trigger builds on the korean peninsula with many south koreans fearing war as pyongyang suspends access to that school short industrial zone jointly run with so . a ten day countdown to the president election kicks off in venezuela with the child is a blast acting president in a race against approve washington opposition leader. to milestone deal on arms the yuan adopts a treaty is supposed to control global trade of conventional weapons hailed as a landmark by some but criticized for a lack of clarity by others. international

news and comment live from moscow this is us he was me you know chicago hello and welcome to the program north korea has suspended a south korean access to a joint industrial zone the latest move in the ongoing conflict with washington and seoul also says it will restart a nuclear reactor to beef up its also after washington moved its military close to the korean peninsula and south korea based journalist joseph came isn't so says the u.s. increasing its presence in the area and gangs harsh rhetoric to speak will also increasingly worried. the south korean president is newly elected north korea doesn't want to test her limits and perhaps she's willing to change her policies towards north korea and the game's 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 station something that 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're seeing a lot of money spent despite the eighty five billion dollars budget cut that the u.s. is currently going through 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. done 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 coup 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. of an enemy 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. it is really helping in terms of into korean peace. so the u.n. says the deadlock has gone too far off to pyongyang as claims that it will restart a nuclear reactor which has been shut for six he is north korea ellis said its missile units are combat ready and warned of a possible preemptive strike on the u.s. senate so and shark has written extensively about he wants foreign policy and is

asian politics and believes both sides should know that 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 didn't attack you didn't attack the united states it would be committing national suicide united states would would retaliate in a tremendous fashion worth career 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 be two 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 so gaining access to north korea hasn't been an easy task for foreign media and talk he's an executive chef skase among the few who have managed to report from the reclusive country and he shared his thoughts and experiences with my colleague tom 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 in 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 thirty eighth parallel they're not divided by any other way what you know impression on north korea's. main he he's come people have said he's coming to change things if he really going to do it 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 his predecessor his granddad who was also a power he recently said he likes american computers mac computers is interested in everything happening in the world in particular the technology 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. we presidential race has kicked off in venezuela in turn days' time the country will choose the successor to the late leader hugo

chavez two main candidates actually president nicolas maduro and the opposition challenger and rekick a previous board started their official campaigns with huge iranis there so enjoying chances personal blessing to become the next president madura made a pilgrimage to the late leaders birthplace pledging one man when their action is or now a former bus driver here rose to the child this is foreign minister and vice president . to preserve his legacy opinion polls show madurese leading the race over his rival a centrist state governor and rick a capri let's so capricious perceived as the wealthy you are backed candidate told his supporters he's not the opposition but the solution to venezuela's problems and earlier my colleague cohen spoke to dr francisco dunn lingers head of latin american studies at middlesex university explains why madeira is the favorite to win nicolas maduro as demonstrated to be a formidable communicates of easy to. disable to use in volume land which he is the

masses of a world he conveys a good message is he's very good very astute politically and 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 was 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 in it or do you want to go back to the bottle days of republic which the british represent and the message in that sense is very clear last. isis is really in between ten to forty percent in the polls. now the taliban could regain a political food hold in afghanistan as soon as next year afghan president hamid karzai says the taliban leader could run for presidency in the twenty fourteen election but the militants would have to renounce terrorism and violence that nato is pulling out its troops by the end of countless term with the afghan government pushing for peace talks with the taliban are refusing to speak directly with president karzai describing him as an american puppet and they recently announced their readiness to enter politics and have opened an office and to facilitate peace talks with the u.s. also a contributor afshin rattansi says nato has contacts in the war zone 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 the 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 pullout of course lots of people are asking there hundred fifty thousand nato troops there now and already people are talking about fifteen thousand remaining on five different bases the continuous drone attacks the atrocities committed by us and later when i say have troops of course do catalyze 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 drug ations 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 around about it all and support and confidence has been top gun is down and covers the region explains what's behind karzai is

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 working 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 refuse 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 affectively 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 a part of 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 the 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's the potential for the country to descend into civil

war and it also really remains to be seen what happens with the. actions and twenty fourteen because again if the country doesn't isn't seen as sort of having legitimate. elections it really could spark to much much much further unrest than we've seen so far. food for thought now while toughening austerity is inviting families across britain tons of food is being thrown away each year and later on with the volunteers proving perfectly good products have been for no reason our report on that and more stories after this short break.

