this is due to have unions coming to you live from burning in ukraine comes under fire for steam a journalist death on accusing russia of his killing a comedy gold was declared shot dead but the day he lives ukraine says its security forces faked his assassination to expose a trend and order good plot against bob moscow has rejected these claims. north korean leader kim jong un welcomes the russian foreign minister said again.

its first visit to north korea in a decade and the head. between donald trump and next month. banished from paradise the unspoiled beaches of mine in thailand were made famous by the hollywood movies the beach. banishing visits as often as tourism has taken a toll on the beauty spot. ukraine is justifying it staged assassination of a journalist saying the operation planned by the security forces had saved his life here's what happened on tuesday a prominent anti kremlin journalist. was reported to have been shot dead in the you created capital kiev authorities that they moscow but bob turned up alive

a day later a shock that provided was wide relief but also anger now your korean faces many questions over the elaborate set up. that from the dead. twenty four hours after he was reportedly gunned down journalist arkady chang enters a press conference held by the ukrainian intelligence service alive 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 let's go forgive me please but there was no other option to. release 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 there that. i think millions of people are for celebrating this is your birthday. my heart beat so hard as i watched the reaction in the news room i knew about the operation but no one else in the administration was aware i'm certain that it had to be that way so now we celebrate your birthday again yes. reports that bad chain co had been gunned down outside his kiev apartment emerged on shoes day evening the ukrainian security agencies said the bogus killing had been a necessary part of a sting operation they reportedly arrested this man on wednesday afternoon he said to have been paid forty thousand dollars to organize and killed them in ukraine that especially journalists toasted the resurrection of their slain colleague the bizarre incident has set off a war of words between kiev and moscow and wider concern among the international

community over ukraine's fake news bruises isn't it. she. joins me now from the ukrainian capital kiev is our correspondent nick connelly the government there must be under great pressure its credibility is at stake what a party think is there a sense of embarrassment over this stage. good morning amritsar well surprisingly no trace of that here the very negative reaction we've seen internationally to this bit of showmanship has been matched by almost total approval within the country even opponents of president poroshenko the government coming out with gushing facebook posts and tweets saying this was an example of ukraine having found its own way having its security services strengthening picture poroshenko saying yesterday that this was a sign that ukraine has passed its sovereignty test and that its state security

services had to go reach a new level were able to protect journalists and what about. one gendered reaction to make do paper share the government's position that this was a successful and clever operation. the approval is rather extraordinary even journalists people who we unwittingly pulled into this like we all who reported on this murder seem to bear extraordinarily little grudges for them this is an example they say of the government showing it cares about journalist safety something they weren't necessary always confident all of their all some voices saying that this was cruel to his family saying that this was a stunt but the kind of voices you're hearing to nationally the kind of concerns about fake news about the believability the credibility of ukrainians ukrainian government officials you have to remember here the foreign minister was in new york

at the u.n. talking about this he now says he didn't know that this was a hoax the same goes the prime minister. bullet in there grossman who took to facebook to. comment on this murder saying that the murders had to be found none of this seems to really hold much sway with voters here and for now this is a pretty extraordinary situation in kiev but the international city will be coming in until ukraine get was able to prove really hard and fast that this was indeed connected to russia as they say it was nick not only in that you couldn't captain kim thank you. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has extended an invitation to north korean leader kim jong un to visit russia the announcement came as lover of made a trip to pyongyang where he met kim bosco said the aim of love rob's visit was to discuss bilateral relations as well as international and regional issues 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 trying and briefly cancel the summit last week. lover warned against sudden changes in diplomatic contacts with north korea while in the country have a listen to what he said. we view it as important to treat these contacts extremely sensitive way not to try to make abrupt movements to artificially adjust the process which requires considerable time and details coordination of all components of the package. it will make it possible not only to denuclearize the entire korean peninsula but also to ensure sustainable peace and stability throughout northeast asia. that was the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov a foreign correspondent josh smith is monitoring the story but i often why moscow was making this move now and what strategic interest does it have in north korea. so never rose comments in pyongyang focused

a lot on the easing of sanctions on north korea which north korea has faced over its nuclear weapons program the using of sanctions has been a major goal of north korea and the fact that russia is taking up on their behalf is quite key in the short term russia is interested in being seen as a player they've been somewhat on the margins of the latest talks and this allows them to be more involved in the long term they are likely looking for broader economic cooperation not only with north korea but south korea and perhaps some additional influence in northeast asia that was josh smith reporting from seoul south korea a living human rights activists in the united arab emirates has been sentenced to ten years in prison for criticizing the government and the monsoon seen here with his children was arrested in march last year he was shot and that has been found guilty of using social media platforms that you were in government reputation by

