and you. even. if. you're. donald trump says it was a great on amazing kim jong un face to face in north korea but he's accused back home of squandering american influence also to become the syrian state media recused israel of conducting an airstrike that's left 4 people killed and 20 more injured. and in germany 3 men a charge in connection with the sexual abuse of more than 40 children pleading guilty a lawyer for one of the victims tells us the authorities failed the children. it is simply unacceptable for a department to react in this manner and then try to cover up his own negligence.

or that well commish just gone midday here in moscow you watching r.t. international now making history donald trump has become the 1st u.s. president to enter north korea though the north korean media and trump himself up the meeting an amazing event the direct the reaction back home was far more muted if not outright critical vague talk about talks while kim continues to develop nuclear warheads and missiles seems like this gigantic p.r. stunt in trenches unembellished as authoritarian rule without any real meaningful strategy for denuclearization out president shouldn't be squandering american influence on photo ops and exchanging love letters with a ruthless dictator instead we should be dealing with north korea through a principle diplomacy that promotes yes securitate defense how allies and uphold human rights. i have no problem with him sitting down with kim to noon in north korea or anyplace else but what's going to happen tomorrow and the next day if

we're going to bring peace to this world we need to move forward diplomatically not just to photo opportunities but after crossing the demarcation line between the 2 koreas with his counterpart kim jong un trump in turn said a lot of progress had been made during their talks but sanctions against pyongyang remain in place a senior correspondent but again as they have now explains whether the symbolic meeting could affect the almost total economic blockade of north korea. for all the buzz hype and the coverage denuclearization was going nowhere it had stalled again despite all the summits all the handshakes perhaps what it needed was something crazy something radical.

the 1st sitting u.s. president to visit north korea who would have thought the world's most militarized border to boot and they shook hands again and talked german and trump trying to revive denuclearization efforts that were clinically dead made some progress so we had to start small form teams to find common ground little things that could lead to bigger ones and spoiling everything as is tradition now those sanctions they're saying are memories some point look i'm looking forward to take in 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 promises promise. is it was sanctions the torpedoed the last summit and no state says trungpa until there's verified d.m.u.

clear eyes ation progress however long that takes and that's what bugs north korea how can 2 sides have meaningful honest discussions when one of them is on its knees being strangled by the other 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 now factor in those thousands of u.s. troops stationed in south korea with guns trained in the north and you'll understand why trust is well it isn't their feeling young knows it's history too many nations that have gone through denuclearization with then invaded or bombed by the us i doubt kim jong un wants to join that club america fears north

korea is just needed in the month to get out from under those sanctions decades of talks and the kids have stuck by their nukes we don't expect him to tell us 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 it's not all doom and gloom though this is an ancient conflict by modern standards and this is never going to be solved overnight they need to talk and that's what they're doing and they seem to get it now that you start small and build up the big and hopefully sometime soon the world's most militarized moved dangerous border will well i better leave become any less tense but at least they'll be no nuclear standoff to worry about. 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 peeing on you before they will consider lifting sanctions if 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 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'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. way they want full access to all iranian facilities and they're not going to get that 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. in other news at least 4 people including

a baby have been killed and over 20 injured in a missile strike in syria syria's state t.v. alleges it was conducted by the israelis where israeli jets reportedly targeted military bases near the syrian cities of damascus and homes that around midnight on sunday sciri media says the country's military responded to the attack while the israeli army has yet to comment so let's get some reaction on this from running he's a diplomatic analyst and he joins us you're very welcome thanks for coming on syria accuses israel of launching these strikes ally israel hasn't commented on this what's your take on what happened. well 1st off let us not forget that the details are too sketchy we are too in an early phase to tell exactly what happened yet it doesn't come by any surprise normally the arabs they used to play. all sorts of accusations against israel not all of them turned to be necessarily true and let me remind obviously bring in some context that.

