but xi jinping have been a big supporter from the very beginning. she's pushed people out of that he believed to be corrupt so this was a restructuring into the absurd is from the south china sea is very much a joint partnership between the vision that is more than happy to try to realize that 80% of the south china sea that they claim. >> the one built one road, what do you think is the chinese goal definition of success? >> i think it began as an infrastructure project to the export of overcapacity for the standards of the next 50 years this was for the 68 countries through the rest of asia, the middle east coming up and out to africa and there is an overland route and a route to the sea. so it began as an infrastructure project but it's morphed into some a much grander. so it became a pitcher go both ways of china won to have control over the gps satellite system and fiber optic cables there's a poltergeist spouse to connect china and europe more frequently. there are security implications with a majority controlling state and 76 ports and even t

at the height of the friction between beijing and pyongyang when xi jinping wanted something he got itp to the communist party's 19th national congress in october, which is a really important event for xi personally, there was quiet in the weeks. no north korean missile launches. no north korean detonations of nukes. that's because xi jinping didn't want anything to derail his move to power. when the 19th party congress was over, kim jong-un sends this warm message of congratulations to xi jinping. despite all the friction. yet kim doesn't like xi jinping, yeah, kim doesn't like the chinese. yeah, they had two millennia of friction. mark: but it's the life line. >> it's life line. mark: all right, china. dick cheney said china is the problem, other problems, russia, iran, no question about it, china is the problem. i happen to agree. their military spending, their stealing of our technology, their land grabs in the region, outreach into great britain and central america and middle east and so forth, this is not a country content with just defending itself and the region. this is a coun

. firefighter with the ear of xi jinping.federal reserve helmed byjerome jinping. the us federal reserve helmed by jerome powell says jinping. the us federal reserve helmed byjerome powell says they will keep interest rates as they are for now. the personal consumption expenditures price index hit their target of 2%. the figure they used to track it is up 8%. i spoke to a chief economist from the bank of singapore asking why the federal reserve did not raise rates. singapore asking why the federal reserve did not raise ratesm singapore asking why the federal reserve did not raise rates. it was ha rd reserve did not raise rates. it was hard because they did not prepare the markets for it. there is an indication rate hikes every two months which we have seen for the past year will keep on going through this year. possibly next year as well. they are behind the curve. when will be the next interest—rate hike? june looks likely in the market agrees. the question is how fardo market agrees. the question is how far do they go? 3% s

and like president xi jinping a hard core socialist. that's what the u.s. team are dealing with they are dealing with men who are hard core socialists because you know the commerce ministry is now basically controlled by by the party that's the difference this time around you know in previous talks between the u.s. and china the u.s. has been talking to you know people who weren't necessarily high ranking party officials this time they are. and there are reports that president xi and his vice president will meet the u.s. negotiated is that likely though if there is no deal reached i don't think so because president xi jinping doesn't normally meet foreign v.i.p.'s dignitaries unless there's good news attached and if there isn't a breakthrough then i don't think you'll see president xi jinping or his vice president one xi showing meeting the u.s. delegation and in fact president xi jinping has had other things on his mind today namely karl marx the german philosopher it's his two hundredth birthday on saturday may the fifth and on friday

we appreciated and we appreciate as an xi jinping. i just spoke to president moon and explained what was taking place with respect to the three gentlemen. president moon of south korea was very, very happy to hear it. he, likewise has been incredibly helpful. so the relationships we have with prime minister abe, president moon, president xi jinping, i think it all goes to what is taking place right now, and we very much look forward to having the meeting between the united states and north korea, which will be announced over the next couple of days as to timing. we have a lot of things going on within our country. we have very much toughened up the borders, but the laws are horrible. the immigration laws in this country are absolutely horrible. we have to do something about it, not only the wall, which we are building sections of right million, weve 1.6 are fixing a lot of it but frankly, it is nonexistent. it was poorly built and it was only temporary in some cases. san diego has asked us to go forward with their section of the wall

