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News with Montgomery Chinese state television says President Xi Jinping told his u.s. Counterpart Donald Trump that a peaceful resolution of the crisis over North Korea's nuclear program is essential the 2 leaders spoke over the phone to find ways to reduce tensions Robin Brunton so has more details China is North Korea's only ally and its main trading partner it has a crucial role to play in solving this standoff Chinese state t.v. Reports that she Jim ping told his American counterpart that all parties should stop words and actions that would exacerbate the situation the White House said both men agreed that North Korea must stop its provocative behavior it also described the relationship between President Xi and Trump who met in Florida earlier this year as extremely close saying hopefully it would help to bring about a peaceful solution President Trump has said he's not ruling out a military option in dealing with the crisis in Venezuela uncertain a question in New Jersey Mr Trump said people in Venezuela were suffering and dying here down South America correspondent Katie Watson the relationship between Venezuela and the u.s. Is already pretty tense the trumpet ministration has in the past few weeks slapped sanctions on many top government officials including President Maduro and everytime Venezuela responds defiantly saying the u.s. Needs to stop meddling in other countries affairs but Mr Trump now saying that the u.s. Had many options including a military option if necessary to deal with the problems in Venezuela the tension has escalated Venezuela's information minister at a nest of the youngest hit back saying Mr Trump comments were the most serious and incident threat ever made to his country the German chancellor Angela Merkel launches her campaign for a 4th term in office later on Saturday to give an hour long speech to supporters of her Christian Democrat Party in the western city of Darkman and it will be the 1st of a series of rallies she will hold in the 6 week run up to the general election. Kenya's president to hurrican Yatta has called for national unity following the official announcement of his reelection Well the president's supporters are celebrating angry protests have broken out in some opposition strongholds the B.B.C.'s me in Nairobi has more details the nation is definitely divided after this very high contested elections I was actually just reading on it a Tauriel from one of the country's biggest newspaper the nation it's a one of the biggest ask a doctor who is facing now that he's been elected for 5 more years as unifying the country and bringing together people and they talked about how the president has the task of including more people in his government and so it's definitely one of the biggest task that who are Kenyatta is facing unifying the nation world news from the b.b.c. Hundreds of white supremacists have how the torch lit rally in the u.s. City of Charlottesville to protest against a decision to remove a statue of the Confederate Civil War General Robert Robertson lame some at the gathering at the University of Virginia gave Nazi salutes clashes broke out with anti fascist demonstrators and police dispersed the crowd. Lawyers for the football star Neymar say he has agreed to pay a fine of $2.00 and a half $1000000.00 to end a 3 year dispute with the Brazilian tax authorities one of his lawyers said Neymar did not agree with the amount but felt the dispute over tax payable on image rights funny was that the Brazilian club Santos had dragged on too long. The Canadian government has ordered a temporary speed restriction for certain ships using the Gulf of St Lawrence in an attempt to cut the number of endangered North Atlantic right whales being killed in collisions vessels longer than 20 meters must not exceed 10 knots Marc Garneau is the Canadian transport minister this is a mandatory slowdown and it is effective immediately ships that fail to comply will face fines of up to $25000.00 at least 10 of the huge mammals have died in the area in the past 2 months with several deaths being attributed to rectally to impacts with ships the restriction will be lifted once the whales migrate to the start of winter. A judge in the Us city of Denver has dismissed a disc jockeys legal claim against the singer Taylor Swift the court has been weighing David Miller and Taylor Swift accusations against each other. With swift and allege that Mr Mueller had reached under her skirt to group her during a pre-concert reception with her fans in 2013 Mr merely assert her accusation was false and he'd lost his job as a result the John ch dismissed his claims but missed but Taylor Swift assault charges against him still stand b.b.c. News. It's 6 minutes past 7 g.m.t. Welcome to Weekend from the b.b.c. World Service with me Julie Morcha Coming up you'll hear from Lexi Alexander a kick boxer turned film director who made the jump to directing vibing a stunt woman and if you are a stunt woman as opposed to a stunt man there are some difficulties which you may not have thought of it was a lot like oh can you afford these 3 flights of stairs but in your large area you know what I think people don't consider is that you know as a stunt woman you know if I don't have any clothes to hide any kind of padding and basically doing this with nothing on me and taken a fall down the stairs but when a guy does it and they wearing a suit or even a shirt and jeans they have all kinds of a quick mind under it that you don't see in other words those stairs hurt you'll hear more from her in this half hour with me throughout the program if I'm a licensed professor in genetics at Trinity College Dublin and Maggie Abdulhadi Egyptian born writer broadcaster and former b.b.c. Arab affairs analyst let's bring you up to date on events in Kenya Kenyatta waking up once again as president with the country still divided after Friday's election result the head of the electoral commission announced late last night that Mr Kenyatta had won 54 percent of the vote that's nearly 10 percent more than his rival reloading Mr Kenyatta offered an olive branch to the opposition and called for national unity. Specially. I reach our. Vision is we shall. We show. We show. You show the. This was. Probably going to be