and i think the north korean government should deal with this issue very carefully . first. politics professor of the university of tehran welcome to the program what do you make of iran's advice here how wary should north korea be do you think. well i think everyone should be wary after the g seven communique or the six plus one as some europeans called it the united states they initially agreed to sign up to the communique and then after the canadian prime minister gave his press conference trump pulled out of it and insulted the canadian prime minister so. you cannot even be relied to when negotiating with his own. so so-called allies and in fact afterwards he said just today in the press conference trump said

that canada will suffer as a result of what the prime minister said financially so this is how behaves even towards his allies of the united states in the case of north korea of course we don't have there's no agreement yet there is a. declaration really but we have and we have to see what happens in the future but the united states is not the sort of country that anyone can trust as the iranians know quite well the j c.p.o. a was an agreement that iran made many sacrifices for iran shut down much of its peaceful nuclear program a legitimate nuclear program the i.a.e.a. has said repeatedly that iran was never actively pursuing a nuclear weapon in so that pompei it made a couple of months ago so under these circumstances i think the iranians have a very good reason to be skeptical and the north koreans should be careful even though you run has very good relations with south korea more extensive relations but the united states is dangerous is there an aspect of this though that trump

perhaps eased the around deal is more of an obama deal and that this one with north korea is very much his so it makes it less likely that he would then when a gun promises to north korea. that's possible that is possible but we already see that trump as i said earlier with regards to the g seven. communique he initially agreed to it and then he gave orders for his people to not sign the agreement and therefore that was his agreement and he he didn't stick with it so i think that just shows that he is untrustworthy altogether but yes i agree there are there are those who believe that one reason why trampled out of the way was because he wanted to do obama's legacy another reason of course is because of his alliance with the saudi an israeli regimes and the money that they're more ati's and the saudis are paying to

the united states but i think that in any case his the way in which he is conducting himself whether it's in dealing with the europeans or with the chinese or with. iran or with canada and mexico i think it basically makes him a person who one simply cannot trust and the iranians know quite well that if he is not going to be able to work with the germans and the canadians and if they can't trust him then there's no way that the iranians can negotiate with him either side or on the politics professor from the university of tehran thank you this hour. it is just two days until the biggest sporting event of the year the twenty eight hundred fifty world cup gets underway fans are hoping on arguing over which of the thirty two nations will lift the famed trophy in moscow on july the fifteenth and our very own r t who is considered one of the very best minds in the game just say

has been making his predictions last week he picked the countries to make it out of the group stage know him upside who he believes will be the last four standing. lies get even harder for trill a little why of course the force because of my heart's buds. rid itself of that. and then spain against russia by saying push are very unlikely the draw because they must reveal. the first it seems a little from this against nigeria i would say. from this is going to win and the substance in australia. i'm going to leave because i cannot see

or think this whole brazil mexico. i like. brazil team germany switzerland. you get. a little bowling in with the news in the course of in the bills i'm still in the girl like good enough for consumables a funnel to kind of do it's. sold belgium is the. whole city i knew full well and it has to be here look at all this work or get built a bit you know these are again this famous india was. the place steam. against this team. weeds that's the. ideal for them. it is the reason when it's big. enough but for me that number is if you're in a holding. hands germany and germany is germany and

so. one more sort of final for germany. because to south america the big visit to. the beach. by the. religious or the sea. is getting really dishes that we cannot even know. much expertise from jews are going to miss it. any interesting from joe say there for more of the month shifts to united manager's predictions do head to our tea dot com also if you think you know better you can challenge the happy one just head to facebook or twitter and use the hash tag much . and while this year's tournament house and even begun yet fifa is already looking

to the future with its member nations expected to vote on the host for the twenty twenty six world cup on wed and state parties and sums up what the two competing bids are offering. the joint u.s. mexico and canada bid to host the twenty twenty six world cup looks like a done deal at least on paper the north american bids sole rival morocco barely passed the fee for the valuations in two point seven overall against four say games and accommodation in morocco were considered high risk the african country would need to invest a whopping sixteen billion dollars into infrastructure to host that event and the projected revenue of the north american world cup is two times bigger. the twenty twenty six bid is well presented and strong in terms of government commitments but would need to build most of its tournament related and going to infrastructure the

