i. was going on there with thoughts and meeting but we will be keeping a close eye on all developments from there we're back with more news very shortly. you never know what's around the corner you never know what's in the pub you can walk into excitement in fact not knowing that's where the adrenaline in much comes from. your knees and knees going to finish him in the extreme so will. the violence he's a punk and. a schizophrenia. where you can do all these things and behave badly. they're going to be full of horse colorful all. those more social skills are going

to last. and this may and infirmed. rule and didn't follow us from the start. ok let's return then to those live pictures russian president vladimir putin greeting his counterpart the french president of money with his wife bridgette as they arrived in sympathy for the international economic forum and i imagine some meetings on the sidelines of that forum as well yes so those were the pictures we had there of the two leaders just meeting greeting before i suppose they sit down to discuss what is going to be a lot of issues we'll keep a close eye on what comes out of that for no let's return to one of our breaking news stories this hour donald trump has counseled his coming meeting with north

korea's kim jong un scheduled for june in singapore not trump explained his decision in a letter saying it's with tremendous anger and open hostility that the summit is off on the u.s. leader was quick to remind everyone of america's great nuclear powers from the consolation he ses was triggered by a statement made by north korea's foreign ministry not came in response to comparisons made with libya from the u.s. vice president who pyongyang labeled a political. this will only like the libyan model and if kim jong un doesn't make a deal some people saw that as a threat and i think. john bolton made that statement. i think that's what denuclearization means and we have very much in mind the libya model from two thousand and three two thousand and four he was talking about if we're going. to be having a problem because we cannot let that country have nukes we just can't do it the

model if you look at that model with gadhafi that was a total decimation we went in there to beat him now that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely president trump out earlier war north korea could face the same fate as libya just a reminder libya gave up its weapons of mass destruction in two thousand and three but still faced a nato intervention eight years later. meanwhile a tug of war over the size china sea between america and china appears to be intensifying the pentagon sais in light of evidence that beijing is militarizing disputed waters it's no longer invited to join in the world's largest marra time military drill of this summer.

a jury meeting with the u.s. secretary of state in washington on wednesday china's foreign minister for the decision. was i was huge of course and we find the pentagon's decision to disinvite the chinese military to be 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 a negative mindset. but we spoke to an international affairs expert in hong kong who told us why he believes it's all part of a political game. well china's perspective this is about how to. or how to protect our own. we're not. trying because the trust is

lost. is that china and india and actually not the changes. so only trumps perspective discipline because of the chinese meditation is behind north korean but i can ensure that you so if you enter the true this leave of the. issues it seems that this is the gesture. of the methods that if it was not so closely to them they could dishonest trust the lot corporate in this area and this is also the normal illustrations only of the policies change all the time you know so this is occurring you know but even then tactics or strategy. an alliance of human rights groups have launched a criminal complaint against italian government officials and the major european arms for him they are being accused of involvement in deadly bombings in yemen the

complaint cited a specific instance when a family of six died in the lead saudi led coalition air strike back in twenty six dean parts of an italian made bomb or a find at the scene but for locals in the italian village where they are produced there's a wider moral dilemma to making the deadly weapons. as you put it up we've got the idea that here that what you see here this is the suspension law that is used to connect the bond today to fighter jet and then here it shows a four four four seven and that is the home it is used by our company and tell you next project.

ok we interrupt this piece because that we want to cross to washington where the new u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o. is speaking to lawmakers over their career issues let's listen make sure that can jump in understands this we are completely consistent we will absolute demand that in that all the benefits can flow of north korea will not occur until we achieve our definition that he is well aware of you know crystal clear the complete dismantlement so again famous sector. thank you senator cardin thank him sector i would yes consent that statements from refugees international and catholic relief services mimi part of our record that objection secretary let me just follow up on north korea for one moment and that is in response to senator johnson you indicated that you're trying to convince the north koreans that their security is