>> in terms of -- >> xi jinping or president trump? >> president trump. >> no. s not playing a smart game at all. yes, president xi has the gift of time. what president trump doesn't understand is it says, though, he's got all of these things in buckets to use the word we were talking about in the break. he's got tariffs in this bucket. and he's got north korea in this bucket not realizing that both tariffs and north korea are in the same bucket. you cannot have a fight with china over here on tariffs and then expect china to work with you to solve the north korea problem. he does this in all of these things, whether it's europe, whether it's the korean peninsula. he acts as if i can take the discrete actions and one doesn't have an impact on the other. they absolutely do. >> what do you think? >> chi na's willing to make movs to make donald trump feel better. >> boom. talk about this. >> they said they'll open up the electric vehicle market in china in four years. we'll see how real that actually is. but that doesn't mean they want the americans to come there an

within the china community, about xi jinping approach. i don't think it is mysterious i think he has on a number of occasions essentially said that the taiwan issue needs to be resolved soon or rather than later and of china is -- at heart of his -- rejuvenation narrative. do you think he means this is more than a slogan. he needs it because he says of china should take place by 2049 so he's put out a soft date that includes the south china sea, hong kong and taiwan, so that issue of sovereignty is paramount. >> and 90 years old then. he's 65 now. and so be mid-90s. okay. yes. i don't think he's planning to see that all the way through, but -- but he has put that out as a target. so you can already see that -- china has adopted a number of both inducement and cohearsive policies to try to -- push taiwan closer to china. so i think i think that's clearly on his agenda. >> what about two other or three other foreign policy things when is south china sea? in recent years some of us have been -- youbit surprised we certainly noticed the islan

on the other hand, she has a kind of loaded relationship with china and xi jinping.y not only partners, but competitors. as you also said an introduction, property theft is, thatis introduction, property theft is, that is the big issue in the way that is the big issue in the way that german companies are not as able to invest in china as chinese companies are able to invest in germany. that is definitely an issue. a very familiar tale, not just for her but the other world leaders who go to china. that is often their biggest issue. it will be interesting to see if there is any progress on the issue or not. what extent do you think this latest move on the part of trump administration to threaten tariffs on car imports into the us will feature in the discussions between angela merkel is an xi jinping, feature in the discussions between angela merkel is an xijinping, as ricker mentioned, they are opening up ricker mentioned, they are opening up theircar ricker mentioned, they are opening up their car market. they said we will buy $200 million worth of goods and services

i don't think president xi jinping and his vice president one xi showing will want to meet the u.s. trade delegation if there's no good news president xi jinping tends to meet foreign leaders foreign dignitaries when there is good news and in fact on friday darren president xi jinping has had something else on his mind namely karl marx whose two hundredth birthday falls on may the fifth on saturday he was addressing a large gathering of communist party officials in the great hall of the people extolling the virtues of marxism and also saying basically that the communist party leadership the membership as well need to remember their communist party roots as she jingping strives for the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation and part of that rejuvenation of course is standing up to foreign powers over trade adrian brown there in beijing adrian thank you. ten thousand people in hawaii have been ordered to evacuate their homes after the killer way a volcano erupted steam and love are threatening at least one residential neighborhood the volcano erupted after a series of earthquakes th

the talks break down kim turns , around and says to xi jinping and perhaps to mr. putin i tried , my best, i made a serious peace offer and the americans have continued their policy. -- they're hostile policy or whatever he would say. how can you continue sanctions on my country in these circumstances when i tried. how would china in your opinion, especially dr. chow how would , china respond to that? that would be a question for dr. young, please. i think china deserves credit for its long-standing efforts to try to bring together different parties and find a way out for the past 20 years. donald trump is saying that he deserves the credit for the recent developments. let's say 50-50. [laughter] to be fair. china for the past two decades has been trying hard to induce north korean leadership to change and open up society. we tried very hard with some limited successes. it has been difficult as well. and eventual resolution requires different parties to make their respective efforts. i think on the u.s. side you have a lot to offer to north korea. as long as they p

german chancellor merkel talks business with president xi jinping amid growing trade tensions with the us. and this is what the markets are doing in the first few minutes of trade. european car—makers have taken a hit, down about 2%, following the warning that they could be hit with new tariffs. and we'll be getting the inside track on the toy industry. after a big player like toys‘r'us collapsed, how are some of its smaller rivals faring and turning a profit in a changing industry? we'll speak to the boss of the entertainer. as a string of high street restaurants bite the dust, today we want to know are meal delivery apps hurting your favourite restaurants? are you eating in much more than you eat out? let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. lots to get through. we start in the us where global trade tensions could be about to shift up a gear. the trump administration has launched a national security investigation into car and truck imports. it could lead to new us tariffs similar to those imposed on imported steel and aluminium back in march.

