former russian spy sergei script al who was poisoned by a nerve agent in the u.k. has been discharged from hospital in his daughter were admitted on march fourth and to being exposed to a service than known as novacek in the city of salzburg served as a russian intelligence officer but was stripped of his rank after he was caught spying for the u.k. in two thousand and six he was sentenced to thirteen years behind bars but he was released just four years later in a high profile spy swap the russian ambassador to the u.k. says that russia is still being denied consular access to him in violation of international law. unfortunately we don't have access to these people to serve you through books for the russian citizens if they don't want our assistance for him but we want to see them because school to put to do what we just saw the pictures

nobody through voice nobody saw with a lot we don't know surrogate script power has been discharged from hospital we know that the medical team have said that he's going to be continuing his recovery outside of souls where district hospital in terms of his location well that's a closely guarded secret we can assume that he has been whisked off to a safe house much like his daughter yulia square pile was back when she was discharged from the same hospital last month she's been kept well away from the public eye and out of the glare of the media and i think we can expect something very similar with a surrogate script file to happen that in itself is very interesting given the massive scandal that they're poisoning spock's and the diplomatic fallout that we've had as a result between russia and the u.k. take a look at how the for the poisoning of the former double agent and his daughter has

unfolded over the past two months. the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act against and to the script. that can be no suggestion of business as usual in relation to our interaction with russia mr speaker this action has happened against a fact. the drop of a well established pattern of russian state aggression and in regards to where the novacek came from well the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander yack event i was just saying in that press conference that as this story

unfolds more doubt is being cast upon the u.k. government's continuous assertion that it could have only been moscow behind the attack take a listen lou from for example from the from the czech republic from the president to a church group of this certain amount of know each year was produced to. the recently that visas fro this to receive me that russia is the only country that was cuticle of briefings. it was wrong in scotland yard has released a statement saying that the counter-terrorism investigation into the attack continues and that they're keeping the progress of it under wraps but perhaps most importantly what's interesting here is that despite the huge scandal and the political fallout that since you'd as a result of what happened in cells brain on the fourth of march and the diplomatic

expulsions of the war of words with the kremlin and it is that investigators in this case are still none the wiser as to who the assassin was that smeared that nerve agent on the script aus door handle of their house in cells very. german chancellor angela merkel is in the russian black sea resort of sort she was she's been meeting with vladimir putin not easily patrol has details. it didn't seem at all especially at the very beginning like two political watchers internationally i mean we're meeting here and saatchi when angola merkel stepped out of her limousine vladimir putin was standing there with roses and that was just when the newly reappointed russian prime minister dmitri medvedev was walking out of the building and the chancellor wished him good luck in russian so.

there would be the music then later during the press conferences both leaders kept saying how you know political differences can stop them and their countries from being partners if not friends fifty one sort of you we have strategic interests to maintain good relations with russia and maintaining dialogue is crucial i want to underline that if we want to overcome issues we need to conduct dialogue there are many topics where we're united. germany is one of our key trade partners we just started by german goods in higher volumes which supports jobs in germany cooperation common enterprises these are essential factors influencing the lives of germans and russians but the russian and german governments do have a whole lot of issues between them from the ukrainian crisis to even the script all cases and in one way or another all these issues were brought up during the talks or the press conference however since donald trump said good bye to the so-called

iranian nuclear deal berlin and moscow do genuinely see eye to eye at least on one issue no official you on germany great britain france and all our colleagues in the e.u. support the iran young nuclear deal and we are sticking to it we from the european side are discussing the situation with iran the agreement isn't perfect but it's better than none we should continue negotiating with iran and on that we are united . blah. i'm approaching and angola merkel promised to make an extra effort to make sure that the nuclear agreement stays in place now moving on to sanctions usually when you hear merkel talks the first thing that comes up on your mind is anti russian sanctions but so to say the season is different since economic sanctions and all other kinds of punishment you can think of have become the favorite toy or rather the political tool of the donald trump administration we've been hearing

