in the stories that shaped the week he first ever summit between vladimir putin and north korea's kim jong un boosted by lateral relations with 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. none of. us were illegal. in and of themselves but she got caught up in this and she rushes to start. spain's ruling socialists claim victory in an election that's also seen the far right propelled into parliament for the first time in over four

decades. 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. are broadcasting live direct from our studios and this is our teacher national guard to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories and from a nuclear free north korea to bilateral relations let me put in 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 of their willingness to further develop our relations and to tackle the situation on the korean peninsula. it was just we just had a fairly thorough 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 matters of mutual importance and i thank you for the great triumph we had as well and even though there were no agreements signed it seems the leaders had a productive time to exchange swords as a symbol of the mutual respect between our nations and wrapped up the talks with a lavish dinner north korean state media reported that kim is ready for more talks next time in pyongyang and he's only been trying to reports now from one of all stuck.

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 kim john owns father i was trying to look through the window but obviously no chances and the security guards are watching 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 wife and white 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 there the one that we saw on the station square that massive armored vehicles can actually fit into one of those.

i. know. well it turns out that in a sense john is counting on volodymyr 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 it's a. 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 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. 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 more to this agreement that's what north korea with drew from the treaty. if you're making a step forward and two steps back you'll never succeed. after what we heard on thursday it is definitely fair to say that there is

a lot of potential in kim putin summit and by the way the president of south korea said that this summit in blood of all stock should act as a springboard for further top rank diplomacy between washington and pyongyang so chairman kim has been joining 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 of it you know korea and the us he was so sure that he

can lead the meeting between the u.s. and north korea but now he is 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 with 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 conviction a u.s. and north korea. russia national maria bhutto was sentenced to eighteen months in prison in the united states on friday 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 too in court is between a spoke emotionally about the effect it's had on her family. my parents discovered my arrest on the morning news they watched in the rural house in the city bureau and very much 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 who and now nothing remains but 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. us in units or trying to save face but we grabbed her seized hood we put her behind bars if you will but there is nothing they can charge to bush and to avoid looking ridiculous they sentenced her to eighteen months or just a shoulder she is guilty of something. various father exclusively told r.t. that he and the rest of his family had been expecting a very different outcome. but we weren't prepared for such

a rough an 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 unlike before when she was badly treated and i was about discriminated against all of them or all in solitary confinement with walks only allowed for two hours a night with oaxaca maria and her lawyers we all expected a different outcome whatever their verdict but it's hard to say how life will be for maria now the most important thing for us is that she returns home taking into account this new jail term. reboot him his lawyer told us he thinks a dangerous president 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 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 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 and so 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'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 more serious than that and reported back on those activities somewhere 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 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 it also saw a major breakthrough for the far right is almost all of the ballots counted to the anti migrant 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 nine hundred seventy s. and the end of spain's military dictatorship that the far right has been represented in parliament tensions over kabul and independents are believed to have been a key factor in the party's success in addition to taking a hardline stance on the restive regions attempts at secession the party has also railed against feminism same sex marriages and left wing politics. but to me it is minstrel in the 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've got reaction to the results from jordy grow para international relations expert at princeton university people are convening people are right on one of most importantly. in national crisis the fact that i got a long ride to the congo last year ago. made many people who see things to know that there was a lack on the sand to find and therefore i'm not sure on his own what life was created. on my part the fact that i was the school where i was going to really. capturing the imagination of men are few and far is the luck of the great global movement who were more authoritarian obvious you. there has been an outpouring of support for the jewish

community in a californian city of pa way in the wake of saturday's synagogue shooting which left one person dead and three injured. someone filled with hate. when a man. attacked the congregants at the bottom 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 witness these kinds of acts who are 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 now the assault came exactly six months after the most devastating

attack on the jewish community in recent u.s. history of 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 and. the israeli prime minister also has 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 kovalchuk believes it's a dangerous time to be a member of a minority group in the us. from pittsburgh 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 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 you know 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 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. 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 strong up in public following his execution human rights watch states the killings mark an alarming ask lation in the use of the death penalty in the country and also describe the punishment as grotesque and expressed concern that those punished might not have received a fair trial here's a. few things so as much fear into the hearts of your own people as mass executions the men were executed for adopting terrorists an

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 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 or that someone wrote on a stone pillar to throw a tooth. and literally in this case a knife or 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 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 riyadh says they will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and the stability of the kingdom but the gulf institute for democracy and human rights claims that the saudi justice system often fabricates charges. it's not the first time which so very be 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 died there and i think around five of the of the executive people who where really charged by terrorists did is in charge and we don't trust saudi arabia introducer system we don't trust how did

how did the saudi authorities handled their magic especially against the british there's whole 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 so gary busey's is to did you show the system to fabricate the charges against the 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 beat about what's happening in the country. is swedish computer programmer arrested in ecuador for an alleged cyber attack on government systems has finally been allowed to see visitors all of binny's parents were granted access to him in jail on tuesday and as he and his parents insist there is no foundation

for the charges the swedish foreign minister is also demanding a quid or explain his arrest now mr binney is an expert in cyber security and also a digital privacy advocate he is reportedly linked to wiki leaks and was detained just hours after whistleblower joined assad was arrested in the ecuadorian embassy in london earlier this month we spoke to all. father. didn't get to talk to slower in the right time and he didn't. get to me to console in the right time and there was so many wrong things that were done their evidence is that one book of noam chomsky and us that he has a lot of memory sticks and that is all that have and that is not enough to arrest the person human rights activists say there's no proof of all of beanies guilty and

a number of celebrity activists and politicians have signed an open letter to the swedish government calling for help to free the programmer years artie's done a 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 being he was arrested on the same day allegedly for working with assad and for several years now one of the key members of the week you leaks in a person close to me said you and songe has lived in the uk with do and we have sufficient evidence that he has been collaborating with the best bligh's ation 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 bini 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 essential 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's. forty has been accused of. and this isn't just another hacktivist we're talking about here benny worked on the advisory board for a major european commission funded project called de code 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 very. prominent persons from around the world it shouldn't be dangerous for anyone in ecuador or has to just know mr. several thousand kilometers north another a saw and sling tactic is to 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. does for me i'll be back in thirty two minutes with another look at your weekly watch night international. 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 to follow 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. from. the american politics it's only going to intensify and the notion

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