headline stories this hour north korea counsels a high level meeting with. large scale military drills there was also a highly anticipated summit with. those who suggest that the gaza has anything to do with the location of the american embassy are sorely mistaken after a second consecutive between israelis and palestinians the u.s. sees the relocation of its embassy to jerusalem did not spark the bloodshed. german chancellor angela merkel criticizes washington over its. nuclear stressing europe must decide its own fate.

live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international my names you know neal good to have your company our top story north korea council whedon's days high level talks with the saudis may not attend a summit with the u.s. after american korea carried out large scale military drills described by pyongyang state media as a rehearsal for invasion. from washington. months of intense diplomacy and hopes of a historic breakthrough with north korea could all be reduced to nothing by war games.

there are exercises that are legal there are planned well well in advance we will continue to go ahead and plan the meeting between president trumping kim jong un dozens of american bombers and fighter jets flying near the north korean border to pyongyang this is more than just a provocation it's a rehearsal for an invasion so now after scrapping a summit with seoul the north is hinting that it could also band in a highly anticipated meeting with trump that's scheduled for june twelfth in singapore but the timing couldn't be worse the united states and south korea routinely carry out the simulated invasions and destruction of north korea military exercises another set of these exercises began last friday i believe this goes against the spirit certainly and i would say even the letter of the penguin john declaration between moon joining in in conjunction where both sides agree not to do anything that would be provocative towards the other both north and south korea

these military exercises again as i mentioned simulate denial ation of north korea holding off on military drills was in fact one of the points agreed upon back in january when the north froze its nuclear tests and that was confirmed last month when kim and moon met and promised to bring peace to the korean peninsula and just a week ago u.s. senator suggested awarding trump with a nobel peace prize for promoting peace between the two koreas and of course trump was in full agreement. and it's very nice thank you this is recklessly needlessly provocative on the part of the united states it makes you wonder is so. part of the us military establishment actually trying to sabotage or subvert any effort to bring about a peace treaty between north korea in the united states why else would this exercise go forward. to palestinian protesters were shot dead by israeli forces on tuesday during an occupation rallies on the gaza border with

israel fifty nine were killed on monday in protest against the relocation of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem the un security council which held a special meeting on the matter condemned the killings but not all members seem willing to work on measures to end the violence lucy lawless observed in the silence of this council since beginning of the crisis is becoming less and less understandable vacuum the vacuum in constructive international efforts as was shown by recent events is very dangerous. to the parties concerned to stop the violence and abusive use of force and in particular to stop actions that target civilians the use of violence and force will not bring security to anyone we need to look forward to and we need to work urgently towards a resolution at the longstanding issues between israel and the palestinian people.

like this council the united kingdom is committed to a two state solution with use them as a shared catholics and to achieving peace and stability in the way the region the united states deplores the loss of human life but there is a lot of violence throughout the region and i will note that the double standard is all too common in this chamber and working overtime today those who suggest that the gaza violence has anything to do with the location of the american embassy are sorely mistaken however our killer my pienaar explains nikki haley's accusations may be a double edged sword. the day that the american embassy was officially moved to jerusalem it was a day of great jubilation for american and israeli officials. this morning. but across the palestinian territories it couldn't have been more different in beleaguered gaza there was nothing but suffering and

chaos our greatest hope is for peace the united states is prepared to support peace negotiations united states is prepared to support a peace agreement in every way that we can and i don't think it hurts the peace plan. the peace plan will be introduced at the appropriate time there was certainly not any criticism of any of israel's extreme use of force by anyone in the trumpet ministration hamas terrorist backed by iran have incited attacks against israeli security forces and infrastructure so israel is not responsible for shooting malice tinian protesters some of whom were just children shot down by their own soldiers but if you're a place israel with syria suddenly nikki haley's heart bleeds for the dead in far less clear cut situations. yesterday morning. we awoke to pictures to children being carried in the arms of desperate parents yes all the talk

about human rights does not apply to palestinian protesters they do not get america's support because they're not protesting in the right country. big protests in iran the people finally gets unwise as to how the money and wealth is being stolen and squandered on terrorism looks like they will not take it any longer the u.s. is watching very closely for human rights violations with israel all bets are off on world press freedom day heather now it was all about championing the rights of journalists that is until somebody mention gaza we see all too often that journalists continue to take great risks to pursue this important work would you also condemn the recent deaths of journalists and also in the gaza strip look there are unfortunately a lot of journalists who die all around the world i'm not going to be able to list every single death of a journalist and we understand that israel has a right to defend itself back in april yasser move taja palestinian photo

