in the week's top stories the leader of north korea hosts a meeting with russia's foreign minister r.t. was the only international channel granted access to kim jong un's palace for the event. if only someone told me where exactly we are right now this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice at kim jong il's residence hello i can barely remember being given such access at the other be able to locations around the world i'm absolutely sure. donald trump says his summit with north korea is back on after receiving what he called a very nice letter from kim jong un. european court finds the two countries complicit in the torture of terror suspects at cia black sites. in the european

union canada and mexico vowed to retaliate against the u.s. over a hefty tax on metal imports. broadcast live their work for studios in moscow this is r t international and john thomas we're glad to have you with us. now donald trump made a dramatic u. turn this week saying his summit with kim jong un was back on the talks will take place on june the twelfth in singapore that announcement came after russia's foreign minister met with the north korean leader in pyongyang our correspondent in the uptrend go traveled with the russian delegation and was granted rare access into the north korean leader's residence. we were told to leave most of our belongings and our mobile devices behind in how they were taking us somewhere. so we're here in this just to keep our men

one photographer and myself rolling 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 fold us man. groups these. groups. i don't really know what exactly this place this but it looks to be the area where it came john whom will be greeting. and the reason why i think so is because just through this door i saw him john wayne sr and she was having some sort of conversation with the guards but nobody speaks english here

hello. lou hennessy 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. sergey lavrov and kim john thune are talking behind a small 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 the. dark north korean chocolate. i can tell you

that it tastes just like any other. anywhere around the world. so this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice rooms residents. i can barely remember being given such. a location is around the world we were just . at the present 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 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 moscow maintains that the interests of all sides must be respected. so that said it all ended with. inviting. 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. go right. while that was happening a north korean delegation was in the u.s. meeting the trumpet ministration they also passed a private letter from kim jong il to president trump who described as very nice however it isn't clear that he had actually read it at that point. a letter was given to me by. and that letter was this third nice letter how would you like to

see what was in that letter you might with how much how much how much it was a very interesting letter and i haven't seen the letter yet i purposely didn't know for low level. 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 was part of the pyongyang delegation in the u.s. in the upcoming summit was earlier called off by trump due to what he called open hostility and despite the latest promising signs pentagon chief james madison's said that sanctions against north korea will remain in place unless the country takes irreversible steps to end its nuclear program but experts we spoke to agree that ultimatums are unlikely to solve the situation. 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'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 international agreements and so you know i'll be fine with or without you. european court of human rights has ordered two countries to pay

compensation to victims of cia torture romania and lithuania hosted cia black sites between two thousand and three and two thousand and six one of the suspects in the case was a key al qaeda figure this according to the cia but no charges were brought against him during his interrogation he was water boarded and eighty three times the cia says that the other man that led operations in the gulf for al qaeda our europe correspondent peter oliver has more on the suspects treatment after the european court of human rights had 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 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 on 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 is 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 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 was a beer 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 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 while she took over as the new cia director of the way and says it may appeal the ruling we discussed the case with former guantanamo bay prisoner begged. 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 no 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 we also what. we. all are doing activities in our country imagine what would happen if they said that and indorsed court or. the e.u.

canada and mexico are valid to retaliate against the new u.s. tariffs on metal imports. but. they were totally unacceptable you see in the measures carries a threat of a spiral of escalation that will result in damaging everyone nobody wins in a trade war there are only casualties and the european response will be united in through. 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 well under the new rules you countries will have to pay a twenty five percent tax on steel and ten percent on aluminum to sell on the u.s. market the is the world's second largest steel producer after china now europe has taken its concerns to the world trade organization to see if it can resolve the dispute with washington and the european union plans to answer with equal tariffs

on at least two hundred american products in a matter of weeks the list is expected to include peanut butter orange juice levi jeans bourbon whiskey and well motorcycles a former prime minister of croatia told r.t. how america's move could damage the global economy. i believe that move for a dozen if any data bases because if you are looking to see in the u.s. steel industry it's in the. study of we heard much more much import that in the us three or fewer us economy and didn't. spoil pretty and the global economy by unit out there almost the staged murder of a russian reporter in ukraine has shocked journalists around the world that story

and much more after a short break watching we are two international. politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so what you want to express. some want to. be precise this is what the three of them will be good. interested always in the water . this should. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit

down and talk. about this is the week on r t international journalist worldwide have rounded on the ukrainian government for faking the death of russian journalist are cutting a bob janko in. the staged murder of journalists are kinds of bumps and could buy 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. 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 place claimed to have found the journalist with gunshot wounds outside his flat in kiev they said he had died on his way to the hospital but less than twenty four hours later it was revealed that the murder had been staged ukrainian security forces said it carried out the plot to foil a russian plot to kill the journalist artie's adama quarter reports on the fallout from the 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 he figured 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 the thread all of these developments in just the last hour or so i know the ft else absolutely gobsmacked it is 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. raney and 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 most your own money when someone manipulates information they deceive the rhodium it is clear that they are deceiving their own sits for us the actions the

craning authorities 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 but i 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 journalists. has responded to one article in the british media which said the stage the stage the murderer may have done more harm than good for ukraine he posted a comment on facebook using offensive language and saying that if the british people want to help him they should just give him a u.k. passport and protection. german chancellor angela merkel has ruled out any possible debt relief for italy that is after a new euro skeptic government took power in rome on friday following months of political turmoil the antiestablishment five star movement and the league party concluded

a so-called government of change deal they're pushing for anti russia sanctions to be lifted saying moscow as a partner and not a threat also high on the agenda is reforming europe's migrant policy and renegotiating italy's crippling debt to the e.u. r t's medina question of has more on the political shake up. italy has been left hanging this past three months since its election faced with the several candidates for prime minister but it seems the political uncertainty in the country has finally come to an end with the euro skeptic collison spake condé busy 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 at that ala the italian president who was installed by a previous pro e.u. government refused to accept the ministry he saw as to anti brussels. criminals do

i asked about ministry of political figure who is not seen as supporting the line. from the year. and that was that contact quit leaving the government in limbo well you know one can say no to a minister whether was named goofy pluto 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. 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 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 then they can't do 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 get out early 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 and power a last disappoint 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 but this isn't or acceptable evil is the third largest state europe italy is a founder of 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 for 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 with. the ball which is to be used in

the opening game of the two thousand nine hundred fifty four world cup is finally back on earth was brought back by a crew of three from the international space station where they spent six months before their journey back the crew got a chance to have a kick about their own. of the dozen for me i'll be back with more of the weekly in about thirty five and have going to watch more to interest. her.

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a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with the death of this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker. join me every thursday on the excitement and i was reading to get a feel of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you there. when lawmakers manufacture two sentenced to public wells. when the ruling classes protect themselves. from the financial merry go round the sun be the one percent. think we can all middle of the room secure. room for the real news

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