traveled for talks with dmitry medvedev. moscow extended the invitation to kim jong-un in 2018. it took nearly a year for the north korean leader to accept. the meeting will be watched closely. it comes to months after denuclearization talks collapsed. >> the u.n. has outlined -- had access to health services following their ordeals. -- e united states voted to threaten to vote the resolution down. for more on that, we can speak .ith a legal expert he is the founder of not a weapon of war. thank you for speaking with us. this?as the problem of >> i cannot tell because i am not in trump's head. it is clearly -- it makes no sense. who would t think for a second women who are victims of rape in war could not have accesss to have the choicice and access too services. it is a very astonishing. is acess to abortions right.ntal >> it is. abortion is fundamental. specifically when it comes to sexual violence and conflict. who would think f for one second that a woman, victims o o r re and becoming pregnant,t, she nes to have the choice to decide. in kenyaya, zimimbabwe, women cd not hav

his father kim jong il also met with russian presidents the last time was with dmitri medvedev in two thousand and eleven shortly before the korean leader's death. north korea has few friends in the world russia is one of them but they used to be close the soviet union was once pyongyang's main trading partner taking over half its exports today trade is just a trickle was about two million dollars a year jute international sanctions against north korea's weapons programs taking steps towards each other moscow has called for sanctions to be eased that would allow the restart of trade and joint infrastructure projects which would profit both countries. the first ever meeting between put and kim invited vos talk could put the diminished alliance back on track. joining us now is very long call from coping university in surrey or he's a professor of history and author of many books on north korea for the lack of good to have you with us. the north korean leader kim jong un has met chinese president xi jinping four times in the past year now he's met. is this in your view a kiss off. leanin

last time the two countries' leaders melt was s i 2011 when kim jong un traveled o russia with dmitry medvedev. after years of frozen diplomatic relations, moscow extended an invitation to k kim jong un in june 2018. it took nearly a year for the north korean leader to self. thursday's meeting will bebe watche closesely in the u.s. it comes two months after de luke -- denuclearization talks with kim jong un and donald trump collapsed. >> an early test to ukraine's's new presidident as vladimir put signs an order making it easy for people in c certain regions to get a passport. the president elect has yet to form a government. five years of war between ukraine ran troops and russian-backed forces have killed 20,000 despite a cease-firere signed in 2013. putin was speaeaking eararlier. >> we have no desire to create problems for the new ukrainian leadership but we cannot tolerate a situation when people living in some repolitics are generally deprived of civil rights. >> vladimir putin speaking earlier. rance has marked its firstst armeninian genocide remembrance day. france was the first major

negotiations with the russian prime minister dmitry medvedev form their gas issues but immediately a criminal case was opened to against the boy in ukraine when he returned from more score so for any kind of that whoever wins this election it will be very difficult to talk to more school not because russia is not ready to talk but because in ukraine there will be a tremendous pressure. a show from the nationalists and from their government agency yes they may accuse president all of our being a traitor been a stooge of more score than skokie let me keep bring in this give or again as the how important it is is it for ukraine's survival or the economy itself which has been languishing to have closer relations with russia to move in at least have workable relations with russia. if we were having this discussion back in two thousand and fourteen i would have said that it is really important to ensure that the ukraine receives or negotiated cheaper russian gas and maintains its access to the russian market however since the ukrainian crisis ukraine has done incredible steps actually to b

negotiate with anyone who knows the ukrainian people elect that i'm quoting our prime minister dmitry medvedev right now we hope that there should be a little stop and from there we can proceed further let's bring beilin hair and only bruckner really this is it seems to be quite a positive reaction from both russia and within ukraine itself within ukraine itself is clearly time for a change moscow is keeping its its mind open same in the what's the european reaction do you think. well it sounds very similar because there is no reason from the european union side or from the heads of state or government and the member states to not give any credit to the newly elected president because as it stands today it looked like a very open and fair elections from what we know and if there is such a landslide victory with over seventy percent of the votes the person is there to demote and we can only you wait and see what he actually delivers given the fact that he hasn't really said much and become pain this is just a speculative game but generally speaking he's pro west that's what he's done what he sa

correll of the church is leading the service with high profile people such as prime minister dmitri medvedev also in attendance now traditionally this mass is held in many different languages as although it's very you know as orthodox christians are many from russia but also from countries like greece and egypt and ex soviet countries now earlier we were informed of the arrival of what's called the holy fire now basically orthodox tradition holds that fire spontaneously appears in jerusalem every orthodox easter where jesus christ was resurrected on the stone slab where he was resurrected and that fire is then brought via candles on planes to different orthodox countries around the world and we've gotten word that it's already arrived here in moscow now it's believed that the fire doesn't burn people and that worshipers around the world go to this cathedral to go to cathedrals all over the world to get a piece of the fire now around midnight we're going to see the cross procession around the cathedral and basically what that signifies is the ending of their lent it means after the procession

