the world's number one in men's tennis. novak joke of each. the demonstration is led by his father, who says australia is playing politics with his sons career. after they got that call in, they want to throw him on his knees. this won't happen. they never managed to throw sir, be on its knees. we never attacked any one we only defended ourselves. and novak is defending himself now. brothers and sisters, our heart are so i'll find some awful said brian early. this is the moment when jock of each is about to realize his entry into australia is blocked, his visa revoked. it isn't a tennis court, he's going to instead, he's waiting for a court hearing on monday that will rule on his deportation. for now he's in a government quarantine hotel. his mother is outraged. they are keeping him, is it really is just not very human. i just called if you will be john, as we actually love to, to, to be a joke of each had a medical exemption to let him play at the australian open tournament later this month. otherwise, the tournament is only open to the fully

a novak is defending himself, now brothers and sisters, our heart, our soul. i'll find some awful said brian early. this is the moment when jock of each is about to realize his entry into australia is blocked, his visa revoked. it isn't a tennis court, he's going to instead, he's waiting for a court hearing on monday that will ruin his deportation. for now, he's in a government quarantine hotel. his mother is outraged. they are keeping him as a president. he's just not very human. i just called if you will be don as we are trying to do to be a joke of each had a medical exemption to let him play at the australian open tournament later this month. otherwise, the tournament is only open to the fully vaccinated exemption caused a wave of anger among australians who still faced some of the toughest travel restrictions in the world joker, which is well known as being against vaccinations. another big name in the sport lead joker, which has himself to play in some way. i, i feel sorry for him. but at the same time, he know he knew the conditions sings or a lot of mo

as for tennis, says novak jokers, which are arguing his case for entry into australia, official say con, get in because he's not vaccinated against coven. 19 by duke of it says his recent recovery from the virus exempts him from having to get the job. he was denied entry and detained when he landed in logan last week. those are the headlines. news continues here on out a 0 after the bottom line. and you can catch up on our desert or come oh hi, i'm steve clements and i have a question a year after the riots congress just how fragile is democracy and the peaceful transition a power in the united states. let's get to the bottom line. ah, one year ago, hundreds of followers, a former president, donald trump attack the united states capital with the singular mission. it was to overturn the results of the 2020 election. how they thought the best way was to prevent members of congress from assembling on january 6th, 2021. to formalize jo biden's victory. the mob had been egged on by trump earlier in the day to quote save america because the election had been stolen. this idea still has a grip

let's not forget that, issued novak john of it with a visa, allowed him to board a plane. and then when he arrived here during that time, really the talk which was in the air, there was a change in the attitude from the state and federal government. and it was a hostile reception. the job of it's got when he arrived here. the federal court ruling has been welcomed by the government. a strategy has some of the toughest border restrictions in the world. and more than 90 percent of its adult population has been fully vaccinated is try and open will now go ahead on monday without the world's number one tennis player sarah clock out to 0 brisbin australia. there's been a strong reaction to that ruling in joker, which is native serbia. the president said australia had humiliated itself. it was very easy for us read and authorize it is to say from the very beginning that okay, only vaccinated on inoculated people could enter australian territory. but it didn't say so. everything completely different story including this medical exemptions. and after that, they forgot about it and

well, number one, tennis don novak joke of ich still waiting to be to port it from australia, off to his visa was revoked. over corona virus roles and french politicians get one step, place it to making it much harder unvaccinated citizens to live a normal life public. ah, police and catholics dawns largest city say they've killed dozens of rices in the last 24 hours as purchase over a fuel price hike descend into chaos. on thursday there was more gum fi in our marty where the main square saw fees battles between police and demonstrations. a day earlier protested set fire to government buildings and at least 18 security personnel have lost their lives. regional players stepping in to help contain the violence, a rush and lead military alliance as deployed troops at the president's request, and the un is urging restraint. we've seen the press reports, it's hard for us to to confirm them. but what is, what is clear is that all demonstrations or need to be peaceful, people have a right to express the grievances, it needs to be done peacefully and security forces need to protect that rig

