among the stories that shaped the week the first ever summit between vladimir putin north korea's kim jong. il relations the focus also on removing nuclear capabilities from the korean peninsula. on the program this hour. is in the u.s. for a feeling to register as a foreign agent but her lawyers say she's a victim of the current political climate in washington. activities of the us were illegal. but she got caught up in this. hysteria. comes on fire from the un and human rights

organizations for execution with concerns that the charges against the thirty seven mostly. were trumped up. with the top stories from the past seven days own right up to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly an r t international hello and welcome. from. north korea to bind relations. kim jong un met for the first time on thursday russia's far eastern city of stock hosted the summit after more than two hours of face to face talks the leaders expressed their willingness to further develop relations the situation on the korean peninsula. just we just had

a fairly alright one two 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 a foreign exchange of opinions face to face on all of this of mutual importance and i think you look great we are. even though no agreements were signed it seems the leaders had a productive time for the to exchange so it's a simple they need to respect between the nations. the talks with a lobbyist in a north korean state media are already saying can ms ready for more talks this time n.p.r. leave a tranquil fall of the bloody boss talks about for us. 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 cam john father i was trying to look through the window but obviously no chances and this is. guards or

watch 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 grooms wife and why next to separate carts for body guards 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 they're the one that we saw on the station square that massive armored vehicles that actually fit into one of those.

well it turns out that in a sense cam 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 it's a. german king also me directly to tell the us about his position and about the questions he has in connection with the situation on the korean peninsula we also found out that the russian leader as confident that p. yang's essential desire is

inter national security guarantees guarantees for sovereignty and when it comes to dating poor ization 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 president believes that for years every step forward made by washington was followed by two steps backwards. but what he said this 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 in two steps back you will never succeed. after what we heard on thursday it is definitely fair to say that there is a lot of potential and kim 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 polluting and it looks like mr cameron knows what he's doing when he's playing his geo political game well the expert on north korea that we spoke to says the summits part of the key mediation role that moscow can play in the korean

peninsula. or. as 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 is sick some help for put inside he was sent to the achieved new election and or so now he can have a spot lies 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 a sense for south korea it could be a good to have 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 the u.s. and north korea. or i want to move on to a number story you know a russian national marine boot has been sentenced to fifteen months in prison in the united states the verdict was handed down after she pleaded guilty to conspiring to are registered foreign agent essentially working as a long registered lobbyist the thirty year old is said to have tried to influence the national rifle association and other conservative groups in the u.s. several american political figures were suspected to be involved in the case in the courtroom ms brooten a small commercially about the effect on her family. my parents discovered my arrest on the morning news they watched in the rural house in the city bureau 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.

orders but with hope and now nothing remains but penitence. i have reasons to if she's not the main goal of the circumstances she had to put in was to break her will and forces to really acknowledge something she might not have done. a few units are trying to save face by they grabbed her seized her that would put her behind bars

a job but there is nothing they can charge or wish to each and to avoid looking with the killers they sentenced her to eighteen months or just to show she is guilty of something. and her father speaking exclusively to our t. said that he and the rest of the family had been expecting a very different than. we knew we weren't prepared for such a rough and just court decision. is a russian citizen and given all these investigations she's been caught up in it will even though the mother investigation had nothing to do with her nevertheless the us has found a coper it's a group over the past few months she didn't have any complaints about the condition of her confinement unlike before when she was badly treated and i was a bit discriminated against all of them were all in solitary confinement with will be allowed to two hours a night with oaxaca maria a lawyer is we all expected a different outcome when the fed verdict but it's hard to say how life will be for

mary and now the most important thing for us is that she returns home taking into account least. and we also spoke to marie and put his lawyer above the case on the dangerous precedence he believes it could set. i think it's impossible to separate from from the politics i think that there is a an underlying crime that she 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 u.s. i think it's almost impossible to 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 this instance

i think it's hard to argue. the charge is 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 because really all we're talking about doing are anything more serious than that and reported back on

