no. donald trump cancels what was supposed to be in a storage summit with north korea next month the breaking news tonight that's despite pyongyang going ahead with dismantling its only nuclear testing facility a correspondent in fact was near the site as the underground network was destroyed . at the news the russian defense ministry criticizes the latest findings from the air crash investigators looking into the seventeen tragedy and twenty fourteen for lying on social media pictures instead of witness accounts. one of the year's biggest business events is underway here in russia as global industry leaders and political elites gather for the support this burg international economic forum.

hi good evening just after nine pm thursday night here in moscow my name's kevin irwin this is r.t. international a big breaking story to cover tonight starting with this after days of uncertainty donald trump that has canceled his upcoming meeting with north korea's kim jong un that was shared for june the twelfth and singapore later gave his reasons to reporters spending much of his time mentioning the u.s. military and its readiness to act literary which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world and has been greatly enhanced recently as you all know. is ready if. i hopefully positive things will be taking place with respect to the future of north korea. but if they doubt we are more ready than we have ever been before our military as you know has been greatly enhanced.

will soon be at a level that it's never been before a lot of things going to happen when the white house released the official letter trump sent to kim today and it says i was very much looking forward to being there with you sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel it is inappropriate at this time to have this long planned meeting so the timing of trump's decision is rather significant this comes hours after north korea destroyed its only nuclear testing site filling yet another condition it agreed to for the sake of improving relations with the us now our correspondent was at the site and he was among the few journalists invited to witness it firsthand with just the. size inches from the noble. fools on those very useful nuclear testing one of them the north strong know

to be was used for the latest volley the nuclear test the other two when you move korean told us that they had been ready to conduct you create. movements and put them. through the tubes it's inside the real way over sure we. need to make real concessions now the goal itself was quite impressive the explosions looked like small eruptions of rule from on the ground so judging by that it seems that north korea is keeping its end of the bargain but trump cancel the meeting anyway and even though the decision came from the u.s. side the white house seemed excited about it prior to the meeting of the white house released a commemorative coin depicting the two leaders a meeting all smiles a to honor the peace talks and the peace talks were seen world over as a positive development and trump didn't shy away from taking credit for it i even saying that everyone said he deserved the nobel peace prize but towards the end of

. the letter trump sent to cam today term said he was looking forward to meeting with kim in the future but considering everything that's just happened recently perhaps north korea should be cautious and dealing with the u.s. with a view on this from the u.k. tonight show she bridges the four british army officer no global security intelligence commentator see a time to come to just a second first off one of the utterances earlier of donald trump saying this is all about north korea it's a very quickly come to the second this isn't mr trump this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world. when in fact he said exactly largest anyway who's really to blame for this behind the scenes there was a big build that we had of coins being produced weird of. such a lot of friendship with them big go but we are again it's like. a boomerang almost

to come back again who's to blame for this. well i think both sides and we all know this have been guilty to some degree of playing this role of theater it's worse and this is continuing with what we've seen today and indeed to some of course may not be the end of it but at the end of the day at least this day the blame for the blame for canceling the meeting should surely go to the person who has actually cancelled it i mean it's not unusual that fiery rhetoric comes from the north korean leadership. and indeed from trump himself and so therefore both sides need to take what he said with a pinch of salt but it seems that some in this case trump is using it to if you shall we say perhaps extend his negotiating hand i think that as your reporter just mentioned that there is a lot personally involved here for trump in this he sees this as an opportunity to achieve something that his predecessor famously didn't that's to say nuclear disarmament or at least peace on the korean peninsula i suspect in due course he

may well return to this and indeed his letter holds out the hope for that but on the other hand you have to wonder if you have his officials for example my parents very recently the vice president putting forward this idea that a libya type catastrophe could occur to north korea which is basically a threat if north korea doesn't agree with what america says you have john bolton also putting forward a so-called libya option of course deeply and attractive to the north korean leadership and almost inevitably one might even say designed to result in a conflict between the two sides you know you can tell think that everyone sort of ten steps ahead of what what we know here i mean so many questions about it despite all of north korea's concerns about these military drills but what pencilled say about potential libya and they still went ahead and sealed up the mountain today just a couple of hours after that that we got from so you know and also thinking as well of letting those hostages go it is like a plant of mine and there's another question as well about this nuclear mountain so

