerent behavior in the nuclear crisis, internationally. at this point, let me pass over the podium to the three cochairman. >> thank you very much, nick. you have written widely and with deep insight, spoken critically on this issue. good morning, i am ken weinstein, president and ceo of hudson institute. i want to welcome our viewers on c-span. i want to welcome our viewers in japan and our audience here. if you are using the headsets, english is channel one. japanese is channel two. korean is channel three. english, one, japanese two, korean, three. we are honored to cosponsor this timely conference with our friends at human rights in north korea and our friends in the government of japan. japan has been critical of the hudson institute for more than half a century, since our founding by the late geo strategist, hermann khan who was the first to predict the rise of japan as an economic superpower. over the last few weeks, we have ina

the same contempt for innocent victims abroad that you see visited upon the hapless subjects of north korean state. and also that you see in north korea's belligerent behavior in the nuclear crisis internationally. at this point, let me pass over the podium to the three cochairmen. ken weinstein. >> thank you very much, nick. you have written widely and with deep insight and spoken very forcefully on this critical issue for some time to come. good morning. i'm ken weinstein. i'm president and ceo of hudson institute. one bit of housekeeping before we get under way. i want to welcome our viewers on c-span. i want to welcome our viewers in japan and our audience here. if you're using the headsets english is channel 1. japanese is channel 2. korean is channel 3. again, english 1, japanese, 2, korean 3. we at hudson institute are deeply honored to cosponsor this timely conference with our friends at the human rights in north korea and our friends in the government of japan. japan has been critical to huds hudson institute for more than half a century after the founding of herman cannes who predi

president that had a good or thought they had a good working relationship with the north korean leader. it's possible that it could lead to the advantage of more negotiations, but the issue is the u.s. doesn't have that much leverage over north korea. there is no trade that takes place and in comparison, countries like russia and china have a little bit more leverage that they may be able to use to get the north koreans to stop escalating things. >> you've mentioned russia and china goes to my third question for you. this is happening a month after he met with russian president vladimir putin and he met with chinese president xi jinping. is it conceivable to believe that north korea may be more embolden to push for what it wants, the lifting of u.s. sanctions, given the support of the neighbors? >> what it's trying to do with its relationship with rush sharks it's had a close relationship with chinese, is to show the u.s. there are other players involved, there are other main actors it can have a relationship with. the summit with russia, the north is hoping the russians can push for a

of the south korean military i mean they want to peace treaty there are lots and lots of things north koreans want and then the moon administration to its credit has at least flirted with some of this but the south korean president but the drum administration is really only offered sanctions relief and that's just not enough for the regime security value of nuclear weapons it's just it's just not enough to trump you will got to come up with more or we're going to have to learn to live with north korea as a nuclear weapon state by what sort of deal would china what to say what would be acceptable preferable as far as china is concerned. china takes a slightly longer view they're looking at this as a you know over years that you go from phase one two and three and that eventually that north korea north korea feels comfortable enough of giving up its nuclear arms i don't know if that's possible i mean let's not put all of the arrogance on one side i'm no fan of trump but on the other hand you have young kim who is who state is in fact under u.n. sanctions who has successfully met with three of t

security council and that the north koreans need to come to the negotiating table and start being flexible we need to be flexible let's have a a compromise north korea destroys a good part of their missiles their nuclear weapons we reduce some of their sanctions and keep negotiating towards a future that's in the international interest america's interest let's come to an agreement how do you see it playing out with the current strategy that trump is employing. well the north koreans this is what what they're doing now is what they always do i've negotiated with up fiery rhetoric threats insults at the secretary of state national security adviser they haven't insulted the president yet shooting short range missiles not violating the pledge they made to the president on long range missiles but still causing trouble coddling up to russia and china the north koreans want us to cave in on our negotiating strategy we shouldn't cave bin but we should try to reach a compromise and north koreans this is what they always do and we seem to be playing into their hands of the president is by saying no

on december 11, 1969 the plane was hijacked just after takeoff by north korean agent. due to pressure from the international community, the north korea would repatriate all 53 people from the plane. it was february 4, but then on the 14th, they returned only 39 passengers. testimony of those who return, my father was being detained against their will by the regime. on february 6, 1970, my father strongly argued that he should be sent back home, he says i want to go back to nort korea. ladies and gentlemen, there was 50 years ago. since that day, my mother, sister my grandmother passed her life in agony. before 50 years north korea refuses to sending information. but my father is on fruit will try to escape from north korea. but his attempt failed. i felt him i cannot help it. help of my father, the rest he was living in the city and north korea, at the time my father was taken away for criminal behavior but now he cannot go home even though he wants to. for the past 18 years i have campaigned for my father's repatriation, truly it is so hard and difficult. the organizat

