are in south korea president moon j. and his promise to write a new history with his country's northern neighbor it was full of praise for kim jong un's decision to go ahead with the summit and a statement released by his office president said leaving dog days of war and conflicts behind we will write a new chapter of peace and cooperation we will be there to go with north korea along the way let's get more reaction then from a south korea correspondent and jason strother is in the soul welcome jason drove the south koreans also think they are leaving the dark days behind. people i spoke to today following the signing of the declaration at the end of the summit say they do feel that this is perhaps the start of better times some people i spoke with who were watching the summit unfold at a television on on a television inside of souls main train station said that they feel that this could lead to a sustainable peace on the peninsula maybe even denuclearization no one was expecting a breakthrough but this is a starting poi

both south korea and juju talks about this, south korea and north korea for different reasons want to reunion fie that peninsula. this will allow president moon to work on the peace treaty. it has to be a peace treaty between north and south korea. this was back in 1950, a civil war. that civil war has to be ended by the combatants. >>> up next, our exclusive interview with president trump one on one moments ago. >> and one of his closest advisers suffers a heart attack. the latest on larry kudlow coming up. smooth scarred soaked the sun does not care. but we do. walgreens beauty consultants are specially trained to know what works for the health of your unique skin. walgreens. trusted since 1901. now, all sun care products are buy one, get one 50% off. feeclaritin and relief fromwsy symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity. and live claritin clear. and it's packed with powerful cranberry nutrients that can help your body defend against certain infections. i'll be your body on cranbe

>> based on my previous job we thad ballistic missile in south korea with south korea, because of the from north korea. it is not there for anything anywherea or russia or else. it's based solely on the missile threat from north korea >> so there would be no there cation for it if were no north korean -- >> i don't think a justification issue. there would be no need for it. it is there. very tactical system designed for ballistic missiles coming from north korea. the main line of the united states? >> no, thad is there for muscles coming to south korea. it's there for the defense of south korea, our allies, and the people there. >> okay. senator kaine. thank you and congratulations to the nominees. very k this is a impressive panel of nominees. harris, mysay admiral worry as a member of the armed services committee, to commit paycon is i never have an opportunity to torment you across the witness table. i'm glad to see those opportunities are not coming to an end. nash, i have to bassador say of any resume i have ever you of anybody i'm giving the best resume. born in hungary and a me

take south korea for example. it took about almost three untils from the 1960's, the end of the 1980's for south a relativelyme poor country to an affluent country. more thanake probably that. the question is, can we politically say, we will have to wait 30 years to see cote denuclearization? it would be very difficult. i think realistically, we have to set stages. in the first stage, we have to look atyears, take a what we can do, and then extend the stages. in the meantime, we will help north korea. framework, the agreed of the u.s. and north korea signed in 1994, the target period of 10 years. it was too short. toby: can i get you to take on -- is there a secret plan for the u.s. to expel the question? soojin: i don't know if there is one. if i can pick up from what has been discussed is that it is so true that denuclearization is not just about the physical aspects -- physics aspects, but very much political aspect. i think it is important to take that into account. that regard, to resolve this problem, i thin

korea andjapan. his counterparts from south korea and japan. the key lines, the united states committing to complete denuclearisation of the korean peninsula, saying the countries will continue working together and the security guarantee for those countries remains in place. you are watching at bbc world news. let us take a look at the weather now. and grab let us take a look at the weather now. hello once again. i know it's the second week injune, but i have to start this particular show by reminding you we've got a named storm on our hands, and there's an amber warning from the met office for gusts of wind on thursday morning which could, in extremis, get up to around 60mph if not 70 mph. where's all that coming from? this great lump of cloud hurtling towards us and deepening all the while and as it does so, quite a vigorous area of low pressure for the time of year. it's got into the wrong place in the atmosphere and it's been deepening all the while in recent hours. such that as we get on through the day, we will find a real squeeze in thos

and south korea that it forces the u.s. and south korea to come to china for serious negotiations. the lesson actually, the lesson that china has drawn from these episodes, actually reinforce chinese belief and soft power and coercive power, which means it becomes another dispute of another military deployment, we are likely to see stronger and more overwhelming response from china. that is very concerning. i objectively speaking, china does have genuine disagreements about those deployments. .. . >> so look into the future. i think if interdiscriminates arise, they have chance to see down to recap this underlying technical disagreements probably not. it's better to start today to predict where are the areas where disagreements might arise. and start the accommodation now. because we do use in depth discussion to address other genuine disagreements on those technical and more neutral issues. and that's the only way, i think, to prevent the occurrence of another major discriminate and maybe even conflict. looking in the future, i think that there's even a more challenging situation.

