president donald canceled a highly-anticipated summit with north korean leader kim jong-il and. trump blamed the decision on "open hostility from pyongyang." but the collapse of the talks will raise questions about the hawkish stance from within the white house, those hawkish attitudes seized upon by pyongyang. in the meantime, trump has conceded that an opportunity for peace may have been missed. >> based on the recent statement of north korea, i have decided to terminate the planned summit in singapore on june 12 >> -- on june 12. while many things can happen, and a great opportunity lies ahead potentially, i believe this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed, a setback for the world. correspondent: he for this address, trump informed the world and north korea's leadership in a letter, quite unusual for president accustomed to making major announcements on twitter. this time, he needed more than 100 40 characters to convey his disappointment about kim jong-un's recent display of "tremendous anger and open hostility." it means there potentially historic meeting is

jong il. the u.s. could reimpose sanctions on iran as early as next week to ensure it does not develop nuclear weapons that follows america's withdrawal from a landmark deal that limited iran's nuclear capabilities. ten people are feared dead after a central kenya heavy rain caused the patel dam in could who county to break its banks sweeping away hundreds of homes lots more news whenever you want it on the web site al jazeera dot com up next its i knew bin laden of course will bring you live coverage of the north korean hostage return to america. some of bin laden the world's most wanted man until his death in may two thousand and eleven. over the years al-jazeera is bureau chief in islamabad ahmed said dan has interviewed numerous people who met bin laden and his associates. this is the story of bin laden through their eyes. in may nine hundred ninety eight some of bin laden and his associates held a press conference calling for the killing of americans. several months later bomb attacks on

secretary of state are likely to pave the way for a summit between donald trump and kim jong il. supporters of italy's populist parties have been protesting after the president rejected their bid to form a government the caretaker prime minister carlo clitheroe is expected to meet the president later today to try to form a government. after a multimillion dollar four year long operation the current search for the missing passenger plane m h three seventy officially has been called off a private u.s. firm was there late last seem to look for the malaysian airlines plane but its mission wrapped up on tuesday the aircraft disappeared and twenty fourteen with two hundred thirty nine people on board the malaysian prime minister says the search could resume if new evidence is found. we had then a very big. search for them all over the world. and we have not found any evidence yet so we had to come to a stage where we can keep on the city put something that we really cannot find. even when he has any information. really to consider the review. but at the moment. we have we have to put a

jong il at the same time president moon of south korea who in many ways has brought kim jong un and donald trump together he's been integral to this whole process and recently a saturday meeting kim jong il in person hugging him looking like him on the surface anyway kim jong un's best diplomatic friend while at the same time having donald trump say he wants to get involved as well it's very likely he'll travel to singapore he probably won't be in the bilateral meeting between kim jong un and donald trump at the beginning but it's quite possible he might meet in the minutes or hours afterwards also in singapore so all these leaders from asian countries and of course singapore and thing of course prime minister as well they are after all she will probably to meet in his country he'll also want to talk about kim jong un and will trump for a summit so all these leaders all focused on june the twelfth in singapore if it still is if it happens and thank you very much for that for now that's added thomas for the latest from self-acting. to italy now where the president has appointed and i

jong il and president kim jong un president trump meeting would be the first one to take place and that is the one that everyone's working towards fiercely at the moment but it is possible a trilateral might follow or andrew thomas there see one coup is marriage an editor of career exposé news magazine he believes south korea's moon jane could join trump and kim in singapore a fat summit does go ahead. i think especially after the kind of performance moon put up over the weekend having this surprise second summit begins on the end and being credit it weighs salvaging these peace or dialogue process people do think that it wouldn't be out of place if you were to actually join these two leaders of countries well what was really interesting to see coming out in the statement moon gave to the press sunday morning about the son he had given don't was that he actually emphasized just hamas mistrust of korea has the united states is especially when it comes to the guarantee of age and security so it is seems that south korea's rule to las concerns to the united states and to an extent north k

