hawk for a long. walk. and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud of dust r.t. witnesses how north korea is keeping its end of the bargain with the u.s. by destroying its nuclear test sites. just hours after the demolition counseled a potentially historic u.s. north korea summit meeting wondering if its peace efforts were in vain. also ahead in the program vladimir putin warns against trade wars and say's the world needs trade peace not sanctions the russian president gave that message out the same petersburg international economic forum just one thirty minutes ago

alongside other world leaders. polish the use of lethal military force against palestinians during this month's deadly clashes along the gaza border. a very warm welcome to our team international my names you know your company our top story the first pictures showing the destruction of north korea's only nuclear test site have been released our correspondent. the small pool of journalists invited to witness the facility being decommission. yes minnesota the birthing center over there and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud of dust. those

barracks were used for living for the soldiers too old to locate soldiers and workers there well now north korea is showing that it is destroying the infrastructure to. behind me is northern tunnel number two that's where five nuclear tests five most recent nuclear tests have been conducted out of four tunnels around here this one got the most battering so basically this is north korea saying look we are ready to make the first step and this is the first step that we're making to show that we are acting in good faith we're destroying all the facilities we are being told that what has been done today has rendered this site absolutely useless now they're expecting more to come out from the united states and international community but everything here is happening amid the atmosphere of uncertainty the latest rhetoric by the

u.s. president donald trump and his aides and might come pale we are hearing from north koreans that this is putting the whole thing in jeopardy they don't know what to expect they're saying that well how can the united states be trusted after you run after they pulled out of the iran deal that was negotiated four years they're saying how can the united states be trusted when they are saying that the libya model should be applied to north korea so right now again here we are being shown that they're being destroyed and north korea is saying that well the ball is in somebody else's court now and we've done of reporting from north korea pyongyang at a nuclear test site r.t. . however just hours after north korea closed on the scientist donald trump a non-state he's counseling his op becoming summit with kim jong un it was scheduled to take place in singapore in june reacting to the move north korea questioned if it was right to have made efforts for the peace talks in the first

place it insisted however that the intent was still there to solve the problems the us president did later explain why he decided to allow it repeatedly mentioning the strength of the american military. our military which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world powerful anywhere in the world is ready if this is and has been greatly enhanced recently as you well know as you well know already 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 just as the world was building up to a historic meeting between north korea and the us america pulls out of the historic summit so what happened well kim jong un released three american prisoners and he

destroyed a nuclear test site but in trumps of you he's still too hostile 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 that's in response to pyongyang referring to the vice president of the united states as a political dummy that was after mike pence said that a possible libya situation might be the response if north korea and the u.s. can't make a deal diplomatic threats or a subtle marks and this one comes courtesy of the trumpet ministration this will only and like the libyan model ended if kim jong un doesn't make a deal i think that's what denuclearization means and we have very much in mind the libya model now that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely dropping out of a historic meeting is a pretty regretful decision but it's also an opportunity to flaunt your nuclear powers apparently you talk about your nuclear capabilities but i was is so massive and powerful i pray to god they would never have to be used as shocking as trump's

decision might be what was washington's plan all along was this perhaps all just a big bluff they certainly got off on the right foot with north korea north korea has announced they would use month to a nuclear test site this month ahead of the big summit me. and you need two of thank you a very smart and gracious gesture and then when your rival least expects that you strike them down very hollywood. we would be if you would join us. that you sit and listen to. so it looks like trump got what he wanted and then at the last minute he landed a sucker punch what they call the old bait and switch in the business world it's pretty clear that there most of the people around president trump did not want this

summit to take place and they were horrified at the thought the trump would sit across the table i die from kim jong un and agree to something that they may not have approved of so i think there's a lot of relief in washington that this has collapsed they want a libyan solution to north korea and where libya gives up it where they can north korea gives up his weapons but then is vulnerable to regime change and i think that is the underlying reality on the american side that led to the collapse of this talk. well after donald trump council the highly anticipated meeting a calling that was specially minted for the summit was offered on a discounted price by the white house gift shop but the man was so high at one point that it crushed its website if you're not satisfied though you can still get a refund. not a mere putin has warned the world against trade wars calling sanctions kuntar