to speak there is some school of thought that couldn't be used in the future anyway so is it just to show that the entrances were blocked up here you know is there more to it than is meeting the eye is the only way you can kind of explain this. you're right to say both sides are playing this yeah tricks off this and who can blame them when you've got somebody like trump actually killing young actually in charge so in other words they're playing off each other for their own domestic as well as international audiences but as i say i think we may see some return to this in the future i think trump would love to be nominated only want to receive a nobel peace prize in this is his opportunity to say and it's a chance to succeed where he where his predecessor failed but i think long term we have to look at what the possibilities of that actually taking place are trump and the united states generally saying that the condition of not the talks but condition of successful talks is that north korea should disarm in a nuclear sense and it really does seem that that's very unlikely to happen and the reason for that is the record of the united states behavior and its allies behavior

in the way of other countries disarming when you look at iraq when you look at libya indeed this libya option that people in the united states have been talking about these guys are deeply attractive to leaders that are being asked to give up their weapons of mass destruction simply because let's think about it from wouldn't even be meeting with the head of north korean government or any of its officials were it not for the fact they already possess nuclear weapons and that sends a very clear message in another very clear message that's been sent by the american administration here on the back of its unilateral pulling out of the iran deal remember iran has actually complied with all of the requirements that were made of it in the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal it is america that is renee on that agreement and that is sending a clear message as now is this today that on the face of it north korea has fulfilled the concessions that it was asked for and that is offered in terms of destroying at least in

a major way its nuclear testing facilities in releasing american hostages and then the response from united states is what we've seen today i suspect we haven't heard the last of this in terms of korea indeed there's no for example is no israel there's no saudi arabia. driving the korean agenda as there is for example with iran but nonetheless i suspect that america in the long term is doing a great deal even more damage to its credibility as an honest broker anywhere in the world because it simply doesn't seem to be capable of sticking to the commitments or at least the spirit of the commitments that it's asking others to undertake it appears so charles sure bridge global security intelligence commentator thanks for your thoughts on it but it's not the first time washington scrap the story deals with north korea either don next has been looking at who is to gain from the railing any breakthroughs and why all this might sound familiar when you hear what trumps predecessors put on the table. 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 you know there's a chance that it will work out there's a chance it's a very substantial chance that 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 want to perhaps the u.s. sees the status quo of seeing north korea as the ultimate threat as being something beneficial to south korea is spending billions of dollars making bases and paying u.s. troops essentially to be there to ostensibly protect against the north now that being the case if there were to be peace in korea. there's going to be

questioning as well do we need our troops there and so i think in that sense there are forces that don't want a resolution that benefit off the instability and allow us to maintain these troops and dozens and dozens of bases and posts in this small country in a region that we think strategically is 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 the phaeton 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 out. 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 we 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 increasing in and as china is expanding its military operations it takes money out of the economic damages the current me which we can be is

a very complicated issue. who are essentially getting the short stick this is something that must change countries as they begin to take the spread. of the countries in the region from peace. the other big story today the crushed team investigating the lazier airlines flight m h seventeen which was downed of reste in ukraine in twenty fourteen has revealed more of its findings admitting they coincide with those of a blogger dug a hole in the says more on the findings of the probe and the reaction to it today. i'm a seventeen was a civilian airliner heading from amsterdam to call a loon poor it was brought down in twenty fourteen over eastern ukraine that the time the whole region was engulfed in the ukrainian civil war it was a battle ground with both sides the ukrainian armed forces and the rebels in the

east blaming each other for this tragedy in which nearly three hundred people were killed investigations follow the dutch safety board the j i t the george diversification team both came to the conclusion that a missile of some sort most likely a book missile brought down this plane now they're saying today that this missile has been traced to russia now the russian side all along has denied this they've said they have evidence from radar from satellites witness accounts as well proving that no such anti-aircraft weaponry ever crossed the border and that russia had nothing to do with this tragedy this was their statement today 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 and the russian defense ministry as you heard there was very critical of the j i t's conclusion namely the evidence that was discounted in the evidence that was used a lot of which relied on an organization called blink at a citizen journalism a group using open source data of videos from you tube images from social media to build their version of events with the joint investigative team themselves saying that many of the conclusions that belling cat had come to also fitted in with their version of events that we realize that the belling get investigation team already reached the same conclusions and published them that we 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 so much of the evidence presented that was of course accused as

