a step in the right direction and it was south korea that appears to have convinced trump and kim to soften their war of words and embrace diplomacy. this is the man doing the running between pyongyang and washington d.c. and he's failing reached a major milestone. poor president president from you know meeting north korean leader kim jong un he is committed to do do provide. him pledged to both korea are really good friends from any for the nuclear war this sort of tests that he stressed is that you're going to see the new president from that so on as possible it is a sentiment shared by the u.s. president who confirmed that a meeting is being planned. at the historic breakthrough comes after south korean negotiators held talks simpy only on on monday it was here they learned that denuclearization was on the menu is. far from giving up their bombs in recent years north korea has been ratcheting up its missile program and the threats. from fired back with warnings of annihilation and insults for kim jong il. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. on the fr

korea. and the air president trumpeting new tariffs of twenty five percent on imported steel and ten percent unemployed to tell you many are still come into effect until two weeks canada and mexico will be in.

and north korea i think many south koreans felt been fairly you know and not at ease last year while all these tensions were happening you know so of course since the beginning of this year with the with the chong paralympics happening and this major breakthrough in diplomatic relations between north and south korea and now talk of these both of being summits i think many south koreans are feeling some relief but south koreans too they know that these deals have been made before and but not long after all these promises get broken jason strother phil for us joining us from pyongyang in south korea thanks very much thank you. well in the united states today president trump has been pushing forward with tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum of between ten and twenty five percent the president says the penalties are needed to address unfair trade and to boost the american economy u.s. business leaders and prominent members of his own republican party have warned that he's courting economic disaster with the move. with the stroke of a pen donald trump shakes up international trade the

and north korea i think many south koreans felt. fairly you know and not at ease last year while all these tensions were happening you know so of course since the beginning of this year with the with the chang'e paralympics happening in this major breakthrough in diplomatic relations between north and south korea and now talk of these both of being summits i think many south koreans are feeling some relief but south koreans too they know that these deals have been made before and but not long after all these promises get broken jason strother phil for us joining us from pyongyang in south korea thanks very much thank you helen is here now the u.s. terror of slammed on trading partners raising the prospect of a global trade war that's right the u.s. president following through on his threats to add tariffs to key imports pushing forward with levees on imports of steel and alan minium of this week ten and fifteen percent trump says the penalties and he had to address what he calls unfair trade and to boost the u.s. economy u.s. busine

is a very important country to the matter and i don't think china is out of the loop but south korea and the involved parties are now concentrating on the most important factors which are north korea south korea in the draw and the driving seat in the u.s. but china was has always been there it is still there even sometimes diplomacy has to be quite diplomacy what part of international sanctions had to play in bringing this meeting about we could we can still get that this sanction particular recently strengthening these sanctions had an impact on on north korea because within north korea domestically north korea now tries to get on to the next step off a comic development and if it was only for survival they could have also survived with the sanctions but they want to develop economically that's very important to the north koreans that might have pushed them to re enter the dialogue but let's be optimistic and say this meeting happens all their risks to it they are always. risks of course but i think these risks can be reduced by our before hand exchange of special envoys of the of

north korea and south korea plan to hold a summit on the 27th of april and of course, donald trump and kimjong—un april and of course, donald trump and kim jong—un that will be meeting hopefully, after that, in the month of may. if we take a look at this revised deal, us automakers will get greater access to the south korean market. at the moment, far more cars are shipped from south korea to america than in the other direction, making upa america than in the other direction, making up a big chunk of the annual trade deficit between the two countries. as the south korea, it has secured a partial exemption from president donald trump's new steel tariffs, it will be pleased that it did not have to give ground on opening up its agricultural industry the us imports. korea is america's sixth largest trading partner, totalling $145 billion worth in trade in 2016 and this deal will hopefully reduce america's trade deficit with the rear of around $26 billion. according to both sides, it isa billion. according to both sides, it is a win—win situation. billion. according to both sides, it

