the owner of the new. thank. you north korea stands defiant saying it won't beg for talks with the u.s. we'll look at who could benefit from jeopardizing the widely anticipated june summits. in the meantime our correspondent is on his way to north korea's nuclear test site which pyongyang is set to dismantle. one of the world's biggest business events gets underway some petersburg international economic forum sees the business go global business and political elite government russia's northern capital. but ukraine blocks access to russian media websites by including them on their sanctions list.

a warm welcome this is r.t. international with your latest news headlines are only carin now our top story this hour north korea says it won't beg for dialogue with america if washington doesn't want to sit at the negotiating table this was drawn young's reaction to yet another comparison to libya coming from the u.s. vice president who pyongyang referred to as quote a political dummy mike pence threatens north korea with the same fate as libya if it didn't make a deal with the u.s. . this will only end like the libyan model ended if kim jong un doesn't make a deal some people saw that as a threat well i think it's more of a fact we could surmise more than enough what a political dummy he is as he's trying to compare the d.p. r. k. a nuclear weapon state to libya that had simply installed a few items of equipment and fiddled around with them r.t.

is done on course or takes a closer look at who might be interested in jeopardizing a diplomatic breakthrough. if trump's much anticipated meeting with kim jong un actually goes ahead in the next few weeks it'll be a diplomatic breakthrough of historic proportions but wait a minute we've seen this before and let's not forget how that turned out this is a good deal for the united states north korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program south korea and our other allies will be better protected the entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons the deal did sound good but it collapsed a few years later the u.s. promised north korea two nuclear reactors five hundred thousand tons of fuel year and a lifting of sanctions but it didn't deliver fast forward to two thousand and eighteen and yet another us administration is promising to strike a deal with pyongyang or is it you know there's a chance that it will work out there's a chance it's

a very substantial chance it will work out i think it will be very successful but as i always say who knows you know i often say who knows who knows how it all works maybe you won't so are we going to be tantalized with another good deal with north korea that's ready to go only to see it fail again perhaps the u.s. sees the status quo of seeing north korea as the ultimate threat as being something beneficial to south korea is spending billions of dollars making bases and paying u.s. troops essentially to be there to ostensibly protect against. the north now that being the case if there were to be peace in korea. there's going to be questioning as well do we need our troops there and so i think in that sense there are forces that don't want a resolution that benefit off the instability and allow us to maintain these troops

and dozens and dozens of bases and posts in this small country in the region that we. or anime's of our government our friends of its military industrial complex and having a nemesis like north korea is a great excuse to pump up that military budget the request includes an additional four billion dollars to support missile defeating defense announcements to counter the threat from north korea no point seven billion to repair damage to u.s. navy ships and one point two billion in support of my administration south asia strategy japan is one ally that stands to benefit from u.s. military expansion especially after the recent reelection of its prime minister who vowed to defend japan from north korean aggression weeks after p.r. yang's missile launches these election is about whether we can define japan from north korea and ensure believe happily and the unpredictability on the korean peninsula has fringe benefits for some american rivals the south china sea has been

a serious bone of contention as of late with the u.s. attempting to assert its naval presence there much to beijing's annoyance so the larger threat of north korea's nuclear program has shifted u.s. military attention that would otherwise be focused towards china and although russia doesn't directly benefit from its unpredictable neighbor it certainly doesn't mind a challenge to u.s. dominance in the region what these countries are just beginning to recognize is they getting into an arms race increasing in and as china is expanding its military operations it takes money out of the economic damages of the kind of the which we can be it's a very complicated issue except for those. who are essentially getting that we're sure to stick this is something that must change countries as they begin to take the spread. of the countries in the region

