trade builds on the cold rain pretty humid with the many south koreans fearing war as pyongyang suspends access to a crucial industrial zone drawing iran with saw. a milestone deal or no arms the un adopts a treaty is supposed to control global trade in conventional weapons held as a landmark by some but criticized for a lack of clarity by others. and the turn day countdown to the presidential election kicks off in venezuela with the charges blessed actually president in a race against a probably washington opposition leader. this is r.c. coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the show north korea has suspended

the south korean joint industrial zone the latest move in the ongoing conflict with washington and seoul beyond young also so that it will restart a nuclear reactor to beef up its arsenal after washington moved its military closer to the korean peninsula and south korea based journalist addresses of came gauge the reaction to be on young's fierce rhetoric on the streets of seoul for. south korea's newly elected president has taking a different stance than what she had promised on her camp train trip on our campaign trail she promised that she would reengage in dialogue with north korea but continuously her rhetoric and. her response to what north korea has been doing is saying that she's going to compare a strong deterrence against north korea so right now north korea's rhetoric to south korea has become stronger and they've said they would attack south korea at this point however south north korea does not want to engage in dialogue with south korea north korea's primary objective in dialogue and negotiations is the united

states we see that the united states is not tary command is actually growing stronger in south korea we see that south korea's role is actually shrinking in all of this so south korea has to come up with a way in which it will become relevant when we usually hear threats from north korea these threats are actually not uncommon for south koreans see here so often when i do south koreans how they feel about these threats they usually say that i'm very used to it that these threats are men dain and actually very common but when i was on the streets today and i was talking to people it was a different sense there was just more a sense of unease eerie feeling that they were getting that the rhetoric has gone to a point where they are thinking that maybe this could possibly be true. sometime regarding north korea's menacing action i don't feel a direct threat but i'm getting a little anxious sense can't even the south korean government is taking a co worse this time so it feels like it's getting closer when the u.s.

is more forceful it has a less positive effect from the perspective of a south korean citizen i feel anxious and it doesn't feel like protection but it will be a sunday the combined south korean us training is for our peace and stability defense capability is necessary for that the letter from the perspective of protecting my country i don't think it is worsening the situation or making it more dangerous it is a natural thing to protect one's country. the un says they deadlock has gone too far off appealing young's claims that it will restart a nuclear reactor which has been shut for six years north korea allisat its missile units are combat ready and warned of a possible preemptive strike on the us and soul and heart has written extensively about here us foreign policy and east asian politics and believes both sides should know that playing a dangerous game when you escalate to this point any small mistake could turn into

a major catastrophe and that's the danger north korea itself knows that if it did it in a tactic that attacked the united states it would be committing national suicide united states would would retaliate in a tremendous fashion worth korea does not want to commit suicide i believe north korea is doing all this so it can get to a point to actually negotiate some kind of peace agreement with the united states but the north korean threats are very dangerous and sound very sinister and i think they look up when they see these big and b. fifty two supplying this is a reminder of the tremendous power firepower the united states inflicted on north korea during the korean war and that's a reminder to the north koreans of the absolute danger of war with the united states but also gives their state kim jong un and his very very monolithic authoritarian state another way to you know we yield this to show the north korean people that indeed there is a threat so in some ways i think by escalating it to this point the united states

is playing right into kim jong un's hands and gaining access to north korea hasn't been an easy task for foreign media and he's an exterior shots case among the few who have managed to report from there were a case of country and i let a shared his thoughts and experiences with my colleague to say. to be honest with you i haven't had a chance to talk to many ordinary people six years ago when i was there in north korea but i don't think the situation has changed i talk to the officials there and i didn't hear a single negative word towards south korea i got the feeling that this was more about north korea versus the west and the u.s. rather than being against the neighbors. and i was and i thought back then i still stand by that by this thought that this conflict between the two koreas is more about something inspired from abroad rather than being an internal issue between the people of the two korean of the two koreas i mean they're very close they used to be one country they used to be one empire they are divided politically by the

thirtieth barrel they're not divided by any other way what you know impression on north korea. i mean he he's come people have said he's coming to change the if they really are going to do he's already changing you know we saw google officials in pyongyang unthinkable just five six years ago we saw dennis rodman i mean it's just maybe just a show but still he wants to show that he wants to be more open than his dad and he's pretty says he's grand who is also a power he recently said he likes american computers mac computers is interested in everything happening in the world in particular the technologies he said that the country needs to embrace the technology but the question is whether kim jong un will be the man to reunite careers and not to go to a full out war with the south. and more stories ahead for you including the clock's ticking for venezuelans to choose their successor to the later go charges with former bus driver and now president nicolas maduro pledging to preserve the code long done to his heritage and x.

