we can all middle of the room sit. for you. really. believe there's a brush and north korea concluded their first ever summit after more than two hours of face to face talks both lot of near britain and kim jong un expressed a willingness to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. the future something chairman king also be directly to tell us about his position and about the questions he says he could issue with the situation on the korean peninsula. also this hour human rights groups condemn as grotesque saudi arabia's beheading of thirty seven people said to be mostly from the shia minority one person's body was even strung up in public following the largest mass execution in years. plus a un report noted government u.s.

and international forces in afghanistan are sponsible for more civilian deaths and the militants they've been finding we got reaction from locals. from the child a woman killed in afghanistan the afghan government should ask the foreign forces about them but there is no one to last we have come so we want the americans and i says to stop killing our people we do when the u.s. nato here. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teach here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the first ever summit between bottom or putin and kim jong un has come to an end the leaders of russia and north korea spent more than two hours in a closed meeting discussing everything from denuclearization to expanding biological relations our correspondent there trying to summarize events from the city of a lot of us talk. 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 it today and 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 sovereignty and when it comes to dating korea's ation 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 of this plan to well the russian president believes that for years every step forward made by washington was followed by two steps backwards . 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 no it's 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. 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 flatow 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 to 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. now let's take a closer look at the atmosphere during the talks and how president putin welcomed his north korean counterpart and russia's far east.

body language expert howard feldman breakdown of what the leaders movements could say about them. 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 would end by dominant i mean his is and takes all the downward position we saw that kim jong would want to try and establish a bit of dominance very himself when he got to that point that's when putin kind of left got just quite a long handshake and i think vet and shake was well 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 there 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 when it was whether it was over but i don't think by any means that it had gone exactly how he was hoping that it would go. international human rights groups have been scathing over saudi arabia's execution this week. thirty seven men reportedly mostly from the shia minority on terror violence and unrest related charges the body of one person was even strong up in public following his execution human rights watch state it marks an alarming escalation in the use of the death penalty in the country the rights group described the punishment as grotesque artie's mom garcia purports. 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 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 and two thousand and ninety 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 is an example you wouldn't believe how creative the saudis are when it

comes to killing prisoners in fact the current king began his reign by staging a massive execution forty seven people behaved 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 and 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 and i. took that. very seriously in two thousand and five accords in saudi arabia or did a migrants i get out as punishment for getting into

a fight and beautician also a favorite especially for theft chopping off people's arms and feet stealing and of course stoning reserved for crimes like being too friendly with the opposite sex or can you say you want to cherry on top saudi arabia's on the un human rights council waterworld riyadh has defended its decision to execute the individuals that they will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and stability of the kingdom the spokesperson for the gulf institute for democracy and human rights team a yasbeck believes the saudi justice system cracks down on those whose views differ from the official position. it's not the first time which soldier to be with the death penalty to punish prisoners of conscience who hold dared to spoke out 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 where really charged by terrorist judaism target we don't trust the. system we don't trust how did how did the saudi authorities handled the matters in the against the british stars 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 a low just speak about what's happening in the country. we go back to our top story this hour to get live analysis of the putin kim summit for that we're joined by

security analyst and former u.k. army officer charles shoebridge now how important is a productive relationship with russia for north korea. yes it's absolutely essential of course in order to facilitate dialogue not just of course with russia . because generally speaking to a friendly relations between north korea and russia but also because russia has a role to play and i suspect even donald trump recognizes this as perhaps a broker between. the korean government and the rest of the world much of the outside world and of course it is pretty much at loggerheads with. the united states government notwithstanding that has been some progress and the talks are still ongoing interestingly today putin himself referred to the denuclearization issue this is the key issue at the heart of the problem the korean

peninsula problem if you like the nuclear weapons that north korea possesses and of course mr putin put his finger really very much on the button today when of course he identified in very stark terms what the fears and the motivations of the north korean leadership are in terms of having nuclear weapons in terms of guaranteeing their own security against a possible american attack in the future let's face it trump and indeed previous incumbents in the presidency have made very grave threats against the security of north korea and of course for small countries like north korea a nuclear deterrent does make sense injurious to teach in terms of what do you make of the timing of the talks after the failure to arrange more meetings between kim and donald trump. yes again we've seen this hour swear in the world when for one reason or another it's not possible to have meetings between trump and