have little in common politically the german chancellor angela merkel and the chinese president xi jinping and yet when they look towards washington they both see the same puzzling president donald trump it is ironic that the cantankerous and callous style of donald trump may be forcing germany and china to cozy up together in ways that would not have been imagined just two years ago but that is how you can read the agenda of miracles visit to china this week she is looking to xi jinping to help secure the global order constructed and mail neglected by the u.s. and that includes free trade and a rejection of protectionism and germany and china have always had a complex relationship a relationship that is now being trumped. relations between china and germany are nowhere near as fluffy and spacings representatives at berlin zoo that's despite china's president xi jinping and german chancellor angela merkel discovering more and more common interests since the g twenty meeting in germany last year. u.s. president donald trump's exit from the iran nuclear deal is only the latest in a series of

thousand and fifteen michael was welcomed by the chinese premier league and will meet with president xi jinping during her two day trip before landing in beijing merkel said she will also focus on human rights and discussing international trade to speakers. well here to talk through the chancellor's visit to china we're joined by our cheap. it'll ever make it a quick and hot from our business desk of course because let's start with you because visit to china comes at a very sensitive moment with the u.s. pulling out of the iran nuclear deal and transatlantic time weakening how important are sino german relations in light of these developments. well they've always been important and at this crucial time a lot of the issues that are very important to germany and to europe and really are closely pegged to the chinese economic but also political minds business is always an issue china is the second largest economy it's a key market many but when we talk about the iran nuclear deal basically keeping it alive also means giving iran economic options and making this viable now there's no control certai

president xi jinping isa by the leader.i jinping is a world—class poker player and i probably maybe would do the same thing that he would do. but i will say this, there was a somewhat different attitude after that meeting. so i can't say that i am happy about it. president moon jae—in was very happy about possibility of peace, he thought the summit would be a complete fool president trump's. he wants is to work for south korea's sake, officials now wonder whether he has overstated north korea's willingness to deal. . kimjong—un has played along with goodwill gestures, like releasing us hostages. the summit has been shaped by an unusual degree of diplomatic chairmanship i both leaders in the oval office appeared to be the latest. he will be safe, he will be happy, his country will be rich. mr trump stressed it would be rich. mr trump stressed it would be worth it for kim jong—un to take the risk, throwing the ball back into his court. the secretary of state put a positive spin on the sharp reality check. it is clear we are w

said to kim jong—un wonder what president xi jinping said to kimjong—un in terms of whether or not he to be trusted on this, now. all right, steve, thank you for that. stephen mcdonell that based in seoul. —— there. japanese prime minister shinzo abe has said tokyo will normalise ties with north korea if the nuclear and missile issues, along with that of the abduction of japanese citizens, are solved comprehensively. mr abe was speaking after a trilateral summit with chinese premier li keqiang and south korean president moonjae—in held in tokyo. let's ta ke let's take another look at the rest of the stories in the news, then. malaysians are voting following one of the most hotly contested general election campaigns in the country's history. an opposition coalition, now headed by the 92—year—old former prime minister mahathir mohamad, is hoping to win power for the first time since independence 61 years ago. the current leader, najib razak, was once mentored by mr mahathir. the man who led weeks of protests in armenia has addressed his supporters in the capital, yerevan, as prime minis

president xi jinping of china will visit north korea. the kim trump summit. and third president moon jae-in will visit north korea this fall. theseill come out of summits, we will see. that these are important developments to happen. thank you. >> i'm sure we have questions but please hold for another presentation. please enlighten us with the u.s. plans to do now. >> thank you for the privilege of being here, thank you to my colleagues for your excellent presentations. my comments are my own rather than behalf of the national committee on north korea. recent events including north korea's participation in the olympics and the moon kim summit are extraordinary. the summit would be remarkable given tensions between north korea and the united states during the decades since the signing of the armistice. the war continues. understanding the summit was the beginning, a groundwork for the future. there are six initial points of significance that come to my mind. a central question, whether the public objects associated reflect a paradigm shift in the mind of kim j

