published works in a video form until june the twelfth. as the leader of north korea plays host to russia's foreign minister r.t. is the only international channel to follow the delegation to kim jong il. if only someone told me where exactly we are right now this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice that kim jong il rooms residents hello i can barely remember being given such access at other locations around the world i'm absolutely shocked . despite the prospect of a trade war the u.s. goes ahead it imposes hefty tariffs on medium and steel imports from the e.u. and other trading partners. u.n. raises the alarm over an escalation of fighting in the libyan city of as the french president pushes for talks between ruling factions inside. and coming up to italy's

two main euro skeptic parties finally form a coalition government giving rise there for now fears of a major shift in europe the political landscape. there for good morning for me kevin owen here in moscow has just turned eleven am this is our international and first in this update that amid continuing uncertainty over a u.s. north korea peace summit later this month pyongyang officials have been meeting american diplomats in new york meantime alongside that russia's foreign minister met with the leader of north korea in person on thursday our correspondent has been following that meeting was granted exclusive access indeed to one of kim jong un's residences. we were told to leave most of our belongings and all our mobile devices behind and

now they're taking us somewhere. so we're here in this van just to cower and then one photographer and myself following a lot of savings. in this area is completely deserted and it looks like we're in circling something that appears to be the palace. if only someone told me where exactly we are right now but we are being told to fall this man. who. i don't really know what exactly this place this but it looks to be the area where it came john will be greeting certainly loughborough of and the reason why i think so is because just through this door i saw came john

sister and she was having some sort of conversation with the guards but nobody speaks english here hello. and as far as i understand this is a limo. i believe this is a bit of a historic moment we still don't know whether the camp from meeting is going to happen but at least sergey lavrov is here having direct talks with the supreme leader of north korea. turkey lot. talking behind this wall we were asked to wait in this room so let's just have a walk around and take a look at what they have to offer

a. dark north korean chocolate i can tell you that it tastes just like any other dark chocolate anywhere around the world some lemonade. so this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice. residents. i can barely remember being given such. a location is around the world we were just told. the president which is just outside the doors. of the city. and given the fact that we're inside the residence of the north korean leader kim jong the moon again i'm just going to say i'm absolutely shocked. and. it is really disappointing that we won't be able to find out exactly what's

being said behind these stories but just a few hours before mr kim and mr lavrov met the russian foreign minister said making the korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons is a very delicate issue moscow maintains that the interests of all sides must be respected. so that said it all ended with inviting came john to rush up so let's see whether the north korean leader will accept the invitation for now we're heading back to the airport in the russian foreign minister's motorcade. right. and pyongyang here with more on the negotiations the conditions for korea denuclearization are up for discussion and. politicking with larry king live on the only on air later today on this shuttle. the endo community has reportedly

cautioned the white house that a more realistic objective would be convincing him to want back recent progress on the contras nuclear weapons program what do you expect that's right kim has in many ways the upper hand in these negotiations he has a nuclear arsenal he has the methods in the means to deliver warheads and has tested missiles that could carry such warheads to japan to south korea potentially to the united states so to get him to give those up to dismantle them verifiably that's a very tall order it's not going to happen in one single meeting and it's not going to come at a key price either so the question for united states is what are we and our allies willing to give at the table what kinds of security guarantees weight will we maybe potentially offer is there an economic incentive package that he wants he may not

even want that so there's a lot of discussion i don't believe we should judge this summit on whether or not everything is dissolved at once but we should judgment about whether it's a serious process that's beginning if this summit does take place this will take time. to months is postponing and then threats of a trade war donald trump tower of some steel and other medium imports the ag was well as canada or mexico is now vowed to retaliate then. totally unacceptable that it can't push you look at measures when it comes to. create. this or a bullet through road or through. the fundamental river those who are going to revert it will get over the course we'll look at the reaction that we've

got from europe what could this mean for the european union you may aswell we've had the u.k. government responding with pure disappointment at the reaction for this decision in the e.u. . they're not happy either this could reportedly affect seven point four billion euros worth of european exports to the us and the standard leigh there's a little bit of outrage going on there the most affected could be the automobile industry and that would mean germany would be hit that the hardest if that's the case because they are the powerhouse of course of the that sector the president of the european commission john claude has also put the matter to the world trade organization because they are responsible for settling trade disputes and settlements of course i mentioned germany before will they have reacted to the news the german foreign minister has also slammed the decision calling it illegal he's vowing a united response saying our answer to america first can only be europe united the

