donald trump cancels what was supposed to be and historic summit with north korea's kim jong un next month. that's despite. going ahead with dismantling its only nuclear test site just hours ago our correspondent was there to witness the underground facility being destroyed . but french president lavishes praise on russia for its international role as he joined vitamine putin at the international economic forum in st petersburg we've got all highlights from day one. russia rejects the latest

findings of the air crash investigators looking into the mh seventeen tragedy saying their conclusions will rely only on social media pictures rather than the eyewitness accounts. of broadcasting large reference to those moscow this is our chief national league landed to have you with us now after days of uncertainty donald trump has canceled his upcoming meeting with north korea's kim jong un which was scheduled for june in singapore the u.s. leader later gave his reasons for going to reporters spending much of his time mentioning in the american u.s. military and its readiness to act. our military which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world powerful anywhere in the world is ready if necessary and has

been greatly enhanced ready we are more ready than we have ever been before our military as you know has been greatly enhanced greatly enhanced will soon be at a level that it's never been before never been before powerful anywhere in the world a lot of things can happen. well the summit was cancelled just hours after north korea said it had totally destroyed its nuclear test site you can see the moment it blew up the underground complex with more now here's our chief there. the white house released the official letter trump sent the can 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 south korea was one of the first countries to react to news and makes pressed quote deep regret over

trumped decision the timing of the move was pretty significant coming just hours after north korea demolished its only nuclear testing site fulfilling yet another condition that it agreed to for the sake of improving relations with the u.s. however some u.s. officials now doubt that it actually happened our correspondent was at the site and he was among the few journalists who were allowed to witness it firsthand we've just visited a. nuclear test site inches from being noble three hours of fools on those very useful nuclear testing one of them the north strong no treaty was used for the latest volley the nuclear test the other two were when you would move koreans told us that they had been ready to conduct a nuclear test and the movement to prevent dual blows the tubes inside more of the real way surely they are ready to make real concessions now being started to go itself was quite impressive the explosions looks like small eruptions of will from

under the ground so judging by that north korea i was keeping its end of the bargain but trump canceled the meeting anyway and even though the decision came from the u.s. side it seemed that the white house was pretty excited about it just ahead of the summit it released a commemorative coin depicting the two leaders meeting to honor the peace talks which were seen. world over as a positive development and trump didn't shy away from taking credit even saying that everyone said he deserved the nobel peace prize for it but towards the end of the letter that trump sent to camp trump said he was looking forward to meeting with kim in the future but considering everything that's happened perhaps healing anxious think twice before trusting trump again well despite the decision to pull the plug on the summit a south korean media is still reporting that the north is still interested in holding talks with washington defense analyst ivan eland thinks the move is in keeping with the us president's style given jobs past behavior negotiation

sometimes you know he's already said this but the out of the deal that you have to be prepared to walk away and the negotiations and the two sides north korea and the united states have been sort of in their rhetoric saying well ok you know we could pull out of this negotiation and not have this summit charges on out north koreans by actively saying he hasn't closed the door to his letter despite is threat of nuclear war with north korea it was a bit smoother this time and he did leave the door open for a future you get she asians and it could be a negotiating tactic by him and that may be where it is. it's not the first time washington scrapped historic deals with north korea donald quarter has been looking at who is to gain from the railing any breakthroughs and why all this might sound familiar when you hear what trump's predecessors put on the table. this is a good deal for the united states north korea will to bring south korea to the

entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons the deal did sound good but it collapsed a famous north korea to nuclear reactors five hundred thousand tons of fuel year and a leftover 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 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 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 ally that stands to benefit from u.s. military expansion especially after the recent reelection of its prime minister who vowed to defend japan. from north korean aggression weeks after p.r.

yang's missile launches these election is about whether we can defend japan from north korea and ensure believe 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 of the continent the which we can is there a kind of the it's a very complicated issue except for the south koreans who are essentially

getting the short end of the stick this is something that must change countries as they begin to take the spread she figured out they will the to benefit the countries in the region from peace in northeast asia the set backs in talks between the u.s. and north korea it was one that came up in a meeting between a lot of near putin and emmanuelle kron at the st petersburg international economic forum. everything he promised before even blew up the tunnels and the files on his test site and after that we heard about the cancellation of the summit. and you know it's really what i would really want is for that process already underway to decrease tensions on the peninsula as well as the process of denuclearization in this omen of the pincher process to continue. to feed the people you are too easily into trying to go is in st

