after welcoming shinzo abyei and his wife donald trump wasted no time in addressing one of the main issues on their agenda north korea the u.s. president revealing a breakthrough in relations between washington and pyongyang. we were also a story talking to north korea directly we have had direct talks at very high levels really high levels with north korea. and i really believe there's a lot of goodwill a lot of good things are happening we'll see what happens as i always say we'll see what the response has now confirmed that cia director and secretary of state nominee mike plan peo met with north korean leader kim jong un last week. a stunning turnaround just three months ago trump and kim were engaged in a war of words sparked by p.r. yang's nuclear program and long range missile launches but the new year marked a new direction for the isolated country there was a thaw in relations with south korea with the north participating in the winter olympics and a joint korean talks move to end hostilities as well as talks of denuclearization. in early march jim offered to hold talks with washin

trampas began a second day of talks with japan's prime minister shinzo abyei at a working lunch in florida president trump said trade will be the key discussion topic on wednesday but the japanese media. north korea covered it yesterday a little bit today we're talking military force with talking to me we're going to be doing now it really is free. as the prime minister noticed it doesn't go well with the united states we have a very big deficit and we're going to we now and probably. now it's at some point in the. wee hours massive deficit. cuba's national assembly has formally nominated vice-president miguel diaz condo to become the island's next president yes can only arrived at the meeting alongside the current leader raul castro will be the first person outside the castro family to rule cuba in almost sixty years turkey's president has called surprise early elections for june which of the one and outs that the vote originally showed your for november twenty ninth teen will now be held on june the twenty fourth this year means new greater powers for the president or come into force a y

tokyo time when korea was an occupied colony moon also briefed japan's prime minister and told shinzo abyei that he had conveyed japan's willingness for talks with north korea a willingness kim jong un said was mutual kathy novak al jazeera sold. let's bring in our guests now and joining us in geneva tara grove former head of the verification and security policy coordination office at the international atomic energy agency and in seoul last skype peter ward a rise of and cain news who researches the north korean economy great to have you both with us thanks for joining inside story tara first of all how much of a big deal is. said that kim jong un is shutting down this nuclear test site well i think this is to demonstrate now that he is serious in the go sharing with the united states on north korea's nuclear weapon program and by earlier announcing the halt of ballistic missile tests and further nuclear weapon tests and then adding to that the closure of the nuclear test site is to basically show that he is serious and he's putting some chips on the table ok so that's the why but how signi

tokyo time when korea was an occupied colony moon also briefed japan's prime minister and told shinzo abyei that he had conveyed japan's willingness for talks with north korea a willingness kim jong un said was mutual kathy novak al jazeera sold. hundreds of migrants from central america trying to enter the united states from mexico after a month on the road they reach the u.s. border with protesters on the american side of the fence there to welcome them the migrants including many from honduras and el salvador hoping to seek asylum in the u.s. but the trump administration has vowed to crack down on immigration so rob granules joins us live now from san ysidro border crossing just south of san diego and we know that u.s. officials have been reacting to the caravan's arrival rubble more can you tell us. well we have a bit of news on the whole subject mari i'm the customs and border protection agency has advised the media and the public that they're they have no longer any capacity to process any people who are coming to this border crossing in order to claim asylum or try to get refugee sta

tokyo time when korea was an occupied colony moon also briefed japan's prime minister and told shinzo abyei that he had conveyed japan's willingness for talks with north korea a willingness kim jong un said was mutual kathy novak al jazeera sold. now this ours is in thailand have released a magazine at its twenty thirteen was sentenced to eleven years in prison for insulting the king some new york for some sort of used his magazine to campaign for the law to be changed he refused to plead guilty or to seek a royal pardon critics say the prohibition on themselves and the king is used to stifle political dissent scott hardly has more now from bangkok. but there are some that was released from prison early monday morning after serving seven years of an eleven year combined sentence he was convicted of last majesté that was supposed to have him in jail for ten years and also defaming a senior military official those supposed to be one year those reduced to a collective seven years about eighteen months ago now we've been in touch with his daughter straight the way through the days leading up to

tokyo time when korea was an occupied colony moon also briefed japan's prime minister and told shinzo abyei that he had conveyed japan's willingness for talks with north korea a willingness kim jong un said was mutual kathy novak al jazeera sold. un security council delegation has interviewed more than one hundred range of refugees who fled a military crackdown in neighboring myanmar launched crowds of rain in july the road says the team arrived in the bangladesh in town of cox's bazaar that's where some seven hundred thousand ranger remain in makeshift camps charles stratford has been following events there. well it started a very emotional response from some of the refugees that met with this delegation the small innings of british ambassador literally being held by a number of women who described. as being raped losing family members shot dead by forces the delegation were moved around the camp they were taken along roads along which times thousands of ranger refugees stood many of them holding up cards reading things like we want justice and we are breaking not being goalie it was very

tokyo time when korea was an occupied colony moon also briefed japan's prime minister and told shinzo abyei that he had conveyed japan's willingness for talks with north korea a willingness kim jong un said it was mutual kathy novak al-jazeera saw. omar fitzpatrick as a drug draw of the nonproliferation program at the international institute for strategic studies and he says it's unrealistic to expect north korea to hand over its nuclear weapons without any substantive concessions first. i do share secretary of state pomp a view that there is a real opportunity here i think the new leader relatively new leader of north korea has presented the u.s. administration with a possibility to move toward peace i don't think that north korea is going to give up its nuclear weapons as quickly as the administration is suggesting but there is a real possibility here i think there can be a deal that lays out a goal and then sets forward a process to try to get there north korea's not going to give up its weapons before it gets something concrete you know especially if they see the united states. walking