putin and kim jong il wouldn't hold their first ever summit together describing the meeting is highly productive expressed a willingness to work towards the nuclear i say the korean. we just had a fairly narrow one to one conversation under three q the greek tragedy. also to come this hour human rights groups condemn is great test the beheading by saudi arabia of thirty seven people mostly from the shia minority and the largest mass execution in years. and the u.n. report claims government u.s. and international forces in afghanistan are responsible for more civilian deaths in the militants they've been fighting to get reaction from locals. for the child or

woman killed in afghanistan the afghan government should ask the foreign forces about them but there is no one to watch out and so we want the americans and i says to stop killing our people we do when the u.s. and nato. ally well can watching the international worse just gone ten am here in moscow. putin in conjunction have described death first ever summit together as highly productive president putin welcomed his north korean counterpart in the far eastern city of latifah stuck. yes the store says that we just had a fairly narrow one to one conversation we managed to talk about the history of our bilateral relations and about the present day and the prospects of developing those relations but of course we also talked about the situation on the korean peninsula and exchanged views on what needs to be done to improve the situation on the

audience mr president we have just had authority exchange of opinions face to face on all natural matters of mutual importance and i thank you for the great times we had was and it is a. one on one behind closed doors more talks alongside advisors and government ministers and finally an extra round of discussions at a dinner table with caviar that was the plan and the first ever historic summit of kim jong un and vladimir putin is underway and i can tell you that we were only shown three when the chairman and the president were together first we saw the handshake outside university doors that's right the summit is happening at a university and vladivostok we saw very friendly faces and the leaders to.

things like nice to meet you good to meet you thank you very much a couple of minutes later we saw a straight line of high ranking russian officials i believe there were around ten of them and. came up to every single one of them and shook their hands moments later the two leaders were sitting in confortable chairs in front of flags smiling and it was clear that they were trying to do their best to be nice to each other now let's take a listen to what else was said in that room. i'm sure that your visit to russia will help to develop bilateral relations between our countries and will help us to better understand what ways russia can contribute to those positive processes that are happening right now on the korean peninsula i also hope there will be fruitful for the friendly relations that our countries have alone. and i hope that we will have

a substantial exchange of goods i'm sure of it. so possibly what we're hearing from. may be careful sawing that moscow is sending out that the russian government could be to become a top. between two koreas russia finds itself in a unique position when it has good relations with both of them and i guess it is not a coincidence that later on thursday at a completely different location the president of south korea will be meeting a top russian security official want to day the russian government together with china has been proposing a peace road map for years which is based on mutual concessions and the key word here is mutual russia's message has been that there's no way out of the stalemate without at least a partial lifting of the sanctions against pyongyang and also the scaling down of

military drills in the south that are often being held together with guess who uncle sam in fact just on monday washington in seoul launched another round of aerial military drills in the region and as kim john who was meeting the russian president here in vladivostok we got a statement from north korean officials which called that a provocation and also warned that their military will respond to that we also have to remember what happened a couple of months ago and last year the summits of kim john newman the american president donald trump there were two but i guess they were not successful in the sense that nothing came out of them and the form of specific deals or agreements being signed and there you have a chairman kim is in

a lot of off stock russia bugs we won't hear from him anymore there will be no joint press conference but we'll get to ask the russian president vladimir putin questions he will spend i believe about twenty minutes or half. an hour talking to the journalists i'll be there for you and tell you about everything that comes out of that harbor station with the journalists who are prank their reporting from friday for stockwell the director of the china national association of international studies victor gav believes russia could play an important role in key issues with north korea during this summit meeting many things can be possible including increased cooperation between russia and d p r k however there is still a united nations sanctions against the d.p. r. k. and i'm afraid russia's hands are probably tied in how much they can do in

terms of economic cooperation with the key issue of the korean peninsula is still the. issue i think both china and the united states are following the situation in vladivostok very closely it will take many parties to tangle together to really achieve this goal and what russia is also very important through this summit meeting russia was again demonstrates it's a country of great interest in international relations and the case denuclearization issue cannot be achieved without active participation and involvement by russia but of course much more is expected to come from this summit between that image and kim jong un we'll keep you updated with the very latest here and r.t. international. now

leading human rights groups have been scathing over saudi arabia's execution this week of thirty seven men mostly from the shia minority on terror violence and unrest related charges they describe the punishment as great teske when among those executed was a minor that's according to amnesty international while the body of another convict was strung up in public following his execution human rights watch stresses it marks no landing escalation the use of the death penalty in the country with more his word against the few things so as much fear into the hearts of your own people as mass executions the men were executed for adopting terrorists an extremist 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 no authority and 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'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 they wanted change better fairer life the king obviously thought

they wanted too much. one of those executed by the way was sixteen years old at the time of his arrest attending a protest apparently he was still a kid now he's an example in fact the current king began his reign by staging a massive execution forty seven people back headed short for crimes that included disobey and saudi rulers biggest blood show since the nine hundred eighty s. who said fictions and common peaked in two thousand and twelve one five people were strung up paralysis reportedly is also in

