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 the more growth we give the sooner we're all. in the stories that shaped the week the first ever summit between vladimir putin and north korea's kim jong un bilateral relations but the focus also on breaking the nuclear deadlock on the korean peninsula. russian national maria is jailed in the u.s. for failing to register as a foreign agent but her lawyer insists she is a victim of washington's current political climate. not of. his activities in the us were illegal. in and of themselves but she got caught up in this.

hysteria. and saudi arabia comes under fire from the un and human rights groups for a mass execution with concerns that the charges against the thirty seven mostly shia men with trumped up. it's the weekly here on alt international with me in india tudor highlights from the last seven days and the latest up to date stories welcome to the program. from a nuclear free north korea to bilateral relations and kim jong un met for the first time on thursday in russia's far eastern city a flood of os talk after nearly two hours of face to face talks the leaders expressed their willingness to further develop relations and tackle the situation on the korean peninsula. and that's 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 a foreign exchange of opinions trace to face on all of this of mutual importance and i think you know the great times we heard. and even though no agreements was signed it seems the leaders had a productive time there to exchange so it's as a symbol of for me chills respect between the nations are not at the talks with a lobbyist in a north korean state media reporter that came out of the talks the next time and. of course.

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 our 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 lewis wife and why next to it two separate cards 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 in there 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 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 pianka yang's essential desire is international security guarantees guarantees for suffer. 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 too well the russian president believes that for years every step forward made by washington was followed by two steps backwards. but with 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 the way they 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 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. we spent it says the summit is a win win. it looks like an. in-between. recent by a literal 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 you election and also 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 exercise really u.s. and south korea cannot be free from u.s. pressure because of a sense for south korea it could be 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 the u.s. and north korea. russian national maria buton was sentenced to eighteen months in prison in the united states on friday is after she pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent essentially working as an undeclared 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 court ms brooten i spoke emotionally about the effect it's had on her family. my parents discovered my arrest on the morning news they're washed in the rural hollows in a 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 she's not the main goal of their circumstances she was to break her will and forces to really acknowledge something she might not have done.

but yes they are trying to save face they grab her seized her put her behind bars but there is nothing they can charge her with us and to avoid looking ridiculous they sentenced her to eighteen months there just to show she is guilty of something . whereas father exclusively told r.t. that he and the rest of his family had been expecting a very different outcome. 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

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 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 whatever but it's hard to say how long it will be for mary and now the most important thing for us is that she returns home taking into account least a new job. maria button has no at told us he thinks a dangerous precedent may have been found. i think it's impossible to separate from from the politics 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 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 literally it's 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 she's out of 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 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 that i think it's a bad idea. to cynical but this sunday anchor in california has left one woman dad and three others wounded including iraq by police have detained a nineteen year old man in connection with the incident which took place during

a service and something to mark the jewish holiday of passover the suspect reportedly posted an anti semitic message online before the attack on investigating whether the incident was a hate crime. 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 that atrocity in pittsburgh the synagogue where that shooting took place has responded to the latest incident saying the violence must end. israeli prime minister has also expressed his condolences to the victims and announced plans for a summit to look at the rising number of anti-semitic attacks around the world human rights lawyer daniel coverlet believes it's a dangerous time to be a member of a minority group in the us. from pittsburgh i'm in pittsburgh now i was here when the synagogue was attacked here a 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. racism in general which includes you know some of it is and. has a very large presence in america i think you know it's something america has struggled with for you know a long time and it's a very dangerous time in this country to be. in any way. mean that's just i mean you see a world that's very much on fire at the moment in which racial religious and ethnic tensions are high that is a global condemnation after assad to arabia executes dozens of men more on that story after this break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the

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welcome back to the program international human rights groups have condemned a series of executions in saudi arabia this week thirty seven men mostly reportedly from muslim shia minority were killed on quote terror and violence related charges one buddy has even been 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 until the described the punishment as grotesque and expressed concern that those punished might not have received a fair trial his all senior correspondent. few things so was much fear into the hearts of your own people is mass executions the men were executed for adopting terrorist. and extremist 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 mess execution is a chilling demonstration of the saudi arabia authorities 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 back headed 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 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 or that someone wrote on a stone pillar to throw it to. and literally in this case a knife or an eye saudis took that. very seriously in two thousand and five accords and saudi arabia ordered a migrants i go out as punishment for getting into a fight and. 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 is on the you when human rights council what a world. in response to the widespread condemnation riyadh says they will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and stability of the kingdom but the gulf institute for democracy and human rights claims society justice system often fabricates charges. the first time which so very be you that if you know t. took punish prisoners of conscience who who dared to spoke out about the human rights violations in the country we've not just dad there and i think around five of the of the executive people who where really charged by terrorists did it in time get we don't trust. i really enjoyed your system just how did you how did. you handle the magic in the eighty's that it is theirs who took to the

streets to demand rights and freedoms and for out about what was happening in the country. most of the gulf kingdom so your idea of using is to destroy the system to fabricate a charges against their dissidents especially against the activists who spoke out over the news. media outlets all rules participated in demonstrations their team. in the god kingdom especially in saudi arabia no one is a low just about what's happening in the country. a swedish computer programmer arrested in ecuador for an alleged cyber attack on government systems has finally been allowed to see visitors binny's parents were granted access to him in jail on tuesday anderson he and his parents insist there's no foundation for the charges the swedish foreign minister is also demanding ecuador explain his arrest mr binney

is an expert in cyber security and also a digital privacy advocate he's reportedly linked to wiki leaks and was detained just hours after whistleblower julian assange was arrested in the ecuadorian embassy in london earlier this month we spoke to father. didn't get to talk to slow. give it to me to call so in the right and 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 hold her and there's not enough to arrest the person human rights activists say there's no proof of beneath killed and a number of celebrities activists and politicians to find an open letter to the swedish government calling for help to free the programmer has all t's donald

quarter. seems being friends with julian assange on should 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 which for several years now one of the key members of the week you leaks in a person close to mr julius 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 me with attacking ecuadorian computer systems and their evidence laptops and encrypted u.s.b. stick 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 via. elated 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 he doesn't really understand way 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. giving out this petition over open letter to our prime minister. that he should be released and this has been signed over. about hundred very. prominent persons from rome it shouldn't be dangerous for anyone in ecuador or has to just know mr sachs several thousand kilometers north another a saw and 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 and 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. now i'll be back at the top of

the next hour with more updates but in the meantime do stay tuned for a documentary called creepy nine which is next on hunters. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. we need a political impulse and needs to come. from. ideally to normandy for. giving political guidance to the

process so basically what i'm waiting for these are not our political impulse ideally extending from the moment you can. tease holiday the international memorial awards twenty nineteen are now open for entry to. the media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist who work for alternative media who are part of a global news conference to participate sunday published works and video all written for. go to award dot altie dot com and enter now. the american politics of the song. and the notion that somebody playing games at the mall or just. over the election. even influence the outcome is frankly. absurd to food to compare

russia with you know the states to notice states has been fall war. in influencing the domestic politics of other countries in the. is this a realistic prospect in ten years and you understand why other creeps people. especially i think there's there's what i call the creepy and the policy about a lot of these things just 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 one of his c.d.'s at least for the moment.

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