south korea. it is in our national security interest for this to happen. refugees have experienced, and oftentimes make him through they are debriefed by national intelligence services both in south korea and the u.s. , you have up you go got people closer in access to the decision-making spheres, you have better intel. a couple of things i didn't mention are related to the most egregious of violations in north korea, those related to the massive political prison camps, arbitrary executions, detentions, firing squads, and north korea's use of their resources. both denuclearization and closing prison camps won't happen overnight. that said, it is important to put the issue on the agenda and leave a little daylight and make incremental steps that can both improve human rights in a small way and said our national security interests. greg: thank you very much for the invitation. i would also like to say that the committee for human rights represented by david maxwell, one of the board members, here in

south korea but i do not think u.s. forces will be staying here forever. these two factors should not be perceived as related to one another this is the way we see things most not sound right now our priority denuclearization. not supposed to they. don't trump on kim jong good nor building bridges to ties between washington and beijing are becoming strained could play on young somehow take advantage show they could. rices in u.s. china relations it could attempt to bargain for concessions by capitalizing on u.s. china tensions for instance south. oh you know. china has a strong influence on north korea and so does america and russia north korea is very important to us in order to resolve the issue of north korea's nuclear program we will require support from all parties including a major power such as the us china russia and japan that without the help of these nations we will not be able to secure full to nuclear and achieve peace and prosperity on the korean peninsula but i say this because i want to emphasize just ho

how significant are these agreements between north and south korea towards peace. i mean i think they're incredibly significant and you know it's definitely important to a context allies the moves that you know that this isn't a new initiative that there has been a a you know a decades long desire for peace and for you reunification on the korean peninsula and there have been numerous practical concrete steps that have taken place you know this is kind of the third iteration that we're seeing right now sense the. june fifteenth two thousand agreement between the north and the south and i think that what's unique right now is the repeated with which events are taking place you know it was just january first of this year that kim jong un in his new year's address you know reached out to south korea and initiated this entire process and so in that sense i think it's quite remarkable what has happened these last. ten months that's a really great great observation to have how fast this is moving is really struck me that's why i keep coming back to the subject as i figur

now these cars were exported to south korea and were found to be non-compliant with south korean regulations but this operation would have to have been masterminded the audi had orders here in germany and it's been within the course of one of several diesel emissions cheating scandal investigations ongoing here that this aciphex south korean angle was uncovered so in march of last year german state prosecutors are raided the audi had quarters and discovered these internal documents describe these measures that were being taken with a south korean export so meanwhile former c.e.o. of already rupert father has been in jail since a jew in a four is allegedly role in the coverup and he's not thought to our. said anything about this until now so his arrest is partly to keep him from interfering from ongoing investigations so it's possible that as investigators go about their business even more will come to light see the vote that jail time do we have any idea at this stage what further consequences could be for the group. with regard to the south korean case there have already been some actions t

patient thirty thousand troops in south korea. the intense intense interlocking sanctions against the country that are to have prevented north and south korea from taking concrete steps towards integrating for example the railways . i think that things would be moving even more quickly and i think that really i mean the primary thing that the united states has to do is really just get out of the way and let the korean people determine their own destiny i mean there's the will for it there is the knowledge and the intellect the know how and you know in the dr how do we got a lot of the way like you're saying would we have seen this peace between north and south korea would it be fitting this faster was written how would the world for their histories really begin just to give people kind of a background and come some context of this for sure yeah well i mean here's the thing you know korea is a nation with five thousand years of history and for all but like seventy of those years it has been a single nation one people you know one l

to both north korea the united states and south korea have not yet joined this treaty which means that there's a lot of work left to do for us so it could be of course that they want to highlight this again but at the same time there's a lot of other issues also in the world going on but the nuclear threat is still here. this award was given to us for the work with the treaty on the provision of new weapons but it's of course also a tool for the future so we hope both that we can use a noble peace prize and that the nobel committee will continue to keep an eye on this issue turkey's foreign ministry has summoned saudi arabia's ambassador over the disappearance of a journalist after he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul or saudi arabian officials say jamal khashoggi went missing after he left the building but the turkish government believes he is still inside because shuggie a critic of riyadh's foreign policy and its crackdown on dissent left saudi arabia last year saying he feared retribution for his views. now to brazil where the presidential candidates have been taking part in

