conditions are in place to e open a new chapter there is no doubt. the negotiations as such will go on the we have a disk situation which is much much more difficult than the one that we have right now namely. the problem that so far has not fulfilled the so-called project which means that. as because all of the member states of the european union has to have the same quality of trade relations and the trouble of cyprus news large here on the horizon and this is why certain chapters have already had not yet been opened and no other chapter is closed because class and foremost that is the issue that needs to be dealt with the protocol i made my public comments on what i saw happening on the streets in turkey i was shocked to see how they dealt with the authorities dealt with the demonstrators at the values that we share the values

that we have defended. essential are crucial to us in europe and i think that something has happened in turkey which was disproportionate and we will continue to address this but the question whether another chapter will be opened or not that's a totally different issue than whether the whole process as such will be stopped in its tracks next week there's going to be a decision what's going to happen and i don't want to preempt the german position but i do have a certain degree of skepticism and i think you have been able to glean that from what i said is no thank you very much alive mr president like to clear up one issue that came up in the last week or so is roll back the clock years. to the visit of robert kraft to st petersburg in his super bowl ring. there is a meeting here of shaking of hands a ring passed from one person to the next was it a gesture that he gave you the ring. you thought it was

a very nice ring you said thank you very much and i will give a gift in kind let's clear up this international question of intrigue that's been circulating for the last ten days thank you. but. it's. cool that. you were handed over. the shock value for mr kraft and for all objective. situations make our. i will. ask. our manufacturer. produce. thank. you very good match. these

objects from generation to generation. that is being represented by mr khan i'm going that this is going to be. smartest and most. like resolution of this very international capital punishment of thank you. thanks for allowing me to host the presentation the keynote address to mr putin such as america thank you very much also for your words of wisdom in terms of your speech and taking the questions i wish you could take more questions from the floor we had an issue with time allocation but thank you very much for the petition and the success of the rest of the summit thank you yeah. and i would like to ask probably audience do you.

before having fun trying to come to terms with you to be a contributor. and we are present in. the world business elites internationally can all make for winston peters with german chancellor angela merkel there giving a q. and a session to the your you say they're just just filing out there and the most important thing from this of course is that the president announced that russia's ross next is to boost oil supply to china in an unprecedented two hundred seventy billion dollar deals an extremely important deal that he also said there that russia's economic situation is healthy with controlled inflation and no debt in practical terms of course we'll have more on that throughout the day.

now i understand that we can actually speak to alexia chefs. joins us now actually to give us a bit more detail on this what was the president's main thrust in all this that. well we actually expected that statements from the president would not only concern the economic situation in russia and across the planet something of course the st petersburg forum is primarily getting here are we expecting some political statements as well and of course his attention could not. he couldn't just escape talking about syria obviously the syrian conflict has been dominating most of the international meetings lately and like even if we can has once again reiterated russia's stance on the recent developments in syria in particular with the possibility discussed across the atlantic to provide military support to the syrian rebels something the u.s. congress has been speaking deliberating on for the past several weeks and. again

raised eyebrows how come such talks going to happen and made initiatives to hold a peace conference to have both members of the syrian government and the syrian opposition at the same negotiation table i believe we can listen to what he would have to say. i can't imagine why weapons should be supplied to illegal militant groups in syria when the u.s. recognize that one of the key opposition groups al nusra is an officially recognized terrorist organization linked to al qaeda how can they give weapons to that part of the opposition where will those weapons and. that was the political situation as regards the situation in syria but they've also been some good news businesses from russia hasn't there at. all definitely a lot of people to mention lots of different economic reforms and several multibillion dollar infrastructure projects have also been mentioned but probably the biggest news for the. economics is part of the russian life and coming from the

russian president was that he urged the russian parliament before they go on summer holidays and in a short while to him to work out a law on amnesty of economic criminals who committed their first economic crime and who are ready to make amends for their economic doings and obviously this is big news because many people who have been convicted for minor economic of scientists will walk free if they will be able to repay to the state what they did so this is definitely the biggest news for russian economic life coming from the st petersburg forum so far. ok lexi thanks very much indeed for that update and more on this throughout the day as we get it here in r.t. . now the mass on arrest in brazil has turned deadly an eighteen year old