and south korea. many see this as a turning point. so they must have seemed going to be confused by all the momentous changes underway you know and sort of pull model in mind that i was able to do this project because the two countries are so different but the amount the good to go kind of if they grow closer to my idea wouldn't work as well the book to be honest i'm glad i managed to do it when i did my. money at the you know i saw the whole of this. all the unification between north and south korea is still hard to imagine he she does audience already has a hard time telling comes from earlier. on the day is nearly done but don't forget as after the conversation continues online you can find us on twitter either at d w news my handle is at sarah kelly t v and don't forget you can use the hash tag a day this is news live from berlin we thank you so much for joining us and don't forget we have a news update every hour on the hour to help us either. the be. the bum. bum. bum bum. bum bum bum. bum. bum

south korea where south korea i think you deserve go ahead go you deserve and yes. you deserve one. but two questions for you mr president first you mentioned earlier that you're going to talk with south korean president lee and yet you don't want to guess what you plan to discuss and i just want to tell him about the meeting very successful and he'll be very much involved in the final negotiation he's a very very fine gentleman also a friend of mine and. i look forward to speaking of he'll be very happy when he. years about i've already sent word to him about what happened i sent the document to him actually and all of the details behind the document so i'll be talking to him very shortly another question in signing a peace treaty do you hope you plan to work this out with north korea's chairman kim only or what do you think about the involvement of south korea and china as the signatory i'd like to have them involved also there's a question as to whether or not we're supposed to or whether or not we legally have to i don't care i think it would be great to have china involved and

troops in south korea but they are there solely for the defense of south korea and these training exercises, the president calls them war games are for the defense of south korea against any imminent north korea threat. these are not about conducting war, they are about defending south korea if there is a north korean threat. so the war games, they have been fact, a major one is already in scheduled for august, just weeks from now. what the pentagon has to figure out is what does the president really to happen? does he want an immediate total succession? will it be just during the negotiations? will it be all cises? will it be the big ones, the little ones? and what does this actually mean for the allies, because the pacific nations, japan, austria, other nations in the region also rely on these exercises, also participate in them to help train their own troops to be ready in that region. there's an awful lot to sort out here, but make no mistake, kim is got two things pretty much out of the u.s. as a result of these negotiations, he certainly has some commitment on ending the exercises and

military personnel based in south korea and the south korean soldiers for the rear likelihood that there could be an invasion or an attack by north korea north korea hasn't seen it that way of course they see it the military exercises as a precursor to rehearsal to attacking north korea so it seems like they will be some very tough questions for mike pompei o the u.s. secretary of state who is on his way to solve due to arrive in the next few hours he will meet with president on thursday morning and also with the foreign ministers from south korea and japan and he went hey live for us and seoul wayne thank you very much now i know tangan joins us now he's a china political analyst an advisor to the chinese government on economic and development issues he joins us live from beijing einar always good to talk to you so this seemingly surprising announcement from donald trump that the war games as he call them military exercises let's be correct were going to cease how did that play out in china. well china is delighted i mean the dual track suspension is what they have been saying all along

koreans will want to see if indeed that statement is fairly general south korea and south korea's president of course have been very involved in the sort of process that led to this summit taking place give us an idea of what sort of process does south korea see now going forward should exist in order to reach some of those goals that you mentioned. it's been interesting to watch president mungy and as we've been saying he campaigned heavily on better engagement with north korea better relations with pyongyang in the lead up to him assuming the presidency in may last year and so far this year you've noticed a change in the situation on the korean peninsula is he had a chance once those provocative acts in north korea in the form of missile tests and nuclear tests came to an end it seemed that there was a noticeable change in attitude and it was a chance for president moon to really start to implement some of those policies that he had campaigned on so heavily and clearly he has been very involved in getting to the stage that we're at now with president trump able to become the first sitting

