back to where they were back here again fifteen feet apart at this point. inter korean relations. the north pole. facilitating dialogue between the two sides so the program the president from this inflaming tensions in the middle east stating the u.s. should recognize it's really stop and see over the contested golan heights an area scenes from syria off a century ago. plus is pro polish stiliyan students at king's college london. joining a visit by the queen. the bombshell report alleges that a group of american mercenaries illegally traveled to haiti to help the caribbean

country's president solids a power move eighty million dollars. just go on six pm here in moscow this friday march the twenty second thanks for choosing r.t. for your news update this hour i'm o'neill our top story north korea has polled on its lee is own stuff from the soon to enter a korea office at the fuck embassy communication channel between the two koreas that's at least according to officials in the saw it so far hasn't commented on the move. north korea informed us this morning that it would staff the liaison office on instructions from a superior authority and it would through its staff so the north said it doesn't mind the south remaining in the office and that it with

a lot to fight on further practical matters in the future our government finds the north decision regrettable and it is hoped that the north returns its staff to the liaison office for normal operation as it was agreed between the two countries. well this comes just a month after talks between the u.s. and north korea collapse that a summit in vietnam over differences regarding washington sanction tactics will need to train cohen joins me now to discuss developments on the korean peninsula. leila's on the office it was only set up as a understand the last year it's not widely known what is its purpose here while setting up this office was a baby step towards reunification but we know when it comes to the relations between the north and the south on the korean peninsula and the baby step is important and you're absolutely right it was only created six months ago after the south korean president moved went to pyongyang that was really seen as

a breakthrough step dad was the yeah the office was intended for direct face to face contact between officials from the north and the south and again that is rare and that is very important but these kind of contacts it appears will have to be put on hold for a while or maybe for good we don't know. how to be in any indication we just said in the lead in there that pyongyang hasn't commented on it but maybe why can we surmise why north korea might want to pull out itself as i have something else you're seeing there baby steps but still important sure north korea didn't publicly announce the withdrawal so we don't know the reasons officially but we can make some conclusions or because the most. directly follows. american punishment america decided to punish two chinese companies with sanctions for doing business with pyongyang diplomats in beijing have already said that they're outraged by that

move these kind of things are unacceptable these kind of things only should be done as a result of some sort of action by the u.n. so there you have it this was the first action taken by washington against north korea or whoever's dealing with north korea after the summit of donald trump and kim jong il and noise and all this thaw and signs of friendship between the leaders of america and north korea as you can see they may end up being a while of and when the sanctions alarm goes off in the u.s. was there a widely seen that that lost so much as a feel your it was that it it was it didn't go successful it wasn't going as planned for either america or north korea it seems you know what officials in north korea are actually saying we heard from them last week that they were even feeling that america was absolutely not inclined to loosen their stranglehold when it comes to all this pressure on young men. she told me not to get the united states was not

interested in improving with korea u.s. relations or implementing the june twelfth joint to ration it was only trying to produce results for political achievement i will make this clear the forceful stance of the u.s. will make the situation more dangerous i was supreme leader ship can clarify its decision soon president donald trump a lot of stupid about he's being so great at making these moves towards peace as he says on the korean peninsula but as you've said there was no deal signed in one noise and it looks like kim jong whom didn't really bend under all this might. donald trump deployed donald trump's diplomatic skills and now perhaps the u.s. administration is at a crossroads whether they're trying to decide whether they should continue to play the role of this global peacemaker or go back to their usual role of being

a strong who just punishes everyone around the world. and it is about thing once again thank you very much for explaining the very thoroughly good stuff. washington also appears to be increasingly concerned by china's relations with israel this is another dimension to the story on thursday secretary of state mike pompei you warn that the u.s. may reduce intelligence sharing with its key ally in the middle east if those ties continue to strengthen china engages in spying through its commercial state owned enterprises and presents risk through his technology systems when those things happen we want to make sure that countries know about it. and this might those concerns president trump is doubling done on his support for israel he said thursday it's time for the u.s. to fully recognize that contested golan heights as part of israel the region will