-north korean negotiations begin? i won't even say resume, because i am much less convinced - and so are my friends -- that there really was a negotiating process with north korea. the chinese who are great believers in the principle that war,aw is better than war will be relieved but i think we will find them to be deeply deeply worried about being frozen out of a deal between pyongyang and washington. china will need to protect its own equities which are very considerable. joe had mentioned, to shape the outcomes. and, therefore, will push hard to multilateralize the process. the report also asks the question what happens if talks were to collapse? and, certainly, in the aftermath of hanoi, that's a question we have to take a hard look at. we already see that china is pushing to deescalate the the situation and resume some degree of diplomatic engagement. we should expected push from china on north korea not to test, certainly testing a nuclear device i think is highest on beijing's do not do list, given its morbid f

forward with something a lot more substantial in exchange for fully verifiable disarmament the north koreans are going to ball do you have any sympathy robot from north korea i mean they seem to been doing all of the running i mean at least they seem i don't know more genuine genuinely interested in doing a deal with the americans to stage. i would say sympathy i can understand why the north koreans rejected the deal that trump offered them which is basically give up everything you have in exchange for big security guarantees and some aid packages in the trump tower and that kind of stuff i mean trump talking about condos i mean you know i mean if you're the north koreans you're going to take that seriously no of course you're not right you're mr rounded by countries that don't like you right many of which would like to see you eliminated from the system altogether a nuclear weapons are just simply there there are great to turn against the sort of local security threats and nothing trumps but on the table comes even close that's not to say the north koreans made a good deal to us to the amer

al-jazeera also show re junk show had been doing millions of dollars of business with all the north koreans politicians in malaysia and now asking hard questions about what north korea has been up to the assassination of kim jong nam exposes.

we know who the north koreans are. we're working to see if there's a possibility before we go another direction, want to see if there's any possibility we can achieve this outcome. >> let's turn to venezuela, national security adviser john bolton suggested earlier this week, that maduro was about to fall. openly called for maduro's inner circle to defect. but opposition leader guaido acknowledged yesterday that he miscalculated the level of support that he thought he had within the venezuelan military. was this an intelligence failure for the united states? >> no, not at all. attempting to re-establish their democracy. as you know, these things have bumpy roads to be sure. but maduro can't feel good. he's ruling for the moment but he can't govern. there's enormous poverty, enormous starvation. there are sick children that can't get medicine, jonathan. this is not someone who can be part of venezuela's future. our mission is to work with large coalition, now 50-countries plus working to restore democracy. ultimately, a

the north koreans facing another famine 10000000 are hungry because of the worst drought in 4 decades could the suffering force the north to abandon its ballistic missile development at least on the rise ation told to go from this is inside story . welcome to the program i'm nick clegg an estimated 2000000 north koreans died during the famine in the 1990 s. aid workers a calling for international help to prevent history repeating itself or us even north korean state media are sounding the alarm the official news agency is reporting the worst drought in 37 years and it blames economic sanctions for making matters with us north koreans of being to fight what's called a war against nature to find new water sources and protect crops the united nations has just reported the lowest harvest in a decade and has warned that millions are going hungry south korea is sending cash to help. so a little country minute here. our government has decided to provide $8000000.00 to international organizations projects to support north korea including the world food program and unicef based on our stance t

korea combined with the impact will be dat so south korea is concerned it very seriously about north korean economic situation fool situation and then willing to help north korea his current regime but declaring american. it's so important that the united states show the world that north koreans have the right to life not just the freedom but to life so we are we deny action north korean children's lives. or because of a nuclear situation so we should not have connived full well that prefer. and foster carter as the united states looking at the situation they would have been very well aware of the impending crisis affecting millions of people in north korea as they continue their negotiations or go back and forth with. the administration in north korea how much of a factor do you think this crisis is in how they play that hand. sad to say i mean aside i was i would assess it not very much a toll i mean you know working out what matters to donald trump apart from bill trump himself is really quite difficult the trouble is and i think we have to say a little bit about the broader context and