between 1994 and 2010, south korea-- this is all on the public record, south korea gave north korea $11 billion. about 70% of that in cash. between 1995 and 2008, according to the congressional research service the united states during the clinton and bush years gave north korea in excess of $1.3 billion, so that a hundred million a year and you might think it's not a huge is some. in the '90s north korea underwent famine. in the '90s-- late '90s of north korea's total export earnings from north korea was a few hundred million dollars, less than half a billion. that was a lot of money from the us as well. as of 2005, china has each year given north korea-- now this is a rough guess, but about 1.5 billion a year, so what about team america and its allies, what are they gained? approximately less than nothing for nuclear icbm armed north korea. >> excellent question and another thing we see or signs we see now with the reports that assad wants to go to meet with kim jong-un, it appears kim jong-un is not only trying to level up the playing field in north asia, he seems to be leveling the

korea is pushing the idea south korea can actually do that is something that needs to be signed by the united states because it was the united states that signed the armistice with north korea not south korea it's actually interesting historical fact that the united states was then running something called united nations command because the u.s. presence with a few of its allies in the korean war was under the banner of the united nations you might say the united nations does peacekeeping not bytes war but at that point the russians were not actively engaging in the united nations and so the other countries managed to get a united nations flag on their operations during that three year long korean war so if there is to be a peace treaty which i think south korea favors the idea of forgetting about the armistice and having a proper treaty ending the war then you have to get buy in from the u.s. that's another potential carrot that the u.s. can offer if it gets what it wants in return for north korea talking about carrots and parties getting what they want how much common ground is there

troops in south korea trump has left open the possibility of bringing them home from south korea without specifying a timeframe or whether that would even happen what has the reaction in south korea been to that. right well i mean ever since trump was on the campaign trail he had threatened to bring american soldiers home from south korea and even yesterday during his post summit press conference he kind of threw south korea under the bus saying again making this claim that the south doesn't financially support american forces here to the degree that it should be some debate can be made about that. again here in south korea. there are mixed feelings to the u.s. military let's say for the elder generations who remember how united states came to south korea's rescue during the korean war and help fight back north korea as well as china. goes that generation of south koreans would be very horrifying to see american soldiers leave but for younger generations who would prefer better relations with north korea and also the sense that there is an occupying foreign army in their country some peo

i mean south korea part of me was expecting. i don't know certainly south korea is us for clarification on that issue and that is something new but of course that snorts old lee in the joint statement that came out president trump said something else which was north korea saying that it would give up another missile site that would be destroyed that is also not in the dirt declaration some of this emerged it seems after the joint statement was written nights very old that it would come out at that very late stage but certainly the whole idea of those military exercises is something that north korea has been demanding for a very long time china had suggested some time ago that maybe those military exercises could be frozen in return for north korea stopping. its missile launches certainly north korea and to an extent china have got what they wanted south korea on board with it i'm might even ask all the pentagon on board with it given that it seemed to come out of absolutely nowhere when president trump mentioned it at that news

and south korea. secretary mattis' strong view is that north korea gets no vote in the matter, it is up to south korea and the united states to negotiate any withdrawal of u.s. troop presence or to continue it. so if the president's words in effect hand that possibility over to kim jong-un, because it is going to be a security guarantee in kim's mind, that will certainly be something to consider, because as you pointed out at the beginning, kate, getting u.s. troops out of south korea and stopping the training and exercises has always been something that kim jong-un has wanted very strongly. it looks like president trump is giving it to him, but we still need to hear a lot of the details. >> maybe in word, but in action, we'll see. that's the -- what remains. also, the president brought up recovering the remains of prisoners of war and those missing in action. what do you know about that? >> this has been a long-standing program for many, many years. for the pentagon, to try and recover the remains of

and even south korea. regardless how this meeting goes with president trump, there will be already some activity nothing south korea will pursue activities that wie in violation of united nations security council resolutions or sanctions. there will be more movement. kim jong un has already gained. now by prutch just agreeing to sit down with him, we have given him the -- so north korea is actually much better off today than it was just even a few months ago in november, olast now, in terms of what to expect frhe summit and what a successful outcome will look like, i agree withuyeon completely. whatever we see, they're both going to spin it as a success. i don see them -- the summit failing to the degree that will be some drama and kim jong un walking out or president trump walking out. they have invested in spinning this summit as some sort of success. but he's set himself a high bar. he called the iran deal worse than ever, insane, an embarrassment. when you look at the iran deal, they all agreed to give

