china is absent from the vancouver conference.t a near neighbour of north korea, it is one of its few remaining allies. we are speaking with victor gow, former interpreter to the chinese theatre, 110w interpreter to the chinese theatre, now director of the china national association of international studies. hejoins us association of international studies. he joins us from association of international studies. hejoins us from our studios in beijing. thanks for joining us. what do you think china feels right now, but it was excluded from this vancouver talks? and these 20 countries are piling on the pressure on north korea. first of all the chinese government has already cold the vancouver conference as illegitimate and non—representative. this is because all these 20 countries also were actually fighting in 1950 and in the next several years in the early 19505 next several years in the early 1950s against china during the korean war. therefore the impression china got from this vancouver conference is that these countries we re co

he's arriving this evening in vancouver, canada. ahead of the meetings, he will have discussions this evening with the canadian foreign minister and his counter parts from japan and south korea. the state department says the united states and canada invited countries that joined the u.s. effort in the korean war more than 60 years ago. that means china and russia were not invited and will not be here. china accounts for 90% of north korean trade. the state department says it has coordinated with those governments ahead of the meeting

what did you achieve in vancouver? and do you think that those two countries should have been at the table? >> well, i think the vancouver meeting has a very -- a signal to pyongyang. number one, it has clearly indicated the willingness of the international community to keep the sanctions in place until the moment when pyongyang makes the right decision about their nuclear and missile programs. but on the other hand, the vancouver meeting also signalled to pyongyang very clearly that the eventual purpose of exulting sanctions and pressure upon pyongyang is in bringing pyongyang to the denuclearization talks. and everybody who was around the table in vancouver was interested in the diplomatic solution of the issue at hand. and i'm sure, while moscow and beijing were not around the table in vancouver, they must have paid attention to those messages out of the meeting. >> well, you know president trump in an interview this week has accused moscow of actually helping north korea skirt these sanctions. is that something you

china is not here in vancouver. joining me now, the senior policy adviser to secretary of state rex tillerson and a number of senior positions in the administration. about to throw his hat in the ring for the senate. brian, a lot is in play here. can you get something done without china and russia? >> this is not an alternative to working with china and russia. we've been working pretty closely with china and russia in the run-up to this ministerial in vancouver. everything we're doing here is to better implement the same sanctions regime that china and russia have supported in the u.n. security council. >> but they are cheating. we've seen ship to ship movements. >> we'll called them out when that's happened. we certainly want all u.n. member states to do a better job of implementing the security council sanctions they voted for. we're very pleased overall with the sanctions regime we've built. we've invited nations from every region, almost every region of the world here to vancouver to discuss how we can intensif

jane: laura bicker in vancouver, thank you for joining us. when it comes to the nuclear threat posed by north korea, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen, has been outspoken about the consequences. he spoke to my colleague katty kay earlier. katty: there is this meeting in vancouver where they're talking about what to do on the korean peninsula. how real do you think is the possibility of military conflict with north korea? adm. mullen: well, i certainly hope it never occurs, although i am increasingly concerned about that possibility. i'm encouraged with the discussions between the north and the south, although i don't take great comfort in that. it is a baby step, if you will , and a long way to go to see that prove fruitful. i'm encouraged by the meeting in vancouver -- 14 countries whose leaders are very focused on this. i think that is tremendously representative of what needs to happen. but until i see actual movement with respect to the real issue, which is nuclear weapons, i remain increasingly concern

among the notable absences from the vancouver conference is china.bour of north korea, it's one of its few remaining allies. so, how does it feel about attempts to pile the pressure on kimjong—un? earlier i spoke to victor gao, a former interpreter to the chinese leader deng xiaoping and now director of the china national first. all, first . all, the chinese government has already called the vancouver conference as illegitimate and nonrepresentative. this is because all these 20 countries also were actually fighting in 1950 in the next several years in the early 19505 next several years in the early 1950s against china during the korean war. therefore, the impression china got from this vancouver conference is that these countries were ganging up again in preparation for another military effort involving the korean peninsula at the very critical moment where relations are kind of improving on the korean peninsula, this gesture is not welcomed and may be very unconstructive worry than destructive. but victor, there are concerns that china is not holdi