united twenty twenty six bid on the other hand has promising levels of infrastructure already in place and fully operational but there is one obstacle on the world cup's journey across the pond and its name is donald trump starting with purely practical things after all the us president introduced a travel ban for a number of arab countries yeah you probably will be gone by twenty twenty six but you never know. due to new entry regulations the currently being proposed in the united states in relation to citizens from certain countries there are significant risks to discrimination free entry to the country he is also building a wall on the border with a country which is part of that bid mexico wait what trump also demands mexico pays for that wall occasionally getting a very hard no from the neighbors down south hardly the most cordial alliance ever . know mexico will never pay for

a while not now not ever sincerely mexico all of us and then there's a personal aspect as well remember the famous or should i say infamous whole countries remark of the united states is. is racist he really is the devil this is an actual quote from the actual president this is the gift that he decided to give the american people are not whole country for one donald trump isn't their president. well technically those countries account for fifty four votes and that is more than half of the necessary hundred and four needed to win the bid hard to blame them if they decide to support morocco against the us and now add that to the football federations of the countries blacklisted by trump and when the us president tried to extinguish the blaze and secure the bid he might have made things even worse. the u.s.

has put together a strong bid with canada and mexico for the twenty twenty six world cup it would be a shame if countries that we always support were lobbying against the u.s. bit why should we be supporting these countries when they don't support us including at the united nations today is on the gianni in front dinos rain is going through a massive reforms and one of them is that the decision on who gets the world cup will be made through an open public vote by all member associations it leaves one to wonder if trump had that in mind when he tried to bully the countries into voting for the us. ski r.t. . twenty twenty six world cup will be the biggest since the turn event began in one thousand thirty and will consist of forty eight team sixteen more than the current form of football consultant and former communications director walter to gregorio earlier told his expectations for the vote. is it easier to try and host

this massive tournament in that place or does it make more sense to try and absolutely absolutely want to and this would be kind of your only factor in our the need to go to morocco already when you have one single country but different states it is very complicated and you can imagine if you have for three different legal systems in all. it's for sure more more complicated than if you have one single country either the end of the money is talking and if you see the forecast is more than fourteen billion u.s. dollars for four for the united bid and i think seven billion still enough but it's half for the more. i think that there will be the main reason for all other for voters to go for united no doubt there's also been some extreme lobbying going on from each of the big hopes of. dalton been trying to get the african nations on side morocco jumped out in front in that who do you think has the upper

hand in terms of trying to wrestle votes or at least support or you just mentioned trump in for me trump was the best campaigner for moral core and. i don't want to quote what he said the africans but i think. he was not very helpful let's put it like that for the united bit and it might be difficult for some countries to vote. for the united bit purely because of geopolitical reasons and because of the trump and his ration that will be for sure something negative for united bit. oh back to this year's event england and germany where the latest squads to touch down on the park there are world cup journeys in russia and are based in rep and near st petersburg will face two new in their first game in volgograd on monday while a team germany one of the favorites of course arrived in moscow and will play

mexico in the capital as luzhniki stadium this coming sunday throughout the one month and one day long tournaments r.t.e. will be in every host city giving you a taste of the. there has been more discord in the german government over how to deal with migrants arriving in the country it's been reported that america has rejected a comprehensive sixty three point plan put forward by her interior minister due to a disagreement on asylum procedures talking us through what we know it are over. what we were expecting on tuesday was that horse and the whole forward deliver what is being called his migration master plan then as the tuesday progressed we realized that wasn't going to happen the plan itself essential e even though it is hearing incredibly detail essentially means that germany would

be able to turn away migrants out the border that should be the responsibility of the not the e.u. nation to look after seems very simple no that is not and that is caused a huge run in between angle of merkel. for the interior minister as we understand it at the moment the author is refusing to budge from his position on this but it comes at a time when the whole asylum process is very much under the microscope here in germany just last week a failed asylum application was arrested in iraq after fleeing germany know he is the main suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a fourteen year old girl in the city of mind a lot of questions being asked over just why this person who'd failed in his our application for asylum was still in the country at the time of this of this fourteen year old girls killing now this isn't just a split that's in germany though over what to do over the migration policy it is an