from peace and north. despite the rhetoric north. riya is about to close its nuclear test site in the country's remote northeast they're being six nuclear bomb tests there since two thousand and six which were carried out inside a mountain is the world's last officially active nuclear test side north korea's described how the signs will be dismantled saying there will be a controlled explosion to collapse all the tunnels now but will result in all the entrance points being blocked as well after that the above ground facilities will also be destroyed our correspondent echoes dawn of is among the group of international journalists who set out on an arduous journey to see the nuclear facility shut down now apparently and surprisingly it's not easy to get an internet connection in north korea but his ego's last update choke work early on a train somewhere near where you're from but once on the nuclear test you don't

even know the exact solution as to where we go we don't. so that phrase itself is one of the first class. compartment for two and the fourth thing that we've noticed is that all we are shocked to do while you've got shots all to come from. all over the train a lot of t.v. goes on of posting updates throughout the day whenever possible and we'll bring them straight to you whenever he does. the business and political elites are gathering in russia's northern capital st petersburg there in the city for one of the main events on the business calendar to send petersburg international economic forum fifteen thousand participants from seventy two countries including around two hundred fifty ceo's will be there over the coming days and we're going to be bringing you all the highlights highlights from that event.

among the big names that the forum are china's vice president the president of france and the japanese prime minister they'll be joined by some of the world's top business leaders on the heads of international economic organizations or today's main focus that the forum will be the meeting between president putin and the man who mccrone of france now whether it's discussion on western sanctions against russia all the fight against terrorism one thing is clear there's been a certain friction between the pair before. lower. lower lower. our lives. are lived

her life. her. were lower. lower lower. i respect him i know him. home. we have lots of the fortunate just to align our positions and work together to keep areas. we should never be weak whisper of when you are weak. uses it and

it's fine that the game. has promised bringing you all the latest i'm now joined live by jim rogers american businessman and financial commentator he's based in singapore he's in some petersburg at the forum taking part in the vaal dying club session turning back the clock political rivalry versus economic interaction mr raja's thank you for joining us on r.t. international now european businesses particularly german and french companies have been calling for u.s. sanctions against russia to be dropped do you think that that's likely any time soon. i know that europeans wanted many people in the world think the sanctions are absurd including me i hope they drop i don't think it will happen any time soon though. you know nothing european countries might revolt against us with strict ins and go it alone with russia. yes that's a different story that's

a different question will america withdraw the sanctions probably not will the europeans say we're going to do it in a way probably so the germans don't see any reason for italians many people do not see any reason for the sanctions and they will pull out now with russia going to impose counter sanctions against the u.s. how do you think that's going to play out do you think it's going to impact the man on the street. lest you. various and very small way i thank you in a very small way i hope i know russia has to do something but i hope the russians will be restrained so that this can blow over and we can get rid of this pendulum. the same sanctions question again him. it does seem those sanctions are they the leverage of choice for some western countries are very effective. i don't know of any sanctions in history that have had a major effect yes they affect some individuals and some companies and sectors but

historically speaking i know that it had a major effect sometimes they hurt some people but they help for instance agriculture in russia right now is booming because of sanctions it has helped russian agriculture. so what this forum is all about as you know is that big business leaders like yourselves coming together putting their heads together looking to the future analyzing what the present situation is in the business world so what do you think is the biggest challenge to the world economy today. trade war sanctions we need to. open up we need to open a condom is we all need to open up the natural systems we need more open is not closing up the world has learned throughout history that closing off is not good opening up is good. this approach is what are you most looking forward to at this year's for michigan city is there a highlight for you is there something a particular look looking forward to see some kind of dances you're looking for.

well whenever i come to something like this i hope i'm going to find something new and different and an opportunity i would love to come away from this saying wow i found a great investment opportunity and then i could participate well i don't know. i'll speak to you next week look forward to that fingers crossed for us jim rogers american businessman financial commentator based in singapore thank you for your time enjoy the four. and were becoming live to the forum throughout the day meeting experts like mr jim rogers as well as getting the latest updates from our correspondent there so do stay tuned for that.