the whole sorry deed to the whole crisis is all a matter of weaponry depots which are stored within syria israel has only one interest and that is to take care of its own israel doesn't matter israel doesn't matter whether how things are doing outside of its borders unless unless it is affecting its own security and as of an evidence let me just remind you and all the rest of the viewers here is that israel takes care personally to syrian refugees and gives them 5 star. medical condition. insaf and hospitals israel takes care of refugees israel doesn't take. it as a matter of policy of hurting civilians who are so irresponsible of the other parties involved to involve you know to to visit. civilian. sure. i was going to ask you i know that the un previously is criticize israel are

carrying out strikes that it has admitted to. i mean it is against international law reason it. well it is more against international law to threaten the country $24.00 seventh's by its annihilation that is precisely what all the our neighbors around not only declared but even bragged about this out loud . has even bragged i am only quite happy that israel exists so we could not hold down all jews across the planet here and let alone his own friday sermons where he all the time he basically he brags in front of the whole of his own audience how he will annihilate israel and how he will liberate jerusalem and so forth and how he will occupy the galilee and even he has his supposedly most sophisticated weapon that he is who is the tunnel attacks which we. verd so i think it is quite contradictory to the international law to threaten with mass genocide a country neighboring country will certainly i mean people understand that

a little bit later when there is another country people do say that is against international law how would you see this situation resolving itself then diplomatically if at all possible. very simple very simple israel is already developing escalation in any ways possible by launching its air strike from lebanese soil and why do i highlight of this point because israel doesn't wish to have some clashes in tensions with russia israel respects the agreement between israel and russia about it's not targeting russian personnel i mean if israel were launching its airstrikes from syrian air space the most likely syrian russian casualties but because israel regards with extra care the agreement with russia so israel now. launches its air strikes from lebanese is so

old away and distantly and how to best avoid the how to best avoid the escalation or could it be any more simple than that than that do not do not send any shipment of any weaponry whatsoever to all elements who try to annihilate ours iran or hezbollah and then cry out why do we have to defend ourselves by averting this sort of shipments by trying to basically to. to to to exterminate those who wish to exterminate arse how to get any more simple than that we were at a time they're good to talk to get good to get your opinion on these developments that reside in rome and diplomatic analyst thank you. sure. now let's go to germany where 3 men have been charged in connection with a sexual abuse of more than 40 children aged between $3.00 and $4.00. 18 years old 2 the suspects have pleaded guilty the abuse reportedly took place over a number of years at a campsite in the small german town of loot between them the men are accused of

some 450 cases of child abuse the local authorities have come under fire for failing to act. the majority of the abuse was perpetrated by a single suspect identified only as andrea's facing he's accused of almost 300 sex crimes against 23 children the offense is believed to have been committed in 1908 and then between 2008 and 28 saying the police are accused of inaction over this in the face of mounting evidence of abuse over the years the authorities 2 are also blamed for letting evidence disappear back in february for example they'd meted

losing almost a terabyte of evidence meanwhile one of the children's representatives says the way the victims were questioned was inappropriate for their age now the authorities themselves acknowledge there was a police failure calling the situation at a bar called the region's interior minister says this was worse than negligence and should never happen again we spoke to one of the victims lawyers about the mistakes that were made. if you look we have seen numerous flaws the most terrifying is the disappearance of $155.00 c.d.'s from a secure police station we're talking about the c.d.'s which were found at the campsite in the main suspects trailer it turned out that the people with prior convictions for possession of child pornography were working at that police station and still are as for the interrogation of the children they were questioned at the police station but this is not what should have happened there are specific ways in which children can be questioned and it involves support from social services and

the establishment of a trusting relationship it should not happen as an interview at a police station if my opinion matters were allowed to escalate because of the careless approach to information on child pornography and paedophilia and the department's employees lack of awareness it is simply unacceptable for a department to react in this manner and then try to cover up its own negligence. a powerful blast that rocked the afghan capital kabul reportedly killing around a dozen people the taliban says it carried out the attack local media citing an ambulance workers says that at least 50 others were injured there was also a gunfight and security forces after the explosion the taliban says it was targeting the ministry of defense comes 2 days after the taliban and the u.s. resumed peace talks in quetta. and the german government has promised to shut down all its nuclear reactors by 2022 sparking a debate about the energy future of the country amid frequent environmental protests germany is currently using

