to continue someplace else me directly to tell the us about his position latimer putin says kim jong un has asked him to clarify north korea's position to washington after more than two hours of face to face talks between the two leaders at their first ever summit. also this hour human rights groups condemned as pro task saudi arabia's beheading of thirty seven people mostly from the shia minority a body of one convict was even strung up in public following the largest mass

execution in years. also a un report claims government u.s. and international forces in afghanistan are responsible for more civilian deaths and their militants they've been fighting we hear reaction from. the child a woman killed in afghanistan the afghan government should also the foreign forces abound but there is no one to walk through but we have something we want the americans and i says to stop killing our people we do when the u.s. and nato. they're watching are to international bring you here live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. the first ever summit between russian president vladimir putin and his north korean counterpart has reached its conclusion the leaders spent more than two hours in a close face to face meeting discussing. everything from denuclearization to

expanding bilateral relations to take us through all this i am now joined by our correspondent with the press conference that the russian president gave so what's come out of this is summit. jacqueline hi well it turns out that this. is counting on the russian president vladimir putin as a sort of middleman and delivering his messages to the rest of the world leadership of course we do understand that the next destination for mr putin is beijing but it looks like chairman kim is hoping that his message can get all the way to washington through moscow. directly to tell the u.s. about his position and about the questions he has it today with the situation on

the korean peninsula but it's. something else very important that we heard from the russian leader was that mr putin is confident that one of the essential desires of pyongyang and the north korean leadership is international security guarantees guarantees for the sovereignty of the d.p. r. k. and when it comes to nuclearization. and believes that the only way forward is through giving guarantees to the north korean leadership for years russia's position on this has been in fact it was laid out in the. road map that was put together together with beijing is that. they only have to use mutual consent.

the keyword is mutual and these concessions should come from both sides both north korea and south korea along with its allies however a lot of our pool says and he believes that history has shown that every step forward made by washington is always followed by two steps backwards. or. just doing it which to you but with some confidence building measures to be taken which could have been taken back in two thousand and five when the u.s. and north korea came to an agreement however later on for some reason the american partners thought this was not enough that they needed to add something more to this agreement that's when north korea with drew from the treaty if you're making a step forward in two steps back you will never succeed. there is clearly a lot of potential for further meetings between black and kim john on they've shown

a lot of eagerness to become friends send many nice things to each other in fact by the way the president of south korea once just a few hours earlier he said that he hopes that the summit between putin and cam could act as a springboard for further high profile diplomacy between washington and pyongyang and here's how the two leaders assess their summit themselves let's take a listen. because. we just had a fairly 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 because 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. what is mr president we have to just have to authority. your use of opinions trace

to free speech is true much is important and i think you great. so there you have it. had two summits with the american president. in two months we learned that he was heading to a lot of stock for a historic first ever get together with the russian president vladimir putin at neither of these summits any agreements or deals with warsaw and but at least after this one there's a lot of optimism for potential high profile contacts and the future well we'll have to wait and see. from vladivostok thank you for bringing us the latest. for further analysis we're joined by professor ephram and barred from the bank inside at the center for strategic studies in jerusalem welcome to the program now

what do you make of this summit today did she have as much as you went to supported . well it depends on whose perspective you are talking about i think the leader of north. was very successful in meeting putin the president of russia global player and in. trying to extend his freedom of action. americans after all i doubt very much north korea is really willing to give up its nuclear arsenal because this is as insurance policy for the regime so. the north koreans on the playing high level diplomacy you know though that to try to neutralize some of the sanctions the americans. now the south korean president who . said he believes this summit will lay the background to the renewal of the

relations between a plan yang and washington what do you think of that. i think it's to some extent wishful thinking because. it is the made clear he wants. north koreans to start to deliver then go to some of the. poor he says and as long as this doesn't happen there's not going to be any progress in north. american relations. the north korean defense minister says there has to be an end to foreign countries running military drills on the korean peninsula something that they objected to for quite some time do you think that topic would have been raised at the summit. yes probably this is one of the issues that both countries will be interested in who moving american military presence and. taking into account. isolationist instincts

of. this to happen if something is delivered to the americans we heard that putin said chairman kim asked him directly to outline north korea's position to washington d.c. with that suggest that russia is likely to play the role of a mediator in the future between the two of them. well it depends much upon the willingness of the americans to accept such mediation efforts. i sings it's american administration failed say by letter the. course of action. many ministers from both south and north korea have been meeting russian defense officials over the past few days what do you think might have been discussed in those meetings. since the main issue is off the wall in the nuclear arsenal in north korea and as long as north koreans are not. willing to accept some

limitations and internationally specs since. all those talks would not lead to any solution. and peninsula. do you think that today's summit represents a good step forward. it is important to keep this issue. on. international agenda off the wall nuclear proliferation is the new issues that affects the international security and hopefully russia good that was the united states will be able to bring about denuclearization. no school. professor after him and barred from the bag and sat at center for strategic studies and jerusalem thank you so much for joining us on the program today. thank you. for leaving

