from north korean aggression weeks after p.r. yang's missile launches these election is about whether we can defend japan from north korea and ensure we leave happily and the unpredictability on the korean peninsula has fringe benefits for some american rivals the south china sea has been a serious bone of contention as of late with the u.s. attempting to assert its naval presence there much to beijing's annoyance so the larger threat of north korea's nuclear program has shifted u.s. military attention that would otherwise be focused towards china and although russia doesn't directly benefit from its unpredictable neighbor it certainly doesn't mind a challenge to u.s. dominance in the region what these countries are just beginning to recognize is they getting into an arms race and increasing in and as china is expanding its military operations it takes money out of the economic damages of the kind of the which we can is there a kind of the it's a very complicated issue except for those who are essentially

getting that we're sure to stick this is something that must change countries as they begin to take the spread sheet. to benefit the countries in the region from peace and north. ok moving on the world's business and political elites gathered this week in russia's northern capital sin petersburg the international economic forum brought together more than fifteen thousand business figures investors and politicians on friday a panel of world leaders from russia japan china and fronts the scuffs the main economic and political challenges facing the world today. and we're going to do it sure that we have to do everything possible to save the deal the u.s. president hasn't closed the doors a negotiation he says he's dissatisfied with a number of issues in the deal but he doesn't exclude talks with iran it's

a two way road the door must remain open i think not all is lost if they are but in a stop i couldn't change the terms decision on iran but at least i tried i explain that this agreement was signed using international efforts i think that president trump has refused to sign a two thousand and fifteen agreement because he was initially signed by his predecessor who is as he thinks by definition. china hopes for peace and stability on the korean peninsula under no circumstances should we allow water breakout in the region that's why we should promote the process of demilitarization to. ask for the summit between north korea and the u.s. i think we have to do everything to make this summit happen so that many issues can be resolved. but do you have any advice of the world in terms of how to deal with president trump because you were somebody who was. associated with the election of president term. a provocator i've got nothing to do or trumps election

campaign and you are not a natural provoke a. decision i believe in french foreign policy that's based on independence there are things that tie is really closely to the u.s. like foreign security. emanuel said that europe and the u.s. have mutual obligations europe depends on the u.s. in the realm of security which you don't have to worry about that will help. will provide security. when the most anticipated meeting of the forum was a between. his russian counterpart it was the french president's first visit to russia as leader ortiz watched the day unfolded. this year in front of the cameras is going to happen right here. for now if you were a diplomatic rock brawl schmall none of that tapping on the shoulder but

a few smiles were visible out there. now that the presidents are busy talking that to politics it's all about what they'll choose to say to the journalists going to outlets. and out of the press conference begins in this race. that was when emanuel macron surprised the people in the room first but then his speech went on to resemble somewhat of a love letter to russia he spoke for about four times longer than vladimir putin then also showed off his affection for some of the big names in russian literature like solzhenitsyn or the yes but it wasn't just about how many nice things the french president said about russia and this power is quite surprisingly again one billion worth of business deals were inked they talked about so much and brought up so many things syria iran ukraine cyber threats the korean

crisis sanctions multi-polar world freedom of speech and even football the french and russian leaders were two hours late for their rendezvous with the journalists obviously that was because of this massive list of things they wanted to cover but also i guess that was due to the lavishness of their dinner and the tastiness of it i just want to tell you about what was on their menu pancakes with the cab year as well as a crab starter then at for additional russian soup with a french twist surgeon steak in venice and was the main course and that was all topped off with chocolate cake. for dessert now i just want to quickly go back to the first seconds of the summit when emanuel macron was leaving his limo. even hugged him and also he prepared a copy of flowers for micron's wife bridget from the very start to the very

end at half past eleven one of the russian journalists decided to turn away from politics and asked mr macron whether he was willing to come to russia in a month again to support the french national team during the football world cup mostly that in the end i had to travel just for good of friends makes it to the quarter final i'll definitely be here to support it it's the most misty by nature you know meet again with president putin and it is only have a drink oh. yeah but it's russia france and the quarterfinal things might be so friendly well during the three days of the same petersburg gathering we discussed major economic and political issues with foreign participants from all over the world. trade war between us china would resolve this situation which means the policy makers on both sides are likely to be irrational that's what we have seen in past two weeks but having said that i

