the dmz is 160 miles long across the bordered between north and south korea. but in that area the joint security is narrows down. there are long blue buildings where north and south korean officials would get together. and they built what they call the peace house where moon jae-in met with kim jong-un. you have got to the get the working groups back together again to talk about the steps that can be taken toward denuclearization. if that doesn't happen, then this meeting was nothing more than a photo-op. but if president trump and moon jae-in can say let's get people talking again. let's put aside the ill feeling of what happened in hanoi. you know the american position. you know what you have to do. here is what's going on in south korea, the economic miracle that happened here. we want to leave you in power in pong yong. just get rid of your weapons. maybe if they can get that message through and say you are going to be safe as far as we are concerned. there could be factions in north korea. but as far as the international community goes, if they can get tha

president trump is in south korea, where he hopes to inject new life into stalled nuclear talks. set to make his first visit to the de—militarised zone, which separates the two koreas, and extended an invitation to kim jong—un to come and shake hands. he already had talks with the south korean president. let's go live to our correspondent mariko oi, who is near the de—militarised zone. mariko. that's right. you can probably see the barbed wire is behind me, basically separating the two koreas, which are technically speaking still at war since the korean war of the 1950s. donald trump, as you said, is scheduled to come here later this afternoon, about to start his meeting with president moonjn of south korea ‘s. they had dinner together last night but today is the official summit and they will hold a press c0 nfe re nce official summit and they will hold a press conference before making their way to the demilitarised zone. donald trump surprised everyone by tweeting yesterday he wouldn't mind meeting up with kim jong—un, tweeting yesterday he wouldn't mind meeting up with kimjong—

needs most of all positive team of international sanctions in the area it's a basic need in china south korea are prepared to give north korea some basic need it spatially who assistance but international sanction may interfere with their process so all the united states the president may be asked to just that in north korea related in my view live greedy to the nuclear arrived in the korean peninsula entirety so that they promise he would have come from north korea but not. at this time does he or me mr pak i want to ask because i believe you have made more than 50 trips to north korea south and you've talked to her a little of pyongyang thinking but i'm curious off to hanoi and now with this potential olive branch being being extended you think that the reason they may accept it and potentially have this meeting this morning is around that being want to just say that's on the international stage that's what this is about this morning. the. day dave experienced both sides the bitter consequences of the annoyed me again. so that they would like to avoid every p.d. and dad saw in north korea w

south korea has been trying hard to engage with north korea. on jae-in said it was the first time that a south korean president and american president had been together at the dmz as a united front that could have moved kim jong-un down the road in terms of convincing him that he has to get rid of his entire nuclear weapons program and chemical and biological weapons as well, which is the demand president trump made during the hanoi summit. we'll see where this goes in the next few minutes. but the scene of extraordinary chaos. the reason the two leaders are there, to talk to each other and tell the world as they are standing there together. the security people shoved the cameras away and surrounded them not allowing us to get the pictures they wanted us to see. you can understand the unprecedented nature of this. their heartbeats were probably pegged at 185 beats per minute making sure nothing happened to their person on their watch. jon: the north koreans have been fed a steady diet of hatred. those encounters between the south and for korean

, placing south korea under threat. is the fact of the standoff, the 66-year standoff between these two countries, where you now have a u.s. president waiting to meet the leader of north korea. there's a remarkable juxtaposition of that threat, that danger and what will be at least on the surface, smiles and a hand shake between the north korean leader and the u.s. president. jim acosta has been traveling with the president. jim, it was interesting in the moment so far up here at the border as the president prepares to meet kim, i counted three or four times where the president took a swipe at the press, claiming he's not getting the credit he deserves for the outcome of these talks so far. not unusual approach for this president, even as he prepares for such an unprecedented moment. >> that's right, jim. you heard the president there speaking a few moments ago in full view of the camera saying after his first summit with kim jong un in singapore "the danger went away." of course the danger did not go away but he's made

jon: john roberts in what is sunday afternoon in south korea. this his tore can meeting expected to take place about an hour from now. joining us live from d.c., the former cia division chief for korea. how momentous a moment is this going to be to see a united states president possibly step into north korea or approach the border and shake hand with kim jong-un? >> it will be very historic but it will be just a photo-op. as the ht said it will be a short meeting. there will be no substantive progress toward denuclearization. up until yesterday north korea was refusing to meet with coreee rian diplomats. jon: the president noted the sanctions remain in place. kim jong-un is feeling the weight of u.s. sanctions. as long as those are in place, this country is in a world of hurt economically. is this perhaps an opportunity for the president to say look, let's get a deal done. let's bring you into the family of nation and start improving your economy. >> we hope so. we should point out there is a lot more u.s. can be doing on sanctions. there are 300

