on the first face to face encounter between the russian president. to hold highly anticipated talks on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit also. clashes between. protesters and police are going with more than one hundred officers injured and scores of demonstrators detain. the radar. there are run one hundred registered gun owners on its terror watch list the country having suffered

a string. around the clock across the world this is our international from the team and myself you know we'll welcome to the program our top story this hour a g. twenty summit is underway in the german city of hamburg with leaders from the world's biggest economies convening to discuss key geopolitical issues one of the most anticipated meetings will be between the russian and american leaders. were seen meeting for the first time earlier. exchanging pleasantries. joins me. with more on this so that is the initial hello out of the way for the talks.

hi again well indeed there we have it we have seen the first pictures of the first greeting the first. handshake which was followed by mr trump tapping his russian counterpart on the shoulder well not really that much visual of food for thought just yet but at least there were no awkward handshake moments which often happen when. meets international leaders but this is really a meeting donald trump was or still is looking forward to at least judging by his twitter just take a look at one of his latest tweets where he specifically singled out when he said that he's actually looking forward to meet his colleagues from all over the world but this is just a greeting there head to head talks are coming up very soon if everything goes according to schedule that will happen in a bit less than forty five minutes and from what i heard the meeting will last from

thirty to sixty minutes and you don't have to be an expert to realize what is going to be on the agenda of course the washington moscow times that have only been getting worse month after month and besides this syria north korea and ukraine now i also want to talk about another event which was of course worth watching that is the traditional family photo ceremony you know when all these international leaders more than twenty most influential people on the world of this world story get together on one stage you watch everything that catches your eye the positions i can tell you that this time and the very center of the crowd we saw the host obviously on her was the leader of china xi jinping then russia's president vladimir putin and then president our daughter and so when it comes to the position . that. was this time very close to angola merkel and i guess i can say it was in

the middle in the center of the crowd a like a few years ago at a different g. twenty summit when who was very far from the center and that was the time when a lot of media speculated about something they called an isolation of lot of our proving well you know the funny thing is that this time around donald trump found himself on the very left edge of that crowd and another thing that was really entertaining to watch is that the new french president emmanuel mack on ran up to him as if he sort of felt sorry for him and started tapping him on the shoulder and really this whole family photo ceremony quickly turned into the ceremony of tapping people on the shoulder thanks to an annual mccaughan and donald trump in the meantime in the very middle when the whole thing was over a lot of reporting walked quietly with angle and marco and they had an exchange with smiles and german of course we know that

a lot of our putin is fluent in german for for a minute or two that is what we saw all right after that family photo ceremony now in the meantime if you look at the g twenty coverage across the atlantic in america of course everyone else is anticipating the putin meeting but another important headline this friday was that russia is increasing its spying activities in the u.s. take a look at one of the top stories on c.n.n. now they're backing this story up citing some current and former intelligence officials that know as c.n.n. puts it what's going on in the trumpet ministration. times and former intelligence officials are telling c.n.n. the russian spies. in the u.s. fanfare lection u.s. authorities had detected an uptick and suspected russian intelligence officers entering the u.s. . well in any. case i can tell you that the american media are absolutely

sure that mr trump will bring this issue up and his meeting with president putin but we don't know that i'll tell you what it may take a while before we found up to find out the details sorry because there will be no joint press conference so perhaps we'll have to wait for some kind of announcement from their press secretaries or maybe a press release from the white house or the kremlin so we'll have to wait but i'll tell you what that meeting is about to start it's only forty minutes to go fingers crossed and we're all waiting for it in hamburg and around the world. yeah we'll catch up then what about forty minutes when i leave you with you in hamburg to talk more all none of this extended to our of our teeth. well it is expected to see some tough talk some there are some major points of contention between some of the where leaders. took a closer look. how much of the g.

