this is the first meeting between a united states president and a sitting. president now these two countries have officially technically been at war since the end of the korean war which the south koreans believe was a war of aggression by the united states. nuclear disarmament is on the table that's what the united states wants they want a pleat and full disarmament of the d.p. r. k. and what the d.p. r. k. wants while they're looking for an easing of sanctions from the united states and presumably a more open society. you can see there the two presidents shaking hands in front of a row of united states and north korean flags in singapore singapore has gone all out to make sure that this summit has gone without a hitch and really really relatively with short notice the two men they're seen walking down the court or just before going into one on one meetings. as you can

probably imagine there's been a big press frenzy around this meeting historic meeting donald trump and kim jong il let's now cross live to our team for details. in the historic event could you tell us what both sides have been saying in the run up to these talks and what we can expect while the world has just witnessed we have seen a historic handshake taking place we now understand that the one on one portion of the meeting has concluded with donald trump making a comment about essentially how this is a good relationship between the two leaders let's take a look at that historic handshake between the president of the united states and the leader of the democratic people's republic of korea the first time in history these two countries have had their leaders on friendly terms. for it.

now a long history of tension between the two countries we do know that the kind of you till still technically at war with the korean war never having and did north korea's the only country in the world to have ever captured a u.s. army general just hostility between the two countries now we understand that at the historic meeting that went down the one on one portion there were no staff in the room in the room when the historic one on one portion went on it was only trump and kim and their translators no staff no advisors it was just the two of them one on one now in the lead up to the meeting there was quite a bit of a heated exchange hot and cold between the two leaders let's review all the all the exchange of words that went down in the lead up to this historic handshake in the

storage meeting that just took place in singapore. but. this make it important for it to the united states. they will be met with fire fury. like the world has never see a frightened donkey barks louder i will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged us doctored with fire so now we understand that the two world leaders they had the one on one portion of their meeting we're hearing from trump talking about a good relationship so now everyone is anticipating what will happen next what they're going to say at this point we've heard some in of the media from north korea saying that there was possibly going to be discussion of a permanent peace mechanism for the korean peninsula and we've heard donald trump talk very optimistically as well as words from mike pompei oh that are very optimistic so all eyes are on singapore to find out what is coming next what is the

next move as we see this historic meeting the first time the u.s. president and the leader of the democratic people's republic of korea and north korea that ever met we saw them a shake hands acknowledge each other quite an exciting turn of events all eyes are on the meeting on the summit in singapore all right all eyes indeed are he's been for us there in new york we know you'll stay across this as the situation develops thanks for being with us we are now joined live by human rights attorney eric. eric thanks for being with us as always here on r t international. you and i have had conversations about this in the past we've kind of wondered what was going to take place if this meeting was ever going to take place now trump and kim they finally met we don't know exactly what was said but judging by the positive body language. what is going through your mind right now. well so much is going through my mind as you've said we've spent four years now talking to this day we've talked about

a need for a peace treaty we've talked about getting people in the room and having a dialogue has the sation and and principles of peace and and seeing the two countries together and talking i mean it's almost leaves me speechless which you all know it was rare and but i think what comes to mind for me is that you know cautious optimism we could come away with a type of an agreement but the weeks and days ahead are essential for showing whether this is for show or whether it is. a durable and i both sides will have people with various interests who will be trying to perhaps disrupt a very fragile peace if that's where we get to tonight and tomorrow. you bring up a good point there there are people who don't really want to see this succeed

different players involved and let's remind people what's at stake here the u.s. wants north korea to give up its nuclear weapons clearly they'll have to offer something in return what do you think kim wants most of all out of all this. i think what they want most of all is something they've said from day one frankly which is a peace treaty. and some will hold with the united states and to the group in war that is a legacy issue for kim jong loon who had very big shoes to fill in his father and grandfather in north korea so it seems to me. being away with that is essential to what the north wishes in this obviously they want a reduction in sanctions and a return to normalcy whatever that looks like and then really it's up to south and north korea to continue their dialogue the important work done by president moon

