donald trump calls his meeting with kim jong un in north korea a great honor but as accused back home of squandering american influence. hundreds of protesters in hong kong a store in the legislative council building raising a former colonial flag and demanding the withdrawal of an extradition bill it comes as the territory marks the 22nd anniversary of a 10 over from britain to china. the e.u. commission is in deadlock as its chief. delays the block some of its member state leaders divided over who should get the top jobs. and 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 authorities failed the children. if you simply unacceptable for a department to react in this manner and then try to cover up a certain vacations. you're watching international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 7 pm welcome to the program. making history donald trump has become the 1st sitting u.s. president to enter north korea and the north korean media and trump himself dubbed the meeting an amazing event their action back home was far more muted if not outright critical. to look to kim continues to develop nuclear warheads missiles seems like this gigantic p.r. stunt in trenches embellish is authoritarian rule without any real meaningful strategy for denuclearization. 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 u.s. security defense how allies and uphold human rights i have no problem with him sitting down with kim june 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 and not just to photo opportunities. after crossing the demarcation line between the 2 koreas with his counterpart jim kim jong un trying to set a lot of progress has been made during their talks but sanctions against pyongyang remain in place our senior correspondent martha stewart explains whether the symbolic meaning could affect the almost total economic blockade on 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 would 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 and as is tradition now those sanctions this thing on memory are some point look i'm looking forward to taking well 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 going to happen and that's what we'll be talking about promises promises it was sanctions the torpedoed the last summit and the state says trump until this 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 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 in the kims have stuck by the nukes we don't expect chairman kim 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 definitely become any less tense but at least the new nuclear standoff to worry about. let's bring in dr william mountain author and former british diplomat for more on this now the leading u.s. democratic presidential candidate joe biden says trump is cobbling dictators at the expense of america's national security is that fair. of course it's not fair it's highly hypocritical when you consider that one of his best friends is saudi arabia which is an awful regime for example no this is simply political party political parties aren't sure if i think it can be dismissed out of hand smart direct talks without direct question so why do you think trump is getting such pushback against his north korea talks in the us. well the one laughing of the main reason is that he is the into internal us politics of the clinton clinton esque brigade are still

attacking him whenever they can along with i think some of the neo cons i've been seeing to know what bolton's reaction to the of his motives are rather unstable farm to a cold warrior even if he did his party so that's an interesting aspect if i might digress a bit and say this is very bizarre because only a few months ago. a lot of mccain was calling trump rocket don't target. and some was calling him a rocket man and suddenly they're suddenly great friends of this sort of pseudo von or me. along with tweeting or tweeting and applications and opinions instead of opinions seems to be taking over serious diplomacy bucks it also shows that trump himself is juggling between the unstable parts of freezone us you know congressional military. complex etc on the one hand you see and on the other hand it's also

a diversionary tactic i think from iran you couldn't imagine. i'm going to suddenly say no let me step into iran and shake hands with the arraignment you see so there's also a slight element of hypocrisy but also i think we should remember that the seas are remnants of the cold war just incidentally like the division of cyprus and continuing remnants of the cold war remember also that china and russia as during the cold war are behind essentially behind north korea as the object you know the iran and so despite the seemingly frivolous trivialization of serious diplomacy we have got trump as an interesting juggler. so that's all i've got to say for the time being but fire away with new questions if you like. trump of course has to be looking forward to the 2020 presidential election do you think that this meeting with kim strengthened or weakened his

position. i think in the eyes of all those americans who have smartphones and apps and who love tweeting it will help him very much indeed it may be and help him with his main support the aipac and the israeli and the zionist lobby as well i have to say because when you seem to be making friends over there not with iran because iran is cool nearly as well for him to be nice to iran but it's a nice diversion or i think it likely to help him get a little show that at least superficially he's trying to denuclearize the world a lot is actually a serious an even if the superficial aspect tweeting tweeting or going on the air there are also a lot of people who support trump in the state department lot of people a lot talk about the boltons of this world i think he probably needs bolton as a sort of union anchor the sure the world that he can control people like that so trump is in the middle of sums right in the middle there i don't think he's doing

a bad job however seattle it looks but it is historic i mean stepping over that 3936 parallel. takes some guts i have to say he did it and he came out unscathed apart from the party parties and your political parties and politics of the clinton era people dr william mountain author and former british diplomat thank you for your time and your comments well bless by. you commission younger has again suspended a block summit as the readers of member states squabble over who should get the as top jobs talks in brussels or into their 20th hour our europe correspondent peter offer has more. well a number of big jobs in the european institutions need to be decided in the nearest future really but the biggest job among them in the one that's causing the most consternation when it comes to putting forward a candidate is european commission president it's who will take over from john

claude younker and what we understand is that that is not happening at the moment because of a split within the conservative bloc in the european council of the european council's made up of the heads of government of the 28 e.u. member states they decide on who they want to nominate the candidate that candidates then put forward to the european parliament who vote on it they can't get past the nomination stage at the moment young himself part of the process of searching for his replacement wasn't giving much away to the press. monism. leadership someone. certainly wasn't holding back the french president was well visibly angry at times when he spoke to the press he said it was embarrassing that they couldn't come up with a solution in the e.u. 2028 in the european council and he said that if they were in this position perhaps