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in the why. there should be. welcome back but joint team investigating malaysian airlines flight m h seventy that was downed over eastern ukraine in two thousand and fourteen has given a media briefing on the case our europe correspondent peter hall of a has been following the events for is peter what came out of the briefing. well this was an update by the joint investigation team they also use the press there is an appeal for witnesses and more information fred vesta beca who's the head of the joint investigation team a j i t well he said that as it stood the same information they presented back in september of last year was where they were right now really

he said that their information led them to show that a book nine three eight and shot down. seventeen as it flew over eastern ukraine at that missile had been fired from a field in an area controlled by the separatists also that particular book arrived from russia and returned to russia during this briefing though mr vesta back it did go on to say that the bulk of their evidence and the videos that they showed were very similar in content to those put forward by the belling cut group way back in twenty fifteen. and we realize that the. investigation collective has already concluded the same and published it we as a charity have our own independent investigation of the conclusions we draw from that investigation must be based on legal and convincing evidence which will stand

in the courtroom. i beg your pardon that of course was one of the senior police officers in the netherlands who was also providing his thoughts on the investigation during this press conference if we go back to mr van de becker though he's the mr best a backer beg your pardon who's the head of the investigation team he did say that the two big questions they didn't have answers to at the moment were who was responsible for shooting down this plane and why it was shot down there was also a number of questions raised over the involvement of the russian military in this in this incident and now the head of the police netherlands who we saw there he said that they had found the fingerprint as he called it of this particular book surface to air missile system and he said it belong to the fifty third russian brigade that was based in khost they provided these videos that they say shows the book arriving from its base in kirstin to east ukraine and then going back again.

they ended it with an appeal for any further information any witnesses who could come forward to them but as we heard from the head of the police there and from other members of the joint investigation team a lot of their evidence is either based all of very similar to that that was found by the belling group so just who is battling cart and what are they trying to find out here. the criminal probe into the tragedy of m.h. seventeen hasn't been published yet but one blogger says he already has the answers and he had higgins who runs the website link out to the laid off admin work who made a name for himself by analyzing weapons used in the syrian conflict and never been to syria. doesn't speak arabic and he conducts is reset from the content of his armchair and his home begins from self admits he has

no experience in the field before the arab spring and. you know more about weapons than the average x. book so i had no knowledge beyond what i learned from arnold schwarzenegger and. his tools of choice for uncovering global conspiracies from you tube and google billboards in the area kind of look the same but it wasn't really you know this is say this is the same there was you can see the path from the grass but again it's not a great match so we know the russians light. and the media loves eliot higgins or dish blogger who've been analyzing the pictures of the wreckage thank you for joining the program but some are questioning his methods by the developer of the photo analysis program which palin can't use to claim moscow faked satellite images and image forensics experts aren't fans and what he's doing is nothing more than reading tea leaves every level analysis is a method used by hobbyists but full of obsessives are ecstatic about scruton can't

analysis for his claim he's showing photos of two different book missile systems in an attempt to prove the weapon came from russia they say the one pictured in russia is a newer model because it features a recent modification and for the claim that no ukrainian books were in the area at the time of the crash well fellow bloggers dug up screen shots from ukrainian t.v. apparently showing a book missile system complete with radar in the area just a few days before the tragedy. authorizes in ukraine have blocked access to the websites of russian media organizations by including them on a sanctions list correspondent joins me in the studio with more now exactly thanks for coming in so tell us more about what's happening to russian media organizations in ukraine right now or what we saw today was a rather long list of russian news outlets being added to that sanctions list and the agency's resources and their websites have been blocked and the announcement

that we saw today also spoke of tell me tell. communications services and the use of public telecommunication networks are being limited or stopped for this list of russian outlets and as you mentioned we've also seen ukraine earlier this month expanding sanctions on russian companies much in the same way as we've seen the us do recently and this isn't a crackdown on russian media recently is that exactly just last week ukrainian security services moved against the russian news outlet. and that's of course one of the agents agencies that was added to the list today the head of their key bureau key deal he was detained at his home which was then raided their central office was raided as well by the security services and around forty employees were called in for questioning since then he has been charged with state treason and is facing up to fifteen years and jail at this point where of course quickly reacted