think the trade the tensions between china united staes unlikely to go away really just for one reason the u.s. economy right now it's facing the risk of overheating. school old is a point old country you opine bolden but just from diplomacy's always ahead of us to keep peace and we have to be in germany to call me this that's me off to me i always said it's the rope you opossum to be it sets you up us to see the united states i was away easy since following zoe i will interest to rebuild and the relations between two nineteen states and you open you up on the russia to stop to see these sanctions. i know that europeans wanted money many people in the world think the sanctions are absurd including me i hope they're dropped will america withdraw the sanctions probably not will the europeans say we're going to do it anyway probably so the germans don't see any reason for it italians many people do

not see any reason for the sanctions and they will pull out i don't know of any sanctions in history that have had a major effect yes they affect some individuals and some companies and sectors but historically speaking i know of none that are had a major effect the u.k. government is accused of interaction as a public inquiry is launched into the ground fell firetruck shooting war on the plenty more besides. if we continue to discuss only about some i'm in tears of the maastricht. six spots and we don't we have nothing to give to the next generation at least for the rich to be proud to be utopian these is the reason all of us kept.

what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president which. was something. it's a going to be for us this is what before three of the more people. interested in the war. earlier in the week almost a year from the gren fell a fire in london in which seventy two people died

a public inquiry into the trying to be was officially launched it opened with emotional testimony from victims' families and survivors the first to speak told of his son was stillborn just hours after the tragedy you may find some of the following video upsetting. so i held my son. is what i treat my wife. she's made of the hardest the serial. killer for strength coach.

yan has the week has progressed more survivors have been giving their accounts of how the convents unfolded and indeed how their loved ones were lost the probe was set up to look into wider issues like the government's response time and preventative actions madeira tutor has been to meet locals who say they are frustrated at how little has actually changed it's almost been a year since the devastating blaze and what's left of the grenfell tower can be seen here behind the scaffolding it's a harrowing reminder of a tragedy that has left many questions unanswered.

there are over one hundred how long in london alone similar to grand felt and people living here want their government to make sure that it is also like that does not happen. again it's like a year now and we're still living in the same situation. when. it just costs us. just thinking this is cheap it's just the lives of so many people so this becomes a mystery. so we know that it's obviously not safe before we took off in the. book. so what can the residents of tower blocks like these do in an emergency they advised used was to stay put but now according to the london fire brigade is being changed to similar evacuation because of the farmable clopping however the government is yet to ban it

to raise them a promise to spend four hundred million pounds to replace unsafe cladding on high rise public housing just sixteen other tower blocks have had their having material replaced with non combustible materials so are the authorities doing enough awful lot of government haven't done enough. research in terms of the for their experience when family i don't think they're doing enough not nearly enough no i think the issue with the clothing they should have resolved upon our. choice i could see i mean we go through one sort of coming over and nothing's happening what struck me as i've spoken to a number of residents who live here at the estate in camden is the fear in their eyes at the thought that they too could have lost their lives and now they're off to a clarification from the government as to what's going to happen next to resolve those problems and action to be taken in the deal altie. speaking of the state the

u.k.'s housing minister says the government is listening to concerns and will discuss a policy review concerning a ban on flammable materials in construction now over two thirds. former grunfeld residents have still to be. some eighty two households are still living in emergency accommodation a campaigner whose home overlooks the charred remains of grand felt our cities he has little hope that the government's words will turn into something substantial haven't seen corresponding option on to see action it's difficult to believe the government why ask for consultation if we know that they are con boss to all my tools still wrapped around the audience today we should all discuss it in part of it we should take action to d. because we need to have and are grateful they should be versity they should be