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this is also a welcome bok the u.n. general assembly house passed a tree sits a control the trade of conventional arms it prohibits the export of bombs it's a countries under an embargo on the sale of weapons that could be used for war crimes and terrorism so it also requires states to prevent conventional weapons reaching the black market but as all she's going to trick are reports now many feel the deal is a big u.s. unlike unclarity. 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 they 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 our 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 interpretation is 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 the number of states it was not reflected was the ban of the supply of weapons to north ryde state and this is a significant shortcoming in the middle east have in fact on the effectiveness of the international arms trade treaty. even though the united states supported the treaty at the 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 said 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 aura me 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. israeli prison guards have five c. a gun a stick well disturbances which are erupted in several prisons across the country hundreds of angry inmates protests after the death of a fellow prisoner by sorrow. died of throat cancer while serving a life sentence for his role in a forward to boma time but a senior officials accused israel of medical negligence and refusing to give him vital treatment despite his deteriorating health israel insists 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 i spoke exclusively to. see member of the palestinian parliament and former minister of information and he says peoples on gays deep rooted and not just over a few particular incidents. these settlements this upper third system contradicts even the american interest in having stability in the middle east think the situation in the middle east will remain as it is short sighted sooner than later with the prevalence of democracy you would see more and more people in the middle east side by the palestinians demanding that out of the palestinians. and you can watch this exclusive interview with marwan barghouti on r c at six forty five charity now in other news across the globe this hour police clashed with female protest is the lead on the college of dark on tuesday after thirty people were injured during demonstrations as a women of the islamic opposition demanded the release of one hundred fifty

prisoners arrested during the recent deadly riots against the government probably made explosives that were allegedly detonated before protests set fire to police protesters set fire to police vehicles at the same time dhaka police have reportedly arrested three aces the bloggers who sparked islamist anger last month for alleged insults to islam and its profit. that's taken cyprus less than twenty four hours through plays there are going finance minister who resigned after the country went from room to bailout the man who takes his place as the country's labor minister the learning curve will be steve. will be artist actually faces fierce opposition to cuts plans to bring us lifers back from good morning bankruptcy. while the u.k. government is pushing for further star issues 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 bending terms of good products each year one of the volunteers bucking the trend that. starts again going to be going through deserts on some three hundred. down here we've got. 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 i've seen for being wise to every restaurant and i've ever done on a big scale in the supermarkets and 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 to get someone 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. institute of mechanical engineers says that's fueling a tragic throwaway culture with four point four million tonnes of food pinned avoidably each year in this fridge with. its ridiculously are loads of reason 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 someone down managed to salvage for their kitchen is likely to end up here phil 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 for such a tiny island and before fruit and vege even hits the show. up to three quarters of it is discarded by farmers 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 waste a third of it we need to make a demand as consumers they change their behavior as well when we go to supermarkets and see that all the carrots straight and all the apples look the same we need to say hold on a sec why do all those fruits and vegetables look the same what do the supermarket do with all the ones and demand actually they stock fruit and vegetables as they grow in a huge variety not uniformity fiercely competitive supermarkets don't help by tempting customers with two for one deals consumers alert into buying excessive quantities of food up to half of which ends up in the bin or spent many years

visiting the skips of supermarkets and literally you open up a skip 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 out of the bin it's true it is disgusting but what's disgusting is that with throwing away the consumption food and while every link in the supply chain continues to throw away perfectly good projects tom and dan can keep proving that finale there really is such a thing as a free lunch. at sea east london behind bars and starving for justice hunger strike isn't gone time away had been engaged in a desperate act of defiance now for fifty seven days the risk to their health is growing rapidly however officials are continuing to talk down the scale of the protest the benjamin say there are thirty nine men refusing food but the lawyers

insist it's more than three that the number of people about his guests clash on this issue later on when elsie. 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 a 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 if you're kind of outside and i'm going to say i try not to engage in a little spanish i don't want to engage in or if you are loyal are you a lawyer a little level i think that i think let me finish please i don't want to gauge 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 i have to do it justice what does that have to do with justice care what does that have to do with justice is tough 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 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 habeas 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 hey 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 full later at about eleven thirty jams he want to see and up next a shays they mainstream media really pay attention to in breaking the set.

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with max keiser for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our. if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i got so many i mean . i know that i've seen the same thing really messed up. and we're all very sort of personally. worse for going through the white house soup of a. radio guy and four minutes from a cricket. club for about six years you've never seen anything like this i'm told.

it. would stuff guys. filling in for abby martin and i know i know you guys miss abby and i promise she'll be back here to break the set tomorrow but until then i want to tell you about a new campaign underway that's going to revoke president obama's nobel peace prize the petition launched by an organization called roots action is calling out the obama administration saying that it is quote widen the use of drones and other instruments of remote killing in several countries and it made perpetual war look even more perpetual than ever since just me or is it a bit ironic that a peace award is going to the same man that's managed to completely destabilize it it's about that time let's break the set.