russia's far east. came within touching distance of the north korean leader's famous transport we were given the opportunity to come closer to his armored train. explain the arrest of a swedish program an operation with human rights activists say there's no evidence of a crime only guilt by association. grotesque that's how international

human rights groups have condemned the beheading of thirty seven people by saudi arabia in the largest mass execution in years with one even crucified in public. for a good evening to you from. the life of me i know who you are welcome to the program . the north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in the city of god of all stalking russia's far east ahead of his first ever summit with got to be a putin that he will take place on thursday he was greeted by authorities on the military parade in our correspondent. soon after this train crossed the north korea russia border the supreme leader said that he was happy to be in this country and that he once this trip to be successful and fruitful. i come to russia with that wolf of all people and i hope my visit will be successful and

productive i also hope that during on negotiations with president putin i'll be able to discuss the matter is it resulting the problems on the korean peninsula as well as a bilateral relations what exactly he means by that we can only guess that all this is the so so to say the on to raj of kim jong un's arrival in lot of austar. literally minutes after the north korean supreme leader got inside his limo we were given the opportunity to come closer to his armored train.

so unfortunately i won't be able to show you or see for myself any of the extraordinary facilities inside that tray that was used by kim john owns father i was trying to look through the window but obviously no chances and the security guards are watching carefully to make sure that we don't touch it i've already been told off by the inside there are high tech communication facilities several conference room as well as luxury living quarters and. middle of the train there's a special room for him john wife and right next to it two separate carts four body guards there are two restaurants one is for the supreme leader himself and the second one is for the entire delegation there's even

a special section for the leaders limo in there the one that we saw on the station square that the massive armored vehicles can actually fit into one of those now in terms of the political context of this meeting we have to remember what happened a few months ago and also last year to face to face meetings with an american president donald trump the world expected to breakthrough but it didn't happen no agreements or deals were signed being yanked expected some positive steps from washington to be made in response to the concessions from the d p r k one of the things they said they did was destroying a number of nuclear facilities that they used to have what they got instead was more pressure and threats of new sanctions and what we found out eventually was that kim john thune was heading to russia and the next leader he's going to meet is

vladimir putin not donald trump so definitely we are expecting them to discuss the denuclearization of the korean peninsula of course moscow's role and where it stands in this conflict is completely different to that of washington but if once the kemp and summit is over we hear about some breakthrough decisions being made in pyongyang that is really going to be a diplomatic game changer. and chairman of the d.p. r. k. will spend the night at a hotel in risky arland the north korean delegation requests that a range of traditional russian dishes to be served during the stay on the menus bosch a soup made from beetroot pole many russian style dumplings. while the main event of the summit will be on thursday kim jong un had plenty to occupy him in the meantime it was set to visit several major factories as well as russian

naval facilities political analyst chris bambery outlined his expectations for the talks i think putin is going to say take it easy here you need to go to his advice would be you need to take it gradually and make sure any step you take is as a reciprocal step from the americans so i think they'll be discussing the nuclear deal and how the north koreans can play their card and i think kim john young will want putin's advice advice here and i think putin will retain them to say a bit more hardball please put hardball with the americans a bit a bit more so i get i'm not thinking anything really dramatic here but i think it america russia will make it clear that while it doesn't saeed with north korea in terms of developing nuclear missiles it understands why north korea wants this nuclear program and understands why americans have to treat the north koreans with

respect in these negotiations if the negotiations resume. so vladimir putin will meet kim jong un on thursday and of course will be across all the events for you to stay tuned with r.t. for the latest. leading rights groups of the live in a scathing rebuke to saudi arabia over its execution of thirty seven men on terror related charges on tuesday a missed international set many of the convictions were handed down in sham trials and mark an alarming escalation in your thirty's use of the death penalty human rights watch as described the punishments as grotesque or against the earth has more. few things so is much fear into the hearts of your own people is mass executions none of this electric chair or lethal injection nonsense we're talking here about beheading it isn't so much about killing someone as it is

