harsh rhetoric builds on the korean peninsula with many south koreans fearing war as feel young says bands access to a crucial industrial zone joint iran with seoul. also this hour a milestone deal in arms the un adopts a treaty supposed to control global trade of conventional weapons hailed as a landmark by some but criticized for lack of clarity by others. on the ten day countdown to the presidential election kicks off in venezuela with the charges blast obscene president in a race against a poor washington opposition leader. hello and welcome to all t. twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is you there ship of our top story now and north korea has suspended the south korean joint industrial zone in the

latest move in the ongoing conflict with washington and seoul young young also says it will restart a nuclear reactor to beef up its also after washington moved its military closer to the korean peninsula and let's now get more on this from south korea based journalist joseph kamal who's in seoul for as joseph hello there so souls next move following this increasingly harsh rhetoric from pyongyang they have to balance their own security issues and also american involvement how do they cope with all this how how do they juggle all this. well look as an industrial complex is seen as the last symbol in our korean cooperation the fact that north korea is willing and able to just cut it off it says a lot about what the current inner korean relations are at the current moment north korea is actually wanting to start a dialogue with the u.s. while the south korean president is newly elected north korea doesn't want to test

her limits and perhaps see if she's willing to change her policies towards north korea and the yanks main objective is actually to start a dialogue with the u.s. with north korea's recent what the u.s. calls provocations it's actually been easier for the united states to pivot its military back and say something about the pentagon has said that it was wanting to do to rebalance back into east asia so because of this we've seen a larger increased presence of military expansion by the u.s. into east asia during these annual drills something that we haven't seen before we saw the f. twenty two stealth fighter jets this week and we also saw the b. two stealth bombers last week so we're seeing a lot of money spent despite the eighty five billion dollars budget cut that the u.s. is currently going through so we see that washington is actually preparing

a lot of things to get back into east asia now whether this is for north korea or whether this is to counter the rising power of china we have to really see what's going to happen i'd cares if you were in seoul right now what's the atmosphere on the ground like that how do people of seoul feel about all this. well this kind of rhetoric and these threats from north korea or what people say are perceived threats have actually become common and mundane to many people in south korea but this time around the rhetoric has actually gotten a lot harsher so many south koreans are actually getting more of an eerie feeling on what this might turn out to be while they say that this is something about we've heard before at the same time they get the sense that perhaps this time it might be real. with this i went out into the streets of seoul and i talked to some people and they said that we're always embracing for war we're technically still out war

but we don't exactly know what will happen we've heard these things before but never have the come into like in terms of the young islands which was attacked three years ago many people there are actually worried we see that tourism is down there and that many people are visiting those islands as well as residentially many people are very worried that some local attack might happen but when i went back into the streets of seoul i saw that many people were saying that perhaps the provocations that the u.s. to seeing in terms of rhetoric from yang is actually brought out because of the military drills so if we maybe have a chance to listen to that. time regarding north korea's menacing action i don't feel a direct threat but i'm getting a little anxious and scared even the south korean government is taking a coercive stunt so it feels like it's getting closer when the us 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. the combined south korean us training is for our peace and stability defense capability is necessary for that 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. first of all it's not the first time north korea has issued threats so to us we don't feel the threats we don't perceive them to be dangerous but it seems there are a lot of things happening inside kim jong un's regime it seems that the u.s. is doing those things to make correct evaluation on king john so that the nuclear problem doesn't see it and i'm putting stress with south korea with the joint military drills but i don't think it is really helping in terms of into korean peace to. south korea based journalist joseph came updating us from

joseph many thanks indeed. the u.n. says the deadlock has gone too far now after pyongyang is claims that it will restart a nuclear reactor which has been shut for six years north korea said its missile units are combat ready and warned of a possible preemptive strike on the u.s. and saw shark has written extensively about u.s. foreign policy and politics and believes both sides should know they're playing a dangerous game that. when you escalate to this point any small mistake can turn into a major catastrophe and that's the danger of north korea itself knows that if it did attack you didn't attack the united states it would be committing national suicide united states 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 and they see these b two 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 made it 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 gaining access to north korea hasn't been an easy task for nice here he's an exciting you know chefs case among the few who have managed to report from the reclusive country and his thoughts and experiences with my colleague taiwan not 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 us 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 things if he really going to do he has 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 mad 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 of course more stories ahead for you including the clock's ticking for venezuelans to choose their successor to the late charges with former bus driver and now acting president nicolas maduro pledging to preserve their common dundas heritage and expert's opinion on the presidential races coming up in just a few minutes for you. but now the u.n. general assembly has passed a treaty to control the trade of conventional arms it prohibits the export of arms to countries under an embargo and the sale of weapons that could be used for war crimes or terrorism it also requires states to prevent conventional weapons are reaching the black market but as. reports now many feel the deal is a big u.s.