. >>> developing overseas, south korea says that north korea is ready for nuclear talks with the u.s. the big news came out of rare talks between the two nations, donald trump applauded the meeting calling it a step toward denuclearization. >> a potential break through. this morning south korea officials were turning from talks in north korea including a direct meeting with kim jong un announced first. that the regime with wants to talk directly with the u.s. government to talk about deneck larization on the peninsula and they will halt additional nuclear and missile tests. and third, the north pledged they will never use nuclear or conventional weapons against south korea and a direct hot line will be set up with north and south korea and another summit meeting will be held in april. that if north korea believe that military threats are removed they have no need of nuclear weapons. the u.s. government is wary of the promises just trying to peel south korea way from the alliance with the u.s. and mindful of their long history of deceit on this irish you. abc news london. >>> all right

the white house reaches an agreement with south korea. and at the cenr of it, the automakers. >>> riding in style. why a luxury sedan just doesn't cut it anymore. those stories and much more tonight on "nightly business report" for this wednesday, march the 28 >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome. tech is struggling. as evident today again a the sector fell again. one of the biggest decliners was amazon. shares were down more than 4%, wiping billions off its market value. on reports that the president wants to rein its power and change the way the companys taxed. the white house though says it is not considering any specific policy. then there is apple. goldman sachs cut sales estimates for the iphone, apple's flagship product. the dow component is facing multiple lawsuits over its controversial move to slow older smart phones. and sharesf facebook were higher after that company edesigned some of its security settings. >> whatever the decline in tech did weigh on the broader market again toda although the losses were modest this time.

tonight, north and south korea agree to meet face to face for the first time in a decade as diplomacy gathers pace. my conversation with renowned u.s. scientist sigfreed hecker. plus, the "island born" helping readers deal with issues facing our world. >> "amanpour on pbs" was made by the generous support of roz lynn b. walter. >>> good evening, everyone. welcome to the program. i'm cristiane amanpour in london. the date is set. the leaders for north and south korea will meet for the first time in more than a decade on april 27th. the historic summit between the presidents will be held on the southern side of the demilitarized zone. the announcement comes just a day after news emerged of kim's surprise visit to beijing where he said we wanted to resolve the issue of deknew leerizationn the korean peninsula and adds to the flurry of diplomacy ahead of trump's hoped-for meeting which could take place as soon as may. i put this to the scientist cigfried hecker who has visited north korea many times. sig, welcome to the program. you're one of those rare beings who has been to north korea,

/south korea planned military exercises. >> any chance this doesn't happen? >> there's the possibility. if it does, it's north korea's fault and that haven't lived up to the obligations they made. >> the only thing that could stop this is if they resume their testing. >> if they reject to the promises they made to the south koreans, obviously we would poe potentially not. >> the president warned secretary of state rex tillerson via twitter in october quote that he was wasting his time talking to little rocketman. he said why would it work now? let me ask you that question. why would it work now? what changed? >> the president has not adopted some of the failed policies we've seen over the last couple decides which is negotiations an concessions out of the gate from the united states. our policy is pressure. pressure from our allies around the world, pressure through the united nations and pressure through china. these have impacted kim jong-un's behavior and his conduct. we're hoping this pressure campaign which is not going to relent in the couple month is c

well south korea's president's office or less than it was earlier in the week is our president president always were carrying look at. their trip to washington for president moon this is certainly great news already he kim jong un have agreed to hold their own some but later in april so now that north south north korea the u.s. are talking something that seoul has been pushing or. this is nothing but this is only good news the south korean president. alluded to there is this a possible propaganda ploy by north korea or the first step towards a nuclear free korean peninsula. well we have been down this road many times or i mean really ever since the early ninety's ninety's the u.s. has been trying to negotiate with north korea to end its nuclear weapons programs many promises were made and just as many were broken so what i have to see there you know we there still are substantial that need to be taken president trump says that this peace talks falsely that they do well there is a should right now north korea says it's on board but it would be the first time they backed off from the pledg