and south korea. what? south korea is supposed to be one of our closest allies, but apparently they had no idea this was coming. "south korea appears to have been blindsided by trump's change of heart on war games. u.s. officials could not confirm that trump had told counterparts in seoul about the plan to suspend military exercises." south korea soon put out a statement saying they were trying to figure out the exact meaning and intentions in president trump's comments. because they had no idea this announcement was coming. in addition to blindsiding south korea about ending joint military exercises between the u.s. and south korean militaries, president trump also appears to have blindsided the u.s. mary with his announcement. "the u.s. military" -- excuse me. "the united states military in south korea was also apparently blindsided by mr. trump's remarks. u.s. forces korea said they had received no updated guidance on execution or cessation of training exercises." so big picture, what was this summit all

north korea and south korea north korea's leader kim jung un has announced plans to focus on his country's economic development in the future and south korea could play a central role in this this factory outside south korea's capital seoul shouldn't even exist. up to two years ago the spacing rings for shock absorbers that the workers produce here were made in north korea in a special collaborative economic zone of k. song just behind the border as che tech was the first company to set up shop there back in two thousand and four industrial park is unusual as jay tech c o u chung tells me it's run jointly by the two koreas the biggest advantage of the collaboration has been having access to north korean workers. they were passionate. intelligent. he's made them stand out above others other regions those were the reasons why companies in case was so happy to work with them. and they were cheap north koreans only earned one tenth of what their counterparts in south korea made on par with other cheap labor countries in the region but case song is only sixty kilometers from seoul and everyone

south korea's capital seoul shouldn't even exist. up to two years ago the spacing rings for shock absorbers that the workers produce here were made in north korea in a special collaborative economic zone of k. song just behind the border as che tech was the first company to set up shop there back in two thousand and four industrial park is unusual as jay tech c o u chung tells me it's run jointly by the two koreas the biggest advantage of the collaboration has been having access to north korean workers. they were passionate. intelligent. he's made them stand out above others

south korea, news to them, south korea wants more details. that's ahead. i'll never find a safe used car. stt at the new carfax.com show me minivans with no reported accidents. boom. love it. [struggles] show me the carfax. start your used ch a the all-new carfax.com. >>> as you know, president trump says he'll end war games on the korean peninsula, war games the term he used while he works out a deal with north korea. now, south korea wants to know what exactly the president means by that. joining me now is nic robertson in seoul. it seems like south korea was caught by surprise. >> reporter: it really does, anderson. you know, we got a statement from the blue house, the president's office, a little earlier on this evening. they said, look, we need to understand the precise meaning, the accurate meaning and intent of what president trump is saying. they did go on to say they're willing to make compromises to improve that relationship, between the united states and north korea, and that this was important that that relationship building and there were thin

south korea. where is south korea? i think you deserve it. go ahead. you deserve one. yes. you deserve one. >> i have two questions for you, mr. president. first, you mentioned earlier you will talk with south korean president moon jae-in. what will you discuss with him? >> i want to tell him about the meeting and it was very successful. hea fine gentleman. also a friend of mine. i look forward to speaking to him. he will be very happy. i sent word about what happened. i sent the document to him. and all of the details behind the document. i'll talk to him shortly. >>f i may ask another question. in signing the peace treaty, do you plan to work this out with north korea's chairman kim only or what do you think about involvement of south korea and china as signatories? >> i would like to involve both of them. i think it would be great to have china involved and of course south korea. >> thank you. mike, do they have a transcript? you can give it out. they did not record it. i don't think they are recording it. are there recordings of it? i wish there were. it is interesting

neighbor south korea. that's very specific. north korea gave no specifics on time line for denuclearization. no specifics on how that will be verified over time. these are the things -- those are the details that folks were looking for to see what the u.s. got from this. there's a clear imbalance in specifics for what the u.s. is saying it's going to give and what north korea is saying. and what is a test? if south korea, again, your closest ally in this issue here, comes out of it and says we got to figure out what just happened here. that shows not only that you didn't coordinate with the south koreans on this statement on concessions, et cetera, but that south korea has questions about how this went down. if they're saying that publicly, i have to imagine that in private there's a fair amount of nervousness, joseph knows them better than me. they were concerned about what was going to be given and whether they will feel as secure afterwards. just one more point i would make, you talk about defining thin

