to iran which was strongly supported by these leaders so going forward they're collaborating with the international community i would like to make in my efforts for relaxing the tension in the middle east and that relaxation of take tension would be very important for of the peace and prosperity of the world all of the leaders agreed on that so everybody will play its role traditionally japan has an amicable relationship with iran and we have alliance relations with the united states we have trust for a relationship with the e.u. so as we will discharge our real news it's not so easy but we would like to play a role as such an organ the media all media including japanese and japanese media this will be our final question and the person with glasses on the 2nd row please. i am frank came from the arab news of saudi arabia mr prime minister

congratulations on a very successful summit. next year it is the turn of saudi arabia the kingdom of saudi arabia to host a summit can you tell us what your expectations are for that event but perhaps some kind of idea of the challenges involved and what would your advice be to saudi leaders on the basis of the lessons that you have learned this time in a soccer. thank you. on. this time as the president. rather than playing up the differences between the g 20 we strove to discover common ground between the g 20 for example on climate change. there had been. quite major differences in the opinions but. to

handover a better planet to the 2nd to the next generation is shared by everyone e.u. us developing countries and developed nations and i believe what's important is to deliver outcome based upon these common notion rather than confrontation we focused on the commonality of the g 20 we thought if the g 20 must deliver a united message or else we would not have lived up to our mandate and in the final stage. president and the us so authorities or president macko and jester merkel and the e.u. side and china and brazil and many other countries have cooperated and there had been exchange of views between the leaders and finally we were able to discover a common ground in other words we are able to unite if we make the effort and weekend work in solidarity to make a better world for us and i hope that that can be taken over by the next presidency

of saudi arabia. we were able to adopt the. leaders that direction there had been difficulties on the way but because of corporation of all countries we were able to overcome those challenges. and g 20 countries have a strength in economy which means that that also entails a huge responsibility so we need to understand the responsibility and continue our efforts until the very end so i really hope that strong leadership can be exercised by saudi arabia and using the osaka leaders declaration as the platform we hope that they can further progress with that discussion we will see more presidency until the end of november and we will are fully committed to the success of reacts and we did then after as we'll. further saudi arabia has announced the saudi vision 2030 and they are aggressively engaged in unprecedented reform. the

presidency of the g. 20 may have delivers a major role in the living or to the strong this is our global challenges and i pray for the big success of the riyadh senate. we've gone overboard the allotted time and with this we conclude the press conference by the presidency of the g. 20 also got some it would like to thank the press for your cooperation and please remain seated until the prime minister leaves the room thank you very much. we've been listening there to the comments of the japanese prime minister shinzo are confirming as he sees the success of the g 20 summit saying that world leaders expressed support for a free fair and nondiscriminatory trade policy he said the been by him by several countries for what he called the osaka blue ocean vision plan to try and keep the oceans free of plastic contamination so there was

a determination to do everything possible to try and ease those trade tensions and he celebrated the fact that as he saw it world leaders of gathered to discuss common ground the time when the differences are getting attention around the world let's go over to our correspondent andrew thomas a lot of talking up the positive aspects of the g. 20 gathering but. although he you know he highlighted the support as he saw it for a free and fair trade policy what exactly that policy is that's still something a work in progress among world leaders correct. correct really know yet what the outcome of that trump the meeting that happened a few hours ago now will be some very brief comments from president trump mediately afterwards it sounded as though things had gone as well as they could have done in trump's words and from shin while the chinese state news agency when they put out

some comments immediately after that meeting they said that no new tariffs will be imposed by the u.s. on china so there was a worst case scenario which was one of the 2 leaders walking out saying no progress could be made here and so there was a best case scenario the announcement of a deal and then there was this middle ground it sounds as though we're going to be in that middle ground when it comes to trade between the u.s. and china and of course the knock on effects on the global economy will broadly now shinzo are be of course was the host of this g. 20 summit he was always going to say it had gone well and certainly in those remarks that we were watching just then he suggested that it had gone as well as could have been expected he said that the commitment to open principles have been affirmed that means in a sense that the countries here represented by the g 20 have said that they want to keep trading with each other but interestingly we've heard in the last hour or so that in the communique that's likely to come in a few hours now that 20 g. 20 leaders sign up to there will be no mention of the need to resist protectionism now we were hearing all the way through this conference that the u.s.

