and to extract a lot of every scene from the united states all interested parties now it seems a. major condition is just to make sure that americans will not start shooting second to have some of their recent social lifted as soon as possible before it will strike the economy and they're not going to port much more demands for the time being now professor link of there is a lot of discussion in the united states especially among those who do not support the idea of the presidential 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 on them eric and part 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 tran but i suppose they would be just as happy to have trump threatened in the same manner allows 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 asr russia would share in such a race or oh yes it's a kind of a bad example but let's face it norsk audience for dk is curfew same blackmail tactics for me it's a bit funny to see how the scene treats if for decades had been favorable to use of kenya and now used business same efficiency it is a bit funny to see when basically you're not all blonde tramp try to join in the huge honor himself it's a bit for funny all this fired funi and all the stuff bot. i don't think it's going

to be a blight on the us scale. and north korea is dangerous by they basically steal as a small and very poor come well certainly nobody likes to get a taste of his or her own medicine but wrestling we have to take a very short break now but we will be back in just a few moments stay tuned. a little less. you certainly if you were a. fan of that guy you just don't mind. when i look for the

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welcome back to worlds apart with unfeeling calls professor at the university insults now professor link 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 to back still or send my question to you is why the donald trump at this point of time has the team to capitalize on these initial diplomatic gains to ask he actually have. negotiated the diplomats who would take this initial success and develop it into something more concrete of well when you're shooting 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 is there for or will last say a year or so a lot of highly skilled people have left the state department and essentially is now they don't have a single person who has experience of negotiating with his and. moss people in the state department kerry and team and you 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 most kerry else i've very good very tough negotiators they don't change their teams for us for many years to come. some of people have been

negotiating bizarre americans for twenty years and this people know all the big 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 china 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 that all 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 being the charm for ministration to secure these deal for the benefits of global security i'm very i'm we have to tread very

carefully here not so you 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 her marriage 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 showing a centrist a very simple cost russia warm stability second russia of one's status quo sought russia of once did impurities. if mr trump if president did mean business if he was really going to deliver a strike against moscow here messy war there sitting 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 a possible new dish. well until recently it would be

a good idea to have cells kadian summit or say assignment to be to be in north korean leaders and u.s. president or western leaders it would be a good idea to have them in russia maybe the necessary in moscow why do us because of on the full seated tour 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 anticommunist here and the 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 disturbing story because surprise india scarier is it generally very pro american country even the political forces which used to be entero kind of the past like say supporters of the current president they're much much more favorable about the united states now beach however does not mean that they like a by president however nouns are less inspired. of all of this

right now not scary and in the same boat because in the long run as the north nuclear weapons constitute a mess of denture for the soul scary and by it's for maybe in the long run may be the end when we are talking decades right now as a major threat south korea faces is a threat or a military operation initiated by the united states the easiest skull eight in terms of war and if we have a war it will be lost and so i was scared eons who are going to die is a 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 kim turned on yes as an immediate threat yes it's a tactical threat is a long run of course kim jong il is a problem for sales guardians but in the short run it was probably mr trump so i seeing that they're basically playing together more than just to reduce the tension

to create the impression of there are now more scary and 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 us borders see but of the internationally approved 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 their. call it your 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 so it's that lychee of 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 ration 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 debate 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 a base 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 norsk audience and the americans perfectly kep about the things themselves and contrary to what most people suspect this kind of claim to stein on the official secrets channels of communication. and have always been at the

racial of what i'm seeing they not only count talk they have been talking for all this time and the decision to include mosque idea. here is largely done because first of all. diplomats want to use it to drive civic between cells get in the united states and they also want to create sort of 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 as said it. all via was the war between themselves which is not going to happen anytime soon. if they want to sort of you united front and i merican all civil bleich to give some kind of make some gestures to emphasize the significance of the cells carry that's. 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 asserting not only is that 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 the willingness to negotiate with with it with the north is that a form of had risks on the part of the trump 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. are valuable now for their miracle and american administration and maybe american diploma. c.

to emphasize their significance and this is why such an unprecedented measure was taking basically americans are sending a signal to saul you are part of the team if you will probably object 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 as are also sending a somewhat similar scene though 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 twenty years down the thread we are going to fight one another and that changed nuclear strikes because got balls so i was going to take an easy to go nuclear venture but for the time being our major problem is across all show let's act well professor lenkov 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. the be.

