will be exposed. to. breaking news on our international north korea it has. only testing facility our correspondent was near the site out the network when it was pulled off. one of the year's biggest business events is under way in russia as lowball industry leader john political elite scholar for the st petersburg international economic. on the team investigating the crash of malaysia airlines flight m h seventeen in eastern ukraine in twenty fourteen reveal their conclusions like knowledge that they coincide with a blogger's finding. just

four pm here in moscow this thursday may the twenty fourth revery you're tuning in from right around the world welcome to our team. north korea sais it has dismantled its only nuclear test facility our correspondent was up at the site among the very few international journalists to witness a history making moment. we've just visited the. nuclear test site which is frankly noble we saw three out of four tunnels there used for nuclear testing one of them the north tunnel actually was used for the latest fall even nuclear test the other two were new and north koreans told us that they had been ready to conduct a nuclear test any movement so for them. the tubes it's inside more of the real way of showing how they're ready to make concessions now these tactical

itself was quite impressive the explosions looks like small eruptions. from under the ground of course we journalists couldn't really estimates and to how much damage would we today go to pyongyang and the nuclear program as a whole but north korea says they've made this step and now now they will expect something in return now we are right now we are on the way back to one son and so as soon as possible we will be finding more reports igor said off in north korea wholly announcement comes just hours after peeling young said it wouldn't beg for a dialogue with americans not came in reaction to yet another comparison to libya coming from the u.s. vice president who north korea referred to us quote a political dummy mike pence threatened kyung with the same fate i think conflict stricken north african country if it didn't make

a deal with washington. this will only end like the libyan model handed 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 drama he is as he's trying to compare the d.p. r. k. a nuclear weapons state to libya that had simply installed a few items of equipment and fiddled around with them. double quarter has more on who might be interested in jeopardizing any diplomatic breakthroughs. 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'll 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 we'll see 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. 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 pyongyang'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 as it's increasing in and as china is expanding its military operations it takes money out of the economic damages of the kind that 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 in northeast asia. let's just full. a lot of the points don was making there a tug of war over the south china sea between america and china appears to be intensifying the pentagon state in light of evidence that beijing is militarizing disputed waters its no longer invited to join in the world's largest maritime military drills taking place this summer.

well during a meeting with the u.s. secretary of state in washington on whedon's state china's foreign minister rebuked america for their decision was i was your we find the pentagon's decision to disinvite the chinese military to be a very constructive move he's also been helpful in terms of creating mutual understanding between the u.s. and china that the u.s. would change negative mindset well dave lindorff from the online news site this can't be happening thinks that the u.s. would be furious if the situation was reversed. u.s. position that china should be able to have defensive equant 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 they've been in 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 in the u.s. seems to consider it to be american territory i don't know it's ridiculous. moving on now a business political elites are gathering in russia's northern capital there in sindh petersburg for one of the main events on the business calendar the international economic forum fifteen thousand participants from seventy two countries including iran two hundred and fifty c.e.o.'s will be there or over the coming days and we'll make sure you don't miss a thing. back

to the some petersburg international economic forum where they russian president is right now i'm meeting the head of the international monetary fund christine legarde on the sidelines of the forum it was just downtown. and it is such a gorgeous beautiful city and i miss the time that it was there ok well let's stay you know insecure spring in the a picture. there for hopefully you can hear me ok a pretty impressive guest list is day one heading out. to ho yes i can hear you and just go in through the thousands in the hundreds that you were mentioning you do realize that the form is getting more established no matter what it's almost two hundred fifty c.e.o.'s that is an impressive number

with the way things might be looking now when it comes to russia and the rest of the world and the v.i.p.'s names on a global scale include no surprise lattimer putin besides the french president and manual macron also the prime minister of japan the vice president of china and the head of the international monetary fund by the way a lot of our putin has already met the second most important politician in china and christine legarde as well but why are so many journalists here right now why have they moved away from the form towards the shore of the baltic sea the reason for that is because emmanuel micron is on the way to vladimir putin's residence in st petersburg the very same man who just to show. while ago or held donald trump by the hand and you remember all the awkward moments that made everyone talk about