other leaders that russia is stepping in and of course this plays into the hands of both parties because of course russia is without a shadow of doubt it's resurgent on a lot stayed. it sees itself as a keep the chief for teachers. situations and policies generally in the narratives around the world and of course it has a broker role here to play well so of course it's going to be remembered that a key ally of the main ally of north korea is china and again this is a situation where russia wants to make it clear that it's not the only important part of what's happening in north korea producer that russia has a role to play in a constructive role in solvable helping to solve resolve situations and problem areas around the world and this is an opportunity i think for both sides the north korean side and the russian side to present themselves are still willing to undertake talks notwithstanding the problems with the united states at the moment

but i should say as well that we know with donald trump of course that his chosen strategy in dealing with these kind of problem areas is to take a very full on very aggressive approach and then we suspect that behind the scenes and back channel negotiations and so on that a more conciliatory approach has taken place and again it's our people at least that notwithstanding the aggressive policies or stature the aggressive stature he's taken against north korea this is to do with the trump of course that that policy that stuff that the statute that he's taken has indeed produced results in terms of encouraging dialogue between north and south and of course there has been a lot of progress in the security analyst and former u.k. army officer charles sure bridge thank you for your time and your comments. in afghanistan local government u.s. and international forces have been responsible for more civilian deaths in the militant forces they've been fighting a new u.n. report has found that the findings reveal in the first three months of this year

almost six hundred civilian deaths were documented in the country the majority of the dust came from airstrikes conducted by international forces led by the us and nato the number of victims is up almost forty percent in the same period last year with locals for their reaction. mangum but 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 for any child or woman killed in afghanistan the 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 want 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 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 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. the u.s. has launched investigations after previous u.n. reports washington currently has about fourteen thousand troops in afghanistan most of them are involved in non operational nato led training missions in the summer it was reported that president trump would 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 a peaceful resolution of america's 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 true 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 and afghanistan expert at the center for conflict and peace studies says the government only started to raise concerns about such deaths after relations with the us 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 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. more news after this short break.

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welcome back microsoft a fake news watchdog called news guard is facing heavy criticism in the u.k. as it's labeled as trustworthy three controversial top lawyer newspapers and it's not the only issue that the new blacklisting program is raising artie's quarter for ports. 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 card 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 web site 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 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 u.s. v.p. joe biden has announced he's entering the twenty twenty race for the presidency something that didn't come as much of a surprise polls show he's currently the most popular candidate among the democrats but the road to the white house could be bumpy for biden as kind of my often 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 were shoes 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 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 probability before us calls for the death penalty for forty fifty one offense is. why 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 r.t. new york. iranian foreign minister has warned of consequences if the u.s. prevents tiran from selling its oil just days ago iran also threatened to block the hormuz strait in response to washington's moves are worlds apart spoke to the iranian defense minister about the issue. 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 a supporter of terrorists but 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. home as straits is critically important for us to many other countries and we can safeguard our critical interest to make a proper decision at the proper time. that's

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are those to ca's report here are to so they will be discussing many things let's bring in stacy well i want to look at the fact that no good deed goes unpunished and i'm going to use this as an analogy for the tax cuts that happened last year and see the consequences of that but the phrase according to wikipedia no good deed goes unpunished is a sardonic commentary on the frequency with which acts of kindness backfire on those who offer them and other words those who help others are doomed to suffer as a result of their being helpful now i really thought of this as a great way to explain you know politics in general because based on this headline here that happened a few weeks ago in florida of course florida good samaritan shot dead after picking up tabs at waffle house this was at waffle house at like three in the morning and

some guy forty one year old guy came in and he bought a bunch of people's meals and was handing out twenty dollar bills and one woman got upset because he hadn't bought her meal and so her boyfriend shot the guy dead and classic no good deed goes unpunished it's basically the bucket of crabs syndrome when any crab tries to get out of the bucket the other crabs pull it back in people want to be sharing in their misery and destroy their misery they get violent in this case i'm going to compare this to the tax cuts because when i saw that article about the florida man i thought well this really explains government right because a soon as somebody that's why america does not have universal health care for example is because everybody gets jealous like that poor person has free health care i get none so we're going to destroy the whole system rather than just expand the system they want to take it all down while tax cuts came about and especially

the tax cuts were brought about because you know you and i.