a press conference has just got under way after the day's session of talks, in vancouver.he canadian foreign minister, chrystia freeland, said that countries agreed sanctions on north korea would be strictly enforced. the 20 nations represented here in vancouver have agreed that we must work together to ensure that sanctions imposed on north korea are strictly enforced. we also agree that we must take significant steps to keep north korea from invading sanctions and to sever financial lifeline for the country's weapons of mass destruction. i do want to say that we as a group harbour no hostility whatsoever towards north korea or its people. we seek neither a regime change nor a collapse. what we do want is to resolve this crisis peacefully, to achieve what is in oui’ peacefully, to achieve what is in our collective best interests, and thatis our collective best interests, and that is security and stability on the korean peninsular. us secretary of state rex tillerson says the us is opened talks with north korea but only if it stops is threatening behaviour. the united stat

we will not accept a nuclear armed north korea the us secretary of state says the vancouver meeting on north korea has agreed that china and russia must fully apply the un sanctions on pyongyang. follow on down jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up hong kong's high court has sentenced the pro-democracy activist joshua wall to three months in prison. who is providing vital services to the palestinian refugee population the u.n. says a decision by the united states to cut funding for palestinian refugees will affect stability in the region. and the french president called for more cooperation with the united kingdom on the refugee crisis. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has called on the world to step up pressure on north korea to end its nuclear program he's joined a summit in canada discussing how to tighten sanctions on pyongyang out as there was also in jordan reports. a show of diplomatic commitment in vancouver to ending north korea's nuclear weapons program but the meeting co-hosted by canada and the united states yielded just one new tactic for the fight

there was real international solidarity here in vancouver today. now as rex search for. it we are working towards a diplomatic solution. we spoke about the approaches we can use in words a diplomatic solution to this. and i know that this is necessary for the world. and that's why with all of our allies here we are only in gauged to work towards a diplomatic solution now with regard to canada specifically. as you saw today canada is very involved. and we are working very hard. to resolve this problem now we understand the importance of this problem for the entire world and we're kind of. and we will continue to do our work with our allies who are here today. as you know. canada will host the g seven this year. and the issue of north korea will be on the table. we as i said we are members of many international fora such as the lima group. and we told our allies today that we will discuss this issue. with these other allies next week. but i assure b.b.c. . mr citizen you've made quite clear that you want this issue solved through diplomacy backed up by strong resolute opti

many are wondering what impact this meeting in vancouver is going to have given the fact china and russiang of 20 nations, neither china or russia were present at that meeting. 0ne or russia were present at that meeting. one of the things they discussed was how to implement the sanctions already in place, there we re sanctions already in place, there were several rounds of fairly hard economic sanctions imposed against north korea, the last of which came into effect in december. in the past weeks there have been accusations chinese and russian ships have been helping north korea to be those sanctions of carrying out ship to ship transfers of oil, which violates the sanctions, both chinese and russian authorities deny that but both countries have expressed their discontent at not being this —— at this meeting. sergey lavrov said it was disruptive and a chinese spokesman said to reporters how can you sort out the north korean issue when important parties to that issue aren‘t present. when important parties to that issue aren't present. thanks very much, sophie. we‘ll talk to sophie again so

other political and peace groups that were meeting in vancouver as well with alternative visions that don't get reported too much so we're trying to almost slide into the old cold war dynamic of the east versus the west it seems donald trump has called on russia and china will criticize them for not putting enough pressure as he sees it upon north korea is there any evidence to suggest that that kind of believe you're into approach aggressive approach actually works. yeah this is been approach done since the axis of evil under george bush from prior to that to the failures of the agreed framework when the clinton administration thought the regime would collapse and we're playing waiting games and waiting games but this is been the forgotten piece and we've been waiting far too long for peace on the korean peninsula and my greatest hope right now is that the international committee could community coming together in south korea south and north talking and dialogue happening around the world that maybe we can take this off the plate as a centric u.s. issue and make it an international i

and south korea and part of what this gathering doesn't vancouver is convey that united front it also emphasizes that just because they're talking to the south can doesn't mean that they're going to let up on this campaign of maximum pressure it also allows south korea to reassure the u.s. and its allies that they are going to maintain that campaign as well even as they reach out to the north koreans all right jeanne lee thank you very much indeed jianli talking to us live from the south korean capital seoul let's go to hong kong now because the high court that has just sentence the pro-democracy activist joshua wong and some of his colleagues to spending more time in jail just fifteen others in total were charged with criminal contempt for refusing to leave a protest site during the twenty fourteen umbrella revolution demonstrations. all right in a little while we hope to be going live to hong kong and we'll try and get the very latest from our correspondent just to note that those sentences have been handed down and just some of his colleagues to be returned to jail but look at you

