korean war for that matter north korea south korea are still at war with each other doesn't armistice and in north koreans are saying we have to sit down the same table with the americans and then we going to formally and the war and then we're going to discuss everything including the nuclear program so this state department now is trying to jump the gun to said oh first you get rid of their nuclear weapons you know that the missiles and then with all so obviously the narco he has are going to washington to special envoy is going to watch is going to say look our position has been missing for the best fifty eight years stake it or leave it first you have to end the war it's true and the war from the north korean point of view is a war against america is not south korea they view it as a bloc that the government of the americas and they view that south korea in the minds of young of course it's still all killed by by american troops there are thirty six to thirty eight thousand u.s. troops but the north korea says it has a western occupation of south korea so no less you start to i re

korean korean war for that matter north korea south korea are still at war with each other and the war from the north korean point of view is a war against america is not south korea the view it as a block to the government of the americas so let's you start school i really doubt this basic difference is important it's absolutely positive and start talking. russian sailors are celebrating navy day this sunday event has already seen festivities of the country's major ports with worship praise and actual productions here she's president took part in it so gracious are pictures of westerners come in and good reason to see the baltic fleet modern russian navy was founded by someone in the first in the seventeenth century these days its main force can sense something in this archive something means critics as more ships. well full coverage of our top stories is available twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com always a wider variety of content it's a bit more unusual to like these stories a one legged sale of at most a seat on the russian news yes keeps an eye on the horizon before going in

korea for instance and this would be a threat to russia of course because it's located around north korea and when they see a missile being launched they were captured before it releases its warhead in space than they could home in on the hot exhaust coming out of the you know the boosting missile it's called the boost phase but apparently it's not been picked up by the pentagon and it's not being studied by anybody else so i think we need to get the technical people to cooperate once it's a good system is there then we can get the political people perhaps to cooperate in talks about there is an opinion that there is this. mentality that flourished under the bush administration pushing for more defense spending and many say it continues under obama do you think that a costly missile defense program arguable effectiveness could be pushed forward by this kind of hawkish mentality rather than security threats. i mean surely there is inertia in the system when the bush plan was first discarded by president obama when he came into power there was a lot of hope that the new system would b

korean war for that matter of north korea south korea are still at war with each other and the war from the north korean point of view is a war against america is not south korea they view it as a bloc that government of the americas so over the last year start to really know this basic difference is important it's absolutely impossible to even start talking . russian sailors are celebrating navy day this sunday event has already seen festivities at the country's major ports with russia praising productions she's president took part in. as western most common in that region to see the baltic fleet modern russian navy was founded by example in the first in the seventeenth century these days its main force consists only. in south korea something means critics it's more ships. full coverage of our top stories is available twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com and always a wide variety of content it's a bit more unusual to like these stories a one legged sailor but no sea dog or russian if you see us keeps an eye on the horizon before calling and as he prepares to settle for a major. hand

korea last year and i confirmed from north korean officials directly that. this state awfully is the same state of glee as it was fifty eight years ago to morris to fifty eight and in verse three of the armistice that did not end the north korean war for that matter the ideal logical deify and the wall of mistrust between the two sides it's almost humanly impossible to find a middle ground the saying is first you have to end the war it's true and the war from the north korean point of view is a war against america is not south korea they view it as a bloc that government of the americas and asia that south korea in the minds of beyond young of course it's still all killed by by american troops there still is just thirty eight thousand u.s. troops but the north korea says it has a western occupation of south korea. so no less you start to i really doubt this basic difference is important it's absolutely impossible to even start talking so this state department now is trying to jump the gun a said joke first you get rid of your nuclear weapons you know that on

korean war for that matter north korea south korea are still at war with each other and the war from the north korean point of view is a war against america is not south korea they do it as a bloc that government of the americas so over the last year start to really know this and basic difference is important it's absolutely impossible to even start talking. as the u.s. withdraws its troops from iraq and afghanistan and the four hundred a vast number of private military contractors critics of the so-called hired guns are demanding that mercenaries at the name of america held accountable the great number of reported human rights abuses and civilian deaths in the conflict torn countries that's all it is going to chicken reports the u.s. is in the rush to regulate private military muscle this iraqi men son nine year old allie khilnani was shot dead by private american war contractors four years ago his brain fell to the ground between my feet and on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqis were shot by trigger happy u.s. professional killers they shot like they were trying to kill e

