the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. headline story. below the north pole is. aimed at facilitating. between the two sides. of the program president risks inflaming tensions in the middle east stating the u.s. should recognize israel. is from syria. it is call it. a visit by the queen. and the bombshell report alleges that a group of american mercenaries illegally travel to haiti to help the country's

president consolidate power. eighty million dollars. around the clock across the world this is r t international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome to our top story north korea. so named inter korea office a defunct two embassy and communication channel between the two koreas at least according to officials in this but so far itself has not 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 was 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. list comes just a month after talks between the u.s. and north korea essentially collapsed at a summit in vietnam over differences regarding washington's sanction tactics will have to say a trade go joins me live now to discuss developments on the korean potentially it good to see you. that lee is off as it was only set up you know last year was and it's not widely known just prick a dime what it actually does well the creation the setting up of this office was this little baby step towards reunification towards closer ties and we know that when it comes to the things happening on the korean peninsula and the baby step is important as you said it was only set up six months ago after that historic

visit south korea's president moon to pyongyang you remember when he was waving hands to all that public and the streets it was really seen as a historic breakthrough a commitment in the office was intended for these kind of face to face contacts not on the highest level but in between some sort of officials and diplomats which used to be rare but now it looks like this will have to be put on hold for a while maybe for good we don't know it baby steps but important steps all the same the office that's what it was designed to do why would end the any indication as to why north korea has pulled out its officers then. north korea hasn't officially announced that this was drawl was happening so we don't really know what the reason is what we do know is that it happened right after the americans decided to punish two chinese companies for doing business with peeling yang and diplomats in beijing

have already called this kind of thing unacceptable they believe that these kind of moves should only be made after some sort of decisions by the u.n. so there you have it after the donald trump kim john summit in her noise this was the first action taken by washington against north korea and anyone who was dealing with it and you know all this saw and all these songs of friendship between donald trump and chairman kim they may end up being absolutely irrelevant when the u.s. sanctions alarm goes off and i'll tell you what officials in north korea have recently said that they aren't feeling that americans were making any steps to loosen their stranglehold when it comes to all this pressure on north korea. if the united states was not interested in improving north korea u.s.

relations or implementing the june twelfth joint declaration it was only trying to produce results for political achievement i will make this clear the forceful stance of the us will make the situation more dangerous i was supreme leader ship can clarify its decision soon the us president loves to brag about how great he is making all these moves towards peace on the korean peninsula but as you've said in hanoi there was no peace agreement. is a failure was an essentially well essentially rise you say but nothing sign there and it appears that kim jong il didn't bend. under all this might of donald trump's diplomatic skills and now it looks like the dollar from the ministration is out of crossroads they should decide whether they want to continue to play that role as a great peace maker for korea or they want to go back to the role of the bad cop

who keep slapping everyone around the world with sanctions a carrot and stick very good thank you for bringing us right up to date still not a new development. just in other aspect to this story washington also appears to be increasingly concerned by china's relations with israel on thursday secretary of state mike pompeo warn that the us may reduce intelligence sharing with its key ally in the middle east if that was ties continue to strengthen. china engages in spying through its commercial state owned enterprises and presents risk through its technology systems when those things happen we want to make sure that countries know about it. those concerns president trump is doubling down on his support for israel he said on thursday vali it's time for the u.s. to fully recognize that contested golan heights as parts of israel big statement about the region as you may remember was seized from syria that happened after the

six day war nine hundred sixty seven it was then annexed in one thousand nine hundred eighty one syria's foreign ministry has reacted and reacted with some monger as well to mr trump's comments saying it has every intention of liberating the golan heights in time. russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman joy in their condemnation saying washington's move would violate a number of un resolutions germany has reacted saying it's against any you know law measures france as well coming up with criticism joining in the chorus of disapproval among others came up my pen can bring us up to date on what we know. 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 this 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 over and see 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 aoe 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. yeah big statements a lot of ramifications let's cross live to go through some of them with gideon levy a columnist at the israeli daily how to read friend of the program good to see it getting firstly what are the chances do you think that the u.s. will officially recognize the golan heights as sovereign israeli territory. i really don't know i mean it's about to happen if a president sais that why no or so why no but is it really important i doubt it very much. lots of reaction to this russia has said for instance that trumps

comments risk seriously destabilizing the region how would you assess. look it's very transparent gifts to these early elections to mean that and you know it's. a harsh intervention in the elections i don't think it has i mean one should not over estimated because by the end of the day when the day will come and israel and syria will be serious about negotiating peace the golan will be returned to syria because syria if the united states like it to an old just on point to israel is just weeks away from an election what sort of impact will it have within the country to what extent do you think that donald trump's remarks are designed to give netanyahu

a boost in the polls. i wouldn't. overrate this i didn't see people until a very very jumping out of joy because of the american victory. by the end of the day they go down these notes on the table nobody talks about to go to the ground is there there is right now no stability in syria to negotiate. and i don't see it will have a major effect yes nathaniel will try to present it as a major achievement historical achievement like he did rightly so or not rightly so about the movement of the american embassy to jerusalem but those steps are very declarative and by the end of the day they are quite holo can i just offer

a thoughts as to perhaps donald trump having some double standards here i will make it local to to this part of the world because last year the u.s. recognized all of jerusalem as israel's capital even though the u.n. considers east jerusalem to be illegally occupied washington is not however willing to recognize crimea as part of russia so evil lot of geopolitical politics at play here don't you. no doubt i mean it's totally cynically it's breaking all the international rules and international law i mean there isn't the whole one in the world i guess who has any doubts about the legal status of the golan heights they would have heights is an occupied territory no doubts about this and here comes an american president and say no matter what the international law says no me towards the would say is we recognize it is an

israeli city because israel holds it for so many years so why you know. if we followed this i really would raise a lot of questions about a lot of other occupations all over the world thank you for your time and your thoughts this are getting levy columnist on t.v. is really dealing newspaper ha'aretz. well with the brags that deadline looming brussels is willing to give the u.k. some breathing space to get a deal over the line or not after this. i

