but all sorts of the board including propagandist information support to the armed opposition that's a clear violation of international law but you wouldn't charter now do you think other world powers share russia's concerns over the way the chemical probe in syria has been conducted so far. oh no well we'll see the security council is clearly split along along you know along the lines that we've seen in the past with the west and its allies. almost all of whom were in the so-called friends of syria cynically named and then on the other side if you go which are we can say they're defending damascus but what they're really speaking out in support of is international law which is supposed to prohibit countries intervening in the internal affairs of other countries and making threats in and funding an armed go. right rick sterling from the serious solidarity movement always interesting to hear

thought it was interesting to talk to you sir thanks for helping us get our heads wrapped around this one. all right the swiss mountain resort of davos has opened its doors for the annual world economic forum and this year it's pulled in a record number of world leaders including the u.s. president but many are determined to show that he is not welcome. around two thousand people marched through the streets of zurich to denounce trump's visit and the entire gathering several smaller protests took place elsewhere in switzerland including geneva marty chappell involved takes a closer look at what is on the agenda at the us for. the world economic forum is well underway here in the scenic town of davos nestled in the swiss alps and the guest list is chock full of political heavyweights such as may merkel mccrone and to many surprise trump no one expected mr america first to even consider

participating in a forum whose boast the globalist idea of creating a shared future in a fractured world and yet he's slotted to be the last speaker of the event and will most likely use the opportunity to soapbox about his own brand of economic nationalism and all the political elite continue to enjoy the conference and rub elbows the i.m.f. has warned that the current economic climate has caused voters to lose faith in them voters in many advanced economies have soured on political establishment doubting their ability to deliver broadly shared growth in the face of tepid real wage gains reduced labor shares in national income and rising job polarization and in reality that discontent really shouldn't be all that surprising given that those in the ninety nine percent aren't the ones enjoying the benefits of the recent economic growth oxfam who works towards the relief of global poverty has recently put out a report outlining just how dire the situation is revealing that in two thousand and seventeen eighty two percent of the wealth generated went to the top one

percent the number billionaires skyrocketed leaving us with now over two thousand billion. world wide and as that economic crisis continues the focus of davos seems to have blurred a bit at the politics of two thousand and seventeen leakin for the first time ever the summit is chaired solely by women and a number of the discussions really don't seem to have anything to do with economics at all focusing instead on race privilege and harassment all of the greatest hits from the past year the social issues of two thousand and seventeen including. inclusiveness. how this money was mentioned and all the things have been everywhere in the new sport that sounds important maybe but not as important as the economics of the summit i think that north america europe japan and all the developed nations have never been as inclusive as they are now all told by the way of course there are reactions. to certain things like the migration crisis but the people are used

to it now much more than before and we are very inclusive it's not a time for crusades anymore we do edition from the russian cyber security firm kaspersky lab is in davos. i would say the trend from the last two years and actually one of the main topics of this year in davos its fragmentation of the world unfortunately is happening there is a global geopolitical tensions and fights between countries and it backfires private companies far as us i would say that the pressure in the united states is enormous it's the biggest it's really disappointing for some reason and surprising for me that that private company can be limited in its operations in a country with no reasons with no facts just by decision of the u.s. government it's really frustrating because it means that we can't protect seniors government and. that is one of the best according to independence and this is just means that. they leave themselves on protected from from cybercrime and from cyber

attacks which is really frustrated and i believe that in the long term this is just a very. very wrong decision then independent private company from its operation in the country. delegates arriving at the world economic forum have been literally snowed under over the past week davos has seen nearly two metres of snow fall in the heaviest in nearly two decades traffic has been disrupted with many delegates struggling to reach the venue there's also a high risk of avalanches but many people are seeing the bright side. reality economic and environmental social and political for agility in avalanche territory a loud noise can bring the whole mountain down and donald trump comes to town on friday turns out davos is actually a social experiment when you gather a bunch of the the eyepiece then make them carry their own luggage through the snow and stand in lines with each other out bows i. wonder what would happen if. no one could leave for a week and the world realize that it could run itself without the business and

political elites. guards are blockading prisons across france some calling for a complete security overhaul more than one hundred prisons are affected and the strike was called almost two weeks ago after a series of assaults against staff by inmates one of the hotspots has been the ferry facility near paris it is the largest prison in europe holding more than four thousand inmates it is also used monitors suspected extremists among them is. the faces trial over the two thousand and fifteen paris terror attacks as staff held demonstrations outside the prison on friday violence broke out. look at guys today we've all come here for strike because discontent is spreading across from the crucial program to security prison personnel top of that is true to

slamming radicals are also. going nuts i said the other women. good stagers for us to be around the inmates because for them we are everything to hate for them we are enemies by definition. the massacre at a hotel in afghanistan has raised concerns over the security situation that story and more still to come this is art international.