spreading misinformation he's also been fined more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. donna's human rights groups have condemned the day. now within the studio i have views and i she's been looking into human rights in the region welcome first of all tell us more about emmett months as you mentioned he's a very prominent human rights activist in the u.a.e. that sort of rose to prominence in two thousand and eleven parallel to the wave of protests in the middle east known as the arab spring he had actually called for a public petition to boycott the elections in the u.a.e. he was in prison then and was was was released and since then he's sort of become someone known as someone who robs the government the wrong way he won a very prominent human rights award and twenty fifteen but couldn't go and get it to switzerland to actually receive it because they've actually imposed a travel a travel ban on him because he's got a very very tough sentence in

a with this huge fine and ten years in prison what was this misinformation the government claims he was fighting about the bulk of what his writings like i mean he's critical of the government but this particular tweet was actually in solidarity of another activist who who was in prison i tend to think that with such a hard verdict just looking at it logically there's this crime the punishment is so disproportionate so i think i tend to think it's more to send a message to other dissidents in. the u.a.e. this criticism of the government is unacceptable in this in this country that actually but that most of the time wants to be seen as open and tolerant and modern but a criticism of the royal family or the government is is absolutely unacceptable in that you do this in this region often have very little tolerance for any dissent to independent opinion how important is social media then in this context a quick note about media in general in the u.a.e. the u.a.e. is actually home to one of the most developed media landscapes in the world lots of

international channels actually have their arabic speaking outposts in the criticism of the government on traditional media. and these channels is almost unheard of and that's why social media is so important because then you get these signals sometimes they sporadic true. your posts from activists like one sort to really tell us the the situation of human rights there and to give an alternative voice however social media is completely surveilled in twenty seven and twenty sixteen twenty seventeen a cyber crime law was passed in the area that would allow for these kinds of sentencing on social media so a very important perhaps last resort for activists but also heavily servo space is it seems like a contradiction not to have a kind of evolved media landscape but not to allow your own people to discuss as they brief months who was in prison once before and released on a presidential pardon is that likely. perhaps of the case attract enough international attention of attacks enough pressure from human rights organizations i mean he was just sentenced today so it remains to be seen what kind of pressure

for governments comes up or international organization the next days i tend to think that it's to send a message and perhaps. so you have to just wait and see a little happens yeah thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us. authorities in thailand have banished visit just from the country's famed beach for four months once a pristine bajaj is my o.b. has become a victim of its own fame the beach lies in the small island of people in the andaman sea master resume has damaged its colored reefs and has had a negative impact on sea life authorities say it's time to give the beach a break. meyer bay can be a magical place but just after sunrise the first speedboat zapped to the calm. skipper sumit mooney come and says living from tourists and has mixed feelings about the closure even if it is just for

a few months. before the speed boats came there were wonderful corals here the boats of damage them on the other hand a lot of us live off the visitors. and. some twenty beach wardens to wreck the traffic here otherwise it would be total chaos boats from the mainland spit out hundreds of tourists the beach is only two hundred metres wide the boats have to take turns to more up the smell of diesel hangs in the air as many as five thousand people come here every day it till is long gone. i mean india would die to have something like this around and you have to preserve it you have to have a limit to everything coming in and out. so you have to respect nature for how what it is and what. the damage is most shocking underwater dying coral reefs

and plastic rubbish not just here in my i have a ecologist say seventy seven percent of thailand's reefs have been harmed can four months really bring about recovery you're not going to see a change in four months it takes years and years before populations to recover. on the stand. has a reduction in people anyway. so. when there is a lot of people. in the peak season the national park rakes in more than fifty thousand euros a day in entrance fees how much of that flows back into environmental protection is not clear the closure of the basic stream lee controversial so too is the way forward. for months is the period everyone could agree on. it's a stone. it will give us a chance to inspect the bay and see what else we can do like i mean if. the

engines are revving again the last tourists dispersed just before sunset the reef heron has the white sandy beach to himself at last at least for the next four months. monica standing by for business is up next. every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word published in the. rico is in germany to learn german why not learn a simple online on your mobile and free. learning course nikos speaking german made easy. climate change. waste. pollution.