in the stories that shaped the week the first ever summit between a black and a north korea. relations with the focus also on breaking the nuclear deadlock on the korean peninsula. russian national. jailed in the u.s. for failing to register as a foreign agent but her lawyer insists she's a victim of washington's current political climate. in the us were illegal. selves 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 thirty seven mostly.

are broadcasting. this is. with us as we recount the week's top stories. i have from a nuclear free north korea to buy a lateral relations of lattimer puts and kim jong un met for the first time on thursday in russia's far eastern city of lot of all stuck 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. yes. we just had a fairly thorough 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 to authority exchange of opinions face to face on all of this of mutual importance and i thank you for the great times we heard. and even though no agreements were signed it seems the leaders had a productive time to exchange swords as a symbol of their mutual respect between their nations and wrapped up in the talks with a lavish dinner north korean state media reported that kim is ready for more talks next time in pyongyang trying to reports now from what it cost.

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 obviously no chances. and the security guards or watch carefully to make sure that we don't touch it have 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 right next to it two separate carts for bodyguards

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 cam john is counting on vladimir putin as a kind of

a middleman in delivering his messages to the rest of the world the leadership 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 read 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 guarantee. guarantees for sovereignty and when it comes to dating korea's 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 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 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 but you'll 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 flat of all stock 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 kim knows what he's doing when he's playing his geo political game an expert on north korea we spoke to says the summit is a win win for moscow and come yet. or. it looks like now he tried to see someone else to help korea out in between a recent bilateral meeting between of korea and the u.s. he was so sure that he can lead the meeting between the u.s. and north korea but now he. sick some help for 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 achievement to for today's summit currently now south korea having air exercise really the 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 conviction a u.s. and north korea. russia national maria bhutto was sentenced to eighteen months in prison in the united states on friday it's 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 paul political figures were suspected to be involved as well in court mrs bhutto spoke emotionally about the effect it's had on her family. my parents discovered my arrest on the morning news they washed in their rural hollows in a savior and 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 the circumstances she had to put it was to break her will and forces to really acknowledge something she might not have done.

sooner or later they are trying to save face but we grabbed her seized her and would put her behind bars for sure but there is nothing they can charge over us and to avoid looking with the killers they sentenced her to eighteen months there just to show she is guilty of something. moreas father exclusively told r.t. that here and the rest of his family had been expecting a very different outcome. and when you look forward to it we weren't prepared for such a rough and under just 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 before. when she was badly treated i was a bit discriminated against a little bit more when some of tree confinement we will be allowed to two hours a night with oaxaca maria my lawyer is we will expect a different outcome when i think verdict but it's hard to say how life will be familiar now the most important thing for rose is that she returns home taking into account. where he aboot in this lawyer 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 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 it's almost impossible 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 an 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 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 a 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 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. spain's ruling socialist workers party has claimed victory in sunday's general election but it has failed to gain a parliamentary majority and will now have to secure the support of other parties in order to form a government the poll also saw a major breakthrough for the far right. with almost all of the ballots counted the

vox party is projected to win twenty four seats in the three hundred fifty seat lower house it will be the first time since the one nine hundred seventy using one of the ending military rule in the country the far right has been represented in parliament tensions and over independence are believed to have been a key factor in the party's success. in addition to taking a hard line stance on the rest of the region's attempts at secession the party has also rallied against feminism same sex marriages and the left wing politics but he still made. that works it is the instrument that makes the population move forward and it is the only one capable of guaranteeing the unity of the nation and live its not by socialists communists and separatists across the country everything to spain longleaf spain. we got reaction to the results from jordan. and the international

relations expert at princeton university. people are keeping in. on one of more important new we imagine it's the fact that the looming out prize. last year of your. made many people who really. are strong and tough it's funny to me and therefore it's honest not revealing what created us was inspired by my party sect which people who were it's clearly didn't need your. east capturing the imagination of humanity or to see it on blogs you just lock a chapter on these great growing movement to work more recruitment policy and. there is a global condemnation after saudi arabia executes dozens of men more that after a break this is a weekly article trash. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday should we let it be an arms race in this on all sides very dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. american politics that's. going to sense as a and the notion that somebody playing games at the margins of the election could dictate believe it or influence the outcome. is frankly is frankly

absurd if. russia was you know it is staged you know to stage has been involved. in influencing the domestic politics of other countries. welcome back this is the weekly on our to international and there has been an outpouring of support for the jewish community in the californian city of tal way in the wake of saturday's synagogue shooting which left one person dead and three injured. someone filled with hate. when an. attacked the congregants at the way an attack against our jewish brothers and sisters sad obviously for the congregation. they've lost a family member feel very bad for the for not only the jewish community but but all

of us who are or having to do to witness these kinds of acts police have detained in one thousand year old man in connection with the incident which took place during a service marking 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 i mean 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 and the synagogue where that shooting took place has responded to the latest incident saying that the violence must an. israeli prime minister also expressed his condolences to the victims and announce plans for a summit to look at the rising number of anti-semitic attacks around the world human rights lawyer daniel believes it is a dangerous time to be a member of a minority group in the u.s. . 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. racism in general which includes am 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 racial religious and ethnic tensions are high. 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 that 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 is broadcasting a. 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

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 he's 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 that someone wrote on a stone pillar to throw

a tooth. and literally in this case an eye for 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 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 what can you say you want to cherry on top saudi arabia's on the un human rights council what a world. response to the widespread condemnation we on says that 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 the saudi justice system

often fabricates charges. not the first time which saudi arabia was the death penalty to punish prisoners of conscience who hold dared to spoke out about the human rights violations in the country we've not just there and i think and five of the of the executive people who where really charged by terrorist to terrorism time get we don't trust saudi arabia introduce your system we don't just have to how did the saudi authorities handled the matters especially against the protesters 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 did you show the system to fabricate the charges against their dissidents especially against the activists who spoke out or who was their social media outlets or who

was 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. right that does it for me and we could all be back in thirty five minutes with another look and stay with us is our two international. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see if. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that book about different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people about salt or not. if you think.

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