i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you just think i was going to go. by the way ways of the flying here. a much anticipated first ever summit between the russian and north korean leaders wraps up after more than two hours of face to face talks both lot of near putin and kim jong un expressed a willingness to work towards denuclearization of the korean peninsula. if you're going to show you we need some confidence building measures to be taken if you're making a step forward two steps back you'll never succeed. off of this our human rights groups condemned as a growth task saudi arabia's beheading of thirty seven people mostly from the sham minority the body of one convict is even strung up in a public calling the largest mass execution in years. also

a un report claims the government u.s. and international forces in afghanistan are responsible for more civilian deaths in the militants they've been fighting we hear reaction from locals. the child a woman killed in afghanistan the afghan government should also the foreign forces have found them but there is no one to last week how can someone who won the americans and i says to stop killing our people we do when the u.s. and nato. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the first ever summit between russian president vladimir putin and his north korean counterpart has come to an end the leaders spent more than two hours in a close face to face meeting discussing everything from denuclearization to expanding bilateral relations our correspondent in the patrol go was there. well it turns out that in a sense john is counting on volodymyr putin as

a kind of a middleman in delivering his messages to the rest of the world leadership by the way mr putin's next destination is beijing there you have it but it looks like chairman kim is hoping that his message will get all the way to washington through russia as well but it's. also be directly to tell the u.s. about his position and about the questions he has in connection with the situation on the korean peninsula we also found out that the russian leader as confident that pyongyang essential desire is international security guarantees guarantees for supper and t. and when it comes to denuclearization according to mr putin the only way forward is through these kind of guarantees i would like to remind you that for years

russia's peace road map was about mutual concessions from both sides of north korea on the one hand and south korea and allies on the other and china is backing this plan to well the russian president believes that for years every step forward made by washington was followed by two steps backwards it was do it get to you but we need 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 know if 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 after what we heard on thursday it is definitely fair to say that there is a lot of potential and kim putin some. and by the way the president of south

korea a few hours ago said that this summit in flat of all stock should act as a springboard for further top rank diplomacy between washington and pyongyang so chairman kim has been joining contacts with the most powerful politicians on this planet his two historic summits with the american president donald trump were followed by one with a lot of our putin and it looks like mr kim knows what he's doing when he's playing his geo political game. let's take a closer look at the atmosphere during the talks and how president putin welcomed his north korean counterpart in the far eastern city a lot of us talk. body

language expert howard feldman says he believes lot of near putin's movements revealed quite a bit. one of the interesting things about of that to me putin and and we see this often with him in every he's meeting he's very protective of the of his own space it's very rare for somebody to come into his zone or close to his proximity when they shook hands he was quite dominant kim kim jong il and by dominant i mean he is and takes all the downward position we saw that kim jong il of wanted to try and establish a bit of dominance there himself when he got to that point that's when putin kind of left got just quite a long handshake and i think that and shake was what was very important by the time that there was sitting on those chairs having that conversation there was very very little movement from king kim jong un he was quite. uncomfortable i think it was

a sense of relief that this was over actually for kim jong il. and there's no doubt that the summit was really about just having a summit the he it was an easier discussion in that it was really just about more about the historic event he was quite relieved with it was whether it was over but i don't think by any means there that it had gone exactly how he was hoping that it would go. professor efrem inbar from the bag inside at the center for strategic studies in journalism shared his views on the summit with us. i think the leader of north korea was very successful in meeting putin the president of russia a global player and in. trying to extend his freedom of action. americans after all i doubt very much of north korea is really

willing to give up its nuclear arsenal because this is essential in spotlessly for the regime so. the north koreans on the playing high level diplomacy in order to try to neutralize some of the sanctions that the americans are. for further analysis we're joined live by north korea expert surgeon lim what are your take on the success of the summit will be the most pleased with the result of today's meeting. i think the there if you can call it from this today's meeting with to be put in. for. us it looks like now he tried to see someone else to help korea out in between recent bilateral meeting between north korea and the us he was so sure that he can

lead the meeting between the u.s. and north korea but now he needs seek some help for put inside he resigned to the achieved new election and or so now he can have a support lies from the international community by playing the role for the korea over the korean peninsula as a peacemaker so it would be. for today's summit now you touch the fact that putin said chairman kim asked him directly to north korea's position to washington are you surprised that he made that request. you know why that was what sent the messages and not only to russia but also to south korea as wall but the reason why i made this clear for russia as a gauge of months in the talks between those korea and us is probably because the recent relationship between russia and present a trump and there is

a slight hope if putin wants to play the real world then he can also use it as a veto power at the united nations for over the. sanctions if the international such was to increase the level of sanctions then russia can say no because of the reason i think the. handshake. was there but it was not quite surprising to me because that could be very a rational approach to as a next step. the south korean president has said he believes off the back of this summit well actually slepian yang and washington renewed their relations do you think that's likely. for the south korean president the continent now south korea having air exercises really the u.s. and south korea cannot be free from u.s. pressure because of

a sense for south korea it could be good to have. if russia can play to like the world as a mediator because for some from itself it could be a little bit tricky to work conviction a u.s. and north korea and because of that reason i reckon that the full house in korea to me to death that they can play some role if he really feels north korea expert surgeon limit thank you so much for joining us on the program today. leaving human rights groups have been giving over saudi arabia's execution this week of thirty seven men mostly from the shiite 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 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 grotesque with all the details here's more in custody of

