some that it would be encouraging north korea for its bad behavior but i think the relevant question here is also whether it would encourage trump for his bad behavior because you mentioned that he's policy of essentially blackmail hasn't worked so far if that summit indeed takes place. wouldn't that make bellicosity and democratic in part a more acceptable form of foreign policy i know that for the time being both russia and china are endorsing the idea of the meeting between kim and trump but i suppose they would be just as happy to have trump threatened in the same manner i lost them i chipped russia and china has much more force and much more they're much more capable or biting back and nobody would trade a zero russia would share in session of a saw oh yes it's a kind of a bad example but let's face it norsk audience for dk is confused same blackmail

tactics for me it's a bit funny to see how the same critics if for decades have been favorable to. business same efficiency it is coming young it's a bit funny to see when basically you know tromp try to join in the huge honor himself it's a bit for funny all this fayyad feuding and all this stuff i don't think is going to be applied on similar scale to any serious op and and north korea is their job but it's basically reza small and very poor come well certainly nobody likes to get a taste of his or her own medicine professor lengel free have to take a very short break now but we will be back in just a few moments stay tuned. there's

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seoul now professor frank on just before the break you commanded donald trump on the success at least initial success of his blackmail tactics. but the news of the last few moments and we are recording this show on tuesday is that donald trump decided to fire his chief diplomat secretary of state the facts teller sent the question to you is why the donald trump at this point of time has the team to capitalize on these initial diplomatic gains das he actually have. negotiators diplomats who would take this initial success and develop it into something more concrete of well in your shaping is going to be a tough this is a major program because it's an open secret that president trump despises his diplomats and well i would say is the feelings are largely large kate therefore will last say a year or so

a lot of highly skilled people have left the state department and essentially is now the door have a single person who has experience often initiating visit. moss people in the state department kerry and i knew commerce it's a big problem how well they're going to develop is a great strategic success the it's admitted it was a strategic success it she of by presidents diplomacy i am a bit skeptical because mosconi else are very good very tough negotiators there's a dawn change there for us for many years to come some of people have been negotiating visit americans for twenty years and this people. all the points and probably will take advantage of it so well it's probably good news because if everything because becomes a mess it will be bad news not only for the united states not only for mosconi it will be bad news for sellers carrier for chan and of course for russia for your

russian now you mention both russia and china and i think up until recently at least both of them have expressed cautious endorsement of this initiative for you know that moscow has even gone as far as to suggest that this summit may take place in moscow died off for i think was downplayed later on in the kremlin but i think it's still on the table do you think there is any chance of either russia or china stepping into the void and how pink ministration to secure these deal for the benefit of global security i'm very i'm we have to tread very carefully here not to invite any accusations of collusion but at the end of the day i think we would all agree that you know the peace on the korean peninsula is in the best interest of humanity isn't it not only humanity home energy is something abstract but they have argued just a few minutes ago. in korean peninsula is an interest of russia

because russian interests and for basically cheney a centrist a very simple cost russia warm. second russia of one's status quo sought russia of ones didn't care. if mr trump if president did mean business if he was really going to deliver a strike against moscow here messy war this city you clear of all but a mess of war was the most likely outcome therefore any kind of reduction in tension is a good news for russia however talking about their possible negotiations on moscow well until recently it would be a good idea to have laws. sells kadian summit or c. assignments a b. to b. in north korean leaders and u.s. president or western leaders it would be a good idea to have them in russia maybe there's a city in moscow where you are still because of on the full seated tour the you can be sure or maybe in my native petersburg why not maybe not moscow but not now. said

truth is right now russian issue is very big in the united states probably it has never been the case that russia attracted so much and favorable attention well since maybe as a nine hundred fifty years since their anti communists fear communist scare saw it to be probably a good idea if russia is too much involved in this negotiations not now in the long run yes but now it's probably safer to just avoid maybe a. little sort of the situation because well sometimes russia would be happy to see americans in trouble but in kerry is such troubles very easy can develop into russia or trouble there is an actual commitment from kim jong un to having this summit with south korean leader president. in the next month and if that happens that would also be i suppose a major breakthrough the third such summit in history. who do you think has more at

stake at this meeting and do you see it as a stepping stone towards meeting with trump or does it have a value in and of itself a larger step in store because surprisingly scarier is it generally very pro american country even as a political forces which used to be entier american of the past like say supporters of the current president they are much much more favorable about the united states now beach however does not mean that they like about you kooris president however nouns are less inspired of all this right now nor scary and. in this. same boat because in the long run as nuclear weapons constitute a mess of denture for the soul scary and bad it's for maybe in the long run maybe the end when we are talking decades right now their major threat south korea faces

is a threat or a military operation initiated by the united states easily escalate into of war and if we have a war it will be lost and so i was scared eons who are going to die in large numbers so right now the an interest is to reduce tensions do i understand you correctly that you're essentially suggesting that south korea feels donald trump a little bit more than it fears him turned on yes as an immediate threat yes it's a tactical threat it's a long run of course kim jong il is a problem for south koreans but in the short iran it was probably mr trump so what i see is that they're basically playing together most and just to reduce the tension to create the impression of there are now more scatty and are ready to talk and there are ready to make concessions and they are indeed actually ready to talk and indeed are ready to make concessions talking about the north south korean summit unfortunately cells kerry and president has very little freedom of