demonstrator has died in a state of power after a car crash to a barricade was started as a rally over transport fares and snowballed into a million strong protest golfing over one hundred cities across the country and thousand police officers have been deployed to realization your head of a football match when activists attempted to advance the city hall they were met with tear gas and rubber bullets in dozens injured crowds gathered in the capital brasilia the same response my forty's and sent you know who said has canceled the trip to japan in light of the violence that has nothing yet because. hundreds of thousand have taken to the streets all over brazil in an unprecedented public protest the hottest fourth of the rest remain cell paolo where tear gas has been fired at protesters who tried to take over the local government building in the capital brasilia clashes have erupted when riot police faced off with protesters trying to break through towards the congress in rio de janeiro local police

resorted to tear gas to disperse crowds marching towards city hall police say some three hundred thousand people have rallied but organizers claim it's twice as many there are reports that around thirty people have been injured earlier around eight thousand security officers have been deployed near the city stadium ahead of call for the ration is cut football match between the spanish and eighty football teams such rallies are believed to be the most violent in a decade the protesters say they're angry at the government's excessive spending for the two thousand and fourteen world cup and another point of discontent is the increase of public transport fees in several brazilian cities the country's health authorities later reversed their decision to increase the first but this doesn't seem to have a peace demonstrators they say they are also angry over the underfunded. and education systems come a six months ahead of elections in brasil and as we can see there are plenty of

complaints towards president dilma rousseff government the protesters say they will remain until they see change and promise a fresh wave of rallies to take place for the next days later times correspondent and he was a brazilian protests are partly the result of global social inequality it's the same fight in spain in courtship go you know many countries i guess we'll liberalist spectrally you know the kingdom of the one percent the washington consensus is that grows in g.d.p. numbers that doesn't take into account what girls own in everyday life in terms of people try to struggle to in the case of a poor brazilians be like a door and ask for two dollars that they on the bus fare and if they are less than three hundred dollars a month and absolute disaster and on top of it it's four hours to go to bars to go

two hours to come back so in terms of the political elites oh it's basically everybody is still following the washington consensus and it's still liberalism and in their old way you old all over is protesting against economic foundations of our system that's why this is so huge. china has quote in focus some of the images of the present in protest and there right now to see some of the pictures from the country cities in the grip of the rest. news today. these are the images the world. can. find operation to rule the day.

the e.u. is heading in the wrong direction that's how more europeans are feeling according to recent polls and it's france the blocks founding member and traditional driving force where this in chart means where the united europe is rising fastest and two thirds of french people questioned by gallup this month said they were unhappy with where the e.u. is taking them they're concerned by the rise of germany as a political force and feel that brussels has mishandled europe's financial crisis and soaring unemployment is fueling a french euro skepticism but it all comes as president francois approval rating plummeted almost two fold since he took the top job last year french far right politically than there in the pen so is france needs an open debate on its relations with the e.u. . but the bow if it can shock you but the bones first of all three you need to understand that the french do not really talk about the both the you and the euro

a common currency virtually imposed on us the show i religiously defended here or in other words there is no diversity of opinion the more anything you say against the euro dollars will be equal to blasphemy what i'm asking for is a referendum polls are a good thing but i do remember the polls promised that when asked about the european constitution france would vote for it at the end of the day fifty five percent of french citizens said no to the constitution that's why we need a wide public debate a referendum to ask the people what they think about food border transparency with the shrinking countries and about this currency that killed our economy we need to ask them how come the e.u. guidelines are more important that our own constitution which in shrines the will of a sovereign nation these essential topics have yet to become subject to public debate in france and i'm sure that if they were discussed today the french would opt for

freedom. well doubts mounting of the direction the e.u. is taking the elephant in the room is the upcoming european parliamentary elections and less than a year europeans will have to decide on the future of the blocs policy matters was artie's austria has been finding out if you are aware or even familiar with politics this is brussels the capital of europe and hold to the european institutions that make laws of decisions that affect the lives of five hundred million citizens the question is how much do these citizens really know about europe do you know what the european flag stands for. who is the president of the european council their plan. isn't to do. you know how many countries in the e.u. . federal level and who is a twenty eight country. who did. not like this.

