in the. us if it is this is what i just hope that the pushing of. the leaders of russia and north korea conclude their first ever summit after more than two hours of face to face talks with lot of merit and kim jong un expressed a willingness to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. just as the future something chairman king also be directly to tell us about his position and about the questions he says it could a ship with the situation on the korean peninsula. human rights groups condemned 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 on the largest mass execution in years. and the un report notes government u.s.

and international forces in afghanistan are responsible for more civilian deaths than the militants they've been fighting we get reaction from locals. maybe child or woman killed in afghanistan where you have to be going should also the foreign forces about rumors out there is no one to last we have come since we won the americans and i says to stop killing our people we do when the u.s. and nato here. you're watching our to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. the first ever summit between bottom are 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 bilateral relations our correspondent in the summarizes 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 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 core ization according to mr putin the only way forward is through these kind of guarantees i would like to remind you

that four 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 while 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 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 with it 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 blood of all stalk should act as a springboard for further top ranked diplomacy between washington and pyongyang so chairman kim has been joining contacts with the most powerful portage ins on the planet to his two historic summits with the american president donald trump were followed by one with a lot of more putin and it looks like mr kim knows what he's doing when he's playing his geo political game. north korea expert surgeon lim told us these summits part of the key mediation role russia could play on the korean peninsula or . it looks like now he tried to see someone else to help korea out in between recent bilateral meeting between north korea and the u.s. he was so sure that she can't leave me team between us and north korea but now he

needs. some help for put inside he was sent to the achieved new election and or so now he can have a spot 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 currently now south korea having air exercise really the u.s. and south korea cannot be free from u.s. pressure because of in a sense for south korea it could be a good to have russia if russia can play the right role as a mediator because for south korea itself it could be a little bit tricky to work in between a u.s. and north korea. let's take a closer look at the atmosphere during the talks and how president putin welcomed his north korean counterpart in russia's far east.

please. please please. was a. body language expert hard sell them breaks down what the leaders movement 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 obvious our 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 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 little movement from king john when 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. international human rights groups have been skating over saudi arabia's execution this week of thirty seven men reportedly mostly from the shiite minority on terror violence and unrest related charges the body of one person was even strung 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 describe the punishment as grotesque. reports. 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 mass execution is a chilling demonstration of the saudi arabia no authority and callous disregard for

human life it is also yet another gruesome indication of how the death penalty is being used as a political tool to crush dissent from within the country's shia minority in fact almost half of those killed were executed after taking part in pro-democracy protests see the arab spring didn't skirt saudi arabia the shia minority rose up they wanted change better fairer life the king obviously thought they wanted too much. one of those executed by the way was sixteen years old at the time of his arrest

attending a protest apparently he was still a kid now he's an example 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 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 riyadh has defended its decision to execute the individuals that 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 for timi aspect believes the saudi justice system cracked down on those whose views differ from the official position. it's not the first time which saudi arabia with the death penalty took 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 terrorists did it them try to get we don't trust. i really enjoyed you sure system we don't just how did how did the saudi authorities handled the matches in the eighty's 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 did you show the system to fabricate the charges against the dissidents especially against the activists who spoke out. of the social media outlets all 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 dust in the militant forces they've been fighting that's according to a new u.n. report the findings reveal in the first three months of this year almost six hundred civilian deaths were documented in the country most of the deaths come from airstrikes conducted by international forces led by the u.s. and nato the number of victims is up almost forty percent on the same period last year with locals for their reaction. you know we always requested from the american forces and the afghan government if you want to bomb on any areas take care of the civilians there don't get civilians the child or woman killed in afghanistan the afghan government should ask the foreign forces about them but there is no one to ask we have come sometimes. they don't serve our people are being killed. oranges we have become widows children of lost my father's people have lost our use 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. 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 often currently has about fourteen thousand troops in afghanistan most of them involved in an operational nato led training missions in december 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 the 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

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 and afghanistan expert at the center for conflict and peace studies so the government only started to raise concerns about civilian deaths after lation took us. you have . to. be responsible for this in and address concerns of the locals to protect them but a lot of the time when there was airstrikes in the air bombardments by the afghan or the american forces the f one garment would not even come to condemn it in that it was unfortunate that the latest condemnation came after relations between kabul

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this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo eleven landing on to the max and stacey. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back to the program microsoft's fake news watchdog news guard is facing every criticism in the u.k. it's labeled as trustworthy three controversial tabloid newspapers the sun the daily mirror and the daily star and that's not the only issue that the new

blacklisting program is raising artie's 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 whole robert muller's report is out and many liberal tall tales about trump russia collusion have been debunked still a lot of those stories are marked with a big friendly checkmark trump sharing polling data with the russians check except it's not true muller subpoenaing bank records check but same thing not true

trumps lawyer secretly meeting with a kremlin official in prague well at least they change the article a bit still a big check even though the title isn't exactly true in fact the checkmarks don't even have to do with how wrong the story is if news guard trusts the outlet they're good to go are green red reading signal if website is trying to get it right where instead has a hidden agenda or knowingly publishes falsehoods or propaganda so i guess the takeaway from that is that outlets like the new york times and buzz feed's don't really have hidden agendas and if that sounds ridiculous to you don't worry news guard will make sure you know right from wrong soon enough what's interesting to note is their reaction is they're saying we are not necessarily acknowledging or passing judgment on the veracity and

accuracy of the information we're just passing judgment. on these source of it these people this source this group this website this newspaper this whatever we give them our check mark we approve of them what they say wow we don't really necessarily pass judgment on that if you go down the list of all of those items which have passed editorial muster it's the same it's breathtakingly obvious to anybody that if 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. 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 now polls show he's currently the most popular candidate among the democrats but the road to the white house reviving 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 then 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 bile and crime control act which led to an explosion in the us 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 crime bill is before us calls for the death penalty for forty fifty one offenses. why in 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 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 at 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 caleb artsy new york. hearing in foreign minister has warned of consequences if the u.s. prevents tehran from selling its oil just days ago iran also threatened to block the hormuz strait the world's key oil trade artery in response to washington's moves artie's worlds apart spoke to the iranian defense minister about the country's growing anger. the muslim going to call you exactly the same time the

u.s. made this illegal and room decision to call the iranian revolutionary guard a terrorist group the iranian security council has decided to recognize some called as a terrorist organization how does the poor oved terrorists we will not stand any sort of threats we will take measures. we're facing lots of sanctions from the americans and today we can defeat them. the home of straits is critically important for us and many other countries and we can safeguard our critical interests and make a proper decision at a proper time. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all those stories and many more.

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 from both moscow and to iran how are the to be leveraging american and. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy loon foundation let it be an arms race is often scary dramatic developments only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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