about terrifying others narco cartels the mafia know it and so does saudi arabia and if you can get away with bad heading justifying it generally isn't a problem the men were executed for adopting terrorists and extremists thinking and performing terrorists else to corrupt and destabilize security allegedly among their crimes was this respect towards authority some of them can you believe that like the king protested against him so serious with their crimes that one of those executed was also crucified yes crucified in two thousand and nineteen his body strung up for all to see for all to fear. today's mass execution is a chilling demonstration of the saudi arabia north or callous disregard for human

life it is also yet another gruesome indication of how the penalty is being used as a political tool to crush dissent from within the country's shia minority in fact almost half of those killed were executed after taking part in pro-democracy protests see the arab spring didn't skirt saudi arabia the shia minority rose up and wanted change better fairer life the king obviously thought they wanted too much it's not the first time which saudi arabia that you know t. to punish prisoners of conscious rule who dared to talk about the human rights violations in the country we were surprised by by what happened yesterday because we thought that it was like something we shouldn't have happened at and in any in any case or any time it's not the first time so debuts such punishment and to crush

it since one of those executed by the way was sixteen years old at the time of his arrest for attending a protest apparently he was still a kid now is an example you wouldn't believe how creative the saudis are when it comes to killing prisoners in fact the current king began his reign by staging a massive execution forty seven people beheaded shot for crimes that included this a big saudi rulers biggest blood show since the nine hundred eighty s. who said fictions and common peaked in two thousand and twelve five people were strung up paralysis reportedly is also in a judge's arsenal seriously they can sentence a person to be paralyze. punishment roots back to four thousand year old law that someone wrote on a stone pillar to throw

a tooth and literally in this case an eye for an eye saudis took that stone very seriously in two thousand and five a court in saudi arabia ordered a migrants i get out as punishment for getting into a fight amputation also a favorite especially for theft chopping off people's arms and feet stealing and of course stoning reserved for crimes like being too friendly with the opposite sex what can you say you want to cherry on top saudi arabia's on the un human rights council. what a world that sends an extremely worrying signal to the shia community regarding you know standing up for their rights i mean there are many of the shia community huge will stand up for the rights this will certainly. dissuade them or serve to

dissuade them for doing such a thing notably we've heard nothing from the united states of america perhaps others who are involved in supporting saudi arabia in other elements of its public policy say in respect yemen and so on so i am sitting in in the u.k. i haven't heard any particular condemnation from the british government it is completely unclear that international standards of justice a fair trial standards were were followed in this case and thirty seven people is a lot of people to you to execute on any one day it's it's a quite a ruthless move. parents of a swedish national arrested in ecuador for reportedly plotting against the president of been allowed to visit the site in jail a swedish foreign minister's demonic would or explain his arrest. the man detained is all i've been using a computer program he's an expert in cyber security and also

a digital privacy advocate it was the turning just hours after julian assads was arrested in the ecuadorian embassy in london is being charged with hacking computer systems in the country it's father told us his son's rights were violated he didn't get to talk to slower in the right time and he didn't. get to me to consul in the right time and there was so many wrong things that were done there everything else is that one book of noam chomsky and us that he has a lot of memory sticks and that is all of her and that is not enough to arrest the person meanwhile human rights activists say there is no proof of all o.b.'s guilt and a number of celebrities and politicians of all who signed an open letter to the swedish government calling it to help program one quarter picks up a story. seems being friends with julian

a sonship might just cost you your freedom as the wiki leaks co-founder was dragged into the back of a british police van another hacktivists shared a similar fate all of beany was arrested on the same day allegedly for working with assad and for several years now one of the key members of the week you leaks in a person close to me is to do the songe has lived in the uk with do and we have sufficient evidence that he has been collaborating with the best bligh's ation attempts against the government prosecutors charged me with attacking ecuadorian computer systems and their evidence laptops and encrypted u.s.b. sticks seized from beanies home president lenin moreno pointed to frequent travel as a mark of guilt suspecting being a visited a songe to do his bidding and one of the reasons he kicked out a songe was suspicion he was using the ecuadorian embassy as a hacktivist ecuador's interior minister says it will not be tolerated even if it's

mere suspicion it is up to the justice system to determine if he committed a crime but we can't allow inquiry to become essential for piracy in spying that period in our history is over so just hours after assad was dragged out of the dorian embassy beenie was detained in quito airport his lawyers say his rights were violated in many ways no charges no translator he was even denied bail and his parents fear for his safety it's a tough time for him he doesn't really understand why he's. forty has been accused of. and this isn't just another hacktivist we're talking about here beanie worked on the advisory board for a major european commission funded project called de code the initiative involves cybersecurity experts researching data ownership and technological sovereignty human rights groups and high profile figures are calling for beanies immediate. release and also in sweden those and big newspaper that has been.

