north korea and the u.s. are set to resume nuclear talks in sweden with both sides testing the list think weapons in the days leading up to the meeting. ecuador's president declares a state of emergency as the country is gripped by protests over soaring fuel prices . also coming up in the program peru's leader attempts to end of turmoil triggered by his dissolution of parliament we speak to jailed former brazilian president lula da silva about the. group see the same thing that has happened to the south american countries we keep seeing new.

just a few moments and just a worry north korean negotiators have arrived in sweden to resume nuclear talks with the u.s. it comes just a few days after said it had successfully tested a new cd launch missile in a move that caused alarm in western capitals the search area had a call with japanese minister defense kono where they discussed north korea they both agree that the north korea tests are unnecessarily provocative and do not set the stage for diplomacy and that north korea should cease these tests north korea say's its missile is capable of being launched from a submarine which would represent a major advancement of its weapons capabilities some analysts are calling it the most significant test since the country entered into dialogue with washington and $28.00 team well just a few hours late. the u.s.

car of its own launch it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile over the pacific saying that the test was for national security purposes gillum open it takes a closer look out foul play. north korea and the united states are headed back to the negotiating table this weekend says president trump we'll see they want to talk it will be tough you don't do we'll see so we can all just relax and anticipate one step closer to world peace right well no a missile was launched on wednesday the u.s. state department burned with outrage we call on north korea to refrain from provocations abide by their obligations under un security council resolutions and remain in gauged in substantive and sustained negotiations to do their part to ensure peace and stability on the korean peninsula and as you do nuclear is ation now to prove their point about peace and stability the united states launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from the coast of california on the exact same

day but they say it is not a provocative move according to the pentagon brass it's all about peace and security this visible message of national security. and to sway potential aggressor so let's recap shall we this is the pug 3 it's endangering the stability and peace of the entire region and this is the minuteman 3 i.c.b.m. it's just making the world a safer and happier place in august the united states once again conducted military drills in south korea rehearsing for an all out war against the north but they say it's nothing provocative about it simply a measure of security north korea didn't see it that way into korean concerns will be difficult unless the put an end to military exercise will give a plausible explanation in a sincere manner that is worth mentioning these drills were scaled down a bit compared to the ones done in the past we are working very hard to make sure that it is not the. just provocative to go as far as to modify even the name of the

exercise and to modify the scenario to take out all the offensive characteristics it's all about perception if we do it it's understandable for security purposes think of the i.c.b.m. as a jolly little kite bringing joy but if they do it it's a provocation putting the entire region into danger yes it's one sided attitudes like that that are sure to bring peace on earth they fired off an i.c.b.m. missile. you know like 4200 miles to the marshall islands this wasn't a small underground or underwater test so the u.s. is. wants to be able to behave one way as a military might with its military might around the world and the other countries do the opposite and so unfortunately we are left with these types of instances where very few people question the power. of the united states

people question why the united states is testing the nuclear deterrent if you will . ok to another headline story today ecuador's president as they cleared a national emergency following a wave of protests over the authorities the station to end fuel subsidies the move which came into effect on thursday is expected to coles the price of petrol and diesel to double workers in the transport sector launched a national strike in response taxi truck drivers blocking roads in major cities students on indigenous groups also joined the protest paro izing the country's transport network in the capital demonstrators clashed with riot police riot police responded to tear gas made hundreds of arrests and well despite the turmoil president said there is no chance that the 40 year old subsidies scheme will be reinstated. you know it's. that there is no possibility of changing those things

related to the perverse subsidies they were causing so much harm to the country they were distorting the economy but above all else allow for important national resources to fall into the wrong hands to try to ensure the safety of our citizens and avoid chaos i have declared a national state of emergency and with all that's briefed on what's been spoken about the ecuadorian government scrapped the fuel subsidies in order to meet targets agreed with the international monetary fund no as part of a deal i deal signed in march ecuador agreed to slash public spending in no intends to reduce its deficit just doing the math here from $3600000000.00 to under $1000000000.00 quite a cut and that's by next year the view largely shared among analysts is that economic restructuring will be a painful process for the country. the i.m.f. has given a credit to our country is under certain conditions on the. day they control the economy and they're going to go where it is over the goal of what they are really