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 following his execution and among those executed it was a minor at that's according to amnesty international human rights watch star says it marks an alarming escalation in the use of the death penalty in the country they describe the punishment as a grotesque with all the details here's more on gusta. few things so as much fear into the hearts of your own people as mass executions 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 most execution is a chilling demonstration of the saudi arabia no authority is 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 still a kid now is an example in fact of the current king began his reign by staging a massive execution forty seven people by haddad shot 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 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 pillar 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 court in saudi arabia ordered a migrants i gagged out as punishment for getting into a fight and putin 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. saudi arabia has defended its decision to execute the individuals it says it will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and stability of the

kingdom a spokeswoman for the gulf institute for democracy and human rights for t.m.i. yeah i spoke with israel's justice system allows us to tackle anyone whose views different from the official position. of the first time which saudi arabia was that this you know t. took punish prisoners of conscience who dared to spoke out about the human rights violations in the country we've not just there and i think and five of the of the executive people who where really charged by terrorists to terrorism charges we don't trust. any of the entity sure system we don't trust how did how did the saudi authorities handled the matches between the games that were just theirs who 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 is to do the system to fabricate the charges against the dissidents especially against the

activists who spoke out. of the social media outlets or whose participated in demonstrations they think 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 coming up in the program find out which british tabloids have been named as trustworthy news sources by a fake news watchdog that story and more after the break. in the world of big partners mark and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to get this. stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart 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 foundation let it be an arms race is also a spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back to the program microsoft's fake news watchdog called news guard has

turned its 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 blacklist or to be called into question are the quarter picks up the 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 old 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 or 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 approved with and me problem not misleading trustworthy verifiable job well done. in afghanistan local government u.s. and international forces have been responsible for more civilian to us than the militant forces they've been fighting that's according to a new u.n. report the findings were real in the first three months of two thousand one thousand 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 and the number of deaths is up thirty nine percent compared to the previous here we asked locals for their reaction. then 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

any child or woman killed in afghanistan afghan government should ask the foreign forces about them but there is no one to watch without. those of our people being killed or injured we have become widows children have lost my fathers people have lost eyes we won the americans and i says to stop killing our people we don't want the u.s. and nato here we will work with each other. but we think that we request from foreign forces and afghan government forces and from the taliban if you are fighting with each other do not use 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 washington currently has about fourteen thousand troops in afghanistan most of them involved in an operational nato led training missions reports back in december claim donald trump had decided to reduce u.s.

forces in the country about 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 the ghana system all of that is a truce 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. a research analyst at the center for conflict and peace studies says it's interesting the afghan government only started to raise concerns about civilian deaths after relations with the us soured. you have. to. be responsive before this in an address can sons of the locals to protect them

but a lot of the time when there was strikes in bombardments by the. or the american forces the one would not even come to condemn it indeed it was unfortunate the latest condemnation came after relations between kabul and washington deteriorated. former u.s. vice president joe biden has announced he's entering the two thousand and twenty race for the presidency although it didn't come as much of a surprise it's been an open secret for some time early polls 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 and explains 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 need 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 feely 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 hill anything any member wishes to ask her. to. 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 is. a way to get the newspaper recently wrote that something to the effect that biden has made it 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 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 election he may be in for a big surprise kaleb up and artsy new york that's good news wrap up for now but

i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for tuning in. just have to keep it as i live it here good for yourself and. fun. nina. i wish we had many things in this world this is it well for everyone and why some people's also take our things all the power just for themselves and to see that you may.

see. 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 sanctions attempts at isolation and a badge of evil for both moscow and to iran how are the two leveraging american and . i do think the numbers mean something they've matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime happens in this. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be rich with six percent

of the world market goes thirty percent some with one hundred five hundred three first or second first second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars. industrial park but don't let the numbers over with. the only number you need remembering the one disease you know in this one and only. greetings and salutation is you know what's so great about the world it has a funny way of reminding us about what truly matters when we get so wonderfully distracted you see while many of us have been whiling away the hours obsessing over

the fall out from the ball or report wondering how many games the warriors will lose on their way to another n.b.a. championship and taking bets over who lives and who dies in the avengers and game of thrones the world is waiting for us to catch and the raw reality for many of our brothers and sisters living under the sun of the united states of america's comeback hard to knock us out of our pop culture haze with the recent viral video of the vicious police beating of fifteen year old luke roll in broward county florida and just one agree just acted deluca commit to mitigate a blast of pepper spray to the face and having his head bounced off the concrete a few times well according to the arrest warrant affidavit while the police were cupping another team for trespassing deluca picked up the arrested teen cellphone and then according to two officers who assaulted him belated his body and began clenching his fists and.