productive the russian president was addressing it delegates out the international economic forum in st petersburg. so we're going. to pull we we don't need trade wars for temporary trade ceasefires but fully fledged peace building an economy of trust the escalating spiral of sanctions and restrictions only damages more and more countries and companies including those who thought this regime of trade restrictions won't be applied to us but the randomness in absence of control unwittingly makes people use restriction measures again and again wider and wider every time. they also up the session our friends present the money all my crawling he wrapped up his speech few minutes ago japanese prime minister shinzo on the head of the international monetary fund christine. well indeed day two of the economic forum is a busy one more announcement trade in particular are expected in fact i think right

now a japanese prime minister is addressing the international economic forum let's say cross over and hear what he has the from the arctic ocean gas fields including notably. will be found among. the icebreakers campaign and look at over into regular towners somewhere you know it won't add to that it would head off to users in china or in asia or way need to handling you know japan's highly experienced corporations. it is the largest importer. the corporation that is the world's largest buyer of bell and he's also found huge a parachute because japan. wealth of experience in your market and it developing price mechanism is we can be certain that a win win situation will form here for japan and russia and someone on russia's arctic ocean elenchi will enable it to become great swing producer

producer impacting world in markets by partnering with japan. the arctic ocean utils bering sea and the civic ocean and from the sea to parent to the pacific ocean the actress says of strategic antagonism that existed during the cold war will undergo a dramatic transformation becoming seascapes of peace and prosperity of course these changes will also make it a space so really permeated by the rule of law only that will the potential held by northern and far east russia be released in earnest and the russian economy will grow as if it had just been turbocharged for the pull that will be in the interest of all of russia's neighbors including japan and will construct you an important contribution to the global economy. of this simply building castles in

the earth a fanciful daydream nothing more i think not but it is an object you are most certainly able to reach if only we can take one step forward and then another and ladies and gentlemen pan russia peace treaty is a necessity in particular to make that grand vision a reality through at the at least every time president put meat really reconfirmed that we each other quite promising words they're talking about trade as you can see there a nurse. a win win situation for russia and japan when it comes to energy and that's the prime minister of japan shinzo that we will be crossing to and forth to this speech to delegates will be listening in on anything very valid an interesting i will cross back in the meantime in the audience to. speech lots of see at lots of business leaders of the world there that we've been speaking to some

of them let's see what they had to say but one of them. the obviously an old guard on we can see the foundations of russia in germany's economic relations is solid even in the sanctions and low oil and gas prices they've remained firm in two thousand and seventeen we had record high german private investment in russia which totaled one point six billion euros and i'm not only talking about the huge car manufacturers they invest a lot here but also many medium sized businesses and family firms. of course all the support older country europe by important words of france and diplomacy is always ahead of us to keep pete i know we have to be in germany you could call us that we are after b i always said iraq europe us to be it says europe us to see the united states hours away is it is the following story of our interest

to rebalance our relations between the united states and europe by you upon the russia to stop to see these sanctions to add to sort of public ukraine and to get out of these. the fundamental for business is about how you create the confidence the stability to enable that long long term to you to be taken and the thing that can support that would be well from a business perspective i was phrase over the past nine nine months to twelve months we've seen investment into your link gas from foreign direct investors we've worked with clients to continue to invest in agriculture is he says that's been a theme over the past at least two to three years we are also seeing investment into pharmaceuticals and increasingly interest from some of the light industry and localization. ok so that's what some of the business leaders c.e.o.'s plenty of them in attendance at the international forum are talking about will be

crossing in the night all of the second day of the forum right throughout the day here hearing from delegates getting updates from our news team in st petersburg. the u.s. state department is calling on russia to admit that it was behind the donning a flight m h seventeen over eastern ukraine in twenty fourteen it's after a strain on the netherlands directly accused russia of involvement the spike the fact the investigation is still ongoing russia's foreign minister has already discussed the move with his dutch counterpart saying there is no evidence to pin the blame on moscow. i spoke to the dutch prime minister he said that they have almost no doubts that the book came from russia i asked what evidence prove that