attackor on south koreorth korea because he knew very well that that war was still into south korea and lead to a ll-scale war. they have a lot at stake. >> that is tim of thepeational news thank you s.r joining an increasing number ofh young britslim women are choosing to wear a headscarf. some women in muslim countries are campaigning against it as a symbol of oppression. here in britain, some women are seeing an opposite view as empowering. >> the spotlight is on the hijab. many muslim women choose to wear it proudly. for someit is an act of desty, for others encounters like a ron forced to wear, it is a simple to remain protest. the hijab is going high-fashion. 20-year-old model has been signed up by an agency that und a supermodel kate maas. -- moss. she is one of the first british models with the hijab taking the catwalk. >> i deftly don't want to be considered a token. 'i don'want these ethnic models are models with different religious backgrounds to just pave the way. i want the way to stay there. it is the norm outside the normal news fair. >> she is coming the face of modest f

then being a view to south korea where you are. well it's definitely something of a sigh of relief compared to some of the fears of war that were going on in past months that being said south koreans are somewhat still wary they've been through this before in the past only to have some of these negotiations break down and another cycle of increased tensions but right now they are definitely overall very supportive of the government efforts here to bring both north korea and the united states to go shooting people right josh smith in full south korea thank you very much the top creative for should have said brussels is aiming for an exemption from the u.s. president new trade tariffs that's off the trump signed new target of some student undiminished imports ranging from ten to twenty five percent trumps is the penalties needed to address unfair trade and to boost the u.s. economy and u.s. business leaders and prominent members of his own republican party have warned he's courting economic disaster with the move it's sparking fears

for we have a liberal president in south korea with president then we had the olympic games the winter games also we have a very self-confident north korean leader now with the atomic weapons program and we have a very pragmatic donald trump now right well let's talk a little bit about the role that south korea place because they've been pushing really hard to broker this meeting between president trump and the north korean leader talked about that yes south korea definitely was here the crucial the most the size of facilitating the whole process as we know president. at his brilliant speech here last year he invited north korea to participate in the winter olympic games and this gave the north koreans a very good opportunity without losing face coming back into dialogue which was very much much needed for them also within south korea the un to reproach him and our forces the right to conservatives are now in a crisis they are very weak because two of the former presidents are embroiled in big scandals convolving corruption so this was very important for a lot of it has to do with just

but since the winter olympics in south korea when athletes from the north and the south much together at the opening ceremony relations between the one time third have thought. whether north korea's leader really is willing to make any concessions and limit his nuclear ambitions will be revealed at the end of april. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world former french president nicolas sarkozy is to stand trial on charges he is that he illegally influenced an inquiry into alleged irregularities and his two thousand and seven election campaign his lawyers say they will appeal the decision to go to trial i'm sure sarkozy is facing a separate charges as he accepted millions of euros in funding in the late libyan dictator moammar gadhafi. to tell the visuals in the u.k. say the daughter of a former russian spy alleged to have been poisoned by a nerve agent is responding well to treatment killed a scrip our absent father sergei were found unconscious in the english city of salzburg early this month british officials of the poisoning on the russian g

and south korea went there. we put very strong sanctions and lots of other things we have been doing right from the first day i was in office. and after having gone to north and --seeing kim jong-un no, it is positive. we now have to be very nice because, let's see what happens. the south korean top representatives, they walked out the white house to a throng of these characters. big room. and everybody wanted to find out what happened. and just left north korea north korea is tough. they are doing a lot of things. this should have been handled over the last 30 years. not now. they should have handled this. this should have been handled. and everybody will say it but that is ok. we handle things. host: that was the president, also tweeting over the past few days saying "north korea has not conducted a missile test since november 28, 2017 and has promised not to do so through our meetings. i believe they will honor that commitment." reaction? north koreans are pausing in their testing because they progress.tremen

had nuclear weapons for over a decade now and so for south korea japan taiwan had made i think the correct decision not to build nuclear weapons of their own i think north korea's program creates additional dangers and more dangers as a perceived as further but again the things i worry about most are not that you know kim jong un or for that matter donald trump are going to wake up one day and said put today would be a great day to use nuclear weapons but rather that there would be some crisis that would escalate in a series of back and forth exchanges to the point where nuclear weapons would end up getting used to. that in an initial crisis for example that the north koreans might use some of their conventionally armed blistered missiles to attack us air bases or something like that and that might provoke the united states and the south koreans to think well they're using their missiles we'd better start destroying those missiles and then the north koreans would be faced with. but sometimes known as a use them or lose them situation and might use nuclear weapons to try to scare us off so