what we saw when it was with the south korea president, the south korean president was waiting there,e watched kim jong un walk over to him, they shook hands, kim jong un presumably spontaneously said why don't you come over to north korea. he did, he stepped over and he came back. we know that the u.s. president lauded that as he saw it. that is potentially something he is wishing to do as well. >> the president wanting to repeat that moment. there have been steps in recent months to lower the tensions along this, the most militarized border in the world, and you having visited where this meeting is taking place, tell us about those steps and what difference they make. >> we have been there many times over recent years, and it was always fairly tense. you would be given seven or eight minutes. you were not allowed to make eye contact with soldiers. the tourists were told, do not wave, do not make sharp movements. when i was there a few weeks ago, there's no arms, no weapons within the jsa, the helmets of the soldiers have been replaced. the guard posts have been shuttered up and when

but for the south korea, north korea already has deliverable nuclear weapons. so in the negotiation process, consideration about how much south korea can tolerate about the north korean's nuclear weapon should be a very -- should be considering very importantly. and another thing we should think about is what north korea really wants for denuclearization. and what is the most urgent thing for north korea. the urgent thing is the economic for north korea. but the important thing for the north korea is keeping their nuclear capability. so we have to think about it, can economy overcome the importance of having nuclear capability for dprk. how much tradeoff are they ready for at the negotiation? and the other thing is, the international community's acceptance. we have our european colleague here, and we have to think about that, the international community is ready for accept another israel or another iran or maybe are we ready for having another three or four dprks in the near future? if international community is not ready for accepting these kind of conditions,

roberts was describing shoving between bodyguards for kim jong-un bodyguards for moon jae-in of south korea, of course, secret service guarding president trump had to be quite something. >> north korea takes the security of the kim family utmost so you know, something put together last moment you can see the chaos there, and all of these various secret service organizations were just jostling with each other jostling with the press you don't normally see that, and this is absolutely fascinating because, not only is this history in the making, this is unscripted history in the making, and especially you know accommodating press in north korea not something security focuses aforces accustomed to doing it had to be quite afront to their sensibility. >> so close to supreme leader some won not mortal in view of north korean ideology this is a did hecendent of kim jong-un to have western press have foreigners so close to him almost unprecedented. >> so us there, you know about the remarks that you heard from -- from president trump he was quite effusive about meeting with kim, spoken in glowing t

south korea. meets with the south korean president and also this tantalizing prospect of this meeting with the north korean leader at the d.m.z. let's listen in to what he has had to say. tonight a trumpet we have to look at tonight don't you think it is just how we do it had a year and i just got a. bunch of young talents are you good about an 80 or do you doubt sincerity i just needa do that i know you're too young but trying to get old. can you. do about an 80. or 100. $100.00 she was one you're so hung up on the u.s. and south korea having to focus on. the world's attention. for the 1st time in history. north korea and usa leaders. will be able to meet. the test would be the 1st step towards. peace. and the south korea and north korea will be. able to. talk about the peace in the future. what we really want. is a permanent peace on the korean peninsula. mr trump will be going down history and we president who made. peace on the korean peninsula. and i'd like to keep my appreciation to mr trump

troops in south korea this is a theme that president trump has been focused on not only with south korea but with many other allies as well indeed scott snyder there from the council on foreign relations speaking to us from washington d.c. always good to have you on al-jazeera scott. early on saturday the summit of the world's biggest economies came to a close with well that is agreeing to present a unified front on global trade but the big developments took place on the sidelines with the united states and china agreeing to reste on trade talks white house correspondent can be how get reports from eye socket. with fears of further escalation in the trade war between the united states and china chinese president xi jinping issued words of warning to u.s. president donald trump. in the. china and the united states benefit from. a confrontation. of the united states donald j. trump those words may have resonated following that meeting on the 2nd day of the g. 20 summit trump announced a breakthrough no new u.s. tariffs on chinese goods and a restart of stalled trade talks we're going to wo

audio south korea from the 620 summit in osaka. audio translation unavailable. lable. we are just watching the south korean president moonjae—in begin that news c0 nfe re nce president moonjae—in begin that news conference that many people have been looking forward to. donald trump is there as well, the us president. we saw both leaders walked down the stairs just a short time ago. that news conference is going to continue and then afterwards, we believe the us president and the south korean president will continue to gather to visit the demilitarised zone. let's have a listen in. translation: this is something we will be able to see for ourselves today. south and north will be able to become confident about peace in the world will provide support and cheer on president trump and chairman kim with high expectations. what we need here is enduring peace on the korean peninsula. i hope that president trump will go down in history as a president that has achieved peace on the korean peninsula. peace requires more courage than conflict. i would like to extend my appre

