making history becomes the 1st ever sitting u.s. president to north korea. really organize meeting with kim jong un. remain. i'm looking forward to taking. on his country i'm looking forward. to in the stories that shaped the week a trade war the u.s. and china. relations with moscow and washington g. 20 summit in japan. the meeting was good and business like we discussed.

so we had a discussion actually. it was really a tremendous discussion. european countries launch. us. with the top stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment of elements well this is the weekly international mining's you know our top story. donald trump made history this sunday by becoming the 1st sitting u.s. president to enter north korea he took a momentous step while meeting with its leader kim jong un for talks apparently proposed just a day earlier that her 1st hands in the military

a buffer area between the 2 koreas before crossing made demarcation line to gather the then spent the best part of an hour holding talks chairman kim said he was surprised that the american president suggestion to get together was initially made on social media twitter of course but added that he believed the meeting was important mr trump for his part said he was delighted to of course then to the north. says my honor. i didn't really expect to be repaired for the g 20 we came over to. over here i was told. 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. will i discuss the implications of the meeting with our senior

correspondent earlier morocco's the. trump said to himself the speed is no longer for the essence 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 more i don't like sanctions but you know his country i'm looking forward to 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. as for north korea they have got the coup of getting a sitting u.s. president on to their land the 1st ever time what else what do they want to hear well donald trump said the north koreans want the 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 asked to 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 these

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 changed at all but grows even more undisclosed 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 that 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 to denuclearization efforts progress to be put in place and then verified by the united states. but as i said trust big issues we don't expect. to also true 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. ok after this we're joined on the program to the skies this further with patrick henningsen a political commentator from the 21st century wired dot com patrick good to have your company i suppose viewer is the public looking on at the images of what occurred photo ops pleasantries aside they may ask the question what has donald trump actually achieved here at what point will he perhaps gain real concessions from north korea. this is the problem with the current u.s. stance in the style of negotiations that the u.s. is trying to impart here on these on these talks is that they want full compliance from pyongyang before they will consider lifting sanctions and you have to look at this in a wider context this isn't just about the denuclearization of the korean peninsula

i believe that what washington is attempting to do here is build a template of negotiations that they hope will be successful that they will then be able to transfer a similar sort of arrangement with regards to iran and that is the u.s. wants full access to all facilities military facilities in the d.p. r. k. and they've already made remarks that that that's a precondition for any kind of a deal with iran in other words to get them back on board with the j.c. p.o. a they want full access to all iranian facilities and they're not going to get that that's clear iran will not sort of compromise its national security to u.s. intelligence to that degree specifically with all the threats that have been going on so and you have to remember that korea and iran are very good friends they do consider themselves part of the axis of resistance as it were they have good diplomatic relations they see eye to eye on many political issues including

palestine so a lot of people aren't aware of that but that's a fact so i'm sure that notes are being traded between 2 iran and p anyang on this very issue while the u.s. president suggests that sanctions could be negotiable that was one of the. coming from this is there any political appetite in washington for removing them. i don't think so sanctions are are interesting for the u.s. because this allows them to sort of have a tough foreign policy to sort of talk tough to be hawkish with regards to economic warfare and then the pub. sort of use that as the kind of quote nonviolent option to the general us public in the media saying well that's better than a shooting war where this is better than it nucular standoff for instance economic warfare sort of palatable to the they've they've condition the us public in the political bodies to sort of accept that as kind of a traditional option for military intervention so it's easy they don't have to do

anything they just keep sanctions on and the relationship deteriorates over time just on the reaction to what occurred and today we've we've had other u.s. presidents previously going to the demarcation area but not actually stepping foot into north korea donald trump did that but the reaction among many u.s. media outlets not quite scorn but a whole most for attempting to do that do you think there's anything he would be given credit for in terms all of this. it was very symbolic stepping over that side of the d.m.z. very symbolic it's historic it will go down in history as the 1st sitting u.s. president to do that but the objections of the resistance is coming from pretty predictable quarters namely the democrats because this is an election cycle right now or in the 2020 election cycle but also from the media that's very pro defense

contractor aligned mainstream media in the u.s. of course they're always going to be against any sort of the time for any of these sort of traditional cash cows like the sort of the conflict in the korean peninsula then you have the neo conservatives the war hawks form this kind of an unlikely coalition with the democrats on this but this sniping from the democrats including kemal harris most notably saying that trump is coddling kim jong un in this respect this is not going to have any great benefits for them because trump. in the election cycle has the advantage this is one of the benefits of being president is you'll be able to control the timing of the drama when things unfold when big announcements are made and he's absolutely going to play this to perfection during the coming 18 months patrick thanks for your time this sunday appreciate henningsen political commentator from the website 21st century wire dot com thank you.

for the pill missy efforts certainly coming to the fore it this week moscow and washington are also edging towards better relations the presidents putin and trump agreed to hold a new arms control talks that occurred the g 20 summit which wrapped up on saturday in japan trying to was in osaka for as he talks us through the on the other big developments. you may like it or not but the g 20 you round table is in 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.

and to a cleese try to make american journalists leave him alone on one particular matter donald trump said this is really. going to bring a whole. soon after time after time the presidents kept repeating how happy they wor with how they got along the meeting was good business we discussed the whole area of issues which are of interest to russia and the united states 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 great discussion the president put the most of that 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 administration's agree to join afterwards to boost mutual trade and donald trump is considering coming to moscow in may next year he was invited there for the victory day celebrations another leader who got an invitation by the kremlin was emanuel macron and we found out here and. mr mccausland won't have a problem with saying hello when he comes to russia. here.

