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this is news live from berlin the g. twenty leaders managed to agree on a joint communique at their summit in argentina despite tensions over trade and climate. and on the sidelines of a summit u.s. president donald trump and his chinese counterpart making a step towards defusing their trade war also coming up. protesters clashed with police in paris and thousands of demonstrators take to the streets angry at rising fuel prices and the government. and we need. the
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strongest man as a child he was bullied because of his size now he sets. spicer thanks for joining us. after two days of marathon talks between the world's most powerful leaders the latest g twenty summit wrapped up in argentina's capital on saturday night there were big fault lines over migration and climate change and fears that u.s. president donald trump might refuse to sign a final communique but in the end all the leaders agreed to it on the summit sidelines trump and his chinese counterpart part agreed to a temporary truce in the world's biggest trade dispute. it was a meeting of me saying with multilateralism taking a back seat as one on one talks dominated the summit. in particular all eyes were
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on u.s. president donald trump's meeting with his chinese counterpart cheating paying their first talk since a trade war erupted between their countries earlier this year fyi the range of her special relationship that i have with president xi and i think it is neuer the every primary reason why the world probably going to ending up getting something that moving towards china and united should feel a success both in a date the latest later announced an agreement to suspend taric for ninety days a step towards diffusing the trade will. be a different kind of war also proved a key issue in the conflict between russia and ukraine it was top of the agenda for german chancellor angela merkel's one on one with russian president vladimir putin . she called on him to release the ukrainian failures detained by russia last weekend and said she wanted to avoid any further escalation.
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homuncular it took us off to stamford can we proposed and it is being considered to have a meeting in the normandy fall not in which the normandy counsels being france germany ukraine and russia spewed about the processes happening there isn't putin however said he believed only a change in the ukrainian government would bring an end to the crisis you used. one thing all twenty leaders disagree on the need to reform the trade organization given current trade tensions globally a success for this summit. and for more now i'm joined by our political scores on a thomas a sparrow thanks for being here a lot of one plus one meetings at this multilateral meeting at the big one being between of course donald trump and china's paying trump likes to announce deals is this one he had to announce theo's that's right what they agreed now at least
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according to the statements that were released to suspend new trade tariffs for ninety days they will have new talks during those ninety days in order to have structural changes that's how the white house put it to some elements of the bilateral trade relationship in return what china promised to do is buy products from the united states to reduce again according to the white house statements the trade imbalance between the two countries it is a deal but again it's only a deal for ninety days it's very important to actually focus on what will happen during these talks i will start now and if they manage to get a mole concrete results after those ninety days are big issues still not resolved and indeed ok next big meeting. the german chancellor and russian president vladimir putin over ukraine she managed to get him to agree to new talks as we heard in that report he however says that the party of war in power and it means that there's actually no chance of peace. well for this issue is particularly
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important has been very important for a long time in fact is normandy for much france germany ukraine and russia has been one of the key elements of german foreign policy in the last few years and one of the key elements within that foreign policy procedures has been precisely to meet and talk and fly and find consensus if possible so for angela merkel now with this renewed conflict between right. it's again an opportunity to try and bring the parties together now and at least try and find some common goal where they will manage to do that that's another question but at least for a minute michael it was important to make sure during the g twenty that they could get some sort of commitment to another normandy for money it's. better to be talking than shooting one last question if you were to give a score to this g. twenty summit did they actually do much well yes they did too much in that communique shows a general direction which they want to achieve it showed differences that are still
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very evident on for example trade absolutely key climate another issue where they still didn't manage to make compromise and at the same time these one on one meetings that we've been discussing so i would say although it was not absolutely successful there were key elements key measures that were very important dr this g. twenty ok thank you very much that was your views thomas spare or political correspondent. france's government says it is considering declaring a state of emergency to prevent a recurrence of the worst civil unrest seen in the country in more than a decade a spokesperson said leaders would discuss all options at a meeting later on sunday after police and protesters filled central paris with smoke and tear gas in the third weekend of clashes the so-called yellow vests movement was sparked by opposition to a plan to fuel tax rise but has grown into more general and violent opposition to the government of president a man you had michael. was singing through they cast masks
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another such day of demonstrations in central paris protestors define themselves by the high visibility fasts french matrices have in their cars it's become a symbol of the people frustration over fuel price increases has turned into anger at a range of government policies and a feeling that mccrone is not listening. i. agree to pay tax but i want to my money is good. weather uses and understand it's ok i'm pacific i'm. just of. in france. by this system we don't want to be like you know america we don't want to be like in england its roots to the goods to be exists to be services and we want to keep them. in france our political system is is based on that timothy.
