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welcome back to weekends with alex witt. i m page hopkins. new talks between a growing dispute between north korea and south korea. officials for the two countries met in the demilitarized zone to discuss the situation. north korea demanded south korea end its propaganda broadcastings along the border. a deadline set for the broadcasts to stop has passed. ian williams is near the demilitarized zone in south korea. ian, where does the situation stand right now? hi, page. the deadline came and went without military clashes. instead, the two koreas agreed to talk. top officials from north and south meeting at a village about two miles up the road behind me at the end of a very tense day along this border. as the deadline approached and kim jong-un s ultimatum loomed, the authorities ordered the evacuation of villages along the border to shelters like this deep underground and behind
we know floods of foreign fighters have been coming into syria from all over urine. france s muslim population is at 4.8 million, that s 57.% of the population, one of the highest in europe, therefore there are more affected people on the radical islam side in france and the opportunity for them to travel to syria, either across europe or down through libya, it s easy to get through customs but it s not just the trafficking of people, paige, it s the trafficking of weapons on the black market when you have countries like libya that self-implode because of potential western intervention, you don t just get power vacuums, you get a flood of weapons on to the black market and you have these migration patterns coming out of libya, for example, of weapons going into north africa, a. q. in maghreb and in france as well. so there s no one silver bullet to this. improving security on train, yeah, it might help a bit but we have to get to the root cause of the problem which is broader
him and i heard another american say don t you do that, buddy. the american lifesavers. without them we would all be dead. so says a passenger on that french train that came under attack by a lone gunman. as the world salutes the heroism, investigators are learning more about the attacker and what motivated him. i am going to be the greatest jobs president that god ever created. [ cheers and applause ] i will tell you that. i will tell you. southern comfort. donald trump in the deep south. how did he try to charm the largest gathering of the campaign. and time out? new york city leaders come to grips on women going topless in times square. good day and welcome to week ends with alex witt, i m page hopkins in for alex. here s what s happening. breaking news at this hour. the three americans who took
hello, everyone, it s high noon in the east, 9:00 in the west. welcome to weekends with alex witt. alex is off today, i m paige hopkins. breaking news at this hour. we re awaiting a piting a possi conference from the american heroes who stopped the attack on a french train yesterday and they re awaiting a call from president obama. a short time ago chris norman, the britt who helped subdue the shooter, spoke outside the police station. what else is there to do? either you sit down and you die or you get up and you die. it was really nothing more than that. if you we ve seen enough of these kinds of attacks to understand that they will kill everybody once they get started. jieoining me is nbc news key cobiella. kelly, what are you hearing? such an incredible story. we re hearing a lot in terms of these three american heroes, as they ve been hailed, throughout the day and about the details of what happened on board this train. this was a packed high-speed train at the