south korea's g.d.p. was just under one and a half trillion dollars north korea's was barely twenty six billion north korea's leader kim jong il says he's focused on economic development. this factory outside south korea's capital seoul shouldn't even exist. up to two years ago the spacing rings for shock absorbers that the workers produce here were made in north korea in a special collaborative economic zone of k. song just behind the border as che tech was the first company to set up shop there back in two thousand and four industrial park is unusual as to take c.e.o. you tells me it's run jointly by the two koreas the biggest advantage of the collaboration has been having access to north korean workers. it was certainly they were passionate. intelligent. those qualities that made them stand out above other labels in other regions those were the reasons why all the companies in case we're so happy to work with them. and they were cheap north koreans only earned one tenth of what their counterparts in so

troops from south korea. here's exactly what the president said. >> it's inappropriate to be having war games. so number one, we save money, a lot. and number two, it really is something that i think they very much appreciated. i used to say this during my campaign, as you know, probably better than most. i want to get our soldiers out. i want to bring our soldiers back home. we have right now 32,000 soldiers in south korea. and i'd like to be able to bring them back home. >> let meng our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. what's the reaction over there to the president's comments? >> wolf, we have some breaking news for you on that very point. we have learned just within the last few minutes from the pentagon press secretary dana white that defense secretary james mattis was consulted and not surprised by the presidens announcement on the potential suspension of joint military exercises with the south koreans. and the pentagon, she says, is in full alignment with the administration on this. that would not

the military exercises with south korea? >> we have done exercises for a long period of time working with south korea. and we call them wargames. i call them wargames and they are tremendously expensive. the amount of money that we spend on that is incredible. and south korea, it is a subdistrict to talk to them about also. and it has to do with military expense and also trade. so we are doing that. we actually have a meeting with south korea in terms of the trade double we have to talk to many countries about treating us fairly. the wargames are very expensive. pay for a big majority of it. with fly in bombers from guam. i said, where do the bombers come from? guam. nearby. i said where is nearby? 6 and a half hours. 6 and a half hours is a long time for these big massive planes to be flying to south korea to practice and then drop bombs all over the place and to guam. i know a lot about airplanes. it is very expensive and i did not like it. and what i did say is, and i think is very provocative, i have to tell you. it is a

how hungry south korea is this would mean a loss not only to the koreans or south korea in particular but also to russia this is a huge market they've been doing a lot of business with south korea and obviously this means billions of dollars alex i mean you sort of mentioned how the koreans are viewing this but let me ask you. you know if the i don't know if you heard the conversation within wilkie but they're talking about how president trump said that they're going to stop the we're going to stop the joint military exercises with south korea i guess my question is how do you think the south koreans are looking at the possibility of increased economic development with the same at the same time this looming potential security threat and the u.s. pulling out of these joint military exercises what's your take alex first of all you have to wonder what is the real threat here i mean these military exercises themselves have always raised tensions on the korean peninsula so once these exercises go away it's actually a good thing everybody kind of melos out so i mean that's from that potenti

south korea. >> i'm not going to get into details of the discussions that we have had. we are prepared to take what will be security assurances that are different, unique, than america has been willing to provide previously. >> reporter: while only hours away fro historic summit, president trump is also dealing with fallout from his last one, refusing to let go of his feud with justin trudeau at the g7. dispatching his top aides to defend him in the fight over tariffs. >> he really stabbed us in the back. >> there's a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with president donald j. trump. >> reporter: a departure from what the president said before he left canada. >> the relationship i have had with the people -- the leaders of these countries has been -- i would rate it on a scale of zero to ten, i would rate it a ten. >> reporter: trump lashing out after seeing comments from trudeau. >> canadians are polite. we're reasonable. but we will not be pushed aro