s main evening news bulletins in a seven minute report this time kim was welcomed by president xi jinping in the northeastern city of dolly on close to the border with north korea and it's not clear if kim asked to come or was invited but it happened just a few weeks before the north korean leader's planned talks with u.s. president donald trump kim appeared to suggest the prospect of that get together was being undermined by trump what he said if the relative country stop their hostile attitudes and threats then there's no need for north korea to have nuclear weapons like kim's powerful sister kim jong accompanied her brother her international profile continues to grow well the chinese side had thought hard about the backdrop they wanted for this visit and beyond these waters the korean peninsula direly and offering a picturesque setting. as the north only ally chinese leaders want to ensure they're not sidelined in the future diplomacy over north korea after a long strain in relations because of the north's misawa nuclear bomb tests the two sides are hugging again president xi has accep

i think if there's no agreement then almost certainly president xi jinping will not be meeting the the us side he doesn't want to be associated with you know talks that have failed in fact president xi jinping has had other things on his mind today namely karl marx the german philosopher who still hundredth birthday is on saturday she jingping addressed a gathering of the communist party in the great hall of the people and this was a chance for president xi jinping to i guess demonstrate that car marks as one of his heroes and it was almost as if she jingping thought was being conflated with the thoughts of karl marx and of course she jingping wants the communist party to remember its socialist roots as part of his efforts to achieve the the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation and part of that rejuvenation at the moment is being tough with the united states not just in the area of diplomacy taiwan north korea the south china sea but also trade with the united states thank you. now the u.s. president has changed his story about hush money paid to an adult film actress stormy daniel

chinese president xi jinping has met north korean leader kim jong un for a second time in as many months they met in the chinese city of delhi on china as pyongyang main diplomatic and economic ally they were lation as had been strained over the north's nuclear program. well north korea is expected to top the agenda trilateral talks taking place in tokyo between japan south korea and china this is their first summit since twenty fifteen previously relations were a little bit frosty and they've now improved largely because of common interests like trade when hey reports from the japanese capital. we may not see any major announcements from the summit but the mere fact that it's taking place is significant given that it is the first time that the south korean president and the chinese premier league pitching have visited japan in an official capacity the japanese prime minister shinzo are they will hold bilateral discussions with his counterparts while they are here in tokyo but most interest will center around the trilateral summit where it's thought that the situation in north korea will

tests of nuclear weapons underground testing of nuclear devices that really did in rage president xi jinping but things started to change really of course at the end of march when kim jong un made an unexpected visit to beijing he was invited all summoned here by president xi jinping and of course this visit came only a few days after it was announced that kim jong un and president from were going to hold face to face talks that is still likely to happen possibly at the end of may or the beginning of june so there is really a flurry of diplomatic activity going on right now and china doesn't want to be left out now the visit by wang ye as you said in introduction is the most high profile visit by a chinese government minister since two thousand and fifteen and china really wants to ensure i think that the momentum keeps moving and also china has been in the difficult position of enforcing sanctions against north korea basically most of what north korea receives comes through or from china and china i think is hoping it reaches a stage soon where those sanctions can be eased because it's actu

he made an allusion to the fact that xi jinping of china had met with kim jong il and then that sincerea seems to have hardened its stance. seemed a little annoyed with xi jinping but frankly i am not sure why, even if it were true that the meeting was in jeopardy, i'm not sure why he would sort of casually just drop it in a conversation like that. makes it seem like it doesn't even -- he doesn't even really know what's going on in his own foreign policy. there is obviously something going on here. >> bret: we are trying to figure out what is going on with kimberley's camera. we'll come back to her. byron, your thoughts on the announcement today and this summit in the wings. >> kind of seemed like the president was the executive producer of this. tune in june 12 for the exciting conclusion. will they meet? i do think that anybody -- nobody would've said going in there there would be this smooth path. i think everybody was offering caveats when the president first said this, announce this meetin meeting. that you can trust with the north koreans say. may be playing the whole thing, all