action it can not the problem is any kind of economic assistance to last year because such assistance would be a violation not only of the u.s. borders cibot of the internationally approved e.u. and sanctions it's not an issue to talk about as a military should because it's going to be blocked by the united states as well and of course everything related to the nuclear problem is exclusively exclusively an area where all of the exclusive american interests so basically if they can smile discuss the quality of meat and barbecue or maybe approve some kind of nice cultural exchanges. you know. and you know of in here they can not discuss anything serious saw is that laci if you will be a stepping stone to this summit be to be in trump and team sign me to be sure you

really can't. pass for future negotiations and cooperation and exchanges between. having said that i think what it least i find very fascinating is this new role the south koreans found themselves in because they're essentially now acting as messengers between pyongyang and washington rather than you know being a separate party to the conflict and i think that's that's a very interesting development i don't think we've ever had. south korean officials communicating to the americans what the north koreans want do you see any do you see that as a positive development for the inner careen negotiations because i suppose that when you act as a not a necessarily as a mediator but at least as a go between in the your optics shift a little bit and i think you you try to prepare the debates for a compromise a little bit more than the you would if you were acting in your own capacity at

dawn forty they would try really hard to prepare ways for compromise because if shooting starts it really is a subtle study as who are going to die in large numbers including a lot of people in the top political idiot so they're working hard on board and talking about their role of digits into this uprising and it's also unnecessary because bourse north koreans and the americans perfectly kept about the things themselves and contrary to what most people suspect this kind of claim to stein on the official secrets channels of communication between volition and have always been at the racial of whatever. they not only count talks they have been talking for all this time and the decision to include moscow here. is largely done because first of all north scatty and diplomats want to use the two drives of h. between cells get in and united states and they also want to create sort of if you

like it's front business i was kadian government because for the time being as they have set for boris north. possible media theater ration by the americans can see a greater threat then a city tickle possibility of over was war between themselves which is not going to happen anytime soon so they want to sort of you united front and i merican all civil bleich to give some kind of good to make some gestures to emphasize the significance of the cells carry that's to shore that basically it's normal about playing some games behind their back but professor link i think it was reported in the new york times just there the other day that. south korean officials are searching not only as mass injures between pyongyang and washington but essentially . the americans are making them play the role of spokespeople because at the end of the day if it was a south korean official who announced

a willingness to negotiate with with it with the north is that a form of had risks on the part of the trumpet ministration or simply he is a whole lot of knowledge about how the diplomatic niceties are supposed to work out because i think it's also pretty unprecedented to have a north korean official to communicate the will of the american president to the world. it's exactly what they have just set. are valuable now for their medical and american administration and maybe american diplomacy to emphasize their significance and this is via such an. the measure was taking basically americans are sending a signal to saul you are a part of the team if you're probably abject you really can do very little by the take you very seriously and you're going to give you

a lot of extra rights because your part of the team and basically ignore scotty and are also sending a somewhat similar signal look the boss i afraid of this strange guy is the vital house is in our joint interest to reduce the tension for the time being maybe in twenty years that all of the threads we are going to fight one another and that changed nuclear strikes because got balls can easily go nuclear venture but for the time being our major problem is across all show let's act well professor lane cause i guess you can find a silver lining even in the darkest cloud and if trump's unpredictability provides for this bonding experience between the two koreas so be it anyway we have to leave it there i really appreciate your being on the show today and to our viewers please keep the conversation going in our social media pages as for me hope to see you again same place same time here under worlds apart.

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choose russia breaching the chemical weapons couldn't finish in an emergency u.n. security council session over the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter. the u.k. government. said it was highly likely that russia was responsible for this. we haven't seen anything but highly likely as of yet. british prime minister of. twenty three russian diplomats and even though police are yet to announce any specific suspects. also ahead in the program claims. on the world in berlin is undermining the city's police force with criminal infiltrating its ranks. the final frontier. for the

u.s. military as well trump suggests a space force. live from moscow to the world this is our international thanks for choosing us for euro news update this hour my names you know neal our top story the u.k. government has accused russia of breaching the international a chemical weapons convention the statement came out of an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council called by london over the poisoning of russian double agent surrogate script and his daughter in britain last week. the u.k. government concluded that it was highly likely that russia was responsible for this reckless and we haven't seen anything but highly likely as of yet we have concluded

that mr scruby pro and his daughter were poisoned with a novi shock a military grade nerve agent of a type developed by russia. if britain is so confident that it was not a truck gas from then that means they have the chemical formula samples and the ability to produce if the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people and the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agent. we demand that material proof be provided before making any accusations against us in this high profile case. we requested the russian government to provide an explanation by the end of jews by the thirteenth of march on how this russian produced nerve agents could have been deployed in salzburg. they provided no credible explanation we don't speak the language of ultimatums and we won't allow anyone to speak to us this way while moscow sais that britain has also blocked

a russia drafted statement at the un security council but urge for a more thorough investigation killer blow up and explains how events unfolded at the united nations mr president for more of this we can conclude that russia is in serious breach of the chemical weapons convention through its failure to declare the navi short program this fact alone means you should discount any arguments you hear about the possibility of other countries having inherited this technology after we heard the words from the u.k. ambassador who had called this emergency meeting of the fifteen member body that leads the united nations we then heard from the u.s. ambassador nikki haley now in her remarks she emphasized the special relationship between the united states and the united kingdom and from there she went on to hit the allegations against russia in with the boys. broader narrative she talked about syria and she talked about north korea she talked about the previous security council meetings and it was rather heated words we heard not just from the u.k.