some sort of romance between the american president and the french president and in just a few hours we will find out whether a fraction of that sort of chemistry whether we'll see that between mr putin and mr mccraw think of it emanuel is coming to russia for the first time when really on an international chess board france and russia are definitely on the different sides of that chess board but just like and the case of angle marco and germany by the way these two leaders met last friday paris and moscow do why they are on the same page when it comes to the iranian nuclear deal so very soon we'll find out whether that will help them build any more small bridges and any case of course the story of personal relations between mr macron and mr putin isn't as long as that of angola merkel and the russian president but still it is quite worth checking

out what it was like in the previous year.

i respect him and i know him. and. we have lots of opportunities to align our positions and work together in key areas. we should never be weak whisper them when you are weak. and it's fine that again well for big business to global investors here's what some of the delegates at the same petersburg forum have been telling us about the u.s. china trade war and how they see the economic climate in russia as it stands. i think china is very much on track i think the russian economy is on the man and us economy actually the strong so in the short term the growth is actually above

the trend of girls which means by twenty twenty we could see a risk of recession in the united states trade war between us china would result in a lose lose situation which means the policy makers on both sides are likely to be rational that's what we have seen in past two weeks but having said that i think the trade the tensions between china united states are unlikely to go away really just for one reason the u.s. economy right now is facing the risk of overheating at the same time the fiscal policy with tax cuts could actually result in a larger trade deficit between the united states and china. i know that europeans want it many people in the world think the sanctions are absurd including me i hope they're dropped i don't think it will happen any time soon

though will america withdraw the sanctions probably not will the europeans say we're going to do it anyway probably so the germans don't see any reason for it italians many people do not see any reason for the sanctions and they will pull out i don't know of any sanctions in history that i've had a major effect yes there are facts on individuals and companies that sectors but historically speaking i know of none that i've had a major effect. but most if you look at russia and its economic figures you can see that during the past ten to twenty years russia has been developing rapidly we've seen how russia continues to develop despite the sanctions and i say that based on the company's own figures and experience the local market has changed look at what happened after the first sanctions in the food and drinks industry it reacted really fast and continued to grow. well we will be checking in live at the forum over the next few days hearing from the delegates and getting updates from

our news team in st petersburg. i. there is no update on the mh seventeen tragedy the passenger jets brought down over ukraine four years ago and investigators have been giving a briefing the details of life with our correspondent in ninety seconds.

our senses did a remarkable job of keeping humans alive for million years in terms of being able to hear see taste feel but now says the algorithms in the machines of the robots have evolved past humans capabilities to see more hear more understand more feel more we as humans have to prepare for the fact that we are now becoming extinct. hello again the team investigating malaysia airlines flight m h seventeen which was

done over eastern ukraine in twenty four dean has been giving a media briefing on their findings our europe correspondent peter oliver can bring us up to date now with more peter tell us what came out of that briefing right well they were giving an update on the investigation into the downing of m.h. seventy not malaysian airlines flight was heading from amsterdam to kuala lumpur almost four years ago in july of twenty forty now it was downed over eastern ukraine during a period of some of the bitterest fighting and that part of the world between eastern ukrainian separatists and the ukrainian government government forces the ukrainian military now this press briefing by the joint investigation team was designed to update us on where the investigation stands and also to appeal for witnesses and information on the first part of that there wasn't particularly too much new that was presented it was all fairly along the same lines as we were shown

back in september of last year the finding so far from the investigation team as the seventeen was shot down from a book surface to air missile system that was launched from a field in east ukraine that was currently under the control or at the time under the control of ukrainian separatist forces we heard from the head of the dutch police who is part of the joint investigation team they said that a lot of the findings that they were putting forward were the similar or exactly the same as those that were put forward by telling cat who to used social media to glean their data. it we realize that the belling get in this to give already reached the same conclusions and publish them. as the joint investigation team have our own independent investigation and the conclusions we draw from it must be based on legal and convincing evidence which will stand in

