once the torture program has either gone gone on or has been allowed to get away with it and because there's no prosecutions the new president can come along try and say i believe torture works a lot more water boarding is a great thing because there is not precedent if it is in prosecuted for the crime that it is a war crime then he would never dare say such a thing so imagine if that somebody if the sub saharan africa said that we. were doing activities in our country imagine what would happen if they thought. journalists have rounded on the ukrainian or thirty's for faking the assassination of a russian opposition reporter in care of a cut above chunk of the journalist in question has responded to one article in the british media slamming ukraine's action article claimed that the fake murder did more harm than good he left a comment on his own facebook page addressing the british press and using offensive

language he said that if the press wants more good than harm then give him a british passport and protection in while other international media and security watch dogs have also slander stand as being deplorable and regrettable the staged murder of journalists are crazy bunch and could by the ukrainian security service is distressing well the reappearance of the reporter maybe a great relief is deeply regrettable the crane's of priorities have played with the truth no matter what the motive relieved that are currently bob chinky was alive i deplore the decision to spread false information on the life of a journalist it is the duty of the state to provide correct information to the public. the story began when ukrainian authorities claimed that they had found with gunshot wounds at his flat in the capital and said that he had died on his way to hospital however less than twenty four hours later it was revealed the murder had actually been staged ukrainian security forces claim that they did it in order to

fulfill an actual russian plot to kill the journalists on the start of course a report on the fallout from this controversial case. when a russian journalist was pronounced murdered in the ukrainian capital it didn't take long for the ceremonial finger pointing at russia to begin he was only working on things that were critical and investigative of russia and of the russian government as well he said there was nothing that was critical of ukrainians of course that network and its boss placing the blame on the kremlin and on russia journalist known political leanings have led some to point the finger in one direction it was a calculated deliberate international terrorist crime committed on the direct instruction of the russian authorities who can blame them when the story has all the perfect ingredients the russian totalitarian machine putin's regime going after the kremlin critic except the guy turned up alive and well a magic in everyone's confusion what on earth is showing on fred all these

developments in just the last hour or so i know the ft house absolutely gobsmacked was second so what the heck actually have been here russia said it was relieved that are alive but also fiore us and understandably so after being falsely accused of murder questions of life and death in ukraine as well as the international community's trust in its politics are not thing more than a bargaining chip for the kid's regime to stir up on t.v. russian hysteria fellow journalists were outraged too when a state says a prominent journalist who had received threats was murdered i think the media have to report it but with the fake news in ukraine have reduced all of our credibility trump would be proud had learned not to trust ukrainian authorities on. but assuming something like this fishel confirmation was solid apologies it's on wikipedia is most notable fake death so what gives all the murder was staged by the

ukrainian secret service to foil an alleged kremlin plot they say they did it secretly not even his wife knew imagine what the poor woman went through. true but one ukrainian lawmaker thinks this is ok because shine a comb successfully used the method of staging his own death to effectively investigate difficult and complicated crimes well if it happened in fiction must be good in real life too whether ukraine will produce evidence that there was ever a russian plot in the first place remains to be seen but after a stunt like this it's hard to imagine many will take anything he says at face value the taming is key i think just before we start the world cup in russia which is a sure case event for any country that who will cut the horse world cup and suddenly we're getting the story switches does that which are designed i would speculate to discredit russia and discredit russia and the eyes of the world just as

a supposed to host the world cup and so this is a very elemental campaign it's been targeting russia because it's no interfering in areas in which all nations have in the past understood that they are off limits when it comes to using them for propaganda purposes such as trying to use a world cup to undermine the host nation that does no good to anyone especially at a time when we need to try and form an understanding. brussels or sit back at us trade tariffs and bring you all the details after the break.

what politicians do you suppose to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to be like to be this is what the korean people. interested in the law. should.

