this is news live from berlin and ukraine comes under fire for staging a journalist death and blaming it on russia twenty four hours after he was reported shot dead of war reporter arkady but chained cloak turns up a lie ukraine says the ruse voyles a kremlin ordered murder of poplog charge that moscow denies. and russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has met with north korea's leader kim jong un last raucous on his first visit to the country in

a decade. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program great to have you with us. we begin with a tale of murky political intrigue with a stunning twist at the end here's what happened on tuesday a prominent anti kremlin journalist are can go was reported to have been shot dead in the ukrainian capital kiev authorities there blame moscow but bob tanko turned up alive a day later a shock that provoked worldwide relief and anger now ukraine faces many questions over the elaborate set up. that was from the dead. twenty four hours after he was reportedly gunned down journalist arkady trained and has a press conference held by the ukrainian intelligence service a life and well his apparent death an elaborate ruse to expose an alleged kremlin

plot to kill him even his wife was in the dark. i want to apologize to my wife for the hell she has gone through over the past two days forgive me please but there was no other option. and incredulity at the t.v. station web had been working in kiev as the russian born journalist made his dramatic grandparents the joy of his return was shared later by the ukrainian president it was. i think millions of people off the celebrating this is your birthday my heart beat so hard as i watch the reaction in the news room i knew about the operation but no one else in the administration was a wedge and i'm certain that it had to be that way. so now we will celebrate your birthday again just as princes of. reports that had been gunned down outside his

kiev apartment emerged on shoes day evening the ukrainian security agencies said that though this killing had been a necessary part of a sting operation they reportedly arrested this man on wednesday off to noon he said to have been paid forty thousand dollars to organize and kill them in ukraine but especially journalists toasted the resurrection of the slain colleague the bizarre incident has set off a war of words between kiev and moscow and white a concern among the international community over ukraine's fake news of ruses mission isn't as it used to be your group isn't this you. so let's now try to make some sense of this we're joined here in the studio by christiane trip by eastern europe expert and correspondent emily sherman is standing by with the latest from moscow welcome to you both a question i'd like to begin with you because this is a huge blow to ukraine's credibility isn't it that's how it looks like ukraine now

has to try to explain and to justify the killing the fake killing or midst of a drinker and this would be a very to do as things stand now you crane seems to have played with politics and with emotions in an unprecedented way here in germany many of services one can still trust your cranium authorities and the government ever since ukraine's confrontation with russia started in early two thousand and fourteen this wall in eastern ukraine goes along with the wall of words with the propaganda battle a battle of accusations and fake news and it always looked like as if russia would be winning that war because of its massive state propaganda its message on slaughter of the state media against ukraine and ukraine always claimed that they are on the right side and that they are defending west values but this stance now seems to be seriously questioned absolutely so let's now find out what exactly russia has been saying in the wake of all of this emily i'd like to turn to you

because i mean from the very beginning russia denied any involvement. what is the line now. well in a sense russia has been vindicated here there was a statement yesterday from the foreign ministry calling this whole thing an anti russian provocation and they also called it propaganda that confuse the whole international community and the other thing that's interesting sara is that people here and politicians as well have been comparing this whole case with the police inning of former russian spy screw polly in england and the russia has always maintained that they didn't do that despite the accusations from the international community and people are comparing this case kind of saying look in this case the accusations ended up in this very confusing ruse so who's to say that any of the other accusations against russia are true so this whole thing is really

playing into the russian narrative playing into russia's hands and it looks like going forward as well no matter what the evidence is that russia that ukraine presents against russia russia will be able to kind of say well look at this whole story it was so absurd and ridiculous and in fact the foreign ministry yesterday also in a statement the spokesperson predicted that things will get even crazier so it seems that russia there is sort of preempting any evidence that ukraine may present a present against it going forward and you wonder if there's something that we don't already know one thing that we do know that has been admitted by go was that his wife didn't even know that he wasn't actually dead that he was indeed alive and christian i'd just like to ask you i mean you know that perhaps shows also the line of thinking here doesn't it i mean remind us of who is why would somebody have wanted him dead does the scene plausible here so he needed to do this sort of the

option group is a freelance journalist writing for russian language outlets which are all in opposition to president putin and. this route. is a member of a small community of exide russian journalists writers academics was living and working in kiev right now and within that community there are plausible fears that the russian state and its agents might be chasing them even in exile even abroad where a number of prominent killings of russian exits in kiev in the past three years and none of that cases was of a result so if. he might have few he has feared for his life this sounds plausible but why did he play his role in such a fake plot to be quite honest i don't know about his motives perhaps the the quest for his motors needs to be questioned for a color troops or logical analysis the absolutely you know it's still to be