almost every tweet on china has tried to find a way to say, he likes xi jinping, he respects xi jinpinge has been much warmer toward xi, if you read vr cabal of his statements, then he has been toward theresa may or angela merkel and germany. frankly, maybe even toward macron and france, who is his body. i think that is worth noting. what about the relationship common june 12 with the all-important meeting with kim jong-un? where do expect that to go, the north korean relationship? the the very fact of meeting is historic. no north korean leader has met with an american president. i suspect it will be warm. there will be physicality, there will be a lot of great statements. everyone is going to be focused completely on all of that for a few days, and both leaders strongly want to ensure the meeting goes well. i'm sure that kim jong-un will save the right words on denuclearization. to comenk they will try up with something that feels like a framework for progress. what that means in the long-term, that's anyone's guess. vonnie: is there a schism between the u.s. and europe now? ian: the

he flew over there and visited xi jinping, the president. clearly xi jinping wanting to show once again that he is the main ally of north korea, that he is in the center of all this flurry of diplomatic activity. what we don't know at this point is how kim jong-un is likely to react to the fact that the u.s. president has pulled out of that nuclear iran deal. critics here and around the world have said if he doesn't necessarily know what the next u.s. president will do, will he agree a deal with this u.s. president? >> fascinating. paula hancocks in seoul. thank you. >>> major international news elsewhere as president trump ignores pleas from key european allies announcing the u.s. is quitting the iran nuclear deal. >> it is clear to me that we can not prevent an iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement. the iran deal is defective at its core. if we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. >> the president plans to impose new sanctions on the iranian regime and says any country that helps ira

informal breakfast with the premier and will be meeting xi jinping later. iran is going to be figuring too, fraser. china and germany want to salvage the iranian nuclear deal despite the u.s. pullout. they can both say they want to give the americans aren't going -- >> they don't have the pursestrings -- >> americans are key to that because so much of this ties into israel and the stability in the middle east. it is an shambles. aam not saying this was particularly good deal, but donald trump likes to break things and overturn things. while it is easy saying i dislike the existing deal -- show us a better deal. stick around, tom mackenzie in beijing and fraser howie will stay with us. "hypocrisy is not a vice, a it is a fact of life." the feds dovish signals are affecting emerging-market currencies. haidi: counting down to inclusion, we hear from the head of msci on next week. this is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: we have german chancellor angela merkel arriving in beijing. with her is the chinese premier. this is the great hall of the people. the welcoming ceremony

so that was a direct message to both xi jinping and kim jong-un to say no more meetings like that before june. the president saying xi jinping is a world class poker player and if given the reverse role, he probably would have done the same thing. trace? >> yeah, and separately, john, president trump commenting on a report that an fbi informant talked to some members of his campaign. >> yeah, yesterday he called a snap meeting with rod rosen stein and chris wray, the fbi director to tell them point blank, you're going to provide congressional investigators with the documents they want in terms of what led up to the fisa request to start surveilling members of the president's campaign. he instructed john kelly to get together with the doj, the fbi,the director of national intelligence and congressional investigators like trey gowdy and devin nunes and give them everything that they want. the president also very strong today about the idea that there was an fbi informant that is trying to infiltrate his campaign. listen here. >> if they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace to

president xi jinping, still having a hard time with his made in china 2025. a terrible problem with a coastal economy, by furcasion of rich and -- b by by -- by -- rid poor, chinese media saying don't give in to quote, bullying tactics of president trump, he can't back down, trump guys can back dune we'll probably get window dressing like with some tariffs on south korea deal that did not meter that much -- do you expect something substantive? >> i do, but not right away, this is a breaking of the ice, best and brightest there, they know they speak the president xi jinping knows, that this is a long process, we're not going to be extorted and nat taken advantage, it not in china's interest or u.s. interest to have a trade war, we have to use every tool in the tool box to make the chinese understand, this is not business as usual, a deal is only as good as it is for both parties. stand on principle, china will find an accommodation, we'll compromise, and we'll be better off dealing with china out of strength than out of weakness. john: how do we deal with amou