administration and the previous president of south korea park in there which was supposed to be final and irreversible and in fact the actions are being taken to. to undo the foundation that has been created with money from the japanese government to compensate victims on the other issue of course of who owns the islands of dual is disputed wrong in the scene between south korea and japan we have seen the at the administration certainly coming up very strongly and trying to assert its territorial claim or at this particular part of the ocean and this is something that south koreans very much take exception to say one who thanks very much for filling us in there on that situation between south korea and japan now the race is on for the top job in europe's biggest economies gentiles and america she will leave politics at the end of the term and twenty twenty one and she's standing down as the head of a center right party later this year again barbara reports from than them. i'm going to make calls message to leaders of her party the christian democrats all the c.d.u. is clear it's time

between china and south korea which meant china and south korea which meant china limited the amount of two groups heading to south korea. what impact do something like that have on the sheer volumes of people travelling? i think that will always be ads and close to the travel industry. it may be a national disaster, it may be political friction like we saw in south korea. the bigger question here is what motivates travellers from china to go to places and especially chinese millennials which are now driving a big part of that activity. it tends to be new experiences. over 60% of those surveyed said they wanted to go to those surveyed said they wanted to gotoa those surveyed said they wanted to go to a new country. then you had the social media angle and the social currency you get from taking a selfie within your network. the eiffel tower or loss vegas won't cut it the way it used to. it has been 20 years since the launch of google. these days, and everyday task can seem like a struggle without the help of the internet. the high adoption rates of web and services means investment in

korea and the us, donald trump said earlier this week, when there were rumours that south korea was about to lift sanctions, he said, south korea will not do that without my approval, they do nothing without my approval. how does that make you feel as the president of south korea when the us president says he you can do nothing without his approval? i believe that the sanctions imposed by the international community have played a big role in terms of leading north korea back to denuclearization dialogue, and in order to make further progress towards complete denuclearization we need to maintain this international co—ordination. as for inter—korea relations it has been done in a separate track. we need to continue with our efforts to continue that. but in a way that does not violate the sanctions. as for what president trump said, i believe that what he meant is that up to a certain point, the us and south korea need to be in lockstep in terms of consultation regarding sanctions. who is easier to deal with, donald trump or kimjong—un? i believe that both leaders have their own

david shukman, bbc news, in south korea. the holy month of muharram is generally associated with the shite sect of muslims all over the world. but there is a small town in pakistan, called mitthi, where hindus take the lead in the mourning processions to express their love for hussain, the grandson of muhammad. the bbc‘s shumaila jaffery travelled to mitthi to find out how about this unique tradition. this representation of the horse, of the fits grandson, started almost 14 the fits grandson, started almost 1a century ago. it is mostly shi'ite muslims who mourn the families that. but this man, who is hindu, is an exception. translation: we love hussain, we have great devotion for him. he was notjust for muslims, he brought the message of love and humanity for all. hindus are in the majority in mitthi, but take part in the rituals associated with the holy month of muharram, as equal partners with their muslim neighbours. is also the heartland of a mystical form of islam known as sofism. practice of hindus taking part in mus

in south korea has jailed former president. for fifteen years for corruption leave was found guilty of embezzling around twenty one million dollars and accepting bribes from samsung and other companies he's also been fined eleven million dollars seventy six year old lead denied any wrongdoing saying the investigation was politically motivated let's go live now to the south korean capital seoul and talk to our correspondent there bryden robert south koreans must be sick and tired of this is the latest in a long line of former leaders both in politics and in business who have been found guilty of corruption on a large scale. that's right martin this will be vaguely familiar to many people in south korea who've been following these proceedings this friday afternoon in fact lee myung bak himself was not actually in court to hear his fate it was an hour longer verdict and then sentencing by the criminal criminal court here in seoul he had decided not to take part apparently on health grounds or that was the reason given but it's wid