following this trade to open the economy of whether just to make the. ecuadorian people in the future but not get access to. services that. they don't have it at the moment but the thing is what is the cost of this kind of rest of the economy and either my government is joining in this door and open the markets we've basically made up by the given we're going to give to you laws we're going to give you credit but only under certain conditions and then they're doing that we know they're going crazy inflation we know they've been increasing unemployment rate at the moment but in theory yes in theory they're whether in the future going to be an economy similar like the u.s. economy or mexican economy let's say but obviously with. the cost of history and they're going to be there because it is basically the argument that all the economy is going to run out. but i want to stay just in this region because neighboring pearl rued their president appointed

a new cabinet on the same day thursday and well prepared to govern without opposition until elections in january it comes after martin of his karma took the dramatic step of dissolving parliament i was earlier in the week in order to break the impasse over his anti corruption drive. yes. while the president's opponents of this struggle move us all new constitutional there's been a groundswell of popular support from across the country since 2016 many leading officials including most of the country's living former presidents have been implicated in corruption dating to a spate of convictions and frustration among proving. the president is no easy job to stress for a show responsibility for the entire country but being president of the room and so i'm sure you try to at least most likely changed if mitt said this had always been

the vice presidency defeated and still ahead of the country. is facing him no i am temporarily assuming the presidency of the republic a response to the fact that in president his car has failed but just hours off to be sworn in he resigns i have decided to resign from the position of constitutional vice president of the republic the reasons are explaining in the attach letter i hope that my resignation will lead to the convening and general elections in the surest term of the country. that's up to the current president. dissolved congress which plunged the country into a political crisis massive protests including his resignation from the nazis this week interesting the this got himself elected he took over from federal public he resigned over corruption charges just out of a comfortable place in the government palace with a view. a brick through

a bunk in a cell for 3 years it was then on staff we want to denounce in the name of our family the injustice that has been committed against our father. has been given 3 years of preventive imprisonment. guess what his previous this up or young mother was arrested on allegations of money. property and freedom being taken away. there was a long. it won't come as a surprise that he too was arrested on the same money laundering charges the only reason he escaped prison time is because he committed suicide before trial. also this time. a bit before he gets where he is in jail to 2031. we were joking when we said being proof presidency jinxed perhaps miss that this was made a wise decision resigning so quickly it's

a safe. well some analysts have drawn parallels between the crisis the situation in venice way left the opposition in caracas also rejected the dissolution of parliament and appointed its own interim president however on like venezuela the u.s. embassy in peru chose to remain somewhat neutral a political awareness we spoke to say south despite the similarities between the situations in peru and in venice will the treated very differently by washington. if we compare bin is clearly and we compare peru indeed i mean in this occasion the united states has to step back and see what will happen what is going to be. a role of the united states if they would be like doing exactly the same as they have done before you know you would have expected. they would support you they would be more like you know inclined to do the same things and to be more coherent

in their in their political stances the united the has played like a kind of a double a rule that's not very clear right you up why some criteria. because some countries had the and not different set of criteria to this situation or crisis in another country wage that shows probably a double maura we've been getting lots of reaction to the proving crisis including from geale former brazil president lula da silva he was speaking to r t's spanish. i think peru is seeing the same thing that has happened to other south american countries we keep seeing new ways of staging a coup. no one has to accept foreign interference in the affairs of

a sovereign state i do not support american brazilian colombian or any other interference their attempts to control another country by promoting their own candidates by creating a fake figurehead like one guy joe i'm totally against this there are situations that a democratic country has to deal with on its own. you brazil is a very big country it can be fully sovereign it could become one of the main actors on international policy i admire the role that president putin plays in the modern world it shows that the world cannot be held hostage to u.s. policy to trump's craziness the craziness of a u.s. president who believes that he can invade any country kill any president somebody has to stop him and brazil concluded that. another story we're closely following

today peddling violence curfews as well in iraq or plummeting living standards for option i revised death tolls coming in from the country will bring you off the table what we know after the break. most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice or the biggest ray. in truth to stand this is just the dance the right questions and the right answers. the. question.