meets south korea and japan to discuss the deal trump made with kim. a landmark trial this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the battle of ahead data coalition forces launched an operation to retake the gammy port city despite aid agencies warning of a human catastrophe plus. standing up for guns on the un adopts a resolution condemning excessive israeli force against palestinians and they are right. football fever in the russia as this is world cup host get ready for the kickoff in just a few hours time. state is in seoul where he's been briefing south korea's president on tuesday a meeting between donald trump and north korea's leader kim jong un. has also met the foreman says of south korea and japan comes concession to end military drills with seoul calls america's two biggest allies in the asia pacific region off gone south korea's foreign minister called the summit a turning point in denuclearizing the korean peninsula. this is the first time that the higher stuff after north korea promised the president of the united states to route tw

that is against north korea and south korea. we know that previously president nixon used the troops cardigan south korea, entirely, actually withdrew 20,000 troops in 1970 and 1971, and in 1974, put elsewhere, he seriously considered, he had made up his mind to withdrew u.s. troops, and then jimmy carter talked about it, of course. and then in the bush years, more american troops were redeployed. withdrawing 5000 or 10,000 troops, president trump all calculate he is sending oulrn message to both se and pyongyang, you're on your own, fend for yourself, as he said during the campaign. korea, president trump thinks it is sending a very strong message, we are removing our troops from the south, thereby we will no longer allow our troops to stand in harm's way within the range of your artillery. thereby we will be more prone to strike first. work, but i think that is a false hypothesis. probably it will work in north korea's favor, not u.s. interests. sue mi: quickly, i will answer the second part of your question about u.s.-south a

if you look at the economic gaps between north korea and south korea, south korea is now the 11th or 12th largest economy depending on which list you look at. and north korea is 125th. it is in the cellar. and that is not where it was 50 years ago when the war broke out. this is an economic disparity that kim jong un is certainly hoping to change. >> and juju, stick with us here because i know a lot of people watching us back home as this unfolds, we are awaiting the president. he's going to take questions from international reporters. i wanted to get back to juju because for many people, not only back in the u.s. but around the it's also a day of trying to reconcile the person they knew as a brutal dictator, someone who resided over a country with rolling blackouts, with people near starvation, in desperate need of food in some cases, a leader who killed members of his own family to keep his grip on power, and now just since the beginning of this year the olive branch to the south, president moon taking a north korean delegation to the olympics and this face-to-face meeting now with

the us secretary of state has now arrived in south korea before heading to china. some in this region will want a lot more detail before they are convinced this really is a formula for peace. john sudworth, bbc news, beijing. study forces have attacked the main port in yemen. joining me live from washington is former us ambassador james jeffrey. now with the washington institute, ambassadorjeffrey served in ankara and baghdad, and has focused on relations with iran. it is great to have you here on bbc world news. you agree that this offensive in the port of hodeidah risks the humanitarian catastrophe as many aid agencies are now saving? i'm not so sure about a catastrophe. i checked 20 minutes ago on the un report on how many civilians have been killed in the last 3.5 years, it's about 6000. every death is tragic but compared to ten complex i've experienced in the middle east, thatis i've experienced in the middle east, that is not a large number. we have a catastrophe potentially because yemen is a failed state. at any given time, there is a danger of starvation a

to south korea today. there are parallels therebetween the north korean economy and south korea and what singapore was in 1965 compared to what it is today. he tore the singapore port. he tore the marina based gambling. he toured one of the big gardens here. he seemed quite jubilant on his evening stroll with the sirean foreign minister. this is one of the first foreign dignitaries to ever take a south they with kim jong-un. i don't know, i don't have that on record. hang on, we are looking at live pictures of donald trump's motorcade. it is now living for santos a and the capello hotel. live pictures are what you are seeing on your screen right now. this is the north correspondent. let's get a check on the markets right now to see if anything is moving with david and less. -- ignles. david: have a look at equity markets. equities are a. this is 23,000. keep in mind, this was closed yesterday. that being said, we are still getting some positivity more or less across these markets. let me point you to the c