going to be better served without nuclear weapons and i fully support that. it's very possible that diplomacy is successful it will require action by the united states congress in order to deal with some of these issues during the discussions on their rand nuclear agreement all republican colleagues thought that this should be a treaty type or an arranged. which would require the two thirds vote of the united states senate my question to you is how do you intend to keep congress informed during these negotiations considering the questions that senator menendez asked were ones that i would have asked also and we had not had the in-depth type of briefings that would be i think required in these types of negotiations so how do you envision keeping us informed recognizing that during the iran nuclear agreements congress felt compelled to pass a statute in order to make sure that we were kept informed. senator appreciate the

question. i was but a junior member of congress at the time i don't remember being kept informed at all for the record with respect to the j.c. appeared spite of what i think the record would show were constant efforts to be so informed i'm going to better i can tell you speaking point i welcome our republican colleagues we had numerous discussions with the obama administration during the negotiations me we were satisfied with what we're told we had numerous discussions that i have a point that only because i think the bar is low and i'm going to be that. what we'll do our best to keep you fully apprised but let me state what i think is even more important it is absolutely case they it is our intention to achieve an agreement that would be put before the united states senate. and that's our that's our goal or goal our goal is to actually do what i had hoped would happen with the iran deal is the united states senate would get to get to. clarify you don't

conduct it's constitutionally appropriate duty to talk about submitting it to the united states senate is a treaty sir you can thank you it's a look there's a lot of work to do we're as you can see we're at the early stages here but we we believe that if we get this right and we're successful that it would be appropriate to do that i would just an important for the north and i appreciate that response i would just caution you as far as timing that the record of the senate taking up treaties and passing them understand it's just urge you to thank you senator it's why i think it would be well served if we had the discussions during the course of these negotiations i did it in a venue where we can talk freely and certainly i do appreciate that and i get the challenge that's why i left a little room for agreement that didn't quite make it there but i think but senator you had an important point it's important for america it's important for constitutional democracy to try to do that it will also prove important for the north koreans eleven and so i just think it's important on multiple dimensions or

i'm going to change focus too to iran for one moment if i might president trump was pretty clear that he intended to terminate are involved but then ok we've just been listening to some two and forth there with the u.s. secretary of state michael paoli speaking about what is happening in north korea and the american president pulling out of a historic summit next month senior account as you can see in the screen joins us live now samir has been a keeping track of what's been going on there with the secular state what more was said there we just called it halfway through samir. well in a letter that was released by the white house addressed to kim trump said that it would be inappropriate to have the meeting at this time but it's important to note that this letter was sent a few hours after north korea blew up its nuclear testing site but there's been talk of this meeting for quite some time now a historic meeting took place between the north and south just last month which

seemed like an indication that things were going well and then military drills between north and excuse me between the u.s. and the south being held on north korea's door so kind of soured the relationship even further but also said that they would not beg for dialogue and then the vice minister for foreign affairs called trump a political dummy but this was after the administration threatened the libya scenario. this lonely and like the libyan model and if kim jong un doesn't make a deal some people saw that as a threat and i think. john bolton made that statement. yeah i think that's what denuclearization means and we have very much in mind the libyan model from two thousand and three two thousand and four he was talking about if we're going to be having a problem because we cannot let that country have nukes we just can't do it the

model if you look at that model with gadhafi that was a total decimation we went in there to beat him now that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely. history mind you of what happened in libya gadhafi renounced his nuclear power program in two thousand and three but despite that he was overthrown in a made a lead who in two thousand and eleven so trump is clearly going back and forth on this let's take a look at what he said. we are working on something and you know there's a chance that it'll work out there's a chance it's a very substantial chance that it will work out that doesn't mean it won't work out over a period of time but it may not work out for june twelfth i think it will be very successful but as i always say who knows what's going to happen you know i often say who knows who knows a lot of good things could happen a lot of bad things going to happen you know weren't they make you a lot of things change everything can be scuttled everything could be scuttled. but