they famously walked towards the demarcation line shook hands kim jong un then stepped over into south korea and then said you know what have you ever been to north korea and then. stepped over with him into north korea and i think that's probably almost like the model what we might see choreographed if and when this meeting takes place this afternoon. in we've been watching pictures of him. attending the being in the g. 8 jr say looking from this observation post across into the north of beaming president moon obviously he is it's very important for him that this gets these negotiations back on track he seems to have staked his whole political reputation on this whole process so he will want to see as he mentioned in that press conference that this leads to something more a yes it is just a handshake but he has said that possibly it could well lead to this 3rd summit a meaningful summit before the end of the year and that's important of course here in korea because that is the deadline that kim jong un of north korea has set after the failure of the hanoi summit they said they were humiliat

troops in south korea we fought a vicious war there aft world twar to at 38th parallel korea krog overith north korean dictator as i mentioned an hourlong meeting on south korean side getting a sense what was discussed in that meeting potentially an invite to the white house, from president trump, we will see if that manifests if negotiations are kick started or not later on that day he flew to osan air base a lot of our air force are stationed as well as rooeb korea air force -- allies in the south ramping up troops talking about how investing in military committed to the because of freedom, around the world, so -- >> peace reminded all of us yesterday as we set this up that that war from 1950s still technically is not over there has never armistice part of negotiations between president trump and chairman kim has been to potentially eventually in conversations negotiations have an official armistice end to korean war the goal bigger than that full denuclearization of the korean peninsula has been what has been on the table, since north korea first declared they were willing to start

visit ncicap.org] will bedent trump leaving shortly for south korea paired as you heard, questions about his offer to meet with north korean leader kim jong-un at the demilitarized zone between north korea and south korea is not just to say hello. part of the tweet earlier this evening, the president talked with th about the tweet while meeting with the saudi arabia crown prince. with trump: pleasure to be the crown prince of saudi arabia, a friend of mine, a man who has done things in the last five years in terms of opening up saudi arabia, and i think is actually what you have done for women -- especially what you have done for women, it is like a revolution in a positive way, and i want to thank you come on behalf of a lot of people, and i was to congratulate you. a spectacular job. we have had some meetings, and the meetings have been really terrific. as you know, saudi arabia is a big purchase of american products standr especially american military equipment. we make the best in the world. they create at least a million purchases made by saudi arabia, so we are very happy to be wit

talking trade — the uk agrees in "principle" a deal with south korea that includes keeping zero—tariffssouth korean exports such as auto parts and automobiles a warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. also in the programme: tweaking sleeping habits can shift people's body clocks and improve their wellbeing, say scientists in the uk and australia. so we'd like to know have you fixed a sleeping disorder? if so how? are you concerned about your sleep pattern? get in touch — just use the hashtag bbc—the—briefing we begin in hong kong, where in the last hour, the territory's pro—beijing leader said she would not withdraw a controversial plan to allow extraditions to the chinese mainland. this comes a day after huge crowds came out to oppose it. the peaceful march, which organisers say was attended by a million people, turned ugly in the early hours of monday as police moved to disperse activists who had camped outside the legislative council complex. ramzan karmali reports. the morning after the night before. the morning after t

we are covering breaking noose out of south korea. it's the dmz, between north korea and south korea. there's video of the president leaving the dmz, one of the look-out points. if you heard at the top of the hour, he was talking about the importance of the locations. the importance of president trump being there. and seeing this. and as well, how the conditions have changed over time. so, the president now, at the dmz, he will meet now with u.s. and south korean troops that are stationed there. close by. and then, we believe he will finally meet with kim jong-un at some location close to the demilitaryized zone. he confirmed it would be happening in a press conference about two hours ago when he was standing next to moon-jae in, you can see, he is not going to be necessarily in the meeting with kim jong-un, but here for the visit. the president spending 10 or 15 minutes there. and the timing thoughs has been what has been stretched out throughout what is their arch on a sunday and our early eastern time, 2:00 here. 2:00 p.m. sunday in

