donald trump says it was a great honor meeting kim jong un face to face in north korea is accused of back home of squandering american influence. also this hour syrian state media accuse israel of conducting a strike as a 4 people killed and 21 injured. plus in germany 3 men are charged in connection with the sexual abuse of more than 40 children with 2 pleading guilty a lawyer for one of the victims tells us the authorities failed the children. if you simply unacceptable for a department to react in this manner and then tried to cover up a certain negligence.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h 2 in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. making history has become the 1st sitting u.s. president to enter north korea and though the north korean media and trump himself dubbed the meeting an amazing an event the reaction back home what was far more muted if not outright critical. vague talk about talks well kim continues to develop nuclear warheads and missiles seems like this gigantic p.r. stunt in trenches and embellish is 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 us 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 by 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 and not just a photo opportunities. after crossing the demarcation line between the 2 koreas with his counterpart kim jong un in turn said a lot of progress had been made during their talks but sanctions against pyongyang remain in place our senior correspondent ryan gust have explained whether the symbolic meeting could affect the own lost 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. like.

the 1st sitting u.s. president to visit north korea who would have thought the world's most militarized border to boot they shook hands again and talked kim jong un and trump trying to revive denuclearization efforts that were clinically dead made some progress we need to start small form teams to find common ground. and little things that could lead to bigger ones and spoiling everything and as is tradition now those sanctions this thing on them are some point look i'm looking forward to taking them off i don't like sanctions being 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 promises it was sanctions the torpedoed the last summit and no state says trump until there is verified clear eyes ation progress however long that takes and that's what bugs north korea how could 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 needing the month to get out from under those sanctions decades of talks and the kims have stuck by their nukes we don't expect germany to tell us the truth that's why 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 it was never going to be solved overnight they need to talk and that's what the 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 move dangerous board that will well i bet on becoming the 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 pyongyang 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 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'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. at least 4 people including a baby have been killed and over 20 injured in a missile strike in syria syrian state t.v.

alleges it was conducted by the israelis israeli jets reportedly targeted military bases near the syrian city of damascus and holmes at around midnight on sunday syrian media says the country's military responded to the attack on the israeli army has yet to comment on the situation. we go live now to political analyst for more on this now. did the syrian authorities have any credible evidence of israel's guilt in your opinion. well i think they've seen this happen over again throughout the past few years. they can detect where the planes are coming from if they're coming from the west then most probably it's going to be israel israel has boosted through its premier and other officials that they are doing or conducting operations inside syria last night it was a little bit more comprehensive than usual and it actually comes after one week of me when after one week after the meeting or significant meeting that took place in

israel between the americans the russians and these release so it looks like israelis are upping the ante for some reason but at the end of the day there is no doubt in the syrian government's mind i would argue that this is going to be you know blame very much on israel now israel says iran and hezbollah are trying to turn syria into a new front against the israelis to what extent do you think that that's true. well we believe that this is only a way to justify what is really what israel is really concerned about what what israel is really concerned about is a permanent deterioration of the syrian army capability now that they've seen the syrian army regain some. capability under russian guidance and help

the israeli military intelligence chief said a few weeks back that the syrian army was regaining capability faster than they had expected and there is the issue of the new air defense systems that these are that the syrians are now starting to deploy which is the s. $301.00 permanent tactic and one usual tactic is to try and test. this sort of system at multiple points which might tell you that which might explain the reason why israel last night bombed various geographical places in syria in homs in damascus and so on so forth so they're probably trying to test the system to test the frequencies distaste the chain of command and so on and so forth and it's very easy to blame it on the iranians or hizbullah whatever just the tail of the public opinion throughout the entire planet this is just a fight but the but the real issue is that they want to test these air defenses how

well the syrian troops have. trained on them can they really affect if you use them and the chances are from what we've seen. in cyprus yesterday or northern cyprus a which was an incident where an old regime or an old system s. 200. misao fell down that the syrians maybe still reluctant or decided not to use the new ones unless it is a real combat situation. a more well cost political analyst thank you for your time and your comments. to germany now where 3 men have been charged in connection with the sexual abuse of more than 40 children age of 23 and 14 years old 2 of the suspects have pleaded guilty they'd be surprised they took place over a number of years at a campsite in the small german town of lived it between them the men are accused of some $450.00 cases of child abuse and local authorities have come under fire for

failing to act. the majority of the abuse was perpetrated by a single suspect identified only as andras v. he's accused of almost 300 sex crimes against 23 children defenses are believed to have been committed in 1908 and then between 20082018 now the police are accused of in action in the face of mounting evidence of abuse over the years and the authorities are also blamed for letting evidence disappear back in february they admitted losing almost a terabyte of evidence in all one of the children's representatives says the way the victims were question was inappropriate for their age and the authorities

themselves acknowledge there was a police failure calling the situation a debacle the region's interior minister says this was worse than negligence and should never happen again we spoke to one of the victim's lawyers about the mistakes that were made. if you lou 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 interviewer to police station that my opinion matters are 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. commission. has again suspended a block summit as the leaders of member states squabble over who should get the top jobs talks in brussels or into their 20th hour our europe correspondent here our is across the developments for us live to him now peter what jobs are up for grabs and what are the big sticking points here. right what out of the big jobs aren't open for grabs at the moment that would be the simpler question we're looking at positions like the european commission president european council president high representative for foreign affairs also the head of the european bank also up for grabs amongst others they've all got to really be filled. pretty pretty quickly but the one job that's got everybody focused in on who's going to be filling it next is that of european commission president now the summit that it was ongoing in