it doesn't look like kim is buying any of this now this latest development is definitely a low point in not only bilateral relations but it looks like it's a low point for the rest of the world. samir account bring this up to date with spray can use this hour thank you very much. well north korea has been plowing ahead with the conditions for the meeting none the less has destroyed its only nuclear test facilities i was just a number of hours ago our correspondent down off was off the site among the very few international journalists allowed to witness it all happening this is how they got in touch with us. we've just visited 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

the other two were new and with koreans told us that they had been ready to conduct a nuclear test and the movement to prevent building up the tubes it's inside more of the real way of surely they're ready to make real concessions now the practical itself was quite impressive the explosions looks like smaller options than rule from under the ground force so we journalists couldn't really estimates and stu how much damage would we today go to keep you on going with the nuclear program as a whole but north korea insists they made this step the now now they will expect something and with tehran now we are right now we're on our way back to one son and so as soon as possible we'll be finding more reports. for let's take the chance now to cross live to mirror or in for his take or an ammeter is

a defense political commentator always great to have you on the program and north korea from what we've been seeing particularly today appears to be complying with the obligations said i'd buy the u.s. president so why do you think donald trump is called off the meeting in june. well. league ations are preconditions this is open to interpretation and whether north korea did it because the installation has become obsolete or just a goodwill gesture is another matter but one cannot look at the north korean setback for trump in an isolated manner what is happening here is that the. american administration is now after almost a year and a half in office without any achievement on the global arena. because he drew from be iranian nuclear deal was spent hep-c.

indicating to the north korean authorities that the united states cannot be trusted follow up on its commitments if it ministrations changed and as your correspondents pointed out what vice-president pens and national security advisor bolton said. sounded like a threat against. a person survive in office or at all so what can a trump do no one thinks that in desperation he could come out with a peace plan for israel and the palestinians whether it will be half baked or whether it will be a mature plan to be seen that's the thing isn't it his pledge is there now in the spotlight you have to ask yourself how seriously they're going to be taken given

that he's changed his mind on another major issue you mentioned israel palestine iran comes to mind as well. that's that's exactly the point. which you have shown make trump sound like a commentator he could have been sitting here in my place but he isn't the cigarette maker he should have had. staff work he should have prepared. overtures towards north korea and by the way it is not only from personally who is going to be about pump air or whom you have just shown as the cia director he went to pyongyang he met him he assured that this is the right track then he was confirmed as secretary of state by the same senate foreign relations committee in which has now. and lo and behold whereas the achievement there they are caught

flatfooted were speaking to a mirror or in defense some political commentator and we're just stick with this for a few moments because i want to go to live pictures now of st petersburg where president putin is meeting with his french counterpart. just landing. a little while earlier straight into the meeting with president putin. having a sit on on the sidelines of the international economic forum which is happening in st petersburg day one today on saturday you'd imagine a lot to be discussed by. meeting at what is happening of course the situation in syria and iran let's not try in fact to listen in sometimes we get lucky with some sign so let's take a listen at what it's really going to be so did the city but the truth is i'm.

going to put you just. you know this is the deceased individual this you do you. know. please forms as to what to do or that support me of the new year. is only one of them. standing at the top of the two relations continue to intensify comically speaking we see a constant rise which is a very positive dynamic today we had to sign a number of very important contracts various fields in areas. the social forum the platform that we sure as created so-called trial and dialogue because of the exchanges between our regions and communities these things are also very positive very dynamic. and the be.

you can see the security. of it get the nice to our fault. pretty good the measurement with. don't. we he says do you know what you want. to see the cities with you. do you want me. to put you. on this initiative is a board seat is a big. this is it. i mean. it has not been. something you actually side of the frame of go up other translations i think that it is a moment when we go to college we have a very special status where permanent members of your security council. having historical ties. in terms of international relations. i believe that. we can find solutions we can work had it in hand on the ukraine

on the middle east iran syria. what shaping our vision towards international politics we can work together and we can bring together our efforts to achieve implementing joint initiatives. ok a little bit of a connection issue right there we were listening in to the french press and money will mccraw on his first set in st petersburg with vladimir putin just that was on the sidelines of the international economic forum which kicked off today in the russian capital and we will try and be going back to the meeting when we get a little bit of a clearer connection just to see what more is being spoken about we have an idea what will be talked about what we will go back when we count.