presentation if there is no representation in democracy is not democracy is not just issue rod to cause war year to argue that we needed adversity in that it is the kind of war you to see that we view what was obvious how long will lead to us to get justice. americanism busted or to israel came in for criticism for this week after he was seen posing with a rather controversial gift david friedman was presented with a photograph of one of the most sacred places in jerusalem but the image had been altered to show the jewish third temple on the site where the islamic dome of the rock is currently situated the third temple is a biblical reference to a new place of worship to replace an ancient one which was destroyed in the photo immediately sparked fierce criticism from the muslim world with some official saying it expressed quote rude and hypocritical behavior the u.s. embassy apologized saying the envoy was all aware that he was being given

a doctored picture. friedman was not aware of the image thrust in front of him when the photo was taken he was deeply disappointed that anyone would take advantage of his visit to create controversy the u.s. policy is absolutely clear we support the status quo on the show to use temple mount lee incident with the picture came at a very sensitive time with the region shaken by violent antti israeli protest for two over one hundred people have been killed with thousands injured the situation heated up after the u.s. moved its embassy to jerusalem a step the palestinians strongly. we got the views of a consul number of fatah which controls the west bank and the former secretary general of the world jewish congress. this might provoke for the tensions it builds the rhetoric against the u.s. policies it would pressure governments to go in face and against the interests of

the united states and at the same time there would be protests which are already being organized for quite some time right now and in the passing territories over the two months we lost one hundred thirteen people thirteen thousand injuries. already well it does come of the sensitive time and in fact is the united states embassy issued a. correction to the mistake saying that they support what's called the status quo in jerusalem which is exactly what the is what every israeli government since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven has also supported the status quo which means sensitivity and respect and honor for the muslim holy sites and this was a unfortunate. reflection of that insensitivity that was corrected by the u.s. administration. was the week about was let's leave you though with some of the

images which shaped the past seven days on north korea this is what the scenes were a number of days ago north koreans dismantled their soul in nuclear sites in the hope of a. facilitating shall we say u.s. north korea summits. the stories for now i'll be back in tougher narced time here on r.t.e. international stay with us now for great programs. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confronting let it be an arms race often spearing dramatic to follow only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

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plan of welcome to worlds apart as an old chinese fable has a nasty tigers clash over primacy the monkey may emerge as the benefactor or even the winner by simply staying up the tree as china and the united states declare a law in their trade works should the other players wait until they sort out their differences or should they try to influence the outcome of this fight while to discuss that i'm now joined by brahma chill any professor also at the new daily based center for policy research mr chiles good to talk to you thank you for joining us all the way from new delhi. will thank you now you remarked recently that in quote today's world it seems strength respects only strength is that only in today's world hasn't that always been the case it's always been the case

but we have the spare tense of a rules based order and what we're seeing is that pretense is falling in place of a rules based order what you have written seeing is a based order a new g two because both china united states are both suing aggressive you do not follow some americas to find your resume mira's tran i was. assertive internationalism so both believe in flouting international rules so in this situation in rules based order looks like a mirror but i wonder if there is also a silver lining in this open flaunting of you know international rules because china and the united states seem like it to some extent like a major made in haven't because they have

a restraining influence on the child there to the degree that no trade agreement could possibly have individually over that isn't that the case it is true but it's important to remember a hollow this situation arose this close economic interdependency between china and united states. from a conscious who was policy from the one nine hundred seventy s. on woods to china's economic crisis successive us administrations have it did china's economic rise ever since the one nine hundred sixty nine so with chinese border clashes the americans decided to co-opt china. against the soviet union and that led to the nixon kissinger opening in one thousand seventy one and that in turn led to america's decision to aid china's economic rise for example when president jimmy carter was

in office he issued a directive that all u.s. departments would assist in china's economic rise so today an economic rules breaking monster has emerged in the form of china which floats international rules which which rights roughshod over global global creating norms now both china and the united states for the time being at least have put muscle flexing around terrorists on hold but many american acts prates have been warning that this is just the call before the storm do you think the current between washington and beijing can be frozen at its current state or do you think we're likely to see some ass collation before what are scaled down i agree that there is a love and the slow will will not last for long because the americans have woken up to the fact that china has

