in the week's top stories the leader of north korea hosts a meeting with russia's foreign minister our team was the only international channel. if only someone told me where exactly we are right now this is how you get treated to. residents hello i can barely remember being given such. other locations around the world i'm absolutely shocked. with north korea is back on after receiving what he called a very nice letter from. european. countries complicit in the torture of terror suspects. and of the european union.

to retaliate against the u.s. over a hefty tax on metal imports. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program r.t. international. right 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. our correspondent traveled with the russian delegation and was granted rare access to the north korean leader's residence. we were told to leave most of our belongings and all our mobile devices be mined and now they're taking us somewhere. so we're here in this band 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 mad for. the troops please. 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 still is because just through this door i saw him john the sister 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. we'll e the. police feel believe this is a bit of a historic moment we still don't know whether the temp from meeting is going to happen but at least so you are that is here having direct talks with the supreme leader of the please please please. please . talking behind this wall we were asked to wait in this room so let's just have a walk around to take a look at what they have to offer. 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 at the rooms 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 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. go right from. its residents. well while that was happening a north korean delegation who was in the u.s. meeting the trumpet ministration they also passed a private letter from kim jong il to president trump who described it as very nice however it isn't actually clear that he had read the letter at that point. a letter

was given to me by him you know and that letter was this third nice letter or would you like to see what was in that letter and tell you michael 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 p.r. delegation in the u.s. the upcoming summit was earlier called off by trump did what he called open hostility. despite the latest promising signs pentagon chief james madison said that the 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 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 to many people in washington the message that kim jong un is that being 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. the 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 and one of the suspects in the case was a key al qaeda figure according to the cia but no charges were brought against him during his interrogation he was water boarded eighty three times the cia says the other man led operations in the gulf for al qaeda and our europe correspondent peter oliver has 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 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 is a bit it 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 dancer 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 that zubeida 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 the you solve waterboarding he said it many times however this is something that 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 was a bad dude split we're going to load it up would i 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. lithuania's says it may appeal the ruling we discuss the case with former guantanamo bay prisoner moslem back the reality is that these are war crimes. 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 prime then he would never dare say such a thing so imagine that somebody's going to sub-saharan africa we we. we. all we're doing it it's up to it's in our country imagine what would happen if they stay indoors or. the e.u.

canada and mexico are valued to retaliate against the new u.s. tariffs on metal imports. but. they were totally unacceptable you see in 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. 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 under the new rules the e.u. 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 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 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 doesn't have any real basis because if you are looking job c. in the u.s. steel industry it's shaved incline status i mean we heard much more much import that in the us three or fewer us economy and didn't think any good at all at all pretty. bad boy of twenty thirty eight then and the global economy by union let their own moves the staged a murder of a russian reporter in ukraine has shocked journalists around the world that story after a short break stay with us it's. a

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what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be preached. to the right to be person this is what the four korean can't keep the. interest of all those in the water our. journalists a worldwide have rounded on the ukrainian government for faking the death of

russian journalist our colleague bob genco and. the staged murder of journalists are crazy 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 relief that. it was a life 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 police claimed to have found the journalist with gunshot wounds outside his flat and they said he had died on his way to the 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 donald 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 if you 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 the thread all these developments in just the last hour or so i know left 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 reduced all of our credibility trump would be proud had learned not to trust ukrainian authorities on don't best warrant but as humans. thing like this fishel confirmation was solid apologies it's on wikipedia is most notable fake deaths 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 ukrainian 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 rhodium it's it is clear that they are deceiving their own sits across the actions of the cranium 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 his participates in a big circus a masquerade which is of course a big problem for him and for the credibility of journalist. bob has responded to one article in the british media which said that the staged murder 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 really wanted to help the law they needed to do was give them a u.k. passport and protection. switching gears now german chancellor angela merkel hasn't ruled out any possibility of debt relief for italy that is after a new euro skeptic government took power in rome on friday following months of political turmoil the anti-establishment five star movement and the league party concluded a so-called government of change deal they are pushing for anti russia sanctions to be lifted in moscow as a partner not a threat also high on the agenda is reforming europe's migrant policy and renegotiating italy's crippling debt to the e.u. argues medina culture never 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 that political uncertainty in the country has

finally come to an end with the euro skeptic collison speak cons a busy forming his government but his path was a thorny one he was first suggested 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 so 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 and see brussels to put a prime minister to i asked him about ministry of political figure who is not seen as supporting a line that could provoke its lease exit from the year. 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 had back to the pools 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 this 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. and 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 disappoint the new italian prime minister being unknown here. after iraq or say what we've been noticing during these years is that for example germany is making sure on the other states like greece ally spain about italy and giving orders to them like it was like it is the master of europe but this

isn't or acceptable italy is the third largest state in europe italy's a founder kountry 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 two thousand eight hundred four world cup is finally back on earth it was brought back by a crew of the three from the international space station where they had spent the past six months before their journey back in the crew got a chance to have a kick about of their own up in norbert.

well that does it for me kevin i'll be here in about thirty five minutes with a fresh look at your news you are watching arch international but i do. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted over checked . so when you want to be president. for some one of the groups. that you'd like to be close this is what will befall the screen the more people get . interested in the waters in the. city.

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