come back the u.s. has announced that it will slap the e.u. tariffs on i'll even the and steel imports with the measure coming into effect on friday canada or mexico they'll also be hit donald trump first announced the global tide of say march but in a concession to including the e.u. and exemptions were granted but we can hear now from our correspondents in washington that some may recall on the david shooter will be on the lawn in london first though let's go to samir a stateside take us through first of all what exactly are these measures being brought in by donald trump. well what's interesting is that the secretary for commerce and nouns these tariffs after meeting with the french finance minister which seem to have gone well judging by the smiles on their faces but the tariffs reportedly threatened seven point four billion dollars worth of european exports to the u.s. but when the announcement was made the secretary for commerce downplayed the tariffs he said that. the u.s. e.u.

relation shouldn't really be affected by let's check out what he said. is there a boom boom boom or green i don't think the fundamentals are very very soon i think everybody will get over the course. but like i said it shouldn't really affect u.s. relations we'll just have to see what happens police there bit of a problem on the line many thanks american in washington let's go to the did it in london for us in the theory of washington sure that the tariffs are not going to affect relations are going to stick my neck out here and say that they're not going to agree with that. well we'll just have to wait and see neal because there's been an awful lot of reaction as you can imagine from the european union countries involved with that the u.s.

commerce secretary he delivered the blow. with smiles i must say to the e.u. trade representative during last minute meetings where he wanted to keep the exemptions in place so what does this mean for the european union you may aswell the freshly introduced metal tariffs the report these threaten six point four billion euros worth of european exports to the u.s. that's an awful lot of money and those affected are potentially automobile makers in particular germany could be set to see the hardest hit because they are a powerhouse for managed manufacturing automobiles and if we take a look at the u.k. government's reaction again very negative pure disappointment now the e.u. is understandably outrage and the head of the european commission john claude juncker he has slammed the decision pour near.

truth on except that it can't push you look at measures when it comes to. credit. ok with all of the. trouble on the line there with both of our correspondents but many thanks the dirichlet in london and american in washington d.c. will try again i think next i'm sure a much better with with the technical issues now. spain's prime minister is facing the prospect of losing his job as parliament debates a motion to remove the under-fire leader motion no confidence has been followed by the main opposition socialist party seeking to replace the prime minister with its own lead the debate is set to run till friday morning that's when the vote on iraq or you will take a close. look at the side bringing in a guest now ruben below is on the line joins me now political scientists very good

even ruben how could a new spanish leader at this. stage in proceedings change relations with europe do you think. now i think this is not changing anything with european union we are now almost we have a new budget for the year if this by year is going well. it is about this buy it from european union but if they buy it it's ok now we are going to change right now at this moment because they are happening a lot of stuff we have turned into another government from socialist party. nothing wrong you see in the course we are following the proceedings. by now is this not a big problem over spain doesn't it cause a crisis you know getting rid of the prime minister is not nothing is it. this is

the first time it's been really possible to do the. forty years of course the delusion but this is for example this is not like italy this is our regular situation following our constitution. right now looks like the socialist party is going to win the vote tomorrow. if that happens he is going to do a new president and a new president can be making the new government so it's going to be ok and there is no empty of our mess of something like that we saw madrid take a really strong position over the catalan crisis. was to go out is the fact that situation yeah they're gone the good news right now is they kept on members of the parliament are going to vote with socialist party so all the people

all the represent at the front catalonia are a core of the in to food a new government in a spain that these are pretty good news because even the support of these are going to vote and they are warning about the new government are out of war and about to put down. who are in the government because they are really surrounded. around corruption so the problem right now is the corruption everybody is fighting together against the government are party. saying that they have a really big problem with the corruption and so in some i guess ruben tumble a political scientist thank you. next the u.s. brand of cosmetics mack is under fire after releasing a tutorial for its muslim clients on what makeup to wear during ramadan apparently

it's best to do it before the traditional priest sunrise meal. i can barely open my eyes were mac comes out was glamorous look what mike thinks the so-called luke is versus what it actually looks like. you know thinking back i'll stick with my nature traumatize folks look at your own soap or. this would have been great for any fatah party or indeed me couple it's great that max maddox want to diversify their marketing but come on please consult muslim