like south korea or japan or austria -- australia they promise to play the games of nuclear chicken every day on behalf of the stony against russia or china and again if you are intentionally playing games if you choose to drive a hummer. >> if somebody doesn't swerve so the logic of having enough of a threat in the interest of no race in the first place. so maybe contextualize this to say is what you are putting out there, how is this different i guess past attempts to get at stability? or not have that swerve situation in the first place? how do you differ from that? >> yes. i think what we have argued is that we face a dilemma on the one hand they don't potentially want to fight a nuclear war with an armed adversary kids that would be catastrophic but yet international politics so has a serious conflict of interest and we can see that now between the united states and russia so they don't just want to give in to their because they are afraid of nuclear attack and then also the nuclear brinksmanship that they do brave the risk of nuclear war to force their adversaries so to have a numbe

south korea alliance that withdrawal of u.s. troops from south korea in the past the north koreans have been quite candid about that they're obviously not playing all that's up at the moment so anybody who thinks and hopefully president trump doesn't think that he's going to find you know here here's my button you know you can have it out here a minute and nothing could be further from the truth i think it would be slightly disappointed and then what will he do right in foster caught at leeds university great to have you with us and thank you for your analysis mike thank you thank you and staying with donald trump get hot from business as joins us on the u.s. status on trading partners are causing huge concern that's right i mean you know still only accounts for around about two percent of world trade and yet the tit for tat of tariffs and penalties dangerous the ripple effects can escalate into a full on trade war quite quickly trump says the terrace of between ten and twenty five percent on steel and aluminum imports are neces

how does the president feel about the dialogue between north and south korea? does he feel president moon is being too soft on north korea? >> the president wants to continue working with south korea. it's a strong ally. we have no daylight between the two of us. we will continue those conversations and again, the ultimate goal is to denuclearize the peninsula. that's what we're focused on and we're excited about any steps moving in this process. i'll move out and the president will be speaking here in a couple of minutes. >>> if you missed any of the white house daily briefing, you can watch it any time on c-span.org. we interrupted the discussion on the justice system for that live coverage. we return to the discussion now as hosted by "the atlantic" magazine. >> the action network, a bipartisan organization whose mission is to make the justice system more effective and more cost efficient and larry lizer is the president of assistant u.s. attorneys. welcome all and welcome back, my colleague, matt thompson. >> thank you again, margaret. [ applause ] mark, ho

the talks have been brokered by south korea and are already being seen as a success for those within trump's administration. i think as we've seen in the last twenty four hours a policy that was put in place and has been executed by the state department over the past year has exceeded this summit meeting between the u.s. and north korean leaders is expected by me with the world waiting to see if two months is enough time to dampen down fire and fury into meaningful dialogue. let's get more on this from one of the most who's professor of korean studies a balance of free university you know welcome to the doubly let's start about port about whether each can trust the other and whether this will actually happen do you think it will happen this meeting well that's a point of time very difficult to say because there could be a lot of different obstacles to actually then have having the meeting but as of now both leaders quite straightforwardly said they want to beat even from said yes uneaten so as of now we have to expect that it will be yet except vats in the last few minutes it's been

he doesn't multiple lies north korea he now knows that north korea is ready to take the seat with south korea even with the u.s. and that's for sure the reason why she's in being was very open to invite kim jong un to china today we saw the tweet from the u.s. president you know announcing that this meeting took place in what was interesting is that in the tweet double drop says i was informed by chinese president xi jinping. that shows a tremendous amount of clout on the part of the chinese president doesn't it yes absolutely and it's very important that all involved actors now act responsibly and try to build trust and this shuttle diplomacy also between south korea and all the involved russia china japan and the u.s. was therefore very important and that's very important now that china also talks directly with the u.s. and look at these talks what do you think is the biggest risk right now to these talks. very bad coincidence that for example in the u.s. administration all of a sudden the hotline is take the seat and the whole process or that within north korea something happens that