a judge's arsenal seriously they can sentence a person to be paralyzed as punishment roots back to a four thousand year old law or that someone wrote on a stone below to throw a tooth and literally in this case a knife or a knife saudis took that stone here. very seriously in two thousand and five a cordon 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 for 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 u.n. human rights council what a world. has defended its decision to execute the individuals it does say will not

hesitate to punish anybody threatening the security and stability of the kingdom spokes person for the gulf institute for democracy and human rights yasbeck the billies riyadh's justice system does allow to tackle anybody whose views differ from the official position. it's not the first time which so very be you that if you know t. took punish prisoners of conscience who hold dared to spoke out about the human rights violations in the country we've not just dared there and i think around five of their of their executive people you all where really charged by terrorists didn't read them tried it we don't trust. i really enjoyed your system we don't trust how did how did they get through to you handled the magic specially against the producers hold took to the streets to demand rights and freedoms and who spoke

out about what was happening in the country. as most of the gulf kingdom so the idea being if you did you show the system to fabricated charges against their dissidents especially against the activists who spoke out all the rules of their social media outlets or rules participated in demonstrations there is a taboo in the gulf kingdom especially in saudi arabia no one is a low just speak about what's happening in the country. in afghanistan local government u.s. and international forces have been responsible for more civilian deaths from the militant forces they've been fighting according to a new u.n. report the findings do reveal in the first three months of twenty nineteen almost six hundred civilian deaths were documented in the country and pro-government forces are responsible for more than half of them the majority of the fatalities

were the result of airstrikes the number of deaths is up thirty nine percent compared to the previous year we are asked locals there for their reaction. among the more than you know we always requested from the american forces and the afghan government if you want to bombard any areas please take care of the civilians there are civilians maybe a child or woman killed in afghanistan afghan government should ask the foreign forces about them but there is no one to ask we have concerns. not of our people have been killed or injured we have become widows children have lost their fathers people have lost our lives we want the americans in isis to stop killing our people we don't want the u.s. and nato here we will work with each other. and we request from foreign forces and afghan government forces and from the taliban that if you are fighting with each other do not use a residential areas as a position if the american forces do not take into consideration the civilian casualties in afghanistan and they continue killing civilians by name in them

insurgents the future will be very bad for them. u.s. military forces have launched investigations after previous u.n. reports the us currently hold has about fourteen thousand troops in afghanistan most of them are involved in non operational nato led training missions reports back in december claimed donald trump had decided to reduce u.s. forces in the country although there's been no sign of that being put into action the war in afghanistan is america's longest ever conflict but a research analyst at the center for conflicts and peace study says it's interesting the afghan government only started to raise concerns about civilian deaths to relations with the u.s. soured. yeah one government has to. be responsible for this in and address concerns of the locals to protect them but a lot of the time when there was airstrikes in the air bombardments by the afghan

or the american forces the f one garment would not even come to condemn it in that it was unfortunate that the latest condemnation came after relations between kabul in washington deteriorated. now a stinking raw has developed between the philippines and canada amid a big dispute over dumping trash we'll have a look at the story just after the break. you know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past

each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic developments only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. hello again microsoft's watchdog courtney's god has turned his attention to the

u.k. it's labeled as trustworthy three tabloid newspapers the sun the daily mirror and the daily star and that's not the only decision of the so-called black list to be called into question and one quarter has more story. remember news guard that handy dandy microsoft program that tells you what is and isn't fake news while they're still hard at work putting little green checkmarks next to information they like in search engines use guards' co-founder calls it applying a little common sense to searching information we're going to a ploy common sense to a problem that the algorithms haven't been able to solve we're going to hire the dozens of journalists to read and review the seventy five hundred news information so common sense might not be enough if the admins are living under a rock the whole robert muller's report is out and many liberal tall tales about trump russia collusion have been debunked still

a lot of those stories are marked with a big friendly checkmark trump sharing polling data with the russians check except it's not true muller subpoenaing bank records check but same thing not true trumps lawyer secretly meeting with a kremlin official in prague well at least they change the article a bit still a big check even though the title isn't exactly true in fact the checkmarks don't even have to do with how wrong the story is if news guard trusts the outlet they're good to go are green red reading signal if website is trying to get it right where instead has a hidden agenda or knowingly publishes falsehoods or propaganda so i guess the takeaway from that is that outlets like the new york times and buzz feed's don't really have hidden agendas and if that sounds ridiculous to you don't worry news guard will make sure you know right from wrong soon enough what's interesting to