a senior north korean official heads to new york ahead of a planned summit between kim jong il and now donald trump. and as greece's financial aid program nears its sad workers from its energy sector angry over more reforms. hello we've got the usual rash of showers across southeast asia some big ones there into thailand over one hundred millimeters of rain here twenty four hours in those big dam pose will continue to trundle away from aced to west so more storms gathering together southern parts of the mill a potential northern areas of sumatra seeing some bigger lively downpours not wall to wall downpours but still plenty of heavy showers in the heat of the day lots of sunshine ahead of fact they go as you go on into thursday more of those heavy showers through much of the philippines down into malaysia indonesia on the other hand does look like is drying out quite nicely over the next couple of days jakarta

jong il and and about the treatment of the state department by u.s. president trying. he got global recognition and regard he's the big winner and we got this letter from the president saying ok never mind he must be having a giggle fit right there now and north korea and telling young it's unfortunate because as you say you want to be optimistic and be hopeful that something can come of something but it can't come of something if it's built on just saying i know everything i don't need defense i don't need state department knowledge of the subjects let's let's deplete the state department let's do this then the other thing is really a very sad thing. so harsh words there what does all of this tell us about the credibility of the white house is trying to nail more unpredictable the middle. of a policy statement points to a lot of democrats and critics think which is essentially that north korea has taken the united states for a right here that kim jong un was able to secure what would have been a historic meeting between a sitting u.s. president and h

president to promptly cancels a planned summit with the north's leader kim jong il and we'll ask who can now pick up the diplomatic ball after trump's dramatic u. turn. also coming up for years he ruled hollywood but today harvey weinstein faces arrest in new york the disgraced movie mogul is expected to surrender to police after an avalanche of accusations of sexual assault and rape. and voting is underway in arlin's historic abortion referendum but mainly catholic nation has one of the strictest abortion laws in europe a close result is expected. hello i'm terry martin thanks for tuning in north korea says it will start talks with still wants talks rather with the united states insisting that it's open to them it any time this after u.s. president all trump abruptly canceled a highly anticipated summit with north korea's leader kim jong il and in a message to kim president trump blamed his decision on quote open hostility from pyongyang south korea has expressed regret that the summit is not going ahead. donald trump's letter that puts a plan summit with north korea on ice the u.s.

jong il but he did have a meeting with kim jong il and the meeting went well. that's a very good step step in the right direction but we know that between now and the time when this deal is concluded there's a hundred ways that occur blow up every day we know pompei as history and that would not make us optimistic that is going to be a moderating force pump ayos hawkish statements over many years. his openly brandishing his ideas about american exceptionalism. reinforced donald trump's america first policy this idea of make america great again that's not the message that the world wants. exclusive video from yemen now as r.t. has spoken to the groom who survived a saudi led as strike that hit his wedding party at the end of april the attack left over a dozen of his friends and family dead. at the moment of the bombardment the rocket landed and the whole world turned red and i felt that i was turning in the many were killed most struck you know. there was some victims who were tune in home others were injured in the stomach head neck hands or links my cousin and

officials regarding a possible summit between kim jong il trump. well japan's prime minister shinzo says he'll also be meeting trump before any summit goes ahead in singapore the two also spoke on the phone about japanese citizens being held by north korea. the abduction victims today and have conveyed the feelings to u.s. president donald trump and discussed how important it is to resolve this issue also we agreed to have a japan u.s. summit before the u.s. north korea summit colombia's military says it's killed eleven dissident members of the former rebel group in the country's south the defense minister says they had been threatening politicians entrepreneurs and civilians in the region the operation comes a day after the first round of colombia's presidential election government's peace deal with the fark has been one of the main issues. those are the headlines on al-jazeera earthrise is coming up next stay with us. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. to how you take al-jazeera and we'll bring in th

i have had the chance to meet chairman kim jong il twice and now. commune troll three times have spent a great deal of time with each of them. i believe they are contemplating a path forward they can make a strategic shift one that their country has not been prepared to make before. this will obviously be their decision the have to make that they'll have to choose as i just spoke about the have to choose a path that is fundamentally different than the one that their country has proceeded on for decades it should not be to any one surprise that there will be moments along the way that this won't be straight forward that they'll be things that look hard and times it appears there's a road block and sometimes part perhaps even perceived as insurmountable. our mission is incredibly clear it is to continue to push for the president directly to push forward to test the proposition that we can achieve that outcome so i know everyone is following this minute by minute hour by hour this is going to be a process that will take days and weeks to work our way t