moving on to more global news stories a busy news day today the earth crash team investigating malaysia airlines flight m h seventeen which was done and over in eastern ukraine in twenty four dean has updated the media on its findings admitting they coincide with those of a blogger let's get more now from correspondent daniel for being there tracking developments today just sum up what has come of today's update for us. well this is quite a significant update from those two investigations and twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen for the first time the j i o t the joint investigation team consisting of international aviation experts from multiple countries has put forward a concrete blame blame attribution concrete suspects potentially in this case just to remind you of course as you said seventeen came down over eastern ukraine and twenty four team two investigations followed one by the dutch safety board twenty

fifteen and one by the j.i.t. both of them did come to the conclusion that the plane was brought in a missile most likely a book and to aircraft missile however didn't go as far as concretely attributing blame as to how that came about this has now all changed russia of course has consistently denied its involvement in any capacity in this tragedy over eastern ukraine mr peskov the presidential spokesman denied the conclusions of the twenty six team reports saying they lacked evidence we have a statement from the russian ministry of defense response to this latest update they say they have evidence pointing to the fact that russia was not involved namely radar data which shows that there were no launches towards the plane of any missiles from east to crane and no such anti-aircraft system capable at least of shooting down such an airliner crossed the russian ukrainian border this is what

they had to say just a couple of hours ago. we are concerned that the dutch investigation decided to base their investigation on images from social media that were edited what's more a number of the images that we used at the briefing were prepared by the ukrainian security services and was shown on a number of occasions by belling cats. we want to draw to everyone's attention that the dutch investigators have ignored witness accounts many eyewitnesses saw the tragedy themselves they are not images from social media they are real people who gave their testimonies on record to the european and american media. the russian ministry of defense giving its version of events denying this russian involvement in that incident and bringing their own version of evidence of course the j.i.t. see things differently they have now said they believe that a russian military unit namely the fifty third craft brigade from the city of course was involved in bringing down the plane they have said they may even have

suspects or persons of interest ranging from a small group to dozens perhaps hundreds of people this is what that investigative team had to say earlier today. that we realize that the belling get investigation team already reached the same conclusions and published 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 the courtroom. evidence of course has been the crux of the issue for both sides here both sides prevent presenting their own versions of events from radar data to forensic evidence cetera et cetera now or a lot of the evidence used by the dutch safety board was taken from bentinck at a citizen journalism organization using open source dates of publicly found photos and indeed social media as well bring about their version of events let's take

a look at the organization exactly who they are and the evidence they presented to the j.i.t. . higgins who runs the website can be 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 arabic and he conducts his person from the content of his armchair and his home begins himself admits he has no experience in the field before the arab spring i knew no more about weapons than the average exports owner i had no knowledge. beyond what i learned from arnold schwarzenegger and. his tools of choice for uncovering global conspiracies 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 different 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 him eliot higgins or dish blogger who's been analyzing the pictures of the wreckage thank you for joining the program but some are questioning his methods like the developer of the photo analysis program which bell encountered used 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 telling cats analysis for his 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 new a mark 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 down hawkins with the reports i'm back with all the global news headlines in one minute's time there should. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. i.

don't know all the trump councils water was supposed to be on historic summit with north korea next month. going ahead with this monthly it's only nuclear testing facility just hours ago our correspondent was near the scientists the under growing network was destroyed. in the program russian defense ministry criticizes the latest findings from the earth investigators looking into the mh seventeen tragedy and twenty four ruling on social media pictures instead of witness accounts. one of the year's biggest business events is under way in russia industry leaders and political elites gallop.