and south korea. many see this as a turning point. so they're. going to be confused by all the momentous changes underway and so little model and was able to do this project because the two countries are so different to go if they grow closer my idea wouldn't work as well . book to be honest i'm glad i managed to do it when i did my. mind yet the. quality. of the unification between north and south korea is still hard to imagine she does audience already has a hard time telling comes from where. this is life from still to come from the present emanuel mccraw denounces a very over its handling of the stranded by cruise ship as the aquarius now prepares to sail for spain we ask what the dispute means for the european union's policy towards. women in the arts and feminism and the age of me that's the theme of one of the debates taking place today i v w's global media forum involved. and who will host the twenty twenty six world cup morocco goes up against three north american countries will go. i had two

with south korea. well that's interesting because trump said that the way he got kim into a room was to present him with a vision of the future where and set of he was instead of testing weapons he would have the best hotels in north korea and he encouraged them to think about it from a real estate perspective which of course is the perspective that trump would have as a real estate mogul and in fact the whole summit had a very hard of the deal feel to it in any case the increased economic integration within the region is something about south korean chamber of commerce has said it welcomes its just released a statement saying the south korean industrial sector is preparing for an age of increased economic cooperation with north korea it has to be said however that they have faith that the sanctions on north korea would stay in place so obviously any declarations of an economic golden age impending for north korea would be premature . schools but the deep geo political race has seems to have decreased

it is a joint decision with the united states and south korea. the bilateral agreement on the joint military exercises. the idea they are provocative for south korea, they recognize this is a necessary part of importance national defense. as yet, we understand there is no actual agreement set on when that stoppage of the exercises would actually be agreed. >> on friday, nic, the president said he would speak with north korea on father's day. do we know anything of that? >> reporter: father's day here, like in the united states, came and went without word from pyongyang. you know, it would be typical if the phone call happened. if the north koreans would not talk about it straightaway. generally the news information propaganda line lags 24 hours or longer. maybe they would not mention it at all. there is no indication from the south koreans aware of it. as we know, nothing from the white house as yet on this issue. it seems perhaps it happened. perhaps it didn't. what are the consequences of it? south koreans say let them form a bond so they can s

what do i know what south korea policy is? they say it's four or five people in the blue house who know what president moon is doing and then with north korea i had recent meetings with north koreans saying even the foreign minister and others are -- weren't sure what kim might be doing. and there was also indications that when the south koreans met with the north koreans or kim jong-un and kim agreed he wasn't going to criticize the u.s./south korean military exercise that his advisers were surprised by that. when you have three countries like that where even the senior advisers aren't sure what's going on, let alone the rest of the bureaucracy, then when you think of japan trying to tap into this -- i mean, they're as in the dark as a lot of the parts of the u.s. and south korea government are. >> japan clearly is trying to take care of itself, singapore, i guess sending a couple of relatively senior credible level and not too senior so they don't look desperate. >> let them decide. >> let the diplomats and singapore pick th

it seems that south korea is anxious to begin trade with north korea and the question i have is has by normalizing things, appearing here, meeting with president moon of south korea, meeting with china, as kim jong un already succeeded to some degree in weakening the maximum pressure campaign? not necessarily by the united states, but by the rest of the world? >> no, i don't think he has. china has always displayed a double game when it comes to north korea on the one hand saying they want to denuclearize north korea but on the other hand propping up the regime economically, financially and politically. they really only came to the table over the last 18 months because of the president's approach since last january. the south korean administration that took office earlier this year simply had a different approach than previous administrations. the president has done a good job of developing a rapport with president moon of south korea arying to keep a close alliance structure between south korea, japan and the united states to ensure that that pressure campaign continues. the president

south korea, where is south korea? you deserve one. >> two questions for you. you mentioned, you are going to talk to south korean pres. moon over the phone. >> i want to tell him about the meeting, very much involved in the final negotiation, a very fine gentleman and i look forward to speaking with him and about what happened. and all the details behind the documents. i will talk to him shortly. >> in signing a peace treaty, you work this out with north korea's chairman, what do you think about south korea and china? >> i would like to have them involv. there is a question whether we are supposed to but we have china involved and south korea. >> was a private conversation? >> they probably have a rough transcript,f you have one. i don't think they recorded it. are there any recordings of it? i wish they were. we probably have some notes but they have detailed notes. and it was a very heartfelt conversation. don't have to verify, and don't have to. >> what have you seen? >> i don't want to discuss it. what we did is we had numerous discussions, we have had ver

korea is this would mean a loss not only to the koreas or south korea in particular but also to russia this is a huge market they've been doing a lot of business with south korea and obviously this means billions of dollars alex i mean you sort of mentioned how the koreans are viewing this but let me ask you. you know if the i don't know if you heard the conversation within wilkie but there talk.