his opinion on the presidential race is coming in just a few minutes. the u.n. general assembly house passed a tree said to control the trade of controversial conventional i should say arms it prohibits experts exports in violation of the arms embargoes a weapons that could be used for war crimes of terrorism and also requires states to prevent conventional weapons are reaching the black market but as she is getting reports now many feel the deal is and big u.s. and lacking clarity the treaty that the u.n. general assembly passed this tuesday is the first attempt by the international community to try and regulate global warming strait the treaty covers the export of conventional weapons and that's a long list that includes fighter jets worship's tanks as well as small arms the document has no way of force meant mechanism so the success or failure depends on the will of the world's major exporters and here they are the u.s. accounts for thirty percent of global arms sales russia twenty six percent germany

friends china seven six five percent respectively the figures are provided by the stockholm international peace research institute to cover the last four years of arm sales by the way this global. is worth around seventy billion dollars and four out of five of the world's largest stakeholders in this business happen to be permanent members of the un security council two out of which abstained from the vote that is rushing china they cite a lack of clarity in the language of the treaty in the part where it says arms transfers should be subjected to risk going to human rights assessments first so it's opposed to tie arms sales to the buyers record on human rights which sounds like a very good idea. but then this raises all kinds of questions like do brain or saudi arabia have a perfect human rights record so the treaty leaves lots of room for all kinds of interpretations russia being actually supportive of the effort to regulate arms

sales says it abstained from voting for the treaty also because it has not been arms sales to non-state actors. despite the calls of a number of states it was not reflected losing the ban on the supply of weapons to known or thrown state and this is a significant shortcoming inevitably have impact on the effectiveness of the international arms trade treaty. even though the united states supported the treaty at the u. when congress has made it clear that they will not let anyone tell the us who to sell arms to so it would be like the kyoto protocol the one that set obligations on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases the u.s. also signed it and yet never ratified it gun manufacturers like lockheed martin or a northrop grumman have an origami of lobbyists on capitol hill to make sure that their ability to sell weapons and profit is not constrained in any way but then thomas countryman the assistant secretary of state to lead the american delegation

to the talks defended the treaty saying it will actually give american weapons manufacturers a better competitive competitive position in the world so maybe the u.s. government is actually trying to help it's done producers' by supporting the treaty anyway the international community seems united on one thing and that is something has to be done about the unabated flow of arms in the world but as they say the devil is in the details in washington i'm going to. we've residential race has kicked off in venezuela in ten days' time the country will choose the successor to the lace leader hugo chavez two main candidates actually president nicolas maduro and he's opposition challenger and re cake a playlist both started their official campaign. as with huge rallies and enjoying chavez's pastoral blessing to become the next president madura made a pilgrimage to the late leader's birthplace pledging to win the election in his own hand a former bus driver he rose to the charter says foreign minister and vice president

and has vowed to preserve his legacy opinion polls show missouri is leading the race over his rival a centrist state governor and approval as was perceived as the wealthy you as a candidate told his supporters he is not the opposition but the solution to his wireless problems and earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to dr francisco domingo's of latin american studies and middlesex university who explains why murder is the favorite to win nicolas maduro has demonstrated to be a formidable communicates or is he saw. this able to use him by the land which he is the masses of a world he conveys a good message is he's very good very astute politically i think he's doing very well that's why he's leading in the polls. gaining if you like from the spontaneous outpouring of grief or for capitalizing or for want of a better word on the grief. oh i'm sure there is

a lot of sentiment about it i mean now of the chavez was a figure of haters in the international media now the population of venezuela realize how much he was loved with two million actually that came out in the streets to be a bit him fair world as him possibly was the biggest demonstration in the history of the country and any candidate whoever they are would be foolish not to use it however the key point is that i think is the message people are saying you know the mother is saying to them do you want the continuation of what you had with him for forty years improving it perfect a need or do you want to go back to the bottle days of the republic which the british represent and the message in that sense is very clear last mother oh i see this is really in between ten to forty percent in the polls. now food for thought while toughening a star is he's inviting families across britain tons of food is being run away the chair and later on were made the volunteers proving particularly good products

