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BBC News with Sue Montgomery.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has held his first meeting with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Mr. Putin said the pair had discussed ways to improve what he called the situation on the Korean Peninsula. Mr. Kim described the two hours of talks in Vladivostok is meaningful. The North Korean leader agreed to meet Mr. Putin following his failed summit with President Trump in February. The BBC's Sarah Reinsford is in Vladivostok says Moscow shares some common aims with the US.

It says that very publicly and very loudly that it does believe that North Korea should denuclearize. And I think, you know, coming all this distance from Moscow to here in the far east of Russia, you kind of understand why, it's just over a hundred kilometers from here as the crow flies to the North Korean border. And I think you know Russia doesn't want an unstable, an unorthodox, some uNPRedictable neighbor with nuclear weapons right here on its border.

A mass demonstration is due to take place later today in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to maintain pressure on the transitional military council to hand over to a civilian administration. Thousands of protesters have arrived by train to take part in the event, dubbed the "million-strong march for civilian rule". On Wednesday, three of the most controversial figures on the military council offered their resignations. A military spokesman Shamseddine Kabbashi insisted the council was working with the protesters.

We are partners and we are working together to bring the country towards the shore of peace and our goal is to place peaceful foundations for the building of Sudan.

An American white supremacist, John William King, convicted of killing a black man in a notorious hate crime two decades ago, has been executed in Texas. James Byrd Jr. was hitchhiking when he was kidnapped by three men, chained to the back of a pickup truck and dragged for five kilometers. In a statement, Mr. Byrd's sister Clara Byrd Taylor said the King's death by lethal injection was just punishment.

He wanted to make a name for himself and his organization by killing a black man. James was chosen as his target. James was shown no mercy as he was dragged while still alive behind a pickup truck using a twenty-five-foot logging chain. King showed no remorse then and showed no remorse tonight.

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