french president emmanuel micron has also slammed the decision it's a mistake because it addresses the international imbalance by dividing and by bringing economic and trade nationalism economic nationalism leads to war we've previously heard from brussels they've promised to retaliate to america's protectionist steps with its own twenty five percent terrorists on various projects including motorcycles jean cigarettes cranberry juice and peanut butter again. so now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically stupid process the fact that we have to do this but we have to do it we will now impose tariffs on harley davidson motorcycles on levis blue jeans and bore but we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid so the next question is of course how will trump reactive counter measures are enforced well he's already threatened to respond to any e.u.

trade barriers by saying that he will put tax on cars produced by european auto makers so you can see that's a huge verbal tit for tat going on it will depend on whether the can forget forgive and indeed to live with these new measures to mess it reaction in the u.s. has also been negative both democrats and republicans criticizing the move wall street analyst michael hudson believes the u.s. could actually suffer now more than europe from these terrorists from the american economy and the thought that seems to be his guiding principle by putting the tariffs on aluminum and steel is to raise the price of aluminum and steel to americans and all of a sudden this oversupply is going to be sold to europeans and asians so that their manufacturing can buy them and steal more cheaply to make manufactured goods much

lower cost in american manufactures can do so troubles given in europe and asia an opportunity to undersell american manufacturers that tim aware of anything industrial beer kegs if we're talking about frying pans cars anything made out of aluminum and steel now are the foreigners outside of america will have an advantage over the american producers. u.n. humanitarian offices reported on civilian suffering in libya it says there's been an unprecedented escalation of fire. and in the coastal city of durham now in the past week alone at least five civilians have been killed two of them children clashes and air raids of also cut electricity and water supplies to over one hundred thousand people the head of the u.n. humanitarian office in libya described the situation there in more depth instability is high in various places in yes there's always a potential for escalation the situation and is very challenging we have

seen an escalation of conflict over the last period but it definitely has intensified it's over the last few days i mean concern us that the humanitarian needs of the need for water food medicine medical supplies is increasing very rapidly and we also have severe concerns for to protection of civilians will find themselves caught in the conflict this u.n. report comes as the french president's been pushing for negotiations between the countries warring parties our senior correspondent we're going to have has more on what role france wants to play in libya. the french president mr mccollum has a certain brand he sells himself as a bit of a peacemaker his latest effort a libyan peace summit bringing together key need is some of whom war with each other back on was proud to sit upon you for his the first time these libyan leaders

under this format some of whom do not mutually recognize each other's positions have met together through accepted to work together and approved a joint declaration this is an essential important step and which makes what will come next possible. you'd think in reality there were a lot of handshakes forced smiles and photo ops when it came to actually making peace they signed nothing any agreement they had was verbal in diplomacy that means nothing war over what everyone joined in more than a dozen armed groups and organizations who signed the letter saying that this summit did not represent them would call for a real dialogue focused on the aspirations of libyan society in its aspects nevertheless pundit's macron hailed it as a breakthrough after all getting all these people together under the same roof was

an achievement not so much the main actors were there in july last year at this same summit also hosted by my. courage that is yours today by being here and by agreeing to this joint declaration is historic is to take your risk despite things that could have been against despite the actions of others to work towards a process of national reconciliation and long term peace. and nothing changed but maintaining the brand takes effort macro and really trying. the libyan people aspire to safety stability to live better to be able to express their sovereignty yes about safety and stability than are a coastal city in libya has been under siege for almost a year now and it's only gotten worse the escalation of fighting there has reached

unprecedented levels once the un the libyan national army led by general has died who was at summit is trying to take the city from a local warlord and islamists it's been a tough battle. on this happy occasion we say that zero hour for durness city liberation has come. rippled the protection forces a currently taking positions among civilian infrastructure in residential areas mostly in the center of the city and reportedly in civilian clothing since twenty second me there has been a rising civilian casualty toll as a result of indiscriminate shelling of residential areas general half dollars arch rival missionary was also micron's gathering he urged for an immediate

