both took a downward spiral there have been sanctioned attempts at isolation and a badge of evil from both moscow and to iran how is it to be leveraging american over. two hours in face to face talks of the russian president vladimir putin and his north korean counterpart kim jong un their first ever summit describing the meeting as highly productive both expressed a willingness to work towards the denuclearize asian kareen i mean should. we just had a fairly full right one two one conversation three q. for the great try and should we are. also human rights groups condemn this great test saudi arabia's beheading of thirty seven mostly from the shia minority the body of one convict was even strung up in public following the largest mass execution in needs and the un will claim that governments u.s.

and international forces in afghanistan the responsible for more civilian deaths in the minutes since they've been fighting to get reaction from the. child or woman killed in afghanistan the afghan government should ask the foreign forces about them but there is no one to ask which outcome so we want the americans and i says to stop killing our people we don't want the u.s. and nato you. know they're just going eleven am here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the first round of meetings between the russian president vladimir putin and his north korean counterpart kim jong un has wound up after the leaders spent almost two hours talking face to face this is the first ever meeting between putin and kim which they described as highly productive. and that's just

we just had a fairly full right one two 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 criticisms we have just had a foreign exchange of opinions traced to face. of mutual importance and i think you agree. that one on one behind closed doors more talks alongside advisers 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 under way and i can tell you that we were only shown three scenes 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 kim 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 that i'm reaching will be fruitful for the friendly relations that our countries have loan. and i hope that we will have a substantial exchange of books i'm sure of it so possibly what we're hearing from vladimir putin may be careful saw ns that moscow is sending out that the russian government could be to become a top mediator 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 what today 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 this 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 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

press. 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 but 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 i'll tell you about everything that comes out of that conversation with the journalists. in a prank of am trying to force talk force let's bring in doctors today i'm charlie he's a professor and dean of the jindo school of international affairs good to have you on thanks for your time today we haven't heard much detail about exactly what was talked about between these two leaders today but they've both said look it's been

highly productive what would you anticipate would come out of this meeting or sort of concrete things would you be looking for. well and right thing for us to follow you know there needs to be a broader market lateral process to solve this problem and i think russia. in a car china as well as the other countries into certain countries. you know on the six party talks about some format of a broader. beyond the bilateral for market which trumpeter can go on have tried you know easily is needed right now or so i think some guidance to visit and this very interesting summit meeting between president putin and kim jong un should possibly broaden the you know diplomatic. to try and resolve this problem because if it's a one on one which is in clumps preference generally diplomatically is all going to

want that bilateral. means the problem is that they have been trying to grow wheat not korea and you know force it to give concessions and that's not going anywhere and as you've seen the summit that he saw it makes sense i think if we get more players to have more he talks to the actors involved in this thing those are the ways. of a stalemate and it's not going to change nothing much is going to change because i mean hardliners in the combatant station especially john bolton the national ticket better place that these guys they believe that you know or should use you know over looming threat and sanction and force to get their way but i think he is proving that it is going to stand its own and demand something in return and i think to break out of this you know my we are higher they are going to thing which the common theme is bringing we need more players and index sense if russia comes along

if china or some other countries libyans and possibly even we all need to be involved because. we want to solve the problem and not just treat it just. how fragile is the situation on the korean peninsula right now because we understand that north korea says look we respond to this new joint military operation is taking place between south korea and the u.s. on the peninsula i mean from your perspective are things getting worse there or is it seems does it seem to be a status quo where there's always tension but it doesn't really seem to be ratcheting up much. well it could go up you know the frustration from the fear of being i know somebody slowly you know gaining ground zero because of the navajo you recently tested the so-called tactical weapon. and then you know that it could also restart you know nuclear program and make it more visible so there are a lot of means by which they can farhi you know and that's what kyung assuring both

by being in russia but also by history it revving up these existing missile and nuclear programs and there has been concern that the north koreans also hide a lot of you know on the side of. the cities and those could be in our class forwarded so i think that kind of sticking and in many base trumps try to short some are going see and some loony shit if it's personal diplomacy but i think i do see that there is a track administration there where the hardliners like holden do not want any kind of concessions to be made and that does lead to the stalemate so completely out of it you know and to reduce the spiting from again going back to the you remember when not what he was testing i.c.b.m. said trump was saying fire and fuel he and we're going to be so i them and all that we don't want to again go back to that kind of the stabilizing rhetoric on both sides so i think it's very important that the control of now the more players being

involved before it goes out of hand it will be return to that all of you know high level of hostility to lead to you an accidental nuclear war you know and that's the worst case scenario that must be prevented on cost we need to rebuild confidence on both sides and no harm in having more clear it's like russia involved ok we're going to leave it there but it's a really nice tilted i was told to saddam ceria and he's a professor ending of a general school of international affairs thank you. and of course a much more is expected to come from this summit between fatima putin and kim jong un and we will keep you updated on the very latest here at r.t. international. now a 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 the body of one convict was strung up in public to following