oil. here every year again better because one nine hundred talk to prague here said this was their year twenty seventh day to go to all kinds of crazy yeah it sure is our experiencing a bit of a fall back. welcome back this is our senior international and the u.s.

state department has confirmed that several americans were killed in saturday's attack on a hotel in the afghan capital kabul now local officials say that twenty two people died in the overnight siege by taliban militants. those people had no mercy it was anybody here in front of them he shot him. best basically it was the fourth you know stuff. the exact number of american casualties is not yet known of the victims also include citizens of ukraine and venezuela kazakhstan and germany most were working

for a private afghan airline political consultant who rockwell believes in the u.s. military presence is aggravating the situation in afghanistan. but already talked about sending in more troops and more planes and other weapons so i think this is just a further unfortunate back down from the campaign promises he made he said some very good things about getting out of afghanistan that the u.s. had no business there and then of course as soon as he was elected he switched and is now stepping up the war in afghanistan the afghan government itself said that it would only last a few months if the u.s. pulled out there's a hint that the afghan government maybe they ought to go with the u.s. troops and have new people come in so that why is the u.s. killing all these people spending trillions of dollars in afghanistan to have a very unpopular government in power. terrible these people were killed i don't think we have any idea how many afghan civilians have been killed in the seventeen

years with this war the u.s. needs to get out get out of afghanistan get out of syria a lot that needs to be done here at home leave other peoples alone leave their countries alone stop killing people all over the world and expecting to be loved. turkey's military campaign against a kurdish militias in syria is causing tensions as far afield as germany on monday a brawl erupted at hanover airport between pro kurdish activists and turkish passengers almost two hundred people were involved. was it without i was it was it was it was. turned to began into the latest offensive

against kurdish fighters in northern syria at the end of last week it views them as terrorists and is concerned about their growing power in the region political commentator adel darwish told us that washington which is allied to both needs to help the two sides work towards a solution kurds will find themselves powerless against the might of turkey as we have seen in the fortunate scenes from frankfurt and from the other places it could actually spill over and affect europe affect people who think they are far away it's very very hard actually to the american foreign policy at the moment first the americans have to explain to the allies of our world what is or is rightly the policy on stooge. do the would actually to have a peaceful bend in syria. keep the.

review be critical integrity of syria as a nation is did as one of a number to do the actually and want to end the conflict and see peace. a double car bombing has claimed the lives of at least thirty three people in the libyan city of benghazi the first blast took place outside a mosque in the city center as people were leaving evening prayers on tuesday after emergency services arrived at the scene a second explosion went off according to officials the victims include military personnel and so far no group has claimed responsibility. russia is the defense minister has revealed that talks are under way with several nations on the purchase of a state of the art russian missile defense system that's more. it's acknowledged as one of the best air defense systems out there it can strike eighty targets at a time at

a range of four hundred kilometers even if they're travelling at five kilometers a second i'm always about to say an hour but no a second so perhaps that's why there is high demand as four hundred isn't on develop technology still on the drawing board or sitting in a dusty warehouse it's on active duty in syria protecting russian units there. i. the russian army's top man hasn't revealed the names of the system's next buyers but he did mention the regions the middle east and southeast asia used to wearing that

part of the world right now mr scheuer who says whenever he's talking to army bosses from other countries there's always discussion about buying russia's defense technology so soon we'll find out who is next in line for the f. four hundred i say next because turkey has already got a contract and when they signed the papers it was big news sure that's a nato member washington's key ally that's counting on russian engineering to keep its say somewhere else that military might is all but dependent on america is saudi arabia but a few months ago the saudis and the russians agreed on an ass four hundred deal as well china is getting it and india too let's see if the name of the next customer comes as a surprise. all right that does it for me i'll be back in about thirty four minutes

