to ferry money back to pyongyang in north korea. and officials enjoying diplomatic community carried money in cash. and that's like baggage, a simple but efficient way to ensure the cash flow doesn't stop. well, nursing the embassies have a different ethic function that, that's often mainly ceremonial. but they're true function financial is also illegal, mainly no screen diplomats are basically cast carriers for kim their into, for their, their businessman. they may be direct lawrence and maybe reverend smugglers, but they carry a different passport, say contacts and berlin. right. in the middle of the city, like the north korean embassy, the north koreans have been renting out one of the buildings as a hostile for tourists. they've been earnings $38000.00 euros per month in rent. using embassy grounds for such activities is against diplomatic practices. and contravenes un and e u sanctions like any other country. the main goal of the embassies is to serve the state in the north korean states priorities in particular . so the cold s

but how does the kim regime manage to transfer the millions it makes to pyongyang? the answer is simple. through diplomatic channels grew up and it shows how much it was. you don't have to go. no, i don't know what it is. i'm not sure who, who gave is true for her payroll. subject was you do you want her to, you know, korea uses. it's worldwide network of embassies to ferry money back to pyongyang, north korean officials, enjoying diplomatic community. carried money in cash. and that's like baggage. a simple but efficient way to ensure the cash flow doesn't stop. well, nursing the embassies have a different ethic function that, that's often mainly ceremonial. but there to function is financial. it's also illegal, mainly know screen diplomats are basically cast carriers for kim their into, for their, their businessman. they may be direct lawrence and maybe weapon smugglers. but they carry a different passport. so you contact them. berlin, right in the middle of the city, like the north korean embassy. the north koreans have been renting out one of the buildings as a

the soap worms come from a province south of pyongyang. about $200.00 tons of silk are produced here every year. a luxury product expensive and labor intensive, the factories entire production is intended for export abroad, but the supervisors are unwilling to disclose who the foreign customers are. i'm not sure any more who suffers under those sanctions. it's a hassle, i'm sure for their friends, but i do find ways around it. why does the pros is at night or china, nor russia is, is helping and enforcing the sanctions chromosomes close it. it's and say they don't see the television on and ends on day colon janet. so you guys and keep on to maybe wait till my mom, sit on it. what are you going to mission mom working number more. you don't moment mom. he had to come in to, to heal sometime, you know, when people people come and factory textiles. the 2nd most important north korean export product after comb with home. now the thing is she bought in then you were to happen who was in she will need them all over the go for hold on and on china

bob over the recent shelling of young pill island here in pyongyang. those is hardly a mention of the incident if people are concerned, no one is saying, so life goes on. as usual, 2 years of negotiations have been paid off. the university of law were the 1st born crew ever allowed to film. here for nearly 6 decades, this institution has existed for one purpose to train film workers for the states propaganda machine. you and me and a bomb. and now in the 3rd year, oh, i come up with a full who can get a spot, i will knew how much it was and possibly can i turn them. i know people can fit it into thought and if you give me an issue at all times, i mean and pick it up. but i knew we don't was i can go to the given and i'm glad you told me the new ways. ok on in england, go creating other towns on it and us that throws away and then some go that was in order to put in an area you need to go to today or you want me to sit down and you him with the students. quote, the did regularly here to see if there is no denying his influences everywhere. oh, the b b i

it manages the leadership secret accounts, the so called palace economy, but wherein pyongyang is bureau 39 located and how many millions flow into its coffers. when we ask the north korean official, he and his translator pretend not to know where his host bureau. 39 is one of the best kept secrets of the king regime. only north koreans who escaped can talk about it openly. me secret location. we meet a man who used to work for bureau 59. he was based in china, his task smuggling foreign currency. then he escaped. his position was so important that today the north korean regime threatens to kill him. this is why he had plastic surgery to alter his face even so he only wants to be film from behind. can we just have a going to right, and you could probably take a general cause. busy more than you mean that are going to see now there's some more, more working behind on the ground to engage with? no, there's a 30 minute police history that vines around was young when we will just read out that you are going to get up or you will, i will is 100 time. she done a ways is how do you understand b

this move is seen as a signal that pyongyang is expanding its band nuclear arsenal.icker has more. reporter: this is a significant development spotted by the u.n. watchdog. these experts are not able to get into north korea, and were expelled by pyongyang back in 2009. they rely on satellite images. what they have seen is activity at the nuclear reactor. that would suggest that material is being made that could be used in nuclear weapons. since the new president, since president biden has taken office, he has said he is willing to talk to north korea, but north korea has not exactly been a policy priority. this action here we are seeing might be a way that pyongyang is signaling it wants to move further to the top of washington's to do list. ♪ ros: i am ros atkins. we are here in the bbc newsroom. our lead story is america is facing questions over a drone strike in kabul. i witnesses say civilians, mostly children, were killed. let's turn to the u.s.. more than one million people are without power in louisiana. that is because of hurricane ida. there are warnings the