his execution among those executed was a minor that's according to amnesty international human rights watch stresses it marks an alarming escalation in the use of the death penalty in the country they describe the punishment as grave teske with more details his murder against the. few things so was much fear into the hearts of your own people there was 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 them 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 mess 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 and 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 behaved it shot for crimes that included this abating saudi rulers biggest blood show since the nine hundred eighty s. who said fictions and common peaked in two thousand and twelve when 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 are i gagged out as punishment for getting into a fight and. 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 you when human rights council what are world. war and gas the if there were saudi arabia has defended its decision to execute the individuals it says it will not hesitate to punish anybody threaten the security and stability of the kingdom a spokesman for the gulf institute for democracy and human rights they may as does believe riyadh's justice system allows it 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 clannish 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. the entity shoe system we don't trust how did how did the saudi authorities handled imagine this in the eighty's the british soldiers 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 saudi arabia uses is to do dishes to step to fabricated charges against their dissidents especially against the activists who spoke out all 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 than the militant forces they've been fighting that's 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 slow of course 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 for any child or woman killed in afghanistan afghan government should ask the foreign forces about them but there is no one to ask without concerns. 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 better that i would that we request from foreign forces and afghan government forces and from the taliban if you are fighting with each other do not use a residential areas as a position or 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 washington currently has about fourteen thousand troops in afghanistan most of them are involved in non operation or nato led training missions reports back in

december claimed don't have decided to reduce u.s. forces in the country although there's been no sign of that being put into action the white house has been seeking the peaceful resolution of its longest ever war but there are concerns that any deal could lead to a new wave of instability in the region. we've spent close to one trillion in afghanistan all that is the truth if you screw up on the day after a peace agreement a dramatic decrease in not only troops but financial support for the afghan government will mean the collapse of the government you have five hundred thousand some troops and police who are trained and have weapons you have sixty thousand taliban who are trained killers they want to be reintegrated plan for that. ok we're going to show you some of the latest pictures now from valuable stock wherever that may putin has met with the. north korean leader he's currently speaking there too did meet behind closed doors for

a couple of hours earlier and then after that both did say that the meeting that they had had been highly constructive so the sorry these are the latest pictures we're looking at now from there later today the summit will continue in delegations from both sides will continue to me also our correspondent frank is also there and that will be going back to him as well throughout the afternoon because we do understand that president putin here will be giving a press conference to you to just go over some of the points that have been raised today this the first ever meeting between that amir putin and kim jong un. and it's gone pretty smoothly so far so of course we'll keep you updated on what's happening . so that's how things are looking so far today we're back with more on you shortly .

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a ploy common sense to a problem that the grooms haven't been able to solve we're going to dozens of journalists to read and review the seventy five hundred news information so it's 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 our green red reading signal if website is trying to get it right we're

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 it will be. proved without any problem not misleading trustworthy verifiable job well done. ok let's show you some of those latest pictures we have received from stock because these are pictures of the summit that's been taking place between the russian president vladimir putin and also conveniently north korea leaders this is the first summit between these two leaders earlier they did have

a face to face meeting which lasted around two hours or so they didn't give much details of exactly what was discussed but the end of that they did say both of them they had been highly constructive it is i think you're leaving now i'm going to stop there and they're obviously having their evening meal and we do expect a press conference too from vladimir putin after this sure exactly when that will happen but as soon as it happens we'll be going straight to. from. or. now the news 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 do show he's currently the most popular candidate among the democrats but the road to the white house for biden could be littered with potholes from his past as 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 violent 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 chroma bill is 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 would jaywalk 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 nine thousand 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 you may be in for a big surprise. r.t. new york. ok we're going to end on some of the latest pictures we've received from already of all stock this between the two leaders the russian president vladimir putin and kim jong il the north korean leader they be meeting today for their first ever summit and they currently are having their evening meal taking place in from stalk and i think we can now listen to what's being said we have towards each other . peoples. are close and we all believe that we can further the quality of our ties we can help each other. find a way to implement our interests we are determined to put our relations on to

a whole new level. that's going to come to all. those you know artsy. wasn't just looking. at the people of north korea. they're nothing but a friendly warm feelings towards the people of russia russia is a great country and. a great friend of ours doesn't want to let you get a war on them or don't do that could you go on one hundred of them do them under the ocean tony i mean an order. today i had a very frank a meaningful conversation with president putin we discussed the development of our ties and cheering peace and stability of the korean putin so there were whole world whiskers a number of global issues which of us can surge to both countries. appears also as

a good year we can will she or i just feel martin was an hour.