twenty goes interconnected world of the countries that make up the world's greatest economic powers are in an awkward fit to say the least it's true that some have been getting along swimmingly take german chancellor merkel and her chinese counterparts. going to. close toward linking up if you try to add in mr trump things fall apart for one term bromance was she really over there to see if north korea tensions and trump and merkel don't like the chip to the u.s. as a friend in any of course they didn't get along from the very start really the german people look at them overthrowing this woman i don't know what the hell she was thinking it takes wits to convince people with facts instead of using thinks she was person of the year i was supposed to be person of the year and trump isn't the

only mismatch from her relationship with their one turkey's president has been going down hill as a head of the summit he was told not to bring his problem making bodies are hardly the night venues to make a public address and that wasn't much of a surprise really after erda want to kiss berlin open up the process to the current potential for conflict was a turkey so we want to avoid additional reasons for conflict now if we try to put into the mix he fits great with china but not so much sanctions over the crisis in ukraine are in their way and the same issues keep russia and the e.u. as a whole from connecting the e.u. and its turn is that with italy as its promises to help deal with the refugee influx have yet to come to fruition yet another disconnect then we are left to the public has taken twelve code of the groove taken. good enough for the king of saudi arabia to simply lift the table and skip the summit altogether. as for the

remaining g twenty members they're just as mismatched to the idea of a completed jigsaw puzzle with the g twenty members shaping an interconnected world things almost impossible it's much more likely individual elements will find each other never coming together with everyone to make. washington d.c. . well it's not only talks going on in the german city anti summit protesters and police have clashed for a second day in. security forces used water cannon pepper spray against the demonstrators should do so through stones and flares up police almost one hundred sixty officers were injured to date forty five protesters were detained a hundred thousand people are expected to protest over the course all of this so. i thought i.

was. on the puter all of our fund and many shop owners in hamburg have been forced to protect their property from the protesters. away from the politics away from the protest what's it like when the g. twenty arrives on your doorstep as you can see one of the things businesses are having to do is cover up their shopfronts that's because as the demonstrations move through we have seen a lot of windows broken and see this junction here both sites completely blocked off now with the windows all covered up with plywood here that's because the demonstration it's taking place later on friday and it's expected to come down this way and they want to make sure that their stores survive and while some stores have decided the best way is to board up their windows others have gone for the other option which is staying on the premises twenty four hours to keep watch. some owners recovering windows so they don't get broken we are staying here twenty four

hours a day to make sure that we can keep people at berry and nothing gets broken a lot of places are closed so we can't work productively there's a total collapse of transportation you can't come in you can't get out of town that affects ours and our freedom we want to see all the time how we say and we always give the people some clothes to go to maybe through to protection so there's about the water. but for others the tactic that they've employed is basically if you can't beat them join them we're seeing these posters know g. twenty spare our store these pleading messages on shop frontages that have been boarded up because we are going to see more demonstrations planned for a dinner on saturday and saturday there are expected to be some of the most ferocious we've seen to date going on what we've seen over the last few days but that could be quite bad indeed peter all of our r.t. how beck or while thousands have been expressing their anger at the summit it seems that the world leaders have so far been having an altogether more cordial time

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we are back with our top story even twenty seventeen g. twenty summit is underway in the german city of humber with leaders from the world's biggest economies convening to discuss key political issues also a lot of protests happening in the northern german city with people arrested and police officers hurt let's get into that now with journalist on or three of pillaging the world ernst wolf who joins us live on the program you're very welcome as well why do you think we're seeing such intense protests this year. well what what we're seeing i think is just the tip of the iceberg you know there's about the police we're talking about twelve thousand peaceful protesters and hamburg and i think there would have been a lot more protesters they hadn't deployed these twenty thousand police in the hamburg you know you don't deploy twenty thousand police in order to protect twenty

politicians unless these people are really hated and loathed by the general public so i think there's a lot of resentment but the general public against politicians especially against the g. twenty what's it a wise decision by angela merkel to choose homburg as the g twenty host city given the strength of leftwing sentiment there we know that in previous years germany has hosted almost in the countryside so that you could keep those areas very secure you're in the city which is wide open a lot of left wing sentiment there how wise was it of her to choose how burg. well i think it was a deliberate decision because everybody knows that hamburg has a community of young radicals that are ready to resort to violence and also everybody in germany knows that the police of hamburg have a record of a lot of violence and rudeness against protesters themselves so this was