and we'll be dealing with south korea, with president moon and his people. but pretty much it's going to be initial talks between the united states and with north korea. and president moon will be right there. >> what was chairman as response to your invitation? >> initially? we were contacted almost immediately -- >> to the united states. >> just asked him outside, you know what, at the right time, you're going to come over. we'll go over there. we have a ways to go yet, we'll see. but i would certainly extend the invite. but i actually mentioned out there in front of the press, i said anytime he wants to do it. but i think we want to take this now to the next step. see what happens. very, very positive meeting and very positive meeting on trade with president xi of china. that was a great meeting we had yesterday. we'll see what happens but great meeting. and again, no hurry, all these people hurry with deals, turn out to be disasters. no hurry, no real speed. >> why does chairman kim need to set up a new team? >> we have a team but going to spearhead it, a

president trump is in south korea where he hopes to inject new life into stalled nuclear talks. o visit the de—militarised zone which separates the two koreas — and extended an invitation to kim jong—un to come and shake hands. president trump travelled to seoul directly from the 620 talks in japan. he's now facing criticism from both republicans and democrats back home, for announcing that a ban on us firms trading with chinese tech—giant, huawei — would be lifted. nick bryant reports from osaka. this was a day when the 620 summit of the world's wealthiest nations essentially became a g2. these talks between donald trump and xijinping, by far the most consequential meeting of this global gathering. it ended with a cease—fire inthe trade war, an agreement to restart talks that fell apart last month. but the us president made a major concession, lifting some restrictions on huawei, the chinese tech giant at the centre of what's felt like a commercial cold war. we had a very good meeting with president xi of china — excellent. i would say excellent, as good as it was going to be. w

the uk is south korea's second largest trading partner among eu members, and the asian nation's 18th ing partner. here's the uk's international trade secretary liam fox after signed the deal with his south korean counterpart in seoul. what it means is is that if britain leaves the european union without a deal, we get continuity in the trading arrangements that we currently have. so, businesses can plan for both trade and investment with confidence. if we do get a deal with the european union, what this means is we have now a springboard to a future trade agreement that could be more ambitious than the one that korea currently has with the european union. so, for both of us, it is forward—looking, ambitious and confident. let's see how forward—looking and ambitious it might be. with us now is christophe bondy, a former trade negotiator, he's now with the law firm cooley. good to see you. clearly liam fox is busy hard at work trying to get as many trade deals in place in principle for when the uk leaves the european union. what do you make of this announcement today? well, as we say, t

what happened today is great for south korea, it's great for north korea. i think it's great for the world. when we started this you had missiles flying over japan. they weren't so happy. you would have the siren going and a lot of problems. you all remember the case of hawaii. you remember that situation. you remember guam. you remember what was happening there. the world was a very tense place. i became president and we weren't through a rough dialogue for a while. you corresponded it very well. then all of a sudden we came together. so let's see how it happens. steve is going to do a fab as particular job, he'll be representing us in the talks and we'll be dealing with south korea and president moon and his people. but pretty much the initial talks will be between the united states and north korea. and president moon will be right there. >> what was his response to your unhavinvitation? president trump: we were contacted almost immediately. i asked him outside. i said at the right time you are going to come over. we are going to go over there. we have a

north korea needs most of all positive international sanctions into areas of basic needs in china south korea are prepared to give north korea some basic needs the space should be who see.

is about the time we changed the senior member of the united nations from being an american to a south korea and -- we when that long without general officer dialogue, general from the two sides, un command and from the korea people's army talking to each other. in the period of time follow the olympics in early 2018 and a military component to the condition of the olympics an the environment around the olympics was very important, i won't go into detail here. on the subject of repatriation. we had to go through the usual dance insulting one another, not coming to a meeting that we said we would be at. generally was the un command was sitting at the meeting at the point and place of time and north korea would take advantage of 30 minute time zone difference which existed at that time but since been eliminated where now literally on the same time zone as everyone else in the region especially south korea. and so this change in environment lead to military to military die log beginning between south korea and the north korea's people's army to try to lower the tension, the military tension tha

troops based in south korea here. in a short time they will give a joint press conference, in just a few moments' time in fact. our anna coren, she's in seoul. she's been covering the meeting so far. anna, who has been the topic of conversation between the two leaders who will both in fact come to the border here for this possible meeting with kim jong un? >> reporter: well, jim, as we heard from president trump as well as president moon, they have discussed many things. obviously trade deal was one of the things. but obviously this meeting between the u.s. president and north korea's leader kim jong un is really the topic of conversation. and that is what everyone is waiting to see, if it will in fact eventuate. as you said, trump made that tweet yesterday. it seemed like it was a last-minute spur of the moment thought. but from the analysts that we have spoken to over the course of the morning, they said that there is so much planning that goes into something like this. you can't just decide in the space of 24 hours

