also have a korean folk song as a common anthem. officials from both countries have been a meeting throughout the week to discuss peace efforts but the seeming reproach ment between the koreas has not convinced the u.s. president who said he is not sure the talks can lead to anything meaningful also this week the u.s. and allies of the one nine hundred fifty s. korean war gathered in canada for separate talks on the current crisis and agreed more pressure is the only solution. the person. decides to do i think. is to send out a very clear message we want to intensify that pressure discord to include cutting off diplomatic ties to his north korea. we spoke to human rights lawyer eric surat can he says washington fears dropping out of the spotlight in the korean crisis president. somehow believes that this pressure approach is the this is

something different than has been applied before which it isn't and in reality he wants to pull back some of the thunder if you will back to washington because you have again the north and south talking i think the u.s. is a little jekyll and hyde with its policies because on one hand it wants to have a resolution wants to have de mille nuclearization wants to have peace and on the other hand pumps up this rhetoric and so the motivations relate to finances they relate to geo political factors of the u.s. power in the region if you will and they relate to trying to ice out china and russia a little bit as a player in this as was evident in vancouver. more than thirty people are feared to have been killed in an overnight siege at a major hotel in afghanistan's capital of kabul that's according to reports citing

security officials authorities put the death toll at nineteen including. a high ranking afghan diplomat and fourteen foreign nationals most of them the employees of a local airline all of the five attackers were killed in the attack the taliban claims that it was behind the assault. i think unfortunately the afghan security forces are just not. up to the standards or there's too much pressure on them and there's not much coordination between nato

forces and the afghan police there are multiple threats there's the taliban there's ice is there's also has missed it which is also in the government so there are a number of opponents and i think that this simply isn't the right intelligence to counter these kind of attacks though because they're happening on the regular basis one day it's a civilian target one day it's a military target one day it's a commercial road or a hotel like today had to counter terrorism in afghanistan you need regional approach and the regional approach means working with iran working with pakistan and working with russia and the central asian states at the moment the u.s. is not really doing that they have their own strategy and it's not doesn't fit in with the regional strategy. for drug related crimes are becoming so bad on parts of the paris metro that train drivers are reportedly refusing to stop at certain stations that is going into a union representing the metro and bus network in the french capital largely trial dubinsky went underground with. them. most parisians the metro is

a staple of life with its winding tunnels and lines that stretch across the city it's often the easiest way to get from a to b. but down in the underground the gritty underbelly of the capital is being exposed drug related crime and violence has been a long standing issue paresis metro but now the unions representing the train drivers say it's inspiring out of control dealers including those taking crack cocaine a new role god thing they've doing. lighting up metro drivers is so fearful of attacks at some stations many are choosing to longer stop there a survivor more force of i'm not pro quo is very dangerous and it's terrifying if it can range from a simple punch to people using nails and knives. stations like marks door more

and market a year or especially troubled druggies has come here for their daily fix and gangs have taken over for problem of. the problem is very dangerous for both the metro workers and for the commuters it's even more dangerous they are targets of fast i've seen more than one hundred attacks take place within minutes of arriving at mark's door metro station we witnessed what looks like a drug deal the man with his back to the camera has just arrived with a bag in hand he walked the platform stopping and exchanging some packages with people and then he left with his bag empty this seems to be the new normal. there are lots of drug users and i think that with everything that's happening in the match though they should be doing something most of the time the drug users are

aggressive and everyone is afraid. the security of my children. twenty twenty five. lived there we would we verse of course. have been attacked just one time because. we had in the middle of the night is smart for. playing with that problem as a precipice a problem as the security robberies can happen sometimes it's maybe aggression physical aggression sometimes to my ceasar man attack another young man. as we travel through some of the most dangerous stations we saw metro security and police trying to crack down on the problem this exceeded in moving this bunch along but in reality all they've done is move the problem to another stop on to another day

