south korea is working very hard. south korea is working also in trying to implement. i think working also in trying to implement. ithinkl working also in trying to implement. i think i would be very good. kim jong—un has been somebody we have got along with. when they first became president, what was happening during our previous, the previous administration was very bad for south korea, and very bad for north korea, frankly, there was a lot of bad things happening. and it has changed very, very rapidly. and it's very positive. a lot of positive things going on right now. speaks korean. and justin finishing up i think can say with great conviction that north korea and south korea are both in much better places right now than they were two and half years ago when i became president —— and just in finishing up. there was tremendous danger, tremendous danger. you people know well. you know better than idea. because you had to suffer through it for a long time. a lot of progress has been made. i want some of the news, fake news, tony fake news, and they said what's

korea would see it has further advancing the stalled dialogue as south korea or moon j.n. his credibility has taken something of a hit ever since the failed summit in hanoi to certain extent it seems north korea has been blaming moon for maybe raising expectations for not getting the the american side enough on board and so snowe south korea will be looking for some way of moving this forward and one of the constants in the relationship between north korea south korea and also the united states has been the personal relationship between trump and kim that as things have gone up and down as north korea has returned to some of its hostile rhetoric against the u.s. administration that relationship however genuine it may be has remained a constant in this meeting between these 2 men at panmunjom on the border between north and south korea would be very much in line with that in that same vein as those you wanted our correspondent rob fried across all those developments for us and tell thank you for. tele head on out as there ferrari instead of pain said head of the austrian ca

aimed at south korea. they would rape fire down on seoul in the. >> i vent of hostilities. joining us, bruce clirng who worked at the problem with the cia for a number of years. those rockets, conventional military forces. and i believe he described them as low tech. but very effective and very frightening if you are worried about the possibility of war between north and south korea. >> the world is focused mostly on the nuclear threat to south korea as well as u.s. forces and citizens there. but there is also a large conventional threat. north korea has a million man army. there is a lot in the demilitarized zone. the caisson heights can reach seoul without having to move forward. so not only do we need to focus on the nuclear missile threat, we need conventional force reductions before we sign a peace treaty. jon: tell us how far it is from the observation post where we just saw president trump and president moon jae-in where they will exchange hand shakes with run? >> it's very close. it's observation p

forces deployed in south korea to help protect south korea from the north. then in a short time he will meet the north korean leader kim jong un face to face with a hand shake, perhaps with the possibility of setting foot into north korea if given the invitation by the north korean leader. i'm joined here at the border by paula hancocks. a tremendous amount of choreography in what is happening now and the next steps. a little bit of showmanship as well. >> when you say it's going to be north korea going to be a part of this, it's the most choreographed. there are no images of kim jong un that come out that he doesn't want people to see. it's heavily vetted. these kind of meetings, he can't control as much. he can't control the message going out. what electric do is take this back to his people and show the rest of the world the u.s. president has come to the dmz, has come to my doorstep to see me. >> the north korean leader is not someone to take spur of the moment trips. he tends to go by train as opposed to by air. he likes having attention to security, pr

the threat that north korea pose to the south. that said, these ceremonial changes on the border is part of the agreement between the president and the north korean leader. this will be the third meeting -- we should not call this a summit. it's a hand shake. we have don't expect formal negotiations here. this more a photo opportunity. personal greeting in the hopes of getting nuclear negotiations back on track. jim acosta, i understand you have new reporting, jim, about just how much the president's tweet yesterday led to this moment we're seeing today. >> i talked to a source familiar with the planning right now who said this was essentially spontaneous, the president tweeting that he wanted to the meet with kim jong un. i talked to a law enforcement source a short while ago. he said that the secret service had, in fact, being planning for the possibility of the president going to the dmz. this is not something he can do at the last 1eb8gd. there is so much planning and preparation that has to go into a visit like this. the secr

on one side you have got north korea, on the other side south korea. the president told his aides, i want that picture only i want to be there with kim. the president said, this is small step. it's not likely some grand bargain will come out of this. this is continuing relationship building. they left each other in hanoi. couple was not particularly happy because he was not briefed by his closest advisors of the possibility if you put something on the table and what he put on the table was shutting down one nuclear facility, and that wasn't going to be enough. he felt embarrassed. the stories came out of north korea that some of his advisors were sent to work camps. we saw him in an opera performance along with kim jong-un. sometimes word coming out of the north is sketchy. but kim left hanoi and he wasn't a happy person. and he started to try to get attention by shooting rockets into the sea of japan. the president is about to get on marine one and take off for the dmz with president moon jae-in and in an hour, 0 minutes from now, if not sooner than t

