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

dollars from the scene here in moscow with the world news this hour first off for you donald trump has announced that the he's told the united states treasury not to impose any new sanctions on north korea that comes after the north is said to have pulled its stuff out of the into korea liaison office a de facto embassy and communication channel for pyongyang and sold. 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 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 the latest setback on the korean peninsula comes just a month after talks between the u.s.

and north korea collapsed at a summit in vietnam due to differences over washington sanctions regime correspondent joint you know neal to break down the developments. that lee is off as it was when we set up you know last year was that it's not widely known just break it down it was actually the creation the setting up of the 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 the public and the streets it was really seen as a historic breakthrough a commitment to 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 steps at the same office that's what it was designed to do what he would end the any indication as to north korea has 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 songs of friendship

between donald trump and chairman kim they may end up being absolutely. relevant in 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 lucy show me if the united states was not interested in improving with career 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 agreements i know there's a failure was that essentially well essentially rise you say but nothing signed there and it appears that kim jong didn't bend under all this might of donald trump's diplomatic skills and now it looks like the dollar from administration 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 slopping everyone around the world with sanctions breaking with decades of u.s. policy president trump has said it's time the united states fully recognizes 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 the next in one thousand nine hundred one the syrian government 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 such a move would violate a number of un resolutions germany and france have said they're opposed to any unilateral measures to on friday the un. human rights council joined the chorus of condemnation sing a resolution criticizing the leak is an illegal israeli settlement expansion in the conan heights with more on the growing backlash. 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 vincy 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 we

sounded out a number of analysts about donald trump's comments next press concern to us about the proposal and the precedent that will be set by recognizing the government 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 mission of the israeli sovereignity 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 to start also of the golan herds 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 mater what the woods is we recognize it is an israeli city because israel holds it for so many years so why not if we follow this. really raises a lot of questions about a lot of other occupations all over the world. chancellor angela merkel's warn the germany could be isolating itself when it comes to joint european defense projects the german leader says berlin is in danger of becoming an unreliable partner after a banned weapon sales to saudi arabia. joint european projects require reliability between partners otherwise would be viewed either as morally arrogant as incapable of compromise a self-imposed ban on selling arms to riyadh came into effect in october last year and impacted on deals made by the u.k. and france with saudi arabia with both european nations reliant on german made technology merkel's urging

a compromise be found but she's facing pressure from her coalition partners for stricter regulations let's get some insight now from a member of germany's left party. welcome to the program been any kind of reaction to the chancellor statement the berlin could be isolated from future defense deals . well the left party opposes any such deals because we think that germany has exported far too many weapons and far too many nations all over the walt if you look at the conflicts in mexico where the tells are using german small weapons especially and if you look at these like state in the area and in iraq and syria using german small weapons then that has to stop we should expand it but you have to understand that angela merkel's party it's a matter of historical record that it's in the back of the arms dealers who have paid for election campaign so that it is the interests that she is representing as

chancellor ok what about the compromise the chancellor merkel's talking about what about look like if she does reach a compromise what will be the point in upholding the ban. well you have to understand the german lost are stricter than those of france and england and she wants to weaken those lost she wants to weaken the regulation so that german companies can export arms all over the world even where there is active conflict zones so even now we are exporting make way too many weapons but if we weaken those regulations then germany can be implicated in human rights violations in the war on yemen and other human rights were violations all over the world we cannot accept that and so we have to stop that german population is overwhelmingly. those exports but that doesn't seem to be a matter of fund a market this ban kamen following the death of dissidents saudi journalist jamal

khashoggi few months on from that do you think a majority of german m.p.'s would back lifting the ban on selling weapons to the saudis now. well i don't think that the souls of democrats are so far gone that they would go against the will of the population but you never know you never know because there's a lot of pressure from arms merchants from exploiters who are paying off m.p.'s and actually can look it up it's a matter of public record and those m.p.'s are fearing that they won't get the money for the next reelection campaign. she's split between her own coalition and area partners which way do you think angela merkel is going to lean well she has consistently been trying to broaden the export possibilities for arms industry and so i think she will continue to do that. ok you have to leave it there vision on top of solely from germany's left party thanks for your thoughts on that

. thank you. obama john investigation has claimed the us based mercenaries helped haiti's president consolidate power eight self described security workers including a local driver were allegedly employed by america and arrested back in february but then released without charge of intense rivalries and the haitian government and protected anti-government protests in the country. oh. i. just wanted mr madoff to see that these men or most scenarios he says if he were here to attack part of the executive branch of the government.