to that calling for a stop to the aggression against journalists in the country and for the release of course of the editor in chief which of course is not something we've seen at this point but it's not just coming from russia there's also been an international outcry about what's being seen here the office of the u.n. high commissioner for human rights said that it was concerned about the increasing number of attacks against media professionals in ukraine so this is a bit of a disturbing trend that we've seen recently and we'll have to see where it goes from here absolutely thank you for bringing us those details invade i think you ok let's not forget i guess the trick having something to take executive at is a twenty first century why don't call mr headings and thank you for joining us on r.t. how do you view these sanctions against russian media organizations do you think there's a violation of freedom of speech. yeah i think i think definitely you can make that argument anywhere in the world but we should make that argument anywhere anywhere in the world so this is clearly a political move i think this fall also follows

a pattern of say targeting foreign media in countries like the united states with its so. insistence that r.t. america employees registers foreign agents except sure there's been similar attacks like on press t.v. in the u.k. taking them off the utah satellite as well in europe in two thousand and twelve so yeah it's definitely a war and free speech in but it's also an effort by the u.s. it seems very much a coordinated u.s. effort to control public opinion to control narratives if you look at it in a wider scope that's really it's about the management of information can we read into the timing of this is still as our correspondent was just saying there's been a disturbing chain of events just recently why doing it now. i think the timing is essential i think we're seeing this at the very exact time you're seeing an escalation of tensions and combat in military activities by kiev in the donbass

so this would make sense that when if a war is to escalate or if fighting has to escalate the first thing you would like to do is cut off any sources of opposition information and certainly they might view any russian media outlets in the ukraine as a potential source of sympathetic narratives towards the people of done by us and we've gone through so that doesn't surprise me at all in the wake of any war if you look at history one of the first targets will be media. right and before the sort of tensions are escalating or the war is beginning this is the first thing that you'll see infringements on freedom of speech is a very serious violation of human rights do you think there will be an international reaction to this. no in america there probably each a lot of people are cheering this on certainly the government and the mainstream press and a corporate media in america will look at this is a great thing they will you know when they need they need to get the russians out

because russians only produce propaganda etc this is how the narrative goes this is why this is kind of a disturbing trend so. this scope of discourse is being limited under the guise of let's say national security this is what the u.s. is indorsing in the ukraine so one would expect the us would probably follow suit within its own borders because this is absolutely kiev's acting as an adjunct of the united states and anybody who's accusing the us favored or installed some might say government in kiev is being a puppet of the united states these actions only reinforce those suspicions so it's clearly is there's no independent policy in kiev they're doing everything kind of in conjunction with the united states so is the ukraine a protectorate of the united states now certainly who acts like it diplomatically in this mirrored sanctions measures is shocking patrick henningsen an executive

editor of twenty first century why i thought confound you for joining us on our team sharing your thoughts on the inside thank you. i talk of war over the south china sea between america and china appears to be intensifying the pentagon says that in light of evidence that beijing is minutes realizing the disputed body of water it's no longer invited to join the world's largest maritime military drills this summer. but during a meeting with the u.s. secretary of state in washington on wednesday the chinese foreign minister rebuked america for the decision about which i research of course we find the pentagon's decision to disinvite the chinese military to be a very constructive move he's also unhelpful in terms of creating mutual

understanding between the u.s. and china that the u.s. would change a negative mindset they've learned off from the online news site this can't be happening thinks that the u.s. would be furious if the situation was reversed the u.s. position that china should be able to have defensive equal silence that it claims are part of its territory is phenomenally hypocritical when the u.s. is its i think it's the seventh fleet i'm not sure which number it is. around the south china sea if this were happening in the caribbean and it was china's folks that were leading naval exercises that made and that might involve say venezuela as well as maybe cuba's navy and mexico's navy the u.s. would be up in arms about it but this is the other side of the world and the u.s. seems to consider it to be american territory i don't know it's ridiculous. but in

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