nuclearization. to be awarded the nobel peace prize.

international from all of us here thanks for. the historic meeting between the leaders of north south korea. pledged to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons for years and. nuclear. states agreed on friday to formally end the korean war which. they signed a peace treaty agreeing to involve the u.s. and china in the process. the american president donald trump was quick to take credit for the easing of tensions on the peninsula with supporters saying he should get the nobel peace prize in his latest tweet he suggested he's more than the previous u.s. presidential recipient barack obama. seemed to agree.

the nuclearization of the korean ship was it was it what do you think it was. it was very large that you r.t. if you could have done off now takes a closer look at whether donald trump does deserve the nobel peace prize the nobel peace prize an award for human rights champions peace keepers and presidents who would later drop at least twenty six thousand bombs on seven foreign nations in just one year the prize is clearly viewed as such a meaty addition to donald trump's track record that someone under a stolen identity actually forged his nomination for the award two years in a row supporters of the idea have named the negotiations between the koreas as trump's main qualification for real this time now there is a. what do you think. president trump had to do with it i'll tell you what i like

about everything it was and as we've been told the trump has the best words and those he applied to north korea directly he is a sick puppy rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself obviously he's a pretty smart cookie we all saw that intricate game of diplomacy we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea they will be met with fire fury witnessed trump a saying that whole quid pro quo thing we are sending an armada. very powerful. we have submarines very powerful and i will say this. he is doing the wrong thing is making a big mistake let's be frank those who call trump

a peacemaker more or less share the logic of those who nicknamed vish gun a persuader trump style of making peace equally applies to iran big government that gives terrorist safe harbor financial back in i am speaking of course of a rare the rogue regime a rand can sprint towards a rapid nuclear weapons break no where no matter where you go in the middle east you see the fingerprints of iran behind problems for goodness sake here pointed as national security advisor a man who just last year thought this was a good idea and that's why the words twenty nine. here. syria's felt the full impact of trumps peacemaking if things keep going the way

they are the country will be celebrating the annual tomahawked day sometime around mid spring but again maybe a nobel peace prize and trump do fit together at the end of the day after all what does obama get to have all the nice things we spoke to max blumenthal a journalist and author he believes the improvement in the relations on the korean peninsula has nothing to do with donald trump. donald trump's policy towards the koreas has been one of hostility sanctions of threats fired hereis defense minister jim mattis threaten your korea with extermination and their policy essentially failed because nuclearization in north korea succeeded because kim jong un extended an olive branch to the south and because moon j it has been so courageous of its efforts to reconcile with the north and so really the calls for donald trump to

receive a nobel prize really reflect how insular and parochial view of right wing is right wing supporters is donald trump has really not played a role in the then. around north and south korea. a humanitarian organization has raised the alarm over the use of force against protesters along the israel gaza border human rights watch has expressed particular concern over what it says is the deliberate targeting of the legs of unarmed demonstrators by the israeli military palestinian started a series of planned demonstrations a month ago it being protesting near a security fence which surrounds land the palestinians claim was stolen from them but they've been met by a heavy response from israel the palestinian health ministry in gaza says over two thousand people have received injuries to the legs and many ultimately lost their limbs and for one palestinian athlete means the end of his career.

but i go rushing about upon the soldiers were brutally shooting people and old man got shot in front of me he was protesting peacefully and not throwing any stones and he got shot with an explosive bullet i spent six hours in surgery and then one week in the intensive care unit and i didn't think my leg would be like this i couldn't feel it. i had fractured bones that my leg kept bleeding out i wasn't aware that it would be amputated it seems like my relatives told the doctors not to tell me that i was an athlete i used to play multiple sports and i used to play for the palestinian union. requested comment from the israeli army but we are still awaiting poor reply in earlier statements the i.d.f. described the use of live fire against protesters as a last resort option saying it has been using not only a few alternatives instead but for a young palestinian who dreamt of becoming

a football star is encounter with israeli forces changed the course of his life. during my food will career i hope to be one of the best players in gaza after this injury my football career is over these really response with live fire during the protest i was filming myself to post it leader we sure have the right to do while i was filming a sniper shot me in the knee and it was dislocated i was targeted without warning i was in a thread to the soldiers and all of god helps me i will be able to have surgery and hold the palestinian flock in the european countries my dream is to produce a p.d. in the european league that. the i.d.f. has denied claims that uses excessive force however there's been a global backlash over the israeli military's response to the demonstrations in gaza since the end of march its soldiers have reportedly killed forty three

palestinians including four children just during that period. so football's biggest event kicks off here in russia are in just forty five days and the host nation is already getting into the spirit of the world cup and between march and the beginning of the tournament the world cup football is touring the host cities of visitors can take part in the master classes attend autograph sessions penalty taking skills and buy souvenirs and this weekend the park in.