who i personally think was responsible for saving this summit and moving forward because he probably told president drum we're going forward you can go with us or you can be left behind and i think that this point we're going to see the two koreas in gauge after this and that will be a powerful force to try to make this a durable agreement where we also heard that the two koreas are going to be moving forward there's going to be relations with russia and the d.p. r. k. as well as a possibility of a two more summit between president trump and kim jong il in a year ago you know what a difference a year makes no one was expecting that this would happen or even could happen no other u.s. president has met a north korean leader. how much of a breakthrough is this. i think it's a huge breakthrough based on where we were at recently and where we thought that the threats and the rhetoric could lead to someone losing control in a very violent situation happening but what's essential to remember is that

a peaceful north south korea china japan for the world if we can get the japanese on board as well will make a huge difference for world peace and i think sean that we have been facing a very volatile situation in this region that impacts growth that impacts economics of all countries in the region it leads to increased militarism and militarization and i think that we're going to be able to begin to redefined redefine relationships in northeast asia with a lasting peace between these countries. a tricky question here for you and i know that no one has all the answers but whether out of necessity or out of desire are we seeing north korea finally lifting its decades long policy of isolation. well you know it's been a mixed thing as of isolation and such i think that obviously kim they're now

talking about he spent time in switzerland as a child and he's perhaps not so isolated i've met people in the d.p. r. k. from all over the world who traveled there bassett hers of people training in agriculture and otherwise i think we will see a loosening i think that the country has suffered incredible trauma from a terrible war and repeating it over and over again and i think the justification for for isolating or clamping down has to do with the state of war and i'm drawing a lot of vaclav havel who said the future of human kind if it still exists that there is no other alternative than to shift our rails attention from what separates us to what unites us and to me that's what tonight represents a real chance for the world to say let's start dealing in things that unite us and

not let the past dictate us forgive the past move forward let go of the tug of war and we have a real opportunity here so english crossed eric you bring up a good point about the d.p. r. k. not being as isolated as people believe i mean we've both travel to the region and we've both met people around the world who are from north korea. so. if we do see an agreement emerge. in which the u.s. gives security guarantees to north korea will some in the united states administration be unhappy about this. absolutely you have to understand that south korea bases are paid for by south korea billions of dollars have been spent to allow u.s. bases there south korea is one of the largest importers of conventional weapons in the world from the united states there's a lot of money interests involved in this and a lot of times the need for

a kind of bogeyman the kind of terrorist kind of communists that we can point our fingers to to allow these things to take place so there's always people driving with those interests involved and it's really incumbent upon the activists in all the countries involved in this to push push the government to maintain the peace and move it forward as the candlelight revolution did in south korea and where hopefully our movements in the united states in the hope fully hold their feet to the fire to maintain the hopeful promises that can come out of this eric i hope you don't mind if we keep you on speed dial as this story develops because it's going to be exciting times ahead very interesting to hear your thoughts eric sprott can hear your question attorney thanks for being with us and our to international. right switching gears now national teams from all across the globe have been arriving right here in russia for the fifth world cup among the latest arrivals are

the national teams of france and australia they will face each other in the city of cazan on june sixteenth a team egypt has landed in chechnya and southern russia and the squad are in the western city of new those two teams will be playing on the opening day of the tournament on june fifteenth for some though the world cup is not just about the beautiful game some media outlets have been focusing on the supposed that threat from russian football hooligans in the now has been following two australian filmmakers as they well they try and separate fact from fiction. russian funny sometimes violence and you're going to see places that. you have to fight tax or sanctioned by the kremlin a lot of me if you see this somehow linked to the hooligans the alleged leader of the russian hooligans in marseilles the city the killer we got the tickets i got my film crew together man alex finally got to russia so they could become whole again it's time to head in. housing is tourists we managed to get