refutable proof of russia's involvement or indeed russia's guilt in the downing of this plane but aside from having their evidence used in these of official investigations by link out of course as an organization has not certainly been short of both criticism and controversy as we can take a look at now and higgins who runs the website belling cat the laid off admin worker 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 present research from the content of his armchair and his home he gives 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 rambo. for him. 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 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 questioning his methods might be developed out of the photo analysis program which pelling can't use to claim moscow faked satellite images and image forensics experts and fans in what is 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 counts 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 well we've been in touch and stated that the russian government and media resorted to conspiracy theories as their side of it they say also the russian government except has made false claims and made false evidence in the downing of m.h. seventeen belling cut. away they only tell you that again i want to get that straight we've been in touch with the save the russian government media resorted to conspiracy theories false claims and fake evidence to cover up the day and i want to get the wording right for you we got a bit lost the make the don't even make seventeen but then went on to praise its own probe and accurate let's bring in international affairs commentator marco gas marco hey there it's been almost war just seems seems longer it's been four years since the tragedy took place has the investigation been able to bring any

significant conclusion see any closure crucially for the relatives. no i don't think so i don't think it's really got in a position to do so because of the way it works it's what it the country's it consists of the angle it's taken from the starts the implicit bias in the way it's operating i don't they were going to see any justice let alone. let alone the fairness and accuracy in it in terms of its conclusion i mean we. do method of investigation here no matter what the facts of this case the methods of investigation in this case are is drearily familiar and reminds of other cases where the standard practice is to blame the targeted nation this year and last year it's usually russia so you accuse russia you don't allow it to join your investigation you say you have evidence against russia and then you don't show anything because you can't show it you claim so there's a whole campaign a whole serial black p.r.

involved in this and and there's nothing new here and therefore no job and be available no and what was the point of this media conference in the fact that nothing really new came out did it. well this could be a bit of a spoiler for a far less serious event the world cup which is coming up soon so this is a kind of bit of demonization of russia will probably see quite a lot more as the weeks go by just before a major prestigious event that russia is organizing so we basically have a rehash of the same old story as i say the west have brought charms into around the investigation it's kept russia out of the investigation but not out of the accusation so really this is standard practice it's. accusing eurasia of being bad side and we surprise that what we're saying but we should not be gullible enough to believe it through all these years russia stood by its point of view that it wasn't involved. on the other side of use open source data has been

often criticised and the russians are saying no you should use people witnesses on the scene the say they on test when they saw what what happened themselves why spending campaign so prominent in this investigation all the way along and you think it's been sufficiently enough scrutinising criticize it. i think when the messenger is transmitting a message that the powers that be want to be heard then the messenger has immunity from investigation and that's what. this particular outfit are in the privileged position of being so they can say whatever they like as long as i don't see russian they're going to be not really looked at very closely at all it's really like in the script whole case all that denko where things are stated to be fine arco and they're not scrutinized and what this is just really an earlier version present a draft version of the same kind of scenario marc are we going to leave it to international affairs counter market gusset like roosevelt to go to in some petersburg thank you for your thoughts and being with us appreciate it all right let's go to. the russian and french leaders as expected now about to give

a news conference live economic forum let's listen in there about the screen translating for a little bit evidently corny and financially france delish in geneva to sign so disclosure signed the joint statement on the new russian french partnerships with the quantum of the future. ministers who are in minnesota cult of the russian federation. minister the minister of culture france france who asked me sell but it's only words have signed to a declaration of intent between the ministry of culture the russian federation and the ministry of culture france which is to be one day corporation with regards to cultural legacy. if.

