it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by. this is just it doesn't get easier. than the stories now and shape the week. between. north korea is. really the focus also on breaking the nuclear deadlock on the korean peninsula. also ahead. jailed in the u.s. for feeling to register as a foreign agent. of washington's current political. activities the illegal. them selves but she got caught up in this. fire from the u.n. human rights groups for execution. the charges against the thirty seven

mostly. stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment well this is the weekly r t international alone welcome. from nuclear free north korea. relations vladimir putin and kim met for the first time on thursday in russia's far eastern city of talk after nearly two hours of face to face talks the leaders expressed their willingness to further develop relations. 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 those truly matters of mutual importance and i think you look great. even though no agreements were assigned it does appear the leaders have a productive time the two exchanged swords first off a symbol of the mutual respect between nations. the talks with a lobbyist in or north korean state media reported that kim is ready for more talks next time n.p.r. artie's in the reports now from moscow.

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 the security guards are 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 rooms wife and white the next two 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 the massive armored vehicles can actually fit into one of those .

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 it looks like chairman kim is hoping that his message will get all the way to washington through russia as well to some german king also be 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 pianka yang's essential desire is international six. 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 too well the russian president believes that for years every step forward made by washington was followed by two steps backwards. but we need some code for 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 however later on for some reason the american partners thought this was no it's enough that they needed to add something 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 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 so was it a solid first meeting with an expert on north korea we spoke to say yes the summit she believes is a win win for. or. it looks like now he tried to see someone else to help korea out in between recent by

a letter all meeting between north korea and the us he was so sure that he can't leave the meeting between the u.s. and north korea but now he is sick somehow a four put inside here essentially 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 puts his chips 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 new u.s. and north korea.

let's bring another breadline stories from the week that was russian national media blitz and it has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison in the united states what happened on friday it's after she pleaded guilty to quote conspiring to act as a non-registered foreign agent essentially working as an declared lobbyist the thirty year old is said to have trying to influence the national rifle association and other conservative groups in the u.s. several american political of figures were suspected to be involved in court spoke in motion only about the effect all this is all hard on her from. my parents discovers my arrest on the morning news they watched in the rural house in the city . i love them dearly but i harm the morally and financially they're suffering from all of that i destroyed my own my. as well i came to the united states not under any orders but with hope and now nothing remains by penitence.

i have reasons to 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 but we grabbed her seized her by put her behind bars for sure but there is nothing they can charge of bush and to avoid looking with the killers they sentenced her to eighteen months or just to show she is

guilty of something. well maria's father exclusively told us here at r.t. that he and the rest of his family had been expecting with a different outcome. we weren't prepared for such a rough and unjust court decision. is a russian citizen and given all these investigations she's been caught up in it 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 bello 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. after until term was handed on we got the chance to speak to reapportion is a lawyer he believes a dangerous precedent may be set. i think it's impossible to separate from from the politics i think that there is a an underlying crime that you 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 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 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 none of maria maria's activities in the us were illegal in and of themselves so there's no classified information there's no political sense of 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 someone in the u.s. so i think it's very dangerous because if other countries adopt the same attitude

going to get a tit for tat situation with countries grabbing civilians of other countries as leverage or for other reasons that i think it's a bad idea. ok let's turn tension to the united states where a shooting at a synagogue near some diego in california has left one woman dead three others wounded including a rabbi police have detained in one thousand year old man in connection with the incident which took place during a service on saturday to mark the jewish holiday of passover the suspect reportedly posted an anti semitic message online before the attack authorities are investigating whether the incident was a hate crime when the assault came exactly six months after the most devastating attack on the jewish community in recent u.s. history eleven people were killed in atrocity in pittsburgh the synagogue where it took place responded to the latest incident saying the violence must stop and human

rights lawyer done you'll call the lake believes it's a dangerous time to be a member of a high minority group in the united states. i'm from pittsburgh i'm in pittsburgh now i was here when the synagogue was attacked here in pittsburgh. this looks like a very similar incident and it's very clear that these people were attacked because they were jewish and so i believe this is a quote racism in general which includes you know my semitism. has a very large presence in america i think. you know it's something america has struggled with for you know a long time it's a very dangerous time in this country to be in any way sean resting my warning i mean that's just a fact i mean you see a world that's very much on fire at the moment in which racial and religious and ethnic tensions are high ok in ninety seconds time i'll be taking you through this

next story thirty seven men executed by saudi arabia sparking global condemnation on claims that the charges were fabricated stay with us. for american politics its own intensity and the notion that somebody playing games at the margins of those election. believe it influenced the outcome is frankly just frankly absurd if we were to compare russia with the states to notice states has been fall more. in influencing the domestic politics of other countries. than russia.