seems wrong. to say proud to stay active. engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. a quarter of an hour past midnight here in moscow welcome back iraq seen more deadly on the rest popular protests against corruption low living standards

continue for a 4th consecutive day security forces opened fire on demonstrators in baghdad on friday bringing the number of those killed in this week's turmoil alone to 65 the violence comes despite calls for calm from the prime minister and assurances as well that protesters grievances are being heard. flushes 1st erupted on choose the day when the army stepped into defend the heavily fortified green zone in fact for government offices foreign consulates are located police deployed tear gas rubber bullets and life fire against protesters internet access house since being cut to most of the country curfews and post the channel

has led the country's opposition to call on the government to resign his campaign or something ramadani told us he fears iraq's problems are near insurmountable. sadly i don't think the country is going to overcome these enormous problems caused by the invasion and occupation of iraq the us that invasion occupation of 2003. because the problems have become so deep the destruction was so well massive and the political elites installed in iraq where almost all very corrupt and this has added to the problem of trying to recover from that destructive occupation that is the problem with the with iraq that the problems are so deep and there are so many corrupt politicians it's very difficult to implement

a lot of the demands of the people things like eliminating corruption getting going to massive unemployment among young people housing problems poverty problems. the british army calls the fence among members of one of the minority groups it's been trying hard to woo into its ranks it twitter the black history month which it is marking is now being expanded to include asian people too so takes up the story for us there are some battles you can't when just ask the british army no i'm not talking about iraq or afghanistan even the fast war i'm talking about the fight to win over the hearts and minds of each and every citizen of us old blighty black history month has kicked off in the u.k. this week in the british army to tell if you keep its finger on the pulse has

dedicated the next 30 days not just to black people but to all the asians who have served in its ranks still haven't got over that plain old guilt that we missed a trick here we didn't explain that black history month has expanded to include the history of asian people and their contribution to hence our recognition of our historic partnership with the indian army but in the minefield of political hypersensitivity the initiative might just be a flop it's been slammed by the very communities it was supposed to ingratiate herself with and less these asians a black i don't want to see it to be honest there are 12 months in a year black history month took up one month of the 12 but they wanted to be black asian and minority ethnic moms w.t.f. pick another months and make that asian history month i'm sure a lot of asians will appreciate it come on don't be stupid it's bloody black history month why is that you can criticize the army for its lack of manners for

the move very thought point for the british so thank goodness for the good old delete button because the tweet in question was removed not before had fired up the haters of course and even the odd lonely voice of support. the contribution of sikh hindu and muslim communities can't be ignored if they consider themselves politically than they are i can't even pretend to know what politically black is but i can tell you what black history month is initiated violence across the pond the us decided to give up a month every year you know to repent for all those centuries of slavery and segregation and it's part of a growing trend of affirmative action that might just be backfiring take while famous harvard university for example turns out it's got racial quotas twin sure a diverse community something that didn't go down too well with a group of asian americans who filed

a lawsuit saying they were based here lies decades in favor of their fellow black applicants despite having far better entrance schools and indeed multiple studies have shown that if the universe to based its admissions process just on academic factors what a bizarre notion asians make up over 40 percent of harvard's classes that's more than twice its current figures. the coolest conclusion the harvard has shown that its admissions program serves its compelling interest in diversity but assume racial categorizations are necessary to serve the interest and while the court might have backed hard at this time it's opened a can of worms an increasingly divisive issue affirmative action lifeline that its heyday is over so there's a huge amount of marketing executives and only sort of social media advisers you know in places like the british army if you're completely detached from reality of society and that sort of started to use only social awareness things like work history month just for marketing and this entire social awareness kind of you know

progressive stuff should probably let the people who are actually experiencing racism probably less to look older people who are actually out there on the streets variance in these things rather than you know. who are sort of defining and sort of deciding they're well there but i think that by providing a lower standard for a certain race of people and a higher standard for a different race of people certainly 1st of all creates a lot of conflict between different races of people that would not have existed otherwise but i think it also demotivates. certain people you know who probably would have been more motivated to go out and do so based off of their hard work an absolute which now they're not being rewarded for and i think that it provides unfair advantages soon we're going to run out of months and seeing any action one takes to place one minority waggle faith and not that you've got twit met it's tough out there on the front lines of political correctness. to hong kong