it's a major coup for president xi jinping after three prior rejections.ivalent of an economic parade. the pie isl slice of expected to bring billions of dollars of the china's equity market as index-tracking funds buyin. beijingcould change if brings up for the market reform. yvonne: we are watching for the announcement of these companies are a closely. everyone thinking we will see quite a bit of a flow heading into the region. they have been tracking the did -- listed in shanghai. take a look at this chart. atf.is msci china the is what tracks some of msci inclusion in terms of new interest. that has lagged behind ishares. we have been seeing a lot of this volume let's take a look at what we see their -- we see there. betty: let's just pull up this chart, which shows you that china a-shares are underperforming. no surprise, right? they have been trading at a ofcount with the knowledge less corporate governance, these restrictions that -- restrictive flows in and out. discount. you have a with the inclusion of mainland stocks in the msci, the expectation

(xi jinping speaking in chinese) - [translator] since the belt and road initiative was put forward over three years ago, over 100 countries and international organizations have given warm responses and support to the initiative. more than 40 countries and international organizations have signed cooperation agreements with china, and our circle of friends along the belt and road is growing bigger. - [narrator] the plan includes a maritime silk road, which aims to connect asian, african, and middle eastern nations through the construction of ports, naval bases, and canals to revitalize sea trade. - when you leave china and you go and then you go around southeast asia and then you go to the indian ocean, then you go around the tip of india and ultimately go through the middle east and to europe. that also is something which historically the chinese used as a trading route. they believe that these places, many of these places on the route where they were trading with hundreds of years ago need to be lifted out of poverty. - last year, there were 20,000 containers that went from china to eur

kim jong-un's rhetoric began to shift after he had a couple of meetings in beijing with xi jinping. how does china feel about this now? do they feel that the summit is back on track? where does the handstand? he stand?oes >> at this point china wants to see the escalation happen because it offers some hope for denuclearization. but as has been pointed out, there will likely not be details. the two leaders could in principle agreed to denuclearization, but i think china will see that as a bad good outcome, they are having speculations about what happened in his second vision to china, may 7 and may 8. south korea apparently changed their attitude one week later. the speculation is -- what did the chinese tell him? what was put on the table that made the north koreans change their attitude? the chinese have a different interpretation of what happened. it definitely points to the leader model as referred to by john bolton as a key reason for the change of heart by the north koreans. i will stop there, thanks. yuki: finally, japan seems to be the outlier in all of this. about how japan

of the chinese president xi jinping has met north korean leader kim jong un for the second time in a matter of months north korean state media says the talks which happened in the chinese city of delhi and well marked by in his words trust and honesty china is one of north korea's only diplomatic and economic allies though relations have been strained over pyongyang's nuclear program the pair helped their last talks in beijing in march and that was kim's first foreign trip as leader and he is also expected to meet donald trump later this month let's go to china correspondent now in beijing adrian brown an agent it seems is that kim jong un is a druther enjoying travel a lot more these days a second time that he's meeting president xi in a matter of two months. yeah absolutely right martin and as always on these occasions it was left to the main news bulletin on state t.v. to confirm what many of us have suspected for the past two days the kim jong un had indeed made his second secretive visit to china this time though not to beijing but to the northeastern city of darlie which is jus

not clear whether it will happen the president yesterday seemed to blame the president of china, xi jinpingr getting involved in this suggesting in some way that he had influenced kim jong-un to back off on his commitments to the summit in order to pressure the united states for more concessions on trade. these two giant negotiations happening at the same time trade with china north korean nukes they're all interconnected the president expressed frustration about that yesterday talking about his peer in china, xi jinping here's what he said. >> i think that president xi is a world-class poker player and i'm probably maybe doing the same thing that he would do. but i will say this, there was a somewhat different attitude after that meeting and i'm a little surprised now, maybe nothing happened. i'm not blaming anybody, but i'm just saying, maybe nothing happened and maybe it did. but there was a different attitude by the north korean folks. >> so the president there saying he's not blaming anybody, but he certainly walked up to the edge of blaming xi jinping for getting the north koreans to