both south korea and juju talks about this, south korea and north korea for different reasons want to reunify that peninsula. this will allow president moon to work on the peace treaty. it has to be a peace treaty between north and south korea. this was back in 1950, a civil war. that civil war has to be ended by the combatants. not the u.s., not china, but north korea and south korea. >>> we're taking a quick break. >>> up next, our exclusive interview with president trump one on one moments ago. >> and one of his closest advisers suffers a heart attack. th >>> here's another look at some of the extraordinary images from the hist >>> here's another look at the extraordinary images from the summit in singapore with kim jong-un saying they decided to put the past behind them. president trump is making it clear, sanctions will remain in place for now. but he announced they'll stop the joint military drills with south korea. you can see him signing the declaration, kim jong-un and the president on plans to denuclearize the korean peninsula. now to george stephanopoulos in singapore. he j

including the fu of serity operation in north and south korea. we need an ambassador who appreciates the u.s.-south korea rtnership runs deep. political, economic and cultural issues. i'm confidence mr. harris recognizes the value of the relationship between washington and seoul and will effectively advocate for strengthening our relationship of this critical ally. our thanks to all of you being here for the committee before i turn to senator menendez. we have two votes beginning at 10:30. we plan to move through. we will just kind of continue on. if you could kind of time out when you leave, knowing when you are going to be coming up, that would be great so we could continue and not have a vacuum here. with that i'll turn to my distinguished rngr and friend, bob menendez. senator menendez: thank you, mr. chairman. we have before us high level nominees. and i appreciate and congratulate you and your families on the nominations. i am a bit dismayed these domination hearings have become one of the few opportunities the community has to really engag

particularly japan as well as south korea. but also countries in south korea. but also countries in south east asia who really count on the united states as a counterbalance to the growing chinese military engagement in this pa rt chinese military engagement in this part of the world. china is obviously happy. that is the autumn the goal of china to, to seek the us troops out of the korean peninsula. so that is where we are. and i think that obviously can got the most out of the study for hours here in singapore. —— kim. of the study for hours here in singapore. -- kim. big questions, the security of north—east asia are at stake, no less. thank you very much. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: caught on camera. what the leaders' body language revealed about what they were thinking. the day the british liberated the falklands, and by tonight, british troops had begun the task of disarming the enemy. in the heart of the west german capital, this was gorbymania at its height. the crowd packed to see the man who, for them, has raised great hopes for an

north korea has been telling south korea if the united states and south korea to not deploy strategic assets. they are willing to tolerate our annual combined military exercise and training. i understand in that way not just in suspending or stopping the war game. >> so now let's flip it a little bit. your president called this historic. he praised both leaders and many in the alliance have said, including in europe, japan and elsewhere that this is a really important moment. what do you think the steps will be going forward? for instance, in the declaration, the united states names secretary of state mike pompeo as the negotiator. the north koreans haven't named everybody. you would think they had the opportunity to think about it. these were points drummed up before the summit. does that say anything to you? why wouldn't they have named somebody to meet up with secretary of state pompeo? >> quite understandable. up until now, it was ad hoc situation for north korea. once they get into very specifics of nuclear negotiation, then people like foreign minister or vice-chairman, they com

south korea since their nerves and unlikely, victory might see them through. germany had most of the ball but none of the ideas. anything less than a two—goal win will leave them vulnerable to the result in the other game. the urgency was met with supreme agility. now news from the east, where that a swedish goal, german fa ns where that a swedish goal, german fans don't usually have to check the arithmetic. but they knew they needed to score. no problem, this is germany and they always do, surely? goodness me! they could not believe it and nor could anyone else. south korea was still going, now unable to qualify, they were desperate to leave a mark copy but wait, he is behind you. the offside would now be va are's biggest decision, revealing the ball came off a german player, pandemonium. germany knew they were leaving it late even for them, and when that goes wrong, there is only one result. 2- 02 south korea. germany, the world champions are out in the world stage for the first time. but then they never looked like germany. a little bit earlier i spoke to