the north koreans facing another famine 10000000 are hungry because of the worst drought in 4 decades could the suffering force the north to abandon its been a mistake missile development at least on the rise a she told the donald trump this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm nick clegg an estimated 2000000 north koreans died during the famine in the 1990 s. aid workers a calling for international help to prevent history repeating itself or us even north korean state media are sounding the alarm the official news agency is reporting the worst drought in 37 years and it blames economic sanctions for making matters worse north koreans are being to fight what's called a war against nature to find new water sources and protect the crops the united nations has just reported the lowest harvest in a decade and has warned that millions are going hungry south korea is sending cash to help. so a little country minute here. our government has decided to provide $8000000.00 to international organizations projects to support north korea including the world food program and unicef base

the second woman convicted over the killing of the north korean leader's half brother is freed but who were the real masterminds behind the attack and clamping down on hate speech facebook and several far right individuals and organizations. welcome to the news we are in combat that was the message of a defiant venezuelan president nicolas maduro to his army days after an attempt by some soldiers and opposition politicians to overthrow him one of the opposition leaders who will see the long side murderous challenger. asking the army to topple the president is facing arrest leopoldo lopez and his family and now in the spanish ambassador's residence in caracas to avoid detention madrid has refused to hand him over. i want to say to all of my brothers and sisters in venezuela and around the world we are not going to rest we are not going to rest for one single moment we are not going to rest under any circumstance from the challenge a promise we've taken on which is to end the usurpation meanwhile the political unrest has driven more than fourteen hundred venezuelans from their homes into

trump and north korean leader kim jong un, the negotiating process is in danger of breaking down. the us breakthrough with north korea also causes the ground to shift beneath our feet. north korea's leader kim jong un has emerged from international isolation in addition to two summits with president donald j. trump, over the last year he has held several summits with south korea, for summits with china, and his first summit reading meeting with russian lear putin just a few days ago. china is a central factor in this equation. it shares our goal of denuclearization on the korean peninsula, but interest on the peninsula are not identical to those of the united states. china's top priority is to head off instability on its borders. its goals are to, one, and often foreign military intervention in north korea, second, to prevent the collapse of the north korean regime, and third, to promote denuclearization in that order. chinese leaders believe that north korea developed nuclear weapons to determine the perceived threat from the united states. for that reason, it supports direct talk

the us seizes a north korean ship alleging violation of international sanctions — just hours after north launches two short range missiles. hello. i'm ben bland in london. also in the programme: brunei under a microscope. the un will be examining the country's human rights record. singapore's parliament passes a controversial anti fake news law, giving authorities sweeping powers — but critics warn it threatens freedom of speech. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. good morning and welcome to newsday. it's 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, dc, where trade talks are under way between chinese and american negotiators. they are taking place after a week of threat and counter threat to introduce new tariffs on one another‘s products. the us is planning to introduce new import charges on chinese products in five hours‘ time, even as the talks are taking place. we'll hear from shanghai in a minute, but first let's look at the latest trade data. according to the us commerce department, the amount of merchandise — such a

representative for north korean affairs is here in seoul having continuing talks with the south korean counterparts one thing that they are talking about is possible food aid being sent to the north so we have possibly conciliatory gestures at the same time that we have this a pain of the pressure with the possibility of further negotiations it seems hanging in the balance thanks very much indeed robert royd in seoul. european powers have denounced iran's threat to resume drawing a sharp response from the iranian foreign minister zarif tweeted the e.u. statement today is why the nuclear deal is where it is the u.s. has bullied europe and the rest of the world for a year and the e.u. can only express regret instead of demanding that iran unilaterally abide by a month multilateral accord the european union should up hold its obligations including the normalization of economic ties but the europeans also say they're committed to the nuclear deal and want to run to keep complying with the terms of this. iran wasn't officially on the agenda at the e.u. summit in romania but following tehran