, as well as north korea and south korea. but a lot depends on how kim jong-un responds to this overture from the president. gordon, any way to handicap what kim is likely to do here? >> i think the more important thing jon is what president trump is willing to do, we have overwhelming leverage not just over the north koreans out befr other parties to this, russians chinese south koreans for various reasons we don't exercise that leverage. and there is o some good reasons some bad reasons why we don't do that continental this is an issue where united states, can determine outcomes, short of the use of force. so i think, kim has been very successful, in playing you go a weak hand also a very incident dull je-- induljebt, i think president trump can make life very, very difficult for kim kill this is the pattern that the united states has had with china, in the 2017 president trump's first year in office, he was extraordinarily generous to xi jinping chinese ruler gave him a lot of free passes when chinese did not reciprocate p

we have 40,000 troops in south korea. we will see soldiers, we will be making a speech to the soldiers, incredible. built by the south koreans for us was a $10 million base, a latest and greatest, something's actual. -- something special. most of you know the schedule better than anybody. so we will be there. i just put out a few that i do not know where he is right now, but i said is chairman ken would want to meet, i will be at the border. we seem to get along very well. that is a good thing, not a bad thing. for the stupid people who say, "oh, he gets along," it is good to get along. along, wenot get would be having a war with north korea. and that is a certainty, not a maybe. we are prisoners back from our hostages back, safely back. and we are very happy about that. we are very happy about the remains. they have additional remains of our great heroes from many years ago, and if you remember they were brought into hawaii, mike pence, the vice president, was there, and most importantly, they have not been any nuclear t

as for south korea, i don't know. recently, a new unit has been established within the ministry of foreign affairs just to deal specifically with the strategic dilemma between washington and beiji beijing. so it tells how seriously rok government is taking this issue. >> could i ask just one more question and i'll open it up to the floor. i'm sure there are many questions you have. i wonder, can we talk a little bit about hong kong and taiwan in terms of taiwan's view on hong kong, and what extent does hong kong demonstrations, just remarkable to see, may have -- what kind of impact did it have? did it have a negative impact on the chinese government? and to what extent do you believe hong kong demonstrations may have galvanized maybe taiwan's will to either defend democracy or independence? how would the events in hong kong, perhaps, impact presidential race in taiwan and china's hope to put, you know, hope for a more pro-prc government to emerge. >> for me? >> for you and maybe kurt, anybody else. >> you know, i cou

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

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 south korea at the dmz and it's relevant to ameri

korea, it mightjust be going from the uk to south korea, it might just be symbolic going from the uk to south korea, it mightjust be symbolic but when it comes to the car industry in the uk and energy, it's so critical they get some sort of boost, wouldn't you say? one of the interesting things is how this deal deals with rules of origin, when you have a product sold into korea from the uk, how are they going to treat you inputs into that uk manufacturer product? will that count for the purposes of the tariffs? with regard to the tariff rate quotas, some more specific types of goods are very sensitive and come in at a lower tariff rates. the devil will be in the detail and we don't know what that is at this point but when it comes to south korea itself, i notice it's got its trade deal in principle with the uk, avoiding tariffs on its goods going into the us and vice versa. you could look at it and think, south korea are either being savvy in getting these good deals in place or they are just rolling over and letting the us and uk and anyone else have their way, what is the situation

south korea has been trying hard to engage with north korea. moon 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 kore