joined me every thursday on the alex salmond and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sport i'm show business i'll see you then. you're back with r t international international human rights groups have condemned a series of executions in saudi arabia this week thirty seven men mostly reportedly from the muslim shia minority were killed on quote terror and violence related charges one body was even strung 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 have received a fair trial with more on this here's our senior correspondent murat galatea. a few things so is 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 unlike the king protested against him so serious with their crimes that one of those executed was also crucified yes crucified and two thousand and

ninety his body strung up for all to see all the fia. today's mass 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 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 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 or can you say you want to cherry on top saudi arabia's on the un human rights council. what a world. morocco's the of all in response to the widespread condemnation the side that you see they will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening they security and stability of the kingdom but the gulf institute for democracy and human rights

claims the saudi justice system often the fabricates charges. the first time which so very big 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 them trying to we don't trust. everybody ended issue system we don't trust how did how did the saudi authorities handle their magic in the eighty's the producers 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 to bring in this weekend bart chilton our colleague on the host of artes flagship finance show boom bust has passed away suddenly three days before his fifty ninth birthday. well bart's dynamism passion for business quickly enriched the program he brought you which is one of the most popular shows on our team america before he joined the r t family are tools commissioner of the u.s. commodity futures trading commission he also worked on multiple local federal and presidential campaigns for the. clinton administration bill clinton's barthes friends and colleagues something scribed him a strong and dignified and say he treated everyone with respect t.v.

host and political commentator steve malzberg remembers the lively chants 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 of 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 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 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.

facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately there was also a very dark side. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is really. it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very first character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist for the more we give them the sooner we are all paying.

for. the welcome to worlds apart twenty two months five hundred search warrants over twenty five million dollars and the worst relationship to nuclear power has had in decades that's what i choose to produce a report confirming that the american president after all is not awaiting russian top but it didn't say though that the russians did not try to pull the strings if

the deed was there if not the legal a moral right to do so well to discuss that i'm now joined by michael brown and professor emeritus of international affairs at the university of pittsburgh professor britton it'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 any. the thing in it that surprised you know we've been pretty. some time as the directions on this time of those of us to gauge and. we're taking what we're going to was looking forward to and to survey was his conclusions in a most dimensional issue often all that odd think we can examine the three perspectives one a legal perspective you know did the president commit any any crimes or

offenses congress might interpret as impeachable true there's a political impact looking forward to next year's presidential election and third is what effect in mind on relations between washington and moscow well i would actually stick to the third one and offer one more line of inquiry which is. what exactly russians didio 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 and they were of the airport in fact thieves that the russian government interference in the two thousand and sixteen election in a quote sweeping and systematic fashion is that the impression that you drew from it sweeping and systematic no or very no i must sort of disagree was with the

judgment the conclusion reached by. mr amala if one sort or looks at the evidence as presented first of all very little if anything to what's already been known and pub and published. second there is almost no concrete evidence to suggest that it was the russian government itself. of marx was the sort of from a. design that was implementing a comprehensive strategy designed to determine the outcome of the presidential election that evidences some from. most of it is this or based upon the assumption that any russian. citizen of consequence awol some of his close to mr putin bugged out is not

substantiated but was presented in the report well i would also take issue with sweeping we know that the miller probe indicted thirteen russian nationals on conspiracy charges that's in relation to social media campaign and twelve on hacking and dumping charges can twenty five people realistically even try to sweep the election in a country of three hundred twenty seven million can be really do it in the quote systematic way though i don't cause if we're looking at is or to in practical terms in the hypothetical way and setting aside for a moment the question as to whether there was a winning strategy no. you know american politics. and intense as a and the notion that somebody playing games at the margins of the election could could.