a show of diplomatic commitment in vancouver to ending north korea's nuclear weapons program but the meeting co-hosted by canada and the united states yielded just one new tactic for the fight an agreement to prevent so-called ship to ship transfers of outlawed goods to p. on yon i think we all agreed together with our partners here that the timing has turned out to be really for to attack us because we are seeing we we want to be clear headed we don't want to be in any way pollyannas about this but i think we collectively believe that the peaceful pressure is beginning to have an impact north koreans know our channels are open and they know where to find us but a sustained cessation of north korea's threatening behavior is necessary is a necessary indicator of whether the regime is truly ready to pursue a peaceful diplomatic resolution to the security threat that it has created our nations must remain united on sustaining pressure until north korea takes concrete steps toward and ultimately reaches didn't. thank russia and china were excluded from the meeting only countries that sup

it's what brings us here to vancouver. the people of your countries are most directly affected by instability on the korean peninsula. i'd like to welcome u.s. secretary of state, rex tillerson, my friend. thank you. we're truly honored to co-host these talks with our member neighbors. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> canada is determined to work for peace and security in the asia pacific, the strengthen the rules national order to preserve peace and security for us call. the ties between canadians and koreans have been forged in times of conflict and peace for more than a century. in fact, more than 206,000 koreans or people of korean descent now live in canada. in fact i'm proud that many of these korean canadians live in the riding that i have the honor of representing. these ties only increase our firm desire to avoid a devastating conflict on the peninsula. we welcome last week's agreement between north and south korea to hold military to military discussions and for north korea to partic

china is not attending the north korea crisis summit in vancouver today, but says its important the internationalmunity stays united. the financial times leads with carillion crisis, as does most of the uk papers this morning. they reveal that carillion was left with just £29 million when it collapsed this week. and the metro, its headline reads taking the piste, which is a dig at former carillion boss richard howson, who it says owns a six—bedroom ski chalet in the alps. the independent goes into details about the family in california. 13 children were allegedly being held captive by their parents. the parents are due to appear in court later this week, charged with torture and child endangerment. el pais says catalan parliament lawyers have dismissed the notion that separatist leader carles puigdemont can be sworn into parliament remotely. the catalan parliament is due to reconvene this morning. and finally the japan times touches on a story about a rather tricky exam question that baffled a bunch of poorjapanese highschool students. it's about the moomins, many of you know about them. so, let'

threatening north korea into submission after a long and challenging meeting that's the best the vancouver group could come up with the purpose of our meetings today is to improve the effectiveness. of the maximum pressure campaign and combat north korea's attempts to evade sanctions the united states looks forward to hearing from all participants on how we can best do that more sanctions toughest sanctions though one might wonder what the reason left of north korea to sanction or why they would work now when they haven't for the seventy years a few of the participants also proposed ripping up all diplomatic relations with the north that were to work and diffuse things re-inforcing autonomous majors when where available. disclosed to include cutting off diplomatic ties to his north korea solid meeting of north korea's former enemies literally almost all of these countries were participants of the korean war on the side of south korea states such as luxembourg colombia greece belgium difficult to imagine what relevance they have to the korean crisis these days but there you go noticeably ab

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but two key players, china and russia, are not involved in the meeting in vancouver.ter, possibly as soon as april, because of the worst drought in living memory. the world‘s social media giants attend a hearing in the us aimed at tackling the spread of extremist material. remember, the bbc news app has lots of detail on the stories we‘re covering but many more stories and analysis as well. there‘s a lot to look at, including this one, trump‘s cognitive ability is normal, that was the conclusion of the doctor to the president, you can see him there shaking trump‘s hand, saying the 71—year—old president shows its no abnormal signs following a cognitive exam. there‘s more detail online. now it‘s time look at the stories that are making the headlines in media across the world. we begin with the china daily, which reports that chinese president xi jinping spoke with american president donald trump yesterday to reaffirm their position on the korean peninsula situation. china is not attending the north korea crisis summit in vancouver today, but says its important the inter

