north korea casts doubt over kim jong un's upcoming meeting with donald trump after the u.s. carries out large scale military drills with the south. u.s. claims the relocation of its embassy in israel to jerusalem was not the cause of monday's deadly unrest on the israel gaza border. it does not under mind the prospects for peace in any way and yet for some this is supposedly a cause for. european leaders speak out in defense of the iran nuclear deal saying it should not be changed despite of us pulling out.

of broadcasting or alive iraq from our studios in moscow this is our team international john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now north korea has canceled wednesday's high level talks with the south in response to seoul's joint military drills with the united states has more. this definitely comes as a blow considering the storage developments we've seen recently but in addition to canceling tomorrow's summit north korea is reported to have threatened to cancel its highly anticipated meeting with trump that's scheduled for june twelfth in singapore now this is all due to washington's military drills with soul which is always been a topic of discussion but it seems that the d.p. r. k. has finally decided to put its foot down.

i. i. know the d.p. r. k. has made it clear that these joint drills there and it's security describing it as a rehearsal for invasion and many view these fears as legitimate given the history of countries that have willingly surrendered their w m d's but this was in fact one of the points agreed upon back in january when the north agreed to stop its nuclear tests in the south agreed to stop its drills with the u.s. and it was considered a confirmed once again when kim and moon met last month pledging peace in korea so the question is will this hinder denuclearization efforts will just have to see what happens. right now it's across live to human rights attorney eric cantor who is in seoul right now eric thanks for being with us here on r.t. international. so interesting times north korea is hinting that kim could pull out

of his upcoming summit with donald trump because of these drills do you think that that will actually happen. well this becomes a terrible action to take right now it's negotiations there is a root duction and hostility that took place that was promised everyone knows how the north reacts to these games and exercises and they're not really games this is a hundred war planes flying up and down along the borders of north korea they call it max thunder or maybe mad thunder if you are mad about this and i think the international community should be because we feel that the nuclearization is essential we believe that peace is essential in a peace treaty and everything was moving in that direction and i think this

anything like this at this delicate time demonstrates that there are probably forces that were that don't want peace so things were looking so promising that within the chance of the biggest breakthrough since the actual korean war itself so what is the point in holdings have large scale military exercises at such a sensitive time. it depends on who you believe this. washington i believe wants to send the message that things are as usual and that they are not going to give up their rights to run exercises with their allies so it's kind of a popping up but it seems to me that it also is sending a message at a very shaky time as to whether we can trust these agreements and the agreements between. you know the united states can excuse me and the international community

have been. scuttled the paris the courts the iran's deal you want to be able to trust the word of people that you enter these agreements in with us and in this scenario i think it really says that issue to the north can we trust what you're saying and. i think it was they really thought was action so the u.s. national security adviser john bolton said on sunday that north korea could be given security guarantees if it agrees to hand over its nuclear weapon to the u.s. isn't that realistic. well john bolton also said that north korea is going to need to move ten thousand of its nuclear scientists and technicians to the united states i mean this type of idea that we would totally dismantle their

nuclear capacity by removing scientists from the country or or repatriating them in the united states as some scientists did after the soviet collapse. i think it demonstrates that there are probably forces that were that don't want peace john bolton included john bolton has long said it's he said used to say his policy against north korea was the end of north korea and this scenario to have someone like that running u.s. national security policy at this delicate time demonstrates a serious insensitivity and you have to be able to get in the shoes of your opponents if you will you have to listen you have to be a good listener in international negotiations and you have to be able to understand their position and take steps accordingly and we're not seeing that right now and so if you put too many preconditions on peace preconditions on

formalizing relations and you say well we'll have to wait and we won't list sentients until you're fully do nuclear eyes i mean you might be talking several years and really peace can't wait that long in this in ario it's it's a little shocking here in seoul today all right eric you are on the front lines you have a front row seat to history right now and to see how it all plays out erik's iraq and human rights attorney staying with us keep us posted as both the situation evolves and the time thanks john. right america's u.n. envoy has claimed a wave of deadly unrest on the israel gaza border and it has nothing to do with washington's decision to move its embassy to jerusalem. it has no bearing on jerusalem's holy sites it does not prejudge whatever the parties might negotiate in a peace agreement it does not under mind the prospects for peace in any way and yet

for some this is supposedly a cause for violence speaking for the united states and nikki haley made clear that she was very supportive of israel and she one is far is to congratulate israel for its seventieth anniversary i want to take a moment to mark the seventieth anniversary of israel's independence in this united nations security council on behalf of the american people i congratulate our friends in israel on the remarkable achievement of seventy years of independence. people hit by catastrophe israeli celebrate seventy years of independence this is just another example of the u.s. totally ignoring our feelings and right moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is not up to the u.s. it's a question of international law the trump administration refuses to listen to what the world is say to what stated in the un resolutions in particular the security council resolutions and international law kuwait called the emergency meeting of