but he didn't give me any facts he told me they don't want russia to help the investigation which he explained with some baseless suspicions. ok let's cross to berlin on our europe correspondent peter are you standing by has been following developments and there has been quite a few over the past number of days peter where is all this come from this latest statement right well we look to that statement from the netherlands and australia that what they've said is that they hold russia legally responsible for the deaths of the two hundred ninety eight people who were on board malaysian airlines flight m h seventeen on its way from to kuala lumpur when it was shot down when it went down over eastern ukraine an area that was. an area of particularly fierce fighting at the time in the conflict that is ongoing there this was back in july of twenty fourteen australia in the netherlands have made that decision just stars the joint investigation team have released their latest findings so the

j.i.t. they put forward the latest information they had on thursday in the netherlands and in that report they did say that they had no clear well perpetrator or clear reason why the aircraft was targeted in the first place. just a little the questions everyone wants answered from day one are why was flight m h seventeen should down and who is responsible for this appalling act i can't give you the answers to these specific questions to date. well from the russian side the ministry of defense issued a lengthy rebuttal to the findings that the j.i.t. sent out on thursday the russian ministry of defense saying that it couldn't have been a russian missile because the missile casing that they show was part of the is that one of the main parts of evidence from the joint investigation team that's the type

of missile this was made in the moscow region back in one thousand nine hundred six and hasn't been in russia's military arsenal since twenty eleven these things have a fifteen year shelf life that can be extended by an extra ten years to the maximum but anything built in eighty six in russia's arsenal would have been destroyed back in twenty eleven they did go on to say that ukraine did have these things in their arsenal the russian ministry of defense also critical of the joint investigative teams findings the fact that they a lot of it seem to be based on pictures from social media that it would 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 joint investigative committee said it best a gate of team a bigger part and said on thursday the head of that team said on thursday that the

investigation was entering its final stages well that may well be but there's still an awful lot more questions being thrown up about what happened in july of two thousand and fourteen. investigators concluded the aircraft was hit by a missile from a russian made launcher. but the manufacturer's own tests show the missile type used was decommissioned by the russian military years ago. russian investigators claim the missile was fired from a ukrainian held area moscow sent radar data to the netherlands but dutch investigators say that information was in a format they couldn't analyze. for. the joint investigation team includes the netherlands belgium australia malaysia and ukraine. the body cooperates with other states but russia's only been allowed

limited involvement. ukraine was quick to blame russia for the tragedy however the final report does not directly blame russia for the crash. investigators concluded the book was driven in from russia and returned across the border after the launch that was based on intercepted telephone conversations witness statements photographs and videos posted on social media but the accuracy of such evidence remains questionable. several mainstream media outlets and prominent politicians also didn't hesitate to pin the blame on russia even before the investigation reached any conclusions many reports used questionable evidence from amateur investigators like belling cat who used social networks and open internet sources to try and decipher what happened.

lots of questions let's try and get into some of them with down glazebrook downs a political writer and journalist that is live on the program high down and. can i just start why do you think western countries are directly accusing russia with the probe still going it's yet to be finished and yet the accusations are already out there. well i think it's very clear that we're in a new cold war that the west has launched against russia this is potentially the case since russia's involvement in syria has really. prevented a regime change operation that the west been hoping for in syria from reaching the same conclusion that the that they reached in libya and iraq and elsewhere so really since then russia has become enemy number one to be to be to be dealt with and especially with the new war that is under way on iran which involves attacks on

iran in israeli attacks on iranian positions in syria and a new economic war. against iran being waged by donald trump in the context of this one to exert maximum pressure on russia to ideally they would like to break the russian iranian alliance and so the rest of the moment syria this is really punishment for that as well as russia's. refusal to just back down and watch all of ukraine be overrun. by fascists as well but this is this is knives out for russia that's been very clear and there's this whole. you know campaign under way every time there's something happens to blame it on russia where they scream poll or duma or the m eight seventeen crash i mean it's very clear with them it's seventeen that. the this what this this was