e.u. wide split in some sense we've seen italy come forward and say they weren't going to accept a a ship in the mediterranean that was full of migrants now that move was strongly criticized by the french prime minister. spain has indicated is ready to welcome the vote we happy to hear that and i tell you mr deputy that we are obviously ready to help the spanish authorities and examine the situation of those on the boat who wish to apply for refugee status. course the author is trying to circle some allies across europe we've heard from the italian foreign ministry saying that. who's his opposite number in rome that they will be having meetings on immigration in the near future we also know that the austrian chancellor. in berlin for meetings will also fit in a meeting on wednesday with mr hoffa on this issue but this is where it comes to

a point this isn't just a merkel the hoffa problem this is a germany e.u. problem as well because at the end of the month angle of merkel goes to brussels for the big summit where she's got to try and convince of the e.u. nations to get on board and show a united front in her migration overhaul that she wants to see. after two weeks in power it cleaves new governing parties are sticking to their campaign promises the interior minister has closed the port to a vessel carrying migrants he say's the country's new goal is to protect its borders for your call if you know it was built i want to put an end to this human trafficking which puts thousands of lives at risk in the same way that we raise the issue for the queries who raise it who are the vessels that followed the other countries i'm hinting at from when instead of accepting the report of the migrants i'm objective we hope the same one as in north korea to protect the external

borders if you rip one of them the humanitarian vessel that was turned away was carrying more than six hundred migrants reportedly including more than one hundred on the company minors and pregnant women it has however been offered to dock in a spanish port those on board had been rescued off the coast of libya over the weekend and we're hoping to disembark in the italian island of sicily we asked organizations dealing with think about a tearing crisis about the issues facing europe. we have six hundred twenty nine people on board who have these who have faced a very extreme situation who have faced abuse who have been rescued at sea in some time some people and we had to really drive out of the water and we know telling these people dead they're going to have to say for another several days even order to receive turned italy where the closest places of these evacuees safe

places of these are right kishen it is absolutely ridiculous that we are now in a position where we have to say for more than know that a tells a nautical miles to try to reach spain all days to try to address the failures of the asylum systems even in europe each of these are from plane country that has had to accept to welcome a huge number of migrants refugees and asylum seekers but the rest possibility is that there are all e.u. member states well i think there's an under the law of the sea there's a there's an obligation to states to cooperate and to bring people to the near shore but in this particular case you have different pre-determined areas of responsibility so there's a bit of a dispute over women which particular country is responsible and i think they're working that out because now that spain has offered to take the migrants some of them are been taking off the vessel the aquarius and put onto an entirely in boats

because they were picked up by italian ship so i think they're working through the law on that if i was done correctly the effort really has to be more aligned with the actual law of this the so that the burden is shared more equitably among the frontline states which are spain italy. cyprus and greece which are taking the overwhelming number of migrants coming in so it's fairly understandable i would think in any system if there's a large body of people coming through who are in a regular situation and of course aren't able to keep up so frustrations are pretty normal for a little house meanwhile of the countries hardest hit by the migrant crisis more than half a million people have reached the country by boat in the past four years this year italy has taken in almost fourteen thousand refugees more than either spain or greece many of the newcomers have arrived in sicily and it's something that's there by that opinion on the island jim violent

a delivery is not right that the invading their illegal if a person arrives here legally they're welcomed but among these people they're also illegal immigrants and that can be tolerated for the ability of the 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 not all of them are honest people losing the ports no i don't think that is right are only telling migrants have been everywhere and they're welcomed in a splendid way on another european country malta refused earlier calls from italy to accept the ship saying the italian coast guard is responsible for operations in the waters off libya 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've already born an enormous influx of people in the real answer to migration flows from the migration crisis as it's terms 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. you're watching r t international a term being heard more and more net neutrality is in the dock next in watching the hawks and i'll see you again often or sometimes they would.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you. 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 has 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 fourth 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. a professor at notre dame's mendoza college of business has discovered that one local newspapers die so does government efficiency as bloomberg summarises the economist behind the report show 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 and other words it truly is the local reporters columnists and editors who weren't doing their job

