builds on the korean peninsula with many south koreans fearing war as pyongyang access to a crucial industrial zone that is jointly run with. a ten day countdown to the presidential election kicks off in venezuela with the. acting president. and. the u.n. treaty supposed to control global trade of conventional weapons. criticized for a lack of clarity. a

pleasure to have you with us here on a day. live in moscow with your news from around the world. north korea has suspended 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 arsenal after washington moved its military close to the korean peninsula south korea based journalist joseph reports from seoul. the south korean president is newly elected north korea doesn't want to test her limits and perhaps if she's willing to change her policies towards north korea and the game's main objective is actually to start dialogues 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 see 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 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 buying on

the net 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. and in the meantime the u.n. says the deadlock has gone too far and north korea claimed its missile units are combat ready and warned of a possible preemptive strike on the u.s. and seoul. has written extensively about u.s. foreign policy and east asian politics it believes both sides should know very well that the playing a role the dangerous game when you escalate to this point any small mistake can turn into

a major catastrophe and that's the danger north korea itself knows that if it didn't attack it didn't attack the united states it would be committing national suicide united states would retaliate in a tremendous fashion north 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. 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 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 and gaining access to north korea hasn't been an easy task for foreign media. among the very few who have managed to report from the reclusive country a bit earlier he shared his thoughts and experiences with my colleagues to buy in months. 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 said 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 green 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's your impression on north korea. mean he he's come people have said he's coming to change the if they really are going to do there'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 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. live from moscow this is r t the presidential race has kicked off in venezuela in ten days time the country will choose the successor to the late leader chavez the two main candidates acting president nicolas maduro and his opposition challenger and they. both started their

official campaigns with huge rallies benefiting from chavez was a personal blessing to become the next president maduro made a pilgrimage to the late leader's birth to win the election in his honor opinion polls show my daughter was leading the race over his rival. interesting straight governor about a. perceived by some as the us back and told his supporters who used a solution to venezuela's problems is advocating a free market economics combined with strong welfare spending my colleague kevin irwin spoke to dr francisco domingo head of latin american studies at middlesex university and he explains why my daughter is the favorite. nicolas maduro to be a formidable communicate so is his own person is able to use him body language he used the masses very he conveys very good messages is very good very astute

politically and i think he's doing very well that's why he's leading in the polls is gaining if you like from the spontaneous outpouring of grief or for chavez is he capitalizing for one of a better word on the grief oh i'm sure there is a lot of sentiment about it i mean chavez was a figure of haiti's 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 i think possibly was that big is 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 republic which the british represented and the message in that sense is very clear last for your

mother who is living between ten to forty percent in the polls. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. and a landmark deal to regulate the arms trade at the u.n. adopt a treaty aimed at controlling exports of conventional weapons to advance humanitarian concerns critics doubt its effectiveness and with many claims of loopholes right now details on that just just ahead for you. are just getting ten minutes past the hour here in moscow the afghan president hamid karzai says the taliban leader could run for presidency in the next year's election he made the comments days after his return from qatar and with the afghan government agreed that the group can open an office in doha if they renounce terrorism and nato is pulling out his troops by the end of cars i the afghan government pushing for peace talks however the taliban are refusing to speak directly with president karzai describing him as an american

puppet and they hope to use the doha office to facilitate peace talks with the u.s. contributor afshin rattansi says nato is conduct in the war zone 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 if 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 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 a u.s. commando unit were thrown out of new york province after allegations 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 abound that i would not support. and artie's lucy catherine offers reported from afghanistan intends to cover the region explains what's behind karzai is clay. 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 as 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 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 do they fight until the occupiers the u.s. forces leave the country there's also divisions within the obama administration about this because while this war has been a bit of probably 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 released a clear 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 is the potential for the country to descend into civil war and it also really remains to be seen what happens with the. two thousand and fourteen because again if the country doesn't isn't seen as sort of having legitimate. elections it really could spark much much much further unrest than we've seen so far. this is auti and food for thought while toughening austerity is biting families across britain and tons of food is being thrown away each year a bit later in the program we meet the volunteers proving the public really good products for no reason a report on that on other stories off to the break. you

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thanks for joining us here today on rule re sushi in moscow the un general assembly has passed a treaty to control the trade of conventional arms and it prohibits the export of arms to countries under an embargo on the sale of weapons that could be used for war crimes or terrorism but also require states to prevent conventional weapons reaching the black market with these guy nature can reports many feel the deal is ambiguous 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 foresman 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 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 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 and human rights assessments first so it's supposed to tie our arms sales to the buyer's 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 cause of the number of states it was not reflected was the ban of the supply of weapons to known or thrown state and this is a significant shortcoming which will inevitably have impact on the effectiveness of the international arms trade treaty. even though the united states supported the treaty at the year 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 said all the patients on the industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases the u.s. also signed it and yet they have a right to fight it gun manufacturers like lockheed martin or northrop grumman have an army 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 countrymen 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 check out. the israeli prison guards who fired tear gas to quell disturbances which erupted in several persons across the country hundreds of angry inmates protested off the death of a fellow prisoner. died of a state of throat cancer while serving a life sentence for his role in a bomb attack palestinian officials accuse israel of medical negligence in 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 the scandal also sparked street launchers and clashes with police and various palestinian areas. spoke exclusively to one member of the palestinian parliament and former minister of information he says people's anger is deep rooted and not just over a few particular incidents. these settlements and this are part of the contradicts even the american interest in having stability in the middle east those who 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 and demanding that out of the palestinians. you can watch other full exclusive interview with her mother one about a cootie that will be here on r t eighteen at forty five g.m.t. . and while the u.k.

government is pushing for further austerity thousands of families across the country are finding it more and more difficult to pay for basics even food meanwhile supermarkets and restaurants are in bracing a throw away culture binning tons of good products every year art is probably the volunteers who are battling the trend plums thoughts again going to be good going in through the desert points of the hydro to 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. the supermarkets and even larger scale at these big markets so the through that is not

good enough to sow to throw away it's kind of a not agree there's a forgotten nobody's 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 this 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 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. institute of mechanical engineers says that that's fueling a tragic throwaway culture with four point four million tonnes of food avoidably each year in this fridge. it's ridiculous you know loads of groceries and you see you can see. these are just perfectly good maybe one or two bad ones but it's just it's really a matter of sorting them having someone to sort them so this is

a huge scale the fact that someone down managed to salvage for their kitchen is likely to end up here as 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 before even hits the shelves up to three quarters of it is discarded by farmers just. they're not looking good enough at the moment we pay supermarkets and other food businesses to trash the planet to grow food and 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 did the supermarket do with all the demand actually they stalk fruit and vegetables as they grow in a huge variety of 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 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. 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 perfect projects tom and dan can keep proving that finale there really is such a thing as a free lunch. see east london. talk about being behind bars and starving for justice hunger strikers in guantanamo bay have been engaged in a desperate act of defiance and now for fifty seven days the health is growing

rapidly over officials continue to talk down the scale of the protest and the pentagon says there are thirty nine men refusing food the lawyers insist it's more than three times that number. on the issue later today here on our city. 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 with respect to what charles is saying well you know if you're trying to get some 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 what you are you a lawyer a little level i think that i think let me finish please i don't want to gauge on 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 had to do it justice what does it have to do is just it is care what does that have to do with justice off what does it have to do it 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 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 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. you can see the entire crosstalk debate or that will be you know almost exactly one hour here on the we will continue exploring the world of medical experiments and

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