in the stories that shaped the week. between vladimir putin and north korea's kim jong. il relations with the focus also on breaking the deadlock. jailed. for failing to register as a foreign agent but her lawyer and says she is a victim of washington's current political climate. in the us were illegal. in and of themselves but she got caught up in this. hysteria. coming up on the program saudi arabia comes under fire from the u.n. human rights groups for a mass execution with concerns that the charges against the thirty seven mostly.

were trumped up. with top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly r t international hello and welcome. from a nuclear free north korea to bilateral relations. for the first time on thursday in russia's far eastern city. after nearly two hours of face to face talks the leaders expressed their willingness to further develop relations tackle 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 all 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 to authority exchange of opinions trace to face on all of this of mutual importance and i think you know the great times we heard. even though no agreements were signed it seems the leaders have a productive time the two exchanged swords first off a symbol of the natural respect between their nations wrapped up the talks with a lavish dinner north korean state media reported that kim is ready for more talks next time and pyongyang are teasingly to try and go once and 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 the security guards are watch carefully to make sure that we don't touch it and 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 separate carts for body guards there are two restaurants one is for the supreme leader himself and the second one is for the and tired 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 can 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 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 pyongyang essential desire is international. 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 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 the way that 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 withdrew from the treaty if you're making a step forward two steps back and 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 splaying his geo political game so looks like a decent relationship but a good strategy well an expert on north korea we spoke to says the summit is a win win for moscow on young young. 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

leaves the meeting between the u.s. and north korea but now he needs. 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 reveal 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. if russia can play the right role as a mediator because for south korea itself it could be a little bit tricky to work compared to in the u.s. and north korea. it's another all of the week's top stories here in order to the russian national

maria boots now has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison in the united states on friday it's after she pleaded guilty to conspiring to aren't those among registered foreign agent essentially working. the thirty year old who 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 as well in court miss bruce misspoke but the effect this is all on her family. my parents discovered my arrest on the morning news they're washed in their rural hollows in a savior in village i love them dearly but i harm them 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 hope and now nothing remains but penitence.

i have reasons to she's not the main goal of those circumstances she had to put in was to break her will and forces to really acknowledge something she might not have done. trying to save face i think grabbed her seized her we put her behind bars for sure but there is nothing they can charge over us that you and to avoid looking with the killers they sentenced her to eighteen months just to show she is guilty of something. maria's father exclusively told us here at r.t.

that he and the rest of his family hunt been expecting quite a different. when you go forward that we weren't prepared for such a rough and unjust court decision maria is a russian citizen and given all these investigations she's been caught up in it all even though the mother investigation had nothing to do with her nevertheless the u.s. has found a culprit over the past few months she didn't have any complaints about the condition of her confinement. i'm like b. fool and she was badly treated when i was a bit discriminated against all of them were in solitary confinement we will be allowed to two hours a night with oaxaca maria my lawyer is we will expect a different outcome with a 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. we also got the chance to speak to maria put in his lawyer by ted the case he told us he thinks

a dangerous precedent may have been 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 an arrest 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 the sense that it's 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 u.s. 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 she's in her shoes 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 anything more serious than that and reported back on those activities to someone in the us 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. staying stateside a shooting at a synagogue near some to go in california has left one woman dead and three others wounded including a rabbi police detained a nineteen year old mom in connection with the incident which took place during a service on sunday to mark the jewish holiday of passover the suspect reportedly posted an empty semitic message online before the attack authorities are investigating whether the instant was a hate crime leasehold came exactly six months after the most devastating attack on the jewish community in recent u.s. history eleven people were killed in the across the in pittsburgh the synagogue where it took place responded to the latest incident saying the violence must stand human rights lawyer done the believes it's a dangerous time to be a member of a minority group in america. from pittsburgh in pittsburgh now i was here when the

synagogue was attacked here in pittsburgh. this looks like a very similar incident it's very clear that these people were attacked because they were jewish and so i believe this is a racism in general which includes and i semitism. has a very large presence in america i think you know it's something america has struggled with for a long time it's a very dangerous time in this country to be in any racial or ethnic minority to mean that's just a bad i mean you see a world that's very much on fire at the moment in which religious and ethnic tensions are high still plenty had this news hour thirty seven men are executed by saudi arabia sparking global condemnation on charges that the ag church claims the charges were fabricated we get through all the ninety seconds

