you know when you. give me give you. a week you're. going to trump becomes the 1st u.s. president to enter north korea meeting kim jong moon demilitarized zone sanctions against us so you can team. i'm looking forward to taking them off i don't like the sanctions being on this country and i'm looking forward but the sanctions remain useful. i mean the stories that shaped the week russia and the united states seek to overcome their differences as putin and trump sit down for talks at the g 20 summit in japan. the meeting was good and businesslike we discussed a whole range of issues that are of interest to russia in the united states and we had a discussion we had a great actually we had a great discussion the president put to myself whether it was really

a tremendous discussion. and the e.u. launches a new payment system to bypass american sanctions against iran in a bid to save the 2015 nuclear deal. live from moscow you're watching the weekly roundup of top stories here on r.t. international thanks for chiming in wherever you are. donald trump made history on sunday becoming the 1st sitting u.s. president to enter north korea it took a momentous step while meeting with its leader kim jong un for talks apparently proposed just a day earlier the pair shook hands in the demilitarized zone that's a buffer area between the 2 koreas before crossing the demarcation line together. now you then spent the best part of an hour holding talks to me said he was surprised that the american president suggestion to get together was initially made on social media but didn't he believe the music was important mr trump for his part

said he was delighted to have crossed and little more. since my honor. i didn't really expect. it to 20 we came. over here. and we got to really stepping. out of. president trump has just walked across the demarcation line that made him the 1st us president to visit our country i believe just looking at this action this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate all the unfortunate past and open a new future. to break down the implications of the meeting our senior correspondent laura has the if joined you know only in the studio. trump said 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 tried to find common areas where the they agreed 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 never that they're saying on memory or something or look i'm looking forward to taking them off 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 and donald trump that it came to nothing talks ended 2 hours early and afterwards this is. quite the present because those lives completely nothing that came out of it. 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

what donald trump said the north koreans wanted the sanctions to be lifted the 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 unacceptable this is a manifestation of the most extreme hostile acts by the united states although 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 changed 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 political commentator and journalist john white thinks a significant step has been made but the trust issues between washington and

pyongyang will be hard to overcome. and i think what you see there is politics of gesture row the substance the north koreans will be mindful of really the believe they were going to be single fortunately began to dismantle some of your text you could test the facilities in the sentencing to sell these or the triggers that they would be equipped to running out of the from the americans in the form of the lifting of some of the sanctions north koreans only through to their course and that was not the case in the tent sanctions were actually taken to do so that the north koreans can afford to trust these gesture politics if so let me talk to some of those forces so you're for just nation the treaty and 2nd in vietnam me earlier this year and out of these sorts of come think of coming to ground 0 so the north koreans will be mindful of that loss will be mindful on the way the level of the americans are are going after they're really into lead the feeling of getting a regime change and actively. attitude towards the g. regime change in venezuela and well actually a concert of the ilk of john bolton and michael by prominent positions in the train

for an illustration trust is the key issue. from as you have it certainly coming to the fore this week moscow and washington are also edging towards better relations that as president putin and trump agreed to hold a new arms control talks this occurred at the g 20 summit which of course wrapped up on saturday in japan you know the trunk i was in a socket for us he talked us through that and the other big developments. you may like it or not but the g 20 year 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 alas 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 there.

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

a great actually we had a great 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 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 saw mr mccall and won't have a problem with saying hello when he comes to russia. here.

so as you can see great. that late night meeting too like when putin was with you case to resume a for the 1st time in 3 years london is set to remain 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 it 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 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 last and we as journalists got to notice quite a few amusing moments here and osaka.

