theme. showed the way to first have a summit between north korea's kim jong. il relations and looks to removing nuclear capabilities from the korean peninsula. russian national jailed in the u.s. for failing to register as a foreign agent but a lawyer says she's a victim of the current political climate in washington. activities of the us were illegal. themselves but she got caught up in this and she rushes the story. and saudi arabia comes under fire from the un and human rights organizations for a mass execution with concerns that the charges against the thirty seven mostly shia men with from.

sunday morning here in moscow live from russia around the world to you this is out international with me kevin and thanks for watching it's and these are a few of the wake and the big stories we brought you over the last seven days starting with this that from a nuclear freed north korea to bilateral relations big meeting in the week and kim jong un met for the first time thursday to russia's far eastern city of light of all stock hosted the summit after more than two hours of face to face talks the leaders expressed their willingness to further develop relations and tackle the situation on the korean peninsula. yes. we just had a fairly thorough one to one conversation we managed to talk about the history of our bilateral relations and about the present day and the prospects of developing those relations but of course we also talked about the situation on the korean peninsula and exchanged views on what needs to be done to improve the situation. in

the audience mr president we have just had authority exchange of opinions face to face on all natural matters of mutual importance and i thank you for the great time we had risen to the. well even though no agreement was signed it seems the leaders did have a productive time the two exchanged sold as a symbol of the mutual respect between nations and wrapped up the talks with a lavished in apparently north korean state media ready saying kim is ready for more talks this time in pyongyang in a patrol that was following the vladivostok summit for.

literally minutes after the north korean supreme leader got inside his limo we were given the opportunity to come closer to his armored train. so unfortunately i won't be able to show you or see for myself any of the extraordinary facilities inside that tray that was used by kim john father i was trying to look through the window but obviously no chances and the security guards are watching carefully to make sure that we don't touch it i've already been told off by the inside there are high tech communication facilities several conference room as well as luxury living quarters in the middle of the train there's a special room for him john wife and white next to it two separate carts for

bodyguards there are two restaurants one is for the supreme leader himself and the second one is for the entire delegation there's even a special section for the leaders limo and the. the one that we saw on the station square that massive armored vehicle could actually fit into one of those. i. know. well it turns out that in a sense john is counting on vladimir 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 as its. chairman king also be directly to tell the u.s. about his position and about the questions he says it could action with the situation on the korean peninsula we also found out that the russian leader is confident that pyongyang essential desire is inter national security guarantees guarantees for sovereignty and when it comes to dating queries 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 this plan to well the russian presence. 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 summit and by the way the president of south korea said that this summit in vladivostok should act as

a springboard for further top ranked diplomacy between washington and pyongyang so chairman kim has been enjoying 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 cameron knows what he's doing when he's playing his geo political game and into trying to across the for us in the wake of an expert on north korea we spoke to says the sum is part of a key mediation role that moscow complained on the korean peninsula. or. it looks like now he tried to see someone else to help korea out in between a recent bilateral meeting between north korea and the us he was so sure that he can lead the meeting between the u.s. and north korea but now he needs. some help for put inside here essentially

achieved through election and or so now he can have a spotlights from the international community by playing the role for the korea over the korean peninsula as a peacemaker so it would be. for today's summit currently now south korea having air exercises rivero u.s. and south korea cannot be free from u.s. pressure because of that in a sense for south korea it could be a good to have a russia if russia can play the right role as a mediator because for south korea itself it could be a little bit tricky to work in between a u.s. and north korea. another big story of the week russian national maria bhutto who was sentenced to eighteen months in prison in the united states for two she pleaded guilty to conspiring to registered foreign agent thirty year olds also tried to influence the

national rifle association and other conservative groups in the u.s. several american political figures were suspected of being involved in the case to it's a quick recap of this long drawn out story. i have reasons to she's not the main goal of the circumstances she had to put it was to break her will and forces to really acknowledge something she might not have done.

but they are trying to save face but we grabbed her seized her would put her behind bars for sure but there is nothing they can charge or wish to each and to avoid looking with the killers they sentenced her to eighteen months to just to show she is guilty of something. one of the we just gone a corresponding killer moped reported from new york city those who were in the courtroom heard gloria boulden and give quite an emotional speech prior to her sentence being handed down she talked about how she came to the united states not as an agent or an operative but with purely good intentions and what a nightmare her family has been through this is some of what maria buton a said to the court my parents discovers my arrest on the morning news they're washed in the rural hollows in a savior and i love them dearly but i harm the morally and financially they're suffering from all of that i destroyed my own life as well i came to the united

states not under any orders but with who and now nothing remains but penitence. now the prosecutors in the d.c. courtroom argued that somehow maria buton his activities with the national rifle association had somehow harmed the political process of the united states significantly they argued that by being an unregistered lobbyist and working behalf on behalf of the russian government inside the national rifle association that she was in severe violation of u.s. law and had somehow harmed due to us political system and done a great deal of damage now the judge did then hand down a sentence of eighteen months in federal prison now nine months of that will be time served that would be the time that she's been held since she was initially arrested so only nine months remaining in federal prison and then after that time she will be deported from the united states back to russia now what's interesting is that maria bhutto was swept up in the aftermath of the twenty sixteen u.s.