correctly in 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 whose is find out if you start watching the hawks. what. is the bottom. like you know that i got. the. tickets are. welcome i'm going to watch the hawks i am tyrrel the target and i'm top of the law list and local papers to me though pero need nearly city governments to keep city governments and state governments from run of the wild with all of our money i mean 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 are some great ideas of this of having like a see the pages type thing where each city has those you know places 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 downside the report that we're talking about today is called financing ties and darkness a play on the washington post the martin recent dies in 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 in

was language newspaper serving to over two hundred counties in the u.s. between one thousand nine hundred six and twenty fifteen they discovered that miscible borrowing costs it's like one of the city's going to get more money to pay for a bunch of things that they've passed increased by five to eleven. it's places where the you know there was no local paper to report on it there were no local paper to say do we really need this extra spending do we really need this extra bill for ideal government running a church and wow five to eleven and if you don't those of you at home cross the world municipal bonds are this brilliant way that we came up with in the united states to pay for things that said you know minute municipal or city governments mean so the idea is you can you can buy these bonds and essentially what you're doing is lending money to the city you have a certain interest rate but the amount of when you have a city that has lots and lots of these municipal bonds and there are interest rates and all of that are sort of one all over the place this is what happens if you're

out of control spending because those mystical bonds are going to be worth a whole lot because the city is probably going to go bankrupt and one of the things you see is in denver one of their small papers you had the denver's rocky mountain news so researchers your time on the study researchers discovered that without that one local paper and done for the spread of the year old of newly issued local municipal bonds as they were to one of thirty seven basis points so it's this huge amount of spending no chacon normally you have people like at city council meetings going hey do we need to spend this can we afford this or do we need to issue more bonds that's one of the things and they found a similar situation when you're looking at it at the cincinnati post when after that close you had newly issued local municipal bonds increased by sixty six point one basis points so that's what we're saying is that they're spending more and more and these small these municipalities are putting themselves and putting their

citizens and debt to pay for things because what happens when they are going bankrupt and they need more money to pay for things they raise your taxes are the next step then we're going to raise taxes on the public about actually hurts all of us all because of what people were buying up newspapers to stay informed. what their government's doing circular and newspapers are probably reporting what their government is doing let's not forget that as well circulation numbers actually of fall and of course we twenty seven percent from two thousand and three to two thousand and fourteen of loose local newspapers around the country that's according to pew research there's been a thirty five percent decline in state house reporters that means reporters going to capital cities and reporting on what the government is doing cut costs and newsrooms well we don't really need a reporter to cover what the government is doing that's the logic going on there but we need one to cover the sports team that want to never get cut no you would never cut out one but there's you know it goes on and on and that's the thing they don't they don't think that having someone covering city councils they don't think

that their stories are interesting because in their mind it's much easier to just you know it's what radio stations have done in talk radio stations and then they turn into. nos internet. and i knew a lot of people were talking about too that like oh well you know online will come in and save us more people online and then researchers in this in this in this report found that that doesn't hold weight either because states with high internet usage you know when you see this percentage of states or cities with higher degrees of local paper shuts down same thing happens didn't matter if the news was suddenly online or not you know they didn't matter if they had high internet use it it's really great it's really crazy but ultimately comes down we've got to get people informed about what's right and that was one of the things that got out told the guardian about that he said quote we hope this paper raises awareness of the importance of a local newspaper it's like a public good earn environmental protection and i think that's what's really important whether it's a town of twelve hundred or a town of fifteen hundred or fifteen thousand or

a million you need to have local news and you need to know what's going on in your own backyard most of. this week marks a dark time the battle over net neutrality watchers on monday june eleventh the federal communications commission led by former verizon lawyer. chairman by effectively ended neutrality rules rolling back requirements that intercepts internet service providers like the rise and comcast offer equal access to all web content here in the u.s. so while we know that the draco malfoy of the f.c.c. will more than likely be spending this weekend dancing on the grave of internet freedom while sipping warm champagne the rest of us are now left wondering what comes next joining us today to help us see into the future is r t correspondent natasha welcome natasha. thanks so much tabitha you know it's a great question because as you can imagine both sides are pretty heated about this i mean you even humph.