south korea's president meets the pope. and sturrock invitation from kenya. and pakistan edged closer to a series win over straight action from a second test in sport. hello again or welcome back here in the national weather forecast well plenty of nice weather here across central parts of europe high pressure is going to dominate that means a lot of clear skies a little bit of moderate temperatures but where we are seeing the weather is out here towards the western med now we have had some problems with rain across parts of northern africa as well as this area of low pressure that's making its way slowly towards the west notice the rain right here across parts of spain as well as down here towards portugal and we're going to be watching this very carefully for the potential of flooding over the next few days of going for friday over here toward saturday most of that active weather stays down towards the south affecting portugal as well as that southern area of spain but for the rest of europe like i said we're looking quite nice high pressure dominating lond

look at south korea today. it's one of the most extraordinary stories of democratic prosperity in asia. south korea is a rich country. right? we talk about the asian tigers. most countries -- south korea is like five times richer than china per capita. it is a real accomplishment. and i think part of what is drawing kim jong un's interest is without psycho analyzing him that in fact north korea needs a little of that. the north korean economic model is failing. right? the chinese have told the north korean regime that it needs to modernize. that's part of it. i would argue that we will never enjoy a normal relationship or enjoy peace with a country that has millions of its own people imprisoned whether literally or metaphorically. that suffers from a cult personality, really the last in ige of totalitarianism the world today. i will also point out the south korean government, actually there are really lots of compelling north korean defector groups. i met some at the national endowment for democracy a few month

look at south korea today. it's one of the most extraordinary stories of democrat democratic prosperity in asia. south korea is a rich country. south korea is like five times richer than china per capita. it's a real accomplishment and part of what is drawing kim jong un's interest is, without psycho analyzing him is that, in fact, north korea needs a little of that. the north korean economic model is failing. the chinese have told the north korean regime that it needs to modernize. that's part of it. i will argue that we will never enjoy a normal relationship or enjoy peace with a country that has millions of its own people imprisoned, whether literally or metaphorically, that suffers from a cut of personality. that's really the last vestage or totalitarianism today. they have gotten out and are thinking about how to help their brea people in north corey and the south korean government stopped supporting those groups in the quest for peace with the north. >> well, i'm glad you brought that up. it's a move towa

no room for misunderstanding nonetheless the decision that the court of south korea reached that today is a breach of the promise that they made so. south korea means that they are not paying attention to the internationally accepted norm and it is extremely regrettable and totally acceptable well just briefly that if the courts have deemed this. such a way forward for those looking for reparations do you think the floodgates are about to open it is not something that the japanese government can do anything about it is not something indeed any japanese company can do anything about it is in the sole domain and responsibility of the south korean government to remedy the damage done to the bilateral relationship because it is. it is their responsibility that the south korean government mosse to call a. pay attention to. so long as it is a player responsible player accepted international regime international laws how significant is the case when we've seen similar cases about compensation apologies for example from south korean comfort women highly contentious issue in both countries ofte

we report from south korea as a landmark report is set for release. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's one in the morning in london, 8am in singapore and beijing where chinese authorities have confirmed that the missing interpol chief is in the country, and being investigated for suspected violations of the law. meng hongwei had been missing since he flew to china at the end of september — interpol says it has received his resignation. daniel mckerrell reports. after nearly two weeks of silence, china has confirmed that meng hongwei is being held in their custody. beijing says he is being investigated by the anticorruption body for unspecified breaches of the law. soon after that, interpol said it received meng hongwei's resignation as president with immediate effect. meng hongwei's family have not heard from him since september 25 when he flew from france to china. the last message his wife received was this image of a knife which she says it signifies danger. grace meng has given