a record amount of renewable energy there with alternative sources covering almost half of electricity consumption this year although critics say by switching to renewable energy while phasing out nuclear power is becoming too ambitious peter oliver has more. germany has set some bold targets when it comes to cutting emissions from energy production the federal government is committed to a 55 percent reduction in 1990 levels of greenhouse gases by 2030 when it comes to the climate and energy in germany things are heating up just this weekend hundreds of protesters broke through a police line to demonstrate against the mining a brown coal in the west of the country but i. do i know. it's 8 years since german chancellor angela merkel said she would shut down the country's nuclear power plants by 2022 in the wake of the fukushima nuclear disaster in japan the idea is that renewables like wind and solar power would take

up the slack but when you phase out nuclear and the wind doesn't blow the sun doesn't shine you have to replace not energy in the grid not is meant to be more coal activists who are in favor of nuclear say the energy source is suffering from a bad reputation and that the decision to phase out nuclear energy is actually counterproductive to a mission goals and that the decision was made for political not scientific reasons people are misinformed about nokia and they think it's extremely risky but just the opposite is true the reason for praising nuclear clearly politically only science says if you want to go carbon free you have to use carbon free power sources and nuclear is the most effective carbon free policy all along with nuclear waste safety is one of the major concerns of nuclear critics the huge recent

popularity of h.b.o.'s dramatize ation of the chernobyl disaster as against the nuclear safety issues brought up that is that this was clearly the most dramatic and serious nuclear accident. but. representative for modern nuclear energy it is not that accident which happened more than 30 years ago does not mean anything. to modern reactor technology it's not just activists that want to see the nuclear phase out next huge names from the german automobile industry have said they would like to see the use of nuclear power extended also key figures in german business saying that it would benefit both consumers and industry financially and even members of angela merkel's own party have said they would rather see coal powered binde while nuclear remains however those that are in

favor of nuclear power say it would be worth it in the short term to pay more for energy for in the long to receiving clean energy sources and lower bills to short term effects of course lee to increasing prices but these. increases are still affordable in the long term we would expect especially from tucson and showed you could expect. the same level of prizes that we had in 2010 that means in the long run we have a comparative advantage nuclear power could set to be phased out here in germany in the next couple of years even if renewable energy isn't at the stage to take up the slack one of the reasons for this is the power companies here or there could back significantly or cut back altogether when it comes to research and development in the nucleus sector also once the decommissioning process has begun well many sites simply can't be used again that means that once nuclear is gone it's gone for good

without having to build brand new prohibitively expensive infrastructure and what that means is well germany would have to import more energy from its neighbors some of that energy of course is jen. by you guessed it. is it. china look at this. you know world big part of. lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than

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so again that was pride month wraps up around the world the community seems to be divided in the us with competing rallies being held there and made claims the main event has become too commercialized the recurring pride coalition held a separate march in new york with quote no corporate flights no police says the official event no longer addresses the political struggles of the community under the trumpet ministration meanwhile a new report suggests a sharp decline in acceptance of gay and lesbian people among young americans according to the survey in 2018 fewer people aged 18 to 34 felt comfortable interacting with people compared with the year before while the number feeling uncomfortable with a relative coming out increased. well young americans also didn't like the idea of gay issues being taught in school on the other hand though the acceptance rate among people age 72 and over was higher than the previous year we got reaction to

the decline in tolerance from a community representative and also from the author of the study least munisteri experiencing could be leading to this of ocean it's a new news to take time for people to understand our job is to educate about nonconformity we counter the narrative that young people are more progressive intolerant these numbers are very alarming and signal a looming social crisis and discrimination. act his friends track it says radicals are turning people against the community and our community has been overtaken by a very sort of extremist very political faction that has tried to essentially politicize everything under the umbrella. there is sort of this more extremist faction that has really overreached i think they've made a lot of people uncomfortable i think a lot of people on the aisle didn't take community feel uncomfortable once it is