brussels at the moment the european council summit that has been perspiring and for now that's been really been told go away go go to your hotel rooms come back here at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning for it to start again the reason they've done that is because there is a split in the conservative bloc in the european council the split between those leaders that would fit into that conservative bloc over what's being termed a soccer plan that was put forward to try and find a new candidate to be the next european commission president france timmons of the socialist bloc had been floated as a potential new commission president take over from john claude younger however many within the conservative bloc many within the p.p. the european people's party and many who had supported verba who had been the previous favorite to be the candidate have said they are not happy with france

timmermans and matt has led to this impasse called the a quarter of the soccer plan because that's pretty much where it was come up with during the g 20 over in japan a number of those leaders including john claude young and bill are merkel. they were in japan for a few days they flew back over for this summit they worked through the night most of sunday into monday so you can see why they may want to. to put this off until tuesday morning for reconvening code younger spoke to the press though he really wasn't giving away anything about how close they were to finding his successor. the money. the money's of michael. leadership someone. over money with the french president is reportedly well far from happy that there is this impasse that they can't find a

a solution amongst the european council leaders that's the european council members of those are the heads of government of the 28 member states of the european union he said this is mr mccrone here said that well it shows the e.u. and the whole system in a very bad image and he says that the system really should be changed the main group though that are stopping this deal going through that would see timmons put forward as the candidate for a commission president is a group that's led by poland in italy from the polish side they did not want france to moments whatsoever the dutchman certainly not on the christmas card list of the ruling party in poland just a few snippets from a radio interview senior figure in the leading polish party given your monday describes the timmons as unfriendly to poland detached from reality and that every time they'd work together it had been a bad experience angle of merkel for her part the german chancellor who backed the

deal that would put timmons is the preferred candidate she said that while things had not been easy that they were moving forward. the way things are you know you can talks will be easy and that's my only e.u. parliament. is fixated on the principle of tolls and yet the biggest force the european people's party has known which will retain and so dental tools will have a difficult task today who will try to be can strike. 10. difficult task indeed i think some of its best with the reason why we are in this impasse best summed up by giuseppe conti the italian prime minister he said that for his part and for the italians part they have no problem with friends to moments however they have a problem with being told that they have to have friends timmons and that may be a much deeper problem with the whole workings of the e.u. institutions than it is with this particular election. parties peter are very thank

you for bringing us the latest. thank you. protests in hong kong clash with police and around the entrance to the local parliament on the 22nd anniversary of the territories handover to beijing more on that story after this short break. one almost shows seem wrong why don't we all just don't all. let me. get to shape out these days become educated and indeed trade equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. with.

make us manufacture consent to stick to public wealth. when the ruling class isn't protect themselves. with the primary go around the lives and be the one person. doing the middle of the room sick. to lose the real news room. welcome back protests in hong kong turned violent as riders clashed with police and vandalized government buildings these you can see right now on your screen our live pictures from the city where thousands of people came out for an annual march this one marking 22 years since hong kong's handover from britain to china but the march

has seen a tense stand off between people protesting a controversial new. it's tradition bill and police and right here writers demanded the damage the building of the hong kong legislature smashing a glass door with a trolley. was. the. was that. was. was. participate again in june over a controversial extradition bill passed the bill would allow beijing to seek the extradition of those convicted for serious crimes from hong kong to mainland china supporters of the bill say it will prevent the city from becoming a refuge for criminals or many fear it will lead to political persecution from beijing and will undermine the city's autonomy. the man tipped to be britain's

next prime minister has taken issue with some remarks made by vladimir putin boris johnson has vowed to show that the russian president was wrong when he recently claimed that liberalism is obsolete the u.k. conservative party leadership contest favorite insists that breaks it will prove his point artie's playboy explains the debate. ever since that demand putin declared that liberalism is obsolete in that interview ahead of the g 20 summit in japan there's been plenty of discussion about what liberalism actually means in the media and lots of economists keen to point out the economic benefits of a liberal democracy and let's just say there are plenty of those that are keen to counter the russian president's hypothesis one such figure is boris johnson the favorite to be the u.k.'s next prime minister he's written a lengthy article in the telegraph where he's defended liberalism in the u.k. saying that it's made the country a fair a prosperous and

a meritocratic society and he contrasts that with the way that he views the kremlin and in one part of the article he really lays into the russian political system but the conclusion of boris's defense of liberalism is that the u.k. has to leave the e.u. by the 31st of october otherwise the u.k. risks looking like an illiberal and undemocratic country one of the problems with the e.u. as it has developed over the past 45 years of our membership is that it has begun seriously to undermine the fundamental characteristic of a liberal democracy that the people should have the power at elections to remove those who make the lula's the e.u. system makes this impossible if we want to uphold liberal values we must leave by october 31st and we will see from boris's perspective the u.k. is a liberal democracy and to prove that it's got to leave the e.u.

by that how low we deadline now the european union doesn't consider itself any less of a liberal democracy than the u.k. i have to say that i strongly disagree with the main argument. that liberalism is obsolete. you. also do firmly and soon you will call the defendant promote liberal democracy donald tusk so already complained that the u.k. is wasting all the extra time it was granted in april for that brags that extension and i suspect he might not agree with boris johnson's idea that the u.k. should leave the e.u. a.s.a.p. in order to prove that it's a liberal democracy but just to take you back to where this all started that vladimir putin called meant in an interview to the f.t.

ahead of the g 20 summit but to be used to there is also the so-called liberal idea which is outlived its purpose. have admitted that some elements of the liberal idea such as multiculturalism no longer tenable this really was an expansive interview but that one soundbite has regenerated headlines and launched a 1000 counter articles and rubbed a lot of western politicians up quite frankly the wrong way and what it's exposed is that everyone's definition of the concept of liberalism appears to be different and that may be due to their pasts and political objectives. that's a newser up for now but i'll be back at the top they are with the latest thanks for telling him.

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