presidential elections in which talk of russian agents and russian meddling and russian subversion seemed to be quite widespread there was quite an atmosphere of fear and in that atmosphere she was swept up and it appears that now after months of being detained after quite a bit of time in which it was it was reported that she was held in solitary confinement in rather harsh conditions that she now has nine more months to serve in u.s. federal custody before she will be allowed to return home to her family so people are seeing this is kind of a conclusion to the case as at this point her lawyers are saying they will not appeal this verdict well which we spoke to his lawyer about the case of the dangerous president he believes it could set. i think it's impossible to separate from from the politics and i think that there is a an underlying crime that he pled guilty to which you can make out under u.s.

law but i think the notion of this would have been investigated or and the rest would have been made for a typical foreign national who wasn't russian and wasn't in the car environment where in the us i think that it's almost impossible to believe that southern politics has a lot to do with the atmosphere of the case and it's one of those things where if the elements of the crime are there they were selectively enforced in the sense dense i think it's hard to argue. the charges unregistered agent it's not foreign it's not secret agent it's not intelligence agent it literally is just doing something for someone else as being their agent not of maria maria's activities in the us were illegal in and of themselves so there's no classified information there's no political sensitive kind of information given she was not paid by by the russian federation her she was supported by americans while she was

here financially but she got caught up in this and she rushes hysteria. i would fear that other countries will start applying the same standards and saying that any american who went abroad to another country and it was involved in civil society organizations and social and met people and networks that's really all we're talking about doing are more serious than that and reported back on those activities some in the u.s. so i think it's very dangerous because i think if other countries adopted the same as you're going to get a tit for tat situation with countries grabbing civilians of other countries as leverage or for other reasons i think it's a bad idea. making the headlines that we've just gone international human rights groups condemned a series of executions in saudi arabia in the week thirty seven men reportedly mostly from the muslim minority were killed on terror violence related charges when

body was even strong up in public following his execution human rights watch states these killings mark an alarming escalation in the use of the death penalty in the countries that it also described the punishment as grotesque and expressed concern that those punished might not have received a fair trial a senior correspondent of reports few things so is much fear into the hearts of your own people is mass executions the men were executed for attempting 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

strong up for all to see the full fia. today's most execution is a chilling demonstration of the saudi arabia no authority is 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 and 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 still a kid now is an example in fact of the current king began his reign by staging a massive execution forty seven people back headed short 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 a knife or a knife saudis took that stone here. 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 putain also a favorite especially for theft chopping off people's arms and feet stealing and of course stoning reserved for crimes like being too friendly with the opposite sex or can you say you want to cherry on top saudi arabia's on the un human rights council what a world. more goes to you well rids defended its actions i think it will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and stability of the kingdom but the spokesperson for the gulf institute for democracy and human rights claims the saudi justice system often fabricate charges. the first time which saudi arabia is

that if you know t. took clannish prisoners of conscience who hold dear to spoke out about the human rights violations in the country we've not just dad there i think and five of the. executive people where really charged by terrorists did it in time get we don't stress. i really enjoyed your system we don't trust how did it how did. you handle the magic of speech in the eighty's the british there's a whole talk to the streets to demand rights and freedoms and who spoke out about what was happening in the country. as most of the gulf kingdom saudi arabia uses its edition 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. but it's personal of the morning moscow time the sun the good morning for me kevin zero in next story a swedish computer programmer arrested in ecuador for alleged cyber attack on government systems as visitors partly we brought you the story of the week all of these parents were granted access to him in jail on tuesday while his parents insist there's no foundation for the charges sweden's foreign minister is demanding ecuador explain his arrest all of it is an expert in cyber security and also a digital privacy advocate he reportedly has links to wiki leaks a indeed was detained just hours after will supply was arrested in the ecuadorian embassy in london earlier this month maybe a connection maybe not all his father told us his son's rights were violated either which way. he didn't get to talk too slow or in the right time and he didn't get to me to counsel in the right time and there was so