the european union has launched a new payment system aimed at helping its firms bypass u.s. sanctions on iran and brussels is at odds with washington after the u.s. unilaterally ditched the 2015 landmark nuclear accord and reintroduced strict trade restrictions and sanctions busting tallest called the european financial settlement mechanism otherwise known as. washington's threaten 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's not god from the u.s. sanctions america's campaign of maximum pressure on to iran doesn't end there iran's foreign ministers accused donald trump of violating international law with his threats to obliterate the country president trump should remember that we don't

live in the. united nations tried to and threat of force is either you got on tuesday mr trump threatened iran with obliteration that's if to iran attacks anything american when asked about the possibility of a war with iran he boasts that it would be a quick affair but added that he doesn't seek conflict. on friday the u.s. sent more stealth fighters to the persian gulf increasing its military presence there the president of iraq however 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 for any hostile action against any of our neighbors including iran

although us secretary of state mike compares says it won't be down to anything the united states has done if war does break 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 their choice of course europeans have their own grievances when it comes to donald trump and nato but the when it comes to iran they sure are some of the 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 in complying with us on the takings in a win lose game there didn't clear deal you know the nuclear deal was to be a win win game but what we see now is this 0 sum game with iran paying the

costs europeans and americans you know living their merits and iran believes that it should be a win win or lose lose game therefore if you are all here do not rush to provide one with some hope i believe busy eventually. there will have you know of a problem in their ties with iran. and washing powder sparks outrage in pakistan by challenging traditional values and promoting gender equality we'll have more on that and other stories after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic developments only really exist i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and. i think the reason that they have not attacking 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 rain inside but the question comes to me is that america is a country in the past by nuclear bombs do they really care about killing 150 people .

welcome back to the program of washing power has triggered a gender equality in pakistan off the consumer goods joint. to show women taking on traditionally male roles. that. advert you just saw there drummed up a lot of reaction on social media some people even calling on our forty's to take action against the brown boy could ariel we're muslim and we love our culture or religion and no rituals the government should take strict action against ariel brand i miss my request to all my dear pakistanis that please boycott areal as soon as possible because religion comes 1st and this is our responsibility to protect our religion boycott's ariel prime minister of pakistan we want aerial

cloth washing detergents banned in pakistan immediately for driving and spreading anti islamic campaigns through media we asked a number of social commentators whether that urgent ad was right in pushing 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 would it be a gala can it be i understand how much how we're not sure brady and i are getting to know marilyn company in jail getting them 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 it were not about women sitting up it

was not america up against not america if we were in america at its peak you would tell that it is not a marilyn to speak up against lavery because it would put people at risk of being lynched. un special rapporteur has one small honda. it is concerns over the case of julian of sons this week you accuse the media of ignoring the alleged inhumane treatment of the wiki leaks founder by refusing to publish an article you wrote about his findings meltzer argues that should innocence has been slandered to divert attention from the revelations that we helped expose he also says the whistle blower's been deprived of his fundamental rights and suffered a fully fledged psychological torture during his time in the ecuadorian embassy in london mr meltzer told us why he thought so many media outlets have refused to publish his article. some of them said it wasn't high enough under news agenda some of them said bad it was not within their core area of interest but you know there

have been reporting all of them on the case of julian assange when it was about his cat and his skateboard and kind of the allegations that he smeared excrement on the walls but when you have a serious piece that actually tries to damascus. this public narrative to actually show the facts below it then they're not interested julian assange is 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. and last month mr meltzer highlighted a songes prison conditions as one of his causes of concern the whistleblower was said to show an alarming deterioration in his mental and physical state the u.k. responded by saying well it was wrong to interfere and should leave it to the british courts to make their judgments hears and all smelt so once again on the his visit to julian assange and the whistleblowers condition. i knew that i was going

to get into a very politicized environment when i visited julian assange i didn't know him before so i took with me 2 experienced medical experts of psychiatry and the forensic expert and have worked for decades in examining torture victims just to go to the objective scientific and 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 mobbing now that's a slippery slope you know we're going to be in a debate when it's 2 sided then 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 or ridicule of even death threats and calls for his assassination and he's completely isolated then that can cause

