when the leader of north korea played host to russia's foreign minister this week. international. to accompany the delegation to. palace if only someone told me where exactly we are right now this is how suddenly you get treated to. kim jong il. hello i can barely remember being given. the locations around the world i'm absolutely shocked. with the north korean leader . for the american president what he called a very nice letter from kim jong il. also in the week's top news stories two european countries are ruled complicit in the torture of terrorist suspects secret

cia detention center. partners. against. metal imports imposed by the trump administration. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments well welcome to the weekly on our to international double trump said this week he's ready to meet with kim jong il in singapore later this month previously there had been a lot of mixed messages coming 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 rare access

to one of the north korean leaders 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 him and 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 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 thune 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 start you off for a bit 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. 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 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 in making the korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons is a very delicate issue 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. right.

and pyongyang. what it inside out was it was all happening. a north korean delegation was in the u.s. meeting the trumpet ministration they also passed on a private letter from kim jong un to president trump who described as very nice however it isn't clear that he's actually read it at all. the letter was given to me. and that letter was. very nice letter home would you like to see what was in that. with how much how much how much you know it was a very interesting letter and i haven't seen the letter you know i purposely didn't know. i haven't opened i didn't open it in front of the director or the matter was passed to trump by a former north korean intelligence chief who was part of the pyongyang delegation in the u.s. the upcoming summit was earlier called off by trump due to what he called open hostility. while the talks seemed to be back on track pentagon chief james mudd

dog mathis underlined that pyongyang will only get sanctions relief when it takes irreversible steps to end its nuclear program but experts that 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 then being you know he's meeting with lavrov he's meeting with huge and paying. 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. two european countries are ruled to have abused their human rights by hosting secret cia detention centers the european court of human rights for lithuania and romania breach the prohibition of torture by helping the agency with the interrogation of two al qaida 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 late

operations in the gulf or al qaeda or europe correspondent peter all over a house more in 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 lithuanian site we're 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 the 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 and 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 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 on

scandals over abuse now the current u.s. president donald trump peace 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 donna 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 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 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 of our talking us through the us well lithuania says' it may appeal the ruling and we discuss the

case with former guantanamo bay prisoner more as an begged he's now the reach director for the human rights organization cage. the reality is that these are war crimes and he was prosecuted for this and nobody will be prosecuted 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 if that somebody from sub-saharan africa said that we we support of an american citizen we. all were doing that its activities in our country imagine what would happen if they said that and indorsed walker. the european union as well as canada and mexico are vying to unleash a full scale trade war and if the u.s.

doesn't drop the hefty import tariffs it's imposed on metal. it's feasible. for the worst which is totally 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 lovely bones the european response will be united and. we will take measures equivalent to those taken by the united states we are imposing dollar for dollar tariffs for every dollar levied against canadians let's go through what we know under the new levies e.u. countries will have to pay as much as twenty five per cent extra on steel ten percent and all of many if they want to see their metal products on the american market that could spell trouble for money fuck sure is 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 tariffs on at least two hundred lucrative american products in a matter of weeks the list includes their stuff like this peanut butter orange juice levi jeans borgen whiskey and motorcycles among many others a former prime minister for e.u. member croatia told r t how america's move could damage the global economy. i believe that move for a dozen if any real basis because if you are looking. to see in the u.s. steel industry it's in the. study of we heard much more much importance in those three or fewer u.s. economy and didn't get any good. trade. that spoiled pretty three and the global economy by you need a lot of 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 after this. politicians to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so you want to be president and. somehow want to. be precise this is what. reasonable people are. interested in the water. is shit. we have the privilege of being the most allied ally of the united states. centaurs c two and many other alliances promoted by the west and states and particularly by members while

we also have the privilege of being the most sanctioned. of that to any group of countries so while it sounds contradictory it is contradictory and pakistan this shows that pakistan will do what is in its national interest it will not just go with the wind but we'll be. back with the weekly here on our to international journalists worldwide have rounded on ukrainian authorities for faking the killing of russian opposition journalist our county bob go in kiev they slam the stunt as the pourable on 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 may be a great relief it is deeply regrettable the crane's authorities have played with the

truth no matter what than most of relief that. it 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 claim they had fallen the journalist with gunshot wounds outside 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 or to use double 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 if you didn't see 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 imagine everyone's confusion what on earth is showing on the thread all these developments in just the last hour or so i know that douse absolutely gobsmacked second so what the heck actually have been here russia said it was relieved that are those 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 assumed on something like this fishel confirmation was solid apologies it's on wikipedia's 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. any and 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 lost your own money when someone manipulates information they deceive the roadies it is clear that they are deceiving their own citizens for us the actions of the ukrainian 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 his participates in a big circus a masquerade which is of course a big problem for him and for the credibility of journalism. well our cabbie chain co the journalist in question has responded to one article in the british media that claim the subterfuge has done more harm than good he posted a comment on facebook using offensive language which stated that the press wants to do good then they should give him

a british passport and protection. german chancellor angela merkel has ruled out any possible debt relief for italy but as the mediterranean state finally formed a new government on friday following months of political turmoil that had been speaking the financial markets rome no has the first euro skeptic coalition in power within the european union began to establishment five star movement the league party died as so-called government of change deal they're 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 renegotiating italy's debt to the e.u. which angela merkel has said is not an option ortiz medina kartchner has more on the lead up to just separate called 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 is that because they lizzi 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 and see brussels to put a prime minister to ioseph about ministry political figure who is not seen as supporting a line that could provoke an exit from the euro. and that was that context quote 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 ports so the president suggested his own candidate former i.m.f. chief got a look at that only and 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 this country that 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 expressed their choice and it seems like this choice is being ignored so we're left with

a bitter taste. i wasn't expecting this situation but in this country nobody wants change because then 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 conti and power alliance despite the new italian prime minister being unknown haider the rocker say what we've been noticing during these years is that for example germany is making sure

on other states like greece is a lie spain about italy and giving orders like it was like the master of europe with this isn't or acceptable evil is the third largest state. either lisa found or count three it has to be respected the. people will be respected and italy can stay of course have to work in the european frame war three years but playing the role that it serves that we are not going to be the call only of germany and we can accept the kind of artist of. the ball which is to be used in the opening game of the twenty eight hundred fifty. is finally back on earth it was brought back by a crew of three from the international space station where they had spent six months with the football it will take them a little bit of time to reacclimate even to basic things like walking after

spending so long in zero gravity that's one person happy to be back before their journey the crew even got a chance to have a kickabout of their own up in. and kick off as fast approaching june the fourteenth remember ok right up to the minute developments can be found on our twitter page and get your news on the go buy done . more great programs.

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