RT News - May 31, 2018 (17:00 MSK)

Russia's foreign minister meets the North Korean leader - RT's given exclusive images from inside the Assembly Hall, where the high-level talks have been taking place. The European Court of Human Rights rules Lithuania and Romania were complicit in the torture of two al-Qaeda terror suspects - in the CIA's program of secret detention centers. Journalists worldwide vent their anger at Ukraine - for staging the murder of Russian opposition journalist, Arkady Babchenko. In an exclusive interview with RT, President Bashar al-Assad notes that Syria would never have used chemical weapons against its own people - and says that 'civil war' is the wrong description for the conflict in the country.