says it sees a north korean cargo ship this violated international sanctions justice department officials say the ship one of north korea's largest was trying to transport coal it was detained in indonesia a year ago and is now being taken to american samoa. and north korean state media has released pictures of a missile test hours after south korea detected a weapons launch on thursday can soar the test that took place in the country's western region it is the second missile test in under a week the launches come just over two months after the hanoi summit between kim and donald trump ended in failure. self korean president has commented on that we said that's collation he said the weapons test all north korea's way of sending a message to the united states quantum trombone honey north korea seem to be considerably discontented it could not reach a deal at the second north korea u.s. summit in hanoi country with the cost of that or you will have on north korea fired missiles that do not directly threaten the united states japan or south korea so they appeared to be careful not to break d

the north koreans facing another famine 10000000 are hungry because of the worst drought in 4 decades could the suffering force the north to abandon its been a mistake missile development at least on the rise a she told the donald trump this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm nick clegg an estimated 2000000 north koreans died during the famine in the 1990 s. aid workers a calling for international help to prevent history repeating itself us even north korean state media are sounding the alarm the official news agency is reporting the worst drought in 37 years and it blames economic sanctions for making matters with us north koreans are being to fight what's called a war against nature to find new water sources and protect crops the united nations has just reported the lowest harvest in a decade and has warned that millions are going hungry south korea is sending cash to help. so a little country minute here. our government has decided to provide $8000000.00 to international organizations projects to support north korea including the world food program and unicef based on

for female north korean soldiers, mistreatment of a different kind.s woman is a former nurse in the people's army. she says a female colleague of hers was forced to have an affair with a superior officer. the woman became pregnant, she says, and almost died when she suffered a miscarriage. >> translator: she said when they asked her to have an affair with him, there was no way she could refuse. she had to do it in order to get party membership, so she could have a better life. the only thing she could sacrifice was her body. >> reporter: these horrific stories come as president trump remains determined to pursue his personal diplomacy with kim jong-un. diplomacy which otto warmbier's mother calls a charade. >> how can you have diplomacy with someone that never tells the truth? he lies, he lies, he lies all for himself. >> reporter: we reached out to north korea's mission at the un for their response to the accounts of those soldiers of starvation and abuse. they didn't get back to us, but kim jong-un has previously said publicly that his soldiers shou

give of a summit with the north korean leader kimjong—un.a summit with the north korean leader kim jong—un. give us your thoughts on this. of course this is a very fraught relationship. yes. for many reasons. we know the japanese object to having missiles flown in their direction for very clear and good reasons. but then we also have the issue of the abductees, about 17 japanese were abducted by the north korean regime. only if you have been returned so far. so up till now, abe has been rather right wing, rather tough. he said he would only meet with kim jong—un and if we can solve this abductee issue in advance. he is now softened his stance somewhat. it's interesting to see the people of japan seem to be behind him in this. indeed. basically this poll suggests a majority is saying they are for a meeting between these two leaders regardless of preconditions agreed. that may get us further. what is interesting is donald trump going to meet some of the families. that may give extra people to get these people back which would be a huge win for

between north korea and south korea at the summit in pyongyang last september and calling on the north koreans to make every effort to actively participate and restart dialogue towards denuclearization so this very much seems to be placing at least some of the blame for the current stalemate on north korea's position the it has started a flurry of diplomatic activity. the foreign minister of south korea has been in conversation with mike pompei o of the united states and also the japanese foreign minister trying to coordinate a response on the watchword seems to be one of caution saying that they will respond but prudently everybody conscious and being wary not to escalate tensions any further well u.s. president will trump responded via twitter saying i believe that kim jong un fully realizes the great economic potential of north korea nothing to interfere or and if he also knows that i am with him and does not want to break his promise to me. well i'm joined in the studio now by john everett who's a former british ambassador to north korea welcome thanks for joining us on the program why do

it does often take north korean media a little time to catch up. the last bulletin potentially for this evening. it's saturday night local time here. we have heard from the south koreans, though, as you say. the presidential blue house here, the presidential office said they're concerned about what north korea did actually goes against a military agreement that north and south korea agreed to in pyongyang last year. where both sides agreed not to carry out any actions which would increase any tensions on the peninsula. the blue house said what north korea has done has gone against that. they've called on pyongyang to come back to the negotiating table as soon as possible. it's important to note we don't know exactly what was launched at this point. we just know it was multiple short-range projectiles. of course, what that actually means is going to be important when it comes to what a potential reaction from the trump administration could be. we know that kim jong-un himself has said he wasn't going to launch icbms, intercontinental ballistic missil