delegation did not want that commitment to resist protectionism there in the communique because after all president trump is most consider him anyway a protectionist so why would he agree to that phrase being in there so in a sense what shinzo are they was doing there was giving a broad brush optimistic view of this g 20 summit when it relates to the economy but what he wasn't able to do was go into the specifics of the sheep trump. talks because of course while they are all important he was a fly on the wall there he will also be waiting to hear what was said that he ran through what he had said in advance what some of the things he wanted to come out of this g. 20 a slightly separate to these global trade concerns things like a cleaner ocean less plastic in the ocean a commitment to no new plastic in the ocean by 2050 empowering girls education he mentioned that in the press conference as well he said he got a commitment from the other leaders on that one as well but he said that these congresses are as important for the face to face meetings between leaders as they are to those meetings where all 20 leaders are in the room at the same time in the

coming hours as different leaders give press conferences and we're expecting president trump to begin his any moment now we'll find out a lot more about what was said in those bilateral meetings and those really are where the meat of this g. 20 takes place what we've heard from him so obvious so far very broad brush but the specifics will come out in coming hours and to give us a feeling of how things are going in the bigger picture i mean i think it's fair to say since donald trump became president the whole vision of global free trade became a bit muddled is there any reason to believe it's a bit sharper today from a soccer. well visions of our day would suggest that things were going better than they had been going but those little met moments in that press conference there that suggested some concessions to the u.s. delegation i'll give you one example shinzo our base said that in the lights a big day in the life of artificial intelligence the existing system things like

the world trade organization its rules are not working as they need to what has been the theme of the americans over the last couple of years of the trump administration that w t o is not doing what it needs to do it needs reform so if shinzo are they to be saying that as opposed to this g 20 summit well that suggests that the americans have got other countries including japan to give some ground on that again very hard to know yet what was said in all the different meetings in the coming hours really before we know whether things are slowly getting back on track but everything really needs to be seen in the context of the trade sanctions between the u.s. and china because for all their strength in the global economy the other countries really are big players in this one what the u.s. and the china and china decide between the really will have knock on effects for all the other 18 members of the g 20 and of course for the broader world economy as well all right thanks so much andrew thomas there live from. continues to talk about this now we've got brendan o'connor an associate professor in american

politics at the united states studies center which is in the university of sydney good to have you with us so listening there to the comments of shinzo abi the japanese prime minister why do you think this g 20 summit has left global trade at this point. well it's not a disaster is it i mean it's as i think was being said by inference a compromise that's come out of the trunk mating talks to renegotiate get back to the table probably important for american farmers i mean the chinese have really had the americans sort of electro where is where. it would hurt in the farming industry and also probably recognitions by some might be around from that price is a going out of household goods places like wal-mart where a lot of trump voters which shop so these there are consequences in the united states the dragging this out so it's more i think seen as a domestic issue rather than

a global trade issue from the american side but the japanese have been very hopeful that there would be a message of harmony coming out of this rather than sort of images of conflict in the in dispute and i think to some extent he's got 5 voiding said an issues like climate change and really keeping it to these kind of fairly low expectations that we'd say in the is sort of laid out to the summit always close to a resolution of the old important u.s. china trade dispute. not at all i'm a twit we've got back to a position where there's a want to get back to the negotiating table but these issues have really been there since the beginning of the trump presidency in january of 2017 there's a sense that not much progress has been made over the last 2 and a bit years 2 and a half years side there's a style might. not really i think a great deal of willingness of the chinese to try to change for found late maybe

change at the much and some of the edges so i think trump at some point will busy either want to declare victory from what is a very small sort of set of kind of compromises from the chinese or use the chinese in the next election the 2020 alexian decide look up done everything i can to negotiate with the chinese but i won't compromise i won't come to a deal and pipe in there's the sort of as the bad guy in this kind of conflict that's what he did in the last election using tried is really one of his cape election issues to blame the loss of jobs in america stagnant sort of whites in america sideways all that you know trump to some extent is likely to apply the cads that he played in the last election again. that's against china or mexico will be prominent inside the want to actually come to an agreement it's as political a sort of college by that election coming out and won't be sort of town to the agreement emerging around the osaka blue ocean vision in reality since the withdrawal of the us from the powerless climate of colds how much common ground

