are trying to aim for. the biden administration has maintained the position that we are going to be open to talks that when you read a statement carefully there are conditions such as, of course, keeping the sanctions in place and being of human rights issues so diplomacy is notjust something that can be unconditional but were going to need to get north korea to cooperate and also take steps to show that it is actually about dialogue and denuclearisation. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: and the oscar—winning british songwriter — leslie bricusse who was behind some of cinema's best known tunes — has died aged ninety.