the fifteen member body that leads the united nations and put forward a draft statement criticizing israel for its activities on the border we know that more than sixty protesters were killed on monday. tens of thousands of mourners have been turning out in gaza for the funerals of those killed by israeli soldiers on monday. i. was up the water glorious remember this moment hey. this is this true. no nobody put up with whatever the word we extend a hand in friendship to israel the palestinians and to all of their neighbors may

there be peace. in the world we pray for the peace of jerusalem. i was wrong. i'm hearing they sell in the way ever since the day phase ended our lives have you know what i think to protest against these may be soldiers who are just a short distance behind me as you can see they've kind of demarcated this area by burning tires and from here they're hurling rocks and stones at the soldiers who are just a short distance in front of us the softer the soldiers with the stuff that holds the end in them says has been ferrying wounded people if we so often the number of people who have been injured and we think that some of them serious these scenes i think the pieces across the way that this is comes off the not but taking aim at a certain kind of to. the to keep. getting any

sleep. making me feel this is to be the beginning of time if you keep the deceptive a lot more fires that have sponsored all along the road this comes just a day off to the americans knew the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and met to spot the would stay on when i've been since the last possible. back in two thousand and fourteen it's a to. do good if you thought it was likely what was born so we were running now because these two guys coming in our direction and as you can see the crowd is moving it's always difficult to tell where exactly it's coming from so we just kind of make up with the bad and as you can see. the situation is extremely tense and it's just get out of prison drawing in the sky that everybody's pointing to so we think that it's close firing tear gas on the crowd here and so we can move all the way back so we're not trying to top of the soldiers and we see

from here we're what's going on. to ration tesco from one moment to the next becoming incredibly tense policia off team ramallah the total of the death toll is increasing the total of the injuries are increasing and the hospitals are crowded a sense that morning as you see the power the israeli forces have been using that it to gastro and to disperse all these protesters we can also hear live ammunition just right now and as you see the palestinians are moving to the front running the israeli forces are randomly shooting these protesters are protesters are are running away from the facts this is an injury that was taken not right now from near the fence and as you see it the palestinian was injured in his chest just right now with live ammunition. crime

medics are trying to negotiate with those right snipers to take their injuries but there is already snipers are complete refusing to give the permission for the power of the palestinian paramedics to take these injuries there are principally strapped over there and the paramedics are trying their best to take these injuries to the hospital the palestinian paramedics have been witnessing a lot of injuries in different parts of the of the body and they stay. this was one of the bloodiest yesterday was one of these days i think these. two thousand and fourteen war in the gaza strip we're now going to. protests and demonstrations and there are news of new casualties by night emission and you're got. a little bit ingress from the medical charity m.s.f. told us the situation in gaza is dire there was more than one thousand one hundred gunshots injuries orgasm and then myself was presenting prius gears are in support

of the least of paris and to give you an example the next i was pretoria. for a world where was her moment in jail people is not only one doing it so since the proxy of mouse there are some of the most ration for id we are speaking about mobile and pretends and injure people. and her system since many months since many years we have already owns a version of collapse varies only for was a very true city. of people around the bay your partially paid their research stage of drugs and disposable so the medical stuff we are struggling since many months you know the two to go to give a quality of care for the patients so today is a humanitarian act or else we do what we can we try to scan or we try to sound medical or doctor or surgeon and now she's right of course not to know and to date

again and again these looks as a humanitarian act as we solve the situation we need to pretty coarse addition to what a person gets at. all right a day after the turmoil the u.s. president sent his best wishes to muslims around the world as they began observing the holy month of ramadan trump called it a time for reflection and spiritual growth and praise to the riches mess that muslims bring it to american life the greetings were posted on the white house website but middle east analyst moshe or el fara believes that those words are insincere we think it's the message of words means nothing when we see the look room's actions so we see it as read a whole i'm just one of them if you like. ugly stands that he took against muslims and used arabs and i'm still using their knots this moment it is. blindly

supporting those arenas it no matter what but it will not good news is that because a resolution against israel and nothing is done because of the american russia nothing nothing whatsoever but even really looked at saudis were asking who was russia or israel so that the going to buy and buy in the market mission resolution delusional lol we need leads least of all of. the french government plan to protect children from abuse has drawn criticism details have short break stay with.