severe psychological trauma the news media listed by neal smelts are yet to respond to requests for comment from r.t. meanwhile if you do want to read the article for yourself head to r.t. dot com you will find a link on our page or the documentary channel is up next we're back in 30 minutes with the latest global headlines. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy 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 smarter 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 troops the time is now for washing clothes for watching the hawks. my son in the doing drugs my nephew swears to and drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse we started going after the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. then the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. certain sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's

a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. the f.d.a. is primary role is and regulation of what the label says is and there is actually in the us the f.d.a. is not regulating quality production sourcing any of those things they're regulating that what you say is on the label is actually on the label the most shocking thing about the pet food industry that that has remained since basically i started doing this work is the f.d.a. compliance policies i still cannot understand how an industry is provided by a federal tax supported organization loopholes to avoid federal law

if you go to the f.d.a. website and just type in compliance policies and then scroll down the page to hand feed and and there's one after another they allow contamination by pesticides contamination by industrial chemicals contamination bad natural toxins contamination filth micro biological contamination over tolerance for permanent drug residues. it's incredible. the law says that can be but the compliance policy says don't worry go ahead when you won't enforce. for all practical purposes there's nobody looking out for the average dog in 2006 the mystery illness began to sicken thousands of pets across the united states and canada thrusting the industry into the spotlight like never

before. ok everyone is so freaked out about this recall tell us what do people need to know about this recall so it's menu food menu foods menu foods menu many foods on march 16th 2007 many foods began recalling dog foods produced in their facilities in kansas and new jersey what disturbs me about this incident. is that it confirms yet again the pet food as well as human food is a risk more than $60000000.00 packages were taken off store shelves last month because they apparently contained wheat gluten that was tainted with the chemical melamine veterinarian offices are getting flooded with phone calls from concerned that over in the people on the other end of the phone so boring yes very very yes no official estimates on exactly how many have died so far but hundreds of cats have suffered my strong belief is that they were intentionally delaying the recall happened because they thought they were purchasing a certain protein product called wheat gluten that has actually a pretty high protein count when in fact they were buying wheat flour that had been

laced with sign your it acid and melamine in order to pass it off as weak when the way they test protein sources is to do this to touch at the level of hydrogen in it and both sign erik acid and melamine have high levels of hydrogen so they just would inject the wheat flour with this these poisons and then pass it off as we couldn't and the reason they were doing that is that we couldn't cost a lot more per protein count per ton then. that's 100 to have gotten sick or died from eating the food made by menu foods that company make dog and cat food under 90 brand name in 2007 pet owners didn't have any idea that one manufacturer menu made hundreds of different varieties and that was a betrayal of trust just so many pet owners this is leading people to wonder at this

point what can we safely feed our pets arena tonight is recalling a batch of its purina one dog food member david lee i was sitting in my little office and i got a call out of the blue from a one man named don. who told me that she wanted to bring a lawsuit against the entire pet food industry they. they knew they had contaminated food they knew it was poison they knew it killed animals and they continued to sell it and put it on the market i mean you don't do that but it's a it's a money market they were making money and i wanted it stopped c.b.s. news has learned the tainted wheat gluten used in pet food was human grave meaning nothing but love kept it from being used in the food people eat the most shocking aspect discovered in 2 sub committee hearings was that the ingredient used in the pet foods that was responsible for killing the animals was actually legal to use in

human foods on top of that the f.d.a. admitted that there was no penalty given to a company if they failed to notify the f.d.a. in a reasonable amount of time in this case menu foods faced criticism for failing to notify the f.d.a. for over 3 weeks even after they confirm dogs and cats were dying and they knew the calls but other than complain about the ethics no one in a government position could find many foods for allowing the food to continue to be sold even though they knew animals would die as a result but menu foods would not testify the lobby group that came in its place was left to explain why menus that hosni no there has one make an animal sick on february 20th that doesn't tell the f.d.a. until now 3 weeks later and let's get the record straight now the menu waited more than 3 weeks after finding out that the dogs wouldn't eat their food and were getting sick they waited 3 weeks.