from south korea to travel to north korea without any permission from south korea government but now and then so is us chris like a island. if you wanted to go abroad you have to take it -- l. plan on so now they found that if you. if you feed normalized relations with korea but we we have a lady di -- the train rail racer is connected between -- between north korea south korea and then was the open borders open we can travel people can imagine can travel to our north korea. to china middle east asia viaa seth previously the island mindset so it's okay so this is a very symbolic action. on you to try this trend trip or so -- brings to these are sort of the korean people's mindset. and at the same time you know vietnam -- definitely historically historically. the similarity between north and south korea might so dispatcher they wore there was war between vietnam and united states and north korea and the united states. and vietnam on claim that they won the war against the united states and north korea seoul claim that they want. are these crammed war against the united states so i nee

to travel to north korea any permission from south korean government for now and in. island if you want to go abroad you have to take a plane so now they found that if you if you feed normalize their lives in those korea we have a lady trainer a razor clicked. between. couldn't north korea south korea and then borders open between tripoli people can imagine it can travel to north korea to china the middle east asia in order to shearing the billion so this is a complete different imagination about the wall this is we call a climate where content their minds it previously the island mindset so it's oh so you know this is a very symbolic action. you just train trip brings through these sort of korean people's minds and at the same time you know or definitely historically historically the similarity between north and south korea might press with a war there was war between vietnam and now is the it's in north korea and his dates and then the claim that they won the war against united states and north korea was so claim that they want to scream war against with my state so

to travel to north korea any permission from south korean government for now and in. island if you want to go abroad you have to take a plane so now they found that if you if you feed normalize the relation there's korea. lady the trainer a raise was quick to be doing. didn't north korea south korea and then the or the borders open we can travel people can imagine it can travel to north korea to china the middle east asia and also the hearing to billion so this is a complete different imagination about the wall is a recall will continue for minds that previously the island mindset so it's oh so in this is a very symbolic action. this train trip brings through this sort of a korean people's mindset and at the same time you know or definitely historically historically the similarity between north and south korea is part of the war there was a war between and the it's in north korea and in the states and claim that they won the war against united states and north korea was so claim that they want this korean war against with my state so same time vietnam service and still

i think it's definitely south korea actually. since the. the into korea summit last year. people came to think that you know right definitely much more open than liberal and that same time she already stabilized these on power in the country so. then the people changed their perspective and he can go on a lot actually it's more. positive than negative and it's interesting we talk a lot about the chemistry between donald trump and. between him and president. you know obviously since that the. levees to what he's really close which are relationship you know south korea is the need to improve their relations normalised village would be did north korea otherwise you know there's with them to most the problems in south korea economic problems and also where the people's minds there you know the internal internal conflicts within south korea so it allows us great people especially the really appreciate it and respect the it's just the president move on really try to really try to normalize relations was korea but without the support from the united states and don't force the int

south korea's leader offers to help the u.s. and north korea reach a deal on de-nuclearization after another round of talks fail. the sheer steps aside as head of sudan's ruling party yes more than a dozen protesters are sentenced to jail.

is sanctions exemptions is something that south korea would have welcomed right. absolutely in fact government here was very much prepared to. proceed with these measures there would be what you might term limited economic engagements and they would have mainly consisted of restoring some of the joint ventures that were already in place before the things started to get worse here in the korean peninsula they would have included the reopening the industrial complex in kaesong restarting the tourism initiative on the east coast which allowed south koreans to travel to north korea at the time and also there have been talks about linking railways and roads through the d.m.z. so that there can be transportation of goods and people between the two koreas and these are the things the government was fully prepared to proceed with and implement and now it's kind of end up with an egg on their face so what what are they going to do now because i mean the intro korean dialogue was something that was going on at quite a pace and it seems much smoother than the conversation be

and south korea and. and i know that china has had a history of relations with north korea. and it's mostly because there were a lot of folks in china's government that were trying to undermine xi jinping. so they were the ones that were sneaking in military and other. supplies to the north koreans flouting she brings order and so she's a big himself as a lot of internal issues to deal with but i think that after she being was able to consolidate more power under him. and cleaned out some of those folks that were defying. his policies. basically said you know. that you know you're the one that i'm going to respect because i know that all the people who are trying to undermine you your back are now in jail and i can't deal with them anymore and so i think that's a difference that has happened between the north koreans and china but you know make no mistake china does not want nuclear i ask because that could spin out of control shared all that's all that's on there and china quite literally the fallout here you know john what it could mean counterintuitive here i mean i guess

