council's water was supposed to be historic summit with north korea next month. going ahead with this monthly it's only testing facility just hours ago our correspondent was near the under growing network was destroyed. in the probe russian defense ministry criticizes the latest findings from the earth russian investigators looking into the mh seventeen tragedy and twenty four ruling on social media pictures instead of witness a college. one of the year's biggest business events is underway in russia global industry leaders and political elites gather for this petersburg

international economic. this is our to international coming live from moscow every hour of the day my names you know neal good to have your company for breaking news the days of uncertainty double come tilt his upcoming meeting with north korea's kim jong un scheduled for june in singapore let's get the details and go live to our washington correspondent seamer account hi there why has he finally or why has he said he's finally decided to pull out of this summit. well let's start from the beginning in the letter addressed to kim from the white house a trump said it would be inappropriate to hold the meeting at this time but it's important to note that this happened just

a few hours after north korea destroyed its nuclear testing site but there's been talk of this meeting for months now sort meeting took place between north and south korea just last month which seemed like an indication that things were going well and then military drills between the u.s. and the south being held on north korea's doorstep irked north korea even further and then north korea said that they would not a beg for dialogue and the vice minister for foreign affairs called trouble political dummy and then. just that's after the administration threatened the libya scenario. this will only and like the libyan model ended 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 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 be to know that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely but to remind you of what happened in libya gadhafi of renounced his nuclear program in two thousand and three but despite that he was overthrown in a nato led military campaign in two thousand and eleven so that didn't end up too well for gadhafi and trump is clearly going back and forth on this as well let's take a look at his past statements. 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 won't work 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 going to happen a lot of bad things going to happen. maybe if you want a lot of things change everything's going to be scuttled everything can be scuttled . but it doesn't look like kim is buying any of this but it's worth saying that not only is this a devastating blow to bilateral relations but it's also disappointing for the rest of the world and just reading through some of the letter myself as you're speaking there. and often quite amusing if not bizarre away if you change your mind please do not hesitate to call me or write bounce from donald trump to kim jong un thanks very much for now our t. works in correspondence a miracle let's delve a little bit further into this because we know north korea has been plowing ahead with the conditions for the meeting and has destroyed its only nuclear test facility today our correspondent don off was the site among the very few

international journalists allowed to witness it happening. well just getting nuclear test site inches from the noble 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 you when you have korean told us that they had been ready to conduct a nuclear test any movement to prevent. the tubes it's inside more of the real way surely they're ready to make real concessions now the practical itself was quite impressive the explosions looks like a smaller option than rule from under the ground for civilian journalist couldn't really estimates as to how much damage would today go to pyongyang and the nuclear program as a whole north korea. they've made this step the now well now they will

expect something and we turn now we are right now we're on our way back to one sign and so as soon as possible we'll be finding more reports. or a t.v. version off from north korea speaking about the dismantlement of their nuclear program their so nuclear program let's not speak though about the situation involving the us not going to talk to north korea because victor gao the director of the china national association of international studies is alive with its very welcome north korea by all accounts victor appears to be complying with the obligations said i by the us president why do you think donald trump has called off tunes meeting. the president of the trumps decision to cancel the media schedule and to the twelve with the sit room leader of the gate is a very bad at even of it and it's not constructive for the prospects of

beauty a lasting peace on the korean peninsula it also does not help that the grogs asian process not the united states president don't trust me that decision immediately after that this struction one of tested so it's five k. and this is even made the holes into if he was worse it made it less easy to trust the real intention of the united states and it also creates more difficulties for d.p. r. k. and its leaders to create the come to terms with any future decision to meet with the president of the united states so i think it's a major setback and how worse it will become we didn't always do need to look at the situation very closely but article the momentum will come to the conclusion that there is only one right thing to do as far as didn't grow as asia onlooker but easily is because that is to do diplomacy and dialogue and negotiation and never

threaten to use nuclear weapons yeah just that tweet coming from donald trump's feed and i quote suddenly i was forced to cancel the summit meeting in singapore to kim jong un i'm sure he'll have more to say about that in the coming in minutes and hours how is this being seen in beijing victor what's the what's the point of view there about this happening. i think they will feel very regretful that this has happened and china will continue to urge the united states and the state to do diplomacy and negotiation and we still believe that those asian and we still believe that the. united states can really meet at the highest level it is for the prospects of peace and stability and. they should all follow the leader. and the president of the united states need to deal with this is

a very serious way need to avoid sending the wrong thing and conflicting messages dealing with dean of vision is probably one of the most. common and no one should be allowed to you with this in the capricious way and in a highly predictable way i suppose that even a series of the moderates and even goes beyond that because we're talking about another pledge by donald trump that seems to have been ignored you know you go back to israel palestine iran on a turnabout on north korea his pledges are standing up very good at the moment. no i think there is serious doubt as to why exactly the press intends to do and he says everything can be scuttled for example this does not reflect well of the so-called global leadership of the united states great country like the united