the vaccine that the government has ordered for us with many people, including myself don't wants to novak vaccine, but the government keeps ordering more. reassuring was from a senior health official have little impact leaked memo, shows that the government is keen to defend signed a vax effectiveness. despite the doctor's concerns with health officials unwilling to push other vaccines for fear of scenting public confidence. to illustrate their concerns, the protest is poor, paint on bound, muddle corpses, and attempt to cremate them. security guards quickly, step in sign of ac was the 1st bank seem to be released. and thailand was quickly distributed to frontline medical workers, most of whom have now had 2 doses. but as the new cobit delta varian spread, some found they weren't protected. here there were 5 medical staff infected with k with 19 and 2 were admitted to the i see you. others are concerned by a lack of information about sign fax results. well, load test groups show the vaccine works. why the studies have been hard to find. if the problem about the transparency of the report,

defending champion novak djokovic plays his 3rd round match later he's facing criticism in serbia for inviting go on even to join his coaching team at wimbledon serbian tabloids are calling it a scandalous partnership nationalist sentiments still run high since the 1990 s. war dusan nick which has more from belgrade. the community former n.b.a. player from serbia told nobody joke of each always was to support growth croatian sports sportsmen and sportswomen and when he does that to death that is a obviously something which is bad for the people who were serbs or who were in that war so the tabloids in serbia started to criticize novak djokovic should because if you are going to name an issue since you saw 4 of this year's wimbledon the tournaments that all the breaks so much even that the serbian president aleksander out of which are the press conference regarding some other matters have to answer the questions of journalists a ball of debt issuance you told to the media doesn't always work or is the brave young men and that he is building bridges between people even between people wh

pretty hard to swallow and the epic final took place on center court of novak djokovic speed roger federer so we need 5th wimbledon title the match lost to just 5 minutes short of 5 hours loren smith reports with the tennis giants meeting in the final roger federer a new refused to make it 21 grand slam titles he'd have to achieve something he's never done in the previous 20 beats rafael nadal and novak djokovic the 1st set was a sign of things to come tight all the way eventually going to the world number one i. it sparks federer into life he responded dropping just one game in the 2nd was with joke of each would reestablish easily but federal wasn't forcing the match into a deciding set with it was getting tense federer spurned too much points his joke of it showed his fighting spirit with the deciding set tie break would decide a classic final was a joke of each taking the title of his 1st at the all england club with grand slam number 16 and counting laurence smith al-jazeera. it was probably the most demanding mentally was demanding match i was ever part of. most physically demanding

are men's tennis played there wimbledon quarter final matches later today 1st stop defending champion novak djokovic followed by roger federer and then 2 time champion rafa nadal on choose a serena williams reached the wimbledon semifinals she beat fellow american alison grosse the 37 year old is going for her 24th a grand slam title one in 3 sets at this time now it has been fined 10 $1000.00 for damaging a quarter to join a practice session. here it is through american and. i got word that we got the damage that was 10000 mean because i mean if you could tell me i would appreciate it sir. next up for williams is a last 4 match against barbara strike over at 33 the child player had a career high victory over britain's joanna kwan talent sarcoma winning this match 766-132-0461 slam saying. i don't have fear i i just will go there thursday and i will try to play a my game of course i don't have such a power like siri now but i have another weapons and i will try to use them as much as i can and i will. enjoy i have really at this point nothing to lose some are how big is the highest seed lef

but ultimately i have no interest in speaking about novak's medical history. the chief of the us capital police says this forces made significant changes since writers stormed the congress. last year. j thomas manger was testifying in front of the senate committee investigating police actions during the incident. on january 6th, 5 people were killed. one supporters of the former president donald trump attacked the government building in a bid to derail president joe biden's election when a congressional report found multiple intelligence failures, as well as a lack of proper equipment and training for capital officers. events of january 6th did expose critical departmental failures and deficiencies with operational planning, intelligence, staffing, training, and equipment. i'm pleased to report that we have addressed a significant portion of the many recommendations issue to the department. in fact, of the more on 100 recommendations issued by the inspector general, we have implemented and are addressing over 90 of them. and john henry joins us live now from w