about all kinds of sanctions against iran against russia and even against european companies that deal with russia and those that deal with iran and in this case a joint russia german project called nord stream two for the direct russian natural gas deliveries to germany is now in jeopardy lot of our putin was asked about it his reaction was cause and he did point out that the issue of north stream to is one of the very few things if not the only thing where the obama administration and the donald trump administration share common ground. u.s. position on the north stream project is well known in this case we say a rare situation of the white house actually agreeing with the legacy of the a bomb or administration there's no doubt that these kind of summits will continue in the

future and possibly next time with the leaders of france and ukraine to sort out the political crisis in that eastern european country the so-called normandy format . it was also in sochi where a meeting between mental and putin eleven years ago generated headlines because the russian president brought along his pet labrador some western journalist suggested that putin was deliberately trying to intimidate merkel playing on her fear of dogs putin later said he had no idea that might be a problem and apologized because our correspondent in the earlier both leaders have a long history.

the president the russian president likes to drink german beer and sometimes there is a possibility that we can exchange i have also got some very good smoked fish. you know angela from time to time send me a couple of bottles of rather good to be. a passenger plane has crashed shortly after takeoff from havana in cuba killing more than one hundred people the boeing seven three seven came down in the field near jose marti international airport with one hundred four passengers and nine crew on board these are the latest pictures from the crash site from a video. at least three people are reported to have survived and a said to be in a critical condition local reporter one. plane that was on a local flight from have an it will begin on the northeastern side of cuba. tourist

resort but where lots of cubans live we've been told that the families. of those who lived in again of the victims are being ferried out being brought to have vanished tonight they'll be an advantage of helping in the identification of the victims the three survivors are women and are in hospital one of them was being operated on the others are being studied their cases being studied we don't know yet but we will know soon. they have promised a full investigation top cuban authorities were on the site on the scene of this. the president himself breslin and miguel the s.k. mails was just been sworn into office he was there the minister of transportation was there everybody was there trying to help and figure out what happened it's a tragedy by all means it's a local flight a passenger flight that obama airlines had leased from

a mexican air company global air i understand is the name and on the crew was a mexican crew also. but a very very sad situation indeed a boeing seven three seven with more than one hundred people on board. now the european union is stepping up its efforts to try safety run nuclear deal with the full story after this break. summit or no summit that's the question north korea's threat of a no show when single for on june twelfth is a reminder to washington that north korea will not merely cave to american demands if there's going to be an agreement it's going to take time and patience.

we have to judge countries certainly there's a directive. so we need more objective but the reality is that you know media tries to get the facts but also leave. their worldview so this is where social media and direct communication comes in unfortunately it's sometimes called fake news or sometimes yes but it's sometimes actually a different worldview that they just fake news. powerful people. welcome back the e.u. is fighting to protect its trade with iran a bit u.s. sanctions european commission is triggering a raft of legal measures to save the iran nuclear deal after the u.s.

pullout the european union is committed to mitigating the impact of u.s. sanctions on european businesses and taking steps to maintain the growth of trade and economic relations between the e.u. and iran that began when sanctions were lifted. and i guess the it takes a closer look now at the souring relations between the us and e.u. and the latest move by brussels. no arguing with it america and europe had something special a relationship unlike any other they did everything together condemned rogue regimes slapped naughty countries with sanctions even when they wanted to get we have a very strong relationship with our friends and partners our friends in the u.s. administration we have a really great relationship both rand's allies and this is this very special relationship this is us almost too good to be true and it seems it was

money trumps all now that america has unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear deal with iran it could start sanctioning european states companies that haven't the to do business with iran e.u. leaders merkel mckown others tried to change trump's mind with love. graduations and i think a great victory. i . think you. except love has nothing on money europeans a facing american sanctions that's not very nice is it not something friends would do looking at the latest decisions of president. bush that.