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it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. seventeen minutes into the program welcome back 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 unquote 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 those punished might not have received a fair trial here sourcing your correspondent him around. 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 strung up for all to see for all to fear. 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 in saudi rulers biggest blood show since the nine hundred eighty s. who said fictions and common peaked in two thousand and twelve and 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 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. in response to the widespread condemnation of riyadh sees the world quote not hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and stability of the kingdom but the gulf institute for democracy and human rights claims the saudi just the system often quotes fabricates charges. it's not the first time which so gary b. you that if you know t. to punish prisoners of conscience who hold dared to spoke out about the human

rights violations in the country we'd not just stand there and i think around five of the. executive people you know we're really charged by. them trying to we don't trust. everybody into disuse system we don't trust how did how did. you handle the magic in the eighty's because there's who took to the streets to demand rights and freedoms and who fork out about what was happening in the country. most of the gulf kingdom so the idea being is to destroy the system to fabricate the charges against the dissidents especially against the activists who spoke out over the moves in the media outlets all 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. and finally some very sad

news to bring you this weekend bart chilton our colleague the host of our t.v.'s flagship finance show boom bust house passed away suddenly three days before his fifty ninth birthday bartz dynamism on passion for business really enrich the program he brought you which is one of the most popular shows on our team america before he joined the r t family was commissioner of the u.s. commodity futures trading commission he also worked in multiple local federal presidential campaigns and indeed for president clinton's administration bartz friends and colleagues of the scrub them a strong and dignified than say he treated everyone with respect to the host and political commentator steve malzberg has been remembering the lively chats they shared. i think. that i might have been on 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 fun of some kind of little joke in the introduction or at the u.n. door or inject a little humor 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 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. for.

as i live here if you don't then. we have other things and this files and this is an email. why don't some peoples also take our thing all the power just for themselves.

and we don't know what facebook's aims are in fact facebook doesn't know what its aims are because it's going to be the sum total of all the people who are working on these algorithms a whistleblower someone who used to work for facebook came forward last year and said i was one of the news curators at facebook a bunch of us used to sit around every day and we used to remove stories from the news feed that were too conservative and now and then we inject a story that we saw it was really cool. facebook founder mark zuckerberg says he's committed to giving everyone a voice he's from responding to an allegation that facebook edits conservative out of it's trending topics they can suppress certain types of results based on. what they think you should be seeing based on what your followers are presenting now a new report claims that according to a former facebook employee the social media mega company sometimes ignores what is

actually trending among its billion users if the story originated from a conservative news source or if it's a topic causing buzz among conservatives. facebook cosily manipulates or users they do it by the things that they insert into the news feeds they do it by the types of posts they allow their users to see and the fact that they actually decided to do psychological experiments on their users is something that i think a lot of people need to really fully understand and they were doing it based upon the fact that different things that people posted they want to see how other people would react to a. health watch why your facebook friends posts can have a direct effect on your mood new research shows the more negative post you see the more negative you could become. so if for example let's say somebody wanted to post something that was on the news feed that was a very negative story they want to see how their users would react via their likes

by their statements for their posts and they would show people who already had a predilection to maybe having some depression or maybe having some other issues in their lives and they can figure that out based upon your like space upon your connections based upon where you're going and so what they want to do is take that information and then use it to basically weaponize this information against their users so that way their users could see different things that may affect their mood and may affect how they interact with others and that's something that is highly unethical it appears that some young people may have been so affected by this that they may have done harm to themselves based upon what they saw on their facebook feed and it was all because it is experiments these things that we have no standing with facebook we're not citizens of facebook we have no blood on facebook it's not a good mark. and this this process is not a way we can design the future we can't rely on this single company to invent our digital future.

there's there's what i call the creepy line and the google policy about a lot of these things is to get right up for the creepy line but not cross at google crosses the creepy line every day. not only does google cross the creepy line the location of that line you keep shifting well it's an interesting word creepy right because it's a word that connotes horror he didn't say dangerous he didn't say an ethical there's all sorts of words that could have fit in not slot he said creepy and a creep is someone who creeps around and follows you and spies on you for unsavory purposes right that's the definition of a creep you know i don't think the typical ethical person says i'm going to push right up to the line of creepy and stop their you know they say more something like how about we don't get near enough to the creepy line so that we're ever. engaged

even pseudo creepy behavior because creepy is really bad you know it's. a creepy mugger is worse than a mugger the mugger wants your money god only knows what the creepy mugger wants it's more than your money and you give google a lot of information you searching for the most private stuff on google you're searching about you know illnesses and diseases that your family have you're searching about things that might be your wife may or spouse might not want you to know about and you're going to be telling google more than you would tell a family member or your spouse or a very close friend and google has so much information about you that it's scary for who are we're starting three very powerful ways in which they're impacting people's opinions. and this phenomenon that we discovered a few years ago seem search engine if you lation of.