ambassador but then from nikki haley representing the united states a growing concern in all of this dangerous and destabilizing activity is russia russia failed to ensure syria destroyed its chemical weapons program russia killed the joint investigative mechanism when it found the side liable for chemical attacks russia used its veto to shield assad five times last year. it has also provided cover for syria in the hague at the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons in response to the heated words from the united states and the united kingdom we heard from the russian ambassador and he responded on a number of levels one of his points that he made was he pointed out that russia has actually given up its chemical weapons and that the o.p.c. w. has confirmed that russia no longer possesses chemical weapons from there he

invoked the memory of when call in powell representing united states in dressed that very body the u.n. security council holding the vials of powder that he said were chemical weapons from iraq he reminded the council and pointed out that at this point now we have the united kingdom coming was simply a letter and that that there seems to be a history of rather unsubstantiated allegations against different countries regarding chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction from the united states in the u.k. this is the russian representative responding to the words from the u.s. and the u.k. was even will salute him and we are living in a very special time in front of our eyes incredible things are happening the process of replacing the presumption of innocence with the presumption of guilt has taken place in this criminal law principles being transferred into international relations and boy haley as an experienced chemist has talked about crimes committed by russia we've known for years that for you in order to determine the guilty party no investigation is needed today the best kind of proof is suspicion it's no longer

necessary to show to the council white cubes with an unknown one substance in it it's enough to send a letter displaying an egregious attitude towards a sovereign state. from there on the russian ambassador went on to call for a thorough investigation of the incident and determine exactly who is to blame of what happened and he called for this to be done through the existing international mechanisms to find out who is absolutely risk. johnsonville and he reassured the security council that russia was more than happy to cooperate with this proper investigation to determine who is responsible for the attack however he was very clear that he did not approve of the heated words and allegations from the u.k. and the united states before the council and that russia just like other countries wants to get to the bottom of what exactly happened in salisbury according to the rules of the international organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons

or o.p.c. w. if any state believes that another country may have used chemical weapons it has to provide all the necessary evidence within ten days after the request experts we spoke to believe it's not russian but rather the u.k. which has broken the rules the o.p.c. w.'s got set procedures in place that need to be followed through with and those are not being followed. those procedures investigation and formal steps are not being followed and from my understanding russia has offered to jointly cooperate but but they would like a formal request and they would like samples in order to do the analysis which makes complete sense to me and why wouldn't you want to cooperate together sometimes if you're trying to hide something or to shift the narrative in certain direction and maybe you don't want to cooperate and it's unfortunate but i i do not think this looks very professional of the u.k. and they're not following the conventions you've got to set procedures in place and they're just not being followed or kind of

a complete disregard to international law a rule of law or rule of agreements that are in place. the hague does have. the capability to investigate this incident whereas the un security council really does not nor do they even have the authority to do so it does beg the question why the u.k. wants to skip over to the hague and up in a potential vest a geisha and by the way under the international chemical weapons convention russia would have a right to participate in any investigation again i think the u.k. is not interested in that the u.n. security council meeting comes after allegations from britain's prime minister treason may on russia's alleged involvement in the poisoning of former spy surrogate screwball and his daughter make claims that a soviet era nerve agent was used in the it. reprisals against moscow. mr

speaker it was right to offer russia the opportunity to provide an explanation but their response has demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events. they have provided no credible explanation that they could suggest they don't control the agent no explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the united kingdom no explanation as to why russia has an undeclared chemical weapons program in contravention of international law. besides the expulsion of twenty three diplomats the british pm said that high level contacts will be suspended unofficial meeting with the russian foreign minister cancelled trees may also announced an updated sanctions bill against russia as well as the fact that u.k. m.p.'s and members of the royal family will not be attending the football world cup in russia this summer. a moscow has called the u.k.'s measures

a crude provocation and another there will be countermeasures meanwhile with the investigation into the attack on the former russian intelligence agent and his daughter still ongoing there are still many unanswered questions as artie's done you'll hawkins looks into and attack by the kremlin and u.k. soil for downing street it seems the case is all but closed russia is the culprit no questions or offer. as the prime minister taking the necessary steps to make a formal request for evidence from the russian government given the gravity of the accusations at official request seemed like a reasonable osc but law school though says no such requests were forthcoming we haven't received any official request from london we've told britain we're ready to respond if they file their.