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one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waiting spirit to the r.c.c. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best since my last will call on that story as well as three. thousand zero zero zero zero you didn't hear i called russia. so i fly strike. left left left more or less ok stuff that's really good. days ago the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis updated in revised america's global defense strategy it is a dark vision of the world and calls for a massive defense spending what he calls a defense strategy critics say is

a blueprint for wars without it. this is boom bus coming to you from the world economic forum in davos switzerland i'm bart chilton coming up we have a look at this and t.d. who is the general secretary of the european trade union confederation plus alex behala bitch tells us what canadian prime minister trudeau is going to be doing here in davos and lots more but first let's get today's business and financial headlines from back in the studio in washington with ashley banks. and the eleven nations that remain in the transpacific partnership or t.p.

have agreed to a new fallback deal that they call the comprehensive and progressive agreement for transpacific partnership canadian prime minister justin trudeau announced the resurrection of the t p p and his address to the world economic forum and davos switzerland now one year ago u.s. president donald trump pushed by a grassroots movement with it drew from the t p p. metron by ministration has announced tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels the tariffs thirty percent on solar panels and fifty percent on the washing machine washing machines while phase out after three to four years of solar energy enter stres association says a tariff on panels could cost twenty three thousand jobs this year. and the us federal prosecutors have charged five former employees of the accounting firm keepie and she and a former government accountant with plotting to get inside information on the

regulatory review process they are charged with the actions of securities and exchange commission as compared to literally stealing the exam and order to influence review by the public company accounting oversight board. welcome to boom bust coverage of the two thousand and eighteen world economic forum here in davos switzerland on r.t. america and we are here to bring you a perspective on the world economic forum that you won't find anywhere else our team will be connecting across continents to bring the speakers the leaders and the events that will be making and shaping the news we'll bring it right to you on the air and online and we've got a really special week of fascinating guests breaking news and as you can see beautiful scenery ahead of us and we're so glad to be making this trip with you but

before we bring in the players let's set the stage for this forum the world economic forum was actually founded by a business professor klaus shaab in one nine hundred seventy one first as a european management symposium here in the alpine town it's the highest town by the way in europe and that annual gathering became a forum for business leaders to learn about politics but also to discuss issues like inflation and or oil embargoes that were roiling global markets and the global economy and later it became more of a political discussion with political leaders in two thousand and eighteen in davos it's really a combination of both and this is the premier symbolic gathering of global business and political leaders c.e.o.'s and heads of state we're going to assemble the assembly are to discuss the future of markets and nations and increasingly to hear about how technology can help some solve some of the social problems that have been built over decades much of the consensus that you find here on the fundamental

questions of political economy is being challenged almost everywhere around the world from the right and from the left even within the davos consensus it's not clear who is the leader of the forces. trying to maintain the status quo many think it's angela merkel the german chancellor who is on the agenda by the way to speak here this week and she sort of picked up that sword and been the leader particularly in light of donald trump who's sort of wanted to go backwards against the status quo ante but merkel standing has been undermined in recent years by challenging events such as the international refugee crisis the backlash and rise of the far right and of course bracks it that's led many people to chafe at both the current shape of the european union and the german dominance over the structure and while merkel will have a perfect opportunity here at davos for pushing back against the other surprise attendee u.s. president donald trump president emanuel mccrone of france is openly promoting

himself as the leader for the forces of stability that used to be seen as merkel's area will mccrone and merkel speak for europe will donald trump shout them out or push people out of the way to get a photo op and yes what about the role of the u.s. president as event over years well the first u.s. president participate was ronald reagan but he was the remote video the first and last sitting u.s. president to come was bill clinton in two thousand clinton had attended regularly since leaving office but bush forty three and obama did not attend the return of the president the world economic forum this week is a big story if not a sideshow time will tell and we'll be here to cover it all these stories and so much more all the booms and of course all the you guessed it bust at the two thousand and eighteen world economic forum this week we're just getting started. we are here in davos and i'm joined by luke of this and tina who is the general