secretary of state has just arrived in south korea. it is the latest on a top for mike pompeo's trip to asia. he left for japan found for north korea. earlier pompeo met with leader kim jong-un, he promised to talk about the likely on the summit denuclearization. alexandra field was following it live in seoul, south korea. alexandra, how important it for south korea at this point? >> reporter: well, it's important for everyone, george, but certainly, south korea has a vested interest here and they're the ones brokering the communication between u.s. and especially since it seemed it was staggering from that initial meeting with president trump and kim jong-un paper lot has fallen on the shoulders of secretary of state mike pompeo who we have seen get off the plane shortly. and he'll be giving the south korean counterparts and the south korean president a debrief of what exactly happened in pyongyang. it's his fourth trip to north korea. more important, given the fact just back in august the scheduled trip was cancelled at the last minu

korea is not completely sovereign in its actions like when south korea mulled over the possibility of easing relations with the north well they won't do it without or approve. they do nothing without a roof so to be clear donald trump is not changing u.s. foreign policy he loves the saudis he loves bossing south korea around and he is not talking about cutting the huge military budget however he's getting rid of a lot of the smoke and mirrors and telling things as they actually are caleb mop and r.t. new york. facebook is finally revealing some details of the hook in september which compromise millions of its users the social media giant sees it is working closely with the f.b.i. to find who's behind. the attackers already controlled a set of accounts which were connected to facebook friends they used an automated technique to move from account to account so they could steal the axis tokens of those friends and for friends of those friends and so on totaling about four hundred thousand people originally fifty million users were estimated to have been affected but today that number was

there's--we have no ambassador to south korea. will he be prepared? we don't know. - but--but, donna, you have to admit that the previous white house and the one before that had some of the most well-prepared, brilliant foreign policy minds that we've ever seen, and it was a failure. - oh, that's a really good point. the experts have been trying to solve north korea for 20 years, and it's only gotten worse. so if the smart people can't do it, why not try trump, right? it's like--it's like if you had a rare disease that the world's top doctors couldn't cure, so you were like, "you know what? "why not let that dog in a hat give it a try? "yeah. how did he even get that hat? he's got to be pretty smart." [dramatic music] - earlier before their historic sit-down in singapore, the two leaders sizing each other up with a handshake. - yeah, you heard that right. president trump said meeting kim jong-un was his great honor. i mean, then again, when you have appeared in a mcdonald's commercial talking to grimace, everything seems like an honor. i get it. i get

david shukman in south korea, thank you. the second suspect in the salisbury nerve—agent attack has been named. sorry, my voice has gone! the investigative website bellingcat says the man who called himself alexander petrov and claimed to be a tourist is in fact a military doctor, employed by the russian intelligence service, the gru. the website says the 39—year—old is dr alexander yevgenyevich mishkin. here's our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. the cathedral city of salisbury in march, and the two men suspected of poisoning sergei and yulia skripal with the nerve agent novichok. police believe the two men arrived in the country using false identities. the man on the left has since been identified as anatoliy chepiga. the man on the right has tonight been named by the bellingcat investigation website as a doctor, dr alexander yevgenyevich mishkin. bellingchat have unearthed these three pictures of dr alexander mishkin. the website says he trained in the military medical academy before being recruited by th

i said we shoot down rockets shot from north korea to south korea, ok. so we are protecting south korea ? why aren't they paying? immediately go and find out who is paying for it and how much. he comes into my office. we are an ally of south korea, therefore we are paying for the system, sir. i thought -- [laughter] i said, all right, give me the bad news. give me the bad news. how much? , $1 billion. whoa. whoa! system weting in a pay for and it is going to cost $1 billion in order to protect wealthysely country that makes all of your television sets. samsung, lg, i ordered a lot of them from south korea. i am trying to figure that out, steve king. this, and i say go back to the country. renegotiate that deal. but sir, the obama administration has already agreed to it. i said, i couldn't care less if they agreed to it. i don't care. [applause] that is the second or third story. i could go on all night, but i want to get the hell out of here. , thought i was coming to iowa and there are more people from nebraska. [cheers and applause] right, pete rickets