what is president xi jinping trying to do? take advantage of u.s. pulling out of the, ra iran deal. >> china and iran have always had a close relationship. china invested in gas and oil in iran. and iran nuclear weapon program is composed of chinese parts. through pakistan, and china selling material to iran surreptitiously. what sphwg on righ what is goin, we'll impose sanction on european companies doing business in iran. one is the french oil company total. and total has a big investment in an iranian gas field, largest gas field in the world. probably. what will happen if we dea don'e france an exemption, total will put out of iran field, that means chinese, the large oil company will take over the stake and beijing will have a bigger investment in iran's energy. chinese and russians compete for iran it gets complicated. >> what happens? >> that if makes it difficult for u.s. to really have our sanctions bite. you know we can deal with underan companies get -- european companies out of iran, but it bowl no would not -- it would not matter becaus

president might do. >> xi jinping reminding everyone he is the center of all of this. paula hancocks live from seoul. thanks. >>> president trump innorring pleas from key european -- ignoring pleas from key european allies announcing the u.s. is quitting the iran nuclear deal. >> it is clear to me that we cannot prevent an iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement. the iran deal is defective at its core. if we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. >> the president plans to impose new sanctions on the iranian regime and says any country that helps iran obtain nuclear weapons would be strongly sanctioned. reaction to the move was swift both at home and abroad. want to bring in fred pleitgen. he is there for us in tehran. and fred, first, the reaction from where you are to the president fulfilling a campaign promise to get out of this deal. >> reporter: yeah. christine, they've been swift, and they've been very fierce, as well. earlier today, an iranian parliament, hard lion conservatives burn -- hard-line conservatives

as for german companies in china she'll meet president xi jinping later today. or for more on the chancellor's visit to china let's bring in our correspondent who is standing by for us in beijing and joining me here in the studio is christine she she's a researcher at the market or institute for china studies here in berlin welcome to you both let's start with you mathias there in beijing you attended the joint press conference with chancellor merkel and the chinese premier li keqiang early on what was your impression of the meeting between these two leaders today. well i think these two leaders they know each other quite well they have been knowing each other for quite a few years eleven's to china so there were no surprises everything went very smooth the topics they talk about with the exception maybe off to you ron ok so you know he went and met with members and have been on the table for a long time to know. kristen. i move over to you here in berlin let's talk about the iran nuclear deal the u.s. has pulled out of that deal obviously the other signatories

as main evening news bulletin in a seven minute report this time kim was welcomed by president xi jinping in the northeastern city of darlie on close to the border with north korea it's not clear if kim asked to come or was invited but it happened just a few weeks before the north korean leader's planned talks with u.s. president donald trump kim appeared to suggest the prospect of that getting together was being undermined by trump what he said if relative country stuck their hostile attitude and threats then there's no need for north korea to have nuclear weapons like kim's powerful sister kim jong accompanied her brother her international profile continues to grow well the chinese side but thought hard about the backdrop they wanted for this visit and beyond these waters the korean peninsula darley and offering a picturesque setting. as the north only ally chinese leaders want to ensure they're not sidelined in the future diplomacy over north korea after a long strain immolations because of the north's misawa nuclear bomb tests the two sides are hugging again. president xi has accepted

as main evening news bulletin in a seven minute report this time kim was welcomed by president xi jinping in the northeastern city of dolly on close to the border with north korea it's not clear if kim asked to come or was invited but it happened just a few weeks before the north korean leader's planned talks with u.s. president donald trump kim appeared to suggest the prospect of that get together was being undermined by trump what he said if relative country stuck their hostile attitudes and threats then there's no need for north korea to have nuclear weapons like kim's powerful sister kim jong accompanied her brother her international profile continues to grow well the chinese side but thought hard about the backdrop they wanted for this visit. beyond these waters the korean peninsula dali and offering a picturesque setting. only ally chinese leaders want to ensure they're not sidelined in the future diplomacy over north korea after a long strain immolations because of the north's misawa nuclear bomb tests the two sides. president xi has accepted an invitation to visit north korea poss

he is wondering if xi jinping got in kim's ear and said look, you better slowwalk this thing with the summit and the president of the united states because he is going to want to get you to give up the nuclear weapons. which is why we saw president trump last week and again today, dana, saying directly to kim jong un. listen, i will guarantee your security. both in terms of the nation itself and your personal security. we will guarantee that you will stay in power and guarantee that your economy flourishes. he went so far to say he knows south korea and china are willing to put a lot of money to north korea to turn the economy around from the path it's been on now. so this is not live pictures. this tape from a while ago. but moon jae-in the president drove by me before i came on the air but this is a taped playback. oh, actually, that is going in. his arrival. i got the wrong information there. but at any rate, dana, the president is trying to say to kim jong un come meet me in singapore june 12. it will be nothing but good for you if you do but also reiterating he has to give up the