women before running with the stuff. cosmetics do you mean tar because for three thirty am and no one that's like. a little bit humorous when you look at the exaggeration the disconnect that is existing between the public relations firms in these big corporations who are trying to kind of you know includes include you know. christmas ramadan different religious occasions they're trying to be very much involved the grander trying to address their desire on a personal level or something but at the end of the day sometimes it's a big. it's just very much just connected from what actually is going on and no they're not useful at all i did say ninety nine percent of the ladies who are waking up for school it's actually very laughable. but there's a turn to our top story this hour the russian foreign minister has met with north korean leader kim jong un as pyongyang prepares for a possible historic peace summit with south korea and the united states and our

team is going to exclusive access to kim's palace of the. in a patrol it was the only international correspondent to see that he just landed in moscow straight on to the air with his life sounds like this was one of those once in a lifetime experiences tell us more. here and there's nothing that i can add to this really once in a lifetime experience i am lost for words i just landed in moscow after heading here straight from north korea and i can tell you that the fact that the talks between sorry lodbrok and kim john were likely this was something that we were told about by the foreign ministry officials however it was kept a secret for a long time then we found out that they were definitely happening but the journalists were told to stay away they were not going to be invited and then at the very last moment we got

a tip from the foreign ministry officials that we can come so i was there with my cameraman and then the only other two people with cameras there were the personal photographer and cameraman of surrogate lavrov and the personal ones of cam john and there are just so many things to tell you saw will be coming back to you with this in the next few hours surely i can tell you that we were taken to a remote area which was deserted i couldn't see any cars or people in the street but we couldn't really figure out where exactly we were going who knew where a surrogate louv rob will be greeted by kim john whom we were expecting that to happen in his residence and then we saw a massive palace but we didn't stop by and we didn't drive in after a long detour we seem to have gotten in through some sort of back door gates and i still couldn't figure out where we are it looked like a villa with plenty of fountains i couldn't see any military men around me just two

people in suits and then we got to these big wooden doors and i saw a woman's face. sneaking out of there and then only at that moment i realized that i was actually kim sister i remember her face from the winter olympic games in young chang and that was the time when i can actually figure out that perhaps kim is behind these doors and this is the exact place where the north korean leader will be meeting sergei lavrov so again i will be showing you all these exclusive pictures i have many many things to show you in the coming hours but for now just take a look at this interaction between thirty lavrov in camp and kim jong un sorry when they were at that negotiating table at kim's residence. it's a food tomb in pyongyang isn't it says. yes it's my third time and i must say for nyang is only getting better. so many absolutely

unbelievable things that i was able to see there i would have never thought that it is actually possible to gain such access to the residence of the north korean leader all share many details with you for example at that table can john newman was sitting there alone only accompanied by the translator and basically it was seven on one because the entire russian team was on the other side of the table and the format was really unusual when you saw him right there i can tell you that he didn't look like a person with any issues or a lunatic as some people might be portraying him anyway in the next few hours over sharing all these excuses exclusive pictures sorry and further inside into what was happening inside him john owns residence in pyongyang yeah really looking forward to getting all the details many thanks ilia patrik our correspondent. getting that

kind of access quite simply you can say money cannot buy and i mean that literally doesn't matter how much money you got you couldn't buy that kind of access joiners this is one reason to be tuning into r.t. join us next hour for all the details. this is the president thank you very much for inviting this year for giving this opportunity mr president should. first question you need just victories in good in yet a move they have drastically changed the situation on the ground in syria how much nearer the end of this war are we now in your estimation for all you all

what comes here. with every move forward in the field with victory with really been liberated we are moving closer the closer to the end of the conflict with it without external interference it won't take more than a year to settle the situation in syria but at the theme time with every move forward for the syrian army and for the political process and for the whole situation forward in the positive meaning toward the most ability. or any means. opponents mainly the with the by the united states and they are published in europe and in our region would be mercenaries in syria they try to make it fall the. other by supporting more terrorism bringing more terrorists coming to thier war by

him during the political process so our challenge is how can we make this go up to close this gap between their plans and our plans and i think we are succeeding in that regard but at the same time of course for you no one could tell you when but it is getting closer that said everything well you lead this military victories they have being objective these big. spectacular the speed at which rebel defenses of the wood stood for years of collapse you planning on retaking all of syria by force we're talking about the border with israel as the controlled territories. the war is the worst the troops. i think everything in it could be. fact but sometimes you only have this choice especially when you talk about factions like. like

