More information for your vacation plaing is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news. Bcjane this is orld news america. Reporting from washington, i am jane obrien. Is it time for the u. S. To engage with north korea . The u. S. Secretary of state and in weighnt way in on possible talks fixing the nuts and bolts of america, but who pays the bills . A bumpy road could lie ahead for President Trumps infrastructure plan. And king a spin back to the 1960s a new exhibit celebrates a decade of pop art, political change, and groovy designs. Jane welcome to our viewers on Public Television and also around the globe. The olympics are well underway on the korean peninsula, but the political gamesmanship is grabbing a lot of the attention. U. S. Vice president mike pence has opened the door to talks with pyongyang while stressing the importance of sanctions, but the u. S. Secretary of state says it is still up to norea to show sincerity. The bbcs laura bicker reports. Laura lets meet again, they sing. On the right, a kpop star, on the left, ang png pinup. Gla thenostalgice pass, which proves to emotional for the north korean head of state. This time, president moon sits c evser to kim jonguns sister. His new friends are not welcomed by all. Atese hardline conservatives burning the unifn flag protest regularly. But this time, the see say the Moon Administration is turning its back on the u. S. While befriending north korea. This, however, does not look like to World Leaders at odds. This informal chat during an olympic speedskating event appears to have pved pivotal, and now mike pence says the u. S. Will talk to north korea while still imposing sanctions. I think moon jaein is not getting enough credit. People are calling this a north korean charm offensive. It is actually a south korean charm offensive. Itt is critical te United States is clear on this, because theres only so much south korea can do on nuclear weapons. O you have remember, north korea does not feel threatened by south Koreas Nuclear weapons, because south kor has none. Laura north korea is being warned it has to discuss at some point getting rid of nuclear weapons. Secretary tillerson they know what has to be on the table for conversations. We have said for some time that i think it is important that we we are gog to have to have some discussions that proceed precede a form of negotiation. Laura the north korean guests say farewell for now. President moon must decide if hi visit pyongyang. A lot could depend on americas next move. This takes away the policy which wedge between the u. S. And south korea, meaning ty are both in agreement on how to deal with tal north. It i the first opportunity for meaningful talks to reduce tensions on the peninsula and reduce the chance of a military confrontation. Laura bicker, bbc news, pyeongchang. Jane for more on the next move between north korea and the u. S. , my cleague katty kay spoke with bill richardson, the former u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. , for her Program Beyond 100 days. Katty is the u. S. On the same page at the moment as south korea when it comes to what to do about north korea, and specifically how to handle negotiations or otherwise with pyongyang . Mr. Richardson well, were not on the same page. South korea boxed the u. S. In , by announcing a potential hemmit with north korea, by the joint efforts oflympics working together. But you have to recognize that the South Koreans are the first line of attack. 25 million in seoul if there is a north korean artillery attack or clear attack or ssile attack. So the south keans are playing their politics, and the u. S. Is kind of isolated here, but i think developments are positive. They are moving in the right direction. Instead of talking aboutli ry options and preemptive strikes and bloody nose, the administration, even though they are contradicting each other, are talking about possibly talks, preconditions of talks, no preconditions. Ri is confusing, but i think we are moving in tht auction, but im optimistic. Katty im glad you are confused, because i am, too. How did Vice President pence handle olympic diplomacy when it came to south korea . Mr. Richaron well, if i were him in his shoes, i would have just shot a glance at kim jonguns sister and smiled. T ere is diplomacy involved. Youre not supposed to ske hands or show friendship with a country that you have aggressive relations with. That is diplomacy. T buwould have done something in between. En presidobama was very good at this. At the u. N. , he would shake the hands of the venezuelans, the north koreans. He would engage the iranians. But i dont fault pence terribly. I like what he said on the airplane, that we are open to talks without preconditions. That is where the administration have been policywise a long time ago. Now, he has been contradicted a little bit, not totally, by the secretary of state. The best step forward is let there be a good summit between north and south korea, which is possible, and then have a discussion with north korea on denuclearization. Think things are going a little better, but i am confused because of the mixed message