now a vietnamese woman jailed over the murder of the north korean leader's half brother has been freed from prison to aunty hong was one of two women put on trial for the poisoning of kim jong. that kuala lumpur airport hundred twenty seventeen she was convicted last month on a knesset charge of causing injury to malaysian prosecutors with two of the murder accusation the other accuser an indonesian woman was freed in march after all charges against her were dropped florence we had small from kuala lumpur. twenty one had teated guilty to the lesser charge of causing harm last month she has time for that conviction and will be flying back to vietnam later on friday now the kohak used. been in the dock with us since the start of the trial was released in march off to prosecutors dropped charges against her following intense lobbying by the indonesian government these two women have always maintained that innocence they said they had no idea they were taking part in a mud plot and that they always thought they were merely playing harmless pranks for a reality t.v. show many analysts have

forward with something a lot more substantial in exchange for fully verifiable disarmament the north koreans are going to ball do you have any sympathy robot from north korea i mean they seem to been doing all of the running i mean at least they seem i don't know more genuine genuinely interested in doing a deal with the americans to stage. i would say sympathy i can understand why the north koreans rejected the deal that trump offered them which is basically give up everything you have in exchange for big security guarantees and some aid packages in the trump tower and that kind of stuff i mean trump talking about condos i mean you know i mean if you're the north koreans you're going to take that seriously no of course you're not right you're misurata by countries that don't like you right many of which would like to see you eliminated from the system altogether a nuclear weapons are just simply there there are great to turn against the sort of local security threats and nothing trumps but on the table comes even close that's not to say that north koreans made a good deal to us to the ameri

people means, 10 million north koreans hungry over 40% of north koreans are undernourished.nd agriculture 0rganisation, the latest figures show over 43% of north koreans, 43% of the overall population are suffering from undernourishment. so this is all due to the perverse choices made by the regime. the us and russian presidents had an hour—long phone call earlier to discuss various matters including the venezuelan crisis. the us has backed the opposition leaderjuan guaido — and accused russia of convincing president maduro to stay in power. but after the call, donald trump said that vladimir putin didn't want to do more than provide aid to venezuela. the bbc‘s nick bryant is in caracas with this update. this was supposed to be the week that president maduro was swept from office, and opposition leader juan guaido would take charge but after claiming early on tuesday morning that he had significant military support for a public uprising, thatjust failed to materialise. there weren't the defections amongst the military top brass that were needed and within 48 hours, the mass

al-jazeera also show re junk show had been doing millions of dollars of business with all the north koreans politicians in malaysia and now asking hard questions about what north korea has been up to the assassination of kim jong il exposes malaysia. where you have a foreign government involved in activities that might be a true mental to release itself why did the malaysian government allow this for which a long time regional schol had close contact with agents from this embassy the evidence suggests that together they planned and executed the most high profile of murders. after the release of the only remaining suspect in norm's killing these pictures obtained exclusively by al-jazeera suggest the karaoke singing chemist who gets away with murder will jordan al-jazeera kuala lumpur and for more on this al-jazeera investigation by will jordan you can go to our you tube page you tube dot com slash al-jazeera english. a south africans are voting in what's only the sixth democratic election next wednesday one of the key issues is an ongoing debate about land ownership most of the land is stil

so now there's the north korean cargoship suggesting the north is trying to get around economic sanctions to greater tensions. how they break through that is not clear, especially at a tile when trump is also engaged in a trade war can china and he's trying the keep the chinese support on the sanctions regime. >> brennan: and the u.n. said that 40% of the north korean population is nearly starving right now. they're really getting squeezed we these sanctions. does delivering food aid violate the maximum pressure campaign, susan? does the president have a way around this? >> i think he does. the other thing president trump has shown he won't be bound by many of the constraints anyway. he's not, as you know, one of those people who in his negotiations insistsi consistency as well as all other virtues inch this situation i agree with david that the north koreans are really looking to pressure the united states in some way back to the table. kim jong-un is essentially launching these missiles. he's give an deadline interestingly of the end of the year for there to be some sort of progress her