or a fresh round of demonstrations or up to thousands of people gathered to condemn the local authorities decision to face mass the emergency measure which is now in effect is aimed at putting a stop to the semi autonomous territories for a month long anti beijing protest campaign protestors are frequently covered their faces while. taking part in rallies calling for universal suffrage officials say that makes violence escalate because people are less afraid of being caught and a mob mentality takes over the emergency law comes after clashes turned particularly ugly during 70th anniversary celebrations of communist party rule in china. russia is helping china build a warning system for missile attacks it was revealed by a blogger we're putting up the annual international affairs conference the volatile discussion club currently underway here in russia and. we are now hoping no

chinese part moves to develop a missile attack warning system is a very serious thing rather clean hands china's defense capabilities because at the moment only the united states and russia have such a system. of political scientist use of chang outlined to us the ways in which he believes the arrangement will benefit russia and china. both sides understand it is a lot of company mentality between the 2 countries in weapons development time no probably has more research money it can support research and development programs and russia certainly enjoys considerable cannot it go on digits you often turn on logical superiority and abundance is on the part of russia it is in a position to make off to countries that and china and cooperation with china may get. may be used as

a kind of mall that the united states will certainly be very unhappy about this but it is say you meant to it what it can do after all of the united states is so has the united gauging joint development with countries like japan and india and so on. mothers are up for this or to use our i'm going to check on what's being public out there for the next hope you'll join me to find out for them in 30 just over.

his community there are people who believe that it's ok. it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that ask and as a parent. i can come up with lots of arguments there's a lot of conflict in the game between the 2 most of the conflict i would say over balls around money and most of them money has made. us one on each other's to each other is good because the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year of prison complexes you get some 20 year life where. you don't care anymore nobody cares about your so your care might anything. younger voters now comprise america's largest voting bloc but how motivated are they to participate in the election of 2020 well one of the leading millennial voices in

journalism is here with her take one on one with lauren duca on this edition. of the politicking i may be holmes sitting in for larry king lauren duke became widely known only a few years ago following a scorching bedroom written for teen vogue and titled donald trump is gaslighting america well the piece became a viral sensation and lauren was suddenly and in demand speaker and guest on t.v. and radio well she's back in the public eye with a new book and the assertion that donald trump 2016 when shook young people out of a coma and reminded that voting block that government by and for the people requires their input so will younger voters participate in the 2020 election process and who or what will motivate them to do so so let's talk about this with journalist and feminist advocate lauren duca who joins me right here from new york

city she's the author of the newly released book how to start a revolution young people and the future of politics where. things are having me great so your book is about starting a revolution why do you think we need that right now. i think that for too long we've understood democracy as a thing that we have and not a thing that we do there is such extensive alya nation among young people after that article took off gaslighting for teen vogue there was a conversation about the trumpet ministrations desson formation but also young people do they care about politics do young women care about politics and i sort of started having a lot of conversations about that question which does not tell the full story about who we are often young people's apathy. it is stated as if it's a natural extension of low voter turnout statistics low voter turnout statistics are real and a problem but it's not that we don't care it's that we've been pushed out of the

conversation and made to feel as if we're not qualified and don't have permission and i think what's shifting not only in reaction to trump but a number of major cultural shifting factors like black lives matter the me too movement the gun reform protest led by the parklane students all of these things are contributing overall to a shift in agency and self-determination in which young people are deciding that we're no longer willing to wait our turn until we're deemed qualified to take part in the political conversation right so to learn let me ask you about that because you know traditionally typically typically young people do have a lower voter turnout rate than older people and to what extent do you think that social media is changing that landscape i mean you're very big on social media you've got lots of twitter followers a lot of people you know who are tuning in to hear what you have to say on social media do you think that that is influencing young people's participation in the

political process i think that it is definitely having a democratizing force in addition to the harmful forces we've seen of just information and misinformation we're exposed to many more viewpoints without a blockade of the gate keeper and that has had pros and cons but i think what's how what are some of the cons would you say with the influence of social media and getting rid of the quote unquote sort of establishment gatekeepers of politics well you know i don't think that's one of the problems i think one of the benefits is getting rid of the establishment gatekeepers of politics you know our media and political gatekeepers told us that when wasn't possible and and truly for so now i remember i tell them i'm not one of them actually yes i mean i was that's a lot of what led to my personal awakening and i heard it in so many.