you're an idiot the subject a general of the state corporation prosecute him but alex the church for me is broken administrated general that was the french alternative energies and atomic energy commission france so i was shocked you could have signed a strategic talk you meant. on the russian fringe partnership on the peaceful use of nuclear energy. but it's you that you'll probably hear the chairman of nova tech but their need me to assign you and the chairman of the board of directors of the total patrik boy on it and it's a question that signed the agreement with regards to the participation of the total . market in active l.n.g. to. be your only get better ratio of director general of the russian direct investment fund killed me traffic

the director general of or. the director general of kester the people who are on this yet what is and if it was have signed their agreement between the russian direct investment fund. they are p.r. companies and their finance group has the full on joint investment into medical rehabilitation in russia. or even your president and now the statements of the presidents or dreaming it is that you know mr president ladies and gentleman by the way is that you know that we are glad to to welcome mr mccraw on his official visit to russia during this ratio the president of france. will also take part in the st petersburg international economic forum as an ornery guest of the plan you mentioned for tomorrow we have an

extensive program of joint events planned we will meet with the representatives of russian and french and business. also i have talked with the coordination account so all of that tran and dialogue and we will. make our statements of the plan a recession of the heart when i'm with you and mark on the grill today we have had to be lateral talks first in an era for much in the and when with the participation of the other members of the delegation we have discussed in detail out of element issues of the russian and french relationships as well as the international agenda items in the internet age and see egremont and commercial documents signed who are specially prepared for the visit of mr mccraw and to russia within the framework of the forum will also sign a number of other corporate agreements which but for the most part founds our traditional partner. and our mutually beneficial relationships are

a great value to us we keep developing them and. we keep up a very intensive political dialogue and we often exchange of opinions over the phone the police our foreign ministries and our relevant agencies we do also cooperate we have exchanges when it comes to harlem and and the relevant agencies and during the negotiations we have paid a lot of attention to the issues pertaining to economy as of last year our trade turned over grew by a sixteen point five percent in january to march fourth twenty five percent. and the overall investment of russia interference. in our standard three billion and for france to russia fifteen halley in the focus for trade and economic cooperation we can say that for you there are more than five hundred companies from france working in russian the french companies do take an active part in the development of l. and g. such as they mark l. and g.

and a number of other projects and rocks artem provides twenty five percent and covers their demands on twenty five percent of your ania fluently very precise where implementing m. of project number areas. does share with automobiles aircraft food agriculture and a strange business or localizers as a production of high tech products in russia as well. i would like to highlight that literally to our relationship of a discreet distinguished by the mutual interest of our people also which goes back into centuries and our cultures are deeply intertwined with them you've got me this year we celebrate two hundred years since the birth of the famous french and russian choreographer marius pay to. play in russia and in france events are organized within the framework of the russia france cross cultural year for

languages and culture. which will integrate let's context i would like to highlight that we are now implementing the initiative for government will go forward presented by the president of france on their tran and dialogue the russian signatory and france they go to our own north and st petersburg will host a first meeting of the coordination council of the tree and dalla can tomorrow me and mr micron are going to meet the participants of this dialogue but it will be voted best for our negotiations on the international agenda but they covered all the relevant issues with your search else. we have exchanged our opinions with the guts to the unilateral actions undertaken by the us on they withdraw all from the way. alleging you do if you can that you don't wish to ask for syria we have highlighted that you need to further boost the political

resolution especially with regards to the decisions made by the syrian national dialogue congress that russia is going to working with the syrian government and the opposition within the framework of the asked in the talks this format is highly efficient and. results we are also ready to come in contact with a so-called small group which will be pretty much a victim but we believe that we need to show respect for the so the rennet country and we have decided with mr president to advance in the direction of joining our ranks the priority task for us is to form and to launch the constitutional committee in geneva and we welcome the decision of damascus to send their representatives to this body also touched upon the conflict in the east of ukraine and we have highlighted the need to stick to the means agreements to ensure a sustainable and comprehensive resolution to this crisis we have also discussed

a number of other relevant issues on the agenda. for example we also talked about cuba our joint work in cyberspace. to work more of that is ensuring the implementation of the international norms taking into account each other's interest and calm but in crime and cyberspace in particular boardroom opinion we will kill you with that talking with mr president tomorrow but i would like to thank mr micron for the negotiations we had which were very businesslike. really and open and they were very useful thank you very much for your attention. that he will miss him pretty don't shove it to me or. the dems and it's really nice to meet him say mr de palma damage them if you. want to let me. play you don't put in. inverness only for.