leaders of russia and north korea concluded their first ever summit after more than two hours of face to face talks putin kim jong un expressed a willingness to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. because the. german king also lead to tell the us about his position and about the questions he says in connection with the situation on the korean peninsula. human rights groups as grotesque saudi arabia's beheading of thirty seven people said to be mostly from the shia minority one person's body was even stronger up in public following the largest mass execution for years. the u.n.

report notes that u.s. international and government forces in afghanistan are responsible for more civilian deaths in the militants they've been fighting to get reaction from locals . woman killed in afghanistan the afghan government should ask the foreign forces about them but there is no one to ask we have. we want the americans and i says to stop killing our people we don't want the u.s. and nato. joining us this evening this is. the first ever summit between vladimir putin and kim jong un has come to an end the leaders of russia or north korea spent more than two hours in a closed meeting discussing everything from denuclearization to expanding bilateral relations russia's foreign ministry adds the summit fixed many mistakes of u.s. diplomacy correspond to summarize. as events from the city of light if

a stock. 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 its. chairman king 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 dealing korea's ation 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 plan to well the russian president believes that for years every step forward made by washington was followed by two steps backwards . 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 no 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 the. tensional in kim putin's summit and by the way the president of south

korea a few hours ago said that this summit in full out of all stock 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 people of tensions 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 splaying his geo political game let's take a closer look now at the atmosphere during the talks and how president putin welcome to his north korean counterpart in russia's far east.

but the language expert how it felt and breaks down what does movements could say about the. one of the interesting things about a blow to move 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 that downward position we saw that kim jong il wanted to try and establish a bit of dominance very himself when he got to that point that's when putin kind of left god is 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 un. and there's no doubt that this 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 whether it was whether it was over but i don't think by any means there there it had gone exactly how he was hoping that it would go. international human rights groups have been scathing of a saudi arabia's execution this week of thirty seven men politically mostly from the shia minority on terror violence and unrest related charges the body of one person was even stronger than public following his execution human rights watch states that it marks an alarming escalation in the use of the death penalty in the country the rights group described the punishment as grotesque radagast 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 and 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 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 bad 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 an eye for an eye saudis took that stone very seriously in two thousand and five accordant 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 what can you say you want to cherry on top saudi arabia's on the un human rights council what a world. has defended his decision to execute individuals in that it will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening see the security and stability of the kingdom the spokesperson for the gulf institute for democracy and human rights phantom yes beck believes the saudi justice system cracks down on those whose views differ from the official position. it's not the first time which so very be you 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 stand there and i think around five of the . executive people who where really charged by terrorists did it in time get we don't trust. the entity to system we don't trust how did how did they get through to handle the magic in the eighty's that it is theirs who took to the streets to demand drugs and freedoms and who spoke out about what was happening in the country. most of the gulf kingdom so the idea being is to deceive the system to fabricate the charges against their dissidents especially against the activists who spoke out over the news. media outlets or whose 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. former u.s.

vice president joe biden has announced that he's entering the twenty twenty race for the presidency although it didn't come as much of a surprise his plans have been in fact an open secret for some time the polls show he's currently the most popular candidates among democrats the road to the white house above and could be littered with potholes from his past morbid experience. 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 you know 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 then 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 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 cry bill is 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 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 lection he may be in for a big surprise hail of mop and artsy new york. and a raft of democrat news appeared to confirm a shift to a progressive agenda democrats blocked a republican proposal last month to prevent illegal immigrants from both see the research finds that maybe more because an authorized migrants overwhelmingly vote democrats democrats also push to lower the voting age sixteen was rejected by the house political expert and author gina loudon says that winning the election is all

that matters to the party. most americans think once you kill people and you take away their right to be alive your rights are pretty much negated at least until you've served out your term in prison and in some cases even as you know in the united states we are going to the death penalty regarding murder because we believe you relinquish your rights when you take another life they realize now that the basic americans out here are the people that we call him joe six pack in america the guy that's just working his job trying to provide first family he's not going to vote democrat it is more because the democrats have gone so far regressive left that they've lost their rank and file old school democrats that used to vote for them and in fact not only have they lost i'm president trump has reigned them then and has become the president really of the average american so the democrats realize they have to go someplace else they're quite desperate and they're willing to let criminals and children vote. for president is currently holding

a news conference as he bids to appease most of nationwide protests the most followed riots in paris for half a century. it's true in all fronts course the dubin ski who's live on the scene shoulda been at a few months three months money will might come to say the least how is he trying to improve things with this speech. well this is president mark calls very first time that he's held a press conference after the. round two years ago some three hundred plus journalists turn out many of them foreign press to find out exactly what the president had to say in response to this national debate that's been going on in france in the last few months a response to the yellow bus protests which are now in the fifth month where president michael was due to speak for about twenty minutes he spoke for almost an hour outlining his visions the things he could win even on his nationwide tour and

speaking to cities. now we outlined a raft of new proposals including what will be a lower taxes he also said that he would look at reducing the number of m.p.'s but that has been something he's spoken about in the past he also said that the pension system will likely. be really indexed for january first of the next year and that would mean that they would keep up with inflation he talked about being tougher on islam is an old saying that you know it's wrecking the cohesion of the nation and he talked about having more referendums with a lower threshold for items to be discussed by parliament that was required feature just signatures by citizens and he talked about some of the most controversial elements of his presidency so far saying that he's going in the right direction and he continues to want to go in that direction and he touched on one of the reforms that's been particularly controversial since it was introduced last year and this

