leaders of russia and north korea conclude their first ever summit after more than two hours of face to face talks. and kim jong un expressed a willingness to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. with a sample of german king all three directly to tell the u.s. about his position and about the questions he says it connection with the situation on the korean peninsula. human rights groups have 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 stronger in public following the largest mass execution of the year is. also coming up a u.n. report notes that u.s.

international and government forces in afghanistan are responsible for more civilian deaths than the militants they've been fighting against we get reaction from locals. 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 out. we want the americans and i says to stop killing our people we don't want the u.s. and nato. getting a welcome this is r.t. international. the first ever summit between limit putin and kim jong un has come to an ad the leaders of russia and north korea spend more than two hours in a closed meeting discussing everything from denuclearization to expanding bilateral relations as foreign ministry adds at the summit fixed many mistakes of u.s. diplomacy and correspondent. but trying to summarize events from the city of lot of

us thought. 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 to. be directly to tell the u.s. about his position and about the questions he has no 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 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 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 two steps back and you will never succeed. after what we heard on thursday it is definitely fair to say that there is all. lot of potential in kim

putin summit and by the way the president of south korea a few hours ago said that this summit in blood 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 voltages 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. let's take a close look at how the atmosphere during the talks president putin welcomed north korean counterpart to russia's far east.

but the language expert howard feldman breaks down now what the leaders movements could say about them. and of the interesting things about of that to be 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 struggled wanted to try and establish a bit of dominance very himself when he got to that point that putin kind of left god just quite a long handshake and i think that shake was well was very important if by the time

that there was sitting on those chairs having that conversation it was very 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 this time that was really about just having a son that 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. the french president has just concluded a news conference putting two appeasements of nationwide protests on the most violent riots in paris for half a century and i know mike rann doubled down on some of his most unpopular moves. the release including slashing the wealth tax. is in paris with details. well this is president mark calls very first time that he's held

a press conference the elisa palace since he took office around 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 for the last few months a response to the yellow bus protests which are now in their fifth month where president michaelmas did speak for about twenty minutes he spoke for almost an hour outlining his visions the things he heard when he'd been on his nationwide tour and speaking to citizens now we outlined a roll off 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 he did mention is that we are less than two thousand euros would 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 evil saying that you know it's

wrecking the cohesion of the nation and he talked about having more referendums on with a lower threshold for items to be discussed by parliament that was required feature just and 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 has 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 macklin had to say about that. you can be a member who will tax reform was widely perceived as a gift to the world and the real financial injustice this reform did remove the world. 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 a 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 give 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 this fight the fact that the president spoke for so long there was a lack of detail concrete details 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 you might just be able to see behind me there is a small crowd of yellow best 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 present makana since for the first start in full but might aid the quelling of these protests to the 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 that fronts 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. oh of course it's 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 to struction and disorder. feel. i take my share of responsibility. for.

this break one joins me now very good evening john. protests for almost half a year a lot of unrest and people have been waiting in france for something like this this speech. is it enough to satisfy the l a vest. so the only note you see marco is a somebody devotees more clever than his predecessors and aging and i mean that you see the point is that he's saying i listen to all these people and then you come to my policy we should continue the same policy and the visit be but i'm happy with this policy but what is. who is that there is no united demand about what to do with this is that school i didn't study up in you know there is nothing he can do

because they are going in and want to force these sort of nearly bodily forms and my concours like he's with that but even he didn't can do anything about it so is the dilemma nics measure is more social spending and more or less taxes but in settings this course is it is going to dictate but as far as i can see you want to do something for the pensions you want to do something about this or that but then let's be less us if you've got the class in the schools will discuss money than anyone so want to use taxes so how is he going to do unless you are going after the taxes on the very rich of the big question which he hinted to do and he couldn't have we didn't help i don't know i was going to let the veges us along to one another and so this seems to me that this is worsening a discourse of discourse he's trying to satisfy people that isn't going to be satisfied people because that is content is too deep on the other hand there was mention some thing that he does need some concession of causeway cosmetic ones too

they have democracy which was one of the demands of the yellow vests and something must be said about some a man west of the i normally thought two thousand and five it. was a professor in some a high school. and he says he's been advocating for these dating democracy ever since and some other was used to be a nobody being able to now position but have become so popular that the president of the republic is at least forced to make some gesture and that action is just a gesture would never let. that something which i found it in a safety impressive but i don't think i mean that the dissatisfaction is not going to stop where the problem is much deeper than the currently all being this one problem. the other problem is that we know the p's need to at least six us eighty whether it's a. new class of people like you know the weather well you know whether we've been