special representative on north korean affairs is here in south korea talking to his counterparts about what comes next and about ways of moving forward one possibility is humanitarian assistance agreeing to send food aid to the north so while we have these increasing military tensions there is also the possibility of further conciliatory gestures with the whole future of negotiations very much hanging in the balance. with nearly all votes counted south africa's governing party is once again on course to win the general election but with the lowest servos since the end of apartheid twenty five years ago the main opposition democratic alliance has almost a quarter of the votes the results are expected on saturday i'm. joining us from tory and as we're saying we don't have the official results yet but we are getting an indication of how this election is shaping up. that's especially the case with these three quarters of the vote been counted so far and as you mentioned it's with the aides in the lead it's really beginning to shape up in terms of those final results that we expect to come

american authorities announcing they seized a north korean cargo ship for breaking sanctions, using itlegally and secretly transport coal after north korea and the us test firing missiles within 10 minutes of each other. today the two suspects in the deadly colorado shooting are back in court. devon erickson and a juvenile suspect expected to be formally charged for murder and attended murder. kendrick losing his life while taking down one of those suspects. the us increased tariffs to 25% on chinese goods. the president ratcheting the pressure threatening fresh levies on $325 billion in goods after beijing made last-minute changes to a trade deal. talks continue today. police in delphi, indiana receiving 42,000 tips about the murders of abigail williams on our taping trip in 2017. a surge of information coming since releasing does the invest stand? public information officer sergeant kim riley joins me with more. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. i appreciate it. heather: more than 42,000 tips, police released this video. there is an updated suspe

for all i know you're familiar with all of this but these latest acts, what the north koreans did and this ship, what do you make of it? >> well look we've got sanctions in place on north korea. it's our maximum pressure approach to trying to get them to give up their nuclear weapons. you have to be strong and consistent in that effort and that is what the administration is doing. neil: you've been long on the show how north korea does an end-run around sanctions that we think are holding that are not, but wouldn't that make us more predisposed not loosening things up here when the north koreans are urging that if we do, if we don't, they will do projectile or who knows what is next tests? >> that's right. it shows our sanctions are having an effect. the way sanctions work, over time they create more and more pressure. that is what you're seeing on the north korean economy. that is why we have to continue to be steadfast what we're doing, get them not only come to the table, but actually follow through in terms of denuclearization. neil: where do you see the whole north korean thing g

what this tells me is that the north korean dictator knows how to play donald trump. he is playing him beautifully and at the expense of our national security, when the president looks the other way in the face of violations of the sanctions agreement, and the president continues to evaluate kim jong-un on the world stage without getting an agreement to denuclearize the korean peninsula. >> senator chris van hollen, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> up next, president trump takes bipartisan heat for backing kim jong-un's attack on joe biden. how the biden and trump campaigns are shruggi insluggin. >>> plus, will democratic lawmakers get to question president trump as part of a new lawsuit seeking his financial records. my experience with usaa has been excellent. they really appreciate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. it was funny becau

that's what the north korean comments, the immaturity thing, i'm not so sure about. the rest i will let the world decide. chris: there was a moment to this conversation where i thought mean would be correct. >> fair enough. the president gets to choose who negotiators are. he's leading the effort. we want to maximize the possibility, keep open to the extent possible that we can achieve and we are working to do that. chris: i have a couple of minutes left. there's been outburst of rocket fires on gaza, israel is responding with air strikes, is this just the normal outburst that we see across border or pretty serious? >> the number is over 400 rockets that we can validate, the israelis have every right to defend themselves. i have seen video, strikes at home, rockets. >> fired with civilians around them in order to protect from return fire, this is terrible, israelis have every right to protect sovereignty of the nation and i hope that we can protect to the cease fire that had been placed for weeks and had been holding significantly before this. chris: pentagon issued

it is estimated that over 10 million north koreans suffer from severe food insecurity and that some couldlies altogether. when one thinks of north korea, north korea is such a weird amalgamation of mediaeval mores, buffoonish bellicosity, one tends to mock, one tends to patronise north korea and one assumes that the food situation, the pervasive hunger and malnutrition must be due to incompetence, a combination of bad weather, bad fortune and perhaps even us— and un—led sanctions. simply not true. north korea is an industrialised economy, north korea is an urbanised, literate society and, for the first time ever in human history, an industrialised, urbanised, literate country underwent, suffered a famine as north korea did in the mid—90s. it's an entirely manmade famine and over the past 20 years or more, north koreans have been among the top in terms of food insecurity. 10 million people means 10 million north koreans hungry, means over 40% of north koreans are undernourished. according to the un fao, food and agriculture organisation, the latest figures show over 43% of north koreans, 4