determined actually who might have been behind this but you know when we talk just broadly speaking emily if we look at relations between russia and ukraine of course they have already been very tense how is this incident likely to impact the diplomatic situation. well there as you say relations between ukraine are already pretty much at rock bottom and this is hardly likely to make things better but for the russian side and we can see this from reactions here as well the russian side certainly feels vindicated even before this big reveal that showed that actually botching co wasn't dead after all russians russian politicians were saying that ukraine was kind of a failed state that it couldn't protect its journalists and now the foreign ministry spokesperson in a facebook post lot late last night said that ukraine now has really shown its true face and that the west has to wake up to the reality that that it's just

a dream that ukrainian democracy can be a success so ukraine has really kind of lost its legitimacy over this whole this whole ruse on the international stage and it seems that russia certainly knows that and is willing to use that going forward i'm only sure when and moscow and christian turbot joining us here in the studio thank you so much to both of you for helping us try and make a little bit of sense out of all this we appreciate it. and now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world banished m.p.'s are debating whether or not to keep prime minister of oil in power and no confidence vote was called after a horse conservative party was found guilty of fraud money laundering and other illegal financial schemes refuses to step down he says that he was unaware of his party's misuse of funds. a leading human rights activist in the united arab emirates has been sentenced to ten years in prison for criticizing the government

often months or was found guilty of using social media platforms to harm the state's reputation human rights groups have condemned the verdict. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has been invited or rather has invited north korean leader kim jong un to visit russia the announcement comes as lavrov is on a trip to pyongyang where he met with kim moscow says that the purpose of visit is to discuss bilateral relations as well as international and regional issues it is the russian foreign minister's first visit to north korea in almost a decade the trip comes less than two weeks before a planned historic summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un trump had briefly canceled the summit last week. let's go now to correspondent jason strother who has been following the story for us from seoul welcome to you jason why is moscow pushing for this summit to take place. right well we saw

a lot of mir putin urged the united states to keep on moving with this summit after president trump originally called it off last week but the fact of the matter is russia has waning influence here in northeast asia it's been more or less sidelined it's not it's not a central player in the korean peninsula standoff like it used to be during the cold war let's say and i think the probe into russia's alleged meddling in the u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen has also added to that why the u.s. and why washington and moscow haven't worked more closely together north korea's nuclear weapons development and while moscow also once the sea ten wins. decrease here on the peninsula but really it's about trying to have influence once again in the region. and you know in an effort to have that influence chase and we have these reports coming in today that last profits apparently raised the issue of

international sanctions against north korea while and qiang today what is the message there from moscow. russia wants north korea open for business russia has always had economic interests with north korea whether it be sharing ports the cold trade other mineral resources russia once the developments far east and having the better economic relations with north korea is central to that so right laughter all has reportedly said today in pyongyang that peace on the peninsula denuclearization can't be accomplished without sanctions being lifted but really i think that just reflects moscow zone economic interests in north korea and we have to mention of course this means that it comes amid a flurry of diplomacy that is centering on his plans for the chogm kim jong un summit how likely is it because there have been selling questions surrounding it

how likely is it that the summit will indeed go ahead jason it's looking better than ever right now but of course we have not had any official confirmation from the white house that it is absolutely happening again on june twelfth in singapore right now we have north korea's. kim jong chill in new york city meeting with mike pompei o hashing out details of the potential summit we have negotiations going on in singapore and we have had american the north korean envoys meeting in north korea this week there's a flurry of diplomatic activity but it seems now that both the u.s. and north korea are really trying to make the wheels turn in order to get this meeting underway jason strother and seoul thank you. thank you. time for french open tennis in paris were all of the big names managed to navigate the second round on tuesday caroline wozniacki had an easy day the australian open

champion bowl last year her way past georgina garcia in straight sets and germany's world number three alexander swear i've had a bigger challenge fighting back to beat dusan lodge of it and five sets and reached the third round he also had difficulty understanding a reporter from the english county of yorkshire have a listen. where you from. there were make a term of them that just because. i didn't send a word you say. on now it is safe to say it was a bad day at work for one valet car driver in australia but at least he survived he accidentally parked his soft top porsche directly under or be a call outside of a hotel in sydney's drawling harbor driver had to be cut out of the car by the

police but he was able to walk away unharmed the porsche though was not as lucky. while you're watching the news we have more coming up at the top of the hour my colleague. i'd like to thank you so much for watching perhaps you can see. the whole d w one. for the global insights the news out. made for mines.