globalization and then people are not a public ng from globalization is jobs are being destroyed and seeped overseas and it's wearing your hope and these people are just not going to be happy if they form there's nothing a konkan do like that unless he was willing to change course completely which is obviously not going to do since he contends that what you hear in this debate between city and witty can code is exactly what he wanted to hear namely that the course he was falling was lying to him so many he says that i've been discussing with. me that's not. healthy. and. my current. system he said it doesn't work and that you're in need stronger borders forty think. well that's something everybody wants or i mean not everybody the majority of people wants of course not surprising that this is that whether they can do something about it in practice remains to be seen because we didn't change

and system doesn't have and you cannot only do so much of the growth of the european union but that's going to be a major problem in iraq because the demand for us is almost. you know what is the no let's not going to be i mean it's an it's a problem but it's not the main problem i think. you don't have both of us do i mean the european union for example for. the t.t.s. what we did look at is asia you can look any. we didn't the european union out and so if you don't do that then of course you can't impose deal to these asian of anybody and that's probably. one of my patients don't appreciate your time my guess the sample if you come to a brick wall. thank you very much. international human rights groups have been scathing of a saudi arabia's execution this week of thirty seven men reportedly mostly from the

shia minority on terror violence and unrest related charges the body of one person was even stronger up in public following his execution human rights watch states that it marks an alarming escalation in the use of the death penalty in the country rights group described the punishment as grotesque. as the exploits. 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 must 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 one 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 a court in saudi arabia ordered a migrants i gagged out as punishment for getting into a fight and putin also a favorite especially for theft chopping off people's arms and feet stealing and of course stoning reserved for crimes like being too friendly with the opposite sex what can you say you want to cherry on top saudi arabia's on the un human rights council what a world riyadh has defended its decision to execute the individual citizens that they will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and stability of the kingdom

a spokesperson for the govt institute for democracy and human rights for many years beck is the saudi justice system cracks down on those use differ from the official position. it's not the first time which so going to be with 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 dad there and i think around five of the of the executive people who where really charged by terrorists did in time get we don't trust the. system we don't trust how did how did the saudi authorities handled the magic in the eighty's the british theirs who took to the streets to demand drugs and freedoms and who spoke out about what was happening in the country. as most of the big gulf kingdoms saudi arabia uses is to did you show the system to fabricate the charges against their dissidents especially

against the activists who spoke out or who lose their social 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. for me as far as 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 indeed to be in an open secret for some time but the polls show he's kind of the most popular candidate among democrats but the road to the white house budden could be littered with potholes from the past caleb maupin 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 you know states and its allies is that he possesses chemical and biological weapons and he's not the me. two candidate by a long shot not only does joe have his own touchy feely proclivities but he jumped over the need to hill way back in one nine hundred ninety one when she was accusing them supreme court nominee clarence thomas of sexual harassment it is appropriate to ask professor you 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 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 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 action he may be in for a big surprise hail of mop and artsy new york. the rough of democrat moose appeared to confirm a shift to a progressive agenda democrats blocked a republican proposal last month to prevent illegal immigrants from voting the

research finds that maybe more because unauthorized migrants overwhelmingly vote democrat democrats also push to lower the voting. sixteen that was rejected by the house because let's be a political expert and author jean a lot and 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 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 sixpack in america the guy there's just working his job trying to provide first family he's not going to vote democratic or 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 removed 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. in afghanistan local governments 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 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 strikes conducted by international forces led by the u.s. and nato the number of victims is a pause 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 target 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 we 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 are the work that we 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 or if the american forces do not take into consideration the civilian casualties in afghanistan and they continue killing civilians by naming them insurgents the future will be very bad for them. u.s. military forces have launched investigations after previous u.n. reports washington currently has about fourteen thousand troops in afghanistan most of them involved in non-operational nato led training missions in december it was reported president trump would reduce u.s. forces in the country there's been no sign of that being put into action white

house has been seeking the peaceful resolution of america's longest ever war there are concerns any deal could lead to a new wave of instability. we've spent close to one trillion in the afghanistan 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. it was just a day after the un report on afghanistan was published misty international and i was released a report on civilian casualties in the syrian city of rocket fire twenty seventeen it finds the u.s. led coalition responsible for the deaths of one sixteen hundred civilians 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 only when

they bought these data from me 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 and that prompted the words i believe the american troops american administration is fully responsible for. among the civilian in particular you know more than a thousand people were killed that american administration is it is sponsible because they supposed to be in control of they actually should be. responsible will be spending and be known for national community should actually take action against . them but with a base for you at the top of the hour. you

know world's big partners the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.