what does the flag of the stars on the flag mean what do they mean. it's an appalling and has nothing in the middle of it. but what do the stars on the flag mean on the european union flag. those are the member states now here and for the european parliament there's this exhibit which showcases some of the key moments in the history of the european union will certainly some of these will be more familiar to citizens of the country where it actually took place when it comes to e.u. institutions how they function how they work service and showed that most europeans know very little about what actually goes on that would want to serve me but your barometer it shows that the knowledge of it that europeans have with us is just three point four points out of ten this survey also shows that a majority of e.u. citizens think that the e.u. is a good thing however a majority of them also think that their voices do not count fifty four percent in

fact now in this report it also says that only twenty five percent of europeans know that there's even an upcoming election in two thousand and fourteen to elect their members of the european parliament right behind me there is no democracy in the u.k. nor in germany or in brussels we need more. developments for stronger involvement of citizen well there are officials a very you see institutions calling for a more democratic europe but in order to do so they will need to get people more involved and interested in the first place if we are to achieve this reporting from brussels i'm tests are still yeah. well still ahead cash in the trash the u.s. army starts destroying a stash of costly military hardware enough gonna stop the billions in taxpayers' money ending up on the scrap heap your time not a little later. we

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visit. european lawmakers want to block the united states from accessing the data of its citizens without legal permission as a response to any revelations of washington's global surveillance program. edward snowden and the european commission pushed for similar stipulations twenty eleven but america convince them that it would slow access to data needed to combat terrorism and this measure now needs to be approved by the e.u. member states and receive a majority back in parliament and washington has come under fire for using its prison data collection program with germany shown to be among its biggest surveillance targets let's talk about this to ross anderson he's a professor of security engineering at the university of cambridge thanks for

joining us here on r.t. today now isn't it a little bit too late for this given the scope of washington surveillance activities. well we've known for many years is that if you cut your debts in the usa then the u.s. government could get at it with a warrant. to shocking about the current revelations is that it seems for the past four years or so that the american intelligence services have been able to snatch that out of its cats in the usa so it's not just a matter of going to get access to individual stuff but potentially looking through all our stuff and this may be a real wakeup call for companies and individuals in europe and elsewhere does it matter that looking through all our stuff as you say many people have nothing to hide what are they got to fetch. well even if you don't have anything to hide yourself then perhaps members of your family or your clients or if you're a doctor your patients of something's a height for example as well as being an academic i sometimes do expert witness

work mostly in computer forensics three or four years ago one of my clients was a young man who was a defendant in a terrorism trial. and i can't use a web service like hotmail if it's going to leak attorney client privilege information directly to the prosecution in a case that i'm involved in. so i'd have to have a non us e-mail service for at least my sensitive cases but again the problem is you can never tell in advance what sensitive you can start working on a case and then you can find out as i did for example in a recent fraud case that the defendant who was from the south asian country you know had his family had an. affair would have some a technical difficulties that as we can say we've been cut off but i will try and get back with our guests a bit later. now then well as the u.s.

army rushes to complete its pullout from afghanistan parts of the country are already turning into huge junkyards the pentagon is now destroying u.s. vehicles and other military equipment there despite the war already having cost american taxpayers more than six hundred thirty billion dollars what is going to chicken investigates. by the end of twenty fourteen the u.s. military will have to destroy seven billion dollars worth of military equipment in afghanistan u.s. officials say they're getting rid of what they no longer need to or what would be too costly to ship back home the list of items that will be shredded. to be sold or scrap includes around two thousand mine resistant ambush protected vehicles or more a.p.c.'s that were designed to counter the spread of roadside bombs and cost around a million dollars apiece in afghanistan are very busy now dismantling expensive equipment u.s. officials are not explicit as to why they're not leaving the gear to the afghan military one of the reasons that they gave is that they provided afghan forces with

