oh love. just before it justice. the week's biggest stories this hour when the leader of north korea played host to russia's foreign minister this week r.t. was the only international channel allowed to accompany the delegation big. polish . if only someone told me where exactly we are right now this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice. residents hello i can barely remember being given such. locations around the world i'm absolutely sure. someone with the north korean leader is after the american president received what he called a very nice letter from kim jong. il. to european countries are ruled

complicit in the torture of al qaida terrorists banks by hosting secret cia detention centers. america's trading partners involved to retaliate against hefting tar of sun metal imports imposed by the trumpet ministration. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well welcome to the weekly here in r.t. international donald trump said this week he's ready to meet with kim jong after all in singapore later this month previously there had been a lot of mixed messages coming on the issue from the white house but well ahead 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 was granted were access to one of the north korean leader'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 and just to carry men 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 a 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 him john and 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 circular. 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 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 and i can tell you that it tastes just like any other dark chocolate anywhere around the world. lemonade. so this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice at the rooms residence. i can barely remember being given such. locations 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. 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 that 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 to russia 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. franco right. kim

jon. hamm is quite the inside. what's happening a north korean delegation was in the u.s. meeting the trumpet ministration they also passed a private letter from kim jong un to president trump who described it as very nice however it wasn't clear that he had actually read it. a letter was given to me. and that letter was. a very nice letter would you like to see what was in that letter would you like 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. 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 peon young delegation in the u.s. the upcoming summit was earlier called off by donald trump due to what he called

open hostility. while the talks seemed to be back on track pentagon chief james mattis underlined that will only get sanctions relief when it takes irreversible steps to end its nuclear program but experts we spoke to agree that the language of ultimatums is unlikely to solve the situation on the korean peninsula. but spiel 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 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 of these international agreements and so you know i'll be fine with or without you. moving on to european countries are ruled to have abused human rights by hosting secret cia detention centers the european court of human rights fund that lithuania romania breached the prohibition on torture by helping the agency with the interrogation of two al qaida suspects they've been ordered to pay them in 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 says the other man led operations in the gulf for al qaeda or europe correspondent peter all of her husband were on the suspects treatment after the european court of human rights this to say. there 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 lithuania insight 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 the bed 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 made well they really paint a 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 scandals over abuse now the current u.s. president donald trump peace supports the 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 with some bare dude split we're going to load it up would i feel strongly about 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 the 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 well if you

any a say as it may appear on the ruling we discuss the case with former guantanamo bay prisoner begg who is not the reach 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. or 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 from sub-saharan africa. was. doing that it's up to if he's in our country imagine what would happen if they said there was. the european union as well as come about and

mexico are vowing to unleash a full scale trade war if the u.s. doesn't drop a hefty import tariffs it's imposed on metal. but. completely unacceptable 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 responsible for united has been through. 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 ten percent and if they want to see their metal products on the american market now that could spell trouble for a manufacturer is there the european union remembers turned to the world's second largest oil 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 taurus and at least two hundred lucrative american products in a matter of weeks the list includes where you can see them peanut butter orange juice levi jeans borgen whiskey and harley davidson motorcycles among many others a former prime minister for e.u. member creates told r.t. how america's move could damage the global economy i believe 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. poor pretty and the global economy by unilateral moves

a dissident russian journalist came back from the dead this week but it seems his bluff didn't play out as he expected i'll tell you why among our stories after this . in july twenty seventh team hunted set up a freelance journalist working with on t.v. a militant shelling in syria. to own it his second face has established a khaled memorial they will recognize more reporters who often risk their lives with the sake of the truth and through that peace you can submit to your published works in a video or written form until june the twelfth go to a t. dot com. for men are sitting in a car when the phipps gets shot in the head.

all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not share around a corner. of . your back with r.t. international journalists worldwide have rounded on ukrainian authorities for faking the killing of russian opposition journalist our county bob in kiev. based on to us the portable regretable 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 paid with the truth no matter what the motive. 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 choose the ukrainian authorities claimed they had found a journalist with gunshot wounds are inside his flat in the ukrainian capital they said 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 donnell quarter reports on the fallout from the bluff. 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 to get it's 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 left us absolutely gobsmacked when a 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 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 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 most only when someone manipulates information they deceive the roady it is clear that they are deceiving their own citizens for us the actions of the cranium authorities are absolutely unacceptable and the free media have suffered most from this i can't comment on what he 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 journalism. well bob go the journalist in question has responded to one article in the british media claimed the subterfuge has done more harm than good he posted

a comment on facebook using offensive language would 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 that serves the mediterranean state finally formed a new government on friday following months of political turmoil that had been speaking the financial markets rome now has the first euro skeptic coalition in power within the european union the anti establishment five star movement the league party hammered out a so-called government of change deal they're pushing for russian 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 anglo american has said is not an option. as more on the lead up to just

become days 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 the euro skeptic collison speak but can say this is a 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 ministry he saw as too anti brussels to put criminals through i asked about ministry political figure who is not seen as supporting the line. from the year. and that was that context 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 had back to the polls so the president suggested his own candidate former i.m.f. chief got a look at that only a more popular choice in brussels where you just simply i reiterate my friendship and support for president who has an essential task to undertake ensuring the institutional and democratic stability of his country that is known as mr assessors for his willingness to cut public spending making him an unwelcome choice for many italians moreover seventy percent of the country voted for the euro skeptic parties back in march tired of us there is he and the migrant influx. 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 will work with kanzi in power last disappoint the new italian prime minister being unknown here. either iraq or say what we've been seeing during these years it is that for example the money is making sure on

the other states like a lie spain the bottle italy and giving. these the master of europe but this is the north suitable evil is the third largest state you will either lease or founder if it is to be respected the. people we'll pose to be respected and italy can stay of course have to walk in the european frame of war for years but the playing the role of the arabs that we are not going to be the call only of the gyre money and we can accept that kind of artist with. switching gears now the ball which is to be used in the opening game of the twenty eight thousand feet for world cup is finally back on earth it was brought by by a crew of three from the international space station after they spent six months up

there it will take time for them to reacclimate ice 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 kick a ball out of their own i ten or it. and the ball is quite a momentous journey didn't it all there are to done here more of the week's top stories with me at the top of the hour in the meantime stay with us for more great programs right ahead.

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