and robin wright. a staff writer for the "new yorker," and a distinguished scholar at thest united states ute of peace. welcome to you both. vali nasr, to youe first. weeen the denunciations from the president and the supreme leaderf iran to the president's move. what do you think iran is going to do next? >> i think in the immediate future, they're going to give europeans, chinese, and the russians time to see whether th can preserve elements of the deal enough economic activity with iran that might justice iran to stay with the deal. that might take 30-45 days. if that does not work, i think there will be domstic pressure on iran to essentially part ways with the deal. k think at the same time, iran would have to lr ways to convince washington that it's not as weak asand vulnerabl the administration may have concluded that it is. and that's, actlly, much tougher for them to do. >> brangham: robin wright, obviously, president rouhani is in a very tough spot here. he was elected, in no small part, to d

i want to bring in robin wright from the u.n. institute of peace and wilson international center to break this down for us. is this surprising and what is this going to mean, robin, for pro expectative ta-- prospectiv talks between president and kim jong un? >> there have been many attempts in the past that have fallen in terms of negotiations and so forth. i still think there will be some kind of summit. i think both sides are terribly invested in this. north korea is going to play harder ball than i think president trump realizes in his compliments about the actions taken by the regime and releasing american hostages and agreeing to a summit. this is clearly a momentary setback. in the past the north koreans have been rather surprising in their willingness to let south korean and american military exercises carry on last month. so it will be interesting to see how significant this setback is. . . >> what do you attribute this setback to? >> this is a breaking news story and i'm not sure we know all the details yet. there are con

off on thursday says he's having productive talks with pyongyang about reinstating the meeting robin wright has more now from seoul. this movie has been broadly welcomed here in south korea looking for any good news especially after the pessimism of the past few days as statement from the blue house the president's office says that this is a very welcome development and that the government here is now cautiously optimistic that this summit can go ahead moon j.n. the president of south korea of course has offered his services as a mediator to continue this dialogue to push it had exit polls suggest the majority have voted to change oil and strict abortion laws they're projecting a landslide victory for the u.s. campaign with sixty eight percent in favor of repealing what's called the eighth amendment which the results are expected on saturday afternoon. cyclon miku new has made landfall in amman bringing strong winds and torrential rains a twelve year old girl was the sixth casualty of the storm as it hit the coastal city of salalah at least five other people were killed when it devastated t

. >> brangham: robin wright, obviously, president rouhani is in a very tough spot here.s elected, in no small part, to deliver on the del, open up relations with the west and reap the benefits of thi deal. what happens with him nou? >> one of the big questions ctions isn and its rea the context in which it plays out, because iran is at a critical juncture. they have aging leadership. the actuarial charts would tell you the supreme leader will at some point transit out of the world-- >> brangham: leave this world. >> an there will be a new one. the iranians have to select a new one. iran has term limits on the presidency, so they will go to the polls, and president rouhani will not run again. the question is does this aid th hard-liners whare a minority but disproportionately powerful. and will this give them the leverage to re-exert themselves and say, "we were riht all along. you can't do business with the united states. they're still the great satan." we should stand up to them and vote for us instead. >> brangham: certainly, that is one of the arguments that the hard-

let me ask you again, david o'sullivan, a question posed by robin wright, a prolific writer, another great womean. a part-time scholar at the wilson center and always brags about that, which makes us proud. "given events over the past year, brexit, angela merkel's weakening, the dangers to the euro, spain's impending problems with populism, just how strong is europe today? how cohesive, durable, effective?" the flipside, how weak? amb. o'sullivan: that is not a question easily answer in 30 seconds. frankly, here in america -- i don't disagree with the issues you mentioned. brexit, italy. you have to step back and look at the durability of the european project and how it has consistently survived many crises in which it has been predicted it will fall apart. don't underestimate the extent of the commitment of our member states to this project. i will come back to brexit because it is a slight outlier on that for obvious reasons. if you look at the standing of the european union in opinion polls across the 27 member states, it has never been higher. there is a lot of support for benefi

like still off south korea's president has described the cancellation as shocking and regrettable robin wright has the reaction from seoul. an intended gesture of peace in a process that may be going nowhere. the demolition of tunnels at north korea's underground nuclear testing site. it was meant to be a further step on the path to a historic summit but by the time these pictures were reaching the outside world it was already reeling from the shock of the summit's cancellation. from north korea's foreign ministry a measured response calling the decision not consistent with the desire of humankind for peace and stability adding that north korea remained willing to sit down with the u.s. side to solve problems at any time from south korea disappointment verging on the will demand. ask for vice foreign minister kim statement we see no change of a sincere will by the relevant countries when it comes to resolving the current situation through dialogue the government will continue our diplomatic efforts to further extend this momentum for the talks as part of that effort south korea's foreign minis

robin wright is here. new yorker who is a fellow at the woodrow wilson center. good evening. so good to see you in person. thank you for coming in. the president says this summit with north korea may not be in three weeks. what do you think? >> well, there is a tremendous iffyness about american diplomacy with north korea at the moment, both in terms of the date as well as the substance. the president has talked about denuclearization that north korea has to give up everything first. and of course the north koreans are not going to give everything up without some kind of incentive. and they've also started playing "hardball." and the one thing president trump has learned, the lesson of the last 11 presidents is that north korea is the most mercurial country in the world, and the dynasty run by the kim family through three generations is very hard to deal with. and it will be the toughest challenge of his presidency. >> people hate it when you say i told you so. but when all this was announced and they were

let's get the thoughts of robin wright, joint fellow at the us institute of peace and the woodrow wilsonrecently returned from south korea, you were at the border of the demilitarised zone. with this news today and a it is now with a date set, what other potential glitches before we get to that. the big rich is what kimjong—un once, his motive injoining an international or us—led diplomatic effort. a re ‘ of effort. there are a number of theories, one that he actually has a nuclear capability and therefore if he gives everything up now he can rebuild in a couple of years so he is now in a position of having this capability to give up what he's got. the second theory, he is following the way of other asian communists and sees the opening up of the economy as a means of ending isolation and that really is pivotal to north korea and its troubled economy. the third theory is that he is duping everyone and that he does not really intended to give everything over but he is willing to engage in a process that provides some benefits particularly economically for the north. that is the big questi

rock is so hard you can hardly hear the language that is significant in certainly agree with that robin wright somewhere on main and then on our website. tour starts tomorrow in our sport at it's d.w. dot com slash culture the website routed mail thank you very much. now it's one of prague's biggest tourist attraction the astronomical clock has been located in the old city for more than six hundred years now for just the third time in six centuries the clock is being cleaned and restored. the whole in prague sold that's what clock master paper scholar thinks of this construction site usually home to the city's astronomical clock. that is it says that this is imagine that he would be told forge steel machinery here the timing mechanism the huge his and the axis and right now all of that is dismantled being repaired. in january the cogs turned one last time and then the or loyola is the checks call it was taken apart for repairs just the third time since it debuted in the fifteenth century. hundreds of years of dirt must be removed stone mason remey to cal gets to work on it with a high pressure