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stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment of. the weekly an international my name's you know. double trump made history this sunday by becoming the 1st sitting u.s. president to enter north korea he took that momentous step while meeting with its leader kim jong un for talks up partly proposed just the day before the per 1st shook hands in the dead militarized zone

a buffer area between the 2 koreas before crossing the demarcation line to gether then spent the best part of an hour holding talks german kim said he was surprised that the american president suggestion to get together was initially made on social media but he believed the meeting was important mr trump for his part said he was delighted to have crossed into the north. this is my honor. i didn't really expect this to be repaired for the g. 20 we came over and over here i want to hold him and we got to meet and step think of course that was agreed on a lot of credit. to the president has just walked across the demarcation line that made him the 1st u.s. president to visit our country i believe just looking at this action this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate the unfortunate past and open a new future. so how significant is it i discuss the implications of the meeting with our senior correspondent. trump said it himself the speed is no longer for the

essence but they're now talking about progress rather than speed so in that vein they've now come up with working groups negotiation groups from the north korea from the united states they can get together and they try to find common areas whether they agree they're going to start meeting in 2 or 3 weeks so we'll see if progress comes from that but of course sanctions sanctions are the thing that really everything they're saying on memory or something or look i'm looking forward to taking what i don't like sanctions bring on his country i'm looking forward but the sanctions remain useful but at some point during the negotiation things can happen and that's what we'll be talking about it is exactly because of sanctions that the last meeting between the 2 leaders north korean leader. trump that it came

to nothing talks ended 2 hours early and afterwards this is politically quite depressing because there was completely nothing that came out of that. us for north korea they have got the coup of getting a sitting u.s. president into their line the 1st ever time what else what do they want to hear what donald trump said the north koreans want to do sanctions to be lifted completely and he said that there's there's no way that that is going to happen and now the north korean foreign foreign affairs minister came out and said no we are we asked for sanctions to be lifted partially and that the united states demanded something extra. to denuclearization to to go ahead and begin lifting sanctions which he said is an acceptable this is a manifestation of the most extreme hostile acts by the united states all of you speak clearly to the fact that the world dream of the united states. to bring us to

our knees by means of sanctions and pressure has not used at all but grows even more undisguised the u.s. senate and thursday passed a bill that would allow for the strengthening of sanctions with the with regards to north korea soon so you know there is a trust issues well sanctions is the issue that this is the overriding theme is that is there any sense do we have an idea when they may be lifted or otherwise they're looking for concrete details concrete achievements before they begin lifting sanctions and they want them verified but again it's going to take time so denuclearization efforts progress to be put in place and then verified by the united states will then take that but as i said trust big issue we don't expect. to of the truth that's where we're going to verify any denuclearization that takes place that's why we will ensure that we see actual on the ground on the ground

outcomes we're not going to take anyone's word for it this is going to take time and a lot of effort and they need to keep talking. a political commentator and journalist john white thinks a significant step has been made but the trust issues between washington and pyongyang remain. and i think when you see numbers politics of gesture rather than substance the north koreans will be mindful of the greed of the believe they were trapped after a single fortunately began to dismantle so many of text nuclear testing facilities in the sentencing to sell these or the triggers that there would be a quid pro quo running out of the from the americans in the form of the lifting of some of the sanctions north koreans only thrown into their course and that was not the case in the tent sanctions will actually take them to do something north koreans can afford to trust these gesture politics it before let me talk to some of those forces in singapore just mention the treaty and the 2nd in vietnam in the shia and out of these incidents or come to think of come up a ground 0 mosque law so the north koreans will be mindful of that law so be

mindful on a way the level of the way the americans are are going after the iranians in the lead they've been advocating a regime change and actively openly agitated towards reaching regime change in venezuela and well actually a concert of the ilk of john bolton and michael by prominent positions in the trump an illustration trust is the key issue. and perhaps this best gives you know idea of the day and the excitement in a desperate bid to capture the moment that will go down in history press pulls from north korea and the u.s. frantically jostle to make sure they've got the best. i'm going to. be ok. but remember should we suppress any of us us we're here. the reporters crowded outside the building used to host the impromptu talks between kim and trump white house press secretary stephanie grisham was reportedly left a bit bruised and battered as a journalist rushed to occupy the meeting room prepared for the 2 leaders. of the

plough mysie efforts certainly coming to the fore this week moscow and washington are also edging towards better relations president putin agreed to a whole new arms control talks that occurred up the g 20 summit which wrapped up on saturday in ship if you are trying to was in osaka for us he takes off through the other big developments as well. you may like it or not but the 20 year round table isn't the biggest summit attention grabber the reality is that everyone is keen to know what happens at the so-called buy a last and the one that the media was hungry for the most happened on friday the face to face between donald trump and vladimir putin's one and a half hours behind closed doors or wait the journalists were there just for a little bit at the very beginning not to the delight of mr trump. to.