cease fire and took a jab at the general i don't recognize the chief commander named tough star he said that the very same day the four libyans pledged to work constructively in paris no surprise that nothing was signed merely an dorst question is who is going to remember this indorsement and for how long. i these folks over the next and so that you are up to several attempts to tally the coalition parties finally feel that you are skeptic and anti establishment government is really close call the. months of political turmoil in the country don't call discourse this one day that all morning so what's this going to mean for it surely it's only in politics always on the edge as always in order to maul the going to spell of the well kevin brussels has quite a quite a bit to worry about right now because after a short period of uncertainty the left five star movement in italy and the right

league party have finally come to a consensus about forming a government and they've they've agreed to put a man named just said because in the shoes of prime minister who was actually originally supposed to be the pick but he refused the position of originally because of the rejected the rejection of his economic minister but the guy's a fifty three year old law professor and he's already he's already promised a slew of new ministers for his cabinet the first of which most notable is the labor minister now this guy's named luigi to male and he's already agreed to tackle poverty he's promised a basic income for italians and then there's also the interior minister mathias salvini now he is promised precisely to tackle the migrant crisis he's said specifically that he wants to deport thousands of migrants from a billion and find a solution to this crisis but the most controversial of the people that he's he's a greed to put into the ministerial cabinet is. now this was originally

the pick for economic minister that was rejected by the president but now he's been moved to a lesser position in the in the ministry and he's made his opposition to the euro no secret he's actually even written a book about how to dump the euro as as a monetary unit. and actually this. him specifically. he made the financial markets take quite a dive. once that became a problem but you know dumping the euro actually it's not as big of a problem as as the euro as the e.u. has been thinking lately because actually the coalition has dropped dropping the euro from their from their platform they've after poll suggested that sixty to seventy percent of the tally and are actually against dropping the euro the coalition changed its policy towards that and to adjust its voter base now

nevertheless nevertheless protests on both sides of the political spectrum both for the interim president in italy as well as in favor of the coalition are scheduled to come up very soon in italy so. it's right now unclear what lies ahead for the new the rebel moment and italian politics or i don't think so explain the two issues well we're in the south of europe let's take a look at what's happening in spain as well italy's new governments managed to end the. trouble brewing in spain the country's prime minister mariano faces losing his job motion of no confidence as we've followed by the main opposition socialist party it's now possible that it will replace the prime minister with its own leader majority already do but vote on that idea the move was prompted by a long running corruption scandal the promises also face pressure over his handling of the big catalonia independence referendum to preserve a bigger and studies thomas harrington thinks that these crises show real deep discontent in that part of the world right now these oscillations and again i'm not

a columnist these are solutions to reason but there is a lot of. thinking going on lot of constant feeling in the european union and you know what i think is consistently missing is a conversation why do so much discouragement i think is a strong very. tendency to want to point fingers but there is very little tendency to have profound discussions about how the e.u. might have gone wrong or how it might construct a war and durable model going forward for the political existence which would be solutions staying in europe two for next stories the french governments resettled thousands of migrants in paris some info of move very close to the form of french president nicolas sarkozy will tell you how their rivals gone down ninety seconds away.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand losing distance just the dance the right questions and demand the right answer. question. seems wrong. to me. to say palin. and it. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

i get your warning from week over though in the rest of this morning so no torchwood cover this the revival of roseanne of course one of america's most popular sitcom was scrapped because of a tweet where the show's leading actress roseanne barr it goes down off next looks at how an inflammatory comment can destroy years of work quietly for some people at least throws out the sitcom revive to justice march after more than a two decade hiatus was watched by a million people and destroyed by one tweet aimed at a former advisor to barack obama valerie jarrett muslim brotherhood and planet of

the apes had a baby that would be valerie jarrett rose and apologized calling herself an idiot and saying that really wasn't her sleep medication talking that was one racist pill if so but what we're dealing here often on the subject of race has long been part of bars repertoire but people are just like they're every bit as good as any people who don't think so just a bunch of banjo picking constantly barefoot and respectable white trash like i but what finally did was of course the tweet i mean come on you can word a masterpiece of an apology. i made a mistake i wish i hadn't but don't defend it please i'm not a racist i never was and i never will be one stupid joke in a lifetime of fighting for civil rights for all minorities at the expense of my nervous system family will never be taken from me but comparing

