the week's top stories from when the leader of north korea played host to russia's foreign minister this week the only international. company that delegation. was if only someone told me where exactly we are right now this is how suddenly you get treated. cranberry juice. hello i can barely remember being given such. around the world i'm absolutely shocked. with the north korean leader is gone after the american president received what he called a very nice letter from. two european countries are real complicit in the torture of terror suspects by hosting secret cia detention centers and

judgement from the european court of human rights. america's trading partners to retaliate against. that ministry. with the top stories from the past seven days on rights up to the moment developments as well welcome to the weekly on r.t. international our top story if you turn from donald trump over north korea he say's he's ready to meet kim jong il after all in singapore later this month previously there have been so many mixed messages coming from the white house but well ahead all of those talks russia's foreign minister has already met with the north korean leader in pyongyang our correspondent traveled with the russian delegation and he was granted rare access to one of the north korean leaders residencies.

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 state in. this area is completely deserted and it looks like we're in circling something that appears to be the powers. that be if only someone told me where exactly we are right now but we are being told to fall this man. group. 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 in sister and she was having some sort of conversation with the guards but nobody speaks english here hello. lou 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 attempt from meeting is going to happen but at least that 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 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 at kim jong nums residence. 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 un 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 one foreign minister said and 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 russia 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. quite an insight there from. all of. what was happening

a north korean delegation was in the u.s. meeting the trump administration they also passed that private letter from kim jong un to president trump who described it as very nice however it's unclear actually read it up that's the age. the letter was given to me by him you know and that letter was if this were not his letter home would you like to see what was in that letter you know you might live with how much how much how much it was a very interesting letter and i haven't seen the letter you know i purposely didn't know for eleven. i haven't opened it i didn't open it in front of the director the letter was passed to trump by a former north korean intelligence chief who is part of the pyongyang delegation in the u.s. the upcoming summit was earlier called off by trump jus to what he called open hostility. and while the talks seem to be back on track pentagon chief james mudd dog mathis underlined that pyongyang will only get sanctions relief when

it takes a reversible steps to end its nuclear program but experts we spoke to agree that the language of all to me is unlikely to solve the situation on the korean peninsula but speak of where there are a lot of people here in washington who do not want this summit to take place and they certainly do not want any kind of accord between north korea and the united states idea that this could be a gradual process is a realistic one but i think here people here would like to present the north koreans with an ultimatum which of course will will will not solve the problem doesn't understand anything beyond the fact that this could be a good photo op and possibly a boon for his ratings the u.s. has never taken north korea very seriously i mean the idea of the greatest military power in the world sitting down with a country that they've already always considered impoverished and backward i think

is and that's to many people in washington the message that kim jong un is sending you know he's meeting with lavrov he's meeting with xi jinping. signals to trump you know i have friends in the region and you're the one that is isolating yourself by pulling out these into. national agreement and so you know i'll be fine with or without you. to the other of the week's big stories two european countries are ruled to have abused human rights by hosting secret cia detention centers the european court of human rights lithuania and romania breached the prohibition on torture by helping the agency with the interrogation of two al qaeda suspects they have been ordered to pay the men one hundred thousand euro each in compensation one of the suspects according to the cia was a key al qaeda figure but no charges were brought against them during his interrogation he was water boarded eighty three times the cia sees the other man

led operations in the gulf or. our europe correspondent peter all of our house more on the suspects treatment after the european court of human rights had this to say . the applicants had been held in these facilities and the domestic authorities had been aware that the cia would subject them to treatment contrary to the convention now what we have heard is a little bit about the conditions in which they were kept in lithuanian site with getting a little bit of a glimpse into what was going on there and how prisoners were held up this this hearing no it prisoners were kept in blindfolded all time they were put in solitary confinement and they were forced to wear leg shackles at all times as a beta gave an account of what was done to him while he was in detention must warn viewers that this clip comes a company with some of his own sketches that have been released as part of a freedom of information request some viewers may find them disturbing they unchained my hands from the bars and chained them with short chains to the chains

that were around my legs which kept me in a bowing position at all times they brutally dragged me to the cement wall he started brutally banging my head in my back against the wall i felt my back was breaking due to the intensity of the banging he started slapping my face again and again meanwhile he was yelling and then he pointed to a large black wooden box that looked like a wooden casket he says from now on this is going to be your home he violently closed the door i heard the sound of the lock i found myself in total darkness. we saw a few of them accompanying that clip just there but the sketches zubaida made well they really paying to very disturbing picture quite literally of the conditions in which he was being kept the two men are currently being held in guantanamo bay now since the detention facility opened there in two thousand and two it's been open to prisoners on scandals over abuse now the current u.s.