and we knew very little about kim jong-il. there was one thing that we did know and i take-- dennis rodman was all my fault because we did know that they liked basketball and that kim jong-il liked michael jordan. so i took offer a basketball autograph of michael jordan and that was-- >> the idea, madam secretary carrying in a diplomatic pouch this basketball photo is great. but-- >> did you brief dennis rodman? >> no, never-- but i do think that what is interesting is how smart and informed kim jong-il was. we had a lot of kind of back and forth about basketball, but then basically he was in-- he technically knew an awful lot of things. we were actually talking about missile limits at the time. he did not consult his experts. he really was able to talk about various aspects of the programs, and he spent a lot of time on it. it was very interesting. he also could be very gracious, i mean, it was all kind of dinners and all kinds of things, but i think that he was determined to make some progress. the problem was that it was--

president donald trump has canceled his planned summit next month with north korea's kim jong il one of the. u.s. president has accused north korea's leader of quote open hostility and anger and the move comes despite goodwill gestures from pyongyang including dismantling a nuclear test site let's get the very latest on the story now we have our correspondent michelle standing by for us in washington hi michelle tell us exactly what donald trump has been saying well he he published a letter today that basically said that president trump would cancel the summit with with north korea because of well basically the tone and the anger that was expressed by north korean officials just yesterday the north korean official that against vice president pence. who again mentioned the libya model less of as a possible model for for north korea's denuclearization and and that probably has angered the white house and president trump and so he has said he went to went out of his way to to publicly release a letter that said that he would cancel a summit but it's also important to note that he also e

the unauthorized autobiography of kim jong-il, michael malice, here today, the father of kim jong un, the former leader of north korea, a big moment. how big a success story is this? >> some people remember 1980, ronald reagan was sworn in and hostages were freed. the fact the last time -- this is a big win for us. donald trump did not give any concessions. and kim jong un sultan easily. >> how is this different? >> north korea had a reporter, president clinton had the famous photo, looking like a hostage himself. had to be obsequious. and if kim jong-il and is willing to leave the country and meet donald trump on neutral soil is a change. rob: there are bragging rights for kim jong un. having the president of the united states considering you, a small little hermit kingdom. >> it is an accomplishment for them. the concept of truth is great, the fact that donald trump didn't have a meeting, that is how they operate. also to concessions without the meetings having been held. digging in their heels, and the japanese run up the issue. and in the middle of having the negotiation. this is

jong-il and -- kim jong-un on june 12. he talked about the trump administration's strategy toward iran and filling senior administration level positions. this was 15 minutes. >> how are you today? i brought in a special guest with me today, mike pompeo, who is going to give you a quick briefing out of his meetings with the white house today. some of you may have questions following on the secretary's iran speech. he has a few minutes to take over your questions, then i will handle the rest of the briefing. secretary pompey -- secretary pompeo, welcome. glad to have you here. secretary pompeo: good evening everyone. it has been one month since i have been here. i made a handful of commitments at the beginning, not the least of which was i would put the team back on the field. we have taken steps in working toward that. there remains a great deal of work to do. you should know i am committed to that. we will get there. we have listed the hiring freeze. than the mosther talented people including family members. we have made s

jong il has died so as to whether his country can trust washington take a closer look. what. this is a good deal for the united states north korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program south korea and our other allies will be better protected the entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons the deal did sound good but it collapsed a few years later the u.s. promised north korea two nuclear reactors five hundred thousand tons of fuel year and a lifting of sanctions but it didn't deliver fast forward to two thousand and eighteen you know there's a chance that it'll work out there's a chance it's a very substantial chance that it will work out i think it will be very successful but as i always say who knows you know i often say who knows who knows how it all works maybe. perhaps the u.s. sees the status quo of seeing north korea as the ultimate threat as being something beneficial south korea is spending billions of dollars making bases and paying u.s. troops essentially to be there so ostensibly to protect against. the north now that be

between kim jong il and president trump. spanish m.p.'s are debating a no confidence motion against the prime minister mariano rajoy after twenty nine people linked to his ruling people's party would jail for corruption the main opposition socialist party is leading the charge to remove rouhani from office it says he's lost credibility a cool drooled that former peoples party officials took bribes to fund election campaigns and exchange for lucrative public contracts un agencies a meeting in jordan to discuss the plight of millions of syrians caught up in the world's largest refugee crisis seven years of war has forced five and a half million people to flee the country seven million are internally displaced six hundred thousand children are missing school. rare madrid caged in a day in sudan has quit the european champions after winning a third straight champions league title the frenchman called a surprise news conference earlier ending a three year career with the spanish club he said it felt like the right time to make a