. a few things so was 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 legibly among the crimes was this respect towards authority some of them can you believe that like the king protested against him so serious with the crimes that one of those executed was also crucified yes crucified and two thousand and ninety his body strong up for all to see for all to feel. today's must execution is a chilling demonstration of the saudi arabia authorities 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 still a kid now is an example in fact of the current king began his reign by

staging a massive execution forty seven people behaved it 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 pill. 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 is on the un human rights council what a world. saudi arabia has defended its decision to execute the individuals and says it will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and the stability of the kingdom spokeswoman for the gulf institute for democracy and human rights for timi aspect believes riyadh's justice system allows it to tackle anyone whose views differ from the official position. it's not the first time which so to be with this you know t. took punish prisoners of conscience who hold david to spoke about the human rights violations in the country we've not just there and i think i don't five of the of the executive people who wear really charge by terrorists do to them target we

don't trust. system we don't trust how did how did the saudi authorities handled the matches especially against the british 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 did you show the system to fabricate the charges against the dissidents especially against the activists who spoke out or who was in the media outlets or rules participated in demonstrations there is a taboo in the gulf kingdom especially in saudi arabia no one is just speak about what's happening in the country. and afghanistan local government u.s. and international forces have been responsible for more civilian deaths and the militant forces they've been fighting that's according to a new u.n.

report the findings were built in the first three months of two thousand and 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 and the number of deaths is up thirty nine percent compared to the previous year 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 we have concerns. about people being killed or injured we have become widows children have lost their 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 it's not a good look i would 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 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 an operational nato led training missions reports back in the summer claimed all trump had decided to reduce u.s. forces in the country other there's been no sign of that being put into action the white house has been seeking a 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 afghanistan 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 elections with the u.s. soured you have. to. be responsible for this in an 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 one garment would not even come to condemn it in that it was unfortunate that the latest condemnation came after relations between kabul and washington deteriorated. 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 artist almost 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 our 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. breathtakingly obvious to anybody that if your 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. former us vice president joe biden has announced he's entering the twenty 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 has come up and explains. 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 feely proclivities but he jumped over a 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 bile and 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 you're 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 you may be in for a big surprise. archie new york. syrian foreign minister has warned of consequences if the u.s. prevent iran from selling its oil iran previously threatened to block the hormuz

strait a key way for gulf states to export oil as a response to new sanctions are worlds apart spoke to the every me and defense minister about the country's growing anger. the nice i'm going to call you when exactly the same time the u.s. made this illegal and wrong decision to call the iranian revolutionary guard a terrorist group the iranian security council has decided to recognize side called as a terrorist organization and as a pool so oved terrorists we will not stand any sort of right we will take measures we're facing lots of sanctions from the americans and today we can defeat them more case the home of straits is critically important for us to many other countries and we can safeguard our critical interests to make a proper decision at a proper time. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook up to the minute reports.

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looked at the mood subversion in the blue chip of. america. the united states' relations with russia were 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 from both moscow and to iran how are the two leveraging american envoy to. broadcast they are around the world covering all aspects of business and finance

and how it affects you this is the us i'm kristie i barely end by 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. of goal but to get countries to seize supporting arabian oil entirely. the better but we granted exemptions from our sanctions to seven countries and to taiwan with this is as important as to wean themselves off of radio oil and to assure a well supplied oil market. former pentagon official michael among an analyst david mack joins us to drill into what this movie and not just for global oil market but also what this means for the state of geopolitics. plus with iran the oil exports in the crosshairs what is the plan to compensate the global oil market and in particular how oil behemoth saudi arabia well we asked our correspondent alec

mahela vege breakdown of what this all means for other oil providers. and later with the e.u. and china building more roads literally and. the wake of the american trade war two musters may be interested to note just how much of the e.u. does china now own professor richard wolf joins us to analyze the potential super power shift underway across the atlantic all of that directly ahead but first we have some headlines let's go. abutting bidding war and the energy sector leads our global report today as occidental petroleum makes an offer for anadarko who had already been wooed by chevron anadarko petroleum was already in fairly advanced talks with chevron for a sale at thirty three billion dollars occidental has now up that price to roughly thirty eight billion dollars at seventy six dollars per share eleven dollars above chevron's bid the broken engagement between anadarko and chevron would include a one billion dollar fee interestingly

a spokesperson for occidental expressed frustration that anadarko had not informed occidental of that provision the prize in the fight is a company with extensive global holdings including key asses in the much discussed her museum basin in west texas a primary site of the oil shale boom shares of anadarko were up more than twelve percent on the news while the stocks of the two other corporate suitors fell. as we reported yesterday to trumpet ministrations decision to end all exemptions to their defacto blockade of the rainy and oil sector seemed to move markets with prices rising to recent highs the policy change affected five countries including major consumers china india and turkey which had been previously granted waivers happened ahrons oil exports go to china or did before the end of the exemptions to the u.s. sanctions a spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry denounced the move as an example of .