those activities some in the u.s. so i think it's very dangerous because if other countries adopt 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. forty minutes past three pm here in moscow we're back after the shores of the brics with human rights groups the last thing saudi arabia after the execution of dozens of prisoners could victims of terror and violent crime stay with us for the plenty more. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big part of the law 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. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back to the weekly on our team a swedish computer programmer arrested in ecuador for alleged cyber attack on government systems has finally been allowed to see visitors. binny's parents were granted access to him in jail on choose under-sea and his parents and sisters no foundation for the charges sweden's foreign ministry is also demanding ecuador explain his arrest mr binney is an expert in cyber security and also a digital previously advocate he's reportedly linked to wiki leaks and was detained just hours after whistleblower julian a song was arrested in the ecuadorian embassy in london earlier this month only his father told lists his son's rights were violated. he didn't get to talk too slow or in the right time and he didn't. get to me to call

in the riot and there was so many wrong things that were. there evidences that one book of. that he has a lot of memory sticks and that is all about her and that is not enough to arrest the person a human rights activist said there was no proof of binny's guilt and a number of celebrities activists politicians alike have signed an open letter to the swedish government calling on stockholm to help free the programmer donald quarter brings us more. 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 beany 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 bligh's 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 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 most paper has been them. giving out this petition or open letter to our prime minister. that he should be released and this has been signed over. about how madrid very. prominent persons from around the world it shouldn't be dangerous for anyone in

ecuador or has to just know mr sachs several thousand kilometers north another assan sling tack to vista 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. ok let's turn attention to the middle east on a story garnering a lot of attention international human rights groups have condemned a series of executions in saudi arabia this week thirty seven mostly reportedly from the muslim shia minority were killed on quote terror and violence related charges one body was even stronger up in public following his execution human

rights watch states the killings mark an alarming escalation in the use of the death penalty in the country it also described the punishment as grotesque and expressed concern that quote those punished might not received a fair trial or senior correspondent morocco's the it was this. 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 shrunk up for all to see for all to fear.

today's most execution is a chilling demonstration of the sodium review 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 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 this. when it comes to killing prisoners in fact the current king began his reign by staging a massive execution forty seven people behaved it short for crimes that included this a big saudi rulers biggest blood show since the nine hundred eighty s. who said fictions and common peaked in two thousand and twelve 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 routes back to a four thousand year old law that someone wrote on a stone bill or two through

a tooth and literally in this case a knife or 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 pew taishan 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. report from or out of the front of it's actions are going 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 lawful fabricates charges that's according. it's not the first time which so very be you that if you know t. took punish prisoners of conscience who hold dared to spoke out about the human rights violations in the country we've not just stand there and i think around five of the of the executive people who where really charged by terrorists to terrorism time get we don't trust. the entity shoe system we don't just have to how did the saudi authorities handled the matches especially against the british theirs who took 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 is to do dishes 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. finally some very sad news this weekend bart chilton our colleague on the host of artie's financial show boom bust has passed away suddenly three days before his fifty ninth birthday bartz dynamism and passion for business quickly enrich the program he brought you which is one of the most popular shows all marty america before he joined the r t family bart was commissioner of the u.s. commodity futures trading commission he also worked in multiple local federal and presidential campaigns for the bill clinton administration barthes friends and colleagues have described him as strong and dignified and say he treated everybody with respect to the host political commentator steve malzberg remembers the lively

banter they shared. i think that i might have been i'm 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 were into it and it was just such a pleasure to talk to him all the time and i'd that's that's what i'm going to miss most of all this is is chatting with him and and you know him being a part of my daily routine of my life in 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.

what is it calling the coin is magic internet money the new type of digital currency the centralized digital scarcity chancellor for a second for a bank that's called the genesis block for a reason they're calling it civil disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial tiffani it's just a new way of coming to consensus it's a game changer in the human history and this is columbus discovering a new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo eleven landing on to the roof with max and stacy. ninety 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 which we started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentence in this for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of this is just it doesn't get easier. is this a realistic prospect in ten years and you understand why it kind of creeps people.

especially if there's there's what i call the creepy line and the policy about a lot of these things is to get right up to the creepy line but not cross it i would argue that implanting things in your brain is beyond the creepy line of yes at least for the moment.