a very one sided trade relationship with the united states it's very heavily skewed in china's fan for john i enjoy is a three hundred seventy billion dollars yearly trade surplus at the moment and this mammoth trade surplus of china is something the trumpet ministration is insistent upon reducing significantly and if the chinese play games if they do not reduce the trade surplus significantly be able see continuing tensions and even the u.s. spirit of kind of being imposed against china but what's important to note is this that american allies like european union japan south korea. have fared worse than china in terms of human actions the term administration has been harder and pressing its own allies rather than pressing

china. the threat to impose punitive kind of sun china that threat has been put on hold by trump but he has been who are seeing and shaming u.s. allies like japan south korea kind of the european union well mr chillingly i certainly want to go into the discussion of. pressure against the so-called american allies but let's focus on china more as you pointed out the united states has decided to take a pause for the time being and i think a major part in that decision was this mysterious plods to you on the part of china supposedly on the part of china to increase the volume of american imports by two hundred billion dollars and i say this is a mysterious place because the chinese officials say they haven't actually made it trump tweeted out about it as if it was

a done deal but regardless of whether or not they have agreed on that do you think it's feasible do you think china could actually increase. it's imports from the united states by more than two fault it can certainly but not a not and a twelve month period but if it makes a genuine efforts to balance the trade relationship it can gradually over a period of three or four years make make the relationship more symmetrical right now the relationship is very symmetrical and it's very one sided in terms of who benefits more even though many american corporations and and many american farmers have repaired some profits from the trade relationship with china the fact children maims that this trade relationship is pretty lopsided and from administration is right in my view in seeking to correct the balance to make it

a more level playing field for for the us and for us industries and farmers and i think that's a legitimate goal to pursue well actually that's a very very interesting point because i i specifically wanted to ask you a question about farmers as i'm sure you know trump has already pointed out that american farmers should get ready to export to china as much as they can produce and much of that two hundred billion dollar deficit is supposed to be covered by agricultural exports but you know better than. i did that agricultural exports and subsidies is a very tenuous point in global trade the doha round us trade talks broke specifically because the developed countries did not want to dispense with agricultural preferences let's put it that way i know that india played a huge role in trying to revive the doha round of trade talks and yet that wasn't successful do you have any concerns that this new way of deal making by like chill

deal making and giving american farmers preferential access to a very large agricultural market will essentially make all the other. national talks obsolete because essentially we have a you know a comfortable tucson between major producer and the major consumer and everybody else seems to be all seem to be on the sides and so very good question it goes to the heart of the future of the global trade regime because after the collapse of the around what we have written a saying is first the weakening of the w t o second more importantly their merchants of overlapping trading blocks in the world the world is being segregated into overlapping creating blocks with their own rules so any kind of a bilateral deal which gives american farmers preferential access to the chinese market would further weaken the global trading regime because this will raise

concerns across the globe about first the fact that. the uber subsidize as i recall from explodes it subsidizes farm production to begin with and then on top of that it subsidizes its i recall true exports and then it clinches a deal with it with the particular country a large large country to to secure preferential access to that country's market for its farmers so this kind of reading dealing is not going to strengthen the global trading regime is going to further undercut its object and it's right out of t.v. while an agricultural imports are not the only thing at stake here i've already heard some suggestions in mainstream american media that in order to fill these two hundred billion dollar trade deficit pledge the chinese may need to swap european

goods for american ones they may stop buying airbus and buy buoying in stats as if it was some exclusive tucson if dots were to proceed i suppose the current trade where would look like child's play the rule american demand on china is not about farm produce it's about high technology americans are concerned about china's made in china twenty twenty five program which seeks to subsidize china's development of ten critical technologies technologies where the best in particular the u.s. head of china today including robotics commercial jetliner manufacture. computer microchips it's a crime. so the american their mind is that instead of china subsidizing this made china in.