we can talk now to kathy novak our correspondent who's in seoul the south korean capital and kathy it seems very much to say the south koreans are very welcoming of what has transpired in beijing of the past couple of days. yes i would say the government does see this as a positive development of course president had always pushed a policy of more engagement and dialogue with north korea he is preparing for his own summit meeting with kim jong un next month in fact there is an intercom rian high level meeting tomorrow thursday to discuss those preparations and the presidential blue house spokesman has said that the situation has developed beyond their expectations and they have to monitor developments closely with all possibilities in mind as things move forward because there are a lot of things going on in the next couple weeks and months here on the korean peninsula they're expecting a briefing the south korean officials that is are expecting a briefing from china's top diplomat on thursday following this high level meeting between xi jinping and kim jong un there's also an art trou

well, novak joke of is through to the final of the french open. well, number one that pulled off, one of the biggest wins of his career against 13 time on golf champion rough on the se malik has more roughly on the down. this is no joke of which is a match up that rarely failed to deliver. and there be a show down friday's french open semi final was no different nador looking for 14th parents. title, look sharp, early on, and race to a 5 love lead on route taking the 1st set, the 3 but do york of which wasn't about to fold. sure, he don't. he beat in the spanish one from a previous attempt, the roland girls. but he produced some magical shots as he leveled things one set all the much really cool fire. and 3 fans in attendance retreated to one of the rallies of the tournament on a night that they were allowed to stay until the conclusion, despite and 11 pm curfew. in the french capital and while both players were giving everything, it was clear that momentum was shifting in one direction which would get the better of his opponent in the tiebreaker

the parents of world number one tennis player, novak joke of, ich have lashed out of the australian government's refusal to allow him into the country jock of inches in detention in australia, where his chances of playing at the australian open now depends on a court decision. the car containing 10 bodies has been left outside the office of a mexican state. governor police made the discovery after reports of a suspicious vehicle in the area, turf wars between rival gangs of maids. i could take a state, one of the most violent areas of mexico is the headlights of these continues here on al jazeera after al 0 world next. ah. ready ready ah oh oh oh ah ah ah, yes i'm how to let's even on on a blog post the is i did it to la garza who had the blue ticket more than isa media assistant for lucy. ah, in the above. is it blue? some say it over to you as us do phoebe vehicle. leah block. talk to or call us to mac, our toyota. ah ah ah no. the bees, the logs he provided with the name of buses from the name is nika in a one. a garza who sort of did we, him all oh good alma woodside. arouse with god said i

few countries that is vaccinating children as young as 6 in this case with the chinese vaccine c . novak would your husband use fairly widely on youngsters in china. however, there is another country that's taking this a step further, which is cuba. earlier this month, it began vaccinating children as of the age of 2 with the sovereign to vaccine, which is made in cuba. it has not been approved by the world health organization at least yet. but health authorities, there is this that it is highly effective. here in chile, the government is also carrying out 3rd states clinical trials to see if children of even newborns can start to receive vaccines against coven. 19 very soon the governor of the us state of california has seen, often attempt to remove him from office. the republican party lead push against democratic gavin newsome most the have to do with his handling of the cove at pandemic. reynolds has moved from beverly hills outside los angeles. good evening, california democratic governor gavin newsom handily shut down a recall effort tuesday. he will serve out the rest of his term,

fines it was found guilty on sixteen of eighteen charges of abuse of power bribery and coercion at the novak has more from seoul. this is a scandal that has gripped south korea since twenty sixteen and the nation watched the climax live on television but pock in haiti boycotted the trial and wasn't in court to learn her fate but the court sentences the defendant puck and head to twenty four years in prison and fines her sixteen point eight million u.s. dollars. park was found guilty of sixteen of the eighteen charges including abuse of power coercion and of bribery and said to have taken millions of dollars from the country's biggest conglomerates in exchange for favors the corruption scandal sparked months of protests in central seoul culminating in parks impeachment was also found guilty of leaking sensitive information to her long time friend to soon she'll as president park allowed to dictate policy even though she had no official government role the pair was found to have conspired to extort millions of dollars from major companies including samsung in february chair was sentenced to tw

