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Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is off this week. Hes in france but hes not hanging out with the new french president thats what Vladimir Putins been doing today. The two leaders had a get to know you meeting at versailles. And you really have to wonder how cordial it was given that days before the French Election mr macron Accused Moscow of interfering in his poll. At a tense press conference, Vladimir Putin insisted any implication of russian meddling was rubbish. From paris, Lucy Williamson reports. Despite the sweltering weather, this meeting held A Touch Of Frost from the star ....
That is the question. here s paula hancocks live near the dmz to take on part of that debate. paula? reporter: michelle, it s the key. can this be more than a handshake diplomacy. what comes next is very important. we heard from president trump. he said that they would put their teams in place although the u.s. already has a negotiating team in place. they would meet within the next two to three weeks to start talking. of course, the working level talks are very important when it comes to this. you can t just have a top down approach. the new york times is reporting on the fact that trump administration officials are telling them they may settle for a nuclear freeze. this is something that has been tried by past u.s. presidents with varying degrees of success but at the end these deals always fell through. that would tacitly be accepting really that north korea is a nuclear state. ....
And there continues to be. maybe if anything, better. after today better than it was even before. there will be a lot of focus now on what comes next to see whether this is anything more than just handshake diplomacy. dave? indeed. paula hancocks live. thank you. a temporary truce in the u.s./china trade war. during the g20 chinese president and president trump agreed to table new tariffs and continue negotiations. the president telling fox news he is optimistic about a deal with china. you just recently, hours ago, met with the chinese president xi jinping. i did. are you closer, do you think, after that meeting with a trade deal? we had a very good meeting. probably, i guess you d say, the largest deal made of any kind, not only trade. we got along very well. we understand each other. white house chief economic advisor larry kudlow said there s no guarantee a deal will ....
For the step-by-step approach when it comes to denuclearization. it s something north korea wants. it s something quite frankly that most experts will say is far more realistic which is what they are trying for now, which is complete denuclearization. we have seen that administrations in the past try this and we ve seen them fail, but the fact is there is a consensus definitely here in the region that north korea is not going to give up its nuclear weapons just like that. in fact, some say they won t give up their nuclear weapons at all. the new york times saying this will be a little bit more of an acceptance of north korea as a nuclear state. simply there does have to be some progress for this to be seen as more than just a handshake diplomacy. listen to what the president has to say at the dmz. we want to get it right. we don t want to we re not looking for speed, we re looking to get it right. the meantime, there s been no ....
Changed since the hanoi summit. the only thing that has really changed is the fact that kim jong-un has started testing again. he has started missile testing. they are short range missiles. not long range missiles, which the u.s. is more concerned with. he still started testing again. that s really the only change that we have seen. so what we saw today, we were promised by the president if it happens that it would be a handshake or a two-minute chat or something very small. he was really underplaying it. but what we got in the end was more than an hour of talks. behind closed doors, between these two leaders. a bilateral meeting. so it wasn t a summit. so the expectations are a lot less. but it wasn t just the handshake diplomacy. we do know they did have talks for some time. now, coming out of those talks we heard from president trump they had agreed to restart talks, that they both had agreed to have their teams in place to start negotiating. and this is really the crux of it. the w ....