another day another diplomatic one a moment from. the historic summit with north korea might be gone after all this by pulling off shortly after pyongyang raised its nuclear site also ahead . and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud of dust. r.t. witnesses north korea being keeping its end of the bargain with the u.s. by destroying its entire nuclear tests. coming off the program this hour the world's red hot topics iran north korea u.s.

sanctions are discussed by vladimir putin and. other world leaders up the st petersburg international economic forum. in october news headlines in israel supreme courts oppose the use of lethal military force against palestinians during this month's deadly clashes along accountable. a very warm welcome to our to international my name's union o'neill good to have your company our top story the first pictures showing the destruction of north korea's only nuclear test site being released our correspondent down off was among the small pool of journalists invited to witness the facility being decommissioned . just go to 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 he's a might bump a oh 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. . yeah as we were speaking about a little earlier donald trump is now hinting that a meeting with kim jong il could still take place the sharp u.

turn comes less than twenty four hours after the u.s. president called off the summit of course with the north korean leader scheduled for june in singapore we'll see what happens with. regard to that very much wanted we'd like to see what. everybody. knows that you know that better than anybody. ok we will be returning to this story lots to speak about our guest just getting miked up and in the meantime let me just bring you to the middle east now what is happening with israel there supreme court has upheld the use of lethal military force against palestinian protesters in gasser earlier this month in the ruling judges all to rejected the demonstrations have been peaceful calling palestinians

part of a quote armed conflict middle east correspondent paula severe. 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 it says that israel is involved in a longstanding conflict with the militant group and as such is authorized to use lethal force now this has outraged human rights groups one of which tweeted that judges missed an opportunity to prevent further killings and injuries the israeli supreme court completely ignored the broad factual basis presented to it by the petitioners which includes multiple testimonies of wounded and reports of international organizations involved in documenting the killing and wounding of our non protesters in gaza at least sixty two palestinians were killed in one day of violence and several hundreds were injured the the only one hundred in the of course the recoup the.

money were. there. the 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. 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 called for an independent investigation into israel's use of force against what they say what armed protesters. the u.s. state department is calling on russia to admit that it was behind the darning of flight m h seventeen over eastern ukraine back in twenty fourteen it's after astraea and the netherlands directly accused russia of involvement the spite 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. if 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 amsterdam to kuala lumpur when it was shot down and 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 this they had no clear well perpetrator or clear reason why the aircraft was targeted in the first place. the questions everyone wants answered from day one are why was flight m h seventeen should down and who was responsible for this appalling act i can't give you the

answers to these specific questions today well from the russian side the ministry of defense issued a lengthy rebuttal to the findings that. 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 a 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. investigative teams findings bashing the fact that

a lot of it seem to be based on pictures from social media we want to draw to everyone's attention that the dutch investigators have ignored witness accounts many eyewitnesses saw the tragedy themselves they are not images from social media they are real people who gave their testimonies on record to the european and american media the head of the joint investigation team said that his investigation was entering its final stages however the more information we get from the charity the more questions seem to be thrown up. investigators concluded the aircraft was hit by a missile from a russian made. of the manufacturer's own tests showed 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 production

investigators say that information was in a format they couldn't analyze. 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. 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. twelve minutes past six pm here in moscow this friday evening we're back with more news in about ninety seconds time stay with us. join me every first week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see you there.

we return with our breaking news donald trump is now hinting that

a meeting with kim jong un could still take place the sharp u. turn comes less than twenty four hours after the u.s. president called off the summit with the north korean leader scheduled for june in singapore to see what happened to the well we thought that they very much want to do it we'd like to see what. everybody plays you know that you know that better than anybody. but him up and joins me live now from new york kalib trumps changing his mind i suppose we could see here would dizzying speed isn't a what's the reason this time while trump has a reputation for unpredictability and doing things in ways that are not expected so what made donald trump change his mind after telling the world that this is