charlotte even ski r.t. paris. in germany the s p d party convention has voted in favor of launching coalition talks with are the americans party and even though the result is what you have pretty leader martin chavez has been campaigning for has been anything but an easy ride for him as artie's peter oliver reports. this was the result that martin schultz wanted it was the result he campaigned for but it was real hard stuff as the leader of the social democrats waited for this result to come in he was visibly nervous waiting for the well what was certainly not a foregone conclusion it ended up being three hundred sixty two votes in favor with two hundred and seventy nine votes against joining the coalition with angola merkel so they are going to go forward with that but what schultz did lay out in a speech there to delegates and so board members before the vote it was really a speech that was more pleading than it was inspirational he said there was only

two options you either go into coalition with angela merkel we have fresh elections and it was very clear which one he preferred that you do you know you everyone should realize the question is coalition talks for you elections my take on this is very clear i don't think new elections are the right way for us. well it was a visibly relieved and schultz that received those results he definitely doesn't want another election in the region for that is because of just how badly the last election went for the social democrats and there's no sign of that turning around any time soon last time around in september they lost forty seats in almost dipped below twenty percent of votes cast for representatives in the german parliament he's also going to have to of course know if he's going to form this coalition he's going to have to cross some social democratic party red lines namely on quotas for

refugees that his party opposes also on social spending which he's party want to see increased and that's why this whole campaign to decide whether the social democrats would go into coalition with angela merkel's conservatives that has a vision it's so in well and truly within the social democratic ranks we saw a big campaign lord. by their youth wing saying that they didn't want to be part of government they wanted four years of opposition in order to try and get the party back to the roots where they believe it comes from so how will it look if this goes as it's been put forward on sunday evening well what it would mean is that the social democrats would no longer be the largest opposition party they would be part of the government again and that would mean that the main opposition party well that role would go to the alternative for germany the right leaning and to establishment party they would get that role it would be new ground for the ever they would get everything that comes with it including the traditional role of

being the head of the budget committee. which is quite interesting when you look at it because in the lead up to the previous election martha schultz of all the senior members of the social democrats had said a.f.d. had no position whatsoever in the bundestag and should have no position in the world in trying to hang on to power may well put them into the main seat in german opposition. geo political analyst ron arad force says the social democrats are losing much of their working class support to the right leaning and fifty. d. has already a great deal to the worker class then the s.p.d. which was the original. historic basis for the s.p.d. over a century now the s.p.d. for example lobbies very strongly for bringing into germany more refugees.

they have more in mind of the rights of refugees than their workers' rights that's at least what. portrays the s.p.d. . what. of two perceived. capitalize on this why it took this blank space left i've asked people here. schools in three russian cities were attacked by their students this week resulting in dozens injured six people detained. it was in the north with her children screaming very loudly we were scared at first we thought it was a joke meanwhile but then we realized it was serious thought there might have been a fire or a bomb we ran i saw three little children covered in blood honestly it was horrible blood was spilling from heads from necks absolutely horrible. some guys told me their two youngsters their masks run into the classroom injured

a teacher started stabbing kids then one of them jumped out the window trying to escape another cat running trying to injure the children and hurt himself. the man to the class and inflicted injuries sustained free school children any teacher with the next a child received a blow to the face another one was struck on the back and another girl. was it isn't as clear as it was in

a calm nothing like this could have been expected from that action and i know many could have anticipated this would happen. that when i look at the list to. tell you. the motives of all the attackers are still unknown but officials suspect assaults were inspired by the columbine school massacre in the u.s. in one thousand nine hundred ninety back then that attack left fifteen people dead including the two attackers and twenty four injured. police believe the three incidents in russia are connected to each other that is prompting russian lawmakers to push for the closure of so-called columbine ors groups on russia's largest social media platform is paid for example is believed to belong to one of the perm suspects it shows subscriptions to several groups dedicated to the columbine attack and contains videos about the killings. for people have filed a lawsuit against the city of berkeley in california and its university for

injuries that they claimed they received during anti trump riots on the campus there last year the violence erupted over a speech that was to be given at the university by a prominent conservative. we

