our escorts await us in the capital pyongyang. we're now entering a world reserved for the privileged section of the population. these streets and boulevards serve three million residents ten percent of the population the most loyal supporters of the regime a special permit is required to enter the city our two guides accompany us from dawn until late at night they've been tasked with showing us that plan young despite all the sanctions imposed by the united nations is no longer some economically crippled city with a poverty stricken population all thanks to the new national heroes the scientists . this architect spent eight years studying in france after leaving the a call last year now for architecture in paris he returned to north korea in two thousand and ten today he's one of the best architects in the capital designing skyscrapers for the new elite. decide the costly walk this building was constructed in a slum here in just under eight months and that again an economically challenging time for koreans like the coffee cup but

did not. >> this narrow definition. >> very limited concession by the north koreans involving the pyongyang complex, which includes an aging nuclear reactor, and some percentage of their uranium enrichment possibility in exchange for substantial relief from the sanctions. now one thing president trump has said beginning in the 2016 campaign is that he is not going to make the mistakes of require administrations and get into this action for action kind of arrange a president, which benefits -- >> brennan: with no counteroffer. >> the counteroffer is where we have been, where the president has exercised his persuasive abilities on kim jong-un to take the big deal and they weren't willing to do it. >> brennan: but what made the president steak out this tion? he negotiated the north koreans before going back to 2002, did you see the same pattern playing out now? >> i think the difference that president trump has the articulated to the north koreans is the future for them, once they make this strategic decision to question nuke, denuke cries what they have done before is promise, and get financi

the latest activity is at a site known as sanum dong, just outside pyongyang. rockets for satellite launches. the activity is large trucks, which they have seen going in and out. doesn't sound like much, but it is activity that many believe is consistent with that of preparing for either a missile or a rocket launch. this goes in conjunction with the satellite images which suggest their main rocket launch site is now fully operational. work stopped last year but now seems to have been started again and in fact it seems to have been rebuilt at a rapid pace. all eyes will now be on that site. it seems that trucks have now left sanum dong, and a train. all eyes will now be on sohae to see if something arrives there for launch. it is unlikely, i'm told by analysts, at this stage that it may be a missile. they believe it is more likely to be a satellite. but that would still breach the agreement reached between donald trump and kimjong—un, according to the us state department spokesman who gave a briefing this week. they would see that as a violation, even if it is

pyongyang insists its position won't change. an indian pilot, as a gesture of peace after days of rising tensions involving kashmir, which both nations claim as their own. pakistan shot down the airforce jet on wednesday, after a series of indian airstrikes against a militant training camp in pakistan. 0ur correspondents yogita limaye and secunder kermani sent these reports from both sides of the line of control in kashmir. a mortar shell has hit this mountaintop, india and pakistan exchanging fire. in the fields and the forests, the bombs land thick and fast. people watch anxiously. this is one of the last villages on the indian side. here, they are used to hearing these explosions, but the past few days have been scary. translation: there has been so much shelling. we don't sleep at all at night. we worry that a bomb will hit our house. since india launched air strikes across the border on what it says was a terror camp, there has barely been a quiet hour here. it is too risky to go any further from here. we've been hearing th

has warned the north it faces fresh sanctions if pyongyang fails to take steps to denuclearize. reuters correspondent josh smith is following the story in seoul hi josh so u.s. and south korea analysts they've been looking at this satellite imagery what do they claim that it actually shows. so they say that in the images they began to see activity. just week or ten days before trump met with kim jong un last week they started to see not only halting and some of the dismantlement that north korea had started last week or last year but actually a reconstruction of some of the facilities and at this satellite site that being said analysts we spoke to also emphasized but they did not see which was any evidence to some kind of missile test is imminent still josh it would appear that pyongyang is then not keeping its word and promising to dismantle the site this did certainly raise a lot of eyebrows in washington and around the world because there have been very few concrete agreements between north korea and the united states but this area was one that north korea had at least furtiv