jong-il on june 12. he talked about the trump administration's i strategy toward iran and filling senior administration level divisions. this was 15 minutes. -- level positions. >> how are you today? i brought in a special guest with me today, mike pompeo, who is going to give you a qui

and kim il-sung, kim jong-il had very different kinds of experiences. the current leader was a child of privilege. he grew up and everything was given to him. everybody respected him. >> right. >> he had no qualms a year or two after taking power of executing his uncle. these are not the kind of -- this does not reflect the kind of behavior of a person who wants to get along with other people. this suggests the person who is used to getting his own way and if he doesn't get his own way, he throws a tantrum. now, it may be that he's reached the point where he can s say, i can't throw a tantrum, maybe he's learned that he can't get everything with a tantrum and he's got to use more positive means to try to effect the change that he wants, ie, economic development and lifting sanctions in order to be able to move forward. i'm -- he is a different person than his father and his grandfather, but to say that that's positive, i'm not sure that we're there yet. >> i see. doctor. >> i'm not sure, so, i think that there-- i think there are things about kim jong-u

jong il kim jong il on out it. into the sunshine and has an open and shone in the pot through it to global integration and as well as not science reconciliation. in the south korean progressive government has the lead this process for reconsideration which has dramatically altered the dynamics on the on the korean peninsula of course the olympics also have helped and therefore it is north and south they extend that they leave the process that they would have dragged the other parties along including the united states and credit allies with the peninsula parties ok john let me go to you more or less the same question here because the dynamic changes considerably if there is a peace between the two koreas after sixty eight years they start coming to some kind of defense and security measures that both can accept then regime change as it were that we hear so many people talking about in in the washington foreign policy blob that kind of is taken off the table because that would not be in south korea's interests go ahe

president and north korea's leader but now concerns are growing in washington that kim jong il and might ditch the meeting planned for june twelfth in singapore trump was still cautiously optimistic as he welcomed south korean president. their talks focused on efforts to convince john young to denuclearize and accept a lasting peace despite aggressive signals from the north korean capital. kim reiterated his unwillingness to completely dismantle north korea's nuclear program saying he needed to guarantee his political longevity well we're moving on and we'll see what happens there are certain conditions that we want and i think we'll get those conditions and if we don't we don't have the meeting and frankly it has a chance to be a great great meeting for north korea and a great meeting for the world. if it doesn't happen maybe it will happen later maybe it will happen it is different. if the summit is canceled the memorial coin depicting trump and kim which is already been minted may be obsolete before it's even been released. over the next few days several foreign journalists who've bee

jong il but in his latest tweet us presidents of the talks could still take place on june the twelfth in singapore and to thomas joining us from seoul so this summit was a surprise to the local media as well andrew. a complete surprise and the latest twist in this roller coaster of news that we've had over the last forty eight hours it was under forty eight hours ago in fact that donald trump canceled the summit but the moves in washington and in seoul since have seemed to be a bit more positive the summit could yet be salvaged but this is the biggest step forward by some measure along that road this is the second summit between kim jong il and president moon the first of course on april the twenty seventh but that was a very public affair everybody knew about the advance the t.v. cameras were there to capture the historic moment in contrast this one that's happened saturday afternoon on the korean peninsula time took place without any fanfare obviously showed you a lot of the last moments and no reporters knew about it in advance and so we just got this statement as you say under an

the three men are kim jong il tony kim and kim hawke song all are americans who were imprisoned in north korea for between one and two years for quote anti-state activities the charges are widely seen as bogus. secretary of state mike pompei i made a thirteen hour visit to the hermit kingdom to arrange the planned summit between trump and came down on us in the process pump air also secured the men's release so the country is new torrijos for its harsh labor camps. were ready to go we were treated in many different ways. for me i had to do a lot of labor. in. the world but when i got sick i was also treated by them you know if i want to go to. trump seems to think this is a sure sign that kim is ready to reconcile he even thanks the north korean leader for freeing the men but kim is every bit as unpredictable as his american counterpart and it's unclear if today show peacemaking will lead to actual peace. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world attackers knife with guns and knives struck a mosque and there's the south african city of durban on thur