belt of money south korea should get for hosting u.s. forces on south korean soil but let's put it this way even though there is no firm number on how much it costs to run these two massive military exercises every spring and every summer there is another exercise that was suspended about a year or so ago and the rough estimate for running that program or exercise was about fourteen million dollars but come all consider the cost of running the u.s. military the budget for this fiscal year is just about seven hundred billion dollars so fourteen million dollars seven hundred billion dollars is it really about saving money especially when you consider that the military spends a lot more just to try to outfit the new fifth generation f. thirty five fighter jet and it all seems good for kim jong un in the end he can look at this and think well i went to amazing i got more face time and camera time at the u.s. presidents didn't have to denuclearize and the war games go down as well. that's right and that is something which north korea has been

worked out between these two countries if they were to ever reunite again especially given that south korea is so much more advanced than the north koreans and there would have to be an enormous training it would be practically a humanitarian crisis really trying to integrate all these people that have been shut out of the modern world and so yes i think the conversations going on between these two countries are absolutely necessary. but certainly the bigger picture of the geo political issues between china and the u.s. cannot be ignored in this in this conversation about whether north korea did nuclear arises because so much of it depends on whether the united korea you'd actually be a neutral territory or would you know one of the big powers have more influence there but it's a very good point and let me go to john here on one of course the trump administration the first and foremost what's on their mind is denuclearization but i think common sense kind of dictates that that's going to be the last step in not the first step wouldn't it be better for the united states to building confidenc

of south korea this wednesday morning giving an instruction that south korea should be working more with china on what is seen here as a shared problem it's thought a lot of this pollution comes from deserts in china with the fine dust being sucked up into the atmosphere mixing with pollution from factories and power stations and then being pushed by the prevailing winds just far enough to cover the korean peninsula but not strong enough to take it any further so sophisticated cities like seoul having to wait for a change in the wind direction before it can get a breath of fresh air pakistan has detained dozens of people as part of a crackdown on armed groups they include people india suspects of being behind an attack that killed more than forty soldiers in the disputed kashmir region last month a group called jaish e mohammad said it was responsible and the brother if its leader was one of those detained the bombing triggered the most serious standoff between india and pakistan in years. there's been an increase in knife attacks on young people in the u.k. the murder of two teenagers o

you have on one side russia and china and on the other you have south korea and you are surrounded bywater and among the most beautiful shorelines in the world. tremendous potential in north korea and i think he is going to lead it to a very important thing economically. i think it is going to be an absolute economic power. go ahead, please. >> david sanger from the new york times. pres. trump: i know, david. >> six months ago when you spoke or eight months ago in singapore, you said if you do not have something in six months we should come back and ask you about it. in that time, you have seen chairman kim increase the number of missiles produced and continue to produce more nuclear material. that has been a pressure point on you because he is showing the arsenal's getting larger while this is going on. pres. trump: some people, david, are saying that, and some people are denying that. they have shots from above, way above, and some people are saying that and some people are not. i could have taken that out today, but i think you and others would have said we did not get enough for w

on south korea the u.s. has a treaty obligation to provide and to protect south korea in case of any attack from its enemies notably from north korea well even though the exercises themselves were very expensive it's long been thought that the president wanted to end those exercises one because that's something that pyongyang has been asking for and to to give a reason to want to strike a deal on its nuclear weapons program however there are some military analysts who suggest that the exercises themselves were quite valuable in terms of troop readiness and that the president and his ongoing efforts to try to broker a deal to get rid of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula might have given away some leverage whether or not that is in fact the case we'll have to see but certainly the south korean government is saying that for now it wants to support u.s. 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 w

and north korea but instead the exercises are being ended now according to a statement put out by both the pentagon and the south korean military in order to support the ongoing negotiations between the u.s. and north korea to try to find a way to and north korea's nuclear weapons program whether or not that's actually going to be enough to induce north korea to return for another round of talks well we'll just have to see come up short but it's helpful i guess at this point given as we pointed out the failure of the north korea u.s. summit in hanoi this is something. well it is something even as initial reports were coming out that the u.s. was going to end these two big exercises on friday there was already some concern from defense analysts that perhaps the u.s. was giving up some of its leverage in this ongoing negotiation that there wouldn't be any reason for it to say wells sure we'll give up our nuclear facilities will give off our development program we will allow international inspections at any time without prior notice if they don't think that there is some sort of pain that could result if they were