common vision commitment is there on environmental issues. well given the size of the problems and all the scientific data that's coming out this is a real disaster in many regards this just so this issue to be sorry sort of neglected for a you know really the only discussion of the environment that can get prominent said the end of the conference talk of plastics in the ocean rather than in our cabins and the and the environment and global warming. is tragic in many regards and a sign of you know where the u.s. position is but also the position of many of the other prominent late is that this conference is not one of taking a great lady on this issue maybe onto the merkel is the sort of you know would be an exception to that but we can't see the chinese and we certainly can't see the russians or the or the u.s. is taking a global leadership position on these issues side there i think politicians and all

of these countries particularly in the u.s. they want a very different vision of climate change being addressed but the absence of discussions at this conference is really remarkable and really kind of remarkable in some regards given the nature of the problem all right thanks so much for your analysis on my. we're waiting for donald trump to speak from his hotel we'll take you live there as soon as it happens. also waiting for the russian president vladimir putin to give his remarks live coverage continues here on now just 0 of the g 20 summit. for now look at some of the other news around the world nafta more than 2 weeks stranded at sea a german humanitarian ship carrying rescued refugees and migrants is docked in italy in defiance of the government the captain of the sea watch 3 was detained

after she forced her way into port by dodging police boats she says the lack of help from the tally an official's and worsening conditions on board forced her hand and police have led some of the $44.00 of the ship a total of $53.00 were rescued off the coast of libya but some are already been brought to shore for medical treatment finland france germany and luxembourg and portugal have agreed to take them in. forces loyal to libyan war so if i have to have threatened to target turkish flights and ships spokesman for have to us forces also said turkish nationals in libya will be arrested this week fighters loyal to the u.n. recognize government recaptured a strategic town for the half those forces have been trying to seize the capital for 3 months the warlord accuses turkey of supplying weapons to forces allied to the tripoli government other than out of the. libyan territory has been subjected

to a brutal turkish asia that resulted in acts of version within libyan territory therefore the general command of the libyan arab armed forces has issued orders to the airports to target vessels and boat inside libyan territorial waters. also orders have been issued to the ground forces to target all turkish strategic objectives turkish companies all projects that belong to turkish state are legitimate targets of the armed forces in response to this aggression all flights to and from turkey are also stopped and any turkish nationals on libyan territory will be arrested. william lawrence is a professor at the george washington university's elliott school of international affairs he says that by targeting turkey khalifa haftar is trying to consolidate support from his international back because the important thing to point out is prior to have terrorist attack on tripoli in april the turkish support was very minimal so this is all been in response to have to attack in april which was

supported with a lot of us weapons drones chinese made drones weapons from raytheon rocket propelled grenades there is a manpads there's a lot of u.a.e. weapons coming in and in response to that turkey upgraded its assistance to the u.n. recognized government in the west starting in april and those are the that's the support that have to or is targeting now that's very important where he said the targeting will be going on because nato. turkey is a member of nato and if there's any attacks on the open sea off the libyan coast. turkey could invoke article 5 and we would have a nato crisis so they're only talking about targeting turkish interests in libyan territory following the loss of. the advance on tarhouni and the advances on the south that the western governments are making have to was likely to do something spectacular we were predicting within

a month we didn't know that it would be within a day but have to or is trying to shore up his support in the west of libya maintain his support in the east of libya demonstrate to his international backers you egypt to a lesser degree russia and now france is sort of defected from supporting him but did to demonstrate to his backers that he has some some leverage and some momentum . protesters of once again clash with police in hong kong after a march along the city's harbor riot police tried to break up a crowd of more than a 1000 people mostly students dressed in black who were calling for democracy in hong kong it comes after weeks of protests over a suspended eggs tradition bill which protesters want to see scrapped at least 15 people have been killed after part of a wall collapsed in the west in indian city of food. rescue workers rather called

pulled bodies from under the rubble after it fell on to tin sheds and brought down cars parked nearby building collapse is a common in india during the monsoon season aggravated by the use of poor construction material. and let's take you through some of the headlines now earlier u.s. president on trump and chinese president xi jinping announce progress on trade chinese state media reports trade talks are set to resume and trump will hold off on imposing new terrorists. we had a very good meeting with president you can't take the heat the excellent as good as it was going to be we just got a lot of things in we're right back on track. we'll see what happens but we had a really good meeting i think president he will be putting out a statement maybe giving a statement but he'll be putting out

