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life. thanks for joining us on the program this hour now russia's pacific port city of lot of our stock is gearing up for the first ever summit between president vladimir putin and the leader of north korea kim jong un our correspondent who is in the city ahead of the talks. 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 the owner of will 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 vehicle could 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 break through but it didn't happen no agreements or deals were signed being yang 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. let's go live now to jim co-founder of the lawyers for peace and demilitarization in korea organizations thanks for joining us on the program good to have you on today. what you can expect from the summit community said he was hoping for a successful and useful visit what do you think not couldn't miss that. well i think it's always important that these leaders in this region meet that people cross borders safely they be good it begins to break down borders if you will it begins to break down obstacles to peace and so i don't suspect that there's a lot of leeway on the part of. president putin and the russians to make

a big difference in the log jam right now but as we know as we're talking about in the united states there's been a certain money influence in the trumpet ministration by the russian administration and so who knows i do think though that seriously that we will face a situation where. russians can go to the united nations and make an appeal jointly with china to the security council to begin a structured rollback of saying sions and that may lead to some progress i just want to talk about the timing of this meeting slotting because obviously there have been unsuccessful summits between the north korean leader and president trump which has resulted in perhaps a minus steps forward but it's more like one step forward two steps back of the as it goes now do you think the russian leader could have some more success here i

mean how much leverage those moscow have opinion. well do do remember that the steps forward. i don't quite agree that it's two steps backwards i think that we were on the edge of war in many ways a lot of rhetoric back and forth a lot of threats fire and fury and i think we've grown a little past that however i think at this point in time i think washington can can begin to get on board and become a leader in this in working this out or if the movies did begin to revive the six party talks if you will which included japan and south korea russia china and the u.s. and north korea that these types of talks and move that way will do nothing but dilute the thunder of president trump and so if they think that perhaps that's on

the horizon i'm not sure that that going to be something that this is ministration is going to like because i think he's going to be looking at the appropriate time for a victory that could help him out domestically here at home you mentioned that the possible restarting of those six party talks that would could be a step forward certainly where do you think the solution lies the very cross on the korean peninsula because obviously the korean leadership was made at north korea leadership has been quite clear they view nuclear weapons as being crucial to their survival they want the sanctions lifted fully which obviously trump didn't want to do. how can we make progress through this deadlock. the only way to make progress and i've been saying it for years here is as have as many others is to have a peace treaty to end the war to establish a relationship to have dialogue and communication so that these things can be dealt

with i mean my god we have relations with other countries on the planet that have a lot of serious problems whether it's weapons whether it's saudi arabia the war in in yemen the the the decapitation of of people dissidents that took place today we don't not have relations ships with that country we're not at war with that country we're not saying shinning saudi arabia we're selling them more weapons and we need to step back from this into the twenty first century which is based on relationship and not this cold war saber rattling and we need to go forward with in resolution to the korean war i think that what can come out of this summit is that president putin can take the have position a strong position one chaired by president moon i believe in south korea and say we all support

a formal peace treaty end the war then let's talk about the past to the nuclear age do nuclear ization and the lifting of sanctions and do that in a way that makes sense not in a way that continues to hurt the food deprived people in north korea but one that really helps us to step out of a sanction and punishment mode and into one of relationship and that's that's how you have peace and demilitarization and denuclearization and obviously did nuclear relations going through the major issue that the world's media is going to be focusing on in this summit but what about russia north korea and asians they base share a common border. russia alongside china has been one of the countries that's been perhaps not support of north korea but more understanding towards their concerns perhaps the some of the countries that trade though has been falling over the last couple of years do you think this can lead to some sort of strengthening of ties