secretary of the european trade union confederation mr general secretary thank you for being here and can you explain for our international audience who you represent and what your goal here in davos well. european trade union call for the ration was the can for the single confederation i will say gathering all the trade union confederations in the european union but also in the county this associated or candidate to enter the european union so we have a few dates from more or less for thirty five thirty seven countries ninety affiliates they are the considerations in these countries the main and most important considerations and we represent more or less forty five medium warchus india. india around the european union well regarding doubles you know inequalities probably is the top topic. on the one side in terms of wages and lack of a distribution of wealth about profits and the fact that the european international

economy is facing finally some kind of growth he's even if it's mainly jobless growth or very low quality jobs being created but anyway there is some kind of sign off change i mean in the in the prospects of the economy but these has not been reduced to that tall i mean to people to walk in people into the city this morning general so this is i think the major topic also because these generates a poverty social exclusion and margin nation i mean of people in the societies and these again creates then settle for be a populism and a lot of mistrust and anger among people and does exactly what we would like to address i mean we all have that whole the big players i mean the international finance and economy would listen to that and so you do represent more than as you say more than thirty five countries and forty five million workers but part of those are in the u.k. right of course of course they are still part of the e.u. for the moment you are for one year or less it more or less with regard to brics it

you what you said back then and i want to read it so i have it for sure is that. we are the ones with high poverty exclusion and unemployment behind the xenophobia and the populism that was an economic problem that politicians weren't able to solve that's what you said with regard to bret's it how do we solve those problems even if you analyze the regions of the u.k. that the voted for or against blacks it the ones that voted for blacks massively are not the ones where you have more migrants you know migration was the burning topic i mean at the base of the cum pain for blacks it we need to get help to these migrants aiming and to recuperate our solar tea etc etc so so for an easement was more or less in the red line i mean the discussion but actually the regions that voted for rex's are the ones where there are less migrants but at the same time more poverty socialist pollution and more unemployed people so the people it by

globalization finance there is asian etc are exactly the ones that have been left behind that feel to be left behind and so they voted for brakes it thinking that this way probably tickled recuperate some all for the future actually does exactly the opposite that is happening because if you look at the economic figures of the u.k. even now they are still in the negotiations in the middle of the negotiations while he's going down and down so it's absolutely alter when we mr general secretary can you explain how we deal with these problems of refugee immigration and at the same time native workers and them wanting jobs these two things really you're saying aren't mutually exclusive it's not just refugees or native jobs right well you know we have to have a step back because the do regional problem is that the political shows particularly reach politicians and the ones that are on the right side of this expect them i will say they are cheating people because they are the ones that

created the situation. in the fight and so it is a show no rules timing and all profits concentrated in a few hands i mean. and this is exactly walks as you're reaching the roots i mean of this situation of eye level of unemployment of social exclusion so you low wages and no. fair share in the economy etc etc and then it seems they have created this but they have now to fix the problem because of course this this kind of an unregulated and unmonitored globalization has really it people and created incredible social unrest now they are simply looking for a scapegoat in this cable or migrants you know the problem is not that migrants called to steal their jobs or our jobs the problem is that we didn't create jobs enough for everybody and we did a create an economy that benefits people interest instead of only corporates and profits this is the problem if we don't change democracy. all beyond hold the well

really the migrants will become the scapegoat but you know when the then we will look for another scape scapegoat and solve and so on and so on but this is not the solution to the problem mr general secretary it really is about a widening wealth gap and that's happening all around the world and i want to read a quote of yours again with regard to immigration welcoming a couple of million migrants is not a problem on the contrary you said if you are able to provide both refugees and native workers with new and better jobs the problem will be solved so this really is a macro economic determination in your view the first element is to change the macroeconomic model of course we need to move from austerity nearly broadly zooming in. to a few hands as they say to do something that is more a sustainable growth from all that i mean this is possible because these exists if we take for example one european continent the sweden in the last five years they

increase public investment up to three percent of the their internal g.d.p. they have increased wages by. up to thirty percent in the last five years they have rainfalls the social protection system so this doesn't create a tall i mean unemployment or economic. cetera et cetera on the contrary to create an incredibly cool is eve and sustainable growth model in the country they became the most competitive country demoting normative country the most technologically and digital country in the european union they created an enormous number of jobs quality jobs end at the same time they have integrated two hundred fifty thousand migrants they have the highest ratio between migrants and not eve citizens in the ward i mean of course sweden is our.