donald trump becomes the fos u.s. president to enter north korea kim jong un in the demilitarized zone sanctions against pyongyang remain in place i'm looking forward to taking the role i don't like sanctions being on this country i'm looking forward but the sanctions remain in europe. and in the stories that shaped the week rifle wild powers seem to overcome that differences at the g 20 summit in japan with all eyes on a meeting between the needs of the u.s. on russia. the meeting was good and businesslike we discussed a whole range of issues that are of interest to russia and the united states and we had a discussion we had a great actually we had a great discussion and president put the most so whether it was really a tremendous discussion on the e.u. the want is a new payment system to bypass american sanctions against iran in

a bid to save the 2015 can it deal. with the top stories in the past 7 days and the latest developments as well this is the week national. and stop donald trump made history on sunday becoming the fossett in u.s. president and north korea he shook hands with kim jong un in the demilitarized zone before the 2 meters walked across the demarcation line into the north proposed the meeting just a day in a tweet after speaking for almost an hour and stepping briefly and to south korea and kim hailed it a breakthrough moment since my own. i didn't really expect the spirit of the g. 20 we came over to. 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 the unfortunate past and open a new future. despite the symbolic top north korea remains under total economic blockade due to us that sanctions our senior correspondent discuss the situation with my colleague o'neill here in the studio. trump said it himself that 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 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 the thing that really never that they're saying are members of the 4 look i'm looking forward to taking them off i don't like sanctions but you know on 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 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 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 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 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 are 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 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 road substance the north koreans will be mindful of the

greed of the believe they were tricked asked of a single fortunately began to dismantle some of your text you could test the facilities in the sentencing to so these or the triggers that it 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 in the tent sanctions would actually take since to do so the north koreans can afford to trust these gesture politics obviously we've got to some of those forces are poor just mention the treaty and the 2nd in vietnam easily this year and out of these incidents or come to think of coming to ground 0 so the north koreans will be mindful of that law so be mindful on the way the level of the americans are are going after they're really into the lead of the other key thing and regime change and actively. attitude towards reaching regime change in venezuela and well actually a concert of the ilk of john bolton and micro-manage positions in the trunk or an illustration trust is the key issue. the troubled relationship between the u.s. and russia was also in spotlight this week as well as got together at the q 20

summit in japan in the us following all the apps and for us and i thought. 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 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 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 them recently.

and to what cleese trauma to make american journalists leave him alone on one particular matter donald trump said this. was. going to. be a go go. soon after time after time the president's kept repeating how happy they wor 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 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 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 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. and 3 years london is said 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 on if i wanted to 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 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 and we as journalists got to notice quite a few amusing moments here and osaka. now to another corner of the globe the european union has launched

a new payment system aimed at helping firms bypass u.s. sanctions against iran it's called the european financial settlement mechanism or instax anted laus farms to avoid u.s. trade restrictions which were re imposed after washington's withdrawal from the 2015 nucular deal washington has condemned the european move warning that firms they use the new powerful 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 from your memory. in the. united nations road trip to force. job and south was referring to donald trump's threat to obliterate iran if iran attacks anything american and when asked about the possibility of war the us need to boast it would be a quick. iraq which shares

a border with iran and hosts thousands of american troops has voiced its alarm over the 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 frighten 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 mike compare claims that iran has full responsibility for the ongoing still a tease. 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 the 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 religion or power and so on and so forth it is widely believed that your role peons are not going to take action and they just one iran to continue providing playing this role and complying with its on the takings in a win lose game on their didn't clear deal you know the nuclear deal was to be a win win game but what we see now is this the 0 sum game with iran paying the costs europeans and americans you know living their merits and iran believe it should either be a win win or lose lose game therefore if you're ofi and do not rush to provide tehran with some hope i believe busy eventually. there will have some. problem in their ties with iran. now a washing powder that has sparked outrage in pakistan by promoting gender equality

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had a very warm welcome to you watching us in such a. little . while come back an aerial washing powder commercial has triggered outrage among religious conservatives and pakistan it shows women taking on traditionally male roles. not really getting. the out to a strong reaction on social media with some people calling for action against procter and gamble the u.s. behind the ariel brand. 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 and it's my request to all my dear pakistanis that please boycott ariel assoon 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 guest for that take on the turd herd 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 in jail getting them and 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 one merica 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 as if you're going to acknowledge that i'm type of knowledge that without women 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 again it's not america if we were in america at its peak you would tell that it is and not to marilyn to speak up against play very because it would put people at risk of being lynched. and 12 final story this hour the u.n. special tool. has voiced concern over the treatment of judy in the song she was serving prison time in the u.k. in a report no smelts 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 meltzer told us why he thinks need to 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 do you mask. this public narrative and to actually show the facts below it then they're not interested just reminded judy in the sand is currently serving a 15 week sentence in the u.k. the skipping bail part in 2012 he is expected to face a u.s. extradition hearing in february next year. last month mr moussa highlighted songes prison conditions as a major concern the wiki leaks founder was said to show i'm not going to tarry in his mental and physical state the u.k. responds by saying meltzer was wrong to into fair and should leave it to british

courts to make the judgments his nose melts again on his encounter with a song. 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 experts that 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 and you know we're going to be in a debate when it's 2 side it's been mobbing 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 mills mall to have not yet responded to requests for comment from ati for a closer look at the un wrapped his findings that on the link to his report on the songs had to. lots to round up for this hour will take open around 30 minutes time with the latest updates to stay with us right now in austin to national it's a document you have for.

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in a player coming african. this is a virtual invasion of our country. in the form of. you know it's going to be. a knife our food. is you know. the. resists is a stick from the water bottle phone in the stomach of the fish the brand is sponsor of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea

was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all of this waste the company has promised to reuse the plastic. that's. a special project funded. on the disease. but for now the mountains of waste only grow higher. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development only really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and

talk. the f.d.a. is primary role is and regulation of what the label says is and there is actually in there 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 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 we won't enforce. for all practical purposes there's nobody looking out for the average dog in 2006 the mystery illness begin to sicken thousands of pets across the united states and canada thrusting the industry into the spotlight like never before. ok everyone is so forget 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 the. 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 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 oh the people on the other end of the phone sound worried yes very wary yes no official estimates on exactly how many have died so far but hundreds of pets 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 weed flour that had been .