economic ties political ties between the two countries sure i mean this last year trade between russia and north korea fell by over fifty percent that's a huge drop mostly because of the sanctions and such but i think that you made a great point there the the russians have a real interest it's on their border they probably don't want to have thirty thousand or more u.s. troops on their border either and so consequently you know is a is some form of unification of south and north korea venture early is that in the interest of russia i think we're going to have to do a lot of work to get there including questioning the role of u.s. troops in the region and in order to truly have peace because when you have that many troops in countries with huge military naval and and land

bases. we are looking at a situation that could be quite volatile going forward even between the superpowers so we really think i really think this is an opportunity to get peace and put peace at the top of the agenda and have denuclearization be a consequence of that and i think building relations between russia and north korea can do anything other than strengthen peace in the region. this is the first meeting with obviously putin and. one of his first trips abroad aside from china last year and twenty eight obviously true. but the most historic as well do you think these sorts of meetings of the north korean north korean leader and a sitting u.s. president the russian president that cetera is a perhaps symbolic of more of a willingness from pyongyang to show some some really way to show some ball game

here get out there and negotiate around the table and perhaps get that peace treaty moving forward which you have said is crucial to establishing peace on that continent yes we've had for too long demonization running the ship the crazy leaders. looking at the situation in north korea with a lot of judgment and it's not that they don't have problems and it's not that they don't have human rights challenges and i'm not saying that i'm simply saying that in this climate to be able to as a leader in the country with nuclear weapons without nuclear weapons if you can stand. face to face with people magical things can happen if both parties have an intent to get to peace and unfortunately some of the people who've gotten involved in us negotiations john bolton and some others have long said their

objective is the end of north korea and that doesn't build relationship meeting at this level seeing eye to eye working. on going forward and a path forward exchanging embassies having a more exchange and trade that brings the world together instead of violence. absolutely the two leaders have said they're not going to make any sort of joint press conference or particular announcements at the end of the summit but certainly world's press what's in very closely to what's going to be a very interesting meeting erik's iraq and co-founder of the lawyers for peace in korea organization thank you sir for your time today thank you. the parents of a swedish national rested in ecuador for reportedly plotting against the president have been allowed to visit their son in jail swedish foreign ministers demanding ecuador explain his the tension the man arrested is all over binney who's

a computer programmer he's an expert in cyber security and also a digital privacy advocate it was the tane just hours after julian assad was arrested in the ecuadorian embassy in london mini's charged with hacking computer systems in the country his 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. give it to me to call so when there was so many wrong things that were gone the evidence is that one book of noam chomsky that he has a lot of memory sticks and assaulted her and there's not enough to arrest the person i mean while human rights activists say there's no proof of binny's guilt and a number of celebrities and politicians have also aside an open letter to the swedish government calling it to help free the program a little quarter story. seems being friends with giuliana 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 being he was arrested on the same day allegedly for working with assad which for several years now one of the key members of the week you leaks any person close to mr julian assange has lived in that would do and we have sufficient evidence that he has been collaborating with the best to block his ation attempts against the government prosecutors charged with attacking ecuadorian computer systems and their evidence laptops and encrypted u.s.b. stick seized from beanies home president lenin moreno pointed to frequent travel as a mark of guilt suspecting beenie 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 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 being he 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 and he doesn't really understand way he. or she has been accused of. and this isn't just another hacktivist we're talking about here beany worked on the advisory board for a major european commission funded project called decode 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 the big newspaper that has been. giving out this petition over open letter to our prime minister. that he should be released and this has been signed over. above hundred very. prominent persons from rome it shouldn't be doing interest for anyone in ecuador or has to just know mr sachs several thousand kilometers north another assan sling tactic is 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. leading rights groups have