seoul that president moon is very keen to be in a room with donald trump and kim jong il at the same time probably not that first boy lateral big summit meeting if it happens on the twelfth of june but possibly even the hours afterward still in singapore so he's very keen to be there as well and now we hear that the singaporean prime minister after all the two are probably going to me or in his country he wants to talk about the whole drama and kim jong un in advance so all eyes are definitely still on singapore june the twelfth if it goes ahead and it's looking increasingly likely that it will and thank you very much for that for now that is andrew thomas with the very latest joining us live from seoul thank you. but to italy now where the president has appointed enter and prime minister to head a technocrat government carlo com to really a former i.m.f. official has been tasked with the job as appointment comes after the president's veto devalued efforts by two populist parties to form a coalition government john holl has more. political convulsions in italy beat the new prime mini

jong il in trump previously suggested the meeting could take place in the demilitarized zone where kim and south korea's president held their historic summit last week christopher hill is a former u.s. ambassador to south korea and lead the u.s. delegation at the six party talks on the north korean nuclear issue and he says the location is just one of the many questions surrounding the summit. i would not focus too much on the venue i would focus on the fact that this is the first time you have a u.s. president meeting a north korean leader and the question is do they really know what they're going to talk about much less do they know what they're going to agree on normally in a high stakes summit like this you have a pretty clear understanding before the summit begins as to what the outcome is so far if there is such an understanding we're not privy to it the first thing they need to do is understand whether the north koreans are ready to give up their nuclear program there have been at some hints that john hunt is prepared to discuss giving up that in their program but that is not ve

jong un and all the talk around the possible summit between donald trump and kim jong il and you got the feeling that this was about the japanese prime minister laying out japan's wishes what they need to see from this process going forward and in terms of the tripartite relationship when do you get the sense where you are that what donald trump's announce what ten hours ago on the iran nuclear deal colors their relationship and how they look in the on the north korean nuclear issue. well there was certainly no discussion of that or at least not publicly when the three leaders made their statements as i say the japanese prime minister was really the only one who spoke in specifics about the nuclear issue in north korea and his desire to see the korean peninsula fully denuclearized but the it was a feeling that the three need to be unified in their stance when it comes to the korean peninsula and also when it comes to trade and that sits them apart from the united states as well peter of course we've had the america first policy of the u.s. president donald trump and that goes against

jong il. but israel's defense minister says has been the trees destroyed nearly all iranian military installations inside syria i think all lieberman says it's in response to iranian rockets fired at israeli positions in the occupied golan heights more on that story now from harry forces who is in israel the pied golan heights. literals military says twenty rockets were fired from inside syrian territory here towards the occupied golan heights and israeli targets here it says that four of those rockets were intercepted by israel and the other sixteen fell inside syrian territory nonetheless the response from israel was overwhelming and very different from the kind of strikes that israel's been carried out carrying out so far in syria during the course of the civil war it says dozens of iranian targets were struck in israel it says that it hit almost all of iran's infrastructure within israel the israeli military today saying that if iran wants to rebuild that infrastructure it will be a long p

jong il and north korea also announced that it would be stopping its missile and nuclear tests more recently following the intercalary and summit it said that it would invite international journalists and experts to view its nuclear test site that it says it is shutting down and even realigned its time zones so that it would once again match the time zone here in seoul three years ago pyongyang said its clocks back by half an hour at the time it said that it was changing the clocks because that time had been imposed by japan when korea as a whole was a japanese colony n.p.l. myung wanted to have its own time zone but after the success of the into korean summit north korea decided to realign the time with seoul so these are a number of apparent concessions that north korea appears to be making as it moves towards the summit of course north korea has long wanted a sit down with a sitting u.s. president to elevate the leader to the status that frankly kim jong un seems to be having at the moment as you see him having these meetings with the likes of chinese president xi jinping so in t