europe has had enough they stand to lose cash because of america and they won't let that happen. concluded as the european commission we have a duty to protect european companies so. we now need to act and this is why we're launching the process of activating the blocking statute from one thousand nine hundred six. what you're a business doing is using a statute initially developed to circumvent washington's trade embargo on cuba the law basically protects european states from laws or sanctions implemented outside of europe you can see a political resolution look at america's new ambassador to germany hours after being confirmed he threatens german companies as donald trump said u.s. sanctions will target critical sectors of ron's economy german companies doing

business in iran should wind down operations immediately my advice after a long ambassadorial career explain your country's policies and lobby the host country but never tell the host country what to do if you want to stay out of trouble germans are eager to listen but they will resent instruction prompts bully boy tactics haven't gone down well in europe the block is finally showing its teeth so the new different to what we defend on this subject as all others is the trading sovereignty of purity and what we demand is to be exempted without any conditions and limits it with new ones that you can't do it what do we want to be able to buy blindly to what americans tell you or do we want us europeans to say about how the economic interests of them want to have economic relations with russia what can you say every relationship has its bumps it's just that some bumps and in

divorce we should not overestimate the importance of trade with iran as a whole which in europe this is a matter that might be very crucial to specific smaller companies that for example have a large part of their trade with iran i mean the big companies of gold i'm going to choose. for the better and they're going to see our interests lie more with the u.s. and with iran and they're going to not to risk these kind of sanctions where the real impact is going to be that remains to be seen we should not forget that the e.u. on politically on foreign policy issues it has always been strong on words on symbols but not much on real implementation. two of italy's leading a euro skeptic parties have drawn up a plan for a coalition government of the months of political deadlock since the march election our europe correspondent peter oliver has details. it's been called the contract

for the government of change it certainly puts out plenty of change in those proposals now this was published by the five star movement it's part of their coalition agreement deal with the far right league and north party should they agree then world those two sides get to put forward a prime minister and it's up to the italian president then to decide whether he gets his vote or her or she gets his vote and they become the next prime minister if that makes sense that's where we are at seventy days on since italy had an election it's this is the attempt to try and get some kind of consensus government now the preliminary versions of this agreement that have been leaked over the last few days while they were criticized in the media as being either you or pro russian we can now have a look at exactly what was in what is in the proposal so they will be no unilateral exit from the euro zone or the e.u. there won't be any referendum taking place on italy leaving either of those two

they won't ask for two hundred fifty billions that you are worth of debt to be written off but there will be a review your go see a sion that will be attempted and we're also looking at potentially a huge overhaul of immigration policy within the e.u. particularly the dublin treaty italy wants to see big changes there the five star and league ignored wanting to push that through should they get an ok in the go ahead on this government they also want to see the scrapping of sanctions against russia and russia to be viewed as a trade partner not as a threat now if we look at the the versions that were leaked previously the word immediately was in there it's worth noting that isn't in the official final version the team published on friday and there's also talk of any universal basic income that would be seven hundred eighty euro per person living in italy that's going to seven see. billion euros worth of public spending but also and ask for cash

from the european union have to keep an eye on that but this is certainly going to be if it gets the green light a government that goes head to head with brussels there's going to be collisions here particularly when you look at the ideas that are being put in head to scrap austerity and to get back spending public money that is not going to go down well in either frankfurt with the european central bank or in brussels it you head office. the u.s. is refusing to support an international probe into the deaths of protesters on the israel gaza border washington voted against the plan at the u.n. human rights council and the u.s. envoy nikki haley gave a statement suggesting the u.n. has more important problems to deal with at a time when we need to a low lurches to our dictatorship iran imprisons thousands of political opponents and ethnic cleansing has taken place in burma the un so-called human rights council

has decided to launch an investigation into democratic countries a legitimate defense of its own border against terrorist attacks it is another shameful day for human rights this week dozens of palestinians were killed by israeli gunfire during border riots after their meaning of the new us embassy in jerusalem and the release continued on friday with thousands gathering at the border fence local journalists including was there. palestinians are here protesting again it's a second there from a gun and it's very obvious that the israeli forces are still using tear gas canisters to disperse all these protesters oh. and as you see tear gas is fighting the place they have been fighting to you guys as sense the beginning of the protests. we also heard a lot of live ammunition since the beginning of the protest if we can hear that i mean it says we're starting to get affected by the tear gas.

i'll be here now is live ammunition and it's very obvious that the israeli snipers are trying to shoot one of the protesters that are very close to the five palestinians came here today to come great all of the victims killed and injured in the past past seven weeks where at least one hundred five palestinians have been killed in the quick march of return and at least eight thousand palestinian protesters have been injured by live in munition tear gas canisters rubber bullets and other weapons this ready forces have been using it gets the palestinian protesters. we do appreciate you staying with us here on auntie international the saving updates on the top stories and more coming your way at home. i can tell you i have killed thirteen people with missile strikes and there are one thousand six hundred and twenty six unnamed enemies that were killed in all the