see east from syria after the six day war in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and a next in one thousand nine hundred one syria's foreign ministry has reacted angrily to mr trump's comments on every intention of liberating the golan heights. russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman join the condemnation saying washington's move would violate a number of un resolutions germany reacted as well saying it's against any unilateral measures with france joining the chorus of disapproval to talking us through what we know at this stage. donald trump's support for israel has taken some new heights and that would be the golan heights and it now seems that despite the un and syria and others recognizing the territory as belonging to syria donald trump wants it to be recognized as part of israel let's take a listen to what he tweeted out of the fifty two year time for the united states to fully recognize israel so vinci over the golan heights which is of critical

strategic and security importance the state of israel and regional stability now this announcement on twitter came as mike pompei o the top diplomat of the united states secretary of state was meeting with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he expressed a huge amount of gratitude for this gift of recognizing the golan heights and its time when the run cease to syria as a platform to destroy israel trump boldly recognize israel is sovereignty in the golan heights thank you president trump now in its annual human rights report the u.s.a. described palestinian territories not as israeli occupied but rather as israeli controlled and we recently saw mike pump a zero take the unprecedented move as u.s. secretary of state and actually visit the western wall in jerusalem now at this point the world is well aware that benjamin netanyahu is facing an election that will determine whether or not he remains the prime minister of israel and some have

interpreted donald trump's moves as essential trying to help netanyahu showing u.s. support for netanyahu taking unprecedented steps in pro israeli stances by the united states as a whole and people wonder if this could lead to an escalation in the region. ok live in the program there i'm happy we can welcome the editor in chief of rai our human are a bit world digital news and opinion websites abdel bari atwan good to have your company surf first of all what are the chances that the u.s. will officially recognize the golan heights as sovereign is really territory do you think. i believe very soon it could be doing in a minute and the whole visit to washington next week it seems that donald trump now is the spokesperson for netanyahu and he is intervening in the israeli election and he would like nothing the outdoor win this election so i wouldn't be surprised when

he meets him in the white house next week next wednesday i think he will give him a huge prison which is that it was an issue of the israeli sovereignty over hike that the syrian occupied territories in one nine hundred sixty seven russia has said that donald trump's comments quote risk seriously destabilizing the region how do you assess that and also i was on the side of dell how much concern is this likely to be causing inside israel itself israel must be concerned that syria is valuing to retake its territory surely. you know as i believe this is a recipient of four instability it is a war declared a nation it means in the middle east and problems people asking of trying to solve it by peaceful means that american is or that brand administration in particular

igniting more trouble more instability in that part of the word they realize that syria because of that action help is actually getting out of its. war so i believe now they are saying look you know we are going to annex the golan heights to israel it seems there are a lot of oil and gas on the golan heights and also it is a sort of water for the israeli state but i believe as i said you know this is actually out of declination of war and it will poison that instability. more instability to the whole region which is already in the bill do you think that this is somewhat of a pick and choose the plume a c by donald trump let me just go through this with you last year the u.s. recognized all of jerusalem as you know as israel's capital the u.n. though considers east jerusalem to be illegally occupied washington's not for

instance willing to recognize crimea as part of russia why is there double standards at play here. yeah i think you douglas i am not surprised to hear that the american always like that you know they don't want to think of nies that russian actually. and they are saying now there is a really which is we know that is. a soviet directory empirically but. haifa is not israeli correctly it was a pure bias in one thousand nine hundred seventy and there are u.n. resolution security council resolution which actually asking israel to pull out from this and i'm atika voted to support this kind of resolution why why is this hypocrisy is coming now i believe that donald plans as i said he is actually what

he. is a witness and now was can fall asleep and excision all i have to read that is they didn't call gaza and the west bank as occupied territory they said they're the gazans the. bank directly controlled by the israeli which is engaged and sometimes on a low it is hypocrisy it is double is this as a say it is at it's the people of this disaster and instability thank you very much for your time and thoughts this our writer and or sir abdel bari atwan. a bombshell investigation claim but american mercenaries helped haiti's president consolidate power seven military contractors were arrested there in february but they were released without charge made tents rivalries in the haitian government protracted government protests in the country.