jong il either. analysts say china's president who met kim jong un in late march wants to ensure that the chinese aren't left out of future talks that could possibly include the united states and i want to make sure that in any war on these questions china will have this here seat and that negotiating table it is hard to believe that china won't play a role in any future discussions it is in theory at least the only ally that north korea has and china was also a signatory to the one nine hundred fifty three armistice that ended hostilities on the korean peninsula but not the state of war that still exists between the two koreas adrian brown al jazeera in beijing. military spending is on the rise across the world according to a new report from sweden the russia is backing the trend with its expenditure falling for the first time in almost ten years the u.s. remains the world's top spender is expected to fork out even more the share are on a hot reports. two hundred and thirty dollars that's the amount

jong-il -- kim jong-un. >> good morning, everyone. how are you doing? jim.ted to, my name is asak foundation usa -- peace foundation usa. we talk about u.s. japan security relations. is deepeningam ties, while confronting new challenges. we hope today will be a wonderful opportunity to assess the state of the security alliance, but also look at challenges we face in the future and assess how we might continue to strengthen our security alliance. before i introduce our keynote speaker, i wanted to recognize three special guests. peacee sasakawa foundation chairman. [applause] also from tokyo, sasakawa peace president and executive director. [applause] also, i wanted to recognize former secretary of agriculture, who did a wonderful job promoting congressional exchanges. i believe somewhere in the audience, too finally before we start. [applause] i did want to mention for those of you tweeting, we have a twitter handle #usandsecurities. we hope you will use that if you are tweeting about today's event. i would like to introduce our speci

jong il. absolutely important development this these negotiate going on in new york that started at a dinner here in new york on wednesday night in the continuing now on thursday or not the end of it is going to continue now to washington d.c. with that direct delivery of. from the north korean leader to the u.s. president the talks going on behind me are actually taking place in the residence that is normally used by the deputy ambassador to the united nations there isn't anyone actually in that job at the moment so using it as a secure location they keeping us the reporters while away the state department. their diplomats telling us perry little very little details of what's going on very careful not to give out too much information i have to say even eighteen months almost eighteen months in the trunk administration never ceases to surprise me because despite all our diplomatic efforts president trump in the white house is giving us a running commentary. i think it'll be very positive i thi

jong-il -- kim jong-un. >> good morning, everyone. how are you doing? jim.ted to, my name is asak foundation

announcement of a summit with north korean leader kim jong-il and, moving -- kim jong-un, moving the embassy is proof of his desire change u.s. positions across international state. >> joining me now is james. he has done a documentary for france 24 called stateless in palestine. in the west bank, it seems there is little mobilization compared to what we're seeing in gaza. what is behind this lack of engagement? >> i was in the west bank. rates --hen the march the march started in gaza. there were a few demonstrations. ramallah. there were bailey at 100 people. when u.s. people -- there were barely 100 people. when you ask people why it is there is no mobilization in the west bank because political leadership are not calling for the mobilization. the government is very weak. president abbas is 82. he has been in power for a long time. a lot of people are saying we need fresh elections and fresh government. they are also saying they believe less and less in a two state solution. this is one of the big issues. the united states recognizing israel, sorry, jerusalem as the capital of isr

jong il just in the last month while we still don't know what the united states is expected i believe that the summit itself is not really necessary in the twenty first century when two leaders really want to talk or they can pick up the phone or teleconferencing would help them to iron out their disagreements and the meeting could simply consumate the ultimate agreement on the peace treaty on the korean peninsula for example or complete the nuclearization complete very five will irreversible denuclearization of north korea but again there's a disagreement between pyongyang and washington where americans want the nuclearization happen instantly while north koreans say it should be a phased approach where step by step to freeze for a freeze should ultimately lead to the nuclearization off of the north of the whole korean peninsula because it's not just north koreans but also the american troops going in the middle of minutes to arrive in south korea and then the nuclear conflict would be unavoidable how this is what war is china and russia japan of course as really concerned about pote

donald trump abruptly canceled his meeting with north korean leader kim jong-il. -- kim jong-un. >> many papers are try to analyze this decision. we have seen breakup rhetoric. one paper said a week ago, an advance team from the white house went to singapore to meet with the north korean delegation, but they waited for three days and the north koreans never showed up. and when u.s. officials tried to call them, the north koreans did not return the phone calls. a classic case of ghosting. there are suggestions of them may have been another man in the picture, so to speak, and that is chinese president xi jinping. they pinpoint the meeting with xi as the moment his attitude started to change towards donald trump. things really were not the same anymore, and it is some thing that donald trump has commented on. thisme papers are seeing as a failure on the part of donald trump himself. >> a left-wing american website is calling it the art of the fail, taking on the title of trump's book. they say he handed north korea a win. "the new york times," surprisingly, is coming to donald trump's defe