and lacking clarity. the treaty that the un general assembly passed this tuesday is the first attempt by the international community to try and regulate global arms straight 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 fauresmith mechanism so the success or failure depends on the will of the world's major export hers 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 russia and 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 and human rights assessments first so it's supposed 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 bahrain 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 iran or thrown state and this is a significant shortcoming in limited impact on the effectiveness of the international arms trade treaty. even though the united states supported the treaty at the u. way 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 obligations on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases the u.s. also signed it and yet never rectified it gun manufacturers like lockheed martin or a north of 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 its gun 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 check out. the presidential race

has kicked off in venezuela in ten days time the country will choose a successor to the lazy leader charges two main candidates for president nicolas maduro and his opposition challenger and re cake a pointless vote start of the official campaigns with huge rallies in joining china says possible blessing to become the next president maduro made a pilgrimage to the late leader's birthplace pledging to win the election his own or a school bus driver he rose to be chose his foreign minister and vice president and has vowed to preserve his legacy opinion polls show the during the race over his rival a centrist state governor and rekick uproots soca primrose capricious preserved perceived as the wealthy us backed candidate told his supporters he's not the opposition but the solution to this problems and that my colleague spoke to dr francisco dominik is of latin american studies at middlesex university who explains why the juries the favorite to win. nicolas maduro is demonstrated to be

a formidable communicate so is his own person is able to use in bali land which he is the masses very he conveys very good messages is very good very astute politically and i think he's doing very well thus where he's leading in the polls is gaining if you like from the spontaneous outpouring of grief for chavez is he capitalizing on 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 job is was a figure of haters in the international media now the population venezuela realize how much he was loved was two million actually that came out in the streets to be a bit him fair world as impossibly 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 improve in a perfect 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. food for thought now while toughening a stereotype is biting families across britain and towns of food is being grown away each year and later on we'll meet the volunteers proving particularly good products have been for no reason that's like.

the group of international landlords in the very heart of moscow.

you know washing aussies good to have you with as they turn about and could regain a political foothold in afghanistan as soon as next to a gun president hamid karzai says the taliban leader could run for presidency in the twenty fourteen action but the militants would have to renounce terrorism and violence to. nato is putting out its troops by the end of cars ice time with the afghan government pushing for peace talks however they ton of men 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 doha to facilitate peace talks with the u.s. and also a contributor afshin rattansi says nato has contacts in the walls are it is only helping the insurgents 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 their 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 are nice to have troops of course do catalyze protel about support it was only in the past week or so that the u.s. commando unit were thrown out of new york province drug ations of complicity in kidnapping torture and summary executing people in the province because i told the americans they better get out and of course those kinds of atrocities around collateral and support and. has been tarred gonna stand and covers the region explains what's behind karzai as 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 cars i can do in the situation for the taliban the number one position is this 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 be occupiers themselves but there's divisions within the taliban as well do they actually hold negotiations or do 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 incurred 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 that 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 legitimate. non the corrupt elections it really could spark to much much much further unrest than

we've seen so far. and another news across the globe this hour police clashed with protesters in the bangladeshi capital dhaka on tuesday thirty people were injured during demonstrations as women of the islamic opposition demanded the release of one hundred fifty prisoners arrested during the recent deadly riots against the government homemade explosives were allegedly detonated before protest is set fire to police vehicles at the same time dhaka police have reportedly arrested three aces bloggers who sparked islamic anger last month for alleged insults to islam and its profits. it's taken cyprus less than twenty four hours to plays there are growing finance minister here resigned after the country went from boom to bailout the man to take his place as the country's labor minister the learning curve for cherries. as he faces fierce opposition to cuts planned to bring cyprus by from the brink of bankruptcy. behind bars and starving for justice hunger

strikers in guntown of they have been engaged in a desperate act of defiance for fifty seven days now the risk of their house is growing rapidly however officials are continuing to talk down the scale of the protests the pentagon say there are thirty nine men refusing food but the lawyers insist it's more than three that number of his guests clash on this issue later on . so these individuals that thomas keeps wanting described as innocent based upon the obama administration's review 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 district or charles is saying well you know if you're going to say i tried not to engage in a little spanish i don't want to engage in or if you only 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 god is what do it justice what does it have to do is just what does it have to do with justice that's what does it have to do with justice artery thomas yes it's tough but you do it it's tough but you do it 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 to review is corpus for those people and if you really know what it's a very thin review that most any. veterans that the government hires could. could justify their holding it under a b.s. that's why the administration did is 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 crosstalk debate in full on r.t.

in about ten minutes time so stay tuned. while the u.k. government is pushing for further staring thousands of families across the country are finding it more and more difficult to pay for basics even food meanwhile supermarkets and restaurants are embracing a throw away culture then in terms of good products each year. the volunteers battling the trend that. so that's again going to be good going into the deserts for instance the hard drive. 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 say food that would have been thrown away by shops and markets at the end of a day's trading today daniel and chef tom 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 done on a big scale with the supermarkets and i'm up even larger scale at these big markets so the food that we're taking is not good enough to so to get to throw away it's kind of in that category as he forgot that i was really doing anything about it in the western world and it's just sad really that nobody has respect for the food it's just kind of ok to get someone to when there's people starving not just in the other countries where this food came from. and in this country one in five of the u.k. population lives 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 to eat case institute of mechanical engineers says that that's fueling a tragic throw away culture with four point four million tonnes of food. avoidably each year in this village. it's ridiculous he had loads of reason 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 fear that someone down managed to salvage for their kitchen is likely to end up here as the landfill in fact over ten billion pounds worth of food is thrown away in the u.k. each year that's a colossal amount of waste. such a tiny island. even hits the shelves up to three quarters of it is discarded by farmers just cannot get 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 consumers they change their behavior as well when we go to supermarkets and see the. same we need. why do all the fruits and vegetables look the same walk to the supermarket do with all the. actually talk fruit and vegetables as

they grow in a huge variety of uniformity the competitive supermarkets don't help by tempting customers with. 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 perfect. tom and dan can keep proving that finale there really is such a thing as a free lunch. he east london. and next as

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