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 trump visit would help restore moon's position as an important intermediary with the u.s. administration or i think they're also interested in sending a message to north korea that 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 the highlight of this trip is expected to be trump's visit to the demilitarized zone separating the 2 koreas and the intriguing prospect of a meeting with kim jong un after a saturday morning tweet that he would meet him at the border just to shake his hand and say hello. trump's visit has been greeted by competing protests on the streets of seoul right wing groups among them veterans of the korean war a firmly in support of the alliance with the u.s. and welcome its president although some are uneasy about the prospect of a handshake with kim on the d.m.z. . we've been fooled for dec

he arrived tonight in seoul for a pre—planned dinner with south korea's president. but will he get his date at the dmz, with his friend from the totalitarian north? let's go live to our correspondent mariko 0i who is near the de—militarized zone between north and south korea that president trump will visit on sunday. we can see the backdrop behind you, just overlooking the dmc. what will donald trump be up to today? as you said, you can probably see the barbed wire behind me which divide the two careers, still technically speaking they are still at war, since the korean war of the 1950s. president trump will be meeting with moonjae—in in —— and a holder shot press c0 nfe re nce moonjae—in in —— and a holder shot press conference before coming here later this afternoon. as nick mentioned, he treated yesterday saying he wouldn't mind meeting kim jong—un if he is up for it, a p pa re ntly jong—un if he is up for it, apparently north korea has responded favourably. we don't know whether he will be there but if that happens, that will be very historical

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

of south korea. i'm going to have. let's just listen to what president trump is saying to the troops there. continues all right we thought we had. everything. all right so was there president from we believe in one of the service buildings near the joint security area the famous blue hot season actually there yet. we saw he's there saying if he was this apparently was on the itinerary for the trip he's there addressing some south korean border guards and also meeting with other troops there in one of the service buildings which is just next to the famous blue hots up the joint security zone we're still waiting for the arrival of the north korean leader kim jong il. so they're just having a chat inside the service building let's cross over now back to james bays james so we're still. playing the waiting game here if you like and it's interesting because you were urging caution because we're pretty much now on the north korean's schedule just talk us through what you think the choreography will be james. well if you don'

and south korea work together, that's quite well established and developed. we have a kind of a resilience, i'm looking further back than 2009. you know i think -- >> allowed to do that. >> i stipulate i think that is given the alliance a resilience which we need to acknowledge. and i think it's also just inevitable and natural, right now we've turned our attention back to the peninsula and northeast asia and that has to do with north korea's increasing capabilities and the ambitions of kim jong un. i mean whether they are aggressive or not, his own desires. and the changing role of china and the changing role of the u.s. that is where we are going to be focused i think the kind of initiative that has been increasing over the years, not so emphasized by the trump administration, although some elements, climate change in an area that work with south korea's i hope they will work again. some areas we do. focused on i call it the unfinished business of the korean peninsula. the status quo has never been u.s. policy. and you know, sadly coming now to the 69th ann

we import the most cars from south korea and the most cars from south korea and the ships, industrial equipment. what south korea imports from us is also cars and crude oil. represents about {14.6 billion to the uk economy. it is one of the elusive agreement the government was worried about. south korea has an agreement with the us. it seems south korea is positioning itself we can have trade agreements with key economies around the world whereas other countries like china and others are really battling. this is the first time liam fox and the government have been able to negotiate like this. the south korean government is trying to manoeuvre itself clear of what is happening with the trade was with china. saying we are a separate economy and rely on trade with partners around the world and it is important we are open to do so. of course the devil is in the detail since it isjust an course the devil is in the detail since it is just an agreement in principle for now. thank you so much, we will see you again later. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: good news for people who hate

as well as president moon of south korea. there was a big scrum a lot of pushing and shoving stephen grisham white house press secretary ret roughed up bruised result of all that it appears that the pet whose helicopter is -- is on the ground there. we are going to be hearing from him shortly i wanted to make that point that -- this thing took place so quickly and with so little planning and preparation that that is the kind of thing that happened. he stephanie grisham press secretary for white house bruised in inturnt with north korean security guard, where do we go from here? >> well what we have to see now is we have to see teams meet, and that means the president look back representatives to north korean negotiations, steve said steve is going to do this steve said yes, sir he has to be may be staying there quite frankly, and identify his counterpart to have that counterpart identified have them hash out a schedule, for meetings and negotiations to begin to lay out, the end state objective what they are negotiating the pa

breaking news out of seoul, south korea. the first u.s. president to walk on to north korean soil an the demille tarized zone. can womkim jong-un. both north korea and the united states meeting in the dmz. let's go to nbc's correspondent who was there in seoul, south korea covering the president and his visit there. what's been the readout from where you're at there, josh? >> reporter: well, richard, here a lot of the folks are focused on the fact that the accomplishment that both president trump and kim jong-un cited today seem to be cosmetic. they're the aesthetic things, talking about potential visits between the two leaders to washington and pyongyang. talking about restarting talks that had been taking place in the past and had stalled. the fact of of the matter is, when it comes to the nuclear issue, the differences between the countries are pretty well hashed out at this point. we didn't hear either of the leaders talk about any specific progress on those. we didn't hear them, for instance talk about narrowing the definition of what

troops in south korea we fought a vicious war there aft world twar to at 38th parallel korea krog over dmz with 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