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the book about international airport in the very heart of moscow. you're watching aussies good to have you with us the taliban could regain a political foothold in afghanistan as soon as next chair i'm going to president hamid karzai says the taliban leader could run for presidency in the twenty eight fourteen election but the militants would have to renounce terrorism and violence that. nato is putting out its troops by the end of time with the afghan government . however the taliban are refusing to speak directly with president karzai describing him as an american puppet but they recently announced and readiness to

enter politics and have opened an office in daraa how to facilitate peace talks with the u.s. and also a contributor afshin rattansi says nato has contacts in the war zone is only helping bring senator in to gain political ground. the american public may be thinking what was the point of this debris relatives of all those thousands dead they must be getting a very strange picture of afghanistan and the taliban on the mall obama is going to run afghanistan is it going to be a pull out of course lots of people are asking the one hundred fifty thousand nato troops there now and already people are talking about fifteen thousand remaining on five different bases the continuous drone attacks and the atrocities committed by u.s. and nato and i say have troops of course do catalyzed protel about support it was only in the past week or so that a u.s. commando unit were thrown out of new york province after allegations of complicity

in kidnapping torture and summary executing people in new york province because i told the americans they better get out and of course those kinds of atrocities abound got it all in and support and dotty's lucy cough and of who's been top gun is down and covers the region explains what's behind cause i's a recent announcement. he's made this point numerous times before calling for the taliban to participate in elections is that stand is so open and democratic that even mullah omar were he to disarm essentially could run for office of course the reality is that this is a complete political nonstarter because the taliban have been very clear in their position they do not see the karzai government as being legitimate they have openly called it a puppet of the united states they refused to hold any sort of negotiations much less view the constitution as legitimate or offer any sort of candidate so again this is just sort of wishful thinking perhaps or rather a rhetorical remark by president hamid karzai than any sort of reality on the ground because the taliban has refused to negotiate with him there really isn't

very much that carves i can do in the situation for the taliban the number one position is this effectively to remove all foreign troops from the ground in afghanistan in order to do that why negotiate with the so-called puppet government when we can talk to the occupiers themselves but there's divisions within the taliban as well do they actually hold negotiations or should they fight until the occupiers the u.s. forces leave the country there are also divisions within the obama administration about this because while this war has been incredibly credibly costly to the united states and the taliban have long been an enemy for the u.s. many factions in the administration see the political solution as the only possible sort of way forward i mean it's been more than clear that military might isn't enough to eradicate the taliban so somehow talks have to take place but at the end of the day i don't think anyone actually really expects peace with the taliban anytime in the next few years for sure when i was in afghanistan most of the

afghans that i've spoken to have seen this deadline with looming trepidation in fact they think that once the americans draw down and there's no indication the americans will fully withdraw from the country but of course they will leave a massive power vacuum there is the potential for the country to descend into civil war and it also really remains to be seen what happens with the. twenty fourteen because again if the country doesn't isn't seen as sort of having a legitimate. non the corrupt elections it really could spark to much much much further unrest than we've seen so far and now another news across the globe dishonored police clashed with female protesters in the bangladeshi capital of dark only to take up to thirty people were injured during demonstrations as women of the islamic opposition demanded the release of a handwritten fifths of prisoners arrested during the recent deadly riot against the government homemade explosives were allegedly detonation before protesters set fire to police vehicles at the same time darker police have reportedly

a western story a series of bloggers who sparked islamic anger last month for alleged insults to islam and its profit. it's taken snipers less than twenty four hours to a blaze that undergoing finance minister who resigned after the country went from boom to bailout money to take his place is the country's labor minister the learning curve will be steep for buells geologists as he faces fierce opposition to cuts plans to bring cyprus banks on the brink of bankruptcy. now behind bars and starving for just hunger strike isn't gone tunnel they have been engaged in a desperate act of defiance for fifty seven days and the risk to their how it is growing rapidly however officials are continuing to talk down the scale of the protests the bunting and say so they're just thirty nine men refusing food but the lords insist it's more than three that number and his guest clash on this issue later on here in

our city. so these individuals that thomas keeps wanting described as innocent based upon the obama administration's review have had the opportunity to go in front of a federal judge and get an order requiring their release and failed to do so so suggesting that the court has concluded there is a legal basis to hold them so i think thomas overstates his case and then with respect to what charles is saying you know so now i'm going to say i try not to engage in a little spanish i don't want to engage in or you are oh you are you a lawyer a little level i think that let me finish please i don't want to get in this question as a political matter but i think it's going to be very difficult for any president whether it's obama or bush or republicans or democrats in congress to want to expend political capital on a politically unfavorable call it is that i have to do it justice what does it have to do with justice care what does it have to do with justice is part of what does it have to do with just exactly thomas go ahead yes it's tough but you do it it's tough but you do what you do the right thing by the way i don't know whether you