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the opening match of the world cup kicks off on thursday at moscow's luzhniki stadium and right throughout the tournament we've got you covered. after less than two weeks in power italy's that new government is already making good on its campaign promises and closing down the country's ports to vessels carrying migrants here's how the country's new interior minister explained the decision saving lives at sea is a duty but transforming it into an enormous refugee camp is not italy's done bowing its head and obeying this time there's someone saying no. the crackdown has already left one rescue boat stranded italy refused to allow a humanitarian vessel carrying more than six hundred migrants including children and pregnant women to dock those on board had been rescued off the coast of libya

over the weekend and were hoping to disembark in sicily italy has been one of the countries hardest hit by the migrant crisis more than half a million people have reached of the country by boat from north africa in the past five years this year alone italy has taken in over thirteen thousand migrants more than spain and greece many of the newcomers arrived in sicily which has divided public opinion on the island. each inviolability is just not right that the invading us the illegals but if a person arrives here legally they're welcomed but among these people they're also illegal immigrants and that can't be tolerated. they need to be checked we need to know who's arriving these six hundred people as you said we don't know who they are no all of them are honest people most of the sun is closing the ports no i don't think that is right or are you telling migrants have gone everywhere and they're welcomed in a splendid way. malta also refused to accept the ship saying the

a time coast guard was responsible for operations in waters off libya but on monday spain said it would be willing to accept the migrants keith best from the european council on refugees and exiles believes e.u. policies may be contributing to the problem i think there has been a serious failure among many of the countries of the european union to address this issue and particularly the itself in not being a. burden sharing i rather hope that the stance of the new very new spanish prime minister will begin to shame other countries in europe and say well we should also play a part as well but i do understand the attitude of the italian government in saying that we have already born an enormous influx of people the real answer to migration flows from the migration crisis as it term is to try to enable people to live in

their countries of origin you you have to actually try to ensure through diplomatic and international efforts the peace at home for people so they don't feel the need to flee for their lives. in one year old british girl has been placed in rehab for her diction to online gaming her parents say that she was playing for ten hours a day without taking a break. with game is called fortnight battle royale and is a multiplayer survival gained one hundred players are dropped on a virtual island but only one can make it off it has been downloaded more than forty million times since it being launched last july but the parents of the nine

year old are calling for it to be banned we had no idea when we let her play the game of they said victim nature or the impact it will have on her mental health this is a serious issue which is destroying our little girl's life and someone needs to step in to ban it before it becomes an epidemic. well there has been criticism of the parents over why they allowed their daughter to spend so much time online that was one of the points we put to a former hacker and a psychologist son is fourteen and. she plays for him and i see him played a lot the great thing about as i see him interacting with kids all over the world there are lots of ways to communicate with people around the world other than video games and our children are losing a little bit of a site as to what's real and and what's maybe virtual i think video games are part of all coaching now the story that broke recently of annoying your old was how to

have because of being informed on and we don't blame the parents i don't blame the children but computer games on bond i just don't see the use of them i don't see how they're productive there is such a tendency to spend so much time on the computer at least in studies show that the more time they spend in front of a computer or on their phones the more likely they are to have depression and other mental disorders it's been says studies by the university of california for example in twenty fifteen when computer games are actually being found tarnishing increased memory especially in three d. games there are many ways to increase memory certainly pen to paper a pencil to paper all sorts of memory games that you can play with a book think games also can teach that it's learned what you can maybe they can be good to be a study being sensible you know if your kids on it for many many hours and there's a problem if the children of the boys are going for time now is going to be a problem so it's just about moderation and i think it's just sensible use of the