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with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international hello and welcome this week saw some major developments in the ongoing investigation into the script poisoning case a nato member admitted it had produced a chalk like substance as recently as last year then the un's chemical watchdog on previous claims about the nerve agent picking up the story for us here. criminal investigations usually work towards conclusions as new information and facts come to light but with this group all case it all seems a bit backwards and feels like those pesky details are being ignored take for example the embarrassing but significant slip up we heard this week from the chief of the international chemical weapons watchdog the research activities or protection you would need for instance five to ten grams or so but even in seoul is

free it looks like they may have used more than that without knowing the exact quantity i'm told it may be fifty one hundred grams or so which goes beyond research activities for protection and the idea that such a large amount having been found suggests that it had been created as a weapon and not for research purposes is important from the get go the u.k. claim that nobody talks soviet origins were clear evidence that russia was the guilty party at the same time moscow argued that other states have the ability to create another choke and have experimented with doing just that so the suggestion that such a large amount wouldn't be found in research situations just adds to that idea that there is no other plausible alternative but that russia is behind the attack there is just one tiny problem with all of that. the o.p.c. w. would not be able to estimate or determine the amount of the nerve agent that was used in souls bree on the fourth of march twenty eighth the quantity should probably be characterized in milligrams but that whiplash inducing you turn has no

one's convictions that russia did it even when combined with an announcement coming from the czech president. nova choke was produced and tested in the czech republic it was a small quantity though we know when and we know where it was done it would be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never happened so there you have it an admission from at least one country saying that yeah they have produced and experimented with no each of class agents delivering a blow to a key element of the u.k.'s case no more can it be claimed that the substance could've only come from russia right wrong that two didn't dent the narrative the media gave almost no attention to the announcement and those who did cover it pointed out what they called siemens pro russia stance because let's face it in today's climate being pro russia means you're on reliable something else we saw this week was the u.k. national security advisor disclosing the fact that no suspects have been identified and the poisoning but given the fact that the case seems to be based on the assumption of guilty until proven innocent many outlets ran that statement alongside the line that police were urgently reviewing the security of other

defective russian spies in the country once again implying moscow's guilt despite a lack of even one suspect after two months and well clearly none of these details are enough to prove russia's innocence at the same time nothing we've seen or heard up till now is enough to prove it's guilt either. russia say's the revelation by the czech president undermines london's case but in a statement to r.t. the british foreign office repeated its claims that only moscow has the technical means operational experience on motive to target the script we heard from a former u.k. intelligence officer and the global affairs expert it really does blow the whole great american thesis out of the water the british american thesis was that nobody bar the russians could have produced i mean the formula had been published in the united states already some years ago and now if. what the czechs say today

proves to be correct then. explode the entire british american thesis i'm sure many of the or stylish when we first saw this interview appeared with the chief of the view one can look at that and say well ok it's very easy probably to make a mistake in the middle of an interview and say grams when in fact you meant milligrams but that is actually contradicted by what the i.p.c.c. salves have said makes you wonder what was the reasoning behind the chief actually saying something that appears to be not just a mistake but at least officially untrue so it was grasped upon by headlines in the west that said that this was further proof that such a huge substance i see huge amount could only come from a state of course to bolster their case that this might be russia. palestinians have been continuing their anti occupation rallies along the ganza border over the course of the week the area has been engulfed in black smoke from burnt tires the

protest dubbed the great march of return lasts for weeks and the number of fatalities have been mounting. lucky. that you are getting effected by the take up that skeptic that is it's fired by those right is likely enough. i believe you i'm sure but.

it's a sniper is take it to the family take a look at what it is about as it make with live ammunition that the family think is going into the heart of it to the medical field point and that you see they answer the snipers by talking to think about it in protest seriously and that makes sense journalists. could always during my football career i hope to be one of the best players in cars and after this injury my football career is over these really response with life far snipers shot me in the knee and it was dislocated. and people are actually crossing

a fence entering israeli territory and the right to use non-lethal slow friday of sorts to carry out her arrest if there has been. you know i'm not. crossing your border without authorization but using live ammunition right using intentional lethal force is only under iraqi law under sponsored try to buy from them and that's not what's happening. it's difficult to see how time burning stone throwing. or even more of cocktails thrown from a significant distance that heavily protected security forces in defensive positions. can be seen to constitute such threat.

the arabian president has warned the u.s. that if it decides to do so it will severely regret scrapping the twenty fifteen year clear deal i gather because if the u.s. pulls out of the nuclear deal it will soon realize that this decision will become a historic regret for them. when it comes after the israeli prime minister intensified efforts to convince donald trump to drop the iran nuclear deal in a dramatic power point presentation binyamin netanyahu claimed tehran lied about its nuclear ambitions and his revelations came just days before the u.s. president will decide whether to counsel the agreement tonight i'm here to tell you one thing iran lart the evidence well that lies in this filing cabinet allegedly thousands of documents and c.d.'s half a ton to be precise proving conclusive.