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 cong

south korea has a very important interest in this. south korea understandably doesn't want to be bypassed and wants to be consulted by the united states, its wager ally, about what happens and what kind of conversations take place afterwards vis-a-vis the north and the japanese want the same thing. china is important but the u.s. can't afford to ignore its allies either. that is something the united states has to really understand fully. it is in a better position to negotiate with the north if it has the support of the chinese but also has the support of south korea and tokyo. shery: 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 hav

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 wit

south korea and north korea south korea and usa we worked. and progress on trade as well. and the pacific ocean and south korea and the usa agreed to. work in the pacific ocean region as well. and. all manner. of safety is essential. so. i. praise. from. u.s. president for restraint approach to the crisis in the ormond gulf. and the south korea and the usa alliance partners. and on the on the basis. on the basis. partnership we will work to get. and the u.s. and south korean alliance really be strengthened going forward. and mr. president trump. is is the main instigator in terms of a peace process on the korean peninsula and once more i don't keep my appreciation to mr. trump for his visit to south korea and i keep my things to donald trump thank you can send you down and how many you have to look from time the next from. a speech just going to make a very short statement because we're going to the d.m.z. voter and i've been meeting with chairman kim i look forward to it very much i look forward to seeing him develop a very good relationship. and we understand each other

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

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 the hanoi summit reportedly failed because the u.s. side unexpectedly introduced the prospect of doing a much bigger deal that had been talked about before the meeting something north korea favoring smaller more tentative steps couldn't agree to south korea believes a compromise is possible and president moon's team remains hopeful of finding it we must agree on a comprehensive settlement and fulfill that through gradual steps it must i

seems to be kind of a lot more cold towards south korea. that's right. this is not a surprise that there is a triangular relationship year. what south korea wants to do, in terms of improving inter— korean relations, start with a reconciliation but also getting into top security issues like this border they have which is a militarised border. the present wa nts to a militarised border. the present wants to get economic cooperation, so wants to get economic cooperation, so he's got a big agenda. they were making progress on that agenda but because the us north korea piece was also moving and i have to keep moving in sync so the president, he certainly wa nts moving in sync so the president, he certainly wants to see a handshake and also wants to see that handshake kind of reboot and boost the process. that allows him to move ahead with the inter— korean peace. thank you so much for now. we are seeing the live pictures from the press c0 nfe re nce . seeing the live pictures from the press conference. they will be making their way to the d

un crossing the border south into south korea. paula hancocks is with me. we're a short distance away. we should point out, behind the smiles, kim jong un is a brutal dictator. he starves his people to fund his military and nuclear program. he has murdered members of his own family who challenged his leadership and authority. that is the backdrop here, but this is a president in trump who's been willing to look beyond that in a kim or a putin or a xi jinping. and speak about the power of their relationship. i should just note, paula, we've just learned that they are meeting in private now, kim and trump. describe what you watched in these last few minutes here, since you've been up to that border area to see a u.s. president take a step across the border. >> i mean, it is remarkable. it is something that 24 hours ago would you not have expected to happen. before you saw that tweet from the u.s. president, it was something that did seem, that it couldn't happen. but, of course, it is an image that will be played on a loop for days

they are all tucked in behind the mountains that border north korea and south korea. and the rand corporation did a study and found one good artillery barrage from 13,000 artillery pieces would kill 250,000 people in seoul. that's the threat this area has been living under. now kim jong-un is pursuing nuclear weapons as well. which is why there was such a sense of urgency to rein in his nuclear program and dismantle it. president trump said it has to be irreversible, verifiable and complete. we thought after singapore that we had a pretty good roadmap for denuclearization. president trump came out of the meeting with kim and said he has agreed to give up his nuclear program. but kim did everything but that. while he didn't explode any more nuclear weapons, certainly the nuclear weapon program continued. after the hanoi, there was the distance between the united states and korea. we wondered where this was going to go. president trump dismissed the idea saying it's not ballistic missile stuff. north korea gave the president a promise and wasn't willing to act on it. wh