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i don't know if my craw is that it isn't in today so i think the first thing before to default to distill decimally i think is a force the first thing to do is to talk with this. you have to you off to you have to consider this first then you have to talk with us and you have to say in you all to you have to look what we are leaving now. then we'll see what we will do but first we have to talk. but as protests and police faced off talking seemed distant hope. the violence said french prime minister edward phillipe was the planned work of provocateurs. very early this morning equipped individuals were determined to provoke the security forces before they gathered outside the security perimeter that was put in place so that the protests could take place peacefully instance from it was extremely violent as.
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the destruction continued into the night. police arrested more than two hundred people while medics treated nearly one hundred injured. at known to some of the other stories making news around the world. and lopez obrador has been sworn in as mexico's new president the former mayor of mexico city won a historic landslide victory in elections in july his promise to stamp out corruption chronic poverty and gang violence obrador is the country's first leftist leader in over seventy years. and thousands of people have taken to the streets of berlin and cologne calling for germany to more quickly stop using coal to generate power the marches came ahead of a u.n. climate summit in neighboring poland two hundred nations are set to meet there to firm up plans to prevent catastrophic climate change. and americans are
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preparing for a week of tributes to george herbert walker bush a day after the former president died at the age of ninety four the national farewell begins on monday in his home state of texas includes flying his body to the capitol aboard air force one and a state funeral in washington d.c. . and now we go to burger king a fast so to meet the african nations strongest man his name is iron baby if your truck needs towing he's your man baby can also carry tree trunks on his shoulders thanks to biceps with a circumference of sixty three centimeters that degree of power might sound scary to some but the bee is actually a gentle giant. ion b.b. is not a man you want to pick a fight with a towering one point nine meters the bodybuilder weighs one hundred eighty kilograms but he's not just massive he's also extremely strong.
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right now i'm recognized as one of the strongest when it comes to shoulder strength and it's pretty hard for anyone to top me in that area. over the years the twenty six year old has built up a collection of medals and trophies today he is the guinness world record holder for the human standing shoulder press he lifted a person wearing sixty kilograms sixty nine times in sixty seconds but as a child this strength was not welcome. very often kids of his build are violent. they beat up other children. but he on the contrary is very kind very sweet so children often made fun of him to do that today b.b. is a celebrity in his hometown of. in book enough. a few lucky grown ups to fill fees but the fun is really for the kids. i love i and
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b.b. because he's strong and kind of like to follow his example. bibi's dream is to open a sports center in brooklyn a fast so and develop dietary supplements at the moment the strongman eats up to eight chickens a day he needs old a protein he can get for the next goal beating the log lift world record. in boxing american dion retained his w.b.c. heavyweight title after a thrilling split decision draw with britain's tyson fury in los angeles shiri here on the left controlled the fight using his trademark long excellent footwork but it was the power hitting wilder that knocked him down twice late in the ninth and twelve rounds one judge ruled in favor of while another in favor of fury and the third called it a draw both boxers remain undefeated and there's already talk of
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a rematch. river plate have rejected plans to play the second leg of their copa libertadores final against city rivals boca juniors in madrid the match between the two sides was postponed twice last weekend after river fans attacked the visiting team bus more violence organizers decided to stage the match at rail madrid. next sunday the river plate team argues that using a neutral venue. the home advantage. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you g. twenty leaders in argentina have managed to compromise and agree on a joint communique despite tensions over trade and climate on the sidelines of the summit us president. agreed to suspend and engage in further trade negotiations. and don't forget you can always get news on the go just download
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