that has happened within a few hours today by u. S. Policy. Ic jane billrdson speaking with my colleague katty kay. It was one of his big campaign promises, and today President Trump released5 trillion tax plan to fix americas crumbling infrastructure. Speaking at the white house, mr. Trump called on congress to authorize 200 billion to improve roads, ports, and airports. He is hoping that states and the private sector will cover the rest. It is part of the trump administrations broader strategy to focusn s. Priorities. President trump as of a couple months ago, have spent 7 trillion in the middle east. 7 trillion. What a mistake. Ibut it is wh is its what i took over. And were trying to build roads and bridges and fix bridges that are falling down. We have a heart time getting the money. It is craz se joined byre, im thor managing director at the American Society of civil engineers. Thanksor coming in. Donald says this is a crazy situation. Just how bad is it . He is correct, anit is good that they are shining a light on this issue. The report card on ameritrs infrture in 2017 looked at several critical casegories of inucture and gave the nation an overall grade of d were looking at an annual funding gap in this country of 200 billion a year, 2 trillion over 10 years. Jane is this money going to be enough . That may not be enough. The idea for leveraging money from the private sector and doing more publicprivate partnerships, as we have seen in europe and other par of the world, not a bad idea, but there are questions on capitol hill and other observers weather ed0 billion inal money over 10 200 billion a year that is needed from all sectors of government and the priv e jane a lot of countries looking at america saying this is america, the richest country in the world. How could it possibly have allowed the infrastructure to get so bad . Considering how important these systems are to being a and competiomy internationally, it is a good question, and i am at a loss to explain hows we drifted into t collective state of complacency is not neglect. Jane e how much is it costing economy to have the infrastructure in such a bad state . We did economic studies called the failure to act people can look those up online. The current state of underinvestment in infrastructure is costing the average family in this country 3400 per year. That is a drag on the economy. That is about nine dollars a day. For just a little under four dollars a day, maybe the cost of an expensive cup of coffee, we d start making investmen to eliminate the gap. Jane where do you . Sta what is the priority . S it is hard. We looked at 16 categories of infrastructure. Everyis a critical issue day. Even though we have high qualitt drinking, we have a water main break every two minutestr n the co we lose 2 million gallons of treated water because of our leaking systems. People often turn to transportation because that is above ground and they experience often at a frustrating level every day. Jane when you look at things like water and transportation, these are pretty vital. If you look for private investment, wont that end up costing taxpayers even more . It depends. The private sector can sometimes take a longer view on an issue and figure out a way to more efficiently or economically operate a system over 50 or 100 years. Imit irtant to take a long view in terms of operation and maintenance onur infrastru facilities. It is not all about the lowest upfront capital costs. Jane th very briefly, do yok it is possible to get a bipartisan deal on this . It is possible. Infrastructure has always been a bipartisan issue in this country. In the lasfive years from 25 states of raised user fees, so im hoping that deral government can continue that. Jane thank you very much for joining me. A look at some of the days of the news. South africas ruling african the days other news. South africas Ruling African National congress has ven president jacob zuma 48 hours to resign, according to the state broadcaster. The 75yearold has resisted pressure to quit since december. President zuma faces a number of corruption charges after nine years in power. The wife of donald trump, jr. ,ss va has been taken to hospital after she opened a letter containing a white powd w. The lett addressed to her husband and sent to their apartment in new york. She and two others were decontaminated by firefighters as a precaution. It has since been found that the powder was nonhazardous. Rescue workers have found the second black box from the passenger plane that crashed near moscow on sl day, killing people on board. Hundreds of people are continuing to search for bodies erd wreckage from the airl there are a number of possible causes for the crash, including bad weather, technical failure, and human error. Police have named the three british tourists killed in a Helicopter Crash in the grand canyon over the weekend. Becky dobsonjason hill, and stuart hill dd saturday evening, while three others on piand thlot were left injured. Clit is not r what caused the accident. James cook reports. James it is just before sunset in the grand canyon, and a helicopter is ablaze. On board