and south korea canceling their massive springtime drills. how costly is this concession? this is a pretty major concession. and the relinquishing of continuation of the military exercises is the gift that keeps object giving for north korea. the president in singapore says that they were going to discontinue exercise, now we are taking it a step further. some of these exercises are being retired. and these are for long-term capabilities for the u.s. forces serving in korea to be prepared and have situational awareness tore conflict on the korean peninsula. this is concerning especially considering we made no progress at the hanoi summit last week. arthel: when you consider the smaller-scale drills that will continue, do you have any information on that? >> the smaller-scale drills are effective. but they are not going to necessarily be, you know, replicating the larger-scale military-related elements that you would be replicating in the larger military exercises. so i think this is con searching because if you were to have large-skill conflict on the korean peninsula, you

and south korea say the ending major joint military drills which has been a point of contention with north korea's leader kim jong un seoul and washington say it's part of an effort to support more talks with north korea on denuclearization a two day summit between the u.s. president and kim finished early on thursday without an agreement. bride has moved from south korea's capital 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 seems the joint militaries of south korea and the u.s. of now agreed at least in part with that saying

following this story for us in seoul, south korea.n you tell us about the change in approach with these exercises? >> well, george, these military exercises are going to be very different to what we usually see at this time of year. quite often, for decades, we have seen these annual massive drills during the springtime, which the u.s. and south korea said were defensive in nature, but had always irritated the north koreans. so what they have decided to do now is that they are canceling those two particular exercises, the full legal and key resolve and replacing them with something much smaller. we understand from the defense ministers, from the u.s. and also here in south korea, that they might just be unit level. so is a lot smaller and some of them will also be virtual training. now, this, according to the defense secretary of the u.s., is so that they can help the diplomatic process and this can be in line with what we're seeing between the u.s. and north korea. there are, of course, skeptics who are saying that this will affect t

of south korea who's once again standing in as a possible mediator between north korea and the u.s. to get things back on track it will also possibly help his personal initiative to try to help into korean relations good move forward to the next step he has stated in the last couple of days that despite the disappointment of the hanoi summit he's still determined to try to resume economic and tourism projects with north korea is still wants to try to go ahead with that although it's difficult to see just how without getting sanctions relief from the united states now a case that sparked outrage in the u.s. last year has resurfaced it involves two police officers who shot and killed an unarmed black man in sacramento county california the city's district attorney announced the officers will not face criminal charges the policeman claimed twenty two year old stefan clarke had a gun but no weapon was found dozens of people gathered outside sacramento police department on saturday to protest the decision quark's family is devastated. you. know. this is. now the. game in a deep summer do

and south korea's president. has ordered his government to take extraordinary measures to combat pollution seven major cities including seoul have recorded high concentrations of fine dust particles that can cause illness measures include shutting down public parking lots and limiting the number of cars and out on the road. as well from so. the people of seoul and other cities throughout south korea have been breathing this now for the best part of a week and in the past few days the government has been holding emergency meetings trying to figure out ways of dealing with it they've put in place a number of special measures such as controlling traffic on the roads putting controls on construction sites power stations and giving instructions to things like elementary schools not to have outdoor activities but there's very little the government can do here about the prevailing winds and it's got a lot of this pollution has come from neighboring china in fact president moon j.n. of south korea this wednesday morning

of south korea this wednesday morning giving an instruction that south korea should be working more with china on what is seen here as a shared problem it's thought a lot of this pollution comes from deserts in china with the fine dust being sucked up into the atmosphere mixing with pollution from factories and power stations and then being pushed by the prevailing winds just far enough to cover the korean peninsula but not strong enough to take it any further so sophisticated cities like seoul having to wait for a change in the wind direction before it can get a breath of fresh air. but of course news still ahead on the news out a skater going from down an alley to ice queen following a painful crash. this course now his job elizabeth thank you and investigation is underway one of the world's top. trying to find out why twenty one horses have died there in the last two months california santa anita park has been closed indefinitely after another hole said to be euthanized their own cheese day the track is due to host the breeders cup in november experts are trying to find out if the tra