defector remains in a south korean hospital with gunshot wounds after the incident last week is kathy novak. extraordinary video of a soldier risking his life to escape from north korea at around three in the afternoon he's seen driving a truck past a checkpoint on the north korean side of the demilitarized zone or d.m.z. on the heavily fortified border fellow soldiers are shown running after the truck which becomes stuck the defector then gets out and runs towards the border known as the military do you mark ation line or n.t.l. just meters away soldiers from the k.p.a. or north korean people's army open fire hitting the defector it's thought five times one even chases him over the border before returning to the north korean side . the key findings of the special investigation team are that the k.p.a. violated the armistice agreement by one firing weapons across the m.t.l. and two by actually crossing the temporarily the defectors body is seen a line motionless on the south korean side of the border then soldiers from the joint u.s. and south korean security battalion are seen crawling tow

concrete action kathy novak reports from seoul. north korea regularly tested increasingly threatening ballistic missiles last year including weapons that could have the range to hit the united states in september it conducted its most powerful nuclear bomb test now north korea says those tests are over so it should chip pitch we will discontinue nuclear testing an intercontinental ballistic rocket test firing from april twenty fifth. the north and you could test ground at the d.p. r. k. one also be dismantled to transparently the discontinuance of the new quick test. it's welcome news for the us president who's planning to meet north korea's leader kim jong un within weeks donald trump tweeted north korea has agreed to suspend all nuclear tests and close up a major test site this is very good news for north korea and the world big progress look forward to our summit state media says kim jong un made the announcement as he chaired a meeting of the workers' party central committee a gathering to rubberstamp the supreme leader's decis

president to get rid of nuclear weapons or together kathy novak has this report from seoul. the world saw the smiles and handshakes on friday now the south korean president's office is revealing more of what was said behind closed doors at the historic summit south korea says kim jong un promised to close the pull the nuclear test center next month and invited american and south korean experts and journalists to inspect it days before the summit north korea announced it would shut down the site of all six nuclear bomb tests kim referred to speculation that test explosions had so badly damaged the site it couldn't have been used again anyway to join should only chairman kim said when they come they will see that we have to figure tunnels than the current test facilities and they are in good condition this. the willingness to allow visitors to the test center appears to be another concession before the planned summit with donald trump and the north koreans by this is the necessity. for any kind of negotiations because if they don't see that the want every inch it was cited as

he'll live to see the day when the koreas become one country and he can return to his hometown kathy novak al-jazeera camp grieves near the d.m.z. . twitter is ending is one hundred forty character limits and getting twice as much space for your tweets the social media site decided change after analyzing how much space different languages used to say the same thing the increase to two hundred eighty characters is currently an experiment but it is likely to be rolled out to all twitter users soon. cooper is pulling out of the canadian province of quebec who will stop operations next month because of new regulations the new rules require drivers to undergo thirty five hours of training and to have criminal background checks validated by the police and get back instead of third parties is calling complex government to reconsider but the promises transport minister says the new rules are not up for negotiation. fans of one of america's most famous authors can look forward to a new book one hundred seven years after mark twain died the creator of huckleberry finn and tom sawyer also wrote notes

abuse of power bribery and coercion in an influence peddling scandal that shocked the nation half a novak has more from seoul this is a scandal that has gripped south korea since twenty sixteen and the nation watched the climax live on television but park in haiti boycotted the trial and wasn't in court to learn her fate but the court sentences the defendant park and head to twenty four years in prison and fines her sixteen point eight million u.s. dollars. fark was found guilty of sixteen of the eighteen charges including abuse of power coercion and of bribery and said to have taken millions of dollars from the country's vegas conglomerates in exchange for favors the corruption scandal sparked months of protests in central seoul culminating in parks impeachment was also found guilty of leaking sensitive information to her long time friend chase and she'll as president park allowed to dictate policy even though she had no official government role the pair was found to have conspired to extort millions of dollars from major companies including samsung in february chair was sentenced to twe

for the first sancho proceedings will be broadcast live we'll go live now to our correspondent kathy novak who's outside the courthouse in seoul. hey the picture of them what is the scene kathy while martin poc and he actually tried to get an injunction against the court proceedings being broadcast live that was rejected because it was deemed it was in the national public interest for the proceedings to be broadcast just outside the gate where i am standing small groups of her supporters are gathered and no doubt many south koreans will be watching on as the verdict is read park herself has been boycotting the trial since late last year she's been refusing to turn up for the hearings so she is not expected to be in the room when the verdict is read out today judgment day for the woman who made history as south korea's first female president and then as the first leader of the country to be impeached and removed from office she was indicted on eighteen criminal charges relating to bribery and corruption the culmination of months of unprecedented protests in central sort of. public outrage h