and one of the newest and smartest apartment blocks in pyongyang. we been given permission to visit her home. oh, oh. oh, oh. oh. good. so now i'm only in the cow came down. you're taught, though. was her kid will hang on over to look tag i didn't make oh i it's clear she leaves a privileged life. ah, me, this apartment is a reflection of the family status in north korean society. i was, you know, a little in middle school and the tongue tongue is whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. ready my haven't it honey gong all logged in. i'm more to have done or when to true pan gone up. cuz obviously when you go to the got the classroom to do and to middle of the house, you may you may need to go through, you need to, you can, you can the notion you go even to wants him. ringback to go mid week bowman, me start work on a new project. director park when young is an exacting taskmaster or by using some with the economy on my lucas, you can go to what are the key you're going to do? it's a simple scene extolling the virtues of the countr

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the pyongyang university of cinematic and dramatic arts was closed for renovations. but then in mid 2009, we received word that we could meet the students outside the campus. can young and young and move on the go when you, when he was chunk of attrition and everything i don't want to crease from went to go. so yeah, i was going to be interesting in the don't go into don't you, when you're in trouble getting into the race among other day, forget and you know, i don't know if you're on time when you went to the question. i don't want to think of what you meant and so then can we give you this? along with tome, your letters elias knew that i was talking to you. it gets a little over a month also he says and then that so it goes 10 years. i was, how does the civil, how, when it gets all, all problems that i come to you? well, that sounds to me on another 100. it has to go to congress when we was in young once i was in google. so during the, during this, all of it's a tiny window into a closed off world. but that's all we're allowed to film on this visit. it would be mor

pyongyang is expanding the nuclear arsenal. >> this is a significant development spotted by the u.n.dog. experts are not able to get into north korea and were expelled in 2009 so they lie on satellite images. they have seen activity at the nuclear reactor. that suggests materials that could be used in nuclear weapons. president biden has said he is willing to talk to north korea, but north korea hasn't been a policy priority. this action we are seeing might be a way that pyongyang is signaling it wants to move further to the top of washington's to do list. laura: scenes of devastation in new orleans monday after hurricane ida tore through the city, leaving more than a million in the area out per. at least one person died. president biden asked people in affected areas to shelter-in-place as the storm makes its way inland. >> this was the force of ida's winds as it pounded new orleans with water. a hospital filled with patients is cut o. it is no match for the storm. part of the roof was lifted off by the gusts. low lighting areas were overwhelmed by the tidal surge. this footage from

the pyongyang university of cinematic and dramatic arts was closed for renovations. but then in mid 2009, we received word that we could meet the students outside the campus. young and young enough to move on the go when you, when he was interested in the thing i would have done when you created went to go so yeah, i was going to be interesting in the into don't you, when you get into the ration, you know what day for going on, you know, i don't know if you want to digital me to the embed terribly crucially the flooding, similar graduate thing or what you meant. and so then can we go there for young? it is lilian toyota cert. ever told you a letter, so i knew that i was talking you would call gets old. okay. so i told them i didn't know must post them and then that so it goes to yes i was. how does she will how when he gets home. oh, how about that? i come to you. well, that sounds to me visit on another times a day or 2. how long would you go to congress when the lady was in young ones that i'm seeing very little. so do i think they do this already. it's a tiny wind

the young women who serve here a mostly art students from pyongyang and they live and sleep above the restaurant and are often not allowed to leave the premises for years. every evening, at the same time, they changed their costumes and get ready for the big show. ah, [000:00:00;00] i i there are 130 such north korean restaurants worldwide. 3 of them income rodeo. they said to make several $1000000.00 a year, but the waitresses don't get paid for their work. the dollars flow directly into the regime secret coffins. no other country exploits its population as systematically as north korea. north korean work is deployed worldwide. even in the european union in poland. here we encounter north korean work brigades on a building site. they've been promised good wages and decent working conditions, only to be treated like slaves. in the evening, after a 12 hour shift, the work is driven to their barracks their monastery, round the clock by north korean state security. still one of them decides to talk one's on the ocean. the concern is just sail and the consumption. when you get to dish mea

you'll see our recapture of the city of seoul, the fall of the north korean capital of pyongyang, anound troops. and with us again will be a combat veteran who saw as it happened apart from the big picture. this is captain carl zimmerman inviting you to be with us then. ♪♪ ♪ ♪ >> from korea to germany. from alaska to puerto rico.