among the visitors there was a french football legend. the former defender was part of then host nation france's winning team during the world cup of one nine hundred ninety eight i decided he was nicknamed the rock because of his power and playing technique he shared his impressions with us here at r.t. and told us what he thought about the team's taking part in the upcoming tournament . people are very friendly and you can see that they love the food bowl i can see in the faces of the people but the main thing is is when you see the people trying to speak the french trying to speak the english there's a real energy around this so this is what we're talking about we're talking about a major import the most important competition in the world sports competition in the world who brings you know different culture different language where the people have to open up so it's great. for asia's very dangerous

argentina they face difficulty to qualify so most of the time during the tournament they are their best croatia wow like belgium they are one of those themes that potentially can be the surprise of the tournament saw let's see at the end of the day step by step france have you know they've shown that they can reach the final of the you roll in the almost one it. has never never see any politician or any controversy that i enter into the football system they've played their rules from the beginning they've done well thank you the infrastructure are good you've inject money is good for the communities good for the cities good for tourism so now is the time for football you cannot enter into the system coaches will pick what they want to win into two to shining in and be the man of you know it's walk up we're talking about work it's

not something small sometimes all the time say to myself champions league was good or you know the league was good but i walk out it's definitely something different different level different you cannot compare the artes a star studded team is travelling nationwide checking our preparations for the biggest sporting event of the year legendary goalkeeper peter schmeichel also visited you catherine burke for his program that episode available right now at r.t. dot com but here's a preview. this is the arena and it's one of the most extraordinary venues to oppose world cup much of this on the. now i'm going to produce my old gold.

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appreciate. the review. latest edition as we go. to join us for the program today let's give you an update now on this latest news coming out of kabul we understand now at least twenty nine people have been killed and more than forty five injured in a double suicide bombing in the capital of afghanistan that's according to afghan health officials reports coming in that the first explosion took place near the nato headquarters in kabul near a number of embassies around twenty minutes later once the emergency services and journalists had arrived at the scene a second explosion went off near where the people had gathered peace says that its chief photographer in kabul was among the dead islamic state has claimed responsibility for the saying it was targeting the afghan intelligence services.

the u.n. has expressed serious concern over the disproportionate number of deaths involving black people in the u.k. as a result of excessive police force. the deaths reinforced the experiences of structural racism over policing and criminalization of people of african descent and other minorities in the u.k. the u.k. police accused of racism following the release of its recent data analysis this found officers used force against twelve thousand people in just three months last year and one in three of them was black the share of the black people in the population is far smaller attention to the issue was drawn by an incident that dates back to july last year when a black man was killed by an officer. who was.

britain's home office has reacted to the situation bowing to investigate the allegations and we discussed the issue with our guests. the police a bit like james bond they have a license to kill with impunity and i say with impunity because never seems to be any justice i don't know of any policeman that has gone to prison for killing a civilian on the streets of london so these attitudes. are created inside the police force. because it is not like sherlock holmes where the police work

is about trying to find evidence doing investigations and force the lot the police work is not that at all but instead relies on various prejudices at the end the evidence doesn't go so far as beyond reasonable doubt i think is one of the most impossible things to do to prosecute an officer and the only reason is the offices are there to protect us so it's quite a natural when you see a police officer in the dark in his uniform it's quite a natural and i think that may be one of the main issues that it's that it goes against everything that we believe a piece of the should be doing crime isn't driven by race crime is driven by socioeconomic factors or young males in inner london and get involved in street crime and socioeconomic factors mean that there are more your miles are black in areas of in a london than there are of other races that's not the same in other cities in other cities manchester sheffield. leeds there are black community support

they're nowhere near as large and so when you look at the people involved in street crime in those areas the disproportionality is not there. with local elections looming in the u.k. the alleged russian meddling saga takes yet another twist british newspaper the sunday times claims that russian twitter bots tried to influence the twenty seven thousand parliamentary elections in favor of opposition labor party leader jeremy corbyn. jacqueline takes a closer look the sunday times has provided us all with a little russian bought deja vu it's groundbreaking investigation with swansea university has cracked the code on how the labor party did so well in this year's general elections and the answer is russian tweets of course research that just that was not destroyed at its superbowl corban and to down the street by bombarding the public with positive messages in support of labor using twitter columns that

were mostly created after the election was just that early last year so let's break down that research sixty five hundred russian twitter accounts identified by their primary language work to bash the ruling conservatives and promote the labor party in the run up to the election and a few examples are given as to how they achieve their meddling goals such as promoting stories condemning trees that may for cuts and police numbers and funding another point made in the article was the massive attendance seen at corbin's rallies but even if the scores of people who showed up were only there are things to bots re tweeting corbin's location does that somehow make them not true supporters other suspicious activity it was a push by the bots on election day telling people to get out there and vote how dare they say the article doesn't provide a list of the accounts they monitored and said that many of them have been deleted or suspended by twitter conservative m.p.'s have vowed to dig further into the claims russian interference in the politics of the u.k. is a breach of election law and something we've got to act to stop whereas labor representatives