were three britishle coupand a local pilot. Rttwo men in white shi approached one of the survivors, seen on the bottom right of the picture. Three of the tourists e. Ed at the sc they were stuart hill, a mercedes salesman in brighton who was celebrartng his 30th ay, and his girlfriend, becky dobson, a receptionist. She was 27. Jason alsoother died. He was 32 years old. His girlfriend survived. Also on board were newlyweds, seen here on the left at their wedding with bky and stuart. The friends had been saving up for the holiday for a year. Ttendedee who died had worthing college. As alumni of the college, they have gone on with her passions to enjoy their young lives, going through the careers that they wanted, and to get to this stage in their life and dig so ys devastating. James in the minutes after theg crash, pass and crew from other helicopters in the area rushed to help. They included a nurse. When we finally got medical equipment down there, i started helping with putting iv lines in, and another group came in with medications. I gave him fluids to prevent them going intshock and cap a epts a close eye and did what i could do. James the helicopter took off from boulder c traveling to the grand canyon, it crashed in arizona at 5 20 p. M. A dust storm meant rescue teams had to walk to t scene. It was 2 00 a. M. , nearly nine hours later, before the survivors were flown to hospital. We were not able to extract them from the crash site until 2 00 this morning. High windsrought out dust nditions, and as you know,n when you flyeacherous conditions like this, you have to have special training and special people. James the grand canyon is ovtractive and untamed, drawing visitors from al the world. The touring company, papillon airways, flies around 600,000 people a year. This crash, involvincoa euro er, is the firms second fatal accident here. The three british survivors and the pilot are being treated at this hospil in las vegas. L four are said to be in critical condition. Jane james cook reporting there. E you watching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonights program, risking it all t aflee the violnd the democratic republic of congo. The bbc speaks to people trying the British Antarctic sedvey has capt the first footage of an iceberg four times the size of london which broke away from the continents ice sheet last year. British scientists are setting out on a voyage to study the seabed ecosystemxped. Before sunlight starts to affect it, the researchers will try to uncover secrets of a marine world that was locked away for thousands of years. They hope to learn more about the effect of Global Warming on the antarctic. Our science correspondent victoria gill has alted tales. Victoria all the details. Vioria the new perspective on a wave of floating ice. The iceberg is 150 kilometers long, 50 kilometers wide, and will be about 150 meters deep. You will be able to see the first 20 meters above the water and Everything Else underneath. The trillionton iceberg is gradually drifting away from the antarctic continent and into the sea, and it is thesecefilled waters and the sea flows beneath them that scientists areag to explore. In this vessel, as Team Suspended three weeks studying marine life locked away here for millennia. Thcribed it described it as a treacherous but urgent mission. There are likely to be new species discovered as researchers seek out the creatures who make their home beneath the vast ice sheet. We have no idea what is uge iceunderneath this shel we assume it is animals who are agait at living without green food. Rs we have the sc and carnivores. Expect animals in the deep sea they dont have light as well. Victoria the team also hndes to undershe processes that caused the iceberg to break away. This could reveal more about how this fragile frozen wilderness wat the bottom of the worl change as the climate warms. Victoria gill, bbcs. N jane a surge of violence in the democratic republic of congo has forced thousands to flee toe hboring uganda. During the past week, ethnic clashes intensified in the east of the country, sparking fearsto of a returassacres last witnessed nearly 20 years agoho when tens ofands were killed. The bbc has met some of those attempti to escape. This report does contain some disturbing images. Reporter this has become a safe haven. Thousands of congolese arrive here daily, rced to run from ethnic violence. More than half of those fleeing are children. It is a perilous journey from the congolese border. Some of the people are using vessels that are not very safe. We have reports of vessels like this one capsizing. Ebut desperate refugees h little choice. They either risk being attacked and killed at home or dying in the water. This canoe was very close to the shore when it was overpowered by strong winds. It drowned 4 occupants. The body of a threeyearold was later washed up ashore. Three of his relatives are still missing. Only his father rvived the accident. I was traveling with my brother. Amy s 2 other people i saw them to the shore. Yafter heav winds overturned it. Reporter the pain of losing an only child. For this 70yearold, he hit in his family