put out into the internet and to be the atmosphere that you are a racist or a bigot or a hate group or whatever lives in infamy on the internet and so then other people in the future will use that against you to say well you can't come here we can't come here we want to allow you here because there's always there's already been in the south recently. now the leading makers of computer game console listening tend . to join forces against the trumpet ministrations new tariffs on goods from china . the video game console supply chain has developed in china over many years of investments by our companies and our partners it would cause significant supply chain disruption to shift sourcing entirely to the united states' referred country and it would increase costs even beyond the cost of the proposed tariffs on products that are already manufactured under tight margin conditions 96 percent of

game console sold in the u.s. are actually made in china console makers say that a 25 percent tariff could harm industry where they do warn that prices that then have to be hiked which would lead to a fall in sales worth an estimated $350000000.00 a year gameroom technology expert arturo one louis told us that donald trump doesn't dress the maid how bad his terrace would be for the u.s. . president trump died on the stand oh i don't know 60 percent of adult population us i would be a game players gamers community originated on these situations and we'll push a lot of pressure to mr trump and obviously the huge companies microsoft sony game go play in everything we shall love the good leak out a lot of influence for you $3400000000.00 industry around the world so

i think this is a very bad decision from mr trump and obviously are hard low for gamers. now russia and china meanwhile have agreed to increase trade in their own national currencies reducing their reliance on the u.s. dollar currently only 10 percent of trade between the 2 countries is conducted in roubles and un but under a new deal that figure will rise to 50 percent the russian president raised the issue at a meeting between the 5 brics nations during the g 20 summit. the joint work between the brics countries and shifting to trade using our own national currencies is moving along well or to cut their use of global currencies like the dollar and the euro russia and china will have to avoid swith which is the world's largest payment system it is used 511000 financial institutions in $600.00 countries and is heavily reliant on the dollar swift claims to be politically neutral but has repeatedly blocked access to russian and chinese banks due to u.s.

sanctions well russia and china already have their own alternative payment systems and they are working on developing ruble in un financial instruments too and in a similar development the u. has created a settlement platform called in states to allow firms to continue trading with iran bypassing u.s. sanctions the u.s. has expressed concern over the move jackass mooses a professor of political economy he told us this initiative might go further if the u.s. continues its sanctions policy. well it's only at the very beginning and we're talking only about 2 countries to fairly large countries could be a significant amount of the trade in non-dollar currencies are in crime you know are still the global currency but i think it will be a fight with the brics whether the u.s. won't stand by and do nothing if the brics are joined in the china russia payment system they won't be using to do it the u.s.

is not going to stand by and let this the centerpiece of its global economic empire you know slip from its fingers it will take counteraction overtly and covertly here to discourage it you know the use of sanctions is a short term weapon and game here for the united states in trouble loves it but you know long term it may come back and bite the u.s. if it pushes too hard i think and if the u.s. continues with strong arming with sanctions whenever it wants something from another country then other countries are going to move further in that direction and that brings upside here not what back again with the headlines and more stories in just a half. the

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welcome to sophie and co and sophie shevardnadze of the global war on drugs has been lasting for decades but new substances are being developed and drop dealing schools are multiplying and violence persists is just a lost battle for humanity well to talk about this i'm joined by a uni the tough executive director of the united nations office on drugs and crime . while the nations of the world step up their anti drug efforts boosting operations against cartels and increasing seas use drug production and the abuse of them continue to rise despite those efforts with the math we're constantly devising new substances and ways to deliver them does the international community have enough strength to enforce drug prohibition globally what will the debate about legalizing drug use bring to the fight against the mafia and will it ever be one you'll receive those as executive director of the united nations office on drug.