president donald trump e supports that you solve waterboarding he said it many times however this is something that well the rest of the world pretty much considers torture when diana marbury which by the way which by the way we are keeping open which we are keeping . and we're going to load it up dude split we're going to load it up would feel strongly of waterboarding as far as i'm concerned we have to fight fire with in fact donald trump doubled down in his support for waterboarding as he promoted the woman who is in charge of the cia black sites to the top job in agency gina hospital who's well referred to by her detractors in the media particularly here in germany as either the torture queen or bloody gina well she took over as the new cia director peter all over with the report well lithuania sees it may appeal the ruling we discuss the case with former guantanamo bay prison or moore's i'm beg he

is now the i preach director for the rights organization cage. the reality is that these are war crimes and he was prosecuted for this and nobody will because it's because there's no prosecutions the new president can come along and say i believe torture works a lot more waterboarding 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 that somebody's going to sub-saharan africa. was an american citizen we. all were doing activities in our country imagine what would happen if they said there was. the european union as well as canada and mexico are vowing to unleash a full scale trade war if the u.s. doesn't drop hefty import tariffs that it has imposed on metal. but. they

were completely unacceptable to the measures carries the threats of a spiral of escalation that will result in damaging everyone nobody wins in a trade war there are only casualties now that the european response will be united and thrown by them we will take measures equivalent to those taken by the united states we are imposing the dollar for dollar tariffs for every dollar levied against canadians. well under the new levies e.u. countries will have to pay as much as twenty five percent extra on steel and ten percent on a mini and if they want to see their metal products on the american market that could spell trouble for a minute factures there the european union is currently the world's second largest steel producer after china well europe has taken its concerns to the legal might of the world trade organization to see if it can resolve the dispute with washington the european union plans to answer with equal taras some at least two hundred lucrative american products in

a matter of weeks the list includes peanut butter orange juice jeans harley davidson motorcycles borgen whiskey among many others a former prime minister for e.u. member creation told r.t. how america's move could damage the global economy by believing the move for a dozen if any business because if you're looking job c. in the u.s. steel industry. standards we heard much more much important in those three of you are u.s. economy and the. spoil of pretty and the global economy unilateral moves a dissident russian journalist came back from the dead this week but it seems his bluff didn't play out he expected i'll tell you why among our stories after this.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rich. to do like to be for us this is like them before three of them or ten people. interested always in the logs in the. back.

sixty minutes into the program welcome back journalists worldwide have rounded on ukrainian authorities for faking the assassination of russian opposition journalist our kathy bob janko in kiev they slammed the stunt as deplorable and regrettable the staged murder of journalists are kinds of bumps in could by the ukrainian security service is distressing well the reappearance of the reports and maybe a great relief is deeply regrettable the crane's authorities have played with the truth no matter what than most of the. relieved that. he 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 on tuesday ukrainian authorities claimed they had found the journalists with gunshot wounds outside a slot in the ukrainian capital be out he had died on his way to hospital but less than twenty four hours later it was revealed the murder had been staged ukrainian security forces said it was carried out to foil a russian plot to kill the journalist artie's o'donnell quarter reports on the fallout from the blow up. 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 of 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 our cause 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 and its politics are nothing more than a bargaining chip for the kids regime just their apparent tie russian he syria. 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 don't best warrant but assuming something like this fishel confirmation was solid apologies it's on wikipedia is most notable fake death so what gives while 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 but one you. cranium lawmaker thinks this is ok because sherlock holmes 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. and when someone manipulates information they deceive the rhodian it's it is clear that they are deceiving their own citizens for us the actions the craning authorities are absolutely unacceptable and the free media have suffered most from this i can't comment on what it did or didn't do i don't know the exact circumstances do know that he's participated in a big circus a masquerade which is of course a big problem for him and for the credibility of journalist. yeah our county bob journalist in question has responded to one article in the british media that claim the subterfuge done more harm than good he posted a comment on facebook using offensive language which stated if the press wants to do good then they should give him a british passport protection. german chancellor angela merkel has ruled out any possible debt relief for italy about the mediterranean

state finally formed a new government on friday following months of political turmoil but had been speaking the financial markets room now has the first euro skeptic coalition in power within the european union the anti establishment five star movement on the lead party hardy so-called government of change deal they are pushing for russia's sanctions to be lifted seeing moscow as a partner not a threat also high on the agenda is reforming europe's migrant policy and renegotiating italy's debt to the e.u. which angola merkel has now said is not an option artesian democrats number of ports on the lead up to just contours appointment as prime minister italy has been left hanging this past three months since its election faced with the several candidates for prime minister but it seems that political uncertainty in the country has finally come to an end with

