From around the world and the United Nations a group which has looked at the Palestinian Refugees the decades also on the great another small step in relations between north and south korea for the first time in two years north korea has reopened communication inside the Demilitarized Zone which separates the and there are now government talks planned for next week and off the six days of antigovernment protests in iran the Government Support has come out in the thousands to condemn the violence that has wrestled with twenty people dead. Trains taxis and universities are at a standstill in parts of india as its lowest cast the ballots and demonstrate against violence we have reaction from the protesters and from those fresh treated by the boom in traffic harding connected us with a hash tag. Youre with the news on air and streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com. And for the third day running we have seen another blow to whatevers left of the middle east
On turkey. And the countrys domestic politics. Including the growing power of the president and his party. Also, the role rival parties might play in this novembers elections. Good morning, everyone. Im director of turkey studies at middle east institute. Im very happy to welcome you all to our eighth annual conference on turkey. Each year as we convene this conference we fine keen interest in turkish matters. 2017 was very dramatic and a difficult year for turkey for its neighbors and allies including the United States. So we appreciate if you are making time to join us in our discussion. Our keynote speaker, is a leading voice on Turkish Affairs in Foreign Affairs of the german parliament. She will provide a firsthand report on the challenges facing ankara and berlin. We have elected members of the turkish and European Parliament on the program as well alongside a leader in u. S. Diplomacy toward turkey and expert analyst. You will hear our guest speaking guest speakers on three pane
A Controversial Book about the u. S. President and the white house donald trump says its full of lies. A show of support for terror on as the u. N. Security Council Meets discuss a week of antigovernment protests plus. Everyone should take this one very seriously and take precautions a socalled bomb site plane slams into the u. S. East coast bringing record cold temperatures and stranding thousands of apple its. North korea has accepted south korean proposals for official talks on tuesday the meeting will be held in the Demilitarized Zone the area between the two countries at it this week cross border communication via hotline was reopened for the First Time Since two thousand and fifteen that the focus on north koreas participation in next months Winter Olympics and china. Well myung sick as a Research Fellow at Yonsei Institute for north korean studies he says the focus of discussions will be on the winter games but will expand into other areas theres a concern that the improvements
Release or a Controversial Book about the u. S. President which suggests close connections between the Trump Administration and songe arabias crown prince also this hour pakistan says its disappointed by the u. S. Decision to suspend millions military assistance and im Peter Simmons with all the base sports news as defending champion Serena Williams pulls oh its of the Australian Open the full details later in the program. Thank you for joining us after two years of silence north korea and south korea are set to reopen the lines of communications tuesdays talks will initially focus on the north this participation in the Winter Olympics in south korea next month but so say is the discussions are expected to move on to what it calls other areas of common interests france three reports from seoul. In a few days the truce village of panmunjom on the Demilitarized Zone that separates north and south korea will be a hive of activity representatives from the two countries will hold high level
A video released on twitter thanked his supporters but he also expressed regret for the many journalist inmates hes left behind did germany strike a secret deal to get him released. But im Christopher Spring a good to have you with us day two of the Munich Security Conference is just getting underway around five hundred senior government to military leaders from around the world meeting to deliberate on pressing security challenges d. W. News well be bringing you live coverage of the event throughout the day among the highlights today british Prime Minister to resume a jew to address the conference and set out a vision for Security Cooperation between britain and the European Union often breaks it germanys foreign minister cigar gabrial is also about. To deliver a speech so lets cross now to munich mckayla coup for our Political Correspondent standing by for us mikhail as mentioned were waiting for gabrielle to speak to address the security conference we have any idea what to expect fr