the ah, in 2011 al jazeera gains rare access to the pyongyang film academy. and some of north korea's brightest young stars. ah, what did it take to serve a national propaganda machine? ah, a compelling portrait of the privileged lives of the countries elite, rewind north korea. cinema of dreams. analogy 0. after a one year delay, the tokyo olympics are finally hid. despite growing opposition and spiraling costs . thousands of athletes are completing an empty stadium. amid the corona virus endemic algae, here it will be inside the olympic bubble. bringing you the latest from again, right? no other the, the health of humanity is at stake. a global pandemic requires a global response. w h l is the guardian of global health. delivering life saving tools, supplies, and training to help the world's most vulnerable people, uniting across the board as to speed up the development of treatment and the vaccine. working with scientists and health workers to learn all we can about the virus keeping you up to date with what's happening on the ground in the ward and in the

of cooling water from the plant, indicating its use potassium is produced to the complex north of pyongyang and potent element use to build nuclear weapons. aerobic kelly is a professor of political science and diplomacy at present national university. he believes north korea is taking advantage of political changes in the u. s. and elsewhere. and then our friends don't really tell us very much about why they make decisions. they don't print documents and things like that. the doctoral statements for us to push through, you know, some of the kind of criminal knology. i would say that the north koreans probably are thinking that negotiations with the americans are over. right. donald trump is out of office, you may recall that trump met him, john and several times, but now he's gone. and the buying team was looking at a lot of other things besides north korea. and so the americans aren't particularly pushing hard on north korea. one way or another, i think the buying people would like to have conversations and some negotiations for the northwest fairly pushing forth where the trunk people di

in 2011 al jazeera gains rare access to the pyongyang film academy, and some of north korea's brightest young stars. what did it take to serve a national propaganda machine? a compelling portrait of the privileged lives of the countries elite, rewind, north korea. cinema of dreams. analogy the around the broker started cheerfully in front of the next meeting, him in amsterdam. hundreds of protesters scattered to the man. the government is locked down restrictions and left the curfew. the 1st in the country since world war 2, the threat is that we lose our freedoms. the testers who are not following social distances rules are repeatedly ordered to disperse by police. police are trying very hard friends. the scenario that happened last week, when thousands were rioting in cities across the natalie, after some protest started throwing stones and nothing of your work, police on horseback moved in to clear the area. the news paper, him writing pledges action on what equals to radical sanctions imposed by the u. s . as he's endorsed around new prison. the hello. so rahman, you know what they

pyongyang is yet to record any covid cases during the pandemic, a claim doubted by most experts.stricter measures to keep the virus out. the north korean official news agency said that scientists have now produced test that met local standards. france is awarding one of its highest honours to the black french—american singer and dancerjosephine baker, who died in 1975. as well as being an international star, she was also a world war two resistance fighter and a civil rights activist. �*s as the north east coast of the united states braced for the arrival of hurricane henri, flash floods tore through the southern state of tennessee. the death toll has climbed to more than 20 with rescue workers searching for dozens who are still missing. tanya dendrinos reports. debris and devastation — this is tennessee after unprecedented storms wreaked havoc, as locals assess the unimaginable damage, search and rescue teams were looking for survivors, with many still missing. i want to begin by expressing my deepest condolences for the sudden and tragic loss of life for this flash flood. i know

can you just explain why pyongyang has we started this plant? no. great question. right. i mean the north koreans don't really tell us very much about why they make decisions. they don't print documents and things like that. dr . statements for us to push through, you know, so that's kind of a criminal knology. i would say that the north koreans probably are thinking that negotiations with the americans are over. right. donald trump is out of office. you may recall that trump met kim john several times, but now he's gone. and the buying team is looking at a lot of other things besides north 3. and so the americans aren't particularly pushing hard on north korea one way or another. i think the buying people would like to have conversations and sometime ago stations are north but start really pushing forth where the trunk people. so i think if you're the north koreans, the thinking is you know, look, i mean there's nothing going on. the americans are offering us anything. the current sour cream present lane keep out of office in 6 months. right. so why don't we serve, resta

seoul may look to downsize or delay the drills to keep its recent detente with pyongyang on track.news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm vonnie quinn. this is bloomberg. shery: now to what is likely the biggest theft ever in the world of decentralized finance. hackers managed to steal about $600 million in cryptocurrency from a protocol known as poly network. su keenan joins us with the latest. it is a crypto heist, so who goes after them? su: if you are poly network but you put a bunch of security researchers on the hunt for these hackers, and you post a letter on twitter, basically urging the attackers to get in contact and work out a solution. also, the letter reminded the hackers that theft of $600 million in crypto assets is a crime. it is believed they are beginning to move it to other platforms. poly network let users swap tokens across multiple blockchain's. the hackers are trying to cash the assets out. poly network says tens of thousands are affected by this attack. there ha