talks especially after south korea and the u.s. have been the ones making headlines on the north korea question but what about the venue for these talks between kim jong un and president has anything been decided yet. well certainly the question of where meetings between u.s. and north korean negotiation negotiators it should take place is always the source of a lot of hand-wringing especially now that this would be the first time a sitting u.s. president would meet with a north korean leader the stakes are even higher than usual it could take place in the demilitarized zone for example like the upcoming meeting between the south and north koreans that will be taking place in a truce village in april or it could take place in a neutral third country like singapore or somewhere in europe but any proposal we see from either side is going to make the other very suspicious as to its intentions and the details of how we're even when this could play out are not really clear yet. so what is america expecting for elise talks presuming they

but since the winter olympics in south korea when athletes from the north and the south much together at the opening ceremony relations between the one time fellows have thought. where the north korea's leader really is willing to make any concessions and limit his nuclear ambitions will be revealed at the end of april. dozens of people have died in a fog that swept through a jail in venezuela after a riot broke out in mates and physicists are amongst the dead the fire is said to have started during an escape attempt police and crowds have clashed outside the building as people demand to know the fates of their family members. god for this woman the wait is agony relatives have come to cairo bobo police station in desperation to find out if their loved ones are still alive but nobody will tell them. he killed and i don't know if my son is alive or dead because they won't give me any information you. know not people that i see anything because i haven't heard anything about my brother since seven in the morning they say a lot of people are dead people got burned people were injured but

making headlines, obvioususly, n south korea. dheepthika: this is the front page of the "korea times," looking forward to the inter-korea summit announced for late april. the two officials from north korea met with kim jong-un -- from south korea met with kim jong-un yesterday, and really hailed kim jong-il's "warm welcome" to the officials, who were able to visit the buildings that house his official quarters, inching closer and closer into the life of their neighbor. the paper does urge north korea to carry on the "post-olympic momentum of peace by considering denuclearization." genie: the u.s. press is a little more skeptical about why this may not be as hopeful as everyone seems to think. dheepthika: the "washington post" has a theory, looking at possible reasons for why north korea is suddenly interested in denuclearization. one is that there is a natural gas pipeline between russia and north korea that has been in the works in whihich russia would tt this pipeline through north korea. so if the talks go well with ipe would

we've got south korea we've got north korea we've got china we've got russia those countries can solve this tension on the peninsula all by themselves but the us will not let that happen the us will not allow south korea full sovereignty over its defense planning and this is the real problem here i think it could be solved with regional players go ahead. i would agree in fact i just made a made a comment on our blog recently they were talking about there was some type of conference in vancouver that canada was hosting of course the us was there and and other players but two players to discuss the resolution what direction to go forward on korea and of course the two players that probably should most importantly be there russia and china were not invited and so i think it's. it i agree that i think and i also think the new president south korea is open to dialogue with north korea i think you saw that during the olympics a potential you know mel maybe a slight melting of some ice there but. i do not think the u.s. sees it is in their interest to actually have a dialogue unless it's unde

defense these thad systems in south korea now and. the threat of an of an independent united korea historically korea has stronger ties with china and greater animosity with japan however right small amount that is that would be a break in the u.s. containment of china that they cannot allow so they they can't allow this go for this is why i think the deep state is actually trying their behind all of this trying to interject in the process i think they know for what trump was doing now quietly from what i understand south korea talking with china china has been talking about russia and china providing some security guarantees to. north korea and south korea has been making some promises that under theoretically you know far down the road. in the event of reunification korea would join any anti chinese that eight zero designs are going to be the ad and they've also promised to limit the number of systems not allow anymore to be erected you know what's really interesting here is that again our viewers may not know this is that under ext

south korea. korea. met delegates from south korea since he came to power in 2011. he came to power in 2011. our correspondent is in seoul for us. our correspondent is in seoulfor us. correspondent is in seoulfor us. a seemingly significant moment here. seemingly significant moment here. bring us up—to—date with what has happened. happened. well, look how far we have come in just a few months. come in just a few months. north korea shaking hands, warmly greeting ministers from south korea. greeting ministers from south korea. started ahead of the winter 0lympics. 0lympics. he had a four our dinner with these ministers. with these ministers. asked the blue house here in seoul why this dinner was so long. why this dinner was so long. said they had a lot to discuss. that is certainly true. is certainly true. prepared to discuss getting rid of his nuclear weapons. his nuclear weapons. growing dialogue between the north and south. and south. but no mention was made of his nuclear weapons. of his nu