was the reform of the wealth tax let's have a listen to what president mccone had to say about that. that will tax reform was widely perceived as a give to the world and the real financial injustice this reform did not remove the wealth tax it was a transformer to encourage investment in the real economy research of factories and production because if there's no national investment there is no economy it's my duty to defend the pragmatic reform we'll review it in twenty twenty and if it's not effective or too large we will correct it it's a reform to achieve results not a gift to the richest of the. so the wealth tax remains that is something that is deeply unpopular with the yellow vests movement and i think what will also be deeply unpopular is despite the fact that the president spoke for so long there was a lack of detail concrete detail as to how these reforms will take place take the

tax reform. we still don't know exactly what that means in terms of lowering taxes how much will that be will it be one percent only ten percent it wasn't made clear in his speech in charlotte based on the previous reactions to the new micron's words what are the chances the other verse protesters will be satisfied by their speech. i would say unlikely given that we've seen the response they've had to his previous office you might just be able to see behind me there is a small crowd of yellow vests youth gathered for a relatively last minute demonstration against that speech by president might go on here on thursday evening the yellow vests protests have been going on for five months this is a movement a social movement that started as a reaction to an increase in fuel tax that was due to be levied on the country at present makana since reversed start in school but might eighth the quelling of

these protests did it didn't and in fact this movement has grown and grown to encompass many other issues and people have been angry this has been one of the most violent demonstrations from the scene in more than half a century and despite the fact that we are five months into it or twenty three consecutive weeks of protests it doesn't look like it's going to disappear will they be happy with these announcements tonight i'm really not sure they will let's take a look back now at the gala best protests and how they've unfolded in front since november seventeenth. on the course is the right one and we're not going to change it just because the wind is poor we. will not concede anything to those who want the struction and disorder.

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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 revealed in the first three months of this year almost six hundred civilian deaths were documented in the country most of the desk come from airstrikes conducted by international forces led by the u.s. and nato a number of victims is up almost forty percent on the same period last year we asked locals 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 don't forget 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. of our people have been killed or injured women have become widows children have lost their fathers people

have lost eyes 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. that we request from foreign forces and afghan government forces and from the taliban that 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 you really think of it has about fourteen thousand troops in afghanistan most of them are involved in non-operational nato led training missions december reported president from would reduce u.s. forces in the country there's been no sign of that being put into action the white house in seeking the peaceful resolution of america's longest war 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. he was just a day after the u.n. report on afghanistan was published amnesty international and there was a release the report on civilian casualties in the syrian city of raw car for twenty seven team and it finds the us led coalition responsible for the deaths of all the sixteen hundred civilians that's ten times the number admitted by the us government writer and commentator abdel bari atwan thinks the us must stop such practices. people are killed that they are bombing will be fired these there are bombing you know civilian areas they are bombing schools so i think this kind of

bombardment should be stopped because the civilian people who are paying the price for this american actress does in that part of the words i believe the american troops american administration is fully responsible for. among the civilian of particular your modernist thousand people were killed that american to list it elizabeth sponsible because the supposed to be in control of the actually should be. responsible. and be their own little community should actually take action against. the head of russia's military intelligence agency the g.r.u. has made an extremely rare public statement it of course she coughed told the moscow conference on international security twenty nineteen of the d.c. stabilizing steps being planned by the us in latin america. despite the lack of any military threats to u.s. security in latin america washington has a large military presence u.s.

central command has deployed twenty thousand soldiers in central and south america and may increase to forty thousand. on the eighteenth of february u.s. president trumps that a short term goal of overthrowing left wing governments in venezuela. and cuba washington thinks that that will help to turn latin america into a territory under full u.s. control. concrete steps taken against venezuela to destabilize it from the inside through consolidation of the opposition organization of protests and launching a hybrid aggression against the country it comes as the white house insists venezuela does not have a professional military institution and u.s. special representative venezuela elliott abrams claims the country relies on armed gangs. venezuelans deserve to be protected by

a professional military institution and not have their leaders rely on armed gangs or off or on foreign powers who send thousands of soldiers or intelligence agents. former british intelligence agent and i shan't thinks that such an unprecedented public step from the g.r.u. suggests that israel is in critical danger. they realize that there is a strong effort a stronger and growing effort by the americans to subvert the government in venezuela and they need to take a stand so i think that this is very unusual step as you say i mean most countries intelligence agencies never go on the record publicly so for them to do this they must be absolutely certain of what they're doing and they probably see a key threat looming very close to what is going on in america in venezuela and what could happen to the venezuelan government so i think this is really a sort of firing a shot across the bows of the american juggernaut one of the interesting things

from my perspective is that i think venezuela and the people of venezuela a very light the classic table that america has used in previous koontz across latin america and that is why they're not falling for it this time and america is trying to ramp up the game and get rid of maturer by any means necessary. with updates for you in just half an hour see the. financial survival guide i don't buy it i promise on a future. home of the flies at least some of my ex in the future so crocker was kaiser. all.

the welcome to worlds apart united states relations with russia and iran have never been particularly ordeal but under the presidency of the poles to look at down towards our own sanctions attempted isolation and self-serving allegations of bajor evo. ron paul the chill lover aging american and the well to discuss that i'm now joined by iran's the files minister amir me minister it's a privilege talking to thank you very much for your time. well

i suppose stop subject matter is just more general russia iran world the whole world is facing an important issue the troubles that trump. his mentality a mindset. creating. this correct thought iran or russia are facing due to different reasons the whole world is facing. the war. we are in fact facing a phenomenon in which is some. characteristics include. the humanitarian principle negligence they turn national. goals on the commitments which is. a full repercussion now for the whole world and a more repercussion.