a black person to an ape there's just no coming back from this what she said was blatantly patently the definition of race as we're seeing with tweeting something that listen to those of us if you're in public like you hear this slur a lot it's something that black people unfortunately deal with and have a long time a.b.c. stepped up did the right thing even if you may have these biases you can't act on it in the corporate space but amid a cross the board condemnation some t.v. personalities try to live down the mistakes of their own past this it mustn't be cia you've just watched has a history of being homophobic and plain offensive online she herself tried to mend her reputation with a mix of apologies as someone who is not a member of the elegy beauty community i regret the way address the complex issue of the closet and speculation on a person's sexual orientation with a mark in town and sarcasm it was insensitive tone deaf and dumb and eventually the

channel took no action against alec baldwin keith olbermann and others roseanne barr has a history of offensive outrageous bad grab crazy statements the left ignored but the moment she was seen as pro trump it became troubling. reed could be the only liberal voice to get away with overboard jokes except she's not the corporation does not really find any problem with people who have questionable paris but prosaic a mean i think they really did want her to be on television anyway because of the protests from message the c.e.o. of disney bob iger had been rumored to be trying to be the president it's only twenty eight years a big time never chompers so as soon as roseanne say it was you see what is bob iger do he calls valerie jarrett personally to apologize he would like to not have anything that is pro-choice or in his networks because that interfere with his own personal thing and his own ideology we can all agree that racism should be stamped

out but shouldn't the punishment be inescapable no matter what side of the political spectrum you belong to. thousands of migrants in paris of being cleared from their makeshift shelters along the city's canals roughly two hundred of them have been resettled now than in a wealthy district in the french capital shola do bensky went to find out what the residents thought about their newly arrived neighbors. this is one of the nearly wrecked it camps in paris it's been set up to shelter around one hundred and seventy migrants who are amongst the sawzall so who are cleared from the canals of paris doing the inside raids thousands of my clients had camped along the canals for many many months living in squalid conditions but to no comforts the mayor of paris and the interior minister. had been embroiled in

a war of words over who was responsible for clearing the camps the situation will be repeated indefinitely if measures not taken by local authorities to prevent the camps from reappearing. they've ruined a bad time we could have avoided waiting for months to find shelter for those people the suggestion i made to the state was to build and reform a welcome center which is really the only the only option possible if we want to avoid the roadside counts so i'm waiting for the states to get back to me on that. now these migrants are being housed in blood to pool in knowing one of paris's wealthiest areas the sixteenth up on the small it's also home to former president nicholas sarkozy p.s.t.'s back to ponce football stadium and a horse which is currently hosting tennis stars from across the globe for the french open some locals aren't over the moon about their new neighbors i think the

people here are not very. good to see if people are here because they are afraid of fred's up to some some of those be very difficult and some of them are very very nice i'm sure but a really tough part of them maybe but the. world you never know how people can react you can have some people who react very badly and some good you never know. but i thirty's choose not to most hospitable area because it is populated by many old people who are not really open minded so i think that this area is not the most welcoming would you put us in we don't see any changes we don't communicate with migrants because we don't see them at all in the area so i guess to leave autonomy asli this is now the thirty fourth time in three years that my quince have been moved in paris but the problem seems to be cyclic it's never ending.

oh. oh oh oh oh authorities are due to continue to clear out of camps that emerged along paris. these canals in the next few days yet with the capital already overflowing and an estimated five hundred fifty extra my quince arriving every week it seems to be little if. to keep a lid on the problem even ski r.t. paris. football fever spread in just two weeks to go now to the biggest event of the game anticipation proving how to contain them for the world cup and russia is even going to war bit.

so we show you that thanks for watching r.t. this friday morning here in moscow spy aside the great mobile app me from download it already tell you i'm kevin i would say thanks for watching this bullet and i'm back with more in just under thirty minutes time now very good morning to. fifty years ago breaking with in concert as a sleeping pill does this. does. the side of things where terrible but not on known. across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some calm.