among the stories that shaped the week the first ever summit between. north korea. relations with the focus also on breaking the deadlock on the korean. russian national. jailed in the u.s. for failing to register as a foreign agent but her lawyer she's a victim of washington's current political climate. in the us were illegal. in and of themselves but she got caught up in this. also and on the program. human rights groups for

execution with concerns that the charges against the thirty seven mostly men were trumped up. with stories from the past seven days on 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. kim jong met 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 on tackle the situation on the korean peninsula. and that's just if we just had a fairly narrow 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 a foreign exchange of opinions face to face on almost true matters of mutual importance and i think you the great times we are. even though no agreements were signed it appear is the leaders have a productive time the two exchanged swords a symbol of the mutual respect between their nations wrapped up the talks with a la fish dinner north korean state media reported that kim is ready for more talks next time in pyongyang artie's. was in bloody well stuck 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 jones father i was trying to look through the window but all the. slee 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 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 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 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 as confident that pianka yang's essential desire is turn now. tional 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 four years every step forward made by washington was followed by two steps backwards. to you but what are some cultures 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 they 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 withdrew from the treaty if you're making a step forward in two steps back then 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 putting and it looks like mr cameron knows what he's doing when he's playing his geo political game and the trying to with the reports one experts on north korea we spoke to say is this summit is a win win for moscow on pyongyang. can john. 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'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 would be. for today's summit currently now south korea having air exercise rivero u.s. and south korea cannot be free from u.s. pressure because of in 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 in between a u.s. and north korea. moving on our russian national maria was sentenced to eighteen months in prison in the united states on friday after she

pleaded guilty to conspiring to mark those are non-registered foreign agent essentially working as an undeclared lobbyist the thirty year old is said to have tried to influence the national rifle association some other conservative groups in the u.s. several american political figures were suspected to be involved in courts miss boots in a spoke emotionally about the effect it's hard on her family. my parents discovered my arrest on the morning news they're washed in the rural hollows in a savior in village 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 hope and now nothing remains but penitence.

i have reasons to issues that the main goal of their circumstance and she was to break her will and force her to really acknowledge something she might not have done. but you're trying to save face i think grabbed her seized her we put her behind bars but there is nothing they can charge of us and to avoid looking with the killers they sentenced her to eighteen months there just to show she is guilty of something. we also got the chance to talk to maria's father exclusively he told us that he and indeed his family have

been expecting quite a different like. we knew we weren't prepared for such a rough 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 the 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 expect a different outcome verdict but it's hard to say how long before mary and now the most important thing for us is that she returns home taking into account least. on me a business lawyer told us he believes 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 and the rest would have been made for a typical foreign national who wasn't russian and wasn't in the current environment where in the us 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 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 sensitive kind of information given she was not paid by by the russian federation she was 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 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 attitude are going to get a tit for tat situation with countries grabbing civilians of other countries as leverage or for other reasons and i think it's

a bad idea. ok we're going to stay in the u.s. or a shooting at a synagogue near san diego in california has left one woman dead and three others wounded including a rabbi police detained in one thousand year old man 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 anti semitic message online before the end time authorities are investigating whether the instant was a hate crime. well 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 the of atrocity in pittsburgh the synagogue where it took place responded to the latest incident saying the violence must end human rights lawyer doesn't believe that'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 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 racial or ethnic minority mean that's just a fact i mean you see a world that's very much on fire at the moment in which religious and ethnic tensions are high well on the way plenty ahead thirty seven men are executed by saudi arabia sparking global condemnation and claims that the charges were fabricated stay with us.

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i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. again 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 a long escalation in the use of the death penalty in the country and also this crime the punishment is grotesque and expressed concern that those punished might not have received a fair trial here's our senior correspondent brooke because the. 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 so do you 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 the. 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 disobey in saudi rulers biggest blood 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 pillar to through a tooth and literally in this case a knife or and i 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 or 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 the saudis say he will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and stability of the kingdom. a swedish computer programmer arrested in ecuador for an alleged cyber attack on government systems has finally been allowed to see visitors beanies parents were granted access to him in jail on choosing the cns parents insist there's no foundation for the charges the swedish foreign minister is also demanding ecuador explain is arrest mr binney is an expert in cyber security and also

a digital privacy advocate he's reportedly linked to wiki leaks rand was detained just hours after whistleblower julian assange was arrested in the ecuadorian embassy in london earlier this month we spoke to all us father he didn't get to talk too slow or in the right time and he didn't. give it to me to call so when there was so many wrong things that were gone the evidence is that one book of noam chomsky that he has a lot of memory sticks and it's all about her and there's not enough to arrest the person for love is echoed by human rights activists who say there's no proof of beanies guilt number of celebrities activists politicians alike have signed an open letter to the swedish government calling for help to free the programmer here's artie's double quarter. 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 beanie was arrested on the same day allegedly for working with assad which for several years now one of the key members of the week you leaks any person close to me is to do the songe has lived in that would do and we have sufficient evidence that he has been collaborating with the us to bligh station attempts against the government prosecutors charged me with attacking ecuadorian computer systems and their evidence laptops and encrypted u.s.b. sticks seized from beanies home president lenin 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 a center 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 it's a tough time for him and he doesn't really understand why he. or she has been accused of. and this isn't just another hacktivist we're talking about here beany worked on the advisory board for a major european commission funded project called decode 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 the big newspaper that has been them.

giving out this petition over 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 as to just know mr sawyer. 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 a song 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. more of the stories that ship the week in thirty minute stay with the star those who are going back more than one

hundred years for a glimpse at a revolution that shook the world. that's got to be easy this is a central plank support dying at the limits of the problem right now so i stopped. 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 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. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for.

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 by daddy as you're walking out of this it's just it doesn't get easier. the neat political impulse needs to come. from. but ideally to normandy for. giving political guidance to the process and so basically what i'm waiting for he's an author of politically false ideas and stemming from the moment he. joined me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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can we even remember the events of a century ago and if so why is that we went out in search of people who view russia's nine hundred seventeen revolution as a global event. festival we went to visit a leftwing ideologist and famous french philosopher. maybe it's not supposed to know that your books focused on the bust of teeth. and the. difficult for me to address. the word as you idiot but jiko pretty cheeky feet as if to pose. yeah let's go on to produce.

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