like. and the like minded folk actually most of them have the same ideology. and thought. they're not ready for him to be don't have any political plan they only have this dark ideological bland is that to be like any controlled anywhere in in this world the only option to deal with both factions is force. at the same time in other areas we succeeded by implementing the conciliation especially when the community in those different areas made pressure on those militants to leave the area so i think the best the choice is to make a conservation this is all planned but when it doesn't work the only resort to use the force well with regards to we can see lesion how wise

is it to send all of these veteran jihads with those small arms to it by now tens of thousands of tens of thousands of gone gone they have consolidated they have built defenses eventually as you say you will have to fight them on the other hand you perhaps planning on building an area that is outside of government control. you all of he will go to liberate it so it's impossible for us to to intentionally leave any. of the syrian. control as a government this is the natural and as you know it was captured by the. there with. in fifteen with the turkey supports. it was it was mainly captured by a muscle and some of the supportive factions without the very cause issues before that time but every conservation happened after that time after two thousand and

fifteen it was i think may two thousand and fifteen every faction what the to leave . the city or the village they choose to go to egypt. this is a very good indication but. they have the same ideology could be good did you have to go to any other area so we didn't think people do it would they want to go do it live because they have the theme you could beat or they have the same atmosphere way of thinking and so on this one. the other part which is military aspect of your question the plan of the terrorists and their masters was to destroy the syrian army by scattering the different units all over the syrian border which is not good for any army of plan was to put them in one where you have three areas if you if

you have two or three or four four two you've beter than having been in maybe more than one hundred forty of the think that so militarily it is better to that but it's better for us from the military point of view on the other hand talking about similar mindsets it is predominantly the rebels the overwhelming sunni even the sunni myself i have a long distant relative who. came to syria to fight against you to resist you because he was told that you would target you with killing soon and that is what many people. believe why is it that so many people in all these different countries in america in russia these sunni's these muslims they believe that you are oppressing because the first thought of when you thought i had interned internationally mainly in the with of course. within syria when in some

mainstream media in our region and in the with. their plan was to create this rift within the society that we make things easier for them when you have such a civil war kind of civil war between thanks or if the cities and the. now the keep using the same narrative at least to encourage some thread at the x. in different places in the world to come and defend their brothers in the theory of god that's how with the imagine imagine that this conflict between faith it's all because of the. not all minded way of thinking some maybe all their ignorance they came here just to support the public to know if i'm going to do this is right or wrong your audience does that more if it doesn't know me there they don't have any idea maybe above my credibility. you know theory

of it or will it's better to go and see the reality on the ground now give this to you now to validity in reality. thanksgiving another thing that syria should be divided according to sectarian lines you should come to visit the old controlled and see one color or a few colors of the syrian society you have to go to the other where you have the terrorist you should have different colors and the reality is not like with now in damascus in early pour in homes in. every area under the theory and the syrian government control you would see every spectrum of the syrian society with no exceptions so that this reality will debunk this narrative. how could they live with each other why the government is killing them according the sectarian. basis it doesn't talk. there enough but with regards

to negotiations and reconciliation. talks of there have been efforts to start talks to achieve a result in geneva as the now there has been limited success but it is hasn't been all that great now let's be honest you're winning you're winning on the ground your forces are advancing the rebels are in retreat why would you negotiate with them now that they're losing. the very beginning we said whenever we can save syrian blood we have to go forward and be with this in it with any initiative any kind of initiative even if you if they have bad will some people some some initiative of bad will but in spite of that we deal with the reality now if you go around syria the reality the result. that's been embodied by. very conservations

is a proof of what i'm saying without this policy without this intention of having blood negotiating talking to people we couldn't have reached this it considerations. this is one thing and the other thing not everyone for the government have the same basis some of them have ideological background some of them poor financial background some of them they made mistake at the very beginning they were forced to go in that direction and they couldn't with the do so you have to open the doors and you have to distinguish between different kind of people and the most important than this the unity of the people who were against the government the government in the different debilitated area actually in the in the heart they are with the government could the because they are the difference between having government and having chaos with regards to.