pretty hard to swallow and the epic final took place on center court as novak djokovic speed roger federer so we need 5th wimbledon title the match lost to just 5 minutes short of 5 hours loren smith reports with tennis giants meeting in the final roger federer a new refused to make it 21 grand slam titles he'd have to achieve something he's never done in the previous 20 beats rafael nadal and novak djokovic the 1st set was a sign of things to come trite all the way eventually going to the world number one i. it sparked federer into life he responded dropping just one game in the 2nd was with joke of each would restart dish easily but federal wasn't forcing the match into a deciding set with it was getting tense federer spend too much points his joke of it showed his fighting spirit was the deciding set tie break would decide a classic final was joke of each taking the title of his 1st at the all england club with grand slam number 16 and counting laurence smith al-jazeera. it was probably the most demanding and mentally most demanding match i was ever part of. the most physically demandin

no country no economy no currency no jobs no electricity and no many other things besides no victor novak or so the population of lebanon is fed up with the system it's completely rebelling against and wants all of these people out including nostra learn how to eat in our own everybody so the relationship between heavy the and the stronger which would have been an important 110 years ago is far less significant to the hezbollah is really the only major power in the country and the counterpart force is the rebelling citizenry the millions of people who are supporting the the uprising how those 2 engage with each other i think is the ultimate determinant of where lebanon is going to move ahead and they don't have a lot of time to make that decision because the country is collapsing economically phyllis this has come at a very critical moment for the lebanese people an unprecedented political impasse and i'm presented economic crisis but ultimately political leaders will have to sit down and see all the options one of the options is a national unity government the concern is that if there is

in the southern city of marry young managed to rescue dozens of others trapped by the flames kathy novak reports now from seoul. i the fire started in the emergency ward at about seven thirty in the morning it quickly spread to other parts of said john hospital and took firefighters more than an hour to bring under control and another two hours to extinguish. all or should we stop the fire from spreading from the first floor to the second floor during the initial phase and therefore also prevent a difference spreading to the rest of the building. despite the rescue effort patients and medical staff were killed most were suffocated by inhaling toxic fumes about one hundred patients were being treated in the hospital when the blaze broke out about ninety other people in an adjacent nursing unit were safely evacuated president in ordered an investigation into the cause of the fire and that the president moving expresses regret and sadness over the situation of the fire that broke out a safe hospital which led to a high number of casualties not long after the fire in that fire in the souther

jong un mr trump says he will reveal the date and the place for the summit in the coming days kathy novak 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 u.s. president has pushed the case for months saying there's been constant pressure here 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 in his early sixty's he was detained in twenty fifteen on spying charges a year later he was sentenced to ten years hard labor at a government arranged news conference he apparently confessed to stealing military secrets while working with south korea a claim rejected by seoul two of the men have been detained since donald tru

have been conducting military drills designed to enhance combat readiness in freezing conditions kathy novak reports from czech. at first glance portions of this training drill appear to be just a lot of grown men playing in the snow the objective of this challenge to steal their opponent's hats rendering the other side even more exposed to the elements than they already were. but there is a very serious side to these games protecting against the increasing threat from north korea even in temperatures that can dip below minus twenty degrees celsius. both the u.s. marines and the rock marines have covered over the snow ability reconnaissance skills as well as critical contest skills in a cold weather mountainous environment two hundred twenty marines from the republic of korea or rock the preferred military term and two hundred twenty okinawa based u.s. marines have been conducting these drills over three weeks a chance to brush up on lesser used marine skills such as downhill skiing in. north korea often responds angrily when the u.s. and south korea stage any war games there's been speculat