thank you. and to a cleese trying to make american journalists leave him alone on one particular matter donald trump said this. was. going to bring a whole lot. soon after time after time the president's kept repeating how happy they war with how they got along the meeting was good and business we discussed a whole area of issues which are of interest to russia and the united staes we spoke about their economic relations russia sees that american businesses are interested in developing better relations with russia we had a discussion we had a great actually we had a good discussion president putin most of it was really

a tremendous discussion i can see trade going out with russia we could do fantastically well we do very little trade with russia which is ridiculous frankly so from now on the top diplomats of russia and america will be working together on a new framework for global arms control plus the administrations agree. to join afterwards to boost mutual train and donald trump is considering coming to moscow in may next year he was invited there for the victory celebrations another leader who got an invitation by the kremlin was emmanuel macron and we found out here and. mr mccausland won't have a problem with saying hello when he comes to russia.

so as you can see great vibes that that late night meeting to like when putin was with you case to resume a for the 1st time in 3 years london is set to remain an cold war mode with moscow the good news though is those who were in panic mode because of us china trade wars can breathe with relief for now we're going to continue the negotiation we agreed that i would not be putting tariffs on the $325000000000.00 that i would have the ability to put on if i wanted i have a tremendous relationship with president nobody else would have the deal that we were getting tens of billions of dollars from china coming in indeed donald from xi jinping bilad worked its magic no new import tariffs for the time being and further talks to try and and the trade wars all together now everyone who is really making

this planet spin angle maracle shinzo abi mohamed been remote and aired on who by the way heard for the 1st time from donald trump that washington wasn't treating fairly sometimes got their fair share of headline making by a lats and we as journalists got to know. quite a few amusing moments here and also.

the european union has launched a new payment system aimed at helping its firms bypass u.s. sanctions on iran brussels is that all it's with washington after the u.s. unilaterally ditched the 2015 landmark nuclear accord on reintroduce strict trade restrictions the sanctions busting tool is called the european financial settlement mechanism or instax washington has threatened to sanction any country that buys oil from iran to run responded by saying it will increase production of low enriched uranium to near weapons grade levels if it is not guarded from the u.s. sanctions on america's campaign of maximum pressure on terror and does not and there are arounds foreign minister has accused donald trump of violating

international law with his threats to obey letter rate iran president should remember that we don't live in the. united nations try to force. well if we go back to choose the walls when mr trump did threaten iran with a political ration if to run attacks anything american when asked about the possibility of a war with iran he boasted it would be a quicker but out he doesn't want one. then on friday the u.s. sent more stealth fighters to the persian gulf increasing its military deployment there the president of iraq was among those to speak out against it he warned that the u.s. won't be allowed to use his nation to launch any kind of military action against neighboring countries. the american troops the coalition troops in iraq again at the invitation of the iraqi government for the specific exclusive mission of fighting isis we do not want to be a staging post foot any hostile action against any of on neighbors including iraq

though u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o. ses it won't be done to anything the united states has done if war breaks out. americans do everything it can to deescalate. conflict your career is warriors there is a commander here cuba because the arabians made their choice the fresher or the approach that the americans or their allies have had toward iran has impact that this behavior iran now we are in this collection more than the region as a result of the united states withdrawal from the nuclear deal and then followed by maximum pressure against tehran on the one side we're seeing the americans talking about negotiation on the other hand you are using military threats as well as economic war against a country this shows inconsistency as well as i think ambiguity in their policies because i think donald trump is enjoying advisors who have conflicting

viewpoints toward tehran and other international issues and this has caused this broad chaos to the white house in relation and is of iran dissolution in the region needs cooperation and talks and diplomacy between different sides in the region this is the argument of iran. a washing powder and very sparks outrage in pakistan by challenging traditional values and promoting gender equality we put that story and more in just over 90 seconds. the reason that they have not attack iran so far it's not that they didn't want but i would say that they couldn't do it thinking of a short and quick war with iran but i would say that that would not be the case trump said that if they wanted to they would have killed about $150.00 people in

the brain inside but the question comes to me is that americans a time a country in the past by nuclear bombs do they really care about killing 150 people . real crisis matter if it's i mean crisis and they sure. as a scale of natural disaster just like malaysia. and they bring to this. here in japan for the problem of you say a group of substances which of the other being soft. and international organizations do not have enough good you'll.

just approaching 18 minutes past 5 pm here in moscow welcome back a washing powder house triggered by gender equality in pakistan after consumer goods giant procter and gamble opted to show women taking on traditionally male roles take a look. well the advertisement has drummed up plenty of reaction throughout the country including of course on social media with some people even calling on authorities to take action against the brand. ariel who are muslim and we love our culture or religion and our rituals the government should take strict action against ariel brand i miss my request to all my dear pakistanis that please boycott