south korea's president says the u.s. has been holding behind the scenes talks with north korea about a 3rd summit the last meeting between the u.s. president donald trump and the north korean leader kim jong un and in february without any deal earlier on tuesday north korea said it wouldn't surrender to u.s. led sanctions and so the u.s. secretary of state might pompei a was an obstruction to negotiations on denuclearization. gunman and a suicide bomber in egypt of killed at least 6 policemen and seriously injured 8 others the attackers targeted 3 checkpoints in the city of breach in the northern sinai peninsula on tuesday evening no group claimed responsibility. food aid has started arriving for refugees forced from their homes by the fighting in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo however aid workers are struggling to reach tens of thousands of others trapped in areas where rival militias have been attacking villages catherine sawyer reports now from neighboring uganda there many a flood. $7000.00 congo

interest or the korean interest when it comes to north south korea korean peninsula issues so the u.s. shouldn't be counting on china when it comes to north korea and i don't think donald trump really is and that's why we see donald trump meeting directly with kim jong un rather than relying on stage of being to reach a settlement for north south korea issues. how much movement has there be unrealistically on the issue of the process of denuclearization and sanctions relief. well we know that they obviously haven't reached any substantive agreements and continue to talk they have what was initially agreed to in singapore last year and clearly what president trump says that here are the things that north korea has stopped doing when he talks about nuclear tests or long range missile tests this is true and again we have to be fair to president tromp on that aspect and it's also true that we haven't reached the grandson omitted the birth occasion process is that the u.s. wants and that's why they're still talking whether it's the 2 leaders talking or hopefully the chief new good turn of

south korea's moon jane who accompanied the u.s. president to the border has backed the historic meeting source and churchill. for the 1st time in history north korea usas leader will be able to meet at the d.m.z. and that will be the 1st step towards peace south korea and north korea will be able to talk about peace in the future what we really want is permanent peace on the korean peninsula mr trump will be going down in history as the president who made peace on the korean peninsula and i would like to give my appreciation to donald trump and kim jong il well early on saturday the summit of the world's biggest economies came to a close when the world leaders agreeing to present a united front on global trade but the big developments took place on the sidelines with the u.s. and china agreeing to restart trade talks our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports a massage. with fears of further escalation in the trade war between the united states and china chinese president xi jinping issued words of warning to u.s. presid

that there are three and south korea and the us. and that is quite relevant. but we need that process we need that to people process. so that the military - - military confidence in the measures between the us and north korea. that is the greatest risk but the fact that we don't have this process of one of the two parties and continue the process. and the point being that with that base commitment that's important to have those commitments and then to be enacted or south korea. and there is a second component to denuclearize i don't think he will but to take those meaningful steps but with that material component and process. meant to come up from different places with the korean government to have the conversation of the process of the regular community that has been linked to the european coalition of the 19 fifties. it's good to have this working level process, but once we had the economic cooperation, it became very difficult to have that with any other country. and then to engage in north korea and that is the right approach. and as the us for example with

young yang in the past say on previous occasions north korea has lied and cheated as he left south korea president trump seemed very happy but it's worth remembering the challenge ahead north korea's not yet given up any part of its sophisticated nuclear program the international community has not lifted any of its crippling sanctions jamesburg al-jazeera south korea. and south koreans are all of course very important in all of this robert bride has more reaction from seoul this is being seen as a major personal achievement for president moon j.n. of south korea who's been under increasing pressure since the failure of the hanoi summit both here at home and also from north korea throughout the events of sunday he tactfully remained very much at the sidelines allowing donald trump to claim credit for this historic day in reality though he is seen as being the instigator of this process of reconciliation if the day's events of stepping across the border is seen by the end of this year as one of the news highlights of 2019 then it will be remembered the moon j.n. did exactly the same last y

the last time trump visited south korea in november 27th seen relations with north korea were at about their lowest point with the threat of war in the year and a half since the flurry of diplomatic activity between north korea and its neighbors and with the united states has seen a dramatic improvement. but since february is failure in viet nam of the 2nd summit between president trump and kim jong un the process has stalled north korea has returned to some of its hostile rhetoric and seems to blame south korea in part for the failure in hanoi. for south korea a successful meeting with trump would help restore moon's position as an important intermediary with the u.s. administration i think they're also interested in sending a message to north korea. the moon still has some sway with the administration. when moon says the administration is perhaps willing to move and be a little bit more flexible than the north koreans can believe him and that will motivate them to also be a little bit more flexible in their approach to entering into negotiations which they have not been since hanoi t