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quarter of an hour into the program your welcome back the european union has rejected teresa mayes request for a three month delay to breaks that the e.u. is offering a shorter postponement and only on the condition of the british parliament approved the unpopular withdrawal deal painstakingly negotiated by the british prime minister on brussels earlier on friday the european council president signed it operates by extension. the somali i'm really happy about this development the fate of bridget. and so far we've been at this friends. there was. about time for. just. as you love. hope. after a seemingly endless night of debate discussion and chopping and changing plans that you council did finally come up with that official proposal for to reason may come

though with quite strict terms and conditions and extension of article fifty until the twenty second of may conditional upon her passing her plan through parliament a further extension until the twelfth of april conditional upon the u.k. coming up with some sort of road map a plan as to what exactly to do and the possibility of yet another further as yet indefinite extension conditional upon the u.k. participating in european parliamentary elections that is something to reason may has said is a red line for her and would of course be rather pointless given the u.k. has decided to leave the european union in the press conference this morning donald tusk was quite clever with his wording he stated that anything is possible that they're hoping for the best and hope dies last we know what that means of course now with this proposal the e.u. council has moved the paradigms of this debate right away from the prospect of a no deal hard bricks at further towards the possibility of a deal further extensions or even the possibility of revoking article fifty and the

u.k. staying in the european union as donald to said to one journalist in that conference he's more pro british than the journalist is nevertheless though the long hours of those debates seemingly did take that's all a little bit on that press conference last night. do would be able to agree still an extension until the. winter for a true. of the year. on to the very.

according to to our poll. and there's still empty emergent it means that that a lot of space. league officials patience isn't endless though you said that kicking the can down the road isn't an option because the road in perspective is a short one and this was something echoed by german chancellor angela merkel that. 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 meet near what path that wishes to pursue you so it's official you can master to the e.u. said tim borrow has written to the council accepting their proposal and now it's all eyes away from brussels back to westminster words the reason may will try to pass plan and nobody really knows what's going to happen in parliament next week what we can say for sure is that it's shaping up to be one of the most crucial

weeks in the house of commons in decades if not in generations i can to reason we may get lucky and get the deal passed through the house of commons or this time next week will we once again be in some sort of political limbo stay tuned to find out. a bombshell investigation claim that american mercenaries helped haiti's president consolidate power seven military contractors were arrested there in february but then released without charge that all comes amid tense rivalries in the haitian government and protracted government protests in the country.

just wanted mr an exile to believe that these men or most americans he says that they 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 modi's his then prime minister.

and the bank president john bad 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. who are knowledge at all of this operation disclose our source. requested. so we have to protect our stores. broke the story for the intercept online news on

flint's but one of the mercenaries a retired navy seal disputes the version of events chris salesman say's they were hired to score to haiti american businessmen to sign an investment contract under arrest the day before the planned meeting in a no deleted instagram post he also claimed the mercenaries were used quote as pawns in a public fight between the haitian president and prime minister the pm by the way was this missed on monday. meanwhile u.s. senator marco rubio was in the country on thursday to discuss how a government will be formed there haiti's new prime minister was appointed the same day author of the report came again say to us attempts to influence haitian politics will spark further on rest in the country. they added a certain irritant or certain combustibility to the situation. they really arrived on the last day of the latest spasm 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 lives or pulled back the curtain on this story i think that this is going to create even more outrage and more consternation. on the part of the haitian people just a reminder on the political situation in haiti opposition protesters remain sky rocketing inflation on the alleged government corruption they blame downtown the

current president who was sworn in two years ago on a pledge to create more jobs and improve living conditions. students at king's college london claim 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 spoke to one of the students and. i went into uni like you know for my eleven am that shows like ten from the emotional time it was i walked in i got my id cards i tapped on the barrier and it wouldn't it wouldn't work the barrier wouldn't open i talked about three times and by the time i kind of like to myself i knew that this intention marines a student at king's college london but for one day this week she wasn't she was barred while king's was hosting the queen. around the time of this grand entrance on the all the signs of the building the

second day of religion and politics student was having this conversation with security guards come in the armored car that's been programmed sort of course. for your request. threshold to leave protocol to be told they're not perfect and we would be told that 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 barred 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 wasn't in this group long term was are you

going to go out to the north people who think this is not ok it does. maureen 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 and i'm i'm not allowed to go to my lecture because i'm a carrier. security got to the queen. outrageous since the incident the students have staged more protests highlighting what happened to them and demanding on it 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 building bush house now ought to put the students allegations to

the university and the response we got 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 r.t. that they don't comment on security issues but marine says that talking about political issues shouldn't make her a security. column brain will be here with all your latest global news updates in thirty but stay close to her for more great programs right ahead she said. that's kaiser sign it looks good but they say maybe the girl is. closer to these it is essential plugs the four diaphragm is a good cover might say stuff to her. seems

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