know it but i'm the guy who won the right behavior is corpus for those people and if you really know what it's a very thin review the most any evidence that the government has could. could justify their holding it under heavy b.s. that's why the administration did a thorough detailed review for each individual to see whether they really posed a threat and it concluded they don't and they should be released. and you can see the crosstown debate in fluency in about an hour. while the u.k. government is pushing for further story thousands of families across the country finding it more and more difficult to pay for basics even food meanwhile supermarkets and restaurants are embracing a throw away culture banning terms of good products each year always point to the

volunteers battling the trend that. plumbs that's again going to be good going into the deserts on cincy hydrates. down here we've got. lots and lots of. spring onions again. goods and absolutely free daniel volunteers at the people's kitchen it's an eco conscious collective in east london their aim to save food that would have been thrown away by shops and markets at the end of a day's trading today daniel and chef home are preparing to wow two hundred dinah's with a feast made from discarded food as a chef obviously i'm for being wise to every restaurant and i've never done on a big scale with the supermarkets and i'm not even larger scale at these big markets so the through that we're taking is not good enough to so to get to throw away it's kind of in that category there's a big gap that nobody's really doing anything about in the western world and it's just sad really that nobody has respect for the food it's just kind of ok so

there's some want to when there's people starving not just in the other countries where this food came from. in this country one in five of the u.k. population live below the poverty line but there's a dramatic discrepancy the rest of the population spends an average of just eleven percent of its budget on food the institute of mechanical engineers says that that's fueling a tragic throwaway culture with four point four million tonnes of food pinned avoidably each year in this fridge. it's ridiculous he had loads of groceries and you see you can see. these are just perfectly good maybe one or two bad ones but it's just really a matter of sorting them having someone to sort them so this is all a huge scale the fact that some down managed to salvage for their kitchen is likely to end up here as the landfill in fact over ten billion pounds worth of thing is thrown away in the u.k. each year that's a colossal amount of waste for such

a tiny island and before fruit and vege even hits the show. up to three quarters of it is discarded by pharma as just for not looking good enough at the moment we pay supermarkets and other food businesses to trash the planet to grow food and then. we need to make a demand as consumers they change their behavior as well when we go to supermarkets and see that. and all the apples look the same we need. the same supermarket do with all that. actually they stalk fruit and vegetables as they grow in a huge variety not uniformity. markets don't help by tempting customers with two for one deals consumers alert into buying excessive quantities of food. which ends up in the bin or spent many years visiting the skips of supermarkets literally . and what you see is

a ray of perfectly fresh good vegetables and fruit and other foods that have been thrown away and most people think gosh how disgusting to get food. it's true it is disgusting but what's disgusting is that with. the consumption food and while every link in the supply chain continues to throw away perfectly good. tom and dan can keep proving that finale there really is such a thing as a free lunch. east london. and as always on our website r.t. dot com six european countries declare war on google easy watchdogs how funded together to start legal action against the american search giant after it once again refused to alter its privacy policy so how to website for more details. than just a click away although we can leaks founder julian assange has been holed up in the

ecuadorian embassy in the u.k. for the past nine months it's not dampened his political aspirations taking part in the australian senate election on r.t. dot com we analyze his chances of victory. israeli prison guards or vice chair guys to quell disturbances which are ruptured in several prisons across the country hundreds of anger inmates protested after the death of a fellow prisoner my sorry dear died of throat cancer while serving a life sentence for his role in a foil bomb attack pretty soon officials accused israel of medical negligence and refusing to give him vital treatment despite his deteriorating health israel and says it did ask for an early release but it was already too late this kind also sparked a street marchers and clashes with police in various palestinian areas and earlier he spoke exclusively to marwan barghouti member of the palestinian parliament and former minister of information and he says people's anger is deep rooted and not

just over a few particular incidents. these. this are part of the. even the american interest in having stability in the middle east lors who think the situation in the middle east will remain as it is short sighted sooner than that with the brevity of democracy you would see more and more people in the middle east side by the palestinians demanding that out of the palestinians. and of course you can watch this exclusive interview with ma juan bugger to hit on aussie and six forty five champ and i'll be back with the news with more news for you in about thirty minutes time and in the meantime it's also his own label documentary taking a look at the wall of medical experiments and that potentially damaging side effects that's after the break. choose your language. call if we could with oh if you're going to kill some.

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