talked to katrina who is taking legal steps against berkeley university. but when the attack started and specially after i was pepper sprayed i was completely incapacitated there was nothing i could do to defend myself so i had no choice but to turn around and just face the barricade i was worried about what was happening to my husband it turned out he was just a few feet away from me being beaten worse than any of us he was being unconscious the efforts by the police both the city and the campus police were clearly inadequate given what happened when the injuries that were sustained right i saw personally it was police initially standing outside of the building that they later locked us out of i thought in their knowledge with a wave and by the time the attack actually started they were nowhere to be seen they had locked themselves inside the building and wouldn't give us any aid at all university of california berkeley has declined to comment the city itself

previously filed court motions seeking to dismiss a similar case but the lawyer representing the victims says they want to send a message to campus staff and police to do a better job. the injuries caused to her clients two of which were beaten unconscious and still suffer from psychological disorders post-traumatic disorders so they are seeking money damages to compensate them for that but the main goal of this case is to send a message to campus police and campus universities that they they have to do their job you know i liken what happened here. the deliberate effort to not intervene and to not do anything to fire him and watching a building on fire with their with their opposes water pouring out of them but they're too afraid to go into the building because they might get hurt it's the goal of law enforcement it's the role of law enforcement i should say to serve and

protect the public and they did not do that. sixteen people have been injured as the result of a train crash in sydney australia at least five people needed to be hospitalized others had minor injuries the train ran into a barrier at the end of a railway station in the northwestern part of the city police are investigating the cause of the crash which is still unclear. and it doesn't for me i'll be back in a little bit less than thirty three minutes with a full look at your weekly what you are to international. here's what people have been saying about redacted and i suspect it's. the only

show i go out of my way to times you know what it is that really packs a punch. believe it yeah because the john oliver of harvey america is doing the same. apparently better than blues. and c. people you never heard of love redacted tonight the president of the world bank very interested in seriously send us an e-mail. fun and welcome to all the parts of europe but not with it for centuries both russia and the united kingdom struggled to find their relationship with continental europe over the last few here is both seem to have decided to go their separate

ways and even both seem to be pulled back what does europe thing of it and what is europe after all well to discuss that i'm now joined by giuliana the former prime minister of italy and now the country's constitutional court in charge mr mara it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time. now about two years ago you wrote about how a dangerous cultural divide is now growing between russia and the west i wonder if your sense of concern has been allayed since then our has a on the contrary intensified well i don't know whether he turns intensified to suit to me it is still there and. the more i think of it the more it seems to me as sort of nonsense economic political and also historical in my view something has happened which we are responsible that has created again in this country in russia

the sense of being sued or wrong the other is we don't really want us. i mean you as partner is or ally but somehow that as they were saying are defending themselves against us no these goes back to the all the history you will know of this country and makes it acceptable to make it very clear and short in my view it was a mistake to bring need to directly to the border of russia well i'm sure many people in russia would agree or agree with you on that point but i personally don't think that's the only point of contention here but i want to see something that here mentioned in that very same article the point that i haven't

heard anyone else make and that is that russia's criticism toward western countries is similar to the gravitas that the jihadist movements a spouse towards the west what made you reach that conclusion you know. the fact there are these identity tarion culture that is gruelling again inside the russian saul brings itself a. distance between yourself and our societies this distance is under the line and by saud to criticism that is similar to the criticism of mostly integra least people. the west with valueless societies the west materialistic the west against through the holy values around

which a community is formed now these go. behind the soldier in its. the whole the notion of the mother russia. and it creates actually a distance this is something that they found the frightening because they diffusion of these kinds of criticism really creates. a deep a gap but it made mr mudd if i may interject here i think this is a very interesting observation i think it's also very true but i would point to what lies at the root of. jihadist sentiment toward the west is not some cultural separation but primarily in this the sounds of and just as the sense of an indignity the bloodshed the suffering that western countries brought in too many arab society i'm sure they were driven by good intentions there was always things