the south korea national security adviser said the u.s. responded positively to south korean request for waiver and steel tariffs. president's athe proclamation said yesterday there to countries that were and therely excluded would be the opportunity for us to negotiate on matters of national security. and we're going to be doing that with a number of different countries. think kime president jong-un is sincere about talking about denuclearize asian? denuclearization? sen. sanders: what we do know is the maximum pressure campaign has been effective. we know it has put a tremendous amount of pressure on north korea. they have made some major promises. they have made promises to denuclearize. they recognize that regular military exercises between the u.s. and its allies in south korea will continue. the maximum pressure campaign, we are not letting up. the maximum pressure campaign, we are not letting up. you're not going to step back and make any changes in that. we are to have this meeting take place until he see concrete action that match

well here is what south korea's top security official had to say. the north clearly expressed its willingness for denuclearizing the korean peninsula and clarify that there's no reason for them to retain nuclear weapons if military threats against them are removed and if the safety of its regime is guaranteed. josh smith is a reuters correspondent in seoul south korea and i asked him how significant a development this is well these were some of the most historic talks in recent memory this is the first time that such senior south korean officials met directly with kim jong un and this signaled that there is some seriousness on both sides you know what hard progress comes out of these talks remains to be seen and many observers will be especially looking closely at what the response out of washington is right we'll talk about that in just a moment josh if north korea follows through on its offer to freeze nuclear testing what are they likely to want in return. that is the big question is this declaration that they might be willing to give up their nu

some people might say north korea is a small problem and east asia for south korea and japan in united states is not the case. last week was publicly disclosed that dan exported a lot of chemical related technology to syria. which obviously creates a real problem for israel in the middle east. and then there's iran. if serious problem with nuclear weapons today, iran is an even greater problem for the united states and israel and our allies in the middle east. why is that? look at the geopolitical circumstances do not three is a very small isolated place on the edge of the world. it is surrounded by nations under powerful, more powerful than it. it does not have an aggressive ideology that tries to export. by contrast iran is a very large nation. it is surrounded by 10 to 20 your competitors depending on how the defined themselves to the crossroads, it does have a very aggressive ideology that tries to export. makes the possibility of a nuclear iran. determine the future vastly more dangerous than the reality we face right now. >> we will have to and on a sober note but i thank you ver

unlike at the olympics south and north korea did not march at the opening ceremony under a unified flag the reason a disagreement over which version of the unified flag to use still north korea defers ever paralympics these winter games may not be able to change the world but for the athletes taking part it can change their life so. that's all for now more coming at the top of the hour with my colleague chris for spring break and for watching. what does a football loving country need to return to goals. we'll tell you our german soccer . back to the top. in our web special on dot com football made in germany. he started out with some junk and instructions from a book. at the age of fourteen william comes.

you're a former ambassador to south korea. there's currently no u.s. ambassador to south korea. famously, the north korean envoy for the state department resigned, retired a couple of weeks ago. the infrastructure, the normal diplomatic infrastructure is not in place for something so huge as this. >> it is huge. frankly, in a certain way, in terms of foreign policy, in terms of national security, he's betting his presidency on this. that would put it in the huge category. i would like to say though there are a lot of extremely talented people in the state department who are still there, working every day. i hope the president notices that because he can't -- this is not a one-man sport. he needs a whole team, and he needs to go to the state department. >> but he says that he has feelings, he works on his gut, and he says that his gut, his -- you know, these tweeted insults and then the return insults, all of that kind of stuff, the maximum pressure, the savsancti that has done what no other president has been able to do. >> what i would like him to do since he doesn't want to li

and the shocking news came during a rare high-stakes meeting with south korea today. abc's terry moran has more on the developing story. >> reporter: a potential major breakthrough on the korean peninsula. south korean officials returning from talks in north korea including a direct meeting with kim jong-un announced first the north korean regime wants to talk directly with the u.s. government to discuss denuclearization on the korean peninsula and normalizing u.s./north korean relations. during negotiations north korea will halt additional nuclear and missile tests. third, the north has pledged it will never use nuclear or conventional weapons against south korea. finally, a direct hot line will be set up between the leaders of north and south korea and another summit meeting will be held in april. the south korean delegation was told north korea believes if military threats are removed, they have no need of nuclear weapons. the u.s. government will be wary of these promises, suspicion kim jong-un is trying to peel south korea away from its alliance with the u.s. and