but the gathering ignored the fact the north and south will already holding direct talks in the vancouver meeting also failed to invite key regional players russia and china analysts we spoke to believe washington fios less room in the issue. president. somehow believes that this pressure approach is the is something different than that has been applied before which it isn't and in reality he wants to pull back some of the thunder if you will back to washington because you have again the north and south talking i think the u.s. is a little jekyll and hyde with its policies because on one hand it wants to have a resolution wants to have de mille nuclearization wants to have peace and on the other hand pumps up this rhetoric and so the motivations relate to finances they relate to geo political factors of the u.s. power in the region if you will and they relate to trying to ice out china and russia a little bit as a player in this as was evident in vancouver the u.s. is constantly menacing north korea constantly threatening north korea carrying out war exercises that simulate the destructio

cases china and russia are not there tell us about who is on the invitation this his in vancouver. well among the countries that are taking part in this day long meeting here in vancouver include diplomats from the countries of colombia of norway sweden just to name three countries turkey is here at the invitation of canada and the united states twenty countries in all eleven of them foreign ministers the other lower level diplomats so it one you could ask whether or not this is a kind of meeting that by the composition of those attending would be guaranteed to produce something that would be earth shattering in terms of resolving the crisis with north korea on the other hand you could also ask whether there is a possibility of bringing in countries of bringing in perspectives from countries that have perhaps not a direct geographic interest in the korean peninsula but who may have long running ties and does have some ideas on how to end the situation where it seems as if north korea is dead set upon expanding its nuclear weapons arsenal and so in the next hour or so we are expecti

it is happening in vancouver today. it isa is happening in vancouver today.hange as to how north korea is approached, china have to be involved. they are hoping to send a message. a message that they are united in keeping up the pressure campaign and also in their demands that north korea ultimately denuclearise. that message was more important to send now than before because of this diplomatic opening between north and south korea. there have been questions about whether the pressure campaign would become less strong, and whether north korea might get away with trying to get some concessions without actually giving up what people wanted to give up. that message came through loud and clear. the practical thing they are going to be talking about is how to try to stop sanctions busting, how to stop smuggling the way north korea invades sanctions. rex tillerson made mention of it. there have been some documented incidents where ship to ship transfers of fuel, for example, which have been banned under sanctions. they want to look at more ways which will empower n

jordan al-jazeera vancouver delegations from north and south korea are holding talks on. the upcoming winter olympics the recent meeting. following increased tension over the north's nuclear weapons program and the sides had discussed the possibility of having their athletes march under unification flag during the opening ceremony. at the north should cooperate so that the north participation in the china lympics and paralympics not only make the upcoming event peaceful but also called tribute to the development of north relations and the establishment of peace on the korean peninsula. has more from the south korean capital seoul. the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says there is no difference between the policies of the united states and south korea when it comes to dealing with north korea even as the u.s. pushes a campaign of maximum pressure and sanctions while south korea continues to promote dialogue and hold another round of talks with north korea today both of the secretary of state and the south korean foreign minister have said that these policies go hand

rosalyn jordan al-jazeera vancouver. i think i have actual insists live now from the south korean capital seoul and kathy what is their reaction and been there. while these talks in vancouver were happening on that side of the pacific and here their entire career in talks that are going on at the border village of puntland on the third time the two koreas have sat down for talks in just over a week they've been discussing logistics and details around north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics including the size of north korea's delegation and the possibility that the two koreas may march together at the opening ceremony and also the possibility of a joint women's ice hockey team president says if that happens it would be a historic moment in the world will be moved so both sides seeming to want to push forward a peaceful message the north korean representative at these talks talked about better ties after a period of strained relations and the south korean vice unification minister has been once again ta

secretary of state rex tillerson will co-host the talks in vancouver and choose day country there will be seeking to find ways to intercept vessels at sea that may be defying u.n. sanctions by carrying refined oil products to pyongyang but north korea's main trading partner china won't be at the conference donald trump and she had a phone conversation on tuesday focusing on the korean peninsula chinese state media say she's message was that the easing of tensions must continue agent brown has more from beijing. i don't think china expected to receive an invitation to attend this international gathering in vancouver after all it is not an ally really of the united states or canada any more than russia is russia of course is also going to be absent both these countries have very different ideas about how to reduce tensions on the korean peninsula neither country favors military action or more sanctions against north korea what russia and china want is this freeze for freeze formula whereby north korea would cease development of its nuclear program in return for the united states and sout