a riot that was bound to happen so i think it was a very deliberate decision i mean merkel could have held it in the meeting in a castle somewhere in bavaria or on some island off the coast of germany and they wouldn't have had to deploy more than a hundred police so it was a deliberate decision and why i think because this is this whole thing is a show of force the government and what is happening right now is that everybody is reporting on these violent clashes but everybody's forgetting that there were twelve thousand peaceful protesters and these protests will protesters are being thrown into one bag with a few violent young radicals and that's what the what they're trying to do the put the government is trying to tell the people have you protest against us or if you protest against the system you're going to be associated with violence and with radicalism we could almost forget there's some very important things happening indoors today what can we expect from the highly anticipated meeting between president putin and trump first of all. well i think we can expect

a lot of double speak from that meeting because i think that the real conflicts are going to remain the same right after these meetings see the biggest conflict of the conflict the one around syria that is not going to be resolved i mean america has shown that it wants to ignite the conflict in the middle east they have sold an enormous amount of weapons to saudi arabia they've sold weapons to qatar so they're doing everything to fuel of the conflict in the in the middle east and the same goes for south korea and north korea the the conflict there is being fueled by the united states so i think that these conflicts are going to they're going to simmer on and they're going to go on and no matter what putin and trumpet are going to speak about today. do you think that we might see any other major agreement struck something constructive come out of the next forty eight hours differences

could they be overcome there's so many issues on the table or in stem just looking at one of the news lines here for instance trump on the mexican president manteo last year that would have been the biggest story about the wall being built it's almost like a bit part player today what can you see actually being achieved. i don't see anything being achieved because the real problems are not the problems between the politicians the real problems in our world lie in the financial system i mean our world is dominated by the financial system then the financial system is broken the big central banks the big five central banks of this world have printed one point five trillion dollars during the first five months of this year in order to keep the financial system alive it is shortly before breaking point and that is the biggest problem in this world and the united states is trying to overcome this problem by starting two wars and i don't think that they're really going to talk about these these issues they're going to they're going to go over them and they're

going to talk about minor issues but the biggest issue is the threat of war and the biggest issue of all is the threat of a breakdown of the financial system which will mean a collapse a world while the collapse of trade and commerce and which will mean a lot of hardship for the people of the world well we thank you for coming on the program and sharing your thoughts this hour journalist or third or ernst wolf. thank you. we are waiting for president trump to begin their first face to face talks that is expected to be in a run twenty minutes time we will continue to bring you all the latest developments from the g. twenty in both inside and diet site over the coming hours france's interior minister has revealed that iran one hundred registered gun owners in the country are in a terror watch list. i have asked local police to identify the registered

owners of firearms on terror watch lists we have identified about one hundred people and the author of cesar taking action to correct the situation this appears to be a significant dysfunction. well the announcement comes just a couple of weeks after the latest terror attack in central park this when a car full of weapons on gas canisters rammed into a police. the attacker was the only person killed in the incident the thirty one year old man was unknown going through easiest and also on a terror watch list french journalist and author of just how to sprint's alexander mendell told us the illegal gun ownership by people on the list is not the only concern either. actually shows that the. carelessness of french bureaucracy you have ten thousand people that are registered on the watch the least on the. east end you have about one percent of

them that legally own weapons the frightening thing about that is that they have access to shooting ranges where they go to to train where they sometimes even have to meet local police policemen and they talk with them and they have information about security it's not about the weapons themselves it's more about the fact that they are they have access to these shooting ranges where they can train to shoot. moving on now after months of reporting on alleged russian meddling in the u.s. election using all name sources c.n.n. seems to be changing its attitudes toward an imitator one of the child's own political analysts no sees people do not have the right to stay anonymous it was in response to the backlash the network face for threatening to reveal the man behind

a viral mean featuring president trump wrestling the c.n.n. logo with more your skill of. c.n.n. and now thinks that we the people do not have the right to be anonymous this is how kirsten powers their political analyst explained it in a tweet. people do not have a right to stay anonymous so they can spew their racist massage honest homophobic garbage now that's an interesting argument coming from a network that's been running stories about trump based on unnamed sources for months based on anonymous sources according to this source who spoke on the condition of anonymity anonymous sources are the basis of most truthful reporting oftentimes you do have to gather information using anonymous sources say can i use your name and they say no can i use you as an anonymous source a source familiar with the matter they say yes and then we report the information on the air we heard c.n.n. use this phrase so much it's actually spawned a number of online memes sure c.n.n.

