into korean relations suffer a blow as the north pulls its staff out of office to facilitate dialogue between the two sides. president trump risks inflaming tensions in the middle east saying the u.s. should recognize israeli sovereignty over the contested golan heights an area seized from syria more than half a century ago. banned from classes pro palestinian students at king's college london say they were knocked out during a visit by the queen. and a bombshell report alleges that a group of american mercenaries illegally traveled to haiti to help the caribbean countries president consolidate power and move eighty million dollars.

this is your news from r.t. international it's up to speed on how things are looking so far this friday first off north korea has pulled its stuff from the so-called into korea office de facto embassy and communication channel between the two koreas that's at least according to officials in the south but so far pyongyang hasn't commented on the move. north korea informed us this morning that it would pull out its staff from 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 will modify 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. all this comes just a month after talks between the u.s.

and north korea collapsed at a summit in vietnam over differences regarding washington sanction tactics my colleagues you know nailing daily but trying to discuss developments on the korean peninsula. office it was only set up you know last year was and it's not widely known just break it down and what it actually is the creation the setting up of this office was this little baby steps 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 the 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 baby steps but important office that's what it was designed to do what he would end the any indication as to north korea and its officers that 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 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. summit and one noise this was the first action taken by washington against north korea and anyone who is dealing with it and you know all this thaw and all these 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 lou she told me if the united states was not interested in improving with career u.s. relations or implementing the june twelfth joint declaration rather 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 new so it is a failure was that essentially well essentially rise you say but nothing signed 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 dollars from the ministration is at a crossroads they should decide whether they want to continue to play that role as a great peacemaker for korea or they want to go back to the role of the bad cop who keeps lobbying everyone around the world with sanctions the american strategy in the region has reportedly seen u.s. marines reportedly training a tactic training a tactic known as island hopping after simulated land grab in the pacific it's been described by the u.s. military is a critical strategy to keep china in check the mission is meant to improve operations on land and sea for securing foothold a tactic american forces used during world war two the island called is located

near japan be training at sea because concern in beijing china's allegedly been considering military operations of its own. response to a possible security threat. washington also appears to be increasingly concerned by china's relations with israel on thursday secretary of state mike pompei o warned that the us 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 its technology systems when those things happen we want to make sure that countries know about it but despite those concerns president trumps doubling down on his support for israel and he said on thursday that it's time for the united states to fully recognize the contested golan heights as part of israel the region was seized from syria after the six day war in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and then annexed in one thousand nine hundred one that syria's foreign ministries reacted angrily to mr trump's comment and says it has every intention of liberating the area. russia's

foreign ministries also condemned the proposal saying it would violate a number of un resolutions germany and france have said they're opposed to any unilateral measures to and on friday the un human rights council joined the chorus of condemnation passing a resolution criticizing illegal israeli settlement expansion and the golden heights with more on the growing backlash has kind of opened. 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 ceased 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 usa 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 in trying to help netanyahu showing u.s. support for netanyahu taking unprecedented steps in pro israeli stances. why the

united states as a whole and people wonder if this could lead to an escalation in the region killam open there where we send out a number of analysts about donald trump's comments and they expressed concern to us about the proposal the president would be set by recognizing the golan heights as part of israel it seems that donald trump now is the spokesman for netanyahu and he is intervening in the israeli election and he would like netanyahu to win this election so i wouldn't be surprised when he meet him in the white house next week mixed with the i think you will give him a huge prison which is the nisshin of the israeli civility or. 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 the golan 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 we recognize it is an israeli city because israel holds it for so many years so why you know. if we followed this. really raises a lot of questions about a lot of other occupations all over the world and with the deadline looming whenever that might actually be brussels says it's willing to give the u.k. some breathing space to get a deal over the line we'll have more on that for you have after the break.

