the leaders of russia and north korea conclude. after more than two hours of face to face with. him just expressed their willingness to work towards nuclearization of the korean peninsula. to do something else to tell us about his position and about the questions he says in connection with the situation on the korean peninsula. president and some of his most unpopular policies during a news conference that was going to diffusing the widespread public anger sustaining france's nationwide protests. also a un report notes u.s. international government forces in afghanistan are responsible for more civilian

deaths but the militants they've been fighting to get a 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 we have concerns we want the americans and i says to stop killing our people we do when the u.s. and nato hear. from oscar what's the international law. for joining us this hour. kim jong un has invited a lot of putin to visit north korea that follows what the d.p. r. k. s. leader described as a very meaningful exchange in russia's far east the meeting was taking place for the very first time on thursday the two heads of state discussed denuclearization efforts on the korean peninsula as well as international sanctions and bolstering the bilateral ties correspondent leave the trunk oh was in

a lot of us look. 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 connection with the situation on the korean peninsula we also found out that the russian leader is confident that pyongyang's essential desire is inter national security guarantees guarantees for sovereignty and when it comes to dating queries nation 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 in 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 in camp putin some. and by the way the president of south

korea a few hours ago said that this summit in lad of all stock should act as a springboard for further top rank diplomacy between washington and pyongyang so chairman kim has been joining contacts with the most powerful politicians on this planet 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 on how president putin welcomed his north korean counterparts in russia's far east.

a body language expert howard feldman told us what he thinks of the leader's movements. 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 is and takes all the downward position we saw that kim jong il wanted to try and establish a bit of dominance there himself when he got to that point that's when putin kind of left go 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 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 for kim jong il. and there's no doubt that the son 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 when 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. a french president has just concluded a news conference addressing months of nationwide protests which have seen the most violent riots in paris in half a century. double down on some of his most unpopular moves which sparked the bally's including slashing the wealth tax auntie's charlotta been skis in paris with details. 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 stronger borders usually and so they we must take notice of the frag things ongoing as well as they should be on the european level and we have decided to have common borders the much talked about sharing an area with the rules of the dublin called 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 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 that. you can be a member who will tax reform was widely perceived as a give 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 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 president michael may have spoken so 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 i'm quite a lot was the detail 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 cool says 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. take my share of responsibility. for.

professor of french and francophone studies pul smith political commentator john brick wall and 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 us almost certainly though we know there are going to be protests at the universe 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 to the edges that may well be a bit more open to what. is suggesting people are unhappy with this policy but what

is true is that there is no you know demand about what to do with this is that school i didn't say the european union there's nothing else you can do because you have been one to force the sort of nearly abolish loans and of course engage with that but even he didn't can do anything about it so is the dilemma nics measure is more social spending more. or less taxes but in settings these courses it is going to look to me and i know i was going to balance the budget there was a lot of those alleged so it seemed to me that this is mostly you know a discourse of discourses trying to satisfy people that isn't going to be done because the disease content is too deep. i've got to start 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 un study the findings reveal in the three first three months of this year

almost six hundred civilian deaths were documented in the country most of the deaths came from last trikes conducted by international forces led by the united states and nato a number of victims is up almost forty percent on the same period last year we spoke to locals to get their reaction. among some of them you know we always requested from the american forces and the afghan government if you. i 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 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 a 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 of the previous fewer forces washington county has about fourteen thousand troops in afghanistan most of them are involved in not operational nato led training missions in december it was reported as a troubled reduce u.s. forces in the country although there's been no sign of that being put into action what house has been seeking a peaceful resolution of america's longest ever war but there are concerns that any deal could lead to a new wave of instability in the whole region. we've spent close to one trillion in the afghanistan all of that is a true if you screw up on the day after a peace agreement a dramatic decrease in not only troops but financial support for the afghan

government will mean the collapse of the government you have five hundred thousand some troops and police who are trained and have weapons you have sixty thousand taliban who are trained killers they want to be reintegrated plan for that. and meanwhile just a day after the u.n. report on afghanistan was published many things that. was some released report on civilian casualties in the syrian city of rocker in twenty seventeen it found the u.s. led coalition responsible for one of the deaths for the deaths of more than one thousand six hundred civilians that's ten times the number admitted by the u.s. government writer and commentator bill bari atwan thinks the u.s. must stop such practices. people out killed the job only when they bought these out of only you know even eighty years they are bombing schools so i think this kind of bombardment should be stopped because this city has people who are paying the price for this i'm a going to close these and that prompted the words i believe that american troops

and american administration is fully responsible for that among disobedient in particular you know more than a thousand people were killed that many kind of mistakes here is a responsible because they supposed to be in control of they actually should be. responsible will be spending and be that international community should actually take action against. the u.n. security council spain holding crisis talks on the situation and war torn eastern ukraine we'll have the details for you in just a few moments. the government has created a platform against this dialogue because that does not allow any compromise in their platform talks about the serbian crimes how serbia should play war iterations . being in its official state it was simply things that everything is already over

when they wake up from the lucian's that they will have to face a cerebral reality of. what politicians do to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press this is like the for three of the four people. i'm interested in the waters in the house.

the program local media in the self declared look people's republic you know eastern ukraine reporting that two people have been confirmed dead following explosion at a coal mine the fate of fifteen others. 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 cool news god is facing heavy criticism in the u.k.

it's labeled as trustworthy three controversial top newspapers the some. the daily star is the new black listing program is raising auntie's little cool to. 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 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 common sense might not be enough if the admins are living under a rock the 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 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 without any problem not misleading

trustworthy they're a fireball job well done. u.n. security council meeting on the crisis in east ukraine has just drawn to a close representative called the session in response to a new russian initiative that will make it easier for people in the war torn regions of donetsk and lugansk to obtain russian citizenship kaleb open brings us 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 decree that people living in ukraine's eastern region have the right to apply for russian citizenship as president of ukraine signed they will did you could use you you know the. deduction tradition that you didn't know if when independent state brutal will it. do to integrity and the unity

of ukraine to do locally than when you. we're not interfering in ukraine's internal affairs and we're no creeping out it's a shooting which is giving people the opportunity to so critical problems to deal with ortiz in kiev have refused to address. some of the even before the decree hundreds of thousands of ukrainians are deployed to russian citizenship we're not forcing them to become russian citizens. 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 and such has been rather dire and that if it weren't for the humanitarian efforts of russia these people would be left with nothing the u.s. and other countries have accused russia of somehow violating the minsk agreement by offering russian citizenship the russian ambassador was very clear that this was not

a violation of the minsk agreement however he argued that many of the actions of which continue to keep the people in the eastern regions isolated have indeed 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. there's the headlines for the south just coming up to two thirty am here in moscow join us again in thirty minutes for the latest. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the hope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to stay in the home field when everything is familiar on the other i wanted

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