petersburg closely following the russian leaders meeting with the french president first when vladimir putin and emmanuel macron appeared in front of t.v. cameras there was none of this trauma get together stahl tapping on the shoulder and other things and it seemed that the leaders of russia and friends were going to get away with some traditional diplomatic language when they were going to talk to the journalists however when the press conference began supplies in the i guess emanuel macron speech started to resemble a love letter to russia the french president spoke for more than four times longer than his russian counterpart mr macron also showed off his affection for the big names in russian literature like a yes or soldier needs and he even paid special attention to remembering the victims of the so-called leningrad blockade during the second world war this was of

course one of the tragedies in this city st petersburg known as leningrad in the u.s.s.r. besides this and manual macron addressed the russian president as share of loudly near or dear vladimir instead of mr putin at the beginning of what he was saying but it wasn't just about how many nice things quite surprisingly mr macron said about russia the presidents of russia talked about so much and brought up so many things i'll just give you a list syria iran. ukraine cyber security the korean crisis sanctions multi-polar world freedom of speech and even football but i'll come back to that a bit later among other things the leaders of the two countries agreed in the next few weeks to come up with a mechanism to bring the competing syria peace talks platforms together plus they want to work hand in glove to save the uranium nuclear deal which is donald trump

has just dumped also emanuel macron said it outloud russia's international role in numerous regions and conflicts needs to be praised awful secret of it she said than some of you would much as you note i do acknowledge russia has increased its role in the international arena in particular the middle east and on thursday the newly gained role of leader comes with responsibilities and i'm well aware of the role russia plays resolving various international conflicts the presidents of france and russia came out to talk to the journalists about two hours later than they were expecting to do in the first place and surely that was because they had many things to discuss but also i believe the reason for it is the lavish dinner that they were having i just want to give you some of the things that were on their menu pancakes with caviar as well as a crab starter then a traditional russian soup but with a french twist also sturgeon steak and venison was the main course and

that was all topped off with chocolate cake for dessert and i just want to go back to the first seconds of the summit when emanuel macron left his limo he was hog lot of our putin who also prepared a book a of flowers for macro his wife bridget who according to the format of this official visit wasn't even supposed to come to russia but she did from the start of it to the very end one of the journalists asked emmanuel macron if he were. is ready to come back to russia in a month to support the french national team and here's what we heard from france's leader in the end i hope to travel here to support our football team. makes it to the quarterfinals definitely be hits supports it i'm optimistic by nature and then we'll meet again with president putin well other v.i.p.'s on the guest list at the international economic forum are the japanese prime minister and china's vice

president will be joined by some of the world's top business leaders and the heads of international economic organizations will continue checking in live at the form over the next few days and hearing from the delegates and getting updates from our news team in st petersburg. moscow has hit out at the international investigators looking into the image seventeen tragedy claiming their case against russia is based on flawed evidence that story much more after a short break stay with us. thank

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i welcome back this is our t. international german anti-fascist groups have issued a guidebook for potential rioters they want to encourage people to disrupt a gathering of the right wing alternative for germany party in bavaria next month. take a look at the guide. paul terms of germany will be holding their party conference in the beautiful but varied city of output this summer however until fascist groups of the turbaned to disrupt it going as far as to publish i took guide for those wishing to turn up and demonstrate that contains more than a few tips on how to start a riot we suggest tracking and exploiting the f.t.'s weak points across germany so that we can guarantee the necessary space for protests in all spoke it's a very detailed guided includes maps of where members will be staying the routes

that they'll be taking in the best places to disrupt the event from and there's also a section that includes writing and life hacks everything the first time writer will need like how to block roads how to prepare paint to be hurled correctly but there's also some more unsavory instructions as well the best ways to burn tires to smash shop windows or to burn cars all without leaving any evidence that you were there or for that matter being able to be identified on security footage we wish you a lot of fun trying our instructions we showed the so-called right guy to a f.t. spokesperson ronald glaser and asked him just how worrying it is to his members the meth just clear we know where you all are being we're going to come for you this is some kind of disgusting kind of in communication but he will not pay for it you know if anybody in the party is considering any extra security measures. will