with a new general the opposition rejected the results even before they were declared they called the process a sure Rod However it has been endorsed by international observers Mr Kenyatta said they had ensured a free fair and credible election 10 years ago there was widespread violence in the aftermath of a disputed election more than 1000 people died back then will Rebecca run Pelleas from the Africa Program at the Chatham House think tank in London Rebecca Welcome to the program thank you good morning good morning how do you see things and how they stand today. I think the nation has woken up to a result that wasn't unexpected I received intellectual independent electoral and Boundaries Commission started releasing results showing that Mr Kenyatta would win already on Wednesday so it's not unexpected but segments of the country will be very unhappy and we do hear outbreaks of violence in one of 2 places a report of that where yes that's right particularly in the western city of Kisumu which is a stronghold meseems for me has been gunshots and some of the Kenyan papers are reporting deaths I mention the events of 10 years ago what can all the main players and those in north already more broadly do to try and stop any any hint even of a repeat of that yes 10 years ago saw a great deal of violence more than 1000 killed and many hundreds of thousands displaced so that will be in the minds of citizens and hopefully the need as well today and in the next few days. Nasser the right coalition has demanded act as to the service of the i.d.c. And hopefully the i.p.c.c. Can you know either work with that request or you know in some way refute fully Nasa's allegations as. Hacking into their database of votes and then from Kenya at a Yes hopefully you know reaching out and calming the atmosphere so openness and transparency about the actual process is very important is Calamity Yes Yes And what of those words I mean we played that clip of Mr Kenyatta it sounded very conciliatory How do you think that will go down amongst Mr Dingell supported. Mr Kenyatta has one ballot seems to his one and he's been endorsed by observers of having won really a sweet victory in the last election 2013 he only won with point 707 percent of the vote this time you see it well this time 5 percent 10 percent advantage over doing that so it might seem a little bit hollow that he's saying he was once conciliation when he saw one such a sweeping victory and when this is been such a bitterly contested poll there remains to be seen what Mr can actually does how will this be watched by Kenya's nearest neighbors do you think. I think with great interest in key foreign policy. Between the 2 sides between Mr mystic and actor was that mistaken Yatta wants to keep his forces fighting Kenyan forces fighting against al-Shabaab in Somalia Mr Dingell wants to withdraw them so sesame being watched with interest in Somalia Tanzania more disappointed I imagine Mr Mack sooty president actually of Tanzania is known to be a strong supporter of. Thank you very much for coming on Rebecca Rumpole from the Africa Program of the Chatham House think tank in London. As we heard in the News President Trump has raised the possibility of American military action in Venezuela we were talking about that an hour ago most of his remarks there were at a news conference on Friday evening in New Jersey were devoted to North Korea there was more tough talk but he did strike a slightly more moderate tone fully in all work out. Nobody loves a peaceful solution better than President Trump that I can tell you hopefully it will work out but this has been going on for many years would have been a lot easier to solve those years ago before they were in the position that they're in but we will see what happens we think that a lot of good things could happen and we can also have a bad solution and we think about the good things can happen where the Chinese leader Xi Jinping as urged Mr Trump to show restraint in his dispute with North Korea and to avoid words that exacerbate tensions Let's go to our correspondent Robin Brant in Seoul a word on the Chinese 1st of all Robin what's their take on the latest developments . Well the context being that China is crucial I think to trying to bring about a lasting peace here just quickly North Korea's only ally North Korea's main trading partner as well certainly President Trump thinks that she Jinping holds the keys to getting a last ing peace here are the 2 men spoke on the phone in the last couple of hours they've spoken before this one dominated I think by what's going on in North Korea they agree that North Korea needs to stop its provocative actions it says the White House the White House also pointing out that it thinks the relationship between these 2 presidents is extremely close that's their words and this could help bring about a lost in peace in this dispute with North Korea in terms of what she did paying said to Donald Trump he said that all relevant parties should exercise restraint when it comes to words and actions and avoid exacerbating this already very tense situation now you know that kind of language is not uncommon in English translations of Chinese Chinese kind of press releases but all relevant parties important there. Those words of caution directed at Donald Trump as well as Kim Jong un I mean if you're in the south you are familiar with the tensions in the region but do you sense anything different. Well I mean this is a few days I've been here it really is a case and I know we hear this all the time of life goes on we're reading some reports this morning about people buying more gold perhaps that's a sign of you know concerns about financial stability people buying more ready to eat meals the Reuters news agency has been looking that there's going to be a nationwide civil defense drill next week that this happens every year but next week the city of Seoul from where I'm talking to all the districts within the city going to take part in that so that's when people kind of guarded off the streets taken down to bomb shelters which are usually metro stations last year I think only a handful of districts took part this year is going to be the whole of the city so . Some signs perhaps that preparedness is slightly going up a notch probably stay there members