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A historic handshake between north and south korea but the u. S. Is keeping its distance prices averted the u. S. Government is open for business off to another shutdown most americans probably slept through and egypt launches a massive military operation that she says is targeting terrorists in sinai. And im tatiana phantasm doha with all of the sport will have more from enclitic the court of arbitration for sport rejected the last minute appeals of forty seven russian athletes and coaches who were bidding to be allowed to compete and more later. The Winter Olympics have officially opened in the south korean city of young chang with a spectacular fireworks display thousands turned out in freezing temperatures to attend the one that hes hoped will bring helped bring about a diplomatic for of relations between north and south korea for now it looks like the ice has been broken with whats being described as an historic handshake between south koreas leader in and kenya jiang the sister o
A new escalation of the war in syria. The worlds biggest street party gets underway in brazil. Party goers in rio arent letting the poor economy spoil carnival celebrations well tell you and why this woman is set to become and make a song about history this year. Im honored on a welcome north Korean Leader kim jong un has invited south korean president to pyongyang it would be the first meeting of korean majors in more than a decade says the earliest days sr has responded to the invites with a call for both sides to build the conditions needed for the business. Oh more on this now when it crossed over to our correspondent jason strawberry who is near the site of the olympics thing going on in south korea hey jason how significant is this invitation by the north Korean Leader kim jong un are we going to have peace by the end of the olympic games. That would be very optimistic but it certainly would be significant if president moon makes that trip up the pyongyang like you said its been
With kim yo jong, who is the sister of north koreas leader. It took place inside the president ial blue house in seoul. Kim yo jong is the first member of north koreas ruling dynasty to have travelled to the south since the end of korean war hostilities. The Olympic Games has produced an unexpected easing of tensions on the Korean Peninsula after years with virtually no communication across the border, as pyongyang has built up its nuclear arsenal. Lets get all the latest from the bbcs stephen mcdonell, whos in the south korean capital. How significant is this handshake . Was this just for the cameras or is there something more of substance to it . Certainly on a symbolic level this handshake at the Opening Ceremony is very significant. You can imagine that photo, the image, of the south korean president shaking hands with the north Korean Leaders sister at the Opening Ceremony has travelled all around the world. This comes after years of virtually no communication between the two regi
Of a classified memo that rebutted claims there was anti trump bias in the fbis investigation of russian meddling in the 2016 president ial election. The white house said it couldnt be released because it contained classified material. Our correspondent peter bowes has more on the plan to redact the memo in order to get it published. Well, the democrats are saying that they will consider some reductions and actually, that isnt a huge surprise. I think we had been half expecting that this would happen. Certainly over the last few days, the signs were that the white house would probably come back and say that out of security considerations, it wasnt able to release this document which, as you have already said, is essentially a reduction is essentially a rebuttal of the very controversial document that we saw last week from the republicans, that essentially accused the fbi of being biased against donald trump. And if these redactions can be got through, do you think the president will ag