note is their reaction is they're saying we are not necessarily acknowledging or passing judgment on the veracity and accuracy of the information we're just passing judgment. on these source of it these people this source this group this website this newspaper this whatever we give them our check mark we approve of them what they say wow we don't really necessarily pass judgment on that if you go down the list of all of those items which have passed editorial muster it's the same it's breathtakingly obvious to anybody that if you're a story or if you are source repeats this mean this trope that there was russian collusion obstruction of justice anything negative to

trump it will be checked and they're proved without and me problem not misleading trustworthy verifiable job well done. the former vice president joe biden will officially reveal today what's been one of the worst kept secrets in u.s. politics he's entering the twenty twenty race for the presidency early polls to show he is currently the most popular candidate among the democrats but it seems the road to the white house for biden could be littered with potholes from his pastas kind of explains. joe biden barack obama's vice president is set to announce his presidential bid for twenty twenty at this point he is the most popular potential nominee among democrats now joe biden is a long time democratic party superstar he has a long career representing delaware in the u.s. senate however growing numbers are concerned about his record let's not forget that

he supported george w. bush's invasion of iraq and pushed the lie about weapons of mass destruction saddam is dangerous the world would be a better place without him but the reason he poses a growing danger to the united states and its allies is that he possesses chemical and biological weapons and he's not the me too candidate by a long shot not only does joe have his own touchy feelie proclivities but he jumped over the need to hill way back in one nine hundred ninety one when she was accusing them supreme court nominee clarence thomas of sexual harassment it is appropriate to ask professor who anything any member wishes to ask her to plumb the depths of her credibility and joe's also a lock him up guy he was one of the most outspoken supporters of bill clinton's one thousand nine hundred ninety four bylane crime control act which led to an

explosion in the u.s. prison population which critics now see as a big problem joe is also a big supporter of the death penalty even calling for its expansion biden probability before us calls for the death penalty for forty fifty one offense. why again the newspaper recently wrote that something to the effect that biden has made a death penalty offense for everything with j. walk back when bill clinton's crime bill passed joe biden was such an outspoken supporter he said quote i'd like to be running and have someone use the crime bill against me welcome to twenty nineteen joe at this point your biggest opponent bernie sanders actually wants prisoners to be able to vote socialism is now a favorite word among young people and your tough on crime talking points might come back to haunt you now the twenty twenty democratic primary is still a fair way off but if joe biden things it's going to be just

a typical action he may be in for a big surprise. artsy new york. the philippines president well known for making some rather bold statements as threatened war with canada over a long lasting dispute about rubbish would really go deter you gave canada one week to take back trash containers sent to the country shores five years ago. who declare war against canada we can take them down over it in the trash just wait and see i would advise canada that your garbage is on the way prepare a gram reception each if you want to well more than one hundred containers packed with thousands of tons of an recyclable waste were shipped to the philippines five years ago reportedly mislabeled as material for recycling the philippines has been trying to ship the trash back since then but to no avail canada has refused to take it back however prime minister justin trudeau is striking

a conciliatory. is directly 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 well we've got reaction to the dispute from the political analyst richard he daddy in and also investigative journalist again. fact that it matters at present there it has a very very toxic relationship canada so now when it comes to canada it's a gays well you guys dared to question my human rights and then you're going to dump my cunt what you would call sick materials and garbage no way even though of course the water rectory littered 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 president also question the private companies or forty's both in canada and in the philippines or lot for these kind of crap this will go on for quite a long time if you look at the population density of the show we beings as about

three hundred fifty have been tense hours longer and were asked counting those about 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 camera could certainly find a means when there's a will there's a way of us likes to make sure everybody about human rights about democracy and about the environment but seems to be quite slow in acting in this case and that brings you up to date for this hour thanks for watching we're back again with the headlines and more stories and just dive off a. liberal

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turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very first character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election besan exist for the more we give them the sooner we are all. the united states relations with russia or iran have never been particularly cordial but under the presidency of donald trump both took a downward spiral there have been sanctioned attempts at isolation and a badge of evil for both moscow and to iran how are the two leveraging american

envoy to. syria. broadcasting around the world covering all aspects of business and finance and how it affects you this is the us i'm christi paul bar in washington d.c. we're glad you're on board coming up oil prices are on the rise as the trump administration has targeted iranian oil with one simple goal. but to get countries to see supporting the radio world entirely less they've ever granted exemption from our sensors to seven countries due to a war with this is always importers to wean themselves off of the real world if

you're sure a well supplied oil market. former pentagon official michael monk maloof and analyst david mack benny joins us to drill into what this movie and not just for the global oil market but also what this means for the state of geopolitics. plus with iran oil's exports in the crosshairs what is the plan to compensate the global oil market and in particular how oil behemoth saudi arabia will react r.t. correspondent alex mchale of edge breaks down what this all means for other oil providers. and later with the e.u. and china building more in-roads literally in the wake of the american trade war musters may be interested to know just how much of the e.u. does china now own professor richard joins us to analyze the potential superpowers on their way across the atlantic all of that directly ahead but first we have some headlines let's go. a budding bidding war in the energy.