you're. donald trump becomes the u.s. president and to north korea meeting kim jong un in the demilitarized zone but sanctions against pyongyang remain in place i'm looking forward to taking them off i don't like the sanctions being on this country i'm looking forward but the sanctions remain in use. and in the stories that shape the week rival wild powers seek to overcome their differences at the g 20 summit in japan with all eyes on a meeting between the leaders of the u.s. and russia. the meeting was good business like we discussed the home of interest to russia and the united states and we had a discussion we had a great actually we had a great discussion president whether it was really a tremendous discussion. on the e.u.

who want to see a new payment system to bypass american sanctions against iran in a bid to save the 2015 to deal. with the top stories for the past 7 days and the latest developments well this is the week. and fost up don't trump made history on sunday becoming a foster to u.s. president and to north korea he shook hands with kim jong un in the demilitarized zone before the 2 need just walked across the demarcation line into the north had proposed a meeting just a day in a tweet after speaking for almost an hour and stopping briefly into south korea and kim held it as a breakthrough moment since my honor. i didn't really expect the spirit to pander to 20 we came over. here. we got to.

step. 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. despite symbolic north korea remains under almost total economic blockade due to u.s. led sanctions our senior correspondent ron discussed the situation with my colleague here in the studio. trump said himself that speed is no longer for the essence they're now talking about progress rather than speed so in that they in they've now come up with working groups negotiation groups from the north korea from the united states to get together and they to try to find common areas where the greek 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 members of the 4 look i'm looking forward to taking the more i don't like sanctions but you know and it's 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 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 the present 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 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 that 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 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 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 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 john white think that despite this latest step forward there is still a deep distrust between washington and pyongyang and i think when you see the wrist 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 sanitation facilities or the trainers 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 started to their course and that was not the case an attempt sanctions were actually taken to do something with koreans can afford to trust these gesture politics as before let me talk to some of those forces in singapore just mention the treaty and the 2nd in vietnam ala this year and out of these incidents or come to think of come up to ground 0 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 they're really into leaders been advocating regime change and actively often really agitated towards reaching regime change in venezuela and well actually a concert of the ilk of john bolton or michael micrometer positions in the trunk or an illustration trust is the key issue. a troubled relationship and russia was also in the spotlight this week as well as got together at the key 20 summit in

japan in the upper trying to was following all the action from us in a sock. you may like it or not but the 20 year round table isn't the biggest 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 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 the 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 their interest 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 administration's egg. 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 emmanuel macron and we found out here and saw mr mccall and 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 it on if i wanted i have a tremendous relationship with the president nobody else would have the deal that we were getting tens of billions of dollars from china coming in and deed the 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 ben. 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. you know those quite a few amusing moments here and all soccer. in. the european union has launched a new payment system aimed at helping fans buy pos u.s. sanctions against iran it's called the european financial settlement mechanism or

instax and it allows funds to avoid u.s. trade restrictions which will reimposed up to washington's withdrawal from the 2015 can a deal washington has condemned the european move warning that firms that use the new power form could be barred from the u.s. financial system meanwhile iran's foreign minister has accused the us of violating international law with its latest threats against his country president trump should remember that we don't live in the. united nations right through to force. job was referring to donald trump's threat to obliterate iran if terror on attacks anything american and when asked about the possibility of war the u.s. need to post it it would be a quick. iraq which has a portal with iran and host thousands of american troops has voiced its a standoff the iraqi president said his country will not be used as a staging ground for any kind of military action 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 however the us secretary of state might compare claims that iran has full responsibility for the ongoing cost and it is. 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 of course europeans have their own grievances when it comes to donald trump and nato but when it comes to iran they sure some of these concerns or alleged concerns with regard to iran's nuclear industry missile in this 3 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 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 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 lose lose game therefore if you are all here do not rush to provide to iran with some hope i believe busy eventually. there will have you no problem in their ties with iran. and coming up a washing powder out that has sparked outrage in pakistan by promoting gender equality that story and more after the 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 probably the only really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and. i think the reason that they have not attacked you ron 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 time

a country in the past by nuclear bombs do they really care about killing 150 people . welcome back to program now an aerial washing powder commercial has triggered outrage among religious conservatives in pakistan it shows women taking on traditionally male roles. they add to a strong reaction on social media with some people quantify action against procter and gamble the us behind the aerial brand boycotts dariel were

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 we asked our guests for the take on the touch and how far foreign companies should go in pushing religious boundaries. 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 gallon can it be i understand how much but we're not sure brady and. it is an american company and tailgating them so i know 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 again is 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 un special rapporteur on torture has forced concern of the treaty. of cubana songe who is serving prison time in the u.k. in a report no smiles argues that the wiki leaks founder has been slanted by the media to divert attention from the crimes exposed by wiki leaks he also claims a songe was subjected to psychological torture during his 7 years inside the ecuadorian embassy in london mr moussa told us why he thinks 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 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. judah songes current is a 50 week sentence in the u.k. for skipping bail back in 2012 he is expected to face a us extradition hearing in fabry next year. last month mr moussa highlighted the songes prison conditions as a major concern the wiki leaks founder was said to show an unarmed deterioration in his mental and physical state the u.k. responded by saying it was wrong to interfere and should leave it to british courts

to make their judgments his nose melzer again on his encounter with the songs 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 to experienced medical experts of psychiatry and the forensic expert that have worked for decades in examining the 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. in a debate when it's 2 side it's more being basically is 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 the news media listed by nelson miles i have not yet responded to requests for comment from marty but for a closer look at the un rapporteurs findings and a link to his report on the sand had to dot com well that's all news for now i'll be back in around 30 minutes to update you on the world's biggest stories so do stay with us but next up on art international that's our documentary fish up man. make this manufactured consent to instant public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. when the final merry go round be the one percent. we can

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