yes but it didn't deliver fast forward to two thousand and eighteen you know there's a chance that it'll work out there's a chance there's a very substantial chance that it will work out i think it will be very successful but as i always say who knows you know i often say who knows who knows how it all works maybe you want to perhaps the u.s. sees the status quo of seeing north korea as the ultimate threat as being something beneficial south korea is spending billions of dollars making bases and paying u.s. troops essentially to be there to ostensibly protect against the north now that being the case if there were to be peace in korea. there's going to be questioning as well do we need our troops there and so i think in that sense there are forces that don't want a resolution that benefit off the instability and allow us to maintain these troops and dozens and dozens of bases and posts in this small country in

a region that we think strategically is or anime's of a government our friends of its military industrial complex and having a nemesis like north korea is a great excuse to pump up that military budget the request includes an additional four billion dollars to support the phaeton defense announcements to counter the threat from north korea no point seven billion to repair damage to u.s. navy ships and one point two billion in support of my administration south asia strategy japan is one ally that stands to benefit from u.s. military expansion especially after the recent reelection of its prime minister who vowed to defend japan from north korean aggression weeks after pyongyang'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 can. tension 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 as it's 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 the south koreans 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 and figure it out it will be to benefit the countries in the region from peace in northeast asia. the world of business

and political elites gathered this week in russia's northern capital city 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 china france the scots the main economic and political challenges facing the world today. sure that we have to do everything possible to save the deal the us 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. 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 break out 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 credit 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 with trump's election campaign and you are not a natural. 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 is the most anticipated meeting of the forum was the one between the money with his russian counterpart it was the french president's first visit to russia as leader ortiz watched as the day unfolded. this year in front of the cameras is going to happen right here. for now if you were a diplomatic rock brought me none of that tapping on the shoulder but a few smiles were visible out there. now that the presidents are busy. that policy and it's all about what they'll choose to say to the journalists going to outlets. and now the press conference begins in this room. 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 state 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 lot of i couldn't even hug him and also he prepared a copy of flowers for my crohn'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 to school board of friends makes it to the quarter final i'll definitely be here to support it it's the most mistake by nature

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six pockets i know we don't we have nothing to give to the next generation and he's going to reach to be proud to be utopian these is the reason our viewers kept little. you're back with r.t. international earlier in the week and almost i did your on from the grand fella fire in london in which seventy two people died a public inquiry into the tragedy was officially launched it opened with emotional testimony from victims' families and survivors the first to speak told of how his son was stillborn just hours after the tragedy you may find some of the following

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we progress the more our survivors have been giving their accounts of how events unfolded and how their loved ones were lost the probe will set up to look into wider issues like the government's response time and preventative actions into richard her husband to meet locals who say they are frustrated at how little has changed. it's almost been a year since the devastating blaze and what's left of the grenfell tower could 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 tower blocks in london alone similar to grandchild 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 we found out altered it was the truth when. it just costs us praise just thinking this is cheap material just the lives of so many people into this food comes in the street. so we know that it's obviously not safe before we could help in the going on at the moment for her to come on the program or homes with 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 tourism a promise to spend four hundred million pounds to replace unsafe cladding on high rise public housing projects just sixteen of the tower blocks have had their having material replaced with non combustible materials so all the authorities doing

enough awful lot of government haven't done enough to. suit the needs of those of us which by going through in terms of the for their experience when family i don't think they're doing enough for them not nearly enough no i think the issue with the clothing they should have resolved upon our. choice i could see i mean to go against the one keep coming over and sleeping the things that. what struck me as i've spoken to a number of residents who live here at the child called 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 now directs you to altie. the u.k.'s housing minister sees the government is listening to concerns and will discuss a policy review concerning a bomb and flammable materials in construction. well over two thirds of former

fellow residents have still to be wrong while some eighty two households are still living in emergency accommodation a campaigner whose home overlooks the charred remains of tower so he has little hope that the government's words will turn into something more. we 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 com boss table materials still wrapped around buildings today we should all discuss it in part of it we should take action to d. because we need to have another grenfell 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 thinking of war you to see that we view what was obvious how long will lead to us to get justice. for america's ambassador to israel came in for criticism 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. while 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 apologize saying the envoy was almost word that he was being given a doctored picture freidman was not the word 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 her arm to use temple mount. the incident with the picture came at

a very sensitive time with the region shaken by violent and d.s. really protests for two months 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 palestinian strong you oppose. this might provoke further and tensions it builds the director against the u.s. policies it would pressure governments to go in face of biden 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 in the passing territories over the two months we lost under thirteen people thirteen thousand injuries. already well it does come of a 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 an unfortunate. reflection of an insensitivity that was corrected by the u.s. administration. as washington on beijing's trade war intensifies what does it actually mean for the every day consumer worlds apart delves into the next. level war hard selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles if it's going. to do socks credit

tell you that but because of the public by itself the most important news today. one of my eyes and tell me you will enough to buy their products. are the hawks that we have on the border with one. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to from day shouldn't let it be an arms race to piss off and spearing dramatic development 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. by.

pulling the welcome two worlds apart as an old chinese spago has a tiger's 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 war 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. 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 a quote todays world it seems strength respects only strength is that only in

today's world hasn't that always been the case it's almost been the case but we'll have this potential of a rules based order and what we're seeing now 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 pursuing aggressive you do not listen americas to find your resume mira's try and i was assertive in 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 they so open flaunting of you know international rules because china and the united states seem like 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 them 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 emerged from a conscious who was policy from the one nine hundred seventy s. on woods to aid 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 american is a sighted 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 skull 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 favor 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 to 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. i have fared worse than china in terms of human actions the term administration has been harder in pressing its own allies rather than pressing

china. to impose punitive kind of sun china that threat has been put on hold by trump but he has been chorusing 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 these 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

a 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 not in 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 still remains that the straight 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 gold 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 you had that

wasn't successful do you have any concerns that this new way of deal making byelection will 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 a major consumer and everybody else seems to be all seem to be on the sides it's a very good question it goes to the heart of the future of the global trade regime because after the collapse of the ground or 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 where they put it with a 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 demond 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 subsidise china's development of ten critical technologies technologies where the vest in particular the u.s. head of china today including robotics commercial jetliner manufacture. computer microchips it's a crime. so the american demand is that instead of china. subsidizing

this made in china i don't even if i program should be buying technology products from the american market now this demand has not been both opposite sides but this isn't the heart of the nickel see it's the negotiating strategy of the night states they are trying to get china to to stop subsidizing its sub underwriting this major technology initiative and instead by technology for x. from the u.s. in order to balance the bilateral trade because if the chinese were to buy major technology products from the u.s. market that would be a much better sure way of cutting down the trade surplus than buying american farm produce which even if they bought all american farm produce there would not be able to balance the trade to the satisfaction of the americans.