jong il but mr trump did not clarify where or when the summit would be held to know details coming from the white house it comes just after that historic summit between the north and south korean leaders two weeks ago ten days ago when kim pledged to d. nuclearize his part of the korean peninsula more on that for you just as soon as we can. the nobel prize for literature will not be awarded this year the swedish academy has been in crisis over its handling of rape and sexual assault allegations linked to one of its high ranking members catchier lopez has more. it's a scandal that's left the swedish academy in turmoil and the nobel prize for literature on hold at least for now the academy decided this year's winner will be selected and announced in two thousand and nineteen. the confidence in the academy is so low in the world at the moment and that is the deciding reason why we now were framed from awarding this prize eighteen women say they were raped assaulted or harassed by famous photographer john clarke not he's the husband of academy member and poet caterina frost and sun the wome

of the groundwork for the upcoming summit between trump and kim jong il. the u.s. could reimpose sanctions on iran as early as next week that follows president donald trump's withdrawal from the lombok international deal with the islamic republic to limit its nuclear capabilities his move has been widely criticized from london to tell from where as in bush has this report. god the day after the united states tore up the nuclear deal iran set it on fire members of parliament into one burned a printout of the international pact and the american flag a show of anger and disappointment over what they say is a mistake by washington i doubt all right all you more him miss nettled if europe an important countries like russia and china fill this international vacuum perhaps that will be a way to continue otherwise the islamic republic of iran will bring the us to its senses with its nuclear actions they have to know that under such circumstances iran has no commitment to remain in the nuclear position it was in before the iranians woke up to headlines that highlig

shortly after it emerged that kim jong il and president from were going to hold face to face talks talks that are due to happen sometime in late may or early june so there is now a flurry of diplomatic activity and china doesn't want to be on the sidelines i think it is talks in pyongyang the chinese foreign minister is going to be pushing the idea of china being involved in four party talks involving the united states china as well as leaders of the two koreas and of course next week in tokyo we will have talks involving the japanese prime minister the south korean president as well as china's premier league a chunk. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back the french president takes office australia talk around trade and china high on the agenda plus. saddam seekers in the so-called migrant caravan remain hopeful as they wait patiently on the u.s. border proposing more in the state of. how i was still plenty of hot weather into eastern parts of europe but elsewhere the temperature is starting to fall away now a lot of cloud spinning into that western side still weste

president has just told a cabinet meeting details of a historic summit with north korea's kim jong il will be revealed within three days but he has said the meeting will not be held inside the demilitarized zone between the north and the south and this just hours after three u.s. citizens imprisoned in north korea were freed they are now heading back home in a move seen as a goodwill gesture ahead of the summit kathy novak has more now from seoul. the release of the americans is another sign of the thawing relationship between pyongyang and washington and improves the climate for the proposed summit between donald trump and kim jong un the us president has pushed the case for months saying there's been constant pressure likewise fighting very diligently to get the three american citizens back reports that the three had been moved from a labor camp to a hotel in the capital was followed closely in south korea there they received better food and medical treatment this is what we know about the three men kim jong il is a south korean born u.s. citizen who worked as a religious minister i

what now for north korea donald trump canceled much awaited talks with kim jong il and. their ability now to change its mind sometime in the future to what happens to the world's nuclear weapons now this is inside story. and welcome to the program on this of pran i'm shocking perplexing and unexpected just some of the reactions to donald trump canceling his highly anticipated summit with ken jiang on and singapore next month the north said trump's decision was extremely regrettable a sentiment echoed worldwide as a missed opportunity for peace the u.s. president called it a sad moment of history and the white house blamed north korea's trade of broken promises in a letter to kim trump said sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel it's an appropriate at this time to have this long planned meeting you talk about your nuclear capabilities but our the so massive and powerful that i pray to god they'll never have to be used to spot trump surprise announcement north korea has not given up hope that talks will eventua