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 said 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 xi nobody else would have the deal that we were getting tens of billions of dollars from china coming in and donald trump paying bilad work 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 on. mohamed. and 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 last and we as journalists got to notice quite a few amusing moments here and osaka. now

europe's new payment system designed to protect from america's crippling sanctions regime is now on the line but how effective will it be and will it save the nuclear deal we go live to tehran for their viewpoint in a moment stay with us. crisis meant if it's i mean crisis and they share. it's as a scale of natural disaster to strike malaysia. and they bring to this. is the. year when japan will have with the problem of you say

a group of substances which is a rather big saw that governments and international organizations do not have enough. you know world's big partisan. and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. hello again the european union has launched

a new payment system aimed at helping its firms bypass u.s. sanctions on iran brussels is at all odds with washington after the u.s. you know lot really ditched the 2015 landmark nuclear accord to reintroduce strict trade restrictions now 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 0. grade levels if it is not guarded from the u.s. sanctions well america is campaign of mark simone pressure on tehran does not end there iran's foreign minister has accused donald trump of violating international law with his threats to. iran. president trump should remember that we don't live in the 18th century do is the united nations tried to threat of force easy to go well if you go back to choose their name mr trump threatened iran would obliterate

if to run attacks anything american that's the quote when asked about the possibility of a war with iran he boasted it would be a quick at 1st but i'll bet he doesn't want one then on friday the u.s. send more stealth fighters to the persian gulf increasing its military deployment there not a lot of doctors spoke out against it including the president of iraq 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 there 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 the neighbors including iran while the u.s. secretary of state my pump ala says it won't be down to anything the united states has done if war breaks out. america's done everything it can to deescalate

if there is conflict if there is war if there is a kinetic activity it will be because the iranians made that choice let's go live now to speak to political analyst and friend of the program aside. good to see you again do you see this e.u. iran agreement. positives to the table to eye to any resistance which i expect there will be from washington. you know paul there are a lot of problems with the approach that has been taken by the europeans in addition to the americans hostile approach towards the iran the europeans apparently believe that their watch would comply with all its on the taking for an unlimited period of time without receiving any of the merits that has been promised to iran this instance macam is the there has been much. in the media especially in the west the media outlets this covers only less than one percent of what they have

promised iran you know it covers only humanitarian items like medical equipment or drugs and food why until one was promised by parties to the nuclear dealing 2015 that all sanction on sanction goods should be provided to this in sticks mccann ism fails to cover insurance shipping oil sales. banking ties swift problems it doesn't address any of these issues so there should be a balance between iran's undertakings and the merits that it receives under the nuclear deal that's why tehran you know is rather disappointed that the europeans you know seeing them that they comply eventually with all the promises they made not just the at the beginning in 2015 but after the u.s. discarded the nuclear deal they promised to make up for the loss through

cooperation in 11 areas of economic activities including the ones that they just mention you know they've not done anything even the instincts mccann ism has so many problems that's interesting isn't the limitations all of that because that's not really been spoken of by stateside the agreement really allows the e.u. and iran to trade despite the u.s. sanctions that's what washington i think sees it does so with that in mind how do you think it's going to affect europe's relations in their transatlantic partnership with america. well because of the e.u. irresponsible behavior towards iran there are some belief i mean there are some people here experts believing that you're all peons are playing good cop role of the good cop bad cop game 2 are still run. while of course europeans have

their own grievances when it comes to donald trump and nato but when it comes to iran they share some of these concerns or alleged concerns with regard to iran's nuclear industry missile in this regional power and so on and so forth it is widely believed the europeans are not going to take action and they just want iran to continue providing you know playing this role and comply. it is on the takings in a win lose game under the nuclear deal you know the nuclear deal was to be a win win game but what we see now is a 0 sum game with iran paying the costs europeans and americans you know living their merits and iran believes that it should either be a win win or a lose lose game therefore if you are all peons do not rush to provide to iran with some hole i believe busy eventually. they will have. a

problem in their ties with iran because they expect iran to comply with the takings in full but when it comes to confrontation with iran away from the united states approach we believe that you're all peons may not join donald. in any kind of military confrontation with iran except for the british to some extent of course but just on that point indeed as you mention tensions between the u.s. and iran really have escalated at speed some very mixed messages becoming more direct and threatening do you see this actually spilling over into conflict. well it's quite a long time since donald trump rules to office of been stressing that donald trump is not going any different way than obama did their war that they both. have embarked on playing the engagement strategy for the sake of containment of

iran's power in various areas this includes imposing harsh as ever sanctions as well as posing credible military threat to tehran they both have done the same thing to iran so this credible military option does not necessarily mean action because they know the costs we have so many facts from former centcom chief in this region general. marshall xeni acknowledging that the united states is truly afraid of any kind of military conflict with iran because they know their report cautions and when truly we saw that when they cross the border and iran shut the drone they never embarked on you know all doing anything wrong this by some theatrical moves that they made on the southern you know all the lands of the persian gulf in the arab states still they know the costs are too high nancy pelosi

got out of the situation room with donald made a very key sentence and acknowledgement already said that we have too many military personnel in there rejoining. out of out there as i was just were just telling to all. sides thank you so much for your take on this are we speaking to side must not affect the political analyst live on the program. it's a vast a $1000000000.00 industry but just in the food our pets are chowing down on is it actually what it says on the 10 hour documentary pet food starts in moments. my son doing drugs my nephew 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

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