to everyone in south korea i was hoping for an agreement i was disappointed yesterday. i hope trumping can we meet again and that will lead to peace on the korean peninsula state run media in north korea has reported the failure of the summit to reach an agreement but was still positive in tone remaining positive to president moon now back in his familiar role as mediator between the u.s. and north korea problem bride al-jazeera. a sudanese president omar bashir has stepped down as leader of the ruling national congress party but protesters have been calling for him to resign as president that. protesters in sudan were sentenced to between six months and five years. a quarter stablished under the country's recently imposed state of emergency law sentence them earlier this week the bashir out nor the public gatherings in a bid to stop the demonstrations. kurdish forces in syria say they've launched the final push against i saw earlier on friday the final group of civilians were evacuated from the building of a bug who's thousands of people have left in recent weeks and th

of south korea who's once again standing in as a possible mediator between north korea and the u.s. to get things back on track it will also possibly help his personal initiative to try to help into korean relations go move forward to the next step he has stated in the last couple of days that despite the disappointment of the hanoi summit he's still determined to try to resume economic and tourism projects with north korea we still wants to try to go ahead with that although it's difficult to see just how without getting sanctions relief from the united states. kelly is a professor of political science and diplomacy and national university says north korea will be expected to refrain from any nuclear testing in return. i think it's probably a quid pro quo for the continuing moratorium on the tests and nuclear tests the north koreans could continue to test missiles they could detonate weapons even larger than the one they did fifteen months ago sixteen months ago and i think you know trump has basically informally given them this in order to maintain that halt i suppose it's a reaso

there are lots of them throughout south korea and they cost hundreds of dollars a month. many parents go into debt to send their children to these institutions but if they didn't their kids might fall behind. well the trial soon move on to high school and then to university and the amount of study will increase accordingly. i'm not so good at english at the moment so i need to put in at least fourteen hours a day with us. here at this time and help in the. south korea is famous for its educational system it consistently tops international rankings but the price kids pay is enormous. the pressure to perform as massive and underline tech hanging out with friends or other leisure pursuits are for the ambitious out of the question. cereal then once to make school a more gripping and pleasurable experience with the help of virtual reality. when i was at home or it's legal certainly it's in the other stuff exactly though we are acknowledging they always. say seems very boring about the class and think ok so it's very hard for them to. focus on the fast but. she's developed an a

police in south korea have arrested two men for lately running a spy camera operation in hotel rooms around the country intimate footage of unsuspecting guests was lifestream to paying customers online well the case is part of a bigger problem in south korea and our reporter william i know a good craft has been tracking this story it is creepy it is disturbing i don't know where to begin let's begin with what the police are saying right so the police as mentioned arrested two men two for additional people are under investigation for implanting into these hotel rooms forty two rooms and thirty small hotels and ten cities around south korea. very small cameras into things like phone boxes and hair dryers and t.v. digital boxes. to spy on people six hundred people at eight hundred couples and to essentially make sex tapes illicit sex tapes these videos were then live stream to a website that these people had allegedly set up with as many as four thousand members watching these videos live some of these members even paid forty five dollars the equivalent forty five dollars a month for ex

says it's ending longstanding joint military exercises with south korea. as more gunfire was exchanged in kashmir we take a look at the pakistan based on the groups that india is accused of inciting violence. talks continue in doha to end afghanistan's seventeen year war. and we look at one group that's trying to keep its traditions alive after it fled venezuela. and then spoke baseball's three hundred thirty million dollar makes his official by. the has signed the biggest contract in n.l. the history with the philadelphia phillies. the u.s. and south korea have agreed to end large scale joint military exercises on the korean peninsula the drills have been a point of contention with north korea's leader kim jong un washington and seoul say it's part of efforts to reduce ten. with pyongyang but the two will still carry out smaller joint exercises in unspent comes just days after denuclearization talks between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un broke down in vietnam rubber britain's got more from south korea's capital so. effectively joint military

of south korea this wednesday morning giving an instruction that south korea should be working more with china on what is seen here as a shared problem it's thought a lot of this pollution comes from deserts in china with the fine dust being sucked up into the atmosphere mixing with pollution from factories and power stations and then being pushed by the prevailing winds just far enough to cover the korean peninsula but not strong enough to take it any further so sophisticated cities like seoul having to wait for a change in the wind direction before it can get a breath of fresh air still ahead on al-jazeera a call for drastic action on plastic as it piles up in oceans around the world plus politics immigration and organized crime why a region in southern italy is embracing political adversaries from the north. and out into what is generally in a quiet across parts of north america now we have lost the tornadoes but instead we start with some very very. cold air that's digging down from canada so many of us have seen the temperatures well below average looks like those temperatures will