us. the politics in washington not been driven by the fossil fuel energy lobbyist they could have gone into renewables ten twenty years earlier and those jobs would be in place generating good paying jobs in america would be part of a growing world beating industry because they kowtow to those lobbyists they got stuck in the coal business which by the gas business which is a dodgy for a lot of reasons and now it's going to be obliterated by the chinese led revolution in seoul. is the middle east stumbling towards a region wide war it sure looks like you're trying to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and set into play a cascade of events difficult to manage and control does anyone gain the missing pending cataclysm.

among them back this is r t international e.u. is insisting that the iran nuclear deal remain unchanged blocks of foreign policy chief made got announcement after talks in brussels between u.k. france germany and iran that is despite donald trump pulling us out of the agreement. you know very well complex enough long enough to take enough doesn't need to be changed to modify it or have any addition everything is already written and i hope to be able to make it do with a good deal a fair deal a good deal for them better for them better for them but we cannot allow them to have nuclear weapons in a press statement following the hours of negotiations the new foreign policy chief of the party is relevant to these talks have decided that they're going to keep working on the full implementation of the iran nuclear deal that she called

a diplomatic breakthrough in fact she compared the parties at the big ocean table having joked that this deal is relative that they all have in intensive care that they want to get out of the hospital and of course this comes in somewhat of a contradiction from signs we have seen from the u.s. that have on one side said that they might be implementing sanctions against european countries if they continue to work with iran is the u.s. prepared to go after companies in our allies like britain france and germany if they try to continue to do business in the sanctions regime that is now in place is very clear about what the requirements are europeans are going to face the effect of u.s. sanctions already are really why would any business why would the shareholders of any business want to do business with the world's central banker of international terrorism all of this comes with the united states having said that they're no longer seeing this deal as a good one and trump announcing on me that the u.s.

does not want to be part of this deal anymore and the concern here in brussels and in europe has been the way with which this could potentially affect the only go she could not make and trade relationships between e.u. countries and of course iran and it's been made clear that china. russia france germany and great britain are committed to sticking to this deal that was first signed back in twenty fifteen and came into force into twenty sixteen and was seen as a major breakthrough given how many years it took to work out with the goal of course of lifting the punishing sanctions against iran and in return getting the halting of its nuclear program that had been a concern for the western world for so many years so now the plan here in brussels is to continue working to ensure that this deal continues to function reporting from brussels and for r.t. . european powers agreed to protect firms who suffer as

a result of those sanctions but despite defending iran the u.k. foreign secretary borsa johnson earlier gave a very different message in the british probably might conceivably achieve regime change at some stage in the in the near future but i try not to travel to meet with any confidence that that would be a change for the better what the american seem to want to do is what i said done in previous times in iraq for instance is you sanctions to try to weaken the regime in order to bring about an agenda of regime change the americans. put no policing the europeans using the threat of sanctions to say no you're not going to do this you're not going to help iran we're going to back out there really calling me and hopefully bring down there's one republican. plans to change french laws to give stricter punishments for child sex abusers have fallen foul of experts

who say it will make the problem worse are trying to penske has story. in march france announced that it was going to legislate curb sexual violence to cut down on sexism i mean q. did in that legislation was due to be in egypt consent to sexual activity here in frogs not age of consent was said to be at fifteen now the reason that element of the law was putting because there was outrage often choose cases emerged of an eleven year old girls who were deemed not to have been raped by adult men because they don't think of hers they don't been threatened there have been no violence or surprise when that incident had taken place well now the law is being debated in the national assembly on tuesday and that element the age of consent to fifteen has now been taken out of this nor critics say that that mean it's been watered down that it was less protection for children and actually creates new legal loopholes

for child rapists this is what they've said advocate according to our to go to child abuse could be considered a new fans not a crime. mr president there are two hundred fifty people who demand the law be repealed well they've now launched a petition against the out revision of the age of consent and it's gone to more than four hundred thousand people supporting that to not be changed well those who do all good for the change say they needed to take out that age of consent because they said it would infringe on the defendant's presumption of innocence that's led to some heated debate in the national assembly already in one session on monday. when they still don't have one when you read and read this law from one point in another when you are sure that you have read and understood all he was saying that nothing happened at all as if there was no me to movement as if all

these chalking in upon tast mooney's did not provoke any reaction from the government cooper will confirm or refute in total both we've been seen here on the largest of the tax reform or this we are proposing. well critics say if the law is passed without the age of consent it will mean that france will be one of the only countries in europe which does not have a legal defined age of consent on the whole city said that it means that they could pose a real danger if rapists are actually convicted under lesser charges meaning that they would be seen as rapists by society and the protections necessary to make sure that they don't commit such an act again won't be in place. there bridget linking mainland russia to the crimean peninsula has been officially unveiled six months ahead of schedule it will reduce of the region's reliance on sea and air transport and allow more tourists to visit the area which is

a popular summer destination for many russians.

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