new satellite images of a facility near pyongyang suggests north korea may be preparing to launch a missile or a satellite. the american actor, jussie smollett, faces new charges following claims he falsely reported that he was a victim of a hate crime. venezuela's power cut crisis continues and leaves crucial services paralysed. the government says its sabotage carried out by the oppostion. seeking a level playing field on international women's day. the us national soccer team are suing the us soccer federation over pay and discrimination. friends of shamima begum's family say it is shocking that britain did not protect her new born baby which has died in a syrian detention camp. the teenager who ran away to join the islamic state group has been stripped of her uk citizenship. she had already lost two babies and had wanted to return to britain. daniel sandford reports. when the bbc first interviewed shamima begum 2.5 weeks ago, she'd just given birth to a baby boy, jerrah. in his short life, he lived in one internment camp and then another. his mother said her two other children had alread

pyongyang insists their position won't change.ace after days of rising tensions involving kashmir, which both nations claim as their own. pakistan shot down the airforce jet on wednesday, after a series of indian airstrikes against a militant training camp in pakistan. 0ur correspondents yogita limaye and secunder kermani sent these reports from both sides of the line of control in kashmir. a mortar shell has hit this mountaintop, india and pakistan exchanging fire. in the fields and the forest, the bombs land thick and fast. people watch anxiously. this is one of the last villages on the indian side. here, they are used to hearing these explosions, but the past few days have been scary. it is too risky to go any further from here. we've been hearing the sounds continuously now for the past one hour. you can't see any military installations there, this just looks like any other regular village. but those sounds tell you that you are very close to the border with pakistan. this village in pakistani—administered kashmir was hit by i

this, they ols haalso bureaus in pyongyang.ut the north korean leader basically is deciding whether to continue talks with the united states, also deciding whether he will keep this moratorium on missile testing. that wases o the one thing that u.s. president pointed to, pointing out that they did leave on good terms and also that kim jung-un was not going to carry on testing. shele went on to say, quote, we have no intention to yields to the u.s. demands put forward at the hanoi summit in any form nor are we willing to engage in negotiations of this kind. they specified that they didn't ask for all sanctions to be lifted which is what mr. trump said saying there was only a few that were concerned with the population. and she said the u.s. were too busy with pursuing their own political interests and have no sincere intention to achieve a result. this could be seen as an ultimate may du ultimate du ultimatum by north korea. this is sdrs straight out of th korean playbook. the blue house is watching the situation and trying to g

and pyongyang say dialogue dialogue will continue and as an apparent goodwill gesture the u.s. and south korea are suspending their annual joint military exercises the pentagon says it's to reduce tension and advance denuclearization on the korean peninsula however the drills have not in fact been cancelled but rather were placed by another set of exercises on the scale of more can take stock of the second tranche came some of. the talk to annoy between trump and care more complete failure a blowout a bomb trump says the talks failed because of what he says were unreasonable demands they wanted the sanctions lifted. in there in turkey and we couldn't do that but that is not how north korea remembers the meeting with what we proposed was the removal of all sanctions but they were partial removal we proposed to the united states three articles of sanctions that impede the city with economy and our people so with conflicting information about what actually took place. set the meeting between the two leaders we've now got the u.s. state department issuing an explanation of the expl

out the name but that's virtually unheard of there came john thune cast his ballot in the capital pyongyang as a patient is mandatory and it's expected that the ruling korean workers party will win unanimously election day is celebrated with music and dance. playing belonging to al jazeera gerry and president abdelaziz bouteflika has arrived in geneva souces in the algerian government say the president plans to return home to run for a fifth term in office this after officials spring holidays for university students bring forward to sunday more than a week earlier than planned in an attempt to quell student protests against the president who's been in power for two decades friday's protests or hundreds of thousands marching in the streets of the capital algiers and other parts of the country. protests have started peacefully thousands marched analogy is against president putin freak his decision to extend his twenty year reign by running for a fifth term. but as the day wore on tempers frayed police and protesters clashed leading to injuries on both sides medical sources say at least one hu