states the largest economy in the world need to have the will itself with a sense of responsibility and to avoid capriciousness in dealing with international matters as important as nuclear as asian issues and therefore we urge our president obama trying to do the right thing rather them result to such completionist it's. ok at we just have to break in because mike pumping of the u.s. secretary of state is not speaking about north korea victor excuses if you will we just want to cross over not to washington and. well apropos of that but what i said just one more things honestly not a term and was here we've had extensive discussions we are locked in with the republic of korea and we've spoken to the japanese foreign minister kono was here i spoke with him yesterday afternoon of sixteen thirty hours. we are your eyes and we

are as we are in lockstep with them. and we advised them that this was coming we told them that we hoped that the summit would proceed that there would be discussions but we always knew there was a risk that they would not move forward we've been consistent with that privately in as you well know publicly as well present trouble said repeatedly it is very hopeful it would proceed but sure no i understand it might not but that's a very different situation than saying this letter is coming tomorrow the president is pulling out of the summit and that's the question that i'm really asking and it goes to the approach to iran's behavior as well because as as america was trying to negotiate the iran deal the result real effort to work cooperatively with our european allies the president's response to point out of the nuclear agreement with iran has some extent blamed our european allies who were part of that negotiation for the failure to get

a stronger agreement do you think that's going to have lasting impact on our relations with the europeans. a couple hundred years of history would suggest that the answer that is now so so we're moving forward with them on a united front for how to approach iran i think i think there are history there have been differences between not only europe or the united states but individual european countries amongst themselves this is no exception they are they are in a different place they have stated publicly their intent to work to try and remain inside of the j.c. p.-o. framework when i saw foreign minister. on. wednesday i think yesterday of this week he indicated that that was it to the rebels to explain to him why i thought this makes sense i urged him. i urged him to acknowledge that the iranians are launching missiles into riyadh and there's

a german going to get killed and one ought to think that that should be a condition that would be unacceptable to the people of germany and i'm hopeful that they will join us to push back against what we would ask from iceland don't watch missiles into riyadh but we went we asked is this is a people have said that what the president laid out what i spoke to on monday is a fantasy if you go look at the twelve items it's nothing that we don't ask of every civilized nation in the world it's join the league of normal nations this doesn't seem like too tall an order for any europe i'm going to i'm not going to he issue with what i do about it but to my to your point i think the europeans share our values and our interests i think they would agree with our assessment of that bad behavior and so i am very hopeful that they will join us in our effort to cease that activity by the islamic republic of iran thank you thank you mr chairman about today's lawmakers speaking to my pompei of the u.s. secretary of state flattering questions really between the situation as regards north korea and also the iran deal speaking about how he hopes the european allies

will join him let's cross to victory victory's been good enough to stay with as we've been speaking about what's been happening in north korea and about america's . failed really mission to go through at the summit in june next year victor victor is director of the china national association of international studies victor one of the most i catch ing remarks about the whole situation was a but washington saying that if they're not perfect the situation north korea is going to turn in to libya the north african state which is in a state of conflict the capital tripoli in a very bad way what do you think was meant by that. not think this is exactly the wrong message that the united states is to the. rest of the world the libya situation is very clear. they gave up the nuclear weapon one way or

another the western countries founded excuse completely destroyed libya libya is now very much of a destroy the country and the qaddafi himself his family i mean they did and i think it's the wrong message to the rest of the world so if you put yourself into the shoes of the p r k how could you look forward to a prospect that you will destroy the nuclear weapons and then your country or your regime or your leaders may be eliminated destroy it all i think it is our will stand that will. act in a way to express the view that did not like the u.s. position as expressed by pump fuel and that by the national security advisor and the united states through its president on trump just the right message that is the graduation should be achieved and peace and stability should be guaranteed and

stability will need to be men trying to on the korean peninsula rather than sending again again the wrong message and to view the message to the p r k and to the rest of the world there has been a lot of hope i've been there in the last number of weeks that something sustainable and lasting was going to come out of the korean peninsula there was even talk that donald trump would pick up the nobel peace prize do you think he and family will not be booking tickets to stockholm anytime soon. no i don't think so i don't think history will recall that well the way the united states has been handling this denuclearize ation issue on the korean peninsula and i think the united states is now urged to practice real state but ship real readership and real sense of responsibility in avoiding promote provoke a deterioration of the situation on the korean peninsula because the war breaks out

of the. it will be a. vietnam for the republic of korea is also for the united states and also a disaster for all the countries surrounding that we need to pete's rather them off rights of war as far as. issues. so many knock on effects to this victor thanks so much for coming on the program and sticking with ice there in last few minutes i'm very god director of the china national association of international studies always a pleasure thank you news continues r.t. international in ninety seconds. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the super money billionaire owners and spending