with pyongyang in the past say on previous occasions north korea has a lie and cheat it as he left south korea president trump seem very happy but it's worth remembering the challenge ahead north korea's not yet given up any part of its sophisticated nuclear program the international community has not lifted any of it scribbling sanctions james berets al-jazeera south korea. so how does all of this look from the south korean capital seoul here's our correspondent rob mcbride this is being seen as a major personal achievement for president moon j.n. of south korea who's been under increasing pressure since the failure of the hanoi summit both here at home and also from north korea throughout the events of sunday he tactfully remain very much at the sidelines allowing donald trump to claim credit for this historic day in reality though he is seen as being the instigator of this process of reconciliation if the day's events of stepping across the border is seen by the end of this year as one of the new. whose highlights of 2019 then it will be remembered the moon j.n. did exactly the same last ye

position to negotiate with the north if it has the support of the chinese but also has the support of south korea finally the u.s. special representative talked about a flexible approach towards north korea. what does exit will mean? -- flexible mean? joon: the door for talks is wide open. that means with president trump [indiscernible] it is not a matter of whether they are ready to talk. it is more a matter of whether they can reach some kind of agreement to talks. otherwise they are not going to meet, as i said. there is no more embolism in just meeting. they have to have a third summit. shery: thank you so much and also to the ambassadors -- former south korean ambassador to the u.n. this injure chairman, think -- plenty more to come. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ thoughts's get final or member special guest host for the hour. -- from our special guest host for the hour. one of the most important g20 sessions in the years. , yousador, i am wondering said you can't contain or disengage china. the situation being faced here unlike any other. do we need a new playbook i would work bob: we do. -- playbo

it's allowing tourists from south korea to go to north korea. there is a lot at stake. and obviously, the north koreans know that. the south koreans know that, as does donald trump. so hopefully, they are working out the next step. what are the concrete steps that could be taken forward? so that this is not just a photo opportunity, theatrics, optics. we know that donald trump is a showman. this is what he loves. he loves to get everybody excited, for there to be hype, for thins to be responsible tsp. obviously, a freight deal of planning has fon into the last 24 hours to orchestrate this meeting at the dmz, but it has to be more than optics, jim, there has to be something concrete, something substantial, and hopefully we will hear from donald trump when he comes out of that meeting with kim jong un that they have taken the next step. the president of the united states inviting kim jong un, a dictator, a human rights abuser, a man who orders for the execution of his own family members to the white house is quite extraordinary. i mean, that is really breathtaking. so ther

president trump is in south korea where he hopes to inject new life into stalled nuclear talks. as and extended an invitation to kim jong—un to come and shake hands. let's go live to our correspondent mariko 0i, who is near the de—militarised zone. that's right. you can see the barbed wire is behind me, that's the demilitarised zone which divides the two koreas, which technically speaking are still at war since the korean war of the 1950s. donald trump is scheduled to visit later this afternoon, he is currently meeting with resident moonjae—in of south korea in seoul before a short press c0 nfe re nce south korea in seoul before a short press conference before coming here. as you said, he tweeted yesterday saying he wouldn't mind meeting up with kim jong—un, to which saying he wouldn't mind meeting up with kimjong—un, to which north korea said it was an interesting question but the question remains whether he will be there when donald trump arrives. laura bickerjoins us, seoul correspondent. we don't know whether he will be there but one could argue this is a big photo—op after t

conquering the coffee shop scene in south korea. and being physical and let's do business financial markets continue to wait for that elusive global trade war breakthrough u.s. treasury secretary steven minutiae to meet with people's bank of china governor. this weekend finance leaders from the world's industrialized nations a gathering in japan to be the 1st face to face discussions between key american and chinese trade negotiators in almost a month talks aimed at ending the tariff dispute broke down in early may since then acrimonious rhetoric and trade threats between beijing and washington have only increased u.s. president donald trump raising the stakes this week one small. under a hang is our asia correspondent is in singapore for us and how much room will this finance ministers meeting in japan give the u.s. and china to find a trade resolution. well ben without a doubt that tree tensions are going to be at the top of the agenda at this meeting and quite a lot of a quite a lot is banked on this meeting on the outcome of thi

he will be tearing down town into the capital of south korea to go and have dinner with the south koreanbt be talking about whether or not north korea's leader might turn up not north korea's leader might turn up in not north korea's leader might turn upina not north korea's leader might turn up in a few hours' time, actually, at the demilitarised zone to shake hands with donald trump. whether or not that might happen or not, not giving him much notice may well be a factor. i am so sorry. we have just lost that signal, sadly, but we can still see those pictures of the plane taxiing on the runwayjust outside the capital of south korea there. president trump having dinner with the south korean leader and tweeted just a short time ago he would be prepared to meet also the north korean leader, but very little notice and the north koreans say they have not had an official invite. quite a lot of changing diplomacy in the last few hours. we will see how that visit pans out and we will be covering that as soon as president from plans and we hear anything from that. also at the 620 theresa may pl