north korea and using engagement also sort of a tool to make sure that south korea space on their side rather than on the american side. are left as an informant and maybe a creation of us relations i think it may be difficult to see any problem corresponding improvement in relations whether pyongyang will indeed have a breakthrough with washington in denuclearization talks is still in doubt north korea doesn't want to give up their nuclear weapons horsehair overnight obviously because 1st of all the best of our resources and time in building a 2nd is that there's a reason why they developed in the crap you've overlooked in the 1st place they want to have been capability to make sure that they are able to are to a security guarantee for the regime for almost 70 years the demilitarized zone has been separating the 2 koreas with 3 new hiking trails in the d.m. . the south korean government is now gradually opening up the previously forbidden area to its people still this highly symbolic move cannot obscure from the fact that into korean relations are right now at a stalemate no matter ho

we will keep across all the events in south korea as donald trump meets with moonjae—in, in south korea as donald trump meets with moon jae—in, the in south korea as donald trump meets with moonjae—in, the south korean president, and visits the demilitarised zone. stay with us. global questions travels to sydney to ask if the multiculturalism dream has failed. do too many communities live separately, pursuing segregation rather than integration? hello and welcome to sydney, australia, for this edition of lowball questions with me, zeinab badawi. this is a city at the heart of the so—called lucky country, a melting pot of diverse countries. we've come here to get a sense of what people think about living with those who have a different race, language and customs. multiculturalism has become the defining feature of our modern, mobile, globalised world. is this progress or a source of tensions? well, now i'm here right by the historic harbour bridge and the iconic sydney opera house. absolutely gorgeous, aren't they? and i've got my panel here and also our terrific audience. and if y

two state funerals in south korea that year. and last but not least the new york tirings and new york yankees won the baseball two teams that have won the world series and k series the most. that was 2009 in a nutshell. 00 so let me set it up with this. ambassador stevens you were in the middle of this -- this flurry of activity. we had this -- we had obviously a state visit or not state visit but a group assessingity by president obama seoul headline. obama takes stern role with north korea and iran. on the north, mr. obama said he was sending his north -- north korea envoy to pyongyang for talks to get the nations back to the bargaining table but warned that even getting the north back to the table would not be enough. on the alliance, south korea quickly proved true to the prediction it is would be more accommodating to mr. obama with whom mr. lee had been working with closely to halt north korea's north korea program. on trade the only point of potential contention on the visit washington was still not moving to rat few a pr

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

and south korea kim jong on a handshake on the 3rd meeting and then. became the 1st ever sitting u.s. president to step on to north korean soil. the 2 then walked back into the south underdressed reporters stepping of course that was agreed on a lot of rhetoric. a lot of friendships and they didn't particularly a great friendship so i just thank you very quickly notice that i want to thank you chad i believe looking at this action this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate the unfortunate past and begin a new future. then what sounded like an invitation that would invite him right after this i would have said that. the 2 leaders of nations still technically at war a peace treaty was never signed when the korean war ended 66 years ago then went to what's known as the freedom house on the south korean side of the d.m.z. that is equal here i've always wanted to meet you at this place as a symbol of the separation of the north and the south and a reminder of the unfortunate past meeting at such a place shows that we are willing to put an end to

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 saying he doesn't believe washington really wants to negotiate to the u.s. to impose new sanctions targeting the iranian supreme leader ayatollah khomeini and other senior officials but mr rouhani has told the french president that iran isn't looking for war following the latest tensions with the u.s. zain bus ravi is in tehran. these are the 1st comments we've heard from supreme leader ayatollah ali coming day