then of course a potential meeting between jiang and washington in may or in early june well kathy novak joins us live now from seoul and i know there's not much information at this point kathy but what are you hearing about the decision in pyongyang about these myside a nuclear tests. yes that seems to be a major development coming out of the north korea and out of its announcement through its state media the korean central news agency take the anything that's on april twenty first which is today local time north korea will stop nuclear tests and launches an intercontinental ballistic missile and that it intends to shut down a nuclear test site inside north korea and that in the country's north to prove that it is the valley to suspend nuclear tests the humans on the run five years ago launched his signature policy which was basically a dual track to pursue both the development of the nuclear weapons program and economic policy and what it appears now is that north korea is announcing that as far as it is concerned its nuclear weapons program incomplete that is announcement that north k

will be conducting weapons arches and will be out in force to keep the beach safe let's go to kathy novak who is at the beach right now in melbourne so what's happening where you are kathy. well michel police are out in force as they have promised we've seen large groups of officers patrolling up and down the beach we've seen mounted police on horseback choppers overhead basically wanting to prevent any outbreak of violence as these groups of far right extremists have gathered one of the quotes on their web site was saying that they want to show the government that we will not stand for the cover up over african crime on the beaches the far right organizers include people who have been convicted in the past of inciting content of muslims they're generally anti immigration and more recently they seem to have turned their attention to what they see as a spike in crimes committed by a strain of african descent but on the other side there have been rallies by people who say that should welcome immigration who are here to back the african australian community and police right now are just tryi

myung bak says he hopes to be the last south korean president to face this kind of prosecution kathy novak al-jazeera saw. bruce vice president martin visit car as arrived in labor to be inaugurated as the new president is due to replace president petro public kocinski who stepped on a wednesday following corruption allegations prove his congress is still debating whether to accept the resignation people protested in lima on thursday to call for new elections and the removal of corrupt politicians twenty three british diplomats expelled from russia are on their way to the airport as the deadline for them to leave moscow approaches they were asked to leave in retaliation for the u.k.'s expulsion of the same number of russians diplomats over a spy dispute britain has accused the kremlin of being behind a nerve toxin attack on a former russian double agent and his daughter in england earlier this month of the year appear in the union has recalled its ambassador to russia e.u. leaders backed britain's assessment that russia was likely beyond the poisoning of surrogate scripts to be phillips jo

and the world let's go live now to our correspondent who's in the south korean capital seoul kathy novak and this announcement came a little over an hour ago and came as a bit of a surprise didn't it. it did it came out of meeting of the plenary session of the central committee of the workers' party which we're told by casey in a the north korean state media agency was chaired by the leader himself kim jong un and now and what appears to be a significant shift in his policy going forward about five years ago kim jong un had launched the signature policy where he had this jewel track of pursuing the nuclear weapons program of north korea and also promoting its economic development and now what he seems to be saying is that the nuclear weapons program as far as he is concerned is complete and that will allow north korea to shift the focus to war and developing the economy when north korea was launching regular pace intercontinental ballistic missiles intermediate range ballistic missiles and also testing nuclear bombs last year it seemed to indicate that north korea had no intention of eve

myung bak says he hopes to be the last south korean president to face this kind of prosecution kathy novak al jazeera saw aid workers are scrambling to protect more than half a million revenger refugees at a bangladeshi count for the upcoming monsoon weather workers that we could have are sandbagging digging trenches and relocating families before the early summer rains arrive there are expected to cause flooding and landslides in the camp refugees are living in temporary structures having fled ethnic violence in neighboring me and. it's really a race against time to try to mitigate the risks that are there and if we don't do that we'll be facing what we call an emergency with an emergency more than one hundred thousand people potentially could be impacted by heavy floods and monsoon rains which will cause landslides so there is a risk an extreme risk to them all as more and everything we're covering right here the latest top stories and of course analysis that takes you behind the headlines. but look at the top stories now u.s. president donald trump assigned new trade measures against ch

president donald trump of declaring war after days of escalating tension kathy novak reports from seoul. as he left his hotel heading out of new york north korea's foreign minister read young ho addressed reporters. last weekend trump claimed that leadership wouldn't be around much longer and hence at last he declared a war no country order given the fact this comes from someone who is currently holding the seat of the united states presidency this is clearly a declaration of war his latest comments go further than his address to the u.n. general assembly just two days earlier and he was clearly responding to president trump's tweet after that speech in which he referred to little rocket men and warned they may not be around much longer but the white house dismissed his suggestion it was a declaration of war. we've not declared war on north korea and frankly the suggestion of that is absurd real also referred to a u.s. show of force which took place just before he spoke on saturday u.s. fighter jets and b. one bombers flying close to north korea's eastern coast but still over internatio

