japanese prime minister shinzo abi is in china for the first official visit in seven years against a backdrop of trade friction with the united states the asian rivals are working to build closer ties it was welcomed by chinese premier league in beijing the two then has talks aimed at increasing economic cooperation and signed a number of agreements are being hailed it as a historic turning point in the relationship between the two countries are based you to meet with the chinese president xi jinping later today. joining me now from beijing is deed of the correspondent. welcome what is from your perspective how significant is this meeting and why do you think it comes now. historic is a big word but for himself this is probably is torek he has been unwelcome all socially unwelcome in beijing for most years that's because of his nationalist retore x. and his unwillingness to address japan's wartime on the other hand japan also is very unhappy about china's military behavior in the region its assertiveness so post the ties have been very tight very. restrained during the last five year

well during his visit to beijing shinzo abi said she is ready to work with china on the issue of north korea while pyongyang and south korea have agreed to remove some guard posts along the peninsula as demilitarized zone eugene jiang has more now from seoul. the two koreas held general grade military talks at the northern side of the pond when john on friday this comes just one day after the two koreas and the us led un command a removed all fire arms and guard posts from within the same area. and it feels great to see with my very own eyes that the joint security area has really been to militarized under the september nineteen military agreement. fighting is meeting as we saw there was carried out in a very positive atmosphere clearly mirroring a more relaxed mood of between the two koreas ever since the south korean president in and north korean leader kim jong un held their first summit at the truth village of public back in april and what's important here after friday's meeting is that the two bill a trace of the two careers are fully committed to implementing the military agreeme

military presence in asia and i think the message from china's leaders to shinzo abi is going to be this you know china can be a stable alternative to the united states already the value of trade between these two countries stands at three hundred billion dollars and of course china remains japan's most important trading partner and you know shinzo r.b.a. is saying he wants to lift the relationship to a new level so the mood music so far appears to be quite positive. three journalists have been released from detention in myanmar after the country's president intervened the man who worked for the country's largest newspaper were arrested earlier this month following the publication of a story alleging officials and young on had mismanaged public phones they've been facing two years in prison currently out on bail. a weather update next year i was here a dentist thousands of migrants continue their journey north through mexico the u.s. says it will send extra troops to its southern border but some americans are offering helping. the creative soul bacon serving a twenty year prison sentence

military presence in asia and i think the message from china's leaders to shinzo abi is going to be this you know china can be a stable alternative to the united states already the value of trade between these two countries stands at three hundred billion dollars and of course china remains japan's most important trading partner and you know shinzo r.b.a. is saying he wants to lift the relationship to a new level so the mood music so far appears to be quite positive all the rivalry between asia's two largest economy stretches back to the early years of the second world war generations of chinese have been taught about attacks by chinese troops most prominently the nanjing massacre of one nine hundred thirty seven the commemoration of war dead in japan remains an issue for many in china who consider the dead japanese soldiers to be war criminals the two countries also disagree about the sovereignty of islands in the east china sea which lie on huge oil and gas reserves japan is trying to develop an improved trade partnership with the us after the trumpet ministration pulled out of the tra

states he also wants shinzo abhi not to be drawn into a strategy which seeks to contain china so shinzo abi has a difficult job here it's something of a balancing act yes he wants to have improved relations with china but he doesn't want to upset president donald trump because of the end of the day the united states is the main security guarantee for japan adrian thanks very much stephen naggy is senior associate professor of the tokyo christian university he says both china and japan can benefit from improving ties both countries would like to move their relation relationship back to focusing on economics focusing on trade and to push aside some of the difficult political issues that really is a division between the two states who has the most to win this is very difficult question to ask but i think we can clearly understand that beijing is concerned about the sino u.s. relationship they're concerned about the trajectory of that relationship and they would like to it they're taking in economy and enemies approach and what i mean is that they'd like to put fires out within the region they'

in japan to discuss efforts to achieve a nuclear free north korea after meeting prime minister shinzo abi my comparable is you to go to north korea for a second round of talks with leader kim jong un the us wants progress in the effort to rig the korean peninsula of nuclear weapons after kim agreed to denuclearize during the singapore summit with donald trump in june. japan's famous tsukiji fish market has kills its stores after more than eighty years supplying tokyo's kellen area world more than twenty million dollars a fish is bought and sold some of it i water in prices every day a new site will open in a week but as marianne a hundred force many of the fishmongers believe it is contaminated inconvenient and unsafe. to kids the market where a single tuna can sell for more than a million dollars this ritual has played out here for more than eighty years wholesalers chefs the owners of japan's top sushi restaurants carefully inspecting bluefin tuna using techniques honed over many years. before the contest and spectacle begins. this is the famous two kids tuna eruption and this is the fi

on denuclearization in north korea his in japan to coordinate strategy with the prime minister shinzo abi compare with then visit north korea for his second meeting with leader kim jong un came and u.s. present donald trump agreed to denuclearize the korean peninsula at a summit in june but there's still no plan to put that into action now as president secretary of state tours asia his wife first lady malani a trump has arrived in egypt it's her last op on her maiden tour of africa which has attracted a lot of attention online but he is back with us what are people saying about this story well first of all folly is flotus in africa twenty eighteen which is the main hash tag we're seeing online and it's melania trump first solo trip overseas she landed in ghana on tuesday then travel to malawi kenya and then finally to egypt the trip as part of her the best campaign which aims to highlight u.s. programs on women's and children's health but there's a soft diplomacy at play here too aiming to put her in the global spotlight and draw attention away from criticism of her husband's policies. bu

thailand mean mot and vietnam all the leaders were welcomed in tokyo by japan's prime minister shinzo abi and all agreed to push forward more than one hundred fifty projects in the mekong region they include expanding airports in laos and building roads in me and mo as well as upgrading postal services and using information technology to improve health care the focus was on three main areas effective connectivity people sentences societies and environment and disaster management japan's strengthening ties as china expands its investment and influence to michael penn as president of the should get sued news agency who we spoke to earlier he told us japan wants to promote peaceful development and make south east asian less vulnerable to china i think that you know if if there is going to be an impact in the longer term this would be just one step not the first step and not the last step and i think that that's probably viewed that way by the participants certainly among the countries in southeast asia there are still many tense relationships not all of the governments get along with each ot