our breaking news here on international north korea say it has finished dismantling its only nuclear test facility our correspondent. is on this site we'll try and connect to him in the program. also coming up this hour one of the biggest business events is underway this in petersburg international economic forum sees the global business. in russia's northern will continue. ukraine blocked access to russian media websites by putting them on

a sanctions list we have reaction coming up. one minute two pm here in moscow this thursday may the twenty fourth you're very welcome to our international my name's o'neill we begin with breaking news on the program north korea say dismantled its only nuclear test facility our correspondent was on the site along with other international journalists invited there. i would just think that the phone getting nuclear test site which is frankly noble we saw three hours of full time of their useful nuclear testing one of them the north tunnel chile was used for the latest fall even nuclear test out of

six the other two were new we were till they were new and with koreans told us that they had been ready to conduct nuclear tests there any movement so for them building up the building the tubes it's inside more the real way of showing you how they're ready to make real concessions now the spectacle itself was quite impressive the explosions looks like smaller options than rule from under the ground also apart from the tunnels were due to debris were the infrastructure building is basically back soldier ration points and so on and so forth it's important to point out it's about buildings barracks and other buildings were empty there was no equipment there and no anything so we were being told we were told. we got rid of the equipment beforehand of course we have no way of verifying that

standing all the talk of verification of course we gen that who we estimates as to how much damage you would do with us today to go to pyongyang with the nuclear program as a whole but you will scream it's they've made this step the now now that we will expect something and with tehran and of course everything happening in the atmosphere all the insistently and confusion with talks between us president bush will trump and you will korea's leader kim jong own being in jeopardy especially after the latest statements come in to the latest statements coming from washington now we are right now we're on the way back to one hundred back to one son has so as soon as possible we'll be finding more reports. well the announcement comes just hours after p.n. yang said it wouldn't beg for a dialogue with america that came in reaction to yet another comparison to libya

coming from the u.s. vice president to pyongyang referred to as quote a political dummy mike pence threaten north korea with the same fate as libya if it didn't make a deal with the us. 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. keep a nuclear weapon state to libya that had simply installed a few items of equipment and fiddled around with them artes double quarter has more on who could 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 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 a region that we think strategically. or anime's of a 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 defend japan from north korea and ensure it will leave 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 and 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 get is there a b. is 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 sheet. to benefit the countries in the region from peace and north. another headline stories this hour of business and political elites are gathering in russia's northern capital petersburg they were in the city for one of the main events on the business calendar the city's international economic forum fifteen thousand participants from seventy two countries including iran two hundred fifty c.e.o.'s will be there over the coming

days we'll make sure you don't miss a thing. we're just having a look at some of the big names of the former president of france is there the prime minister and also china's vice president will be joined by some of the world's top business leaders heads of the international. organizations. well today's main focus is the meeting between president putin. front whether it's the western sanctions against russia or the fight against terrorism one thing is clear there's been a certain friction between the her of late. her . goal.

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lots of opportunities to align our positions and work together in key areas. we should never be weak whisper them when you all week. and it's fine that's again well we will be going live to the forum fright that day and indeed throughout the weekend meeting experts as well as getting the latest updates from our correspondents there. the team investigating malaysian airlines flight m h seventeen which was done over eastern ukraine in twenty fourteen has given a media briefing on the case of course live tour europe correspondent peter all for who has been following events hi there peter bring us up to date what came out of

that briefing. well this press briefing hard to main aims it was to update people on the investigation and also to appeal for witnesses and information the first part of that well there wasn't really much more presented that we didn't already see back in september of last year. the what the what's put forward by the joint investigation team is that a book surface to air missile system fired from a field that was under control of eastern ukrainian separatists shooting down the airliner that was flying from amsterdam to kuala lumpur killing two hundred ninety eight people and now the head of the dutch police who is part of that joint investigation team did say that most of the evidence that they were presenting was either similar all the same is that that was put forward by the belling cut group of course who face all of their data that they put forward or things that were taken from social media. contact we realise that the.

investigation collective has already concluded the same and published it we as yet see 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 well fred vesta becker who's the head of the j i t said that there was it was still not known who was responsible for the shooting down of the airliner or why it was shot down in the first place he did say that previously that had around one hundred direct suspects on their list he now said that it was down to dozens he when it came to the names or nationalities of those people or the the burden of proof against them he said that was a thing for the courtroom when it comes to the timeline though the j.i.t. presented what they said they were confident was the timeline they presented evidence they say that shows the book left the base in could in russia. returned

back there after seventeen had been shot down they say that it belonged to the fifty third brigade of the russian military the book of course is operated by both the ukrainian and russian military so they reaction though from moscow so far we're still waiting for the latest reaction in the past of course moscow's denied any responsibility for the shooting down of this airliner they also say that data that was provided by moscow hadn't been taken into consideration by investigators the criminal investigation though was described as being in its late last phase its later phases by the joint investigation team much of that evidence as i said was either similar all the same as what was put forward by belling cat but just who are they. eliot higgins who runs the website belling count is

a laid off admin work who made a name for himself by analyzing weapons used in the syrian conflict never been to syria doesn't speak a word of our there and he conducts his presidency set from the concept of his honor in his home against himself admits he has no experience in the field before the arab spring and you know more about weapons than the average x. box owner had no knowledge beyond what i've learned from arnold schwarzenegger and run. his tools of choice for uncovering global conspiracies for you tube and google billboards in the area kind of look the same but it wasn't really you know this isn't enough to 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 it eliot higgins or dish blogger and 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 either what he's doing is nothing more than reading tea leaves every level analysis is a method used by hobbyists but fellow obsessives are ecstatic about scrutinizing the link out 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. ukraine clumps dahlan on russian news sites in conjunction with the us our correspondent joined me in the studio after the break