journalist who was wearing a jacket clearly marked press was shot by israeli sniper now if this was intentional it could possibly constitute a war crime by israel but heather nauert thinks it was self-defense either way she doesn't have time to talk about every journalist who's been killed and apparently his death doesn't fit in with washington's agenda caleb artsy new york is really security forces have insisted they acted in self-defense against palestinian protesters as the violence intensified on the borders of the disputed territories there israel's defense minister also slammed the policy of an islamist group hamas calling them come a bold who treat women and children as weapons at the same time israel has said that fifty three tons of medical equipment had been transferred to get this week however a representative from the medical charts he doctors without borders insists the medical system count cope and is on the verge of collapse. there was more than one

thousand one hundred injuries orgasm and never said it was presented. to quote of the least of paris and to give you an example early next i was returning. there were more than three hundred injured people had a system since many months since many years they will only use a bit of call ups. for wasn't ready because. people have a thing or question they. will draw for disposable so the medical stuff just for getting since maybe once you know who to go to give quality of care for foster patient. after the recent spike in violence in gaza rallies in support of palestinians have been held in several cities right across the world in london brussels. argentina crowds wave palestinian flags and called on israel

to stop the oppression against protesters meanwhile the u.s. president has congratulated the muslim world as it begins to observe the holy month of ramadan donald trump called it a time for reflection on spiritual growth we've asked people in jerusalem whether they accept trump's well wishes. but. it's saying one thing and his heart is feeling another. thing. according to the fairly constant of you know. he runs the saudi arabia and the gulf states i think this is the most important thing because they are the ones who are opposed to the. play when we want to make sure that the bill and the other women on the iranian deal you know. can i think trump is a liar is saying nice words but he is a liar he gave a slap to the palestinian people during the worst period they've had. when

relocating the u.s. embassy in real from tel aviv to jerusalem was one of trump's election campaign pledges and it's not the only controversial promise he's kept as artie's dollar quarter explains. promises politicians make them and break them trump has something of a reputation for at least making good on some of his president trump's decision tonight is yet another example of donald trump keeping promises to you the american people the president. president john shaving his native american week starting today so let's give the guy credit where credit is due but here five times trump should have perhaps parked those pledges first up valley to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital we will move the american embassy to the eternal did you wish he'd pulled through. while the israeli pm proclaimed the day of peace deadly protests raged elsewhere dozens dead

and over two thousand injured including children. next up bailing on the iran nuclear deal trump's always been pretty clear about what he'd do when he got the keys to the white house my number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with. yeah scrapping the deal and a slew of new sanctions trump expected others to follow but what he got was a multinational shaking of heads leaders who voiced regret said they were deeply concerned and called it an unfortunate step the new deal is not a bilateral agreement and it is not in the hands of any single country to take me made it you know not europe's not happy and americans probably won't be so happy about the next thing on trump's checklist either valid to boost the military budget

as soon as i take office i will ask congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military the commander in chief has already secured a sixty one. billion dollar increase for twenty eighteen taxpayers also might like to know how that will send the two thousand and twenty deficit to about i don't know a trillion dollars but that won't stand in the way of trump's promise to storm off from the paris climate accord we're going to research all that job destroying obama executive actions. was looting that climate action plan sure he kept his word but this time the rest of the world just struggled shoulders gave a collective mess and it's carrying on without him finally let's not forget that white house won eighty one trump took over from barack obama and vowed to keep america's notorious terror suspect to prison open for business i watch president

obama talking about. dhanam obey which by the way which by the way we are keeping open and we're going to load it up was do just believe me we're going to load it up no surprises there what's more trump is a bit of a fan of the waterboarding interrogation technique even if the u.n. says it's torture in fact he's so sold on it he's lined up a cia pick infamously linked to torture methods but gina haskell is so controversial that police have twice had to remove protesters from her senate hearing for the job so the don's being good on his word fair enough but perhaps the world might be a calmer place if he just occasionally let a few promises slide you know like the others do donald quarter r.t. . continues to build concerning the government's lack of action over a self-confessed this law makes state executioner after he lied to immigration services to get back into the country he revealed it openly on the new york times