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. tariffs on chinese goods and a restart of stalled trade talks we're going to work with china on where we left off to see if we can make a dea

let's go to our team there in south korea. cnn international correspondents, paula hancocks and will ripley. let's start with you, paula. the imagery, first, is historic. the question is, what will be the fruit of this day? >> that's a really important question, victor. we started the day thinking that there may or may not be a meeting at the dmz. we heard the u.s. president say, it may be a handshake. what we ended up having was almost an hour of the leaders of north korea and the united states, behind closed doors having bilateral talks. what we have seen, we don't know what they said inside, but what they shared with us, they have agreed to restart talks. we didn't hear denuclearization. what we did hear from kim jong-un, as he was walking out of those meetings, is president trump showing what he took away out of the meeting. the fact that we can meet anytime now. president trump said they would agree to set up separate teams to negotiate again. they had teams in place after singapore. they had them in place after hanoi, as

the demilitarized zone in south korea. this went just the way president donald trump wanted pictures that will make history and potentially reinvigorate peace efforts waiting for him the other side of the line separating north korea and south korea kim jong il on a handshake on the 3rd. meeting and then. trump became the 1st ever sitting u.s. president to step on to north korean soil. the 2 then walked back into the south underdressed reports stepping of course that was agreed on a lot of rhetoric. a lot of friendships and they didn't particularly a great friendship so i just thank you very quickly notice that i want to thank you chad i believe looking at this action this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate the unfortunate past and begin a new future. then what sounded like an invitation that would invite him right after that way that. the 2 leaders of nations still technically at war a peace treaty was never signed when the korean war ended 66 years ago then went to what's known as the freedom house on the so

the latest headlines president trump is in south korea. he's invited the north korean leader to "shake hands and say hello" at the demilitarised zone. north korea has said it's a very interesting suggestion. the president has also announced trade talks are back on with beijing — and the blacklisting of china's telecoms giant, huawei, has come to an end. it's almost four weeks since the brutal crackdown in sudan. hundreds of protestors were killed by the security forces after weeks of peaceful sit—ins across the country. despite the internet being cut off by the authorities, activists have managed to re—group themselves and many people are mobilising for a mass rally this weekend. the bbc‘s mohanad hashim reports. people are back out on the streets only three weeks after a brutal crackdown. the strong desire for the civilian row outweighs the fear of confrontation. the fact these people are back on the neighbourhood is telling us something that these people are going to try and do this for as long as they can. 23—year—old mohamm

between north and south korea we have the u.s. president and the north korean leader emerging there are. almost an hour of talks i believe or so now since going in to that building. or i'm not a lot of coming out would be to walk back our diplomatic the magic editor james bays i believe is standing by with us and james they've spent almost an hour in there a little more than originally planned right. yes if you remember president trump said all i want is a very quick handshake and say hello he is saying that this was all set up all on saturday morning when he sent out a tweet saying if you're around please pop over the border and see me some skepticism that maybe they have been earlier contacts between the u.s. and north korea between washington and pyongyang to set this up but it has seemed a somewhat chaotic and hastily prepared visit have just come out of what's known as the freedom house not clear exactly who was in the room for those top 6 president moon was he in there or not for all of it certainly the u.s. secretary of sta

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 woul

relations between north and south korea. relations were difficult, but the fire and fury were the president's own commends in 2017. he also explained inexplicably that it's been 2 1/2 years of peace between the u.s. and north korea. that begets the fire and fury moment. but south korea sent home otto warmbier close to death. but he claims that things changed when he came to office. the two sides are speaking, that has changed. where do the discussions go and the president appearing to say that this outcome of this bilateral with kim jong-un, is at least an agreement to get the working level teams back to talking again. >> a historic moment was made. a unique and historic decision was made by president trump to make this possible today. through today's meeting, the denuclearization, as well as the accomplishment of peace, that process on the korean peninsula. i believe we have just overcome a hill in that process. so, the 80 million people on the korean peninsula have been given hope thanks to today. as was mentioned by presi

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

he will be tearing down town into the capital of south korea to go and have dinner with the south korean leader and they will no doubt 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. al

kim jong un president met kim at the demilitarized zone on the border between north and south korea where he became the 1st u.s. president to set foot in the north while in office is that diplomatic editor james bays reporting from pad too close to the demilitarized zone in south korea. this went just the way president donald trump wanted pictures that will make history and potentially reinvigorate peace efforts waiting for him the other side of the line separating north korea and south korea kim jong on a handshake on the 3rd meeting and then frankly became the 1st ever sitting u.s. president to step on to north korean soil. the 2 then walked back into the south underdressed reporters stepping of course that was agreed on a lot of rhetoric. a lot of friendships and they didn't particularly great friendship so i just thank you very quickly notice that i want to thank you so you have i believe looking at this action this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate the unfortunate past and begin a new future. then what sounded like an invitation that would invite him right now fo