just would have missed an exile to giving up these men or most scenarios he says if he were here to attack part of the executive branch of the government. probably. seen those reports due to privacy considerations we're unable to comment further they were apparently going to transfer eighty million dollars out of the petrel

caribbean account in haiti in the bank to another account which would be under the control of president joe from elmo we see the petro caribbean account required authorization if you will from mobile use his then prime minister. and the bank president. dubois so this was apparently their mission they entered haiti many of them without stamping their passport without going through immigration without going through customs they had come in with weapons which is a violation not just of u.s. law but haitian law pressure from the u.s. embassy had them released in a completely illegal manner are you able now that the piece is released had to disclose your source and if not why not. spend a week in haiti speaking to. he should police officials justice department

officials people. with any connection who have any knowledge at all of this operation disclose our source the requested anonymity. so we have to protect our source. broke the story for the intercept online news i claim it's one of the mercenaries a retired navy seal the speed version of events chris ellison say is they were hired to a square to haiti american businessmen to sign an investment contract and were arrested the day before the planned meeting in a knowledge deleted instagram post he also claimed the mercenaries where use quote as pawns in a public fight between the haitian president on prime minister the pm was dismissed on monday meanwhile u.s. senator marco rubio was in the country thursday to discuss how a new government would be formed there haiti's new prime minister incidentally was

appointed the same day or three of the report came out again saves us attempts to influence haitian politics will spark for their interest in the country. a. certain irritant or certain combustibility to the situation. they really arrived on the last day of the latest spies them of. demonstrations the prime minister in fact when he was voted out by the deputies was in front of the senate. answering for what happened with these mercenaries so i think yes the whole mercenary story has played a role one from the questions everybody had about it and now that our story has come out and basically. torn off the lid or pulled back the curtain on this story.

this is going to create even more and more consternation. on the part of the haitian people and just a reminder on the political situation in haiti opposition protesters remain skyrocketing inflation on alleged government corruption blame violence on the current president to a sworn in two years ago in a pledge to create more jobs on improve living conditions. if you ever feel as if there's just not enough bragg's in your life we'll remedy that after the break.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to the press this is what the three of the people are. interested in the last.

twenty minutes into the program welcome back he european union has rejected trees and maine's requests for a three month delay to break that the e.u. is offering a shorter postponement only on the condition that the british parliamentary approves the unpopular with trawled deal painstakingly as you well know negotiated by the british prime minister and by brussels earlier on friday by the way the european consul president sounded somewhat upbeats over the extension so me i'm really happy about this development as i said yesterday. it means that. of a true and the thing possible do you. if the u.k. decided to rethink its strategy of revoking go through fifty which is true i got it from the u.k. government. the fate of bridget is and so far we're british friends.

are you prepared for the worst. but told for the best. if you lot of. hope. ok let's catch up with our tea hawkins from berlin who's been following developments down not exactly what the british pm was hoping for she returned to parliament a facer in peace for a third time last chance saloon essentially what's the latest from e.u. hate q. are not summit. well it's the morning after the night before and what a night it was some of us thought it would never end after those constant chopping and changing of plans by the e.u. council but end it did eventually with that proposition as you quite rightly said an extension of article fifty until the twenty second of may conditional on to

resume a getting her deal third time lucky through parliament to a big defeat for already the possibility of a further extension until the twelve the vote will conditional again upon the u.k. proposing some sort of plan some sort of way forward and a potential further extension once again the conditional again upon the u.k. participating in european parliamentary elections something which the reason why has said there is a red line for something which she said would be absolutely pointless and a little bit silly of course given that the u.k. is or has decided to leave the european union and now i want to touch upon that press conference this morning it will bit stating that as you heard anything is possible and we're hoping for the best. and hope dies last we all know what that means their position is quite clear that they would welcome the u.k. revoted revoking article fifty four staying in the european union schools are stating that his position in clear joking to one journalist that he's in fact more proved british than he is to

a series of loss from the audience but with this proposal they've been quite clever because they've effectively shifted the whole paradigm of this debate further away from the prospect of a new deal hard bricks and a further towards either a deal or never ending extensions with the potential of the u.k. staying nevertheless despite that it does seem the hours of debate and discussion did take their toll a bit in that press conference last night. they would be able to also agree still an extension until the. center for april. for folks who.