stark warnings from scientists in south korea. thank you very much. the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, has met the south korean president, moonjae—in, in seoul to brief him on his meeting with north korea‘s leader in pyongyang. mr pompeo says progress has been made on the agreements reached in singapore injune, when kimjong—un met president trump. i spoke to our correpondent laura bicker in seoul a little earlier, and asked her if a second summit between president trump and kimjong—un is now more likely. i think it is rather likely. donald trump tweeted in the last few hours saying that he looked forward to meeting chairman kim in the near future. i think we‘re all wondering how near that future may be, and any significant locations for that summit. i think when it comes to, however, the progress made in pyongyang by the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, he‘s remaining quite tightlipped. i think there‘s a bit of disappointment here in seoul that either more progress hasn‘t been made, or that they haven‘t had more information a

black seems to be doing well in south korea the major market share in the south korea right hayling business is controlled by korea's own cow taxi which has been around since twenty fifteen and in southeast asia over surrendered and sold its business to singapore based grab which dominates markets there although there is some competition from the local go jet called go vietnam or go d.s. in vietnam and others in indonesia go isn't unusual also they're planning to move by the way into thailand and then. australia guber is big down in australia followed closely by the spanish ola and the stoney of bass tax the five and of course d.d. the local go catch an australian firm trying to make inroads but that competition is really fierce in australia and moving to india we go over here we see we have both hoover and all of their really splitting the lion's share of the market there and in africa we go and as you might imagine not many of the nations there actually have rides sailing services but there are some in south africa and uganda tanzania nigeria over and taxes by dominate the markets and in e

our science editor david shukman is in south korea where the report was revealed. the warming of the earth is heading for levels that modern humans have never experienced. that's the unnerving implication of this latest report. it says the rise of the oceans could accelerate, even with what sounds like a small increase in temperature. heatwaves are set to become more intense, sooner than expected. and forest fires, combined with more warming, will have a profound impact on wildlife. when the report was unveiled at a press conference here in south korea, it came with a startling conclusion. if action is not taken, it will take the planet into an unprecedented climate future, if we compare it to what has happened during all of human evolutionary history. the report says massive cuts are needed in the gases warming the atmosphere. that means turning away from fossil fuels like oil because, when they're burned, they give off carbon dioxide. vast new forests must also be planted to soak up the gas to have any chance of keeping global warming to a safe level. the report

of the bride al-jazeera busan south korea. all right this is al-jazeera it's got a round up of the top stories western governments are you nineteen to condemn years of what they say are cyber attacks from russia the u.s. charge seven russian agents and the netherlands expelled for hackers russia denies the allegations almost a week after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the indonesian island of silly way see hundreds of thousands of people are still in need of help the death toll now stands at one thousand four hundred twenty four indonesia's military has been ordered to shoot looters on sight u.s. senators have reacted along party lines to an f.b.i. report on allegations of sexual misconduct against u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh the senate was set to hold an initial procedural vote on his nomination on friday. what i can say is that the most notable part of this report is what's not in it it looks to be a product of an incomplete investigation that was limited perhaps by the white house i don't know but

korea is not completely sovereign in its actions like when south korea mulled over the possibility of easing relations with the north well they won't do it without or. they do nothing without proof so to be clear donald trump is not changing u.s. foreign policy he loves the saudis he loves bossing south korea around and he is not talking about cutting the huge military budget however he's getting rid of a lot of the smoke and mirrors and telling things as they actually are. artsy new york and spent his time on a political science professor in turkey who thinks the economic relations between washington and riyadh won't change. the attitude of trump is told to love you or he you know his attitude is as business when i think it affects a little bit the relationship between the united states and around the golf club doesn't affect where well because the problem is that now americans wants to do something against russia and iran and turkey in the middle east and they need. to be on a gulf countries and do you need some money i think it you know doesn't change anything just a little bit you

