the. leaders of russia and north korea conclude their first ever summit after more than two hours of face to face talks both with him and going expressed their willingness to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. some german king also redirect lee to tell us about his position and about the questions he has in connection with the situation on the korean peninsula. president defends some of his most unpopular policies during a news conference that was aimed to diffusing the widespread public anger sustaining france's nationwide protests. u.n. report notes u.s.

international and government forces in afghanistan are responsible for more civilian deaths than the militants they've been fighting we get reaction from locals. the 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 we want the americans and i says to stop killing our people and we do when the u.s. and nato you're. welcome this is. the first of a summit between vladimir putin in conjunction was held in russia's far east on thursday the leaders of russia and north korea spent more than two hours in talks discussing everything from denuclearization to expanding bilateral relations chairman kim described the meeting as a very meaningful exchange russia said it fixed many of the mistakes of u.s. diplomacy correspondent and if you're trying to summarize events from. in the city

of lot of a stock. 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. 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 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 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 you'll never succeed after what we heard on thursday it is definitely fair to say that there is a lot of potential and. kim putin summit and by the way the president of south

korea a few hours ago said that this summit in a lot of austar 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 politicians on this planet his two historic summits with the american president donald trump were followed by one with a lot of our putin and it looks like mr kim knows what he's doing when he splaying his geo political game let's take a closer look now at the atmosphere during the talks and how president putin welcome to north korean counterparts to russia's far east. i.

i. was. body language expert how it felt and breaks down what the leaders movements could say about. one of the interesting things about to vladimir 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 his hand takes all that downward position we saw that kim juggle 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 they were 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 the summit was really about just having a summit the he it 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 there it had gone exactly how he was hoping that it would go. for president's just concluded a news conference addressing months of nationwide protests which is seen the most violent riots in paris for half a century many micron double down on some of his most unpopular leaves which sparked the rallies including slashing the wealth tax party show david skis in paris with. thursday night saw president macaroons very first press

conference at the elisei palace he was due to speak for twenty minutes he spoke for almost an hour with his vision of what his mandate for the next three years of his presidency should be he talked about external things other than fronts particularly about borders saying that the shang going area in europe doesn't work he said that europe needs to be stronger and it needs to have a stronger buddhas usually and so they we must take note of the for good things on going as well as they should be on the european level we have decided to have common borders the much talked about sharing an area with the rules of the dublin accords they do not work anymore now in terms of more internal issues which have a risen from the last few months of the grand debates here in france he said that in future there will be lower taxes he also said that pensions with less than two thousand euros a month will be reindexed from the first of january twenty twentieth's that's next

year meaning that they will rise at the same rate of inflation now he also talked about more referendums taking place in saying that the threshold for things to be discussed in parliament would be lowered to a million registration votes by citizens if they demand it and he also talked about cracking down on islam islam saying that that was against the cohesion of the nation now one of the more controversial issues that michael also touched on was the reforms that he introduced last year in two thousand and eighteen and this was the reform to the wealth tax which for many yellow vests has been a very big bone of contention let's have a listen to what president michel said about bans on who 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 not remove the wealth tie. it was a transform ation to encourage investment in the real economy research 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 not a gift to the richest president michael may have spoken for almost an hour with the wind to aging discussion of the things he'd like to do over the next three years but what he would like to learn quite a lot was the details so yes he talked about lower taxes but he didn't specifically say what that meant in terms of the figure well the yellow vest protests is be happy with what's been announced it's unlikely what we do know is that these protests have been some of the most violent in france for more than half a century. now cools is the right one and we're not going to change it just because the wind is politely.

i will not concede anything to those who want to struction and disorder. take my share of responsibility.