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or should i say john bolton's demands if there's going to be an agreement it's going to take time and patience to the americans and the north koreans have enough of either. cross talking in the upcoming summit i'm joined by my guest kevin martin in washington he is president of peace action and peace action education fund as well as coordinator of the korea peace network also in washington we have jenny town she is managing editor of thirty eight north and in boston we cross to. he is an assistant professor at baruch college city university of new york and a specialist on korea and asian affairs all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it jamie lynn and jenny let me go to you first here do you think there's still going to be an summit or are we just get in the in the preamble process of you know everybody's kind of

feeling everyone out and finding out what the lay of the land because i think with the cable stations in the us tend to overreact to all kinds of things go ahead jenny. they mean they definitely overreact and the fact that we haven't heard this coming from concerned than himself i would assume that some i process this i'm a process is still moving and that we should expect it to happen but i think it is a reminder that you know there are obligations on all sides i mean the north koreans are not simply as you said not simply just going to do things unilaterally they do expect or it's a break aisha and it will take time and they're not interested in a model especially the libyan model where you know it ended up with the deposition of deposing qaddafi and so this idea too is that you know they also expect to have reciprocal actions along the way not simply at the end of a process and i think you know that needs to be taken into account even in the messaging as we move forward you know kevin more or less the same question to you

because again i think a lot of nuance is lacking in the coverage of this very very important story is that the perception is that the north koreans and there's preconditions like surrender give up all of your weapons your program and then we can talk any rational person that has an understand of international relations and diplomacy which unfortunately is terribly lacking at times in washington knows that it's a tit for tat it's a learning process you have to start learning to trust each other that's step one go ahead. well and i think it's important to remember that the most important president in this process is president moon of korea not president trump of the united states it's always all about trump right everything is always all about trump except this isn't president moon is not only trying to bring about peace and diplomacy on the peninsula he's trying to reclaim more independence and sovereignty in a relationship with the polar world superpower and so far he's been doing it extremely

deftly and i think we should be looking to that meeting here in washington on may twenty second between trump and moon as a very important step in setting the stage for later talks including this time between trump and kim ok let's go to go to boston professor i mean more or less the same question again to you here i mean with the added county on is how much is american domestic politics playing in this because again if you look at the mainstream media the liberal media they have a hard time. digesting this story that trump could be part of a peace making world historic event here they're very hesitant i mean i make gnostic i'm a piece ok and i don't care who gets you there ok but that's not the case in american domestic politics go ahead professor in boston. right as you pointed out here in the united states particularly in the mainstream media don't want to give credit to president trump they're simply

a case. as any pointed out important thing is that the statement you know criticizing john bolton or even canceling the summit meeting came from directly from. going from counterpart diploma to you know john bolton in the past. sort of so it's kind of individual statement highlight that the north korean government officially still is very much interested in the coming summit meeting with the president i think that's the case ok jenny what do you think that the first steps are going to be because unfortunately and maybe this is because of the bolton effective and just the perceptions of north korea in general you know the end result is a nuclear free peninsula i think that's the oil to make goal but that's going to take a long time to get there stationing of american troops in the south so far the north has not really put a whole lot of demands on that but we know that that will probably be part of the

process as well i mean what we know is some of this coming up in singapore it's not going to decide everything it might start the process of deciding something and i think that's the way it should be looked at go ahead jim. yes i think it you're exactly right it is that you know this summit is not a one off it's not supposed to solve all of the problems there's only so much you can do in a one day meeting at a high level meeting you're not going to get into the details and this is been part of the problem is that this isn't necessarily how the u.s. does diplomacy and so it's been a very uncomfortable and very uncertain process along the way normally this would come after you've already negotiated all the details rather than setting the mandate and the objectives of what has to be in a deal so i think you know there's a lot here that is very uncertain i think there's been very bad expectation management along the way coming from both the u.s. as well as the south korean government raising expectations too high.