a courtroom. or for adverse to becker who is the head of the joint investigation team said that as it stands they still do not know who. who launched that missile or why exactly this airliner was targeted what he did say is that back in september they had a list of around one hundred people they counted as suspects he now said that list was down to dozens but when it came to the names the nationalities or the burden of proof that they have against them he said that was something for a courtroom not a press conference the timeline that was presented by the joint investigation team well they said they were confident that the evidence they showed that the book left a russian base in course entered ukraine and then returned to russia after the mh seventeen flight had been shot down they also appealed for anybody that would have any information into the fifty third brigade of the russian army they

say that this particular book belonged to that brigade and are looking for anybody with any information now in response to this we've heard from the russian ministry of defense they put across three points the first one was they say that no book has ever crossed the russian and ukrainian border they say that they have contacted the dutch authorities on the investigation team with this information and evidence and they also pointed out that the russian ministry of defense deem it unfortunate that investigators have chosen to rely so heavily on the findings of belling cat and they said they put forward their theories a few years ago and it continued to do so a lot of their data based on social media so. looking just billing cut. higgins who runs the website blink out the 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 of our there and he conducts his press

on the set from the concept of his. and 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. books owner had no knowledge beyond what i've learned from arnold schwarzenegger and run though. 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 isn't enough to say this is definitely 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 era level analysis is a method used by hobbyists but fellow obsessives are ecstatic about scrutinizing palin can't analysis bloggers claim he's showing photos of two different book missile systems and 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. this. our stories are looking at a time of heightened turmoil in the mideast a former adviser to israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu who sits next with exile of boyko worlds apart try to head.

years ago britain and within cons again as a sleeping pill the dusty sword only in gaza are two of those were said to the side effects were terrible but not on no. one for. the war. across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation. in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well with the constant reminder that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been the justice and there's been a couple. of that your

sudden passing i've only just learnt you were a south and taken your last. year at we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry for the echo so i write these last rites and helps to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each. but then my feeling started change you talked about more like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like. it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one quite different as i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker.

the welcome to worlds apart israel has long contended that that security compels it to go to much greater lengths than other countries may be willing to or capable of but with the killing of dozens and injuring of thousands of palestinians in just one day the security argument gets less and less sympathy abroad except perhaps in the united states does israel still care about how its actions are perceived anywhere but in the white house well to discuss that i'm now joined by dore gold the president of the jerusalem center for public affairs and former adviser to

israeli prime minister ariel sharon benjamin netanyahu and that's it it's great to talk to you today thank you very much for your time my pleasure now i know you were greatly overjoyed by the americans deciding to move their embassy to jerusalem is there anything else that you would like the trumpet administration to do on the israeli palestinian track well right now the administration is considering a new initiative a new peace initiative. and i we have to give them time to finish their work and and put this on the table well ambassador the reason i'm asking is because i've heard some american commentators including tom friedman of the new york times suggest that trump has waste they have one of the best cars he have instead of using it as leverage with both the government and the palestinians he just gave god baby away for free i'm quoting mr friedman here do you agree with that reasoning well i think that's

a very narrow perspective. how diplomacy works. you know we don't have to pay for everything we do in negotiations and in national. discourse. the fact of the matter is countries decide where their capital is you know you russia at one point had its capital in st petersburg and then it moved its capital much to moscow we had a capital always in jerusalem. and that's a fact now whether the united states puts its embassy. in tel aviv or jerusalem what a decision the united states can make but as a matter of fact jerusalem is functioning already as a capital for many years a new investor comes to israel where does he present his credentials in tel aviv or in jerusalem in jerusalem where all the offices of all the ministries located in

jerusalem is only a question of reality catching up rather than anything that ambassador rebuilding respect israel has long claimed that it's secure just situation is a special case specifically because of a long running conflict so let's not treat that the issue of jerusalem in the same way you would trade you know where their states place that capitals and by the way on the or russia argument i can tell you that the russians trays that historic routes to key of but i'm sure he's a real would not endorse russia deciding to you know take hold of that city would you well you know you have now a country called ukraine and it has a capital in kiev and you know we're not making recommendations that countries invade their neighbors and take over their capitals so no but jerusalem has always been our capital and the united nation.