for that we seem to be having some technical issues with kathy novak from so we'll try to get back to a little later now and nor another north korean soldier has defected to the south the fourth this year the government says he crossed the militarized zone which was covered in fake fog south korean soldiers later fired around twenty warning shots at border guards from the north last month the north korean soldier was shot by callie's as he escaped across the border in an army see one who is a political analyst and publisher of korea exposé joining us via skype from school sol thanks for joining us so i suppose the first thing south korean investigators will be trying to find out is the motivation behind this soldier's defection what are you hearing about that or perhaps any other reasons why he would have defected . well i'm sure the investigators will certainly be interested in looking into the background of this latest defection there is general consensus here that things in north korea have been difficult for quite some time and there have been many defections like these all in th

having improved diplomatic relations with north korea is now enjoying record approval ratings as kathy novak reports from seoul. monday and came to power following months of angry public protests his predecessor pocketing hay was impeached and ultimately imprisoned over a corruption scandal campaigned on a liberal platform promising change after a year in the job with an approval rating of more than eighty percent moon is the most popular president since public polling began when the country transition to democracy in the one nine hundred eighty s. polls show many south koreans even those who consider themselves conservatives like moon personally we're going to get to the two groups pulling a moon's approval rating on that people who are satisfied by his unconventional openness and the people who believe moon is doing a great job to us with enter korean relations. someone to long to an exhibition celebrating the highlights of moon's first year. long as i really like his way of openly communicating with the public in many ways especially compared to how disconnected other presidents were i ha

the truce village of panmunjom with correspondents on both sides of the demilitarized zone and kathy novak has been at the venue where the leaders will meet a first this from james based on his road trip from pyongyang to the border it takes over two hours to drive from the north korean capital pyongyang through the countryside to the d.m.z. the demilitarized zone. the road is bumpy but very quiet it's also in places extremely wide one pyongyang resident speculated to me this was so aircraft could land with reinforcements in the event of conflict once we reached the d.m.z. security was tight we were not permitted to film in certain areas our guide was a north korean army captain he showed us the layout of this front line zone this is not an international border the korean war officially never ended it was simply paused with an armistice or truce. is it possible for you to show us where the meeting on the twenty seventh will be taking place between field-marshal kim and the president of south korea. to cuba it's the peace house on the southern side so this is the first time any of your lead

later one because parents have lodged a wrongful death suit against the north korean government kathy novak al jazeera sole diplomatic editor james bays is at the u.n. headquarters in new york james do we know the state of the hostages well obviously the families will be deeply concerned given as you heard cathy mention there the case of auto warm beer a year ago who died less than a month after being released from north korean custody and they'll be relieved by the news that's coming through from the white house because it appears to be good news a statement a short time ago the three americans appeared to be in good condition and was all able to walk on the plane without assistance that is confirmed not just by the white house but by the two reporters who are traveling with secretary of state pompei o from the so seated press and the washington post one of those also reporting that the three that were released the three prisoners actually had less than an hour after their release before they were on board a plane and a free showing us i think that this was the last thing that the north ko

his north korean counterpart in the very near future they speak to our correspondent in seoul kathy novak kathy first of all north korea finally breaking its silence about the upcoming possible talks with the u.s. what are they saying. well that's right it's been about two weeks since the us president donald trump says that said that he was willing to meet the north korean leader kim jong un and now we're hearing for the first time any mention of this sort of thaw in relations in the north korean state media it didn't make direct reference to the possibility of summit meetings with either south korean president monday in or u.s. president donald trump but the state agency k c n a did say that there is a sign of change in u.s. north korean relations and it credited that change with north korea's proactive measure and dismissed any suggestion that there has been in the broader media of the possibility that these talks may be coming about because of the campaign of heavy sanctions and pressure that had been led by the united states and supported for the united nations by other countries incl