giving out this petition or open letter to our prime minister. should be released and this has been signed over. about one hundred very. prominent persons from around the world it shouldn't be doing this for anyone in ecuador or elsewhere to just know mr assad. several thousand kilometers north another assad sling tact of us to sitting in jail a u.s. federal appeals court has denied chelsea manning bail after she was arrested once again in march and for what refusing to testify in court against a sandwich it seems like any connection to wiki leaks can get you in jail so if you've ever rubbed elbows with julian a songe it might be better to keep quiet about it written spy agency juicy excuse under fire after warning web users cyber security choices will be restricted to do

more to take the burden of cybersecurity over the way from the individual in particular we will work closely with device manufacturers and online platform providers to build security into their products and services at the design stage certainly flemming made the comments at the first u.k. event to feature all five members of the world's largest intelligence alliance called five eyes so it up of the u.s. canada the u.k. australia and new zealand also discussed the safety of five g. technologies with washington pressing our eyes to ditch chinese participation in its development social media lawyer cohen says protecting users may not be paramount for the private firms working with you c h q. things to consider here. julie. that individual on behalf of the government and the government just did the first role of government. and into his company's duty to be

as profitable as they possibly can to all the shareholders. and there really. is an obligation so the requirement to make for example internet safer and more secure. is paramount to. security agencies. clearly into making a difference they don't really care. is my biggest thing about. easing the security issues. beginning to about the identities of the suicide bombers behind the sunday attacks which left three hundred fifty nine people dead the country's authorities say that eight men and one woman who carried out the atrocity and the perpetrators were from wealthy backgrounds one of them

a study in britain and australia partridge has more. one of the suicide bombers has been named as abdul latif a gem ilmor hammett who has a connection with the u.k. . it's one of. the. most people coming back to settle into a suicide bomber most of them will. come from maybe middle of the little girl's head there according to sources mohammed visited southeast england in around two thousand and six to seven to study but did not complete a university degree they later did a post-graduate course in australia before returning to sri lanka where he was one of nine people who carried out a series of blasts targeting churches and hotels and the death toll from the easter sunday bomb attacks across sri lanka has now reached three hundred fifty nine with

more than five hundred people injured and choose day sri lanka's prime minister admitted intelligence agencies had information that could have stopped the attacks if it had been passed on correctly and confirmed there had been a breakdown of communication the leader of the sri lankan parliament even claims senior officials deliberately withheld intelligence about the potential for attacks or britain and the f.b.i. are helping the investigation into who carried out the bombings islamic state has claimed without any evidence that its fighters were responsible the sri lankan defense ministry suggestion this was retaliation for the christ church mosque shootings has been played down by new zealand prime minister arden's office while world leaders and top political figures have condemned the attacks and expressed their condolences for the dead and injured. and it's our expert to me to play a low told us the authorities in the u.k. need to look at why increasing numbers of university students are being radicalized . we're now seeing a lot of students or some students seems to be radicalized and you can invest

this is a trick because if this is becoming a hole for out. there there is need for a reason you of what kind of radicalization is going on in u.k. in this these how to assure that this is stopped. i think it's important to highlight that this is not a forced individual to have gone through the u.k. investee is that had been radicalized we know of. the guy the first guy to try to use a bomb you know. on a plane so we know there are some people who have been coming here and we need to know if it indeed was radicalized in the u.k. . associates so that if they know of. is that they need to be able to apprehend them quickly or even if they do you k. . in a sort of decree simplifying procedures for people in ukraine's territories of that

scale grants to receive russian passports a colleague discussed the issue with our correspondent. well the queen is now signed by president putin and comes into force immediately and that basically means that people leave in its new craning and self proclaimed republics of didn't ask and lugansk will now have their right to get a russian passport in an easy way meaning less papers less time the law says it's not going to take less more than three months which is twice as less as for ordinary people and at the end of the day it will also promise less nightmare for these people of course the law says that it's done quotation on humanitarian grounds with the aim of protecting people's rights and freedoms. we don't have any intention to create problems for the new. routines but we cannot tolerate a situation where people living in the territory of these. regions are completely