live in the yes. on to the very. i. think two to our poll. and there's still empty you learnt it means to fit a lot of space. i. though are all smiles and laughs and jokes of course in that press conference but there was a serious message behind it all when i asked the latest conference this morning about if this extension was just kicking the can down the road. ploy but the road in perspective is quite short that the patients there isn't an effect through the onus is on to reason made to get the ukase act together and to get that proposal passed through parliament something which was also echoed by german chancellor angela merkel. we have for the time being prevented and no deal

brax it on the twenty ninth of march but these a very short periods of time so britain have to make clear what path that wishes to pursue you. it's official now the u.k.'s ambassador to the e.u. just in the last few hours has written to the commission. confirming that the u.k. accepts that proposal that that extension will be put back until the twenty second of may again though there is pressure on the prime minister president michel of france for one stating that we're in a position of checkmate and the e.u. cannot remain in power lies by what has been going on all eyes now will be away from brussels and on to westminster of course nobody really knows what's going to happen to reason might have suffered those defeats parliament is increasingly frustrated agitated even hostile to even from her own m.p.'s and this is shaping up we need to be one of the biggest weeks in parliament in many many decades that

could be crucial voting going on throughout the whole week so in case you were hoping that predicts it would be out of the headlines over the next few days you're very much mistaken on all the lots of updates coming your way over the next five six seven days. break that watch today daniel hawkins in berlin thanks well. all right speaking of the u.k. students at king's college london have claimed they were barred from attending classes because of their pro palestine activism they were told it was because of security reasons during a visit by the queen polly boyd who spoke to one of the students and bill. i went into my eleven am like shows like ten something i'm not sure what time it was i walked and i got my dick i tapped on the barrier and it went in and then i talked about three times and by the time i kind of like to myself i knew that this is intentional loreen's a student at king's college london but for one day this week she wasn't she was

barred while kings was hosting the queen. around the. i'm of this grand entrance on the all this knowledge of the building the second year religion and politics student was having this conversation with security guards in the armored car the spin room some sort of record. for your request. please recall to leave profiled me. they're not perfect and we saw what they did she wasn't the only one experiencing this issue. it was here that marine tried to get into her university for a second time but she says she was told by security guards here that she was one of several students who had been balled from her own university for the duration of

the queen's visit now marina and her friends say that they've been politically profiled for their history of peaceful demonstrations over issues such as palestine demos like this was in this group. who are going to go out to the north people who think it's not ok i just. marine doesn't have a criminal record she claims she was just singled out by her university for being a politically minded muslim woman i must be paying student i pay nine thousand pounds right i'm not allowed to go to my lecture because i'm a carry a security threat to the queen. outrageous since the incident the students have staged more protests highlighting what happened to them and demanding on says. i. king's college london is one of the u.k.'s oldest universities that occupies

several buildings in central london and the queen and the duchess of cambridge way opening this new build. bush house now ought to put this student's allegations to the university and the response we call it was simply that there was an event here that required the highest level of security we had an event on tuesday which demanded the highest level of security and we had to minimize movement three buildings for security reasons at a time some of our buildings were not successful the metropolitan police told us that they don't comment on security issues but marine says that talking about political issues shouldn't make a security. u.s. democrats are putting forward a whole raft of prospects the changes to america's political system ranging from the ring the voting age to sixteen to seeking more liberal judges on the supreme

court but will any of the proposals stick cross-talk debates next. regulations and well long with the invisible hand because when you every put this spent together they will try to fix prices so the u.s. is like saying well let's scrap that will end up with market fundamentals we only believe. price and price manipulation even more so the profits because profits are the result of the founding of the accounting as a result of the four big accounting firms that you can pay to have any result you want.