many wrong things that were done their evidence is that one book of poems and us that he has a lot of memory sticks and that is all. and that is not enough to arrest a person. more or less civil rights activists if there is no proof of all abilities guilt and a number of celebrities activists and politicians signed an open letter to the swedish government calling on it to help free the programmer don't quarter picks up the story. seems being friends with julian a sonship might just cost you your freedom as the wiki leaks co-founder was dragged into the back of a british police van another hacktivists shared a similar fate all of being he was arrested on the same day allegedly for working with assad and for several years now one of the key members of the week you leaks in a person close to me is to do the songe has lived in the uk with do and we have sufficient

evidence that he has been collaborating with the best applies ation attempts against the government prosecutors charged with attacking ecuadorian computer systems and their evidence laptops and encrypted u.s.b. sticks seized from beanies home president lennon moreno pointed to frequent travel as a mark of guilt suspecting being a visited a songe to do his bidding and one of the reasons he kicked out a songe was suspicion he was using the ecuadorian embassy as a hacktivist ecuador's interior minister says it will not be tolerated even if it's mere suspicion it is up to the justice system to determine if he committed a crime but we can't allow inquiry to become essential for piracy in spying that period in our history is over so just hours after assad was dragged out of the dorian embassy being he was detained in quito airport his lawyers say his rights were violated in many ways no charges no translator he was even denied bail and his

parents fear for his safety he's a tough time for him he doesn't really understand why he's. forty has been accused of. and this isn't just another hacktivist we're talking about here benny worked on the advisory board for a major european commission funded project called de code the initiative involves cybersecurity experts researching data ownership and technological sovereignty human rights groups and high profile figures are calling for beanies immediate. release and also in sweden those and big newspaper that has been. giving out this petition or open letter to our prime minister. that he should be released and this has been signed over. about hundred very. prominent persons from around the world it shouldn't be doing interest for anyone

in ecuador or as to just know mr sausage several thousand kilometers north another a saw and sling tactic is to sitting in jail a u.s. federal appeals court has denied chelsea manning bail after she was arrested once again in march and for what refusing to testify in court against assad which it seems like any connection to wiki leaks can get you in jail so if you've ever rubbed elbows with julian a songe it might be better to keep quiet about it. down the quarter reporting fun of the sunday some news this weekend for us and for you his loyal viewers but chilton our colleague on the host of his financial show boom bust has passed away suddenly just three days before his fifty ninth birthday dynamism and passion for the business greatly enriched the program we brought you which is one of most popular shows on out in america we were delighted to say before he joined our r.c. family was commissioner of the u.s. commodity futures trading commission he also worked to multiple local federal and

presidential campaigns friends and colleagues have described him as strong and dignified and say he treated everyone with respect t.v. host and political commentator steve malzberg recalled the last time he was on but show. i think that i might have been the last show that he did which was several weeks ago and you know we had we had our usual fun on the air he always like to make. some kind a little joke in the introduction or at the door or inject a little you more into it and it was just such a pleasure to talk to him all the time and i had that's that's what i'm going to miss most of all is is chatting with him and and you know him being a part of my daily routine of my life and and he being allowed to be in some way a part of his and i'm sure boom bust will go on i know that that's what bart would want.

they can come and blow our brains out at any given time we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people. war and legally get away with. all the fire crawls stillbirth all the trouble here's the point it's hollow flying to k.k.k. exists because america wants it to exist they are the biggest terrorist group to ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse off than the people who destroyed the world trade centers are those. white.

guys or financial survival. when customers go by to reduce the price. will reduce allow or. that's undercutting not what's good for markets it's not good for the global economy. my seven years doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for.

sins for. minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by day as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. welcome to worlds apart twenty two months five hundred search warrants twenty five million dollars and their worst relationship to nuclear power has had in decades that's what it used to produce a report confirming that the american president after all is not awaiting russian

top but it didn't seem that the russians did not try to pull the strings if the deed was nearing if not the legal and moral right. to discuss that i'm now joined by michael brown and professor emeritus of international affairs at the university of pittsburgh professor brennan that's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time those a pleasure to be with well it's been almost a week since the miller report was made public so i'm sure you've had the pleasure of plowing through these truly historic document is there anything in it that surprised you know we've been pretty. directions and list from all those investigations. was taking what everyone was looking forward to in terms of was his conclusions in dimension.

i think we can examine the three perspectives one a legal perspective you know did the president commit any crimes or offenses the congress mud interpreted as impeachable true there's a political impact looking forward to next year's presidential election. is what effect in mind. relations between washington and moscow well. so i would actually stick to the third one and offer one more line of inquiry which is what exactly russians did or did not do because while the democrats and the republicans are still arguing over the legal definition of obstruction they are absolutely unanimous that the russian interference did occur they were of their point in fact that they were.