hid in the bushes when the village was attacked. Came out, he found that four of his children had been butchered. He then decided to rescue the remaining eight. We could not bury them. They chopped them up. You cant even recognize them. I am sad. My heart is troubled. I dont know what we did to wrong them. Reporter many harrowing stories of survival here. Jacques tells me that 16 members of his extended family were killed. The death toll from the clashes across the border is still unknown. This is the largest e flight from the drc since the ethnic massacre 20 years ago. More than 60,000 people were killed then. The conflict has kept it is residents poor, and the current flarp has driven them deeper into destitution. Struggledzations have to deal with the influx. Rs the numn relation to how many people come through t we dont wanto lose them, and this way we have people joining on. Reporter there are many more congolese on the other side of the border and we expect in the coming days, the refugees in will continue to arrive here in large numbers. Here they hope for a new beginning. Or some, like this motherf three, this is their new home. Her country of birth robbed her of her husband. She has vo jane disturbing developments in the democratic republic of congo there. Today at the National Portrait y gallre in washington, the official portraits of president obama and his wife, michelle, were unveiled. Mr obama called his likeness with the former president pretty a leafy backdrop, sharp, while mrs. Obama sidley simply set of hers wow. Among those in attendance wereid former vice prt joe biden and hollywood luminaries like Steven Spielberg and tom hanks, and of course, me, althougi only got a back seat. It was lovely to be ther though. From andy warhols pop art to the civil rights movements, the 1960s were a decade of social and political change. A new exhibit at the Philadelphia Art Museum is bringing together paintings, photographs, architecture, and fashion that highlighted this extraordinary time in american culture. I went to have a loo revolutions, war, social upheaval, and assassinations marked the 1960s, but on the front lines of culture, erything was groovy, baby. Designers and artists experimented with new forms, new materials, and a new age. Consumer culture in the 1960s was a driving force of innovation and experimentation. R e new use of materials like plastic allowed rniture and design objects to be wissproduced and miniaturized, and this goes alon the jet age. People are flying all over the world, and that is part of consumer culture. Jane i know small was supposed to be beautiful in the 1960s, but this tv isnt really practical, is it . Yeah, thata great question. The screen is curved, so the image might be distorted, but it is bright and colorful and funan you can take it anywhere with the chain on top. Jane what about the furniture . That looks very uncomfortable. I see that, but the curves of the sofa give yothing to lean into. There is some cushioning to give you support. Jane i suppose all that is missing is the lava lamp. Yeah, designed in 1963, it would fit perfectly. Jane thisas the jet age and also the space age. Designers responded with it will boldness, unapologetic color, and an exuberance that the soaring ambitions of the age. These are two textiles created in anticipation and to commemorate the Lunar Landing in 1969, the summer of 1969. Quite trippy, arent they . Jane they are fabulous, but whatld wou do with them . They are textiles. Make anwould interesting bedspread. Jane you do . Yeah. Jane not a dress. D t think i would be Walking Around with rockets on my clothes, or astronauts, but that is ju i me. Jane evthe 1960s. Even in the 1960s. Jane but there was a dark side to the pop. President kennedy died at 1 00 p. M. Central standard timer jane andyl appropriated the singular grief of Jackie Kennedy for mass consumption as americans looked for ways to publicly express theirlings. That collective emotion was further enhanced by television, the way that most people experienced the funeral of Martin Luther king a few years later. At a time when rigid norms were breaking down, artists played openly with peoples perceptions. The result that this exhibition demonstrates was far out. Trippy, groovy i love saying those words. Im jane obrien. Thanks for watching orld news america. With the bbc news app, our vertical videos are designed to , work around your lifestyso you can swipe your way through the news of the day and stay uph to date he latest headlines you can trust. Download now from selected app stores. Funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, and kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. Planning a vacation escape that is relaxinginviting, and exciting is a lot easier than you think. You can find it here in aruba. Families, couples, and friends can all find their escape on the y days,with warm, su cooling trade winds, and the crystal blue caribbean sea. Nonstop flights are available from most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. Bbc world news was presented by kcet, los angeles. 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