deprived of civil rights this already goes beyond borders in terms of human rights they cannot move. the basic rights this is a purely humanitarian question and of course you've been covering the situation in the region since the start of the crisis back in two thousand and fourteen right yes you know i remember that day today almost exactly five years ago in april two thousand and fourteen people forty's announced the beginning of what they called counterterrorist operation eastern ukraine with all possible weaponry involved and since then the situation in these regions has only been deteriorating the un says that thirteen thousand people have been killed as a result infrastructure you can imagine has been dramatically destroyed so life has never been easy there till today it's hard and of course it's neither safe nor comfortable to live there of course there's also the economic blockade in the list of issues for the region what do we know about that sure these regions to have been

on to see their economic blockade since two thousand and fifteen if i'm not mistaken even the ois see members working on the ground have been. to be reporting that it may lead to a humanitarian catastrophe in the region so you may imagine i mean how harsh conditions living conditions for their people in these regions are no surprise three hundred sixty thousand ukrainian citizens have moved to russia in the last five years many of them have already applied to have russian pas purged but it has never been easy and with this decree with this recent amendment i think things will change and we have to remember that this is just one of a series of multiple measures russia as a state has recently on the taken in this direction so it's not just about paperwork again it is about helping these people that are in extremely difficult situation that the border to me beautiful my theme of this is

a positive step because our people cannot use ukrainian citizenship properly green and it would be much better for them to get russian citizenship and have rights. we want to get russian passports and we will get them so we already have the u.s. passports we're so glad putin signed this decree which is. to believe that all this suffering somewhere north of the plane and that will be able to have a better life. and encroached on ukrainian sovereignty in the sense that they regard it's going to go to space and take parts of ukraine and they receive is moscow you know encroaching on that plate. to people that they would perceive to be cranes in those regions even though those people themselves might find passports far more valuable here inside russia you've got to look at it from a different perspective right the fact is that there are three million ukrainian citizens and russian moment there are far more ukrainians and that here that the russian citizenship is that acquired over decades or years but there are three

million ukrainian citizens right now this would be seen as a humanitarian thing and say russia because these people for five years they've been in a state of limbo many have expired. board the event document issued by the separatists ministrations in lugansk internet is completely worthless. because the countries don't recognize them. but as i said the west would see this. nation of ukraine sovereignty they may see this propagation but they're coming out of totally different point of view the. other has indeed been an outpouring of condemnation from western capitals in recent hours the u.s. state department's call on russia's move a highly provocative action which amounts to an assault on ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. of the philippines will declare war against canada to result would dispute over waste disposal that's according to the president of the southeast asian nations who declare war against canada we can take them down

over turn in their trash just wait and see i would advise canada that your garbage is on the way prepare a great reception eat it if you want to more than a hundred containers of waste think getting used diapers was shipped to the philippines five years ago reportedly mislabeled as material for recycling kind of has refused to take it back however prime minister justin trudeau is striking a conciliatory tone there's now theoretically possible to get it back but there's still a number of questions around who will pay for it where the financial responsibility is where the consequences are as we got some reaction to this street from political analyst richard a darian an investigative journalist bernard there's again. it's not that it matters at present it's there it has a very early toxic relationship canada so now it comes to canada is a gays well you guys dared to question my human rights and then you're going to adopt my con but you eat lots of materials and garbage no way even though of course the water rectory cannot be taken literally but clearly of course i think it's

completely unfair to just blame you certainly that seat of the canadian government alone and of course it would be nice to present in their dollars a question that private companies or delphi are these both in canada and in the philippines or lot for these kind of this will go on for quite a long time if you look at the population density. surely beings as both. inhabitants square kilometer and. for less than four so i mean if you don't josh in a country which is so densely populated in point on share anything the camera could certainly find a means when there is a will there's a way can this. make sure everybody human rights about democracy and about the environment but seems to be quite slow acting in this case there's the headlines at four am here in moscow join us again at the top of the

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