president donald trump kid made the comments during a meeting with his chinese counterpart xi jinping in the northern chinese port city of dahlia it's their second meeting in recent weeks following kim's visit to beijing in march comes a strong prepares for a historic summit with kim in late may already june china correspondent adrian brown has more now from beijing. well as is often the case on these occasions it was left to state television to confirm what many had suspected that kim jong un had indeed made his second secretive visit to china this time though he wasn't in the capital beijing but in the northeastern city of darrien not far from the north korean border kim was accompanied by his sister who continues to play a high profile in north korean diplomacy now it's reported in chinese state me denuclearization on the korean peninsula shouldn't proceed now of course when he refers to some countries he's talking about the united states now kim jong un is due to meet president donald trump in the next few weeks and of course just a few weeks ago china's foreign minister one year

and what kim jong-un has just done is he's helped xi jinping in the bargaining position. so there is a lot of stuff going on. we know that the north koreans and the chinese talk all of the time. so we have to assume there is a high degree of coordination. >> so you think -- rather than saying that the united states is being played by north korea, that this is almost a warning shot from china being fired through north korea. let me ask you, gordon, while i have you, i've heard national security experts express a concern that president trump in being so eager for the summit has given away u.s. leverage, almost as if the united states wants this summit more than north korea does. is that a concern of yours and what do you think the united states should do with this news -- this announcement from north korea? >> reporter: well, i think that there is certainly -- we have been eager to have this summit. but i don't think we've given away that much leverage. there are two things that give us leverage, one is the threat of war and observers in asia have been saying consistently t

. >> the president in the oval office said he was disappointed after his second meeting with xi jinping kim jong un seemed to have a change of attitude. is china a spoiler and why? >> the president spoke to this directly. there's nothing more to add at this point. mike. >> reporter: can you add more about the president's comments, you said that china, south korea and japan were willing to invest very large mums is the u.s. planning to add to that very large sum? >> i don't have anything to add beyond the president's comments. >> can you talk at all about what president moon said about kim -- about the new tenor coming out of pyongyang, what president trump learned in the we're going to continue in preparation. we'll see what happens. >> is there any situation barring a security incident in which you feel the white house feels it is appropriate to physically touch or physically handle -- >> i'm not going to weigh into random hypotheticals that may or may not exist. you're asking me to speak to blanket possibilities, which i'm not going to do nor would i never ask you to do. john, go ahea

about is this china has a plan known as made in china twenty twenty five and this is president xi jinping ambition to basically overhaul the economy and to pour billions of dollars into technologies of the future things like artificial intelligence and robotics but the problem is these are state funded companies that will be competing against u.s. companies in the global market in china the united states believes the basically china is out for world domination in this area and says you know it's unfair on the trade issue on the deficit issue the united states wants china to to cut the deficit by about one hundred billion dollars will state media here say there's very little likelihood of china going along with that ahead of these talks darron chinese media was saying that they want the united states to show sincerity during these negotiations and they say that china will not bow to any measures that seek to contain china and that's the overriding message china will not allow itself to be contained the u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross who is also part of this high level delegation now i

if there was a hotline between pyongyang and beijing it simply wasn't working i think president xi jinping was both humiliated and enraged by conjunctions refusal to desist from his missile and nuclear tests his defiance of the international community and of course he wasn't just a fine international community he was also defying china it's one ally well things started to in change i think at the end of march when kim jong un came to beijing either summoned or invited here by president xi jinping and of course that came shortly after it emerged that kim jong il and president from were going to hold face to face talks talks that are due to happen sometime in late may or early june so there is now a flurry of diplomatic activity and china doesn't want to be on the sidelines i think it is talks in pyongyang the chinese foreign minister is going to be pushing the idea of china being involved in four party talks involving the united states china as well as leaders of the two koreas and of course next week in tokyo we will have talks involving the japanese prime minister the south korean preside