sanctions against pyongyang with trump and kim unable to agree on the terms despite little headway being made at the summit in washington and pyongyang say the dialogue will continue and as an apparent goodwill gesture the u.s. and south korea have decided to suspend their annual joint military exercises a pentagon statement says it's being done in an effort to reduce tension and violence and denuclearization on the korean peninsula though the drills have in fact not been canceled completely but rather replaced by another set of exercises artie's kelly movement take stock of the second kim summit. the talks in the noise between trump and kim were complete failure. trump says the talks failed because of what he says were unreasonable demands they wanted the sanctions lifted. in their entirety and we couldn't do that but that is not how north korea remembers the meeting because they were what we proposed wasn't the removal of all sanctions but their partial removal we proposed to the united states to leave articles of sanctions that impede the cereal and economy and the law of our people s

sanctions against pyongyang with trump and. among able to agree on the terms despite little headway washington and pyongyang say dialogue will continue and current goodwill gesture the u.s. and south korea are suspending their annual joint military exercises the pentagon says is to read the drills have not in fact been cancelled but rather flip placed by another set of exercises artie's more pain take stock of the second chunk implement. the talks in hanoi between trump and kim were complete failure a blow out a bomb trump says the talks failed because of what he says were unreasonable demands they wanted the sanctions lifted. in their entirety and we couldn't do that but that is not how north korea remembers the meeting because what we proposed wasn't the removal of old sanctions but they were partial removal we proposed to the united states we've articles of sanctions that impede the symbol of economy and the law of our people so with conflicting information about what actually took place at the meeting between the two leader

made at the summit washington and pyongyang say the dialogue will continue and as an apparent goodwill gesture the u.s. and south korea have decided to suspend their annual joint military exercises a pentagon statement says it's being done in an effort to reduce tension and fall and rise nations on the korean peninsula those details have in fact not been canceled completely but rather replaced by another set of exercises. to take stock of the second trump summit. the talks in hanoi between trump and can work complete failure a blowout bob trump says the talks failed because of what he says were unreasonable demands they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that but that is not how north korea remembers the meeting with what we proposed wasn't the removal of all sanctions but they were partial removal we proposed to the united states articles of sanctions that impede the symbol of economy and our people so with conflicting information about what actually took place at the meeting between the two leaders we've now got the u.s. state department issuing an expla

diplomats to pyongyang soon to try to restart talks with this context of this new development of the missile site it does mean that those diplomats may face greater hurdles than they would have otherwise so talks will continue between washington and pyongyang but what about north korea's neighbors like south korea and japan who are directly threatened by the north's missile program what do they think of these efforts to negotiate. south korea's president mugabe and his been one of the biggest supporters of engagement with north korea he was dealt something of a body blow by the failure of the trump to summit and this latest news on the rocket side there will certainly cause him more problems as he tries to reach out japan has also continued to raise concerns about north korea's continued weapons development and so this is certainly not good news for them either all right words correspondent josh smith in seoul thanks for bringing us up to date if you now to sports and the best football club in europe for three years running as the knocked out of the champions league round madrid is o

efforts to broker a deal with pyongyang on the nuclear weapons question and so it is willing to a focus instead on other smaller joint military exercises with the u.s. if that's what it takes to get in an anti nuclear deal that's the view from washington his regiment brian with more now from seoul. effectively joint military exercises in south korea have been scaled back since president donald trump announced after the single poor summit last june that he was no fan of these war games as he called them that they were a waste of money but this confirmation that key resolve and foal eagle these spring exercises involving tens of thousands of troops of war planes ships and tanks will effectively come to an end is seen as a big concession they'll be replaced by a much smaller less high profile exercises these exercises have always enraged the north koreans who see them as a possible credit to war it seems the joint to militaries of south korea and the u.s. of now agreed at least in part with that saying that they do indeed lead to a rise in tension that these exercises are being ended as a