time interacting socially though is really important thing that children are losing you know they start to feel like their friends live in their computer when indeed those aren't real people those are real friends that are in their lives especially with children in their in their young formative years where their brains are still developing with the end. risks of mental problems because of it i see no reason to you know make video games part of that when they're just all together not necessary . three economists who worked with the french president on his election campaign last year are expressing their concern over what they see as increasingly right wing policies. the government has acquired an image of an administration that is indifferent to social issues a growing number of french people including some of the most fervent supporters and twenty seventeen are disillusioned and many of those who supported the candidate are expressing the fear of

a reorientation to the right well one of the biggest criticisms we hear about president. is that he is a president of the rich and that's because last year his government slashed the controversial wealth tax in france but that only benefited around one percent of the top french families he's also been criticized for the controversial immigration bill which actually saw discord within his own party one m.p. was so incensed when that law was passed in the last two months that he actually quit march and that's because that bill saw detention of migrants increasing from forty five to ninety days and also look to speed up deportation there's also been the changes to the labor laws here in france which people see as making it easier to hire and fire people all of these things have sewn such to school to front that we've seen people sometimes in their thousands and thousands out on the streets in

france protesting and sometimes these protests have turned into riots against his policies. oh. one recent poll showed that only forty three percent of respondents the saw my call in a positive light so why has president decided to implement policies which seem to be so unpopular to one of the reasons michael government says these were the policies of. he was elected on these what in his manifesto pledge now also is all about attracting foreign investment and making the french economy stronger in the long run many people so unhappy that there is a growing chorus of people calling on president be the candidate of the center that

he promised to be in the run up to the two thousand and seventeen presidential elections some aspects of a lavish lifestyle are reinforcing that president of the rich and rich. not just the dishes that need changing resign. ruined france incapable of hiring emergency nurses but buys dishes for the emmys a for over five hundred euros dish for. fifty thousand euros a trifle for these people across at the exclusive service of the oligarch.

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her. greetings and salutation. from putting ad dollars and ratings ahead of the story to being an all access echo chamber for political partisanship and power and don't even get me started on their obsession with all things donald trump look let's be honest talk watchers are luster of course the state the news media especially here in the united states is not exactly been living up to the high standards of journalism as of late. and while there is an awful lot to complain about that doesn't change the vital importance of freedom of the press and the news media's job as the for the state the check and balance to restrain government power tyranny spending yes. in a report to make all libertarians and want to be libertarian republican salivate

paul golly professor of notre dame's mendoza college of business has discovered that when local newspapers die so does government efficiency as bloomberg summarises the economist behind the report showed that after a local newspaper closes local governments experiencing high experience higher borrowing costs the authors so that without local newspapers local governments tend to engage in more inefficient or dubious financing arrangements in other words it truly is the local reporters columnists and editors who weren't doing their job correctly and keeping the populace informed are the ones keeping government in check just like the founding fathers of the united states and vision when they enshrined freedom of the press in our constitution shocking i know but with local papers folding quicker than the cavaliers in the finals and corporate monopolies eating up all the rest are we in the last days of fresh ink and the hard news is

find out if you start watching the hawks. but you get the. real thing with. the bottom. like you know i got. this. welcome we're going to watch the hard science i robot and i'm top of the list and local papers to me though pero need some girly city governments to keep city governments and state governments from run of the wild with all of our money i mean and this is not something surprising i think most people would understand that having that balance there to always keep politicians and government and government

employees speak to the fire i'd like to say that most people understand that but i think a lot of people don't i mean over the last ten fifteen years we've watched local papers get eaten up by big conglomerates one going to have a you know and there's some great ideas of this of having like a cd pages type thing where each city has those you know place that gives nudes and international news but what happened was all of that local on the ground reporting that was done city council all of that nobody is there and nobody reads it that's the that's the downsize a report that we're talking about today is called financing ties and darkness a play on the washington post the martin recent rise of darkness it's called financing dies in darkness the impact a newspaper closures on public finances interesting taking a look at it from that economic the researchers looked at some sixteen hundred the english language newspaper serving to overthrow hundred counties in the u.s. between one thousand nine hundred six.