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 so there are things that tie is really closely to the us like foreign security. emanuel said that europe and the us have mutual obligations europe depends on the us in the realm of security which you don't have to worry about that will help. will provide security is. the most anticipated meeting was between a man you macron and vladimir putin it was the french leaders first visit to russia as president he was there is 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 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 and manual macron surprise 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 searching 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 emmanuel macron was leaving his limo. even hugged him and also he prepared a copy of flowers for micron's wife regine 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 food safety food of friends makes it to the quarter final i'll definitely be here to support it it's the most mistake by nature he and i meet again with president putin it is in we have a drink oh our teeth. back today thousands of people have rallied in the liniment to organize bloody anti immigration alternative that yemeni power however account to protest by left wing activists demand for troll even bigger crowds peter all of a has been at the center of. support says over the on c immigration alternative to germany party gathered just behind the iconic brandenburg gate behind me told all sides though you might be able to hear coming from over this way from the round

here this and round it by counted demonstrates his who've been provided a role chris backing truck is the a if they support us at monstro in the central station here in berlin over to the brandenburg gate it's only a round a coloma step but they've been flanked on all sides by thousands and thousands of counter-demonstrators that come from politicians from the jimmies politicians from migrant groups from the ins at night club seats being taking part in something they called the base away the a if they know which they've been blasting music along the route i am also a trade unions represented and amongst things that are coming. out to say no to racism stop racism nuts of course what they think alternative for germany stand fulton for germany themselves they say yes they want to close the borders but that's because they say the policies of angle of merkel when it comes to immigration on the right for germany now they were expecting ten thousand people to

take part in the pro a if the demonstration they said around five thousand from the stage as they were setting off i think they were being very generous there i would put it somewhere close it's a two foot what we are seeing from the large scale counter-demonstration is this could just be the start of something because coming up this summer there is the big