sturrock summit was cancelled and what made him change his mind once again what appears to have been a statement made by north korea their most recent statement and which they said they were still open to meeting and sitting down with the united states at any time now seems particularly sensitive to these statements from north korea his previous decision to cancel the summit was also based on a statement from north korea this is donald trump. 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 now that previous statement that trump says made him cancel the upcoming summit was a criticism of the u.s. vice president they referred to the u.s. vice president as a dummy in the aftermath of him getting up and making a statement in which he invoked the libyan scenario and the you know the toppling

of the libyan government in two thousand and eleven in reference to north korea so at this point in response to them calling him a dummy we then heard trump say that that made him cancel the summit but now he's saying it's possibly back on now these these responses from trump seem to all be in response to statements that north korea has made however it's important to point to north korea's actions north korea blew up their only nuclear test site and furthermore north korea actually released three american prisoners however it seems that for donald trump words speak louder than actions and that that in response to various statements he's going back and forth about whether or not this meeting will take place so many people were shocked hearing donald trump announce that he would cancel the meeting however many people are now probably optimistic saying that it may possibly be back on a lot of questions are being raised but donald trump seems to have maintained his reputation for unpredictability yeah thanks for taking us through and live from new

york city let's go live to politics expert mark shanahan in the u.k. for his. mark yeah another day another statement from donald trump what do you counsel at the meeting then say it is what's he up to. who know use what he thought to i'd suspect least of all don't we try no use what do you think i mean this is somebody who jumped into the main thing. first of all quicker than a ferret up a drainpipe i mean this was a guy who went from swiping on heavy petting with him before the first round of drinks had arrived there is no policy behind this is somebody who is into making headlines and appeasing the base and yesterday the news to not go down well with his base supporters that he had pulled out of this meeting he'd always seen it as a chance to make peace on the korean peninsula which would be world breaking

history it could land him that nobel peace prize and i think you saw yesterday he saw all of that dissolving and it looked as though he scored a massive policy own goal so if the opportunity is there to get the meeting back on he's keen to get back on tender double trump all to the said everybody plays games i'm not sure if you just saw a little piece of footage there is that his idea of making a deal because it does sound a little childish doesn't it especially when you clear powers are involved. yeah what we're seeing is the huge naive at the in the current american administration when it comes to foreign policy making there are still so many gaps on the policy desks in the state department and we have a president who acts more by guts than by intellect and he believes he is the great deal maker unfortunately he hasn't actually left the experts who will actually be

devising the policy sufficient time to get some decent plans in place before he does the televisual best of sitting down and shaking hands with him and garnering all those headlines around the world that they're actually worth nothing unless there is some policy making behind them and he's not the man stated that he doesn't have the the spine of attention what reaction do you think is happening on pyung chang hi how are they reacting on off they've done quite a lot we've just seen their nuclear facility dismantled it seems as if they're trying to sit down and get talking and one day they are above the next day they're not what they're thinking or. it's quite difficult to analyze what the north koreans are thinking of such a closed environment which is based on national security which is all based on

keeping kim and the kim family in power they would want these talks the only leverage though that they have in international relations is their nuclear capability so what they don't want to do is anything that risks them getting into a libyan type situation where they have to give up the weaponry and give up the capability to make it just to sit down at the table they want to hold their cards close they definitely want to sit down at the table they want to get the international cute for doing so but they want to see what the americans beyond donald trump have to offer whether sanctions can be lifted whether it brings them closer to the global community a lot of other parties a factor here as well of course china's side career in terms of so all they say they want this summer to go ahead but it's going to strain relations with the u.s. if they don't and they're seen as one of the closest allies in that region which is important to the u.s. . absolutely president moon is playing