are just going bring some comments in from I guess they may want to put a question to you and then I'll come back to you Maggie what's in your mind what has been in my mind ever since the syrup to this conflict again is we all know that North Korea has only one friend and that is China would this China get in return is becoming such a troublesome relationship isn't it does China get must be a benefit of some kind. At what point will North Korea become a liability and China's right we've had enough will ditch Robin Dunbar cause I'm going to bring me for. What I think you know shouldn't paying its no secret has lost patience with Kim Jong un and the increasing threats that North Korea's leader has made nonetheless China continues to allow some trade controversially with the North the materials it says are not banned under the United Nations resolutions there are an argument that essentially China continues to prop up the regime I think what China fears most is a humanitarian crisis if North Korea were to implode millions of people perhaps fleeing north on the border with China and also strategically and this is where it has a distinctly different view from the United States you know a unified Korean Peninsula maybe with American forces moving north with their South Korean partners getting close to the border with China is not perhaps what they want to see Having said all of that this was some slightly Mecurio you know a president in Washington distracted by a growing crisis in this part of the world is a little helpful perhaps to China who has its own policies and priorities in this part of the world comes to South China Sea its relationship with India might be again for China maybe was nodding knowingly at that observation coming from top to well I mean so I just look at this whole situation just as and layperson you know just weren't following the news and some watched in horror just what's happening in the last week it's that it feels kind of scary trip seems to be you know rattling and trying to threaten war it seems that one hand in saying hopefully it will all work out and it strikes me that you know he should be one of the people who should be actively taking steps for it to work out. Just now hoping somebody else will do something that you know just from the point of view of an ordinary layperson it just feels quite unpredictable and scary which which prompts a final thought from me Robyn to you about the tactics being employed by President Trump he would argue of course that President Obama's approach didn't make any difference and if you rattle the cage if you are unpredictable if you suddenly use different language to try and address and apparently intractable situation it might just work. Yes and that's Trump style isn't it I mean he's a transactional politician he's also a politician who likes to unsettle his opponents that's been his style in here in his business. In the past and he's brought that very much to the White House and you're right you know I don't think there's an arguing about failures of previous presidents President Clinton's administration tried to reach a peace deal that didn't work and President Obama I think we even have and 8 of his knowledge in today that that president could have done far more perhaps whoever won the election in November was going to have to deal with this finally coming to an apothecary anyway and there is an argument harking back to President Nixon's relationship and opening up with China the kind of these aren't my words a kind of crazy guy approach being unpredictable. Is something that made bring that may bring results which will see I hate to use those kind of final it's. Going to I think we will see is about all we can say on this one of the but we will probably have another conversation which might end with the same words at some point in the coming days in Seoul. Now let's see Alexander is not your average Hollywood director for a start she is a woman but that barely scratches the surface born in Germany to a German mother and a Palestinian father she became a world karate champion when she was still a teenager but before long she decided to leave Germany for Hollywood. As she worked as a stunt woman within a few years she moved behind the camera to direct her 1st short film which won an Oscar in 2002 and now she's just written a television series that features unusually for American television almost exclusively Arab characters it's a drama called you bury me and she told me about it from Los Angeles while you burn me was an idea that I had that probably came from being frustrated to watch a lot of Arabs an Arab Americans portrayed in a very one dimensional manner we are usually portrayed as terrorists or if we get lucky we're portrayed on the good side of national security we may be a people working for the f.b.i. Or CIA but there seems to be no no space for you know the diversity that people from the Middle East really have talked to me about how you arrived at this kind of work because obviously we know you as a film director here we are talking about a television show and you've obviously written for television and worked on television as well talk to me about the route that took you from Germany to Hollywood when I was a martial artist really you know I traveled around to Europe for a couple of years and farting competitions with this little sponsor team that we had and eventually you go to the void championship and that was in Atlantic City and you know even some of the best martial artists we can be world renown in martial arts but you know there's no prize money really there's no no way to make a living and no matter how good you are in any of these disciplines and so for us there was really only a few options that you can you know convert this success that you had in martial arts into a career but you know I came here and I thought I'll at least try it out and I got into stuff. It's really easy because stares few women you know who can do the kind of fighting stuff for the actresses and so it was mainly fighting stunts it was based on your experience in the world of martial arts but that's what got me in but you have to learn the other stuff too eventually I was doing all of it motorcycles fall from high rises I even learned to precision driving and racecar driving a