that will matter to the people who will see them live here in south korea and at a later date in a very heavy heavy heavily edited form in north korea all right james bays our diplomatic editor there in persia to south korea close to the d.m.z. james thanks for that we'll no doubt be coming back to you a little bit later in the morning now earlier on south where the summit of the world's biggest economies came to a close with world leaders agreeing to present a united front on global trade but the big developments took place on the sidelines with the u.s. and china agreeing to restart trade talks our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports now from a soccer. with fears of further escalation in the trade war between the united states and china chinese president xi jinping issued words of warning to u.s. president donald trump. on this issue should only china and the united states benefit from. a confrontation. of the united states donald j. trump those words may have resonated following that meeting on the 2nd day of the g. 20 summit trump announced a breakthrough no new u.s.

south korea's a tension had to stay focused on the korean peninsula. they went through impeachment as democratic institution survived incredible internal pressures and emerged from that while under great pressure from north korea. later under pressure from chain a under pressure from japan. a very complex circumstance emerged for korea in a period of time that people thought things were going to get better and it didn't. until early 2018. certainly the 2017 window looked like it was going to get a lot worse before it got any better. might be at the brink of war and tipping over the edge. having been a part that we can talk about it in more detail later. but very interesting to see that shifting occur where what we were seeking was north korea's colliculus being changed t it took risk in doing so. that blings us up to the recent years a lot has changed during that period of time. the alliance thankfully has endured all of that. and it has had considerable pressure applied to it internally and externally within the alliance and beyond the alliance and rem

killing may have been condemned by other countries and international bodies but from south korea there has been little criticism the government of president moon j.n. seems to have no intention of bringing up the issue here instead signing a range of proposed deals that could lead to billions of dollars in new trade as south korea tries to become an important player in saudi arabia's restructuring of its economy away from reliance on oil saudi arabia also owns one of south korea's biggest oil refineries s. oil the south koreans can't really afford to make a big issue of show deal or any of saudi arabia's other activities we can only expect the international community might find disturbing mohammed bin solomon goes on from here to the g 20 summit in japan it was at last year's summit in the wake of course shrugs he's killing that he was shunned by some world leaders it's not clear if he'll face the same reception this time or if the world as south korea seems to have done has moved on robin cried al-jazeera so. the iranian president hassan rouhani has rejected u.s. calls for talks sayin

the demilitarized zone is not only a heavily mined strip of land separating north and south korea it's also become a unique natural environment regenerated without the interference of mankind now hikers can enjoy the area which until recently was off limits labeled as peace tourism the south korean government has opened up trails into the border area. my husband applied for access and we're dubious about just being selected after we found out we can picked i couldn't sleep because i was so excited had to tell him this we're not here for tourism but to experience the reality of separation and i'm very moved by it to. tell them the society the opening up of the d.m.z. is in line with the recent peace declaration signed by south korean president jane in north korean leader kim jong un in during their 1st meeting last april but with the u.s. north korea denuclearization talks crumbling into korean relations have also been stagnating some experts argue that south korea's engagement policy towards the north might not be sustainable i mean essentially north korea and using engagement also sor

but incremental exchange can make, big progress toward concrete denuclearization of north korea. >> the south korean minister, estimated that north korea had somewhere between 20 and 60 nuclear warheads, nuclear weapons. what is the government's estimate today on how many nuclear weapons north korea has? >> it's like the blind man touching the elephant. american nuclear scientists estimate that the north korea has about 30 to 35. they used to estimate north korea has 10 to 15 nuclear warhead. we don't know. that's why we are talking to north korea. >> we have to let you go soon. one last question. is it your expectation based on the numbers you're giving me since we got that number from the south korean government, that the number of nuclear weapons that north korea has has increased? >> we don't know. since president trump initiated dialogue with north korea, is an indication that the north hasn't tested ballistic missile and nuclear bombs. north korea might not have stopped production of nuclear materials. we should see. that's why we should talk with north korea. we should make north korea