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just approaching one thousand minutes past six pm here in moscow welcome back the earth crash team investigating malaysia airlines flight m h seventeen which was done over eastern ukraine in twenty four dean has revealed more of its findings admitting the coincide with the lives of a blogger well let's go through what has come out of today's findings with correspondent daniel hawkins hi dan talk us through. well what makes this new development significant of course is that the dutch safety investigation board the joy to you for the first time they have come up with a concrete blame attribution naming perhaps persons of interest suspects who they believe may have been involved in the downing of m.h. seventeen just to remind you the plane came down over eastern ukraine in twenty fourteen this tragedy in which a nearly three hundred people died was followed by two investigations one by the dutch safety board and twenty fifteen one by the j.i.t. that's the joint investigative team made up of international aviation experts the

following year and twenty sixteen both of them came up with quite similar theories that the plane was brought down out of the sky by a book anti aircraft missile now the russian government all along has viewed things entirely differently they've denied this version of events consistently they have no. systems capable of downing an airline across the russian ukrainian border and that they have the evidence to prove their lack involvement in the form of radar data showing there wasn't a lot from eastern ukraine as well as witness statements which the russian ministry of defense claim were given to both russian and western press at the time this is what they had to say on the latest development. 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 at the ukrainian

security services and were 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. now this development was of course significant because of blame attribution who's as we said earlier claiming that people involved in downing the jet belong to the fifty third anti aircraft brigade based in the russell senate office. they say that a number of people are of interest ranging from assume all groups who over one hundred this is the statement they had today from their press conference. 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 a courtroom. no evidence here of course is the crux of the issue both sides have presented their quite differing versions of events the russian side of presented radar data own forensic evidence as well as of course that from the other side as well much of the information used than featured in the joint investigative team report features information put forward by belling cat a citizen journalism organization using open source information from google earth from social media etc to put forward their version of events this was criticized of course by the russian ministry of defense who said that evidence from their side was either ignored or given not due consideration let's take a closer look at exactly at just how and why that evidence from the g o t coincided

with the citizen journalism organization. eliot higgins who runs the website belling cat 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 personally set from the concept of his honor in his home he gives 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 learned from arnold schwarzenegger and run though. 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 him eliot higgins or dish blogger in 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 spelling cats 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. dana hawkins talking us through the developments

well we have been in touch. with belling count which stated dump the russian government under me dia have resorted to conspiracy theories false claims and fake evidence to cover up the downing of m.h. seventy bell and then went on to praise it's own story and east europe expert martin mccauley believes the emmet seventeen investigation is seriously flawed and after four years hasn't reached any conclusive results there are two factors which are very important one is the investigators did not have access to the site where the book. surface to air missiles fired they haven't had access to that site and secondly. the investigators haven't released all the information that they possess so therefore the holding back information therefore we can say is if you like four hundred meter race properly done three hundred meters three hundred fifty meters but we still have the final lap. after lap to go we don't know what the

answer to the question is who fired the missile and why was it we don't know that yet. ok moving on business political elites are gathering in russia's northern capital there in st petersburg for one of the main events on the business calendar the international economic forum fifteen thousand participants from seventy two countries including around two hundred fifty c.e.o.'s will be there over the coming days and we'll make sure you don't miss anything. well among the v.i.p. guests out the economic forum is french president a money well mccrone who we saw a little earlier talking and walking with vladimir putin. in st petersburg for us hi there we were watching the pictures as they were happening live pictures of

the two presidents on their. associates it seemed very cordial between the leaders didn't it. you know hello again i'm glad that i can talk to you right now because just a short while ago witnessed the most intense abated moment of thursday and that's of course as you mentioned the first appearance of emmanuel macron and vladimir putin in front of cameras during the current french president's first ever trip to russia and the format of the visit suggests that he didn't have to bring his wife here but he did so he's here with bridget and it seems that lately any important woman who comes to visit lot of putin gets a bookie of flowers angle americal did so last week when she went to saatchi and this bridget got a book a two and then they proceeded to the balcony and this is what they saw i was told

that the designers of the park this is just outside of lot of our putin st petersburg residence so back to the designers once they drew the inspiration from their site isn't that symbolic and i can tell you that hundreds of journalists i guess but less than that maybe just one hundred gathered there and they all remember including myself how just a short while ago emmanuel macron was holding hands with donald trump at their meeting and they remember how a few awkward moments led to people talking about their bromance of the journalist work yuri is whether any fraction of that chemistry will the seen here between mr macron and mr putin i can tell you that they had two translators there but at some point it seemed they were speaking the same language and the translators weren't involved but other than that it was pure diplomatic rapprochement none of that tapping on the shoulder and maybe it is easy to explain just think about it

emmanuel macron as first visit to russia comes when at least on an international poll. medical chess board powers and moscow are on completely different sides but when it comes to one issue that is the radian nuclear deal just like angola merkel and germany moscow with france at this point they are on the same page and very soon we will find out whether this particular matter will help the two leaders build small bridges and any case it's much easier to track the story of communication between macron and putin it is much shorter than that of angola merkel for example they've known each other with vladimir putin for more than two decades but it's still worth checking out.