a correspondent reporting live from vancouver still to come here at al-jazeera another crisis for yemen as period takes hold affecting almost seven hundred people safe plus we look back on the u.s. president's first year in office and donald trump's dealing with tensions on the korean peninsula. from flowing on in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello there it's clear across many parts of southeastern china at the moment is not a great deal of weather around atoll shanghai getting to around thirteen degrees and for us in hong kong will be getting to twenty four the further towards the south of course there is more cloud and more showers around parts of the philippines does look rather wet for many of us in news on their own wednesday but by thursday the show is generally breaking off a little bit and we see more in the way of dry weather a bit further towards the south and we've got plenty of cloud here as you might expect and some of the shower. it's already very very lively particularly that those in the southern part of the borneo and across parts of java a few more likely

and canada in vancouver who's taking part and one of they hoping to achieve right well as you point out it is certainly notable that both russia and china not there and in fact the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov saying in fact that he believes nothing notable is going to come out of this meeting as a result still as you point out twenty different nations including canada and the united states the secretary of state rex tillerson along with christopher hill in the foreign minister in canada working very hard to try and bring all of these nations together with really two key goals fall in that is the first to make sure that there is sort of a better implementation of sanctions that have been put in place by world powers to isolate north korea from the financial system the global financial system and also to to prevent north korea from of aiding the measures that have already been put in place at the level of the united nations so certainly what the goal is of these foreign ministers is to try and show there's a strong and united international front rex tillerson is efforts on nort

arrived here in vancouver a short while ago.e's at a dinner now with some of the participants and then we'll have a meeting with the canadian foreign minister in the foreign ministers of south korea and from japan. the goal of this meeting tomorrow is an attempt to fight north korean smuggling, perhaps initiate a naval blockade of north korea. despite the international effort to isolate and economically choke off north korea, north korea and south korea met again this morning. they have agreed to allow it north korea to send an orchestra is part of its growing delegation to the south korean -- the winter olympics held in south korea next month. they also discussed the potential of a joint north kore north korea-south korea ice hockey team, a women's ice hockey team. it would be the first unified team for korea to compete in olympic games if they agree to that. back here in vancouver there are 20 total countries meeting that includes the united states and canada tomorrow. there are two notable absences. china accounts for 90% of

after a series was jordan is in vancouver and joins us live so was what's the real goal of the meeting. well the u.s. secretary of state rock's teller cent is delivering his opening remarks at this meeting of some twenty foreign ministers members of the so-called u.n. sending states those are the countries that supported the republic of korea or south korea during the war with north korea between one nine hundred fifty and one nine hundred fifty three what he is saying right now is that the in cairo goal of the international campaign is for the complete to nuclearization of the korean peninsula that the international community will not support a nuclear north korea now this is a question though of whether or not this particular gathering can lend any real support toward that goal because it doesn't have any sort of international imprimatur in that it doesn't have the authority to actually push something along what this meeting can do however is to have basically get every country to reaffirm its support for the existing sanctions regime underlined by the u.n. security council as well a

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fans mike and jessica bennett are here from vancouver ready to cheer on the birds. you going to be tailgating on sunday. >> probably very early, yup. >> reporter: what are you expecting here. >> i expect probably the most insane sporting event i've ever seen in my life so -- and a big win. >> reporter: here's what they and others need to know. the party gets started early here at fdr park. tailgating begins at 6:00 a.m. the wells fargo lots open at 11:00 a.m. a half hour later, lots mn and p open and citizens bank park lots get going at 3:00 p.m. our couple from vancouver aren't sure when they'll start. >> i don't want to be too, too inebriated for game time. >> reporter: security getting into the stadium will be tight. the motto is let's be clear. small clutches are allowed, so, too, are 1 gallon ziploc bags. other clear bags are allowed but can't exceed 12 by six by 12-inches. police are ramping up their presence. >> we have a lot of officers both uniformed plainclothes real good security inside the stadium and outside in the parking lots. >> reporter: the message