we know there was a great deal of reaction there in south korea from moonjae—in. reaction there in south jae-in. yes, i mean, moon jae—in is the president of a country that problem we have the most at sta ke that problem we have the most at stake here. in their immediate statement after the talks ended prematurely yesterday, they described it as unfortunate that no deal could be made. but i think there is a gathering here today to mark 100 years of korea's independence movement, and frankly it should have been a far more celebratory gathering. moonjae—in will speak in celebratory gathering. moonjae—in willspeak in an celebratory gathering. moonjae—in will speak in an hour or so's time there, and i think he was expected to give more detail of his broader vision of a new era of economic collaboration between the south in the north. one of the big prizes that was expected to come from any deal that was expected to be agreed in hanoi yesterday. clearly there has been a hasty rewrite overnight. he still will be hanging up the prospect of closer collaboration but that has to wait for denuclear

on south korea the u.s. has a treaty obligation to provide and to protect south korea in case of any attack from its enemies notably from north korea well even though the exercises themselves were very expensive it's long been thought that the president wanted to end those exercises one because that's something that pyongyang has been asking for and to to give a reason to want to strike a deal on its nuclear weapons program however there are some military analysts who suggest that the exercises themselves were quite valuable in terms of troop readiness and that the president and his ongoing efforts to try to broker a deal to get rid of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula might have given away some leverage whether or not that is in fact the case we'll have to see but certainly the south korean government is saying that for now it wants to support u.s. 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 w

of south korea this wednesday morning giving an instruction that south korea should be working more with china what is seen here as a shared problem it's not a lot of this pollution comes from deserts in china with the fine dust being sucked up into the atmosphere mixing with pollution from factories and power stations and then being pushed by the. winds just far enough to cover the korean peninsula but not strong enough to take it any further so sophisticated cities like seoul having to wait for a change in the wind direction before it can get a breath of fresh air. and intelligence officer from saudi arabia has tried to hold an anti cattle lecture in switzerland. hamis said for speakers at the event in geneva where catteries deprived of their citizenship and journalist asked how they were allowed to travel without their passports it emerged they were in fact saudis last year as our blog allegedly paid people to attend an anti cattle conference in munich saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt have imposed a blockade on cata since twenty seventy. on top of the. football.

of south korea who's once again standing in as a possible mediator between north korea and the u.s. to get things back on track it will also possibly help his personal initiative to try to help into korean relations could move forward to the next step he has stated in the last couple of days that despite the disappointment of the hanoi summit he's still determined to try to resume economic and tourism projects with north korea we still wants to try to go ahead with that although it's difficult to see just how without getting sanctions relief from the united states donald trump has been speaking to supporters at the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the u.s. the president attacked democrats over their plan to tackle climate change and dismissed their attempts to look into his personal finances. they fight so hard on this witch hunt this phony deal that they put together this phony thing that now looks like it's dying so they don't have anything with russia there's no collusion so now they go and morph into let's inspect every deal he's ever done we're going to go into his

and south korea and launch scale joint exercises to ease the tensions in the korean peninsula. and this fight makes mixed martial arts history the latest from u.s.c. two three five. all are still ahead but first talks in dog between the afghan taliban and the u.s. have ended for the day with no agreement the two sides have been meeting this week in qatar capital aimed at ending the seventeen year war in afghanistan a taliban spokesman says negotiations are in a sensitive phase and both sides must be careful and cautious to use his words moving forward dosage a body has been following the talks. they five has wrapped up here talks between the u.s. and the taliban in this hotel right behind me in doha now they have not reached an agreement yet we've spoken to officials from both sides the americans say there it doesn't look like they're going to have any kind of an agreement in the coming days so they're still working on it that's how the ban are adamant that they're only discussing the future of fourteen thousand u.s. troops currently in afghanistan this is the only subject they

and south korea have announced they will scale back joint military exercises the large scale drills on the korean peninsula have been a point of contention with north korea's leader kim jong un washington and seoul say it's part of efforts to improve ties with pyongyang which will still carry out smaller joint exercises the decision follows president donald trump's second summit with kim jong un in the vietnamese capital hanoi which ended with austan agreement well brive has more on this latest development now from the south korean capital 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 th