a statement shortly and we will too. north korea has responded to an invitation by the u.s. president to meet kim german during his trip to south korea during yang's foreign minister described it as an interesting suggestion noted they hadn't received any official proposal. and did a meeting with the turkish president trump said solutions of possible to a dispute over the sale of an air defense system from russia the u.s. has previously threatened to pull the sale of the f. 35 fighters and impose sanctions if the russia deal went ahead troubles ahead a break 1st meeting with saudi crown prince mohammed bin sandman both ignored questions about the murder of saudi journalist jim marshall strategy thank you all very much appreciate it. of thank you very much. after more than 2 weeks stranded at sea

a german humanitarian ship carrying rescued refugees and migrants is down significantly in defiance of the government the captain of the sea watch 3 was detained after she forced her way into by dodging police boats. and of course you can keep up to date with all the stories we're following here on al-jazeera if you head over to our web site al-jazeera dot com you can see the front page there with the lead story from pound the house there with us. al-jazeera where every you have. to share in west africa has long been

a staging point for migrants and asylum seekers risking everything to reach the mediterranean and then europe now and trafficking is introduced with the help of the european union are said to be stemming that tide and produce she fatality in the southern somalia desert but not everyone is not as giuliana rufus has been funny again. a checkpoint on the outskirts of out of this 7 gateway into the sorrow. of. it is here that business men matter me most sad dispatches vehicles that carry

people and goods between egypt and libya. with the mortgages and i think most of us are here when the markets are. at unity and. that is the. that's not. 3 years ago pickups like these filled with migrants from across west africa passed this barrier on their journey to europe. today the flow of cars has become in me a trickle the material government has passed a law that has made the transport of such migrants illegal. jimmy get out. by yet because that's his newness and you know. what that ok with. you then we go after.

the journey between the share and libya is dangerous. and migrant desk and desert roads have been frequent and. the new law will save lives according to the european union who pushed for its introduction. men like madam me who organized the migrants transport had previously risked those lives. today is the largest per capita recipient of e.u. aid including funds to train guards at this checkpoint. and the critical market as well but what about i don't know the you know. but the e.u. has a vested interest it wants to stop african migrants from reaching europe and it's been argued that by passing the law has helped europe move its most southern border

right into africa. in return for managing migration new share is rewarded by europe with lots of development aid and if successful this is a model that could be exported to other countries around the world so we've come here to find out how it works. for centuries the city of ideas has been the gateway into the sarra. caravans departed from here and the 1980 s. saw a boom in tourism until a series of tribal belgians turned the region into a no go area. with the so-called migrant crisis and 2015 hour there started making global headlines once more 3 quarters of all migrants and asylum seekers who reached the italian coastline made the journey from the share. desperate to

stem the flow to europe struck a deal with libya's coast guard to deter migrants from going to sea. with the introduction of the new jerry and anti trafficking law migrants and refugees was stopped even further away from europe shores. we have come to see more about me more subtle to find out what effect the law has had since it was passed 3 years ago . with. his compound was a so-called ghetto a place where migrants and drivers gathered before starting the journey to libya. after the law was introduced the authorities arrested many of the drivers calling them people smugglers. or anyone.

going to say level one of our editors and of russia was before the migration ban passengers paid around $250.00 each meaning man of emmys profits might have been as high as a quarter of a 1000000 dollars. would do and. who . would want to. do an madame these cars have been confiscated by the military and he takes us to see them. to make up for financial loss the e.u. is funding a compensation scheme that helps former migration workers start new businesses. but get joan is like mad at me are excluded and are not reimbursed for confiscated cars .

madam he is a leader of the to do as nick group that is home in the north of new jack and the cells of libya 9 years ago when the rebellion in the arbutus region came to an end the government gave the to boost the transport route through the eastern desert. their role in cross border trade means the 2 were disproportionately affected by the migration ban. well now. that you've. been away the e.u. has been investing heavily in stopping migrants from reaching it shows but that's not all it's also funding the return of migrants back to their home countries this

so-called trans migration center is run by the international organisation of migration or i.o.m. who arranges the migrants return maurice. shows us around. where the political situation is not well and then we are so many. informal reasons the closure of the mediterranean migration route into europe and the violent behavior of libya's militias has caused migrants to feedback in tunisia but the processing of return nice is not always straightforward fault the person of . that. for many reasons they can be lost all they can be. a crowd is building outside nigeria security forces are violently rounding up africans dumping them quite literally