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there as well as jordan is in vancouver and joins us live so what's the goal of this meeting most. well the goal of the meeting in warren is to essentially reaffirm with the country's shared commitment to putting this in all points of pressure possible on north korea to convince it to give up its nuclear weapons program not simply containing the program where it is right now that sort of containment is not being discussed or even being entertained we heard from both kahlo the japanese foreign minister and. the south korean foreign minister who both said with varying tones of defender to that they can not abide by a north korea that has a nuclear weapons arsenal we also heard from the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson saying that the pressure campaign is going to be employed in order to get to give up its nuclear weapons program both the development of nuclear warheads as well as the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles both of which the united states consider a national security threat to russia and china are not that how much can this event really achieve. well t

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he's arriving this evening in vancouver, canada. ahead of the meetings, he will have discussions this evening with the canadian foreign minister and his counter parts from japan and south korea. the state department says the united states and canada invited countries that joined the u.s. effort in the korean war more than 60 years ago. that means china and russia were not invited and will not be here. china accounts for 90% of north korean trade. the state department says it has coordinated with those governments ahead of the meeting and will continue to do so. russia says that is nonsense. sur gay -- sergey lavrov says that is lies. north korea and south korea continued their meetings about the olympics. south korea said they will allow a 40-person team to be available. they discussed the creation of a joint women's hockey team. if that were to happen, it would be the first unified team to be in the olympics. north korea has brought the south in for these discussions and it has been reciprocated by south korea. south korea has agre

secretary of state rex tillerson will co-host the talks in vancouver on tuesday countries they will be seeking new ways to intercept vessels at sea that may be defying u.n. sanctions by carrying refined oil products to pyongyang but north korea's main trading partner china won't be at the conference donald trump and choosing paying had a telephone conversation on tuesday focusing on the korean peninsula china's state media says she's message was that the easing of tensions must continue agent brown has more from beijing. i don't think china expected to receive an invitation to attend this international gathering in vancouver after all it is not an ally really of the united states or canada any more than russia is russia of course is also going to be absent both these countries have very different ideas about how to reduce tensions on the korean peninsula neither country favors military action or more sanctions against north korea what russia and china want is this freeze for freeze formula whereby north korea would cease development of its nuclear program in return for the united state

the canadian foreign minister, chrystia freeland, who hosted the meeting in vancouver, said they couldhe korean peninsula intensified. much more on the website. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter, i'm @bbcmikeembley. well, there's been some significant accumulations of snow across parts of northern ireland and scotland, the far north of england, and we continue to see wintry showers, snow showers, through the course of the night, early into wednesday so that's prompted the met office to issue an amber warning for parts of south—west scotland, northern ireland, for this combination of snow and ice. very windy too during the overnight period. gale force winds, particularly across irish sea coasts in towards the south—west for a time. plenty of snow showers continuing across scotland, northern ireland and into northern england that accumulate and continue to tot up. across the south, some dry interludes in fact, particularly across the south—east, but wherever you are it's going to be a chilly start to wednesday. wednesday itself looks like to be another cold

olympics around the corner and everyone with any sense once things settle down so what does the vancouver group do while it gathers all of north korea's former enemies and declares it intends to tighten the noose around kim jong un's neck how's that for a path to peace. security analyst charles schumer bridge says it's ironic that while south korea is seeking peaceful solutions it supposed allies are escalating the rhetoric considerable course diplomatic achievement for the north and arguably for the south but i think it's critically ironic that last this if you like not exactly a fall on the topham on it's going on at least a thawing of tensions between north and south that is happening in vancouver the former allies of the of south korea of course are tightening the noose as they call it increasing the rhetoric and raising the temperature south korea itself today is seemingly at least for the time being rejecting that belligerent approach and actually adopting an approach of talking and trying to ease tensions and seemingly with some first steps as results it appears to be the case that

the us secretary of state rex tillerson heads to vancouver as foreign ministers from 20 countries meetnd several people have died in venezuela in an operation to try and capture a former police pilot, who's accused of taking a helicopter and throwing grenades at government buildings last year. an instagram video shows oliver perez with a bloodied face, saying the authorities were shooting at him with grenade launchers. that story is popular on bbc.com. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the new york times reports on how the us military is quietly preparing for a war they've hoping to avoid. it looks at field exercises and troop movements inside the united states. the paper suggests they could be getting ready for a possible conflict with north korea. the china daily takes a look at the business of teaching the nation's tots. apparently it's going through a growth spurt. wealthy parents are happy to pay out to see their toddler reach the top of the class. that's got investors excited. but high prices and limited space mean many kids are missing out. the front p