podcast show called califate the former fighter who goes by the name of who left canada four years ago when he was just so. drinan told his parents he was flying to turkey but five months after joining the terror group in syria he decided that he wanted to return to toronto following what he originally said was his second execution though who has now retracted those comments saying he has not killed anyone well officials hope the man had said enough to incriminate himself on the new york times podcast series where he gives details like executing people but that may not be enough to charge him according to documents obtained by a canadian news network kalidas prime minister has been fending off criticism about the case and when justin trudeau was asked by terrorists return easy seemingly shifted the blame to attack conservatives in the country instead it is the prime

minister going to bring these bloodthirsty terrorist to walk on our streets but three women generally stand. mr speaker once again we see the conservatives trying to drum up fear. we will live to call it shock when will the prime minister finally imprison isis terrorists instead of the are going to use canada right. this approach in the last election by the previous government it doesn't work to try and scare and if i could do you well canadian intelligence estimates around sixty eight people have returned to the country after joining extremist groups in syria and iraq and while many countries have tough policies to persecute those who have waged terror overseas it seems kind of them might just be allowing them back into the country. turns out you can't build a caliphate on the foundations of killing rape plunder and more killing they

tried tried with bloody abandon but no luck so that was isis jihad ists went home to perhaps start a new life while they may have engaged in terrorism abroad and broken the law not all return ease continued supposed to threats that may now be disillusioned with the cause the canadian government even has directives on how to deal with them all right they may have decapitation a prisoner to war a dozen may have repeatedly raped young girls they considered infidels but that's all in the past what they need now is apparently help the intervention team can engage with the returnee and the returned his family to open up dialogue with the individual and to help support the return of these disengagement from their radical ideology and past behavior before you go thinking that canadians are crazy you know most people never knew how lenient their government was being with murderers and

terrorists but what really riled the public up is an interview with a former jihad just who was left free. you know you have to you have to bring yourself to do it legal case fine finally killing someone. you can have to close your eyes and do you kill you for a reason this is justified you can do this and i can be held accountable now imagine you live in the same city as this guy your kids walk by his house on the way to school that's how many canadians feel this guy is apparently in toronto he is disturbed learning answers from this government of so why do you doing something. it's amazing people in canada get you. he is in jail for possession of marijuana but a guy who may have cut off people's heads is leadfree because he had the change of

hot now that people are outraged his stories changed he says he doesn't deny saying them but he's insistent that he didn't actually do those things no charges against him have yet been filed if they will be but you must understand what he is not a monster no i says fight is different to any other immigrants they will brings something new to canada those on my words that's the prime minister talking and i need to know how you're going to protect your canadians like my young daughter and you know ten to fifteen twenty years from now when you're letting people in with an ideology that just doesn't conform to what we're doing here one of the reasons canada is successful as a country is because we have been open to people fleeing persecution fleeing war zones whether it was people fleeing the devastation of the second world war from

southern europe in the fifty's and sixty's italian communities to create communities that the portuguese communities and others just belonging to or tourist organization it is it is a mouth to convict someone it's a serious crime so unless you cannot prove it all the fellow was in isis territory here and you lease there to me. help isis unless you cannot prove that at all you know we. just says well i made up the story then if you can prove that he was actually there you can make a case against a person who prosecuted the person for terrorism and sent to jail if the government were serious i think that's where do you would do but i don't think they're serious about pushing multi-culturalism to the limits is not certainly not a good thing. there's concern over journalistic freedom in ukraine after bureaus raided chief arrested that's among

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is the middle east stumbling towards a region wide war it sure looks like it trumps decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and set into play a cascade of events difficult to manage and control does anyone gain from this impending cataclysm. hello again the german chancellor angela merkel has stressed that you're opposed to some big decisions to make and light of recent actions being taken by the us. then we didn't listen to them on the multilateralism is under great pressure at the moment and because it's under great pressure europe must take its fate in its own hands more than before therefore we need to european answers. right let's cross live now to our europe correspondent peter all over hi peter we've heard similar remarks from merkel in reports and comments recently haven't we but what