how to be in any indication we just said in the lead in there that pyongyang hasn't commented on it but maybe why can we surmise why north korea might want to pull out itself as i have something else you're seeing there baby steps but still important sure north korea didn't publicly announce the withdrawal so we don't know the reasons officially but we can make some conclusions or because the most. directly follows. american punishment america decided to punish two chinese companies with sanctions for doing business with pyongyang diplomats in beijing have already said that they're outraged by that move these kind of things are unacceptable these kind of things only should be done as a result of some sort of action by the u.n. so there you have it this was the first action taken by washington against north korea or whoever's dealing with north korea after the summit of donald trump and kim jong il and noise and all this thaw and signs of friendship between the leaders of america and north korea as you can see they may end up being a while of and when the sanctions alarm goes off in the

secretary pompeo was invited to pyongyang a second time. he and i went october 5. spent a day with kim jong-un, with his sister. some of the day was spent with others. we had a chance to surface important issues around all four commitments that the two leaders made in the singapore joint statement. going into november, it was our expectation that we would have a final framing meeting and the kickoff of working level talks. that was scheduled for the first part of november. a few days before that meeting we received word from north korea that there were scheduling issues. they had other issues that were complicating their participation. they asked for a postponement of that meeting. we don't know the full -- we don't know the full circumstances around that. like so much else about north korea, even with the incredible resources we have available to us, we had to engage in some speculation as to what was happening. north korea was disengaging also from china, from russia, from south korea. we're not sure what happened and what transpired inside north korea during the

out the name but that's officially on hurdles leader kim jong un const his ballot in the capital pyongyang participations mandatory and it's expected that the ruling korean workers party will be a new nanny mislaying election day celebrated with music and. today marks sixty years since the spiritual leader of tibet the dalai lama fled his homeland amid a mid of failed uprising against chinese rule he's been living in exile in india ever since so many tibetans today's anniversary is a bitter occasion standing in the rain in delhi this group of activists chant free tibet and sing traditional songs and good as chants the gathering was also to commemorate the many thousands of tibetans killed during a failed revolt in nine hundred fifty nine. well after that uprising an estimated one hundred thousand tibetans fled the fighting as refugees here's a look at tibet today and into the cave vents leading up to this sixtieth anniversary. it's known as the roof of the world nestled high in the himalayas today tibet is governed as an autonomous region of china but it's in a ton of me in name only the c

declaration which was the declaration between north koreans and south korean signed in pyongyang last september where north korea committed itself to decommissioning this center in front of international observers so it does come as a bit of a surprise to say the least to see that after some dismantling has been carried out last year we do seem to have seen some reassembling taking place now it's always easy to read an awful lot into very little out of north korea we have to bear in mind that while any developments to do with its nuclear weapons programs are always interesting they always could point to some bigger indicators it doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to see any imminent restarting of testing i think we're a long way from that in fact is not even known whether this was carried out since the failed hanoi summit or indeed before the diplomacy at hanoi it seemed to have failed war ok robert many thanks for joining us there from cells now to robert kelly's professor of into. so relations and and the school science department at busan national university joins us via sky

pyongyang has now given its first response to the intrusion.grave terrorist attack, and noted the rumours that link the break into the us intelligence agency the fbi. that is something washington has already denied stop and you say that the united states government at least had nothing to do with this? the united states government had nothing to do with this. thank you. all right. the raid in spain came in february, just a few days before the north korean leader, kim jong—un, met few days before the north korean leader, kimjong—un, met president trump in vietnam. that has only increased speculation that the break—in is part of a wider plan to get rid of mr kim. also making news today: the former us vice presidentjoe biden has denied claims by another democrat that he behaved inappropriately towards her. lucy flores said that during campaigning in 2014, he placed his hands on her shoulders and kissed the back of her head, making her feel uncomfortable. in the uk, the former opposition labour mp gisela stuart, a key figure in the pro—brexit vote