quite a difficult game here is on the tightrope with improving relations with north korea which absolutely is essential for the south korean regime perhaps possible unification in the future on one hand on the other hand he is under the nuclear umbrella of the united states there are many many thousands of u.s. troops stationed in south korea and the navy is always very close by as well he needs to maintain good relations it goes beyond the military there is a huge trading relationship between south korea and the united states and he certainly doesn't want to do anything to jeopardize that he will have a very significant role to play i suspect much more of a role now with the talks on the on of shuffle face expert analysis as always political expert mark shanahan live on r.t. this hour thank you marc. the plenary session the international economic forum has just wrapped up with russian president vladimir putin discussing

a number of major issues with his french japanese and chinese colleagues will for more on this are trying to joins us on the program who has been falsely following the event in st petersburg force one of the fascinating things about this is seeing so much spoken in public with the leaders of countries you know the decision makers are in the open to talk us through what happened today day two. even the high the attendance is impressive i can tell you the size and to the plan a recession the main event of the form perhaps is just wrapped up is that the v.i.p.'s are just passing by on my right some of the people who are actually sitting in the front rows in that hallway and lattimer pope emanuel macron shinzo and also the vice president of china and the head of the i.m.f.

were speaking. well these are the things that you've been discussing in the last few days the number one stories on the air on most the t.v. channels that's of course the issues of korea and iran and obviously that was something that was brought up very quickly after the opening remarks by the speakers and i can tell you that it seems that in this particular case pretty much all guests were expressing regret about the missed opportunities and. i just want to tell you that everyone here still hopes that talks may resume in one way or another besides this the chinese five presidents. one also said that china will never accept a war on the korean. you know and so and also here's an observation for you when it comes to the speakers they all were framed from the back saying donald trump in the

first place or came john thune for this kind of a rail mint of the talks that happened as a result of the latest developments now moving on to iran i had some quite surprising observations for example emanuel macron in particular admitting that donald from perhaps decided to change the iranian nuclear deal only because that was something that was put together by the administration of his previous sesar and a lot of our putin chose not to blame the american president either he says that in that particular case by refusing to go ahead with the deal donald trump didn't lose although he said he won the mess to clean as opposed to that because he kept his promise his election promises but again everyone here is talking about future cooperation and possibly getting the u.s. involved again when it comes to maybe an amended deal or some possible deal and in

this case we cannot mention we cannot forget to mention the sanctions if we're talking about the reining in prices about the north korean crisis and obviously we're here in russia and we're remember that in the last few months russia was facing fresh sanctions from the u.s. as well and here's how that situation was described by the russian president during the polar plenary session. of the richest situation is that everyone plays football but the use the rules of judo that's chaos that's where we're heading to sanction bludgeon is not only being used on russia. i can tell you that sport was brought up quite a few times during this one recession but i'll come back to that later when i'm back with more details there were a few awkward. moments a few funny moments during the press conference i can tell you that latimer pro and emanuel macron were sitting right next to each other and sometimes there were

twenty in between them had at one particular point when they were talking about security. even said that he could be in charge in a way to reassuring friends of its security take a listen. but you have any advice in the world in terms of how to deal with president trump because you were somebody who was. associated with the election of president term but i work with a provocator i've got nothing to do with trump's election campaign and you and you are not a national provoke a time. when the latest coalition manual said that europe and the u.s. have mutual obligations europe depends on the u.s. in the realm of security which you don't have to worry about that will help to provide security. so we are just in the process of digesting all the comments that we heard from the leaders of some of the most important

international players once again france russia japan and china and also the head of the i.m.f. in that plan recession i'll be back with more in just over half an hour's time yasmeen interesting up north so far out in that area trying to go in st petersburg well we will continue to check in live as the second day of the forum wraps up hearing from delegates and getting more updates from on the team up there in the northern capital.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. this is boom box broadcasting around the world i'm partial thank you for tuning in and coming up today our regulatory hold back in the financial sector about to take place partly nailer a public citizen joins us to discuss and ease forces 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. to solve a russian aluminum company who was been saddled with u.s. sanctions had 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 optimistic take on f.b.i.'s future with s.p.i. stock rising four percent later in the day. and in india finance news continuing the singapore exchange or.