professor of french and francophone studies paul smith political competition bricmont say the president's office are unlikely to quell the widespread public anger. the french population is in favor of what he's suggesting so this was kind of playing catch up with that process almost certainly though we know there are going to be protests at the yellow press to don't really seem to have very very much to do to offer apart from turning up in france the city centers and and causing disruption but it's the broader movement of the yellow vests those who we don't hear very much from who are kind of being pushed through the eighty's that may well be a bit more open to what macro is is suggesting people are unhappy with this policy

but what is tool is that there is no united demand about what to do with this is that school i didn't say the european union there's nothing here he can do because he had been one to force these sort of nearly abolished loans and of course i gaze with that but even he didn't can do anything about it so is the dilemma nics measure is more social spending and more i mean less taxes but in settings this course is a this is going to get dirty and how is going to balance the budget there's a lot of unknowns about it so it seems to me that this is mostly you know a discourse of discourses trying to satisfy people that isn't going to be satisfied people because the discontent is too deep. a new un report reveals there's been a dramatic spike in the number of afghan civilian deaths caused by the government and its international allies that story and more after the break.

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 sanctioned attempts at isolation and a badge of evil from both moscow and to iran how are the two leveraging american tend to. have a government has created a platform against this dialogue because there does not allow any compromise in their platform talks about serving trying how serbia should play war iterations. being an artificial states simply things that everything is already over when they wake up from their lucian's they will have to face it cerebral reality.

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 its findings reveal in the first three months of this year almost six hundred civilian deaths were documented in the country most of the deaths came from as strikes 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 we asked locals for their reaction. then you know we always requested from the american forces and the afghan government if you want to bombard

any areas please take care of the civilians there 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. notes 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 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 u.n. reports washington currently has about fourteen thousand troops in afghanistan most are 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 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 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. in march the day after the u.n. report on afghanistan was published a missed international and there was released a report on civilian casualties in the syrian city of rock are the twenty seventeen and it finds the us led coalition responsible for the deaths of more than sixteen

hundred civilians us 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 there are bomb we will be fired this is the art of bombing you know civilian areas there are bombing schools so i think this kind of bombardment should be stopped because this civilians 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 this that among the civilian of particular your modernist thousand people were killed that american to list it elizabeth sponsible because these supposed to be in control of the actually should be. responsible. and be very little community should actually take action against the. local media in the self declared lugansk people's republic in eastern ukraine

reporting two people have been confirmed dead following an explosion at a coal mine the fate of fifteen others is currently unknown among culture of reports. at the moment we don't know exactly how many there are as the result of a coal mine blast the incident happened earlier in the day at the moment the rescue services are working on the scene to try to determine whether there are any survivors or if there are any more people trapped in the mine according to local authorities they have requested the help of russian emergency services who are on the way to the sites of the right now. microsoft's fake news watchdog news gone dismissing heavy criticism in the u.k. it's labelled as trustworthy three controversial tabloid newspapers the sun the daily mirror and the daily star and it's not the only issue the new black listing program is raising these don't go to pics of the story. remember news guard that

handy dandy microsoft program that tells you what is an isn't fake news while they're still hard at work putting little green checkmarks next to information they like in search engines use cards 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 it's common sense might not be enough if the admins are living under a rock that robert muller's report is out and many liberal tall tales about trump russia collusion have been debunked still a lot of those stories are marked with a big friendly checkmark trump sharing polling data with the russians check except it's not true muller subpoenaing bank records check but same thing not true

trumps lawyer secretly meeting with a kremlin official in prague well at least they change the article a bit still a big check even though the title isn't exactly true in fact the checkmarks don't even have to do with how wrong the story is if news guard trusts the outlet they're good to go. our green red reading signal if website is trying to get it right or instead has a hidden agenda or knowingly publishes falsehoods or propaganda so i guess the takeaway from that is that outlets like the new york times and buzz feed's don't really have hidden agendas and if that sounds ridiculous to you don't worry news guard will make sure you know right from wrong soon enough what's interesting to note is their reaction to this 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 you're a story or if you're source repeats this mean this trope that there was russian collusion obstruction of justice anything negative to trump it will be checked and approved without any problem not misleading trustworthy they're a fireball job well done. the u.n.