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by the way ways of the slide here. welcome back the european union has rejected to resume a's request for a three month delay to practice the evas all for the short to postpone months and only on the condition that the british parliament approves the unpopular withdrawal deal painstakingly negotiated by the british prime minister brussels earlier on friday the european council president sounded upbeat about the extension. just really though this development the fate of bridget. and social our british friends. as a you for the worst. told for the best. as you love. cold days last 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 my condo

with quite strict terms and conditions and extension of article fifty until the twenty second of may conditional upon her passing our plan through parliament a further extension until the twelfth of april conditional upon the u.k. coming up with some sort of road map of 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 first 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 with this proposal leave 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 tusk 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 it be able to also agrees to an extension until the. twentieth of april of. this the year. on to the very end.

according to our poll. and there's still empty you know and it means that that a lot of space. will either officials patience isn't endless though chris 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 make clear 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 her 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 can the reason may get third time lucky and get her 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 investigations claim that american mercenaries helped haiti's president consolidate power seven military contractors were arrested there in fair . but then released without charge it's amid tense rivalries in the governments and protracted anti-government protests in the country. just one day mr an exile it is giving up these men or most scenarios he says 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 picture caribbean account required authorization if you will from. his then prime minister. and the bank president. 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 been released in a completely illegal manner are you able now the. pieces released had to disclose your source and if not why not. spend a week in haiti speaking to his police officials justice department officials people. with any connection who are of any knowledge at all of this operation secure disclose or source the requested immunity. so we have to protect our source. came i just broke the story for the online news outlet the intercept one of the mercenaries of retired navy seal disputes that

version of events chris osmonds says they were hired to a score to haiti american businessman to sign an investment contract and well rested the day before the planned meeting in a now deleted instagram post he also played the most recent used quote as pawns in a public fights between the haitian president and prime minister the pm was dismissed on monday. and while u.s. senator marco rubio was in the country on thursday to discuss how a new government will be formed that he's new prime minister was appointed the same day author of the report came out again says u.s. attempts to influence asian politics will spark further unrest in the country. added certain irritant or thirty 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. that our story has come out basically. torn off the liver pulled back the curtain on this story. this is going to create even more and more consternation. on the part of the haitian people. a quick reminder of the political situation in haiti opposition protesters remain angry over skyrocketing inflation and alleged government corruption and blame that on the current president who was sworn in two years ago on a pledge to create more jobs and 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 and the boy has spoke to one of the students involved. i went into uni about you know for my eleven am back shows like ten probably the most of the time it was i walked in i got my id cards i tapped to on the barrier and it wouldn't it wouldn't work the barrier wouldn't open i talked about three times and by the third time i kind of sighed to myself i knew that this was intentional marines 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 time of this grand entrance on the all the sides of the building the second year religion and politics student was having this conversation with security guards in the armored car the spin room sort of record. for your request. really stressful to leave protocol to be. there 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 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. who were there are you because you are who the your people think is not ok or 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. 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 were here 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 a security. forces in poland have opted not to invite a russian delegation to a commemoration ceremony marking eighty years since the beginning of the second world war among the countries that have been invited you and nato member countries including germany also says it took the decision because of russia's actions in ukraine the snub drew a damning response from moscow. we have been ruled out by the polish leadership's intention to organize in september of this year events government in the eighty's and the very serious of the beginning of the second world war in a format that involves only war says current ellison partners those from the united states and nato the polish authorities justify their idea by billions of certain

modern realities ignoring the historical logic which voters actually gnostic from germany's left party she believes was trying to rewrite history. is filled especially him and it's a disgrace i'm polish by birth and hold both polish and german citizenship it's a shame to see history being revised in this manner that those who freed us from the nazis and fascism in europe russia and the soviet union are not invited to this important anniversary it's really scandalous i'm afraid the majority of ordinary people thanks to anti russian propaganda in the media have a very vague idea of history now it's appalling to see right wing forces at the helm of some european countries including poland they use their policy among other things against russia there's a tendency to look westward to trump and nato instead of fostering good brotherly relations in europe. and that in years from now your next update follows boom bust

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the state has sustained more than one point three billion dollars in flood related losses with four hundred million in livestock and four hundred forty million in pain for grain farmers more than thirty to seventy five percent of the breast this county has already been declared disaster areas and similar scenes of inundated towns and fields are playing out in the states of illinois iowa minnesota south dakota and wisconsin nebraska is a typical us farm state famous for raising corn beans and b. it's also typically dependent upon foreign buyers for those ag products on exports as reported the trump trade tariffs have slowed exports especially with regard to soybeans but the gringoire has depressed prices on the products that the state relies upon and farm bankruptcies were already up nearly twenty percent last year now the quick dellucci is the.