korea and was open to improving relations not only with south korea but potentially with the united states since then we've seen them reach out to international leaders around the world what he has said he is interested in is international recognition for north korea as a responsible nuclear power the united states on the other hand has said that it will settle for nothing short of north korea completely giving up its nuclear weapons so whether all sides can find some kind of compromise within the summit so it means to be seen josh we're also hearing that japan is considering a summit with north korea can you tell us anything about that. japan has a lot of worries about what's been going on japan has quite poor relations with north korea next to the states japan is often singled out for threats from north korea and as this flurry of some planning has gone on they've being increasingly worried that they could be left behind and possibly some of their security concerns be left by the wayside so they've been reaching out to pyongyang and trying to arrange their own meetings to make sur

the china visit comes ahead of a historic summit between north and south korea for april that meeting is expected to further focus on denuclearization. funerals have taken place in siberia for the victims of the shopping mall fire at the weekend russia is observing a day of mourning for the heartache is mixed with anger many people believe the author artists are trying to cover up luck safety standards met contributed to the high death toll. the size of the coffin showed the scale of this tragedy most of the victims of the fire with children these parents lost their daughter and son ten year old masha and eight year old cost you have died alongside their grandmother. even those used to dealing with death find it hard to comprehend. we're all suffering from grief and there are no words that can express the pain we all feel the personal tragedies have touched the entire country. but they've also provoked an outpouring of anger people here are desperate for justice they want to know whether all this could have been avoided. trying to escape the mall found many emergency exits blocked. ch

along the border between the two koreas, it will be t the first time the leaders of north korea and south korea have met since 2007. it will be the first t time for kim jong-un n to ever meet a leader of the south. n now atore significant this p point, a sesecond point f the deal. presesident moon of south koreaa willll opepen a direct comommunn line between the two of them. every y argument between a marrd couple or people in general had to be mititited by a third party. there is roooofor miscommunication, that they will be connected directly and can speak directly to one a another, they m may be able to decrease tensions m more. there won't be any room for misinterpretation. that's a significant development. according to reports in terms of what come out, north korea said it would consider freezing its nuclear program if talks with washington take place. bruce: that's interesting as well. it's not the first time we've heard north korea p propose such an arrangement. 2012, the u.s.s thought ththey had a breakthrouh with the north to see that crumble and fall. the heart t of the agreement

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i think we also have to march in lockstep with south korea. they are neighbors and don't want to get devastated or in a war. japan is very nervous right now. i think the president has to have a plan. he can't say we are going to meet and secretary of state the day before at saying, well, we are not ready to negotiate. there's got to be disciplined. this is where i believe the president has not been good in the form policy area. i commend him for taking this step. it's worth the risk and i really hope we do succeed. >> trish: you mentioned china earlier and how we put a lot of pressure on china to do this as well. do you think that china is behind the scenes here and took some kind of action? or maybe encouraged us along? >> china has taken a ramp for not having done enough on sanctions with north korea in the past. i agree with that. i think since the ux sanctions on energy and oil and food stuff, north korean workers, close to 90% of the commerce goes to north korea through china. they have leverage. i think they have done something. on any f

and south korea because the south koreans of course don't want american military action while the talks are going on and step three now is to offer talks to the americans and as you said it might look bad for america if they start something on the military. while talks are going on a while neighbors like china think there is a chance for a peaceful solution so well played by kim jong un and even if the u.s. and north korea were to hold talks how widely carsten would a compromise be. well i can't really see a compromise because basically the regime in north korea has made it clear over years and years that it sees nuclear weapons and long range missiles as its best guarantee against the attempt to overthrow its regime in north korea so once again why should they give that up now my assessment is that north korea is rather playing for time trying to outlast the current administration and maybe done play another game with the next u.s. president care washington correspondent course in the nominal the story for us tonight carson thank you very much. here are some of the other stories now th