across the border in tunisia. to point out to me this is my money this is so many to. get to my family has become a repatriation hub not only for migrants who get stuck here but also for those who have been turned back in neighboring countries we want people playing softball to differentiate and for so that they have a long time who would like to go back to the country where they're from you know knowledge of you know the young what. their big 3 buses deal to. leave. but a new group of migrants is starting their journey. but. when you see other people go how do you feel the. difference will be for a bit it will be obvious that. in 2018 alone over 15000 men women and children

have returned to their home countries with the help of the i.o.m. . from europe's point of view the flow of migrants has been successfully reversed. but not everyone is ready to go back home a contact takes us to a ghetto that is still operating in spite of the new law mohammed balladeer has been picked up 3 times by the new gerry and military trying to reach libya and now he's run out of money. asian diplomas show me. he feels he's got nothing to lose. and motherhood in order to believe. mohammed is from guinea conakry on the west african coast a country that's seen violent ethnic clashes. and there are.

once again. be a v.m. brotherhood the result. of one man who knows he's a. bug. me along a new job. is a long way on a pretty solid fluke little blue. certainly look lovely when girls and a little a. male go under a. little of the. we set off from our goddess to follow the route migrants take to reach europe our destination is still cool. and from there we want to drive towards the libyan border we will travel with an i.o.m.

team that's on a rescue mission. looking for migrants who are lost in the desert as 3 car army escort provide security. we soon get a taste of what travel in the desert is like. we're just outside their cool and we're already having the 2nd part of car breakdowns often leave migrants stranded in the desert our 1st stop is the village of the thai with thousands of migrants used to drink water from this well today military patrols are frequent and i.o.m. team leader. is told that cars with migrants no longer stop here. soon we're back on the road driving towards a nearby oasis called. it is known as a hiding place for migrants a desert ghetto. once to show us something very disturbing. few. of them. tend to do not really get off.

the driver who took these migrants avoided the main roads but his car broke down after 3 days of walking the migrants arrived here. with you see did you do. it. if you had a. if you were you afraid i was. quite limited you pick. what. they think it's a woman. because of the nail polish on the toes. most step migrants will never be found. the i.o.m.

estimates that more than twice as many migrants now die crossing the desert as in crossing the mediterranean sea she seen a few. 100. a. lot of tears he is. incredibly there is a well nearby. the migrants who died drank the water from the well too quickly. we set off again after a while stops our convoy. seen somebody who's waving at us. i don't know if you know. the man's car has broken down around 5 kilometers away when we get there the head

of our military escort you don't have diarrhea himself inspects the vehicle. when you're searching the cars what are you looking for is. there because i wore gave the. society his you. help is already on the way and we leave these men to continue their journey. our final destination is a place called mahfouz the last well before the border with libya it's a place where i.o.m. has previously found migrants in distress. it's a dangerous place where gangs and bandits i acted carrying weapons that matched those of our military escort. does sites where to set up camp.

it doesn't buy you a. mini me. don't suppose. at night the military stops to patrol and bandits and traffickers own the desert as we make our beds the guns are ready. the next morning we descend to the well. so the ground is still wet there were people here in really recently who. say encore longer worriedly everywhere are the worry over a vision. if your. going to talk. well or fighting their way go to a party or to groom or 3 kids from a sample size your b.g. in concord with your buffalo news here you are to me. that.

it's time to start our long journey back to deal cool since october 2016 the i.o.m. team has rescued nearly 900 migrants the overall number of africans transiting through may have gone down but the ones who still attend the desert crossing face a much more dangerous journey. since our arrival india cooled we've heard complaints that the migration ban has damaged the local economy nearly every family used to make money from the migrant transport but now sales at the market have dropped and young men say they can't find employment and that. we have heard today that crime is on the rise and to find out more we have a range to meet prosecutor mussa ibrahim. or john ritter. in

the regional courthouse he takes us to where the evidence is stored. these items were found by the military police less than a week earlier. that's what that's hashish so. she just has. to. say it was so. and yet. so this was found in a in a car that also had migraines and i had to do all you want to look in the us and look at them don't salute your sister the police also seized weapons and ammunition some criminals seem to have a lot of firepower this is not just for self protection that's for serious fighting . that's. yes it was for. the moment it's something that if. it's this intrusion of the worst of the seal of the world it's