so one wonders what this latest news will do to relations between north and south korea. o relations between north korea and the unittd states, things seem to have hardens since the seccnd landmark summit between donald trump and kim jong-un in hanoi. theave recently heard national security adviior, john bolton, saying that north korea must be completely willing to give up its nuclear weapons -- he said that on tuesday -- and he said if it does not do that, we are looking at ramping up our so given what bolton has just said, this news about the isspresumably grist to b bolton's mill. to what point does he reflect donald trump's opinion are not on sanctions? -- opinion or not on sanctions? p> nicolas maduro has broken s silence ass juan guaido makes his wayy back to the country. maduro has called for demonstrations to take place on sasaturday to coincide witith protests called for by juan guaido. he met with public sectotor unions yesterday, and a calling on them to help topple the government of nicolas maduro. take a listen. >> we are going to have a administration as prop

of south korea this wednesday morning giving an instruction that south korea should be working more with china on what is seen here as a shared problem it's not a lot of this pollution comes from deserts in china with the fine dust being sucked up into the atmosphere mixing with pollution from factories and power stations and then being pushed by the prevailing winds just far enough. cover the korean peninsula but not strong enough to take it any further so sophisticated cities like seoul having to wait for a change in the wind direction before it can get a breath of fresh air. on terror none of our top stories on our jazeera yes president donald trump has responded to reports that north korea has begun work to restore a space rocket launch site saying he would be very disappointed if they were true satellite images reveal work has been underway on buildings that the tongue shangri site in the north west of the country this comes just days after nuclear talks between the north korean leader kim jong un and us president on trump in vietnam ended in failure i think we have to try to pick a

the potential sickness in the air why south korea is taking urgent steps to curb pollution and fighting for their teenage son who they say has been tortured and jailed on false accusations of joining eisel. hello a showdown shaping up between supporters of venezuela's political rivals nicolas maduro and why don't have both called for demonstrations in four days time and president maduro is vowing to defeat the opposition despite mounting pressure on him to step down below reports from near venezuela's border with. if one is going to become the interim president of venezuela he needs to win the backing of those who have up until now supported president. on tuesday he met the leaders of one of the most significant power blocs and biggest. the public sector union. has you. know forty public workers are being kidnapped by the dictatorship it's being kidnapped by the regime today as a result of this meeting of this great event we will not continue collaborating with the dictatorship so public workers are no place to cooperate ever again no be forced to do anything. on monday why don't return

south korea's air quality is now among the worst in the region emissions from cars and coal fired power plants combined with small crumb china and north korea mean south korea has double the levels of dangerous particulates matter than other rich countries so the south koreans follow the ways of their forebears by eating lots of pork sales of it are up around twenty percent so i'm going to do it feels like oil from the meat washes away the dust in my throat going to people who do believe that. the government has declared the pollution a social disaster health professionals sating pork is an urban legend and makes no difference but it doesn't just affect humans despite the discomfort harry sometimes has to get his mask on too now how would you fancy attending a conference devoted entirely to pastries and sweet treats well that's exactly what's just kicked off in the moroccan city of casablanca the international forum brings together professionals from the confectionery industry the aim is to highlight the importance of the cafe and restaurant sector and it's also an opportunity for moroc

and south korea and there are major military exercises tensions on the korean peninsula. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up. later as more gunfire is exchanged in kashmir we take a look at the pakistan based armed groups that india is accusing of inciting violence. talks continue in doha to end afghanistan's seventeen year war. and the campaign to save a reptile and kenya that's facing extinction. the u.s. and south korea have agreed to end large scale joint military exercises on the korean peninsula drills have been a point of contention with north korea's leader kim jong washington in seoul say it's part of efforts to reduce tensions with pyongyang about the two will still carry out smaller joint exercises it comes just days after denuclearization talks between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong il broke down in vietnam. rob mcbride that is has more from the south korean capital seoul. effectively joint military exercises in south korea have been scaled back since president donald trump announced after the single poor summit last june th

pork belly is my favorite food so eat more pour can find just as dense like today that the white south korea's air quality is now among the worst in the region emissions from cars and coal fired power plants combined with small crumb china and north korea mean south korea has double the levels of dangerous particulates matter than other rich countries so the south koreans follow the ways of their forebears by eating lots of pork sales of it are up around twenty percent so i'm going to do it feels like oil from the meat washes away the dust in my throat going to the people who do the work. the government has declared the pollution a social disaster health professional sating pork is an urban legend and makes no difference but it doesn't just affect humans despite the discomfort kerry sometimes has to get his mask on too. in other news saudi arabia is hoping to raise twenty billion dollars to promote a remote site in the northwestern part of the country as a tourist destination out la which last month's host of the region's first ever hot air balloon festival is famous for its pretty islamic her