protects their online sources but the way they see it if you post something online that they consider to be offensive they have the right to reveal your personal information to the public something that could actually put a person in harms way oh and they get to decide what's considered to be offensive as well apologized for some of those other houses that were racist anti-semitic and that is not publishing to users name because of his apology think bribery in reverse they get said to me say listen if you are if you're a track that read it they there's a couple of bucks for you that will be bribery kind of sort of but if i were is if you listen if you don't retract that right at the i'm going to expose you i'm going to docs you i mean let everybody know where you live how to let people know where you live what you said things you've said perhaps you might be politically correct things that might cause you problems with your job it's almost a blackmail coersion but it's unprecedented c.n.n.

may be a powerful news agency but just to proclaim to them the policeman of what's considered to be offensive in the end u.s. law has the final say caleb mop and artsy new york. and american arts and crafts retail. chain is being accused of buying ancient artifacts which have been smuggled from iraq the items include tablets containing writing in the ancient cooney for scripts used thousands of years ago in mesopotamia which is now a part of modern day iran also among the artifacts clay objects used to seal known us a bowl a prosecutors say hobby lobby agreed to buy thousands of artifacts in twenty ten for one point six million dollars in the u.s. justice department says the company was even warned by an expert that the such cultural property from iraq carries a risk that the objects may have been looted hobby lobby has agreed to pay

a three million dollar fight and will have to give the items back here's the firm's statement on the controversy the company was new to the world of acquiring these items and did not fully appreciate the complex cities of the acquisitions process this resulted in some regrettable mistakes well the illegal sale of the ancient treasures are also lucrative for another group isel which makes millions of dollars from selling them that's despite the fact the terror group's more than torricelli known for destroying priceless historical relics and money meant. well who are. also not. just. the looters themselves obviously these are the people on the ground who are doing

the digging up and the looting they more importantly they are responding to the mother but this is a market with a supply and a demand and the supply is driven by the month so for as long as it's going to be from western countries these goods are going to flow looters will loot and they will dig up the stuff and most more consuming for us is that. there's no clear connection between terrorist organizations like isis like al qaida. like taliban and the profiting from this looting and so it is even more egregious if you will it is even more concerning for us that people who know this and yet they still continue to buy these goods and sell them on. it looks like italy is being left alone to sort out the worsening refugee influx problem on its ports

after ministers fail to find a way forward to share the burden instead members want to target n.g.o.s rescue boats from north africa which are suspected of being exploited by people traffickers in just a matter of days up to twelve thousand people have landed in italy on more than eighty five thousand have arrived since the start of this year at least top prosecutor believes the crisis has created a security threat. those who arrive on the dinghies then undergo a process of radicalization that may lead to the realization of terror attacks meanwhile the head of europe's law enforcement agency says the terror threat on the cult and sits at a twenty year high several of the terrorists who carried out recent atrocities in europe came through the mediterranean route from africa to italy but the spite at least accepting the biggest number of migrants it has thus far been spurred mass terror attacks we discussed why that might be tell you

a police officer and union leader gianni tonelli. said the easiest prey for islamic radicals are desperate men those who are criminals or are in prison a muslim who came to italy is integrated and has a job is not easily influenced by islamic radicalism. a desperate man is willing to do all he can to redeem himself but for these men to be sacrificed in the holy war means social redemption and being respected we try to control what goes on in prisons but it's not easy as many of these muslims are in prison for minor crimes i mean for this reason they are not isolated like with us on our in contact with other prisoners so it is easy for them to come into contact with extremist element . of course the video they let me say that that was. at the beginning of the migrant crisis in europe i explained that there was no

security field so i said terrorist could come and hide here easily i mean the problem of information exchange is not being adequately addressed by european intelligence services we are all very busy with our own problems and there is no common spirits the interests of some countries prevail over others. we have to take a body language expert coming up in a few minutes to tell you what the leaders of the g. twenty are saying with their bodies more nuts coming. seemed wrong. but. just don't. let me. get to shape out these days because active. and engaged equals betrayal. when something.