the whole system needed to be changed it would be said to me today has ended in failure we were unable to reach any agreement something i think reflects very badly on the council and well when it comes to who is causing the problems who is causing the problems with getting this deal across it's really a group that's being led by poland and by italy well i had initially. for the job of european commission president she then switched her allegiance when she realized that wasn't going to happen and had backed the timmermans plan however she said its progress was being made but this it was a very difficult road ahead still to be brave. things are getting out of the talks will be easy and that's putting it mildly the e.u. parliament for this to be exceptions is fixated on the principle of tolls paid today and yet the biggest force the european peoples party has no majority and so donal to school had a difficult task today who will try to be constructive so the european council the

heads of government of the 28 member states of the european union will recall of even brussels old tuesday to let the day have as they try to work out who should be the next president of the european commission plenty still to go yet when it comes to who will take over from john claude young still anybody's guess. just behind me you can see live pictures from hong kong where the mass riders have stormed the parliament spring defeat for feeding on walls and painting the british colonial flag in the main they got into the building after smashing a glass door with a trolley despite being pepper sprayed by right police. was. was. was. was. was. but this monday marks

22 years since hong kong's handover from britain to china but the anniversary has been overshadowed by weeks of demonstrations against a new extradition bill and little police response to those rallies if 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 stop the territory from becoming a refuge for criminals however many fear it will lead to political persecution from beijing and undermanned undermine the area's autonomy. meanwhile britain's foreign secretary has weighed in with an anniversary statement warning china to respect hong kong's autonomy beijing reminded him to stop meddling. in one agent hong kong. china since no foreign country has the right to make on the urge britain to know its place and to stop interfering in any way in hong kong matters and to focus on the respect to the stability rather than the opposite to. our guest share

their thoughts on the case reaction. to what germany 100 stealing of course east because the election is the prime minister in these preaching and then he need to show you steve falters and people just public that he is doing the right thing and he's trying to be the one to creation and on hong kong with china so this is basically i believe has to do with the domestic politics in the u.k. more people more foreign sector more presidents more prime ministers in the world for that 30 express their concern about what is happening in hong kong about what trying now is trying to do through the paper of hong kong the quote charnel is technically going to impose a system of governance. imposed on the chinese people people in

hong kong. very rightly opposing up. in germany 3 men have been charged in connection with the sexual abuse of more than 40 children aged between 3 and 142 of the subs suspects have pleaded guilty maybe is reportedly took place over a number of years at a campsite in a small german town move day between them the men are accused of some 450 cases of child abuse and local authorities are being blamed for failing to act earlier. most of the abuse was by a single suspect identified only as andreas he's accused of almost 300 sex crimes

against 23 children defenses are believed to have been committed in 1908 in the between 2008 and last year the police are accused of in action despite evidence for of abuse for years and the authorities are also being blamed for letting evidence disappear back in february they admitted losing almost a terabyte of evidence meanwhile one of the children's representatives says the victims were question in an inappropriate way for their ages 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 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 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. still the common l.g.b. to communities in the us hold competing rallies amid claims that pride month has become too commercialized that story and more after the break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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come back the man expected to become britain's next prime minister has taken issue with remarks made by vladimir putin johnson has about to show that the president was wrong to note that liberalism is now obsolete the favorite in the u.k.'s conservative party leadership contest insists that brics that will prove his point as are his point break up from london with more. 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 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 laws the e.u. system makes this impossible if we want to uphold liberal values we must leave by october the 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. we are here. also too. only when you vocally defend promote liberal democracy o'donnell tusks already complain 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 and what it's exposed is that everyone's definition of the concept of liberalism and has to be different and that may be due to their past and

no political objectives just kind of work welcoming me gratian and over the country forward but since the last couple of years since that referendum of cameron is going down so i'm here for to 70 is and i believe this on. the things that we don't have the right person coming out you should be kind contradicts what we're doing of all wouldn't what we say and when it came to it came to the whole opinion on what's going on it was for the flies and fake promises so when it comes to liberalism is that really. don't think it's going to prove anything i think if anything is going to prove how incompetent a lot of the people sitting in the top are. as pride month concludes around the world the beattie community in the us is divided competing rallies are being held and there are claims the main event has become too commercialized the reclaim prime

coalition held a separate march in new york with what it called no corporate float and no police and says the official event no longer addresses the political struggles of the community under the trumpet ministration we were all in the reports and just a sharp decline in acceptance of gay and lesbian people among young americans. according to the survey the number of young people who felt comfortable interacting with the community fell last year or more felt uncomfortable about a relative coming out. more americans age 18 to $34.00 also didn't like the idea of gay issues being taught in school however the acceptance rate rose among people age 72 and over we got reaction to the decline in tolerance from a community representative and from the author of the study least munis they're experiencing could be leading to the survey ocean it's in you know the takes 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 in signal a looming social crisis in discrimination. activists burn and struck us as radicals are turning people against their community. our community has been overtaken by a very sort of extremist very political faction that has tried to essentially politicize everything under the umbrella of. there is sort of this more extremist progressive faction that has really overreached i think they've made a lot of people uncomfortable i think a lot of people on the aisle to 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 it 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 shoot you. because there's always those already been in the southwest. that's

a news break down for this hour and that's all for me as well today but why not make aaron will be taking over in about 30 minutes and counting in wherever you may be. yet you. still are.

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