a crime was really made to to to fit the punishment i think and it is very revealing that these tough new u.s. sanctions on russia were implemented the day before the. seventeen plane crash so that the punishment began before before the crime had actually happened now the problem for the u.s. when it implemented those sanctions with the that its european partners were refusing to go along with them just a month earlier austria signed a twenty three billion pound deal with with with russia energy deal and they were not not willing to go along and shoot themselves in the foot by going along with these sanctions so the us needed some kind of big event like this that would put pressure on its european partners to break its links with russia and that's exactly what they've got and i think it's very interesting that the focus has been on who pulled the trigger as it were and as as your report said it's still unclear but i think what's more significant question is actually who intended these deaths

to happen who intended a civilian airliner to get shot down because even the ukrainian government's own purported evidence now is evidence of being questioned as a phone call or member very soon after the event took place they released this phone call which purported to be ukrainian rebels basically saying oh my god we just shot down a civilian plane which suggested there was a mistake it was an accident but who actually intended those deaths when we see that the emirate seventeen plane was diverted three hundred miles from its usual flight path right into the war zone when we see that the ukrainian government has been sending several times a week paramilitaries and soldiers into the war zones often using civilian planes to do so when we see that the ukrainian air traffic control told the plane to actually lower its flight path by two thousand feet who were setting this thing this thing up that's the real question that we have to ask and who is benefited from it done thanks for coming on the program this or sharing your thoughts on our

political writer and journalist glazebrook. israel supreme court has upheld the use of lethal military force against palestinians. protesters earlier this month in the ruling judges also rejected the demonstrations have been peaceful calling palestinians part of quote armed conflict let's go live now to israel on our middle east correspondent paula paula hello to you take us through indeed how the judges reached that decision. well as you say the israeli supreme court has sided with the israeli military and blamed her mass it says that israel is engaged in a longstanding conflict with the militant group and as such is allowed to use lethal force now this has outraged human rights organizations one tweeted that the judges missed an opportunity to prevent further killings and injuries take a look. at

. the the the clothes. of course the recall oh the there are. now at least sixty two palestinians were killed in one day of violence and several hundreds were injured adding fuel to the fire is the fact that what has now emerged online are several videos that show israeli soldiers cheering as they fire. on. to the government.

now human rights groups are not the only ones who are mad at israel the united nations the european union france and germany have all call. independent investigation into israel's use of force against what they say well armed protesters but as always israel's closest ally the united states has vetoed any kind of moves at the united nations level. the. current. level of course the it was the there are. two that the know your. are.

the. the situation here on the ground is still tense today friday there are again demonstrations taking place along the israel gaza border but numbers are much lower than what we've seen in the past and to date there's been no incidents of violence that have been reported paulus leader live from tel aviv thank you very much. north korea is in focus in cross talk next stay with our two international. join me every thursday on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you then. seventy four design submissions. seven thousand pilings.

to join judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of work. a russian w.b. . and a russian pop stuff. show you how and why the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction of a unique transporter. that will help out of crimea. faster most of those you know won't go for more familiar with it a bit but. in some american cities the police have built themselves cling to refutation of people who walk on the streets of the united states who are at risk from the very people who are supposed to protect that were people are no more afraid of the police than of those. who can see something happening and this is

like i don't want to call the cops. rather than call the cops and those young men lose their lives chasing the with their fingers on the trigger you never know better safe than sorry i don't know that someone else is going to die so. unfortunately around around here we are. told from such precocious place to. go and welcome across the uk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle summit are no summit that's the question north korea's threat of a no show in singapore on june twelfth is

a reminder to washington that north korea will not merely cave to american demands or should i say john bolton's demands if there's going to be an agreement it's going to take time and patience to the americans in the north koreans have enough of either. talking the upcoming summit i'm joined by my guest kevin martin in washington he is president of peace action and peace action education fund as well as coordinator of the korea peace network also in washington we have jenny town she is managing. editor of thirty eight north and in boston we cross to. he is an assistant professor at baruch college city university of new york and a specialist on korea and asian affairs all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate jamie lynn and jenny let me go to you first here do you think there's still going to be a summit or.