a euro skeptic collison speak but can't say mizzy forming his government but his path was a thorny one he was first suggested to by the five star movement and league party two weeks ago and it seemed all was good until the president vetoed conti's choice for a finance minister. that i allowed the italian president who was installed by a previous pro e.u. government refused to accept the minister he saw as too anti brussels or. do i asked for the ministry to move towards a political figure who is not seen as supporting the line could provoke its lease exit from the euro. and that was that content quit leaving the government in limbo well you know one can say no to a minister whether was named goofy bluto or donald duck because he's not approved by the stock market world the financial world or some european capitals is this a joke and it seemed the only way to avoid

a constitutional crisis was to hand back to the pools so the president suggested his own candidate former i.m.f. chief got a look at that only and more popular choice in brussels. i reiterate my friendship and support for president who has an essential task to undertake ensuring the institutional and democratic stability of this country is known as mr assessors for his willingness to cut public spending making him an unwelcome choice for many italians more over seventy percent of the country voted for the euro skeptic parties back in march tired of a stereotype and the migrant influx. that i think italians expressed their choice and it seems like this choice is being ignored so we're left with a bitter taste that i wasn't expecting this situation but in this country nobody wants change because they can't see what they want so we don't get to a solution that would help the citizens of the country don't want to be sold being

for nothing i voted but my vote has been trashed and it was the president not the coalition or whoever else you want to blame the president has decided my vote is worthless but perhaps unexpectedly entrain prime minister that only refused to form his own government well that left conti once again in the best position to guide rome forward with the president this time accepting his cabinet picks for now average ones happy and even brussels as it will work with condi in power last disappointed the new italian prime minister being unknown here. later off their rockers say what we've been seeing during these ears is that for example the money is making sure on the other states like greed is a lie spain. italy and giving are. like. the last of europe but this isn't or acceptable italy's the third largest state

either leaves are found it has to be respected the. people we'll close to be respected and italy can stay of course have to walk in the european frame of war two years about the playing the role of the arabs that we are not going to be the call on the of the gyre money and we can accept the kind of artist. let's hit stellar heights because the ball which is to be used in the opening game of the twenty eighteen feet for world cup is finally back on earth it was returned by a crew of three from the international space station after they spent six months up there it will take them a little time to reacclimate time even to basic things like walking after spending so long in zero gravity before their journey back the crew even got a chance to have a kickabout of their own there in orbit. some

decent volleys out there well it really is fast becoming the political story of the year as we just heard a few moments ago with its new euro skeptic government yet another test for the european union worlds apart gets right into. about in a few moments. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all such but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's

a huge star two months and the huge amount of pressure come after you have to go i mean eighty percent of the digital with you and we will show you all the great game the greatest good you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down going let's go. alone. and i'm really happy to join the fall of two thousand infield the world cup in russia meet this special one come on selfish needs to just take the reno team's latest edition to make up a bigger. look. fifty years ago britain and we've been to a concert going on as a sleeping pill a dozen pieces with the name gets knocked out does what it said just on the side effects were terrible but not on the road as shown in dutch one for love to hear not the war. across europe victims are starting legal

battles demanding at least some compensation in something to wait till the physical damage itself as well that the constant mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been able to justice and there has been a couple of. all. morning welcome to worlds apart the tally in politics is once again pushing the concept of democratic governance to the task at large implications for the rest of the european union what do you do one day do you believe to be deeply harmful for

your country gain enough support to be implemented do you rely on the old wisdom to suppress the will of the voters or do you make way for your political dream to be dismantled before you are all to discuss that i'm now joined by paul of laundry director of the italian institute for international political studies mr munder it's a pleasure talking to you thank you very much well let me start with his domestic politics the two parties that have. gained the most of the seats in. the march elections have just been prevented from forming the government of their choice because of the presence objections and there are two ways of analyzing the interpretation that you can say that the president is taking the country's responsibility for the country's future in his own hands of this very pivotal moment or you can interpret it as him being authoritative if suppressing the will of the people. it's

a very sensitive issue which is the splitting of the come to some of the it's there is no easy answer to your question but i would not the. position of the president of the republic. to tell you did not leave you or leave you. the election. you. mention form of the option what you said worn away by a theme was prominent during the public discussion. in the program of the two parties but the program. we know the program. been absolutely i mean mr marriott i'm sure you know the president made it very clear that he's objections to the proposed government specifically on. future within your.