ariel a soon as possible because religion comes 1st and this is our responsibility to protect our religion boycotts ariel prime minister of pakistan we want ariel cloth washing detergents banned in pakistan immediately for driving and spreading anti islamic campaigns through media yes so we took the opportunity to ask a number of social commentators whether the detergent out was right to push the boundaries of religious and cultural norms in pakistan. i don't think it's a big u.s. companies job to insert themselves into pakistani culture or if it was women speaking up against their own culture that would be one thing but i feel that it's very wrong for a western company to come in and insert themselves in a culture that maybe isn't adapted the same way that american culture has and a lot of these women it has been their position and their desire to see a change within their country their desire has been for women to have more rights

to you know education to financial stability financial empowerment that's come from within the culture so for these women to be on the commercial simply gives them a platform to add enhanced their voice that they've already been using this kirshner may set back that agenda this commercial may set back that initiative for these women this commercial may create children are you married at the age of wikia galba can it be i understand how much but we're not sure brady and. it is an american company in jail getting them said are willing to you know why why you came saying how i see any women i think they're really pushing the envelope when they're dealing with sharia law and just like i don't want sharia law to come here to america and take over my western american values i don't necessarily think i think it's very confrontational to go into a country that does have shari'a and insert western values there has never in the

history i'm just curious if you're going to acknowledge that any type of knowledge that without women in america who are willing to speak you're not going to acknowledge if we were in america in the 1928 if it were not about women sitting up there is not america up against not america if we were in america at its peak you would tell that it is and not to marilyn to speak up against slavery because it would put people at risk of being lynched. the u.n. special repertoire on twitter was once more highly. i did his concerns over the case of julie innocent this week he accused the media of ignoring the alleged inhumane treatment of the wiki leaks founder by refusing to publish an article he wrote about his findings needless melzer argues that julian assange has been slandered to divert attention from the revelations that wiki leaks helped expose he also says the whistleblower has been deprived of his fundamental rights and suffered fully fledged psychological torture during his time in the ecuadorian

embassy in london mr meltzer told me why he thought so many media outlets refused to publish his article. some of them said it wasn't high enough on their news agenda some of them said that it was not within their core area of interest but you know there have been reporting all of them on the case of do innocent when it was about his cats and his skateboard and kind of the allegations that he smeared excrements on the walls but when you have a serious piece that actually tries to do you might ask this this public narrative and to actually show the facts below it then they're not interested. currently serving a 50 week sentence in the u.k. for skipping bail back in 2012 he's also expected to face a u.s. extradition hearing in february next year. well it was last

month that mr melcher highlighted a son just prison conditions as a major concern the whistleblower was said to show an alarming deterioration in his mental and physical state the u.k. responded by saying melzer was wrong to interfere and should leave it to british courts to make their judgments militar again on the suffering julian assange has faced. i knew that i was going to get into a very politicized environment when i visited during the sunday i didn't know him before so i took with me to experienced medical experts of psychiatry and the forensic expert that have worked for decades in examining torture victims just to go to the objective scientific medical basis for my assessment and what they found is a person who shows all the symptoms that are typical for a person who has been exposed to prolonged psychological torture he has been exposed to public more being now that's a slippery slope you know we're going to be in a debate when it's 2 side it's more being basically something like mudslinging

that's not torture yet but when you start exposing a isolated individual who cannot defend himself to a sustained campaign of shaming of humiliation of ridicule of even death threats and calls for his assassination and he's completely isolated then that can cause severe psychological trauma. and then the news media listed by neil's melzer are yet to respond to a request from us here at r.t. to comment on this but if you want to read the article for yourself directly you can head to r.t. dot com there is a link there. now we hear a lot about america's view on or around don't we but what about terror runs view of the us and worlds apart sat down with a visiting scholar in moscow this week you can listen to their conversation in moments.

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all and welcome to worlds apart the usa rainy and transitions have all become a staple of the middle if politics that break as usual with verbal assaults and seasons but sanctions but the latest round of altercations also brought in something new to serious assaults on oil tankers in the gulf of oman and most recently called off strikes on 3 iranian targets somebody is clearly playing with fire in this already smoldering region but what for people to discuss that i'm now

joined by abbas a slimy iranian journalist and political analyst mr bill. thank you very much for coming over into our studio is good to be with you now compared to last week it looks like the world has avoided a major escalation between washington and tehran president trump proudly called off a strike on iranian facilities against the counsel of most of his security advisers we have been told aren't you glad there is such a cautious and daal vish president in the white house. you know i think the reason that they have not attacked iran so far is not that they didn't want but i would say that they couldn't do it because they cannot predict what would happen in the aftermath of such a military conflict with iran trump is thinking of a short and quick war with iran but i would say that that would not be the case and lots of things can happen iran can close the strait of hormuz this can be traced to

other parts of the region including the gulf of other than iran can use its proxy forces its missile capacity it has cyber attacks as well as different tools like resuming the. capacity or potential that the country has but. i would say that the americans if they could have if they could they would have targeted iran and the rain and sides they didn't because they couldn't let's talk about this suppose it a promise for this council to attack it was the iranian taking down of an american navy drone which at least according to the russian intelligence happened within the rainy and air space if that's indeed the case then iran had. to do what it wanted to do. don't you think that that might have been the reason that spooked trump that the.