have slammed the article as a classic sunday times smear campaign the labor party's people power do election campaign attracted huge levels of public support online we're not aware of any from to me bought categorically did not pay for any not aware of any of our supporters doing so. other labor supporters have even chosen to embrace the accusations. now the report does not comment on who specifically was behind the campaign or how many people actually saw the tweets nor does it say whether or not the attempt was successful but the point is if

a vote comes up with shocking results there's clearly no other plausible explanation apart from the russians did it. we asked at the newspaper to comment on the investigation in the meantime former m i five officer on a rational search it's all just part of a clamp down on alternative you. the west does not like dissent it does not like alternative views and the internet offered people the old the chance of developing these alternative news and as soon as you have one of those alternative viewpoints in the west you must of course be working as one of putin's useful idiots or as a russian troll bottle whatever it is we saw this last week as well there was a report on sky news and they were accusing two accounts particularly on twitter saying that they are russia true russia but they weren't human beings and so sky news invited one of these people on the news and he came on to sky and argue that he was a human being strangely enough and it turns out here is the seventy year old pensioner

who is just angry at what's going on politically in the u.k. so it's really risible they're trying to stigmatize british citizens who have an alternative view. a child's imagination can certainly run pretty wild what are russian schoolboys multicolored picture of the stars and spirits was rejected by his teacher and i cured his father decided to take the matter up though. the scent of stars like that don't exist in space i need to redraw. will close order so this obviously we wanted to cheer him up and then we decided to refer this question to the most competent space authority ross cosmos little.

muscles the cosmos the most possible sad that i painted everything the right white stars do exist in different colors they can be red green orange and many other colors. and that's the lesson did you know that this was real or did it come from your imagination that's how i imagine the stars to be i like your page team if i was your teacher i would have given you and made us even pop correctly can you remind spin to the spaceship and your instrument nickleby should this huge image you need to you have expressed the mood and the state of the stars. a pleasure having you with us here on this monday to share your time with us at r.t. international certainly many more worldwide news headlines coming your way at the

top of the hour. we live in surreal times a short time ago even imagining a negotiated end to the tensions on the korean peninsula was a flight into fancy but here we are this is becoming a form policy victory for trying. palm oil is one of the most controversial products of odds on it's a solid vegetable found that's very cheap. in twenty seventeen production grew to sixty three million tons that rapid growth in international demand for cheap oil has led to the massive expansion of plantations which it means the destruction of rain forest. into these you know

a lot more than ten million hiked as of unique rain forest has been destroyed and it's a process that just keeps going. welcome

to sophie shevardnadze the violence by mental protests in north dakota and turnout tional headlines and has raised questions about extremism inside america's growing green movement is the danger of environmental terrorism real i ask former director of communications for the u.s. senate environment committee marc morano. claiming victory in the white house. or coming out in force with the green movement also seen an increase in its ranks is radical is making a comeback among the defenders of the environment to be extreme green deserve to be labeled in charge as terrorists or will environmental groups be the next big danger to the order in america. marc morano welcome to the show it's good to have you with

us on this program now mark researchers of domestic extremism in the u.s. say that the next wave of terrorism will live from radical greens is that an exaggeration is that simply the latest scare crowd. no i don't think so i think if you go back to like the first earth day for instance the environmental movement has become in a sense activated in radicalized many elements of them the extreme elements and i think what's happened now to make this more relevant is first what they see the success of groups like isis and how one individual who may not even be organized with a larger group one individual act can cross chaos and draw attention to a cause so specifically right now what's happening is the climate change issue many environmentalist and mainstream environments are terrified and think that the planet is going to be doomed and the rhetoric coming from even top leaders of the united nations top scientists said you civility with nasa are in

a way giving potential eco terrorists the justification to do it they're saying that essentially we are doomed that civilization is and that we must stop this so that the attitude by many activists looking at the climate scare is they have to act alone because governments are not acting or not acting enough or in many cases or just acting you know defiant to their concerns so i do think that the environmental movement is going to be using the climate campaign the climate scare if you will to justify more extreme headlines in the next five to ten years and the oil industry is actually suing greenpeace and other and by mental illness ations for inciting terrorism joining the dakota pipeline protests now at the los it didn't have mary the corporations wouldn't have started it so what will happen if the likes of greenpeace are convicted of inciting terrorism well it's going to be

hard to do that in court i mean the court cases like that are very difficult but yes in the case of the dakota pipeline they're talking about a billion to a billion dollars in damages for these environmental protests and what i think is going to happen this would have a major effect but not necessarily good a. the actual eco terrorists themselves greenpeace you could argue some would argue is a radical environmental group but it's not an eco terror per se they've done civil disobedience so even if the groups themselves lose a court case it may actually have a perverse effect of inspiring the individual acts or the small cells many of these cells animal liberation group the earth liberation movement they'll drive across country in a car and they pick up radical members that they may have met on social media it's very hard to actually track and find them but you're right big big industry is fighting back on them now and this is going to be. very interesting court case coming up to see how this is decided and the dakota.