all of. that with the easy availability of weapons from libya mixed with growing local discontent about the loss of income has given rise to more crime the prosecutor says some drivers have become smugglers. this is. a very much says he's been threatened with kidnap and even death people and that he's hoping for more security not just for himself but also for his young family. and security is where the e.u. has been investing this is the new jerry and police force. it is an example of great hands of programming now to bring us president donald trump giving news conference of the close of the key 20 summit in all cyclists and

then spoke with the people came john was. very receptive he responded and so will say because tomorrow we're going to the d.m.z. i said while i'm there i'll shake his hand we get along there's been no nuclear tests there's been no long range ballistic tests. gave us back our hostages which was great and a lot of good things are happening over there so a lot of know will be there and we'll see i mean i don't i can't tell you exactly but they did respond very favorably i want to thank everyone for being here today it's a lot of press a lot of press as outside to the less happy than you are. but the g 20 summit has been fantastic the prime minister robbie's done an incredible job as he always does and he hosted it very beautifully you know where it's going to be next year i

think to most of you know where it's going to be next year going to be here in a very great part of the world. and there will be announcing exactly what's happening but that this was a really good summit and really well done so professionally done. this marks my 3rd visit to japan as president malani and i are we just left tokyo a short while ago as you know very short while ago where we were the 1st state guests to their majesties the emperor and empress of japan and that was thrilling 1st time in 202 years that an event like that took place that was quite exciting and i'm thrilled to be back i was like being back in japan had a great relationship we've never been closer to japan then we are right now over the past 2 days leaders from the world's largest economies of convened here in osaka which is a tremendous city you fly over and you say does it ever stop it's big it's

beautiful it's clean and it's really the job they do with its industrial manufacturing and lots of other things is really incredible we had a very productive conversation with the number of of the leaders of not only nations but business leaders here in japan and together. we put together a lot of ideas a lot of challenges for the future that will be able to meet and get things going very well our meetings also touched on women's economic empowerment you probably saw that evocate trump was just a fantastic. and also a fantastic job in getting jobs for a lot of people within our country almost 10000000 people. the importance of resilient and secure infrastructure we discussed that at great length the need to uphold the rule of law and the critical important portions of achieving a future for international trade that works all of the time for all of the people

in addition to the working sessions with a lot of work in sessions many of you are at the work in sessions i had tremendous bilateral meetings with many of the heads of state and just some of them are australia japan india germany russia brazil so to arabia china turkey u.k. and i met with mexico also with the representatives of mexico who have done an incredible job they've really stepped up to the plate i appreciate it i want to thank them they have 6000 troops at their southern border by guatemala and very hard to come in now and they have they just ordered the really it was somewhat of a surprise 16000 troops at our southern border. their immigration laws are very

strong ours are a disaster ours are a disgrace to our country we have loopholes and asylum that we could fix the asylum very quickly we could get rid of and fix the loopholes but we could get rid of the loopholes and we would have absolutely no problem at the border but if you watch the debates if you call them debates you whatever they were they don't really i think they want to open borders i guess even though 4 years ago they wanted walls to be built i heard we just had another judge rule against us on a section of wall. and that's a disgrace will appeal right away 9th circuit as usual they go right into that 9th circuit the good news i put a lot of judges in and the number of them are in the 9th circuit now and it's very unfair it's very unfair when a judge can do what they do where a judge in a certain area can close down a country but we also had

a big victory last week with the wall we had a judge in d.c. who gave us a very big victory so we're building a lot of wall but we had a ruling just yesterday late from a judge in the 9th circuit again so world immediately appealing it and we think will win the appeal there was no reason that that should have happened and a lot of wall is being built and again mexico's doing a real job or border patrol they've done incredible work and ice is. there are just special people who law enforcement generally is just the special so with that i just want to say that these meetings have been great the one that i guess most people are interested in is china we had a great meeting president xi and we've known each other for as long as i'm president and many of you were at the event in china a year ago when i've never seen anything like it the it was beautiful we talked