and south korea's president meets the pope bringing him with him and historic invitation from pyongyang. get a welcome back here in a national weather forecast well plenty of nice weather here across central parts of europe high pressure is going to dominate that means a lot of clear skies a little bit of a moderate temperatures but where we are seeing the weather is out here towards of the western med now we have had some problems with rain across parts of northern africa as well as this area of low pressure that's making its way slowly towards the west notice the rain right here across parts of spain as well as down here towards portugal and we're going to be watching this very carefully for the potential of flooding over the next few days of going for friday over here toward saturday most of that active weather stays down towards the south affecting portugal as well as that southern area of spain but for the rest of europe like i said we're looking quite nice high pressure dominating london seventeen paris at one thousand degrees and munich is going to be seeing probably about fiftee

the three—time major winner, the chance to get his name in craned on the cj cup and south korea was only half the story, he also had the chance to become the number one golfer in the world. but gary woodland was making it difficult, after this birdie on the 14th hole. a battle ensued, he moved back ahead by two shots after setting up a birdie on 13 on the keys. but koepka held his nerve, tipping in with 16 to go ahead by three shots at 19 under. so to the 18th, and this eagle, which gave koepka but title and the top of the rankings of the first time in his career. finishing four shots at his fellow american under 64. is a battle every day, you decide to keep working hard to improve. i enjoyed my time in the european tour and i finally get to go to the pga tour, something i dreamed of as a kid and ido something i dreamed of as a kid and i do not think this is going to sink in. impressive stuff from koepka, another went in the us, she won the and out inaugural tour, led to a temper tantrum that followed birdies which helped her to a final round, and overall score of 13—under par, after w

korea is not completely sovereign in its actions like one south korea mulled over the possibility of easing relations with the north well they won't do it without her approve. they do nothing without her approval so to be clear donald trump is not changing u.s. foreign policy he loves the saudis he loves bossing. south korea around and he is not talking about cutting the huge military budget however he's getting rid of a lot of the smoke and mirrors and telling things as they actually are caleb mop and r.t. new york. well american rapper kanye west isn't someone who shies away from publicly saying what he thinks and he stayed true to form when he got to meets his president in the oval office. time he's been a friend of mine for a long time it was some of the time it is how it made me feel like superman made of superman our favorite superhero oh this guy right here let me get this guy. out of this guy right here. ok i'm doing this for everybody who's watching us return the volume down if you can put it back up again that one if you think you're going to miss that it was as well as whe

this time yesterday, we were live to south korea, that because they held the intercontinental permit the climate change. it is extremely worrying and damning report that came out. unless we make serious changes to our lifestyle, our behaviour, government policy, all of the above, we are looking at a catastrophe. extraordinary, really. this picture is not easy to see. dead fish from a motorway in florida in august, demonstrating that this

south korea's president has given the head of the roman catholic church a special message from north korea's leader then met pope francis and the vatican he relayed that can john had invited the pontiff to visit. reports from seoul. as he delivers the invitation to the vatican president mungy end of south korea once more finds himself playing the role of mediator. and if pope francis agrees to the visit it will be one of north korea's biggest diplomatic achievements yet in breaking out of international isolation. the pope visited south korea in twenty fourteen when he was greeted by a million people on the streets of seoul that visit was evidence of the south's vibrant religious life. contrast that with the north where christian worship is officially restricted to just four churches in pyongyang one of them a catholic cathedral. but critics say it's just for show and that in reality kristin's routinely face persecution for their beliefs even death north korea's persecution of christians has no rival on the earth it is unforgiving systematic unyielding and often fatal it's a view supp

korea or germany. they don't have autonomy when it comes to foreign policy so it's a very sophisticated and effective system. where whereby we pat ourselves on the back for helping to midwife democracy in japan and germany and south korea and various other places while keeping the lid on in that we don't know what these countries would do if they were fully independent and the beauty of this system is that most people pay no attention to it at all they think it's just a natural occurrence to have fifty thousand american troops and japan and there's no country that has better and i'm sure he'll credit credit then the united states and we are not trying to recreate the glories of. the british empire we're arguing that the world is round we have a global policy and. all nations have global rights no ocean has ever been dominated the way the u.s. dominates the pacific navy air force. they claim in the pearl harbor headquarters of the pacific command they claim to be responsible for fifty two percent of the