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media russia subordinate and the air partner agency ria novosti ukraine the agency's resources have been blocked as well and there's been a lot of backlash already the international federation of journalists has come out condemning the move calling it a censorship decision against which they of course stand against now and they also added that we remind you that freedom of the press is a key element and what they said well functioning democracy saying that of course this is the wrong move to be taking but of course kiev has been taking a lot of moves against russian media in their country earlier their broadcasts were already shut down and now of course we see that websites are also inaccessible so we're going to start a glass coming out and saying something wrong is going on here and it's not the first time something similar house up and exactly just last week ukrainian security services carried out a massive operation against a re in of a city in ukraine again want to. from the that was added to the lissa day and the head of their kiev bureau. was detained at his home which was then raided their

central office in the capital was also raided and over forty employees were called in for questioning but didn't know where he was for quite a few days as well as family exactly exactly and he's been charged with treason at this point is facing up to fifteen years in prison for as. actually doing his job russia of course quickly responded to that calling for a stop the aggression against journalists and the release of that editor in chief his arrest was also met by an outcry the international human rights groups i'm sorry the u.n. high commissioner for human rights said it is concerned about the increasing number of attacks against media professionals in ukraine so this is a disturbing trend that we've been seeing growing actually ok thanks very much for bring us right up to date the. situation in ukraine with executive editor of twenty first century wired dot com putting addington he has had his say on this

is well he believes it's a direct attack on media freedom in the country. so this is clearly a political move it's definitely a war and free speech in but it's also enough for 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 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 and military activities by kiev in the dom bass 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 kiev's acting as an adjunct of the united states and anybody who's accusing the u.s. favored or installed some might say government in kiev is being a puppet of the united states these actions only reinforce those suspicions.

a tug of war over the south china sea between america and china appears to be intensifying the pentagon say in light of evidence that beijing is militarizing that disputed body of water it's no longer invited to join in the world's largest mara time military drills this coming summer. well during a meeting with the u.s. secretary of state in washington on whedon stay they chinese foreign minister rebuked america forthy decision. about which i was huge of course and we find the pentagon's decision to disinvite the chinese military to be a very unconstructive move is also unhelpful in terms of creating mutual

understanding between the us and china we hope that the us will change negative mindset well dave lindorff from the online news site this can't be helping things that the us would be furious if the situation was reversed. the u.s. position that china shouldn't be able to have defensive equally meant on those islands that it claims are part of its territory is phenomenally hypocritical when the us is sealing 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 a naval exercise that might involve that might involve so they've been in the way that as well as navy and 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. news

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shootings school kids across the united states today are facing an unprecedented amount of real world dangers the parents faculty and governments are now scrambling to address and now in this mad dash for safety schools and lockport new york art. turning to the highly controversial technology of facial recognition software all in an effort to protect their students the buffalo news is reporting that next school year lockport schools will have in place the kind of security software used that airports casinos and sensitive government installations lockport superintendent michelle t. bradley told the media quote that's the world that we're living in times of change for the board of education in the lockport city school district this is the number one priority school security. with a price tag of one point four million dollars this move towards closed circuit cameras combined with facial recognition technology will make lockport the first school district in the world in the world to put students through this kind of

surveillance but as cory doctorow observes for boing boing dot net deployed law enforcement facial recognition systems have failure rates of ninety eight percent the vendor responsible for putting it in the schools would not disclose how they improved on the state of the art but insisted that their product worked ninety nine point nine seven percent of the time. like the passing of the patriot act of the creation of homeland security after nine eleven many are now concerned that today in our supercharged efforts to protect the children we may very well be once again sacrificing our freedom to the almighty alter of safety. let's find out as we start watching the hawks. what already. looks like. it's like. the bottom.

like you know i got. this. week's. welcome on the washington parks i am tyrone been told that out of the olive. oil he still recognized yeah right because the metal detector and the. insert the other garbage that we have in our schools right now to keep them say you know. well maybe we just have too many doors you know is there anything left at this point and when will we learn. when will we learn we're like this like you know fear based decision making to protect people right you know where we make these decisions on the flow that who that shiny at that shiny thing right down to work this time and then we waste all this money and

what do you get you get there's a lot of society and a school where kids are growing up thinking that you know twenty four hour surveillance and facial recognition is ok great well that makes it easier it's the school to prison pipeline it's pretty easy transition it's kind of like college prep math. but now and then a really depressing this is the thing about these because i have my suspicions that these things aren't really the greatest thing ever from a technology standpoint tyrrel so like how our courting to the creators of us how is this supposed to work and so is this help everybody at favorite school here's the idea behind the whole thing right ok so the system will work by loading photos into it so that it so that it can track or signal if then one of these cameras all over the school spot you know the photos loaded and so you got all these photos of these people say with a.