Joining me now live isjean lee. Shes the former Ap Pyongyang Bureau chief and current co host of the bbc podcast the lazarus heist. Thank you for being back on the programme. Whats the significance of this potential deal between two countries that are becoming even more isolated on the world stage . I think you laid it out. If the two leaders do meet and arrange a deal of some sort, this is a deal that is possibly going to help the russian resident extend that war ukraine by supplying him with munitions and in exchange possibly food that north korea needs, but beyond that, quite possibly technology that north korea needs to take its Weapons Programme to the next level and that certainly has implications that certainly has implications that have a far greater reach because it is about Nuclear Proliferation and so it may be that the leaders meet, they hold a high level summit, lots of pomp and propaganda, but it will be interesting to see what they say about the deals that come up but i
Hello, and welcome to todays verified life. A tense stand off has developed outside the parliament in the georgian capital of tbilisi after mps approved a controversial goal which would force Civil Society groups and Media Organisations to declare foreign funding. Scuffles broke out in the chamber, while outside the protesters tried to break through barriers. Security forces for slumber, hundreds of most rioters converged on parliament from several directions in an attempt to her to the protesters. They were met with anti russian champs, critics say the new law is modelled on a russian one designed to stifle democracy. They were met with anti russian chants. These are the live pictures from tbilisi, we have cameras in several different parts of the capital around the parliament. The president has said she will veto the legislation but the Prime Ministers Georgian Dream party has sufficient support to force the new law through. Many of the protesters are young, they say the future of ge
Known as the foreign agents law, described by protesters as of the russian law. For weeks they have been coming out to protest, and here you see banks of the Security Forces in different stages in the last hour also, they have been trying to disperse the crowds. And now we see that this bill has become law, there is the prospect of the president overruling that but that in itself will eventually be overruled itself. Let s bring rayhan back in, she is On The Streets amongst the protesters. Tremendous reporting over the last hour or so, give me a sense of the sorts of conversations you have been having, why there is so much anger where you are . We ust soke to so much anger where you are . We ust spoke to anotherfi so much anger where you are . We ust spoke to another 18yearold so much anger where you are . We ust spoke to another 18yearold and h so much anger where you are . We just spoke to another 18yearold and i spoke to another 18 year old and i was mentioning that these protests
have been buried alive in a landslide that hit on friday. the country s disaster management agency said in a letter to the united nations that the landslide caused major destruction to buildings and has damaged the economy. unstable terrain is making work dangerous for rescue teams. the figure is substantially higher than the last estimate by the un, which put the number of missing at 670. the disaster hit a remote village in enga province, nearly 600 kilometres north west of the capital port moresby. let s go live to katy watson in sydney, where she is monitoring developments on papua new guinea. in the last couple of hours, we have had the news of this big increase in the numbers of people that are believed to have been buried alive? that s right. a lot of people feared that the death toll would rise, but it s important to emphasise that this is an estimate. it comes from the national disaster centre, who said the landslide buried more than 2000 people alive. as of sunday,
time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. not so long ago, western powers viewed georgia as a trailblazer for political and economic freedom in the troubled caucasus region. there was talk of the possibility of eventual eu membership or maybe nato. now, well, the talk is of darker trends authoritarianism, repression of opposition and nagging questions about russia s influence. my guest is georgia s president, salome zourabichvili. does georgia currently have more in common with belarus than belgium? president salome zourabichvili in tbilisi. thank you for having me on hardtalk. it is a great pleasure having you on the show. let me ask you a question about your own past. not so long ago, you were the french ambassador in tbilisi, representing france. in that position, what do you think you would have made of the politics of georgia today? first of all, it was 15 years ago that i was the french ambassador to georgia, after having been a daughter of a georgia