in a statement, saying pyongyang will closely watch.' leaders released statements calling for reconciliation on the peninsula. china securities regular wants to increase -- regulator wants to increase talks with the ftc. washington's move coming in response to beijing's clampdown on private industries after reservations from china. that is a look at the first word headlines. yvonne: ever grand shares today as we see right now, this stock is gaining close to 5% on the back of selling a portion of its stake in its internet unit. that stock also soaring. they are selling part of that state to the likes of tencent. one is an unidentified buyer as well. . shares more than 30% higher today. david shoring up capital. we are still waiting. $.44 to the dollar last time we checked. the other side to the evergrande trade, here is the state of play. price action today in chinese internet names, you see is the same price action with the last week. you have some of your chips and semiconductor names on the other end, big tech internet names, i guess

will cloud enter korean relations and pyongyang will watch the -- as south korea goes ahead with theman, we are watching manufacturing pmi data. we will get those figures to you. we are also watching sony. they are pushing horizon forbidden west back, the latest in a year of delays across the industry. and the earning waves in tokyo continue. they will be reporting later on monday. haidi: -- asian wealth management volumes also being key. our next guest says hsbc is key to local credit costs. what are you expecting to see and what would be encouraging numbers? >> i think we are expecting to see that credit costs don't come down quite as much as people are hoping for, quite as much as we saw with some of the biggest banks in the u.s., and that's because hsbc has not taken that much in the way of provisions in terms of loan loss reserve ills during last year. another concern is its net interest income is a fair degree lower and this could be an unintended consequence of the bank having de-risked its loan book during last year. at the same time, hsbc is one of the most liquid banks of an

kim jong-un's sister has ratcheted up pyongyang's campaign to hold -- to halt a military exercises.he state news reports she said a dear price should be paid by south korea and the u.s. further quote self-destructive behavior. that as seoul may downgrade the patrols. a last-ditch effort for a canadian court to reject an extradition request. she has been fighting extradition since her arrest in vancouver two and a half years ago. u.s. prosecutors claim she lied to hsbc about huawei's operations in iran. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm vonnie quinn. this is bloomberg. shery: here in new york, andrew cuomo has resigned as governor and apologized to the 11 women the attorney general said cuomo sexually harassed. he called the report falls but said his decision to leave was in the best interest of the people of new york. kathy hochul will take over the office in 14 days, becoming the first female governor of new york. quite the downfall for somebody who was at one point though

pyongyang will closely watch to see if the south goes ahead with israel's. -- with the drills.news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm vonnie quinn. this is bloomberg. shery: plenty more to come on "daybreak australia." stay with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ s is bloomberg. ♪ >> we clearly see inflation now in the united states in particular. >> it is obvious that we have a very important spike on inflation. >> every climate is worried about inflation. >> i am somewhat on the side of those who think that we may well have an incipient inflation problem. >> i do not think this level of inflation is a precursor of a large inflation boost, but obviously one needs to watch this carefully. >> another thing is more structural. >> you have to take into account input costs going up. it's a clear area where there are some challenges today. our instinct is this will persist for sometime. >> the global supply chain is not working exactly as it should be. >> rise in volatility is such that we have t

they have a collaboration agreement that they had for years between pyongyang, beijing, and then tokyo you imagine another spectator-free olympics in beijing given the spread of the delta variant. >> it is speculation. i would love to have spectators in the venue. we heard a number of the athletes say that what matters is that we can compete and we can use the term of the pandemic to participate and -- with spectators. but if we had a choice we would prefer to have spectators. let us see how the pandemic involves, especially in china and around the globe, and then will look at the consequence of participation for spectators. >> i want to talk about political protest. the ioc relaxed their rules when it comes to athletes protesting. we have had more expressions of political opinions from athletes since then. how does that play out for future games in places where free speech and political demonstration is not a guaranteed right, i.e., in china? >>? >> it is a guaranteed right. we have an olympic charter and contracts that establish a condition for games participation and everything that