the russian orthodox church and many high profile people are in attendance like prime minister dmitri medvedev and it's really an important occasion for christians all over the world but especially in russia because orthodoxy is the predominant religion here and traditionally this mass is held in old slavonic church language but parts are done in different languages from all over the world as orthodox people do come from countries like greece egypt and other ex soviet republics now earlier we spoke to people preparing to attend the mass within the cathedral and they talked to us about what the what the celebration and the holiday means. to them. and usually. on this is happy holiday a holiday that's not branded as honduras have yes so that the heiress has good. teachers the bride just a fool the christian holidays a family hornady and it's a good holiday and i think i have such a good feeling in my heart easter is coming. just just moments ago actually we saw a procession a round the cathedral that called the orthodox cross procession and this basically is the official marker of the end of len

russian prime minister dmitry medvedev says the new messages. is in response to a recent decision by kia to ban imports of several russian made products take lessons. what it'll come with us she did the bann on importing into russ? areas commodities. this measure will impact ukrainian automomotive productsn this light industry hello metall work. which amounted to almost two hundred fifty million dollars lost me a little. with better also imposing a ban on exporting to ukukine. rurussian oilil and oil productn your teen years but it looked. russian prime minister speaking idea at is that state now let's take a look at the markets now and shasta wall street finished the day in positive territory on the e last trading day ahead of the easter weekend. the dow closing u up to fifth oa percentage point the s. and p p. up slightly less than a fifth of a percentage point. on the nasdaq finishing just above the floor. idea this thursday in asia shares of jet airways plunged 31% a day after the indian adeline a grounded all flights indefinitely. saddled w

so, the difference was when president obama was president in his first term the partner was dmitry medvedev because putin called up the move to switch jobs with him because he couldn't constitutionally have a third term. >> did they really believe he wasn't still in charge? >> guest: people to some extent i think most he would develop enough of a base and authority to run the country that we now know another trust that he was running the country and made it to beat coke medvedev -- there was a moment at the beginning where in 2009 when hillary clinton secretary of state met with her counterpart soviet lover of pushed a button that sent reset but unfortunately our translators this translated the word so it said overload not reset so that was kind of symbolically an issue from the beginning. everything started to go downhill from there. in 2011 there have been a huge demonstration in moscow against putin. hillary clinton had claimed putin and the kremlin for the response of the demonstrations and then blamed hillary clinton for paying money to the demonstrators, so the whole thing began to co

talk to him he visited russia just recently had the negotiations with the russian prime minister dmitry medvedev form their gas issues but immediately a criminal case was opened to against the boy in ukraine when he returned from more score so for any a candidate that whoever wins this election it will be very difficult to talk to more school not because russia is not ready to talk but because in ukraine there will be tremendous pressure. from the nationalists and from their government agency yes they may accuse president all of our being a traitor being a stooge of moscow that's cokie let me bring in ms give or again as the how important it is is it for ukraine's survival or the economy itself which has been languishing to have closer relations with russia to move in at least have workable relations with russia. if we were having this discussion back in two thousand and fourteen i would have said that it is really important to ensure that the ukraine receives or negotiated cheaper russian gas and maintains its access to the russian market however since the ukrainian crisis ukraine has done incr

will negotiate with anyone whom the ukrainian people elect that i'm quoting our prime minister dmitry medvedev right now we hope that the shooting will stop and from there we can proceed further let's bring belen hair and only bruckner really this is it seems to be quite a positive reaction from both russia and within ukraine itself within ukraine itself is clearly time for a change moscow is keeping its its mind open same in the what's the european reaction do you think. well it sounds very similar because there is no reason from the european union side or from the heads of state or government and the member states to not give any credit to the newly elected president because as it stands today it looked like a very open and fair elections from what we know and if there is such a landslide victory with over seventy percent of the votes the person is there to demote and we can only you wait and see what he actually delivers given the fact that he hasn't really said much and become pain this is just a speculative game but generally speaking he's pro west that's what he's done what he said what

talk to him he visited russia just recently had the negotiations with the russian prime minister dmitry medvedev form their gas issues but immediately a criminal case was opened to against the boy in ukraine when he returned from more score so for any a candidate that whoever wins this election it will be very difficult to talk to more school not because russia is not ready to talk but because in ukraine there will be tremendous pressure. sure from the nationalists and from their government agency yes they may accuse president all of our being a traitor been a stooge of more school than skokie let me keep bring in ms give or again as the how important it is is it for you cranes survive or the economy itself which has been languishing to have closer relations with russia to move in at least have workable relations with russia. if we were having this discussion by the king of two thousand and fourteen i would have said that it is really important to ensure that the ukraine receives only go she said cheaper russian gas and maintains its access to the russian market however since the ukrainian crisi

will negotiate with anyone whom the ukrainian people elect that i'm quoting our prime minister dmitry medvedev right now we hope that there should be a little stop and from there we can proceed further let's bring beilin hair and only bruckner really this is it seems to be quite a positive reaction from both russia and within ukraine itself within ukraine itself is clearly time for a change moscow is keeping its its mind open same in the what's the european reaction do you think. well it sounds very similar because there is no reason from the european union side or from the heads of state or government and the member states to not give any credit to the newly elected president because as it stands today it looked like a very open and fair elections from what we know and if there is such a landslide victory with over seventy percent of the votes the person is there to demote and we can only you wait and see what he actually delivers given the fact that he hasn't really said much in the complain this is just a speculative game but generally speaking he's pro west that's what he's done what he sa