expert security measures. can be helpful but we did not have any party gathering. without a lot of security around the police and private security organization so it would be different this time we also spoke to the left party and asked whether they endorsed this guy. or if they thought the far left group anti far gone too far this time. the traditional. which simply never good for sizzle and never again year fifty years of clearly anti human this. is bring for that racist statements bring forward georgie or even work together. of context of militaristic fascist groups so we all the human list falls as an actress and society have to stand together. and to do resistance against the

politics of the. police in our expert are preparing for what's being described as an unprecedented operation some two thousand officers will be drafted in including reinforcements from nearby areas and they may well be needed fighting between anti fire demonstrators and police has turned nasty in the past as i found out firsthand during the anti g twenty right and how member last summer. was so. i actually read between the police and the demonstrators right now so we're going to try to get out of the way. i the police in hamburg were also warned ahead

of time that something big was being planned there and with just over a month to go before the a half day conference on the thirtieth of june. to see if they can stop a similar situation unfolding there peter all of our r.t. berlin. moscow has rejected the latest fire. the air crash team investigating the downing of malaysia airlines flight m h seventeen over eastern ukraine in two thousand and fourteen saying they are based on flawed evidence international investigators alleged on thursday that the missile used belonged to a russian military unit which tallies with the conclusions of the amateur research group belling cat and harkins examines the latest development and of the russian reaction and may seventeen was a civilian airliner heading from amsterdam to call alone 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 a 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 discount of the evidence that was used a lot of which relied on an organization called burning cat a citizen journalism and 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 bell and get investigation team already reached the same conclusions and published them 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 telling can 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 x.

books owner i had no knowledge beyond what i learned from arnold schwarzenegger and rambo. 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 in 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 who's been 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 pelling can't get 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 fun of 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 screenshots from ukrainian t.v. apparently showing a book missile system complete with radar in the area just a few days before the tragedy or we've been in touch with it but it says the russian government and media have resorted to conspiracy theories false claims and fake evidence to cover up the downing of m.h. seventeen the group then went on to characterize its own investigation as thorough and accurate. that doesn't for me i'll be back in about thirty four minutes with the full of this news stay with us this is our two international.

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is boom box broadcasting around the world i'm barred children thank you for tuning in and coming up today are regulatory holdbacks in the financial sector about to take place partly naylor a public citizen joins us to discuss and ease fortunes becoming bigger than you might expect plus melissa are most sorts out some stock movements including the j.c. penney c.e.o.'s move to lowe's and a conversation about the retail apocalypse plus how it's one high love it tells us about how much money former presidents make in light of the one hundred forty million dollar deal struck by the obama's and netflix all of that ahead but first let's have some headlines. bruce solve

a russian aluminum company who was been saddled with u.s. sanctions have had a major shake up at the top of the official ladder the c.e.o. of the company and seven directors have resigned following implementation of u.s. sanctions the move is an attempt for officials to distance themselves from the company's owners who have been economically slammed by the sanctions resell the second largest aluminum company in the world has lost around half of its value since twenty as things stand when more sanctions were imposed on russia. state bank of india has posted a record setting loss of one point one billion dollars in its latest quarterly earnings statement while state bank of indian or india or f.b.i. has been expected by market watchers to take a hit from regulators imposing stricter lending standards the losses were greater than expected the chairman said that one of the results last year was a year of despair this year is a year of hope next you'll hear will be

a year of happiness he's very optimistic s b i also disclosed that the proportion of non-performing loans in their portfolio actually increased to nearly eleven percent up from just below seven percent a year before but investors seem to be convinced by the chairman's op. mystic take one f.b.i.'s future with f.b.i. stock rising four percent later in the day. and in india finance news continuing the singapore exchange or s.g. axis plane to list new india related derivative products in june s.t.s. notably made the announcement despite an attempt from the stock exchange of india or n.s.c. to obtain an injunction against the singapore exchange in february india's three major stock markets including n.s.c. announced that they would no longer license their price information to s.g. ex and other foreign firms or uses reference points for overseas contracts

including derivatives g.s. x. then found a workaround to their s s t x found a workaround to defeat the attempted embargo prompting and as the to seek the injunction on s g x an official statement from s.t.s. derivatives unit touted the value of their products and profits and their legal position but s.t.'s stock fell on the news. and the us federal reserve is considering modifying it that code for relaxing by the way what is called the volcker rule which bans proprietary trading that's trading for your own book trading on behalf of the bank the proposal that expected to be considered next week on may thirtieth the role was created as a part of the two thousand and ten dodd frank financial reform law i worked on it and bars banks from using funds protected by deposit.