0fficials really choking south korea's children?ut. from here we glimpse some of south korea's our plans. coal—fired stations produce over 40% of lectures lecture city here, car emissions, too, ithought of lectures lecture city here, car emissions, too, i thought to contribute to the smog. —— 40% of the electricity. the further west that we fly, the higher the readings they are getting on their instruments. you know —— in other words, the closer to china, the more polluted the air becomes. emissions from china's industrial plans are brought to south korea on prevailing winds, in spring, that's also mixed with fine particles from desert regions. how much is coming into korea and then how much — we have two collaborate with other countries to reduce our air pollution. so is this new enemy in the airfrom within pollution. so is this new enemy in the air from within or without? we await the scientist‘ findings. the government says it will tackle domestic issues such as coal use in car emissions over the next few decades. but the boy‘s m

of south korea who's been under increasing pressure since the failure of the hanoi summit both here at home and also from north korea throughout the events of sunday he tactfully remained very much at the sidelines allowing donald trump to claim credit for this historic day in reality though he is seen as being the instigator of this process of reconciliation if the day's events of stepping across the border is seen by the end of this year as one of the news highlights of 2019 then it will be remembered the moon j.n. did exactly the same last year becoming the news highlight of $2800.00 starting this whole process that has led to donald trump crossing over the border but has he always has done throughout this whole process of south korea very much giving full credit to donald trump. you know what we really want is permanent peace on the korean peninsula mr trump will be going down in history as the president who made peace on the korean peninsula and i would like to give my appreciation to donald trump and kim jong un that if this does turn out to be a historic day for the korean penin

also coming up the robot baristas are conquering the coffee shop scene in south korea. but come to a business i want to get jones and well and good to have you with us u.s. treasury secretary steven chu chin is scheduled to meet with people's bank of china governor you gang this weekend at a gathering of for g 20 finance leaders in japan it would be the 1st face to face discussion between key u.s. and chinese trade negotiators in nearly a month talks aimed at ending a festering trade will broken down in early may since then a cremona rhetoric and trade threats between beijing and washington only increased with the u.s. president on a trump this week raising the stakes once more wherever donald trump makes an appearance there is always one key question what is the likely outcome of his trade wars especially with china on thursday the president threatens to more than double u.s. import tariffs on chinese products. our talks were a lot of interesting things to have but they were few what happened in the meantime we're getting 25 percent or $250000000000.00 that i could go

we'll be dealing with south korea. but the initial talks will be between the united states and north korea. and president moon will be right there. >> what was kim's response to your invitation? >> well, we were contacted immediately -- >> to the united states. >> i just asked him, at the right time, you will come over there. we have a ways to go there. i would extend the invite. i mentioned out in front of the press. we want to take this down to the next step. see what happens. a very, very positive meeting. we had a positive meeting on trade, with president xi of china. see what happens. there's a great meeting. and again, no hurry. all these people, they hurry with these deals. no real speed. >> mr. president, why has chairman kim asked to set up a new team? >> we have a team. we have a team. we're going to spearhead it. and he is putting somebody in charge that we know and we like. >> were you able to validate people were still alive that were previous negotiators. >> i know the main person is. we know that. i would

or trump has traveled to south korea to revive talks on denuclearization he was welcomed by south korea's president gerry and before talks earlier trump invited north korean leader kim jong un to shake hands with him on the demilitarized zone most korea's government said it was an interesting proposition the u.s. state department is investigating how half stars forces obtained american made antitank missiles forces loyal to the u.n. back government said they found a weapons after capturing the libyan city of gary an earlier this week libyan media showed rocket launchers with the u.a.e. marked as the recipient. after more than 2 weeks stranded at sea dozens of migrants are finally landed in italy but only after the german humanitarian ship that rescued them managed to dodge the coast guard the captain was detained after defying a tally in our thirty's and docking in lampedusa she says she had no choice because of worsening conditions on board. prosecutors in the u.s. city of flint michigan have defended their decision to drop criminal charges against officials accused of letting people dri

we can be optimistic or not but at the very least it is still a kind of step that everybody in south koreawas waiting for as we all know a lot of dialogue between what's korea and the u.s. or summit on hold to put it gently and it really did require of momentum which could really only come from the kind of dots personal diplomacy that mr trump has been known for about let's be clear that even though many people say this meeting between chairman kim and mr trump in d.m.z. was quite unexpected by their head and being signed step part have to south korean government has been working to make it a reality mr montane the president of south korea has been quite insistent that mr trump come and visit south korea after the 20 meeting in japan and if mr trump were to come it was likely that he would go to the embassy which he wanted to visit before during his last visit to south korea in november of 2017 and of course d.m.z. is where mr mullen met quite without any kind of announcement for their 2nd meeting with mr kim in the past so there were signs that this could be a reality and in fact that is