security council just closed a meeting on the crisis in eastern ukraine representative called the session in response to a new russian initiative that will make it easier for people in the war torn reasons of tanya's can the guns could obtain russian citizenship the skill of mopin has the details. now the fifteen member body that leads the united nations held a meeting to discuss the situations of the peoples of ukraine now there is widespread condemnation by the united states britain france and other countries of russia's recent decision to decreed that people living in ukraine's eastern region have the right to apply for russian citizenship is stripped by president of ukraine signing will did you could use you you know the interference deduction tradition in the internal if when independent state brutal willis. integrity and the unity of ukraine the russian ambassador took to the floor of the un security

council meeting and emphasized that russia was not requiring these individuals to become citizens of russia it was simply giving them the option and that if they did become citizens of russia they could maintain their ukrainian citizenship at the same time. so we were surprised by the ukrainian initiative to cool the meeting which was supported by the jim presidency because we would have to discuss some rather thorny issues for ukraine to which four million ukrainian citizens outside of the law and whose existence is persistently ignored by the western community western colleagues are giving a false impression the russia is forcing ukrainians to change their citizenship now the representative of the russian federation he emphasized that the situation in east ukraine where the people have been under blockade and not able to receive medical aid in such has been rather dire and that if it weren't for the humanitarian efforts of russia these people would be left with nothing he also emphasized that these people living in the eastern regions have been applying for

russian citizenship and russia essentially believes that these people regardless of their country of origin have the right to the protection of the state now there was also pointed out that the u.s. and other countries have accused russia of somehow violating the minsk agreement by offering russian service. shipped the russian ambassador was very clear this was not a violation of the minsk agreement however he argued that many of the actions of kiev which continue to keep the people in the eastern regions isolated having deed violated the terms and the spirit of the minsk agreement so clear disagreements within the u.n. security council chamber when it comes to the situation in ukraine. thanks staying with an international my colleague down there who will bring you right up to date in just over half an hour's time.

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welcome to the alex i'm with you and the second of our series on the issue of violence in the communities of london this national crisis has dominated the headlines in recent months one of the few issues to break through the breaks it domination of the media and must make sure we examine the politicians reaction to rising levels of knife crime this is how the london mirrors office responded a spokesperson for the mayor of london said the made a stop listing was forced the violence adoption unit in london bringing together local councils the health service community groups and others to work on a shared approach to preventing people from turning to violent crime in the first

place we know the causes of violent crime a complex involved deep seated problems all of which is made worse by government cuts to the police and preventative services we are working hard to challenge the perception that the safe to carry a knife and the violence adults knew that will seek to better understand where to make positive early interventions. city hall grew and the expertise from scotland when developing the violence adults knew that for london and senior represented a sum scotland's violence adoption unit are included in the partnership reference group. that's the london mayor the home secretary and campaigners across the board have now seized on the public health approach to knife crime pioneered in scotland more than a decade ago so this week we asked the form a scottish justice secretary kenny macaskill what these lessons really are whether they can be applied south of the border. the mere underbid the home secretary can recognize that the underlying

solutions need addressed equally balance it with the public reassurance when one can get through this but the got to address underlying reasons and equally the also got to be able to give reassurance to young people who are frightened at the moment that they will be protected the policeman but they are to make sure that the person who might use a knife will be detected but first your tweets the messages and emails in response to last week's show alister says is anyone keeping kind of the number of scottish initiatives that have since been copied by westminster or the labor party i have no idea maybe you could start a list it's a good idea faces really enjoyed this episode what an inspiration prince says dr mark prince would be most certainly was to mike says once again tackling issues bereft of westminster what a cracking shools guard mackenzie also speaks of dr mark prince the steward in the loss of the son says fabulous as always but dr mark prince that was so personal and touching not for the first time watching your show i was deeply moved by his story

the authorities in london seem very reluctant to take advice or listen to anybody though which is very sad if not i reckon it's. finally donal says stop and search randomly at school entrances and major events will help he also suggest on the spot community service of two hundred hours for any forest of things i care very much he tweets and e-mails now the home secretary speech in east london last week was his first on crime his commitment to move to a public health approach has received a cautious welcome across the political parties the public health approach which is something i announced towards the end of last year and that again was through listing to experience from both other parts of the u.k. from other countries as well who have also seen a a similar rise in serious violence and i think we should learn from wherever we can and i think it is in.