lighter tactical vehicles which are presumably a better fit for the country's roads to quote one u.s. military official he said we don't want to live with a lot of equipment that they can't handle and that could compound their challenges as the u.s. is packing to leave again if that will please the bulk of the forces the obama administration is trying to find a political solution with the taliban there are quite a few roadblocks on the way to that as you can imagine but after years of fierce fighting u.s. policymakers have arrived at the idea that only a political solution can lead to a sustainable peace in afghanistan and in some way the scrapping of military gear is symbolic to how little all that machinery has achieved there. russia is set to sign off a massive deal with china to supply oil with two hundred seventy billion dollars

that's what president putin announced that we are no international economic forum in st petersburg. is there for us and joins us live now a massive deal this isn't it. kerry has just got everyone a little bit excited a very good a favor in numbers and they. just sound quite phenomenal as you say two hundred seventy billion it is just phenomenal billion dollars right that now let me say that points to three hundred thousand barrels a day that's on top of the three hundred thousand barrels they already shipped to china so it's doubling what they do and that's three hundred sixty tons of all in total over a twenty five year deal we were expecting a sixty billion dollars deal so that's completely oversight if that was what we were expecting we know that as far as ross is concerned you've only got to look at the map to see that it makes sense for these two countries to be doing serious business together and i can tell you just from talking to the business elites here it seems to be

a very popular move indeed this this idea that russia is now looking east to do that business with we know at the moment of course there's a european sovereign debt crisis which isn't helping them on that so europe has made no secrecy of wanting to diversify away from russia as well as far as well surfaced in certain months great on their policy because we know that the coffee t.k. b.p. acquisition that was was quite hurting for the balance sheet so this will certainly help out kerry and shale gas also featured in the president putin's comments throws a bit more about that. yeah that was really interesting actually he addressed the panel and he was saying you know it's it's not an issue at the moment it's not contend in terms of the and it's evolved he cited the environmental issue and also said that it's a lot more expensive the process of gas he said at the moment no alarm bells as far as energy is concerned russia is very much in the driving seat kerry indeed it is

ok thanks so much for the update. now let's take a quick look at some other news making headlines around the globe this hour a suspect. suicide attack on a packed shia mosque in the pakistani city of peshawar has killed at least fourteen people aspersion also injured dozens of worshippers many of whom are in a critical condition no group has claimed responsibility but shiites often been the target of sectarian attacks by sunni muslims. in chile riot police have suppressed a rally by students demanding educational reforms clashes reportedly broke out in the capital when some of the protesters tried to march beyond unauthorized route stones were thrown at police she responded with water cannon and buttons she has experienced recently taishi protests over some recourse water balloons and trained

teachers. rescuers in india have found dozens of bodies floating in the ganges river after unusually severe monsoon rains struck the north of the country. that has already passed the one thousand mark the schools of buildings roads bridges and vehicles swept away by the deadly floodwaters of the indian air force has dropped food and medicine for people many of whom are pilgrims trapped in towns and villages cut off by landslides. greece is facing an issue with the very existence of the government so according to the junior coalition partner a sock and this comes amid a political rant over the decision to replace the state broadcast t.v. with a smaller channel country's democratic left party could now who are out of the ruling coalition following the argument halted broadcasting over

a week ago remains off air despite a court ruling on monday ordering it back on air. or after a short break our special report on the drug wars in mexico stay with us. i know they tracked the approval ratings of the presidents of various countries by did though they still research the approval ratings of former presidents twice like gallup poll that says that george w. bush has been slowly growing in his approval numbers since leaving office in fact his numbers have increased by seventeen percent amongst independents and even his in three rival democratic voters have given him fourteen percentage points of popularity i think this may be due to the fact that obama's magic has worn off and people are getting fed up with things belonging for the bush days is insane if you are one of the people who has recently decided that bush is awesome and please tell

me how he differs from obama true obama can pronounce ninety nine percent of the words on a teleprompter in front of him but both presidents have let expensive wars with questionable objectives bush gave us the patriot act and obama continued it with the n.d.a. both of them seem to like their drones and massive government spending and expansion i don't know i don't think that just because obama's rules flawed that somehow makes bush's brain into some sort of triumph but that's just my opinion.

this vehicle was picked because usually all policemen undergo control there are police officers that are connected to illegal activities. there might be traces or someone might have taken drugs so there was a smell left over a lot of butts we have to investigate a lot too many costs.