thank you very much indeed, laura bicker, in vancouver for us.. the funeral of prominent kosovo—serb politician, oliver ivanovic, who was shot dead outside his office on tuesday is being held in belgrade later today. a festival of light featuring more than 50 artists returns to london. lumiere london will run for four days and installations are in place on regents street and westminster abbey. and the sundance film festival, which over the years has become a platform for independent filmmakers and has launched oscars hopes for many movies and actors, opens in utah in park city. huge disappointment for british tennis fans at the australian open. with andy murray not competing, many were hoping johanna konta would cheer them up. but she's out. the number nine seed was beaten in the second round. better news, though, for fans of maria sharapova. she beat the 14th seed anastasija sevastova in straight sets. sharapova, competing here for the first time since her drug ban ended, played well in scorching temperatures in melbourne. now it's time to get a

war the gathering ignored the fact the north and south were already holding direct talks and the vancouver meeting also failed to invite key regional players russia and china and lists we supposed to believe washington fears less so roll in this issue. president trump somehow believes that this pressure approach is the is something different than that has been applied before which it isn't and in reality he wants to pull back some of the thunder if you will back to washington because you have again the north and south talking i think the u.s. is a little jekyll and hyde with its policies because on one hand it wants to have a resolution wants to have de mille nuclearization wants to have peace and on the other hand pumps up this rhetoric and so the motivations relate to finances they relate to geo political factors of the u.s. power in the region if you will and they relate to trying to ice out china and russia a little bit as a player in this as was evident in vancouver the u.s. is constantly menacing north korea constantly threatening north korea carrying out war exercises that simulate

we have been working pretty closely with them in this run up to vancouver. everything sheer to better immaterial plemt t-- implement the sanctions. we want them tul do a better job immaterial plemting the security skankss they're voting for, but we're thankful overall for the regime that we built. >> of course there is still a lot of leakage, and as you know, until they move in on some secondary sanctions against the banks in china the way they did against iran, that is the only way -- but that would mean really taking action, tough action against china. there are big disagreements about trade and how to handle north korea. >> under the banner of preaching to the choir, this group of 20 are not generally the 20 companies when we talk about cheating and things getting through, that they really need to deal with it. so this is a coming together of countries on the right side of the issue, but the real pressure lies with russia and china. >>. >> there is some discomfort. over the fact that the south korean president is more eager for talks with north korea than

our correspondent laura bicker is in vancouver for the 20—nation talks.oreign leaders have now left, but they left just as the news broke that north korea and south korea have come to this agreement about marching under one flag for those olympic games and creating one women's hockey team. these are small steps, but they are incredibly significant steps. it is met with joy and hope in south korea, but amongst the international community there is some scepticism. they are worried about the motives of kim jong—un. is he doing is to buy time for his nuclear programme, is it a propaganda stunt? they are pushing for the centres to be held to the letter of the law and to continue despite this in diplomacy. i sat down with the south korean foreign ministerjust after the news broke with these talks and i asked her exactly why did north korea come to the table now, was it the threat of military action from the united states? i think we understand north korea better than anybody, having dealt with north korea for decades, having had a series of discussions. we have

back to you. >> bret: rich edson live in vancouver traveling with the secretary of state. thanks. now to a dangerous story out of the midwest, a man accused of threatening to kill riders on a greyhound bus is in custody tonight in chicago. correspondent matt finn reports the suspect took passengers and police on a wild ride. >> a greyhound bus ride from milwaukee to chicago took a horrifying turn when an illegal immigrant started pacing back and forth threatening to shoot and kill everyone. >> it felt like a terrorist situation. you are on a bus. a guy saying he's got a gun. >> he was acting crazy. >> police say two passengers called 911 from the moving bus about 33-year-old. the department of border control and customs tells fox news the passenger has been apprehended and ordered for deportation five times. one squad cars responded and attempted to pull the bus over, the driver did not stop. >> we activated emergency lights and sirens on the bus was still continuing. >> police dropped spike strips to stop the bus. officers say the driver thought police were involved in a training