it's also believed they have another complex near pyongyang that is also been operating similarly tohe north koreans might be trying to send a signal, that they want the united states to take them seriously. sources say the u.s. has emailed north korea several times, but they didn't respond, because they think the u.s. agenda isn't specific enough to spend time talking about diplomacy. >> will ripley keeping an all on all things north korea. appreciate it. >>> parts of the southern u.s. are dealing with storms on two fronts. hurricane ida and hard-hit areas with covid. and hospitals just can't keep up, especially true in florida, which saw some of the highest rates of people in the hospital this weekend. one of america's top disease doctors says there's an easy fix for all of this -- get vaccinated. >> what is going on now is both entirely predictable but entirely preventable. and you know, we know they have the wherewithal with vaccines to turn this around. we have 80 million people eligible to be vaccinated who are not jyet vaccinated. we could turn this around and do it efficientl

sister of kim jung-un says the two countries are face a more serious security threat for ignoring pyongyang's warnings. drills are held every year infuriating the north, but they have been scaled back recently due to covid. >>> the taliban now controls six provincial capitals in afghanistan. a local official says the entire northern city of aybak has fallen. officials will meet to try for formulate an international response. civilians desperate to escape have abandoned their homes to reach the relative safety in kabul. and nick paton walsh has reported from inside afghanistan for years now. he joins us from london live. good to see you. so what is the latest on the taliban advances and of course the ramifications for the afghan government? >> reporter: at this stage the afghan government has just announced that it will essentially be encouraging local militias form a popular up rising it says, encouraging people essentially who have weapons form part of armed groups in government loyal areas to get together and come under the umbrella of a began defense forces. that is something that has been

washington's special envoy for north korea says the united states has no hostile intent beyond pyongyangf over u.s. military exercises with south korea that north korea warned could trigger a security crisis. and russian president vladimir putin launches the construction of new navy warships for russia, speaking in a video call, putin gave orders for two nuclear submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles along with two diesel powered submarines. that move comes as part of the kremlin's sweeping military modernization effort which they do in front of the cameras. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight, we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ayy, ayy, ayy ♪ ♪ yeah, we fancy like applebee's on a date night ♪ ♪ got that bourbon street steak with the oreo shake ♪ ♪ get some whipped cream on the top too ♪ ♪ two straws, one check, girl, i got you ♪ ♪ bougie like natty in the styrofoam ♪ ♪ squeak-squeakin' in the truck bed all the way home ♪ ♪ some alabama-jamma, she my dixieland delight ♪ ♪ ayy, that's how we do, ♪ ♪ how we do, fancy like, oh ♪ oh! are you using liberty mu

an offer pyongyang apparently fuming over recent u.s.th korea labeled, quote: hypocrisy. >> we have left the door open and obviously reached out to our channels. i don't have an update for you in terms of any response to our offer. the offer remains to meet anywhere, any time without preconditions. >> former president donald trump with all the fanfare of his summit tri with north korean leader with kim jong un failed to cut a deal some say lessons can be taken from the experiment it. >> showed engagement can produce some results. the results were not implemented but north korea did admit working towards denuclearization. that's a good thing. >> those experts also say that when individual leaders get too involved, the working groups best position to hammer out the details of an allusive deal like the north korean one can get hamstrung. bret? >> bret: amy, thank you. up next, we will talk about north korea's latest provocative moves and the fallout from the afghanistan withdrawal with former u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki hale

this action here might be a way that pyongyang is signalling it wants to move further to the top of washington's�*s steve mcdonnell is in beijing. teenagers will be screaming out right across china and at least some of their parents pretty happy about this announcement. the person concerned wouldn't mind me telling you that at least one parent of a teenager in our office, cheered with joy when this announcement came out today that children and teenagers are to be limited not only to only three hours per week of online gaming but three specific hours. so friday, saturday, sunday night between eight and 9pm is the only time all week that anyone under the age of 18 is to be allowed to indulge in online gaming. i can hear people asking how on earth can you police this? in china, you can because they can force companies to use real name registration using actual id documents. some companies will also be using facial recognition scanning because they would be worried about getting in trouble with the authorities. what's unclear is whether or not foreign companies might be forced to, in some way, impos

this action here that we are seeing might be away that pyongyang is signalling it might want to moveish troops from kabul arrive back on uk soil. president biden declares a major disaster in louisiana as powerful hurricane ida makes landfall — wiping out all power in new orleans. the danger is not weakening at all. we're hearing reports of flood waters rising in many communities. trees coming down, bringing down power lines. roofs collapsing. the un says north korea appears to have restarted a reactor capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. hospitals are at capacity in tokyo. we follow a team of doctors that goes door—to—door — working to keep covid patients alive. and coming up this hour: we look at the future of staycations after a bumper yearfor uk holidays — as many have opted to holiday at home due to the uncertainty around covid travel restrictions. more now on afghanistan, where rockets were intercepted as they were fired towards kabul international airport, as the us evacuation operation is drawing to a close. it comes as british ministers prepare to take part in