minister disagreed, saying that those missile launches didn't bother him, that he believes that the north korean dictator wants to make a deal and sees that there could be tremendous economic future for north korea if it gives up its nuclear weapons. though they disagree on that issue of whether or not united nation's security council violations were violated with those ballistic missile launches on may 9th, the japanese prime minister applauded the u.s. president for his new approach, as he put it, to pyongyang, saying that president trump succeeded in cracking the shell of distrust by meeting now twice face to face with the north korean dictator and also thanked president trump for raising the issue of japanese citizens who were abducted by north korea in those face-to-face negotiations. >> just a bit more on the issue of trade, mr. trump pointing out that there is new investment in the u.s. coming from japan and he has optimism that u.s. exports will gain ground in that country. >> that's right. and shinzo abe, the japanese prime minister said that in a span of about a month between the last

we heard later from north korean officials that they only asked for some of the sanctions to be lifted. we believe they were the most recent and the most hea heavy-hitting, when it comes to affecting north korea's economy. kim jong-un said he felt that he had done enough nuclear and missile testing. he said he was going to focus on the economy. what north korea wants is an easing in the financial sanctions. something that china and russia have called for. something that south korea would sign on to. although, they are still supporting the u.s., that they want to have full denuclearization and look at whether the sanctions can be lifted. the u.s. has given some wiggle room in that recently, if things are going well, sanctions can be lifted. but clearly, at this point, washington is not willing to lift sanctions unless they get more from north korea. >> good to talk to you. it's 4:00 in the afternoon, where you are. the u.s. and south korea are working to determine what it was that north korea launched. we'll see if we get details in the coming hours. thanks. >>> rescue crews say all 163

the north koreans call did a grave terrorist attack. spanish authorities have asked the u.s.nd and arrest adrian hmong, his the u.s. marshals aren't the only people hunting for him. >> we know from credible sources that the north korean government has -- is seeking adrian hmong and some of his associates from the provisional government and is seeking to target them for assassination. >> a brutal totalitarian regime ruled -- >> reporter: the goal of the provisional government of free josan is overthrough ki-- ove overthrow kim jong-un's regime. his lawyer says he's scared for his life and denies roughing up anyone at the north korean embassy. he said they were invited and points to surveillance photos of another member of the group entering. attorney lee walosky said members of the group had contact with someone at the embassy in the days before the incident. but why would members of a group which wants to overacross -- overthrow kim jong-un be there? >> it is individuals who are posted outside of north korea who when given the opportunity will choose to defect. >> reporter: s

special representative on north korean affairs is here in south korea talking to his counterparts about what comes next and about ways of moving forward one possibility is humanitarian assistance agreeing to send food aid to the north so while we have these increasing military tensions there is also the possibility of further conciliatory gestures with the whole future of negotiations very much hanging in the balance but plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news are including illegal israeli settlements based scrutiny the u.n. security council plus. looks for a five star review from investors and it's hard to supply to share listing. for the portland trailblazers cousin but on the brink to force a deciding game seven in the n.b.a. play. some of the sports news in the water. even to much of a protest is expected in gaza demonstrators have been on the border fence every friday for more than a year israeli forces have killed hundreds of palestinians demanding the return of their land and many wounded palestinians have needed and like imputations some acute for treatment new artificial

north korean state television's version of walter cronkite. who can't understand announcements with breathless energy. once even donning all black and crying openly as she announced the death of kim jong-un's father. but now it appears north korean state television is looking to refresh its image, putting her into semi retirement. the bing lady's traditional dress and artistic backdrop have been replaced with younger anchors and a sleeker tv studio look for his propaganda-filled newscast. while it's all still prop fwand did propaganda, it looks decidedly western, with fancy graphics, drone footage, and time-lapse video. >> this is something they want to tell our people, we are modernizing earne ining under o leader and with his youth comes a whole new level of technology. >> reporter: in one instance they even stage an interruption on-set. a presenter walks in and hands the anchor papers with breaking news on how a factory is doing. the change in north korea's broadcast could be influenced by more content coming in from outside korea. >> they d