you've. seen those reports that 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. haitian police officials justice department officials people. with any connection who had any knowledge at all of this operation c can't disclose our source the. requested anonymity and so we have to protect our source. came i broke the story for the online news outlet the intercept but one of the mercer is a retired navy seal disputes that version of events chris all xmen says they were hired to score to haiti american businessman to sign an investment contract and were a rested the day before the planned meeting and now deleted instagram post he also

claimed the messages were used were quote pawns in a public fight between the haitian president and prime minister the pm was dismissed on monday. meanwhile u.s. senator marco rubio was in the country on thursday to discuss how a new government will be formed the haiti's new prime minister was appointed the same day the author again says u.s. attempts to influence haitian politics will spark further unrest in the country. added certain irritant or certain combustibility to this 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 and basically. torn off the lid are pulled back the curtain on this story and i think that this is going to create even more outrage 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 rocketing inflation and alleged government corruption they blame that on the current president who was sworn in two years ago on a pledge to create 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 involved. i went into uni like

you know for my eleven am lecture i was 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 third time i kind of sighed to myself i knew that this is 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 signs 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 try 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 and 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 her a security the. european union's rejected to resign may's request for a three month delay to breaks it the e.u. is offering a shorter postponement and only on the condition of the british parliament approves the unpopular withdrawal deal which was painstakingly negotiated by the british prime minister brussels earlier on friday the european council president sounded upbeat about the extension. really though this development the fate of bridget. and social our british friends. as a you are 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 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 roadmap 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 would 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 is be able to also agree still an extension until the. twentieth of april of. this the year. on to the very end. i.

think to do our poll. and there's still empty you learnt it means that that a lot of space. will eat you 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 charts at our local 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 will 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 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. let's see if we can do that now shall we let's go live to our westminster studio and andre walker who's a u.k. based columnist for the new york observer welcome back to r.t. so. you know after this latest summit i was still far from any closure on this and m.p.'s have gone from being locked out of the process for two years to potentially having an embarrassment of riches and seven options on the table if this deal gets kicked out where's your money going on this. well and i have significant concerns about what's going on remember the the law that was put in place after the referendum means that britain leaves on the twenty ninth of march with no deal obviously there is not been the arrangement to extend article fifty and give m.p.'s the seven options look i think

a lot of people who are on the side of bragg's that the knowledge of frogs of this world are incredibly frustrated with both the european union and the british parliament you know both of these organizations effectively a conspiring to i think negates the vote of the british people we were told we would get votes we were told that parliaments in the european parliament would respect our really that's not what's happening this extension it's all about given the more options to remain in as many institutions of the european union as possible but if they want to take tests of british feeling at the moment there's that petition that went from zero signatures to three million in forty eight hours and there was the but not a ferocious probe march which is only got a couple of dozen people out on his and then we've got the pro remain march to tomorrow that's likely to get tens of thousands the tide shifted hasn't it. no not at all i mean if you talk to the professor john curtis who's the most important surf ologist impulse in the united kingdom he says that effectively if there was

a second referendum tomorrow the result would be pretty much the same as it was before and ok look i get those people who writes and puts aside in positions by the way i will say one thing that that petition was signed by all entirely u.k. people those people signed in vatican city peru and even god bless them in. so i think that you know the fact that three million people side the. proves there is a strength of feeling that gates brags that but it certainly doesn't prove that there's a majority of people who are in favor of remaining within the european union and i would just make this point you think about this the referendum was the largest democratic process in this country's history seventeen point four million people voted to leave if the remain a pall of what i'm called the parliaments in westminster denies the british people that think the toxicity that creates towards the british political establishment and the british political system i think that remaining in the e.u.

would be so damaging to brits and that actually even if i were i'd still be advocating leave they stage i want to get thoughts on something the liberal democrat party leader vince cable said since cable he said just on thursday the reason they adopted something of a cavalier attitude towards bracks i want to have a quick listen to this prime minister is almost doubling. the meeting about the economic aid that will be inflicted into our millions of british people and the answer you know the people searching for. how are people going to feel about that because whether people voted level remains you really think people voted for pain oh look it's a surveillance cable they sort of sneering leftist i mean he's at the end of his career anyway he was one the first people to call for a referendum on the european union membership he's now saying that we never saw the odd one but we now want a second one to negate the first one on the slate these guys are absolutely all over the place and not somebody should be taken seriously although in fairness to reason they said the voters could never second chance but she would three for her

deal. well look he's not leaving the european union the big problem that we've got in there i repeat this comment is that you know two thirds of m.p.'s in the house of commons in fact so i can see that seventy five percent of ed piece in the house of commons all remain as unsupported and so to reserve may's deal is about the european union have an influence over our trade policy paid thirty nine billion pounds not to have its free trade deal but to negotiate the negotiations on the free trade deal you know that's the sort of thing they want so what they want to do is decide how much of the european union can they get us to stay in what i say is that if you keep britain in the european union institutions of the european union paying money to the european union having no democratic voice then the pressure cooker that we've seen exploded recently exploded recently on the british political scene gets worse and worse and worse and when we eventually do leave i think the civil strife that you will see in this country will actually be quite shocking for

most british people including me and peace convincingly rejected to resume a deal twice now once by a record breaking a mountain another near record breaking about how likely is it she's going to win over seventy five no makers come next week when they know that they've got those seven options tantalizingly waiting in the background if they say no again. i think i think your question sort of implies my answer does that there is no realistic prospect of her to have withdrawal deal passing i think everybody knows if you look at what happened yesterday in brussels there was a very short discussion about extending article fifty eight to allow the law to last to go through to pass a withdrawal agreement that was pretty easy the longer and harder pay for the european council members was to think about what happens if indeed when how withdrawal agreements is defeated next week i think the big difficulty for this actually is not so much on the withdrawal agreements the problem is that parliament can't decide what it wants it's not.