Hello there its wednesday the fourteenth of february one in the afternoon here in moscow welcome to r. T. International and your hourly news update with me colleen bray where its been an embarrassing end to the Dutch Foreign minister hes been forced to resign after admitting that he lied for more than a decade about meeting president putin but in a fall over. I dont know a lot of media from both a lot of. People over for if it is. An emotional resignation mr departure comes just a day before he was supposed to meet his russian counterpart in moscow lets look at whether those false claims were worth it after all. Because. In early two thousand and six i was advised to move putins countryside house i stopped at the back of a room or a meeting was being held but i could hear very well Vladimir Putin talking about a greater russia he said this included russia roofs ukraine and the Baltic States and that kazakstan would also be nice to have. Has now acknowledged that it was a lie and that h
Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle the games have begun the younger sister of north koreas ruler kim jong un has captured the attention of the media while u. S. Vice president mike pence was mocked as a dud even undiplomatic the two koreas are engaging each other this makes the washington Foreign Policy swamp hume. Cross talking the koreas im joined by my guest brian becker in washington hes the director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear a daily new show on radio sputnik and in columbus we have Gregory Illich he is a Korea Policy Institute associate or a german crosslike rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate brian let me get me go to you here im sure you saw some of the mainstream corporate is coverage of the opening of the games and the what appears to be some kind of approach between the two koreas but i thought a lot of that coverage has really missed the point in the wh