about we had dinner last night president xi and a number of us and it was something really incredible in beijing. the red carpet was rolled out for all of us for this country for our country and we had a great meeting and we will be continuing to negotiate and i promise that for at least the time being we're not going to be lifting tariffs on china we won't be adding an additional. you know tremendous amount of what we have i guess $350000000000.00 left which could be taxed or could be tariffs and we're not doing that where we're going to work with china on where we left off to see if we can make a deal judd is going to start. they're going to be consulting with us and they're

going to start spending money even during the negotiation to our farmers are great farmers in the midwest like all of the great patriots because that's what they're they're patriots and china's going to be buying a tremendous amount of food and agricultural product. and they're going to start that very soon almost immediately we're going to give them lists of things that would like them to buy. our farmers are going to be a tremendous beneficiary you know if you look at farmers for 15 years before i came into the into this position. the farms and farmers have had a hard time you look at that graph it was it was down fairly steeply down and a lot of it was because nafta was a terrible deal now we have the i spoke with nancy pelosi last night about the u.s. m.c.a. that's mexico and canada and it's now before them and they have to make a decision but that's one that the farmers love the manufacturers love the unions

love it's it's a great deal for this country and nafta was i think one of the worst trade deals ever made. maybe the w t o was where's the w t o from the time that happened and in 95 from the time that happened china became like a rocket ship it was pretty much flatlined and then all of a sudden it joined the w t o and they became they went i mean they went through the roof and very much to our liability. with us tremendous amounts of money over the up from that time and we just lost tremendous amounts it was a terrible deal w.-t. a world trade and if you look at daft. nafta has been a disaster for our country the. u.s. m.c.a. is a great deal for our country i think canada is happy but they're not happy like we're

happy but they're very happy it's a good deal for canada good deal for mexico they want it mexico just approved it in full canada is waiting for us to approve it and it was with the prime minister just left him a little while ago. and they're thrilled with the deal and we're thrilled with everybody wants it and hopefully it'll be a bipartisan deal i view that i told that to nancy pelosi i said view this is a bipartisan deal because a lot of the democrats wanted. especially i would say the farmers but really the industrial areas also the unions we've got things on wages and we have things on the environment that that few people have ever been able to get into an agreement and it's a very big deal it's a very big deal. and it's a great deal a tremendous support so they have to put it up for a vote and i think you're going to great vote in the house and you'll get a great vote in the senate and you have a tremendous trade deal between the united states and canada and mexico and

it's going to be something very special so we spent a lot of time with a lot of countries we do business with a lot of them australia is an example with japan we're negotiating with them because they send us. millions of cars and we send them wheat. well it's does it work but what happens is japan is and you probably saw some of the things they're doing but they're opening up many car companies and factories and plants. throughout our country especially in michigan. we have a lot of activity in ohio beyond japan activity we have a lot of activity now where companies are coming back to our country with a hot show with a harder show in town with a lot of show in the world right now our economy is the best one thing that every leader virtually every leader that i dealt with said is that congratulations it's incredible what's happened to the american economy where the best economy in the

world and at something and it started from election day i put it out yesterday because we took a tremendous boost from the day after i got elected the stock market went crazy from that point until centrally now i think we had uncertain of the markets we had the all time high again for many many times i can't tell you what it was but many many times we broke the record and we were you know our stock market is great our jobs are great with the best job numbers essentially we've ever had in 7 categories definitely we've ever had the minimum you could say is in 51 years but it's really more than that and now it's going to be more than that. african-american asian american you saw that hispanic american the best numbers in history the history of our country we have the lowest unemployment numbers best numbers and many others to blue collar workers are doing fantastic they're the biggest beneficiary of the tax

cuts the blue collar blue collar you know we talk about. for the rich it's really for everybody and it's also for big companies where they're moving care and remember who owns the stocks because the people that own the stock it's not the big companies it's the people with 4 a one ks whose numbers are 60 percent and 70 percent and 42 percent in all different numbers that are tremendously high where the other spouse thinks that the spouse that's investing in the 4 a one k. is a super genius but there's for a one case a very high end if you listen to what i've been listening to and we're not going to devote any time to it but with that kind of an attitude there for a one k.'s are going to crash and the market would crash because with what they want to do you would crash the market and the amount of wealth that would be lost would be incredible but i'd rather wait till later in the campaign to say that because to be honest with you i want them to go and take these policies and bring them out i don't want to change him any time soon let him go have