delivered a scathing rebuke to saudi arabia over the execution of thirty seven men on terror related charges on tuesday and of the international said many of the convictions were handed down in sham trials a market alarming escalation in the authorities use of the death penalty human rights watch has described the punishments as a grotesque morag as if i was more. few things so as much fear into the hearts of your own people as 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 arabian or thirty's callous disregard for human life it is also yet another gruesome indication of how the death penalty is being used as a political tool to crush dissent from within the country its sheer 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 that saudi arabia did you know t. to punish prisoners of conscious rule who dared to talk to you. and rights violations in the country we were surprised by by what happened yesterday because we thought that it was. something we shouldn't have happened at and in any in any case or any time but it's not the first time such a punishment to crash since one of those executed by the way was sixteen years old at the time of his arrest attending a protest apparently 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 behaved in short 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 paralyzed punishment roots back to a four thousand year old law that someone wrote on a stone bill or two through a tooth and literally in this case a knife or and i. took that stone very seriously in two thousand and five a court in saudi arabia ordered a migrants i gagged out as punishment for getting into a fight and beautician 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 or 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 was not 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 and 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 to execute on any one day it's it's a quite a ruthless move. saudi arabia's defended its decision to execute the individuals it says it will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening security and stability in the kingdom. details are beginning to emerge about the identities of the suicide bombers behind because he's the son the 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 on the perpetrators were from wealthy backgrounds one of them and studied in britain and australia kate partridge as the story. one of the serious side bombers has been named as abdul latif and jameel mohamed who has a connection with the u.k. we believe that one of the suicide bombers studied. the.

these forced budget cuts before coming back to sydney it's true that this was a moment most will. come from maybe middle of the little. head there according to sources. how met visited southeast england in around two thousand and six to seven to study but did not complete a university degree the 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 just into 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 a load all this the authorities in the u.k. need to look at why increasing numbers of university students are being radicalized . we're now seeing gradually a lot of students or some students seems to be radicalized and you can invest this this is a trick because if this is becoming a hopeful article is it that there is need for a review of what kind of radicalization is going on in the 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 u.k. universities that have been radicalized in the north. they get a false guide 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. who waste associates so that if they know. there is they need to be able to apprehend them quickly or even if they do you k. . the philippines will declare war against canada to resolve the dispute over waste disposal lots of chording to the president of the southeast asian country who declare war against canada we can take them down over a chair in our trash just wait and see our voice counted or that your garbage is on the way prepare

a gram reception each if you want. all backgrounds all this more than one hundred containers of waste including used diapers were shipped to the philippines five years ago they were reportedly mislabeled as material for recycling canada has refused to take it back however prime minister justin trudeau is striking a diplomatic turn. this 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 i would get reaction to the dispute from political analyst. and investigative journalist but on a does go on. the fact that it matters at present there it has a very very toxic relationship we canada so now when it comes to canada is a days well you guys dared to question my human rights and then you're going to dump mike on what you would call sick materials and garbage no way even though of course that water rectory cannot be taken literally but clearly of course i think it's completely unfair to just blame you certainly the seat of the canadian

government alone and of course it would be nice if present in their dollars a question that private companies or for these boards in canada and philippines or lot for these kind of grow up this will go on for quite a long time if you look at the population density. surely beings as of zero three hundred fifty. habitants square kilometer and we're asking. for less than four so i mean if you don't charge in a country which is so densely populated. it's quite unfair i think the cabinet could certainly find a means when there is a will there's a way likes to make sure everybody human rights about democracy and about the environment but seems to be quite slow in acting in this case. us some of the russia has said two laws is currently in the mediterranean to send a clear signal to moscow. each of the carry is operating in the mediterranean at

this time represent one hundred thousand tons of international diplomacy if russia truly seeks better relations with the united states it must cease its destabilizing activities around the world you just heard the u.s. ambassador to russia calling at that to us. aircraft carriers operating in the mediterranean sea the diplomatic mass to moscow as the embassador even visited one of the carious himself unschooled for russia to stop its destabilizing activities for the first time since twenty sixteen the united states is deploying two aircraft carrier so close to russia's territory at the moment there are over ten ships one hundred thirty aircraft and over nine thousand marines and sailors presence in the area and this is how a u.s. commander is describing the current strike group operations.