that it's doing the right thing but i think what matters to the afflicted country is not the intentions but the actual result don't you think that russia has the reason to be concerned at the same kind of do gooding would be visited upon it by the western countries i'm in i see an enormous difference here between the two situations. you wouldn't deepen these pull into much more the needed because if we saw a problem that exists between us. and it is the ukrainian problem probably all of these differences can be watered down little birdie little reste or ring the common now bertie that existed years ago so i don't think that it is necessary really so you know

all of us have a dark side the problem is whether we do things that are was to keep it compressed you mentioned the dark side and i have a lot of friends in. in the west who believe that russia needs to be saved from the thought that it is sad on spreading your words serve serve to be saved from our there exactly but what the people in the west thing is that russia is trying to spread its vices you know corruption operatives and authoritarianism and what the west thinks of itself is that it is spreading its virtuous you know a democracy or a point this is not my but it is that in the case in the craze of ukraine it is not so loud it don't do it that well is resized because it is an example. of that country is not good and is not. protected by russia but the choice that was presented before the ukrainians was either you stay with this dark country

to your east the more there russia which is forever doing to authoritarianism we'll join our you know western club and they are perfect not necessarily so it was simply you are here. the eastern preferred thirty thirty of the union you can join the union not necessarily can be here in a union though the moment they would see take it easy. i want to song born to do anything because i'm only an old man but i think that solving the problem we have with russia is a priority in reducing the pressure around this border is a priority but of course it's. that can three russia has a responsibility now which is also visibly international law as you well know but

i don't want to puta the things in these terms i simply say let us take this idea of the ceasefire seriously this is do it but mr. i appreciate you mentioning international law because i think it's this question is absolutely central to the differences between the current challenge that in russia and the west because the law you may argue that the law international law was transgressed in ukraine but it was also a transgressed in libya it was also transgressed in iraq i think in syria nobody even protests that it exists anymore and i'm sure as a constitutional lawyer this issue would be very near and dear to your heart of the law and not only as a mechanism of justice but as a mechanism of restraint how can we bring bags they respect to the international law back into international politics so this is a very good question and it implies i suppose this is my brute in the view should we europeans really adopt

a common foreign policy i'm convinced that a common foreign policy would abide internation the law much more easily as you well know the intervention in libya was decide the one place plus one european the country's not the european union it could never have been a european initiative but the italy still eagerly participated in it so italy perhaps would have done it either way it's early. in. the. major bombing of tripoli through the no it was the sword took food stage but in any event to defend the me here or to explain to you there. has been a leader in the founding fathers year. or so we

have to fear their way to this day it's what was the reason for it the reason why because as long as they enjoy. clews eve so good and they were really aggressive to those and they would violate the rules these this continued this spying to the european union of mostly because the european union is not a union in foreign policy what makes you believe that you even if you strengthen the mechanisms of integration if you make them more formal that there is a tendency as will be rain then because there is a you know as we know in politics there is always a formal way but when the formal way doesn't work you can always use is not a matter for mallet is this is a matter of sharing decisions and their food made these decisions. only after the necessary consensus has been reached around the

european union the decision to attack. libya could not have been taken what can i tell you believe the i have no order because this is a counterfactual history and history is another one but i am still convinced that there really. is very useful to reduce their aggressive propensity but it was not the head that that's the thing it was not an act of aggression i think back in two thousand and eleven it was seen as a humanitarian intervention and it will be something good it was basically eliminating gadhafi so you don't think it was trying to spread the european and western values so mentally you know it was eliminating there is an opinion here in russia that one of the reasons why the united states and to some extent western

europe make the four positive such as that they make is that because they have been following insulated from the consequences of those decisions now europe is no longer insulated from its policy from the consequences of its foreign policy in. in the middle east and north africa you're dealing with lots of migrants coming into your country it is putting a serious challenge to you and compounding many of the challenges that you face at the moment do you think that may in a way sober up the decision making when it comes to international politics at least as far as the european if you need the most amount to we're not still in and so successful as we are in economic this is and to lead so we have been successful in. individual rather in the spreading them on an equal be to.