a good time but it's been very interesting to watch what's happening actually i found it very interesting so with that we'll take a few questions and then i'm heading out to south korea and i may or may not see kim jong un but will be heading out to south korea spend about a day and a half there with president moon who is a really good guy he was here too as you know i saw him i met with him also and. we'll see what happens please john. they skated mr president thanks so much for joining a serious we're all appreciated that was good to have a chance to ask questions of your regular can you tell us a little more about how this china deal may work going forward because chinese officials have told fox news that they will not make any concessions until all of the tariffs have been lifted they also want relief on wall way they want to take it off the blacklist they might want you to stop pursuing extradition of manon jew can

you tell us how you see all of this unfolding n. if you do meet kim jong un at the d.m.z. tomorrow would you step across the border into north korea share with over at feel very comfortable doing then i would have no problem with respect to china. basically we agreed today that we were going to continue the negotiation which i ended a while back and we're going to continue the negotiation that we agreed that i would not be putting tariffs on the 320 $5000000000.00 that i would have the ability to put on if i wanted that. we're you know we're fairly advanced depending on where you want to look at and where you want to start pretty advanced we discussed we did discuss numerous other things we mentioned while way i said we'll have to save that till the very end was to see. the one of the things that will allow however is

a lot of people are surprised we send and and we sell to while away a tremendous amount of product that goes into the various things that they make and i said that that's ok that we will keep selling that product these are american companies john that make product and that's very complex by the way highly scientific and in some cases with the ones that do it and we're the only ones that do it with the only ones with the technology what we've done in silicon valley is incredible actually and nobody's been able to compete with it and i've agreed. and pretty easily i have agreed to allow them to continue to sell that product so american companies will continue and they were having a problem there the companies were not exactly happy that they couldn't sell because they had nothing to do with whatever was potentially happening with respect to while away so i did too that we talked about education and students somebody was saying was harder for chinese students to come in and that's that's something that

if it were if somebody viewed it that way i don't we want to have chinese students come and use our great schools our great universities they've been great students and tremendous assets but we did discuss it it was brought up as a point and i said that will be just like anybody else just like any other nation and we're actually going to a point where you know we'll look in that if you graduate from a college because our great companies we talk about silicon valley and other places where we have a problem is in our country that you graduate number one in your class from the best school in the country and yet as they say you have to leave we can't keep them and we're going to make it we're going to call it the spark persons waiver but we're going to make it so that they can not only stay but maybe they have access to green cards we want to keep these people here we have to keep their guy john.

sure that could happen but we're holding on tariffs and they're going to buy foreign product so you know so but that could happen just this isn't me there's going to be a deal but they would like to make a deal i can tell you that and if we could make a deal would be a very historic event you know we've never really had to deal with china. we have we've had tremendous deficits tremendous amounts of money was put into china 500000000000 a year and i mean you know not just surplus and deficit i'm talking about real hard cash and it should have never ever been allowed to have happened for all of our presidents over the last number of years ago it was because mr president steve herman from the voice of america after your discussions with prime minister abbay here are you still thinking about withdrawing from the u.s. japan security treaty and what did the prime minister say to you what no i don't

think it about that at all i'm just saying that it's an unfair agreement and i've told him that for the last 6 months i said look if somebody attacks you pen we go after them and we are in a battle full force and effect we are locked in a battle and committed to fight for japan if somebody should attack the united states they don't have to do that that's unfair that's the kind of deals we made that's every deals like that i mean it's almost like we had people that they didn't either care or they were stupid but that's the kind of deals we have that's just typical but i happen i told them if they would have to change it because look i know it's going to attack us i hope but you know should that happen it's far more likely that it could be the other way but should that happen somebody attacks us if we're helping them they're going to have to help us and he knows that and he's

going to have no problem with that yes place. thank you mr president i did actually russia question but i want to quickly clarify is the hundreds case also going to need to wait till the very end or is it possible the u.s. would drop their extradition effort when what miss manning from while away the top and is described as we did that was a discus we did discuss what way but we didn't discuss her situation ok thank you. russia respectfully it seems like maybe you didn't really mean it when you said yesterday don't meddle in our elections mr president and then you guys are just not going you have to take a look at the words i did say and we had a discussion we had a great actually we had a great discussion president putin myself i thought it was really a tremendous discussion i think they'd like to do trade with the united states and they have great products they have great land.