the exact timing so of course in the case of north korea or iran that will not be the case furthermore most seriously perhaps the most of the system is based on ships now these ships have never been tested in rough weather in fact when usa one ninety three satellites was being intercepted a few years back it was called off or for a couple of days because the weather was too rough for the cruisers so this is a known weakness in the system but you know from the planner side they have to see perhaps there will be some technological surprise in the future maybe there'll be many more interceptors maybe they'll be a different administration so from the military planners in china and russia they have to pretend or plan for the worst and pretend like the system works whereas it can in fact be easily overcome and has never been realistically tested russians have been quite persistent and in saying ok if it's not against us let's do it together their response if they get it's always a polite no but no they if they are told yes we will cooperate but not on equal terms what do you make of it i thi

aimed at north korea. the uss texas made a port call in pusan on saturday for its crew members' rest. it is armed with tomahawk missiles and intelligence. >> the purpose of our port visit here is to discuss our coordinated operations that we conducted at sea. we are postured to respond to any aggression. >> last year north korea allegedly sank a south korean naval vessel. observers say the united states appears to be trying to discourage further military provocations by showing that a high-performance submarine has been deployed around the korean peninsula. >>> the death toll in the sinking of a tour boat in central russia has risen to about 50. the cruise ship volga capsized on sunday with about 200 passengers and crew members aboard. officials of russia's emergency situation ministry said that 79 people have been rescued but about 50 have been confirmed dead so far. nearly 70 are still unaccounted for. they're believed to be inside the boat which is lying on the bottom of the river about 20 meters below.

secretary of state says before any deal was discussed north korea must first dismantle its nuclear facilities as the rock and co-founder of the national campaign to and the korean war says america should stand in the way of a peaceful solution. we forget that you know if you can reach agreements even with people you have profound differences with the word exercises where we say simulate landing two hundred thousand troops and taking over beyond yanks and defending against other types of attacks only serves to amp it up and certainly the comments and expressions from the north don't help either so you have both sides who need to step back and certainly begin to look at peaceful exercises of their relationship their north korea has not india has always indicated that for a peace treaty and formalized relations with the united states that it would give up its nuclear weapon capability that has always been on the table and we should be grabbing that as a real opportunity because more than one hundred fifty countries have normalized relations with the north and we need formal channels to begin to

but north korea must disarm unilaterally and pyongyang believes it's not fair so does moscow and beijing so that's why i believe i strongly believe that the only way to resolve the tensions ease to stage a number of bilateral negotiations. in the volatile form of the is going to be solved much faster without much trouble. and now a brief look at some other international headlines this hour a train has derailed and caught fire in central syria the driver has been killed and several passengers injured state television blamed governments of a terrorist for the attack but failed to suggest any real evidence against those they say are behind the assault the area in central syria has been at the heart of the uprising that started in march with protesters demanding the ousting of president bashar al assad. rainier that media is reporting one of the country's nuclear scientists has been shot dead in the capital tehran thirty five year old. was targeted outside his home by a gunmen on a motorbike it's not the first murder of a nuclear physicist in iran last year another was killed by a remotely d

korea first starts dismantling its atomic the cillit he's. professor from a sydney university believes the multiparty talks are not the right way to reach any agreement. the nuclear issue could have been resolved much faster and more efficiently as a result of bilateral negotiations first of all between north korea and the united states and washington also have to demonstrate willingness to participate in the six party talks unconditionally not solve korean bilateral negotiations would have been helpful too but bringing together six different parties which traditionally belong to course security blocs we've different security genders and competing trade interests is not very promising while solve career remains as curity ally of the united states not demands to be anything like designing from solve for real but north korea must disarm unilaterally and pyongyang believes it's not so does moscow and beijing so that's why i believe i strongly believe that the only way to resolve the tensions ease to stage a number of bilateral negotiations. in t