has prompted her to address this in front of lawmakers in the german parliament well actually she was putting forward the budget for the coming year and as usually happens here in germany on the first reading about it turns into pretty much a report card on the situation of the government and how anglo-american sees things going so when she was talking about international affairs in this it was part of a wider speech but it's the bit that's really drawing focus it's fair to say that since donald trump has taken office the relationship between early on and washington has been strained it was very strong to a certain extent with barack obama very different on the donald trump and what we have three seen is the biggest strain put on that relationship was donald trump's decision to pull the united states out of the iran nuclear deal angela merkel touching on not in her speech as well. if you just up go on with. this agreement is anything but a deal but according to all the findings of the international atomic energy agency

iran is abiding by the commitments of this agreement this agreement was unanimously endorsed by the united nations security council and therefore we do believe great britain france germany and was us the member states of the european union it's not right to counsel disagreement in the current situation. well the chancellor did also point out in his speech the importance of the transatlantic relationship but when we look at just who angola merkel considers allies and partners right now we have a look at the point where she started talking about syria and notice one particularly glaring omission in business is look the civil war in syria and this fight against islamic terrorism has escalated from a regional conflict to an international one which cannot be solved without trust should turkey iran saudi arabia jordan and europe. well the united states conspicuous by their absence and the chance to say that it's not known of course

whether that was a deliberate a mission but it is fair to say right now that the lynn is certainly reevaluating its relationship with washington as it stands at the moment. r.t. peter all her live from berlin pier thank you. russia has stressed its concern in a diplomatic memo to ukraine over the fate of journalists in the country it comes after ukrainian security forces raided the offices of a group partnered to russian media giant detaining its director well joining me live now in the studio is medina culture for more on this jaime do you know what's led to the director's arrest here well just as you mentioned the security service of ukraine has a raided several offices for important news agency to read started tuesday morning and lasted for eight hours and before this journalist who was the had

this ukrainian bureau of this particular agency was detained near his home in the ukrainian capital kiev ukrainian security service say say that he is at the moment of facing charges of treason now he is whereabouts of currently unknown according to some reports he is being deported to and now they are ukrainian city at the moment now according to the latest statement which was released by the special services the rastan read the agency are quote part of an investigation into a network of media structures used by moscow to a hybrid war against ukraine as i said not only the had office of this agency was raided but also other locations including the apartments of journalists working for the agency documents means of communications were confiscated during these raids and some of them lasted for several hours so you the journalist detain has to be an

international reaction tell us well of course russia immediately. searches and now we've heard from russian foreign ministry which condemned this crackdown on during the list the ministry spokesperson mighty as a hard of a criticize however some western states including some international organizations for not paying enough attention to this basically suppression of the press in ukraine that we just we just saw. but i sure am aware outraged by the huge violation of russian journalists rights and once again call in ukraine to stop legal abuses against journalists and there's a far fetched pretext of an anti propaganda fight. well not only russia immediately condemned the searches but also other international organizations including international federation of journalists the committee to protect journalists now as c.e.o.

representative on freedom of the media also raised concern over this raid and cold on the ukrainian authorities to refrain from imposing limitations on the work of foreign journalists because these limitations can affect the freedom of the media i have and its russian affiliate are you demanding immediate release of to rule the shin ski i reiterate my call on the authorities to refrain from imposing unnecessary limitations on the work of foreign journalists which affects the free flow of information and freedom of the media it looks like a large scale excuse for a government to attack journalists for the distribution of information that is not to the oath or disliking the committee to protect journalists today expressed concern of the ukraine security services search of the kiev office of the russian state news agency ria novosti and the detention of the office director karoubi shinseki. maybe you just go back in history a little bit has this happened before to russian journalists cream can you remember

well the story is really have quite a long record of basically have wrestling russian journalists regard regularly them from the country or refusing access to government buildings or some state events in particular now the latest incident happened just last week when two journalists working for the russian t.v. network works about by the ukrainian security service and now earlier in the as we you refused and three to three journalists from russia it's silly and the czech republic who are going to cover the anniversary of the twenty fourteen tragedy in odessa and now just a week ago there was another well we can call it a scandal that broke in the country and that scandal involves ukrainian channel t.v. channel and it revolved around a scheduled concert program dedicated to the victory day now the channel offices in

kiev for a block in order to prevent this concert from being broadcast and the ukrainian radicals even issued threats against this channel so these are just some latest examples that i can give you a disturbing trend because of a thank you very much for the op to. your international i'll see you in thirty more great programs running. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm part shelton and today coming up as the lamb both descend on manhattan for a krypto event we go to a big name in the space our friend jeffrey tucker to discuss the latest in cryptocurrency and.