back and north korea back to the 6-nation nuclear talks. someone who is familiar with north korea and how that you think is fox news contributor and former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. ambassador, good morning. >> good morning, glad to be here. >> eric: seems like a major step, high level, senior north korean official, will actually be here. what do you expect of this? >> well, i don't frankly expect very much, given north korea's progress on the nuclear weapons program, during the past two-and-a-half years. but, it obviously leads to the question why now and what do both sides see, from the u.s. perspective, secretary clinton's in particular, she sees she has about a year-and-a-half left in office and wants to see if she can have some sort of achievement on the north korean front and north korea is more difficult to read and could be that they are facing internal difficulties and think a return to the 6 party talks might relieve the pressure and we are close to the end of the kim jong-il regime and it could be china

from solved i'm going to put north korea must disarm you know target and in your own beliefs it's not clear so does the aging so that's why i believe i strongly believe that the only we produce all the pensions the stage a number of literal negotiations. in the political forum of the he's going to be solved much faster without much trouble. you know a brief look at some other international headlines for you at least eleven people have been killed and dozens injured as a chinese a bullet train lost power after being struck by lightning it was then hear from the hired by our nother train knocking two of its carriages off the bridge rescue workers are now continuing cleaning the debris looking for the injured. nato has carried out fresh air strikes on the libyan capital hitting colonel gadhafi as headquarters on friday a crowd rallied in tripoli and support of the colonel was very abouts remain idle libya has been ravaged by civil war since february with a nato led coalition launching airstrikes in march artie's military contributor says there's a growing credibility gap within the allia

your work it never works it doesn't work for north korea north korea probably started out forty years ago down this road on austerity measures that probably started as a way to cut the deficit instead they have a dilapidated economy that relies on the sugar daddy of china. because they can invade the only other way to pay for a gulag economy as germany did was you invade other countries dear leader scott walker but talking about powerful men britain's richest man to build giant arctic iron ore mine britain richest man lakshmi mittal is planning a giant new opencast mine three hundred miles inside the arctic circle in a bid to extract a potential twenty three billion dollars worth of iron ore the megamind includes a one hundred fifty kilometer railway line to newport and it's believed to be the largest mineral extraction operation in the arctic and it relies of course on melting sea ice destroying the open casket mining operation because the earth's ecosystem is dead this guy knows it and he's a success he's basically what he call the guy who rapes a dead person and necrophilia the poi

suspended food aid to north korea in 2009. the u.s. government sent a special envoy and delegation to the north in may to determine whether to restart the program. it has yet to reach a decision. the united nations is appealing for member countries to provide food aid to north korea. the european union will send about $14.5 million worth of food to the country. >>> a desert in chile has been hit with unusual heavy snowfall despite its fame as the driest place in the world. up to 80 centimeters of snow has been recorded so far this week in the atacama desert in northern chile. the snow stranded a bus carrying 36 people who were rescued by soldiers on wednesday after 48-hour ordeal. china is the world's largest copper producer with many mines located in the desert or rather chile is the world's largest copper producer with many mines located in the desert. the snow suspended digging in the mines sparking concerns over a rise in copper prices. >>> time to check on some of the stories we've gathered from broadcasters around asia. we begin

we have people that are particularly connected to north korea. but that the transition in south korea. great success has been made there, a different approach. dallas in just the reagan gave a seat in a good blueprint about how to influence events in such a country they you're worried about. >>-with fox news. when you talk about gadhafi must go, it is easy to say, he has proven to be much more difficult. how would you deal with this with the more specificity of how you would get him to go. and boots on the ground, special operations forces, more of the same? the nisei and hard to do if he decides he doesn't want to go. >> be consistent and clear about your expectations. egypt we have an 82-year-old that if it is a revolution or heart attack or something, was not long for that position. what was the plan between a 30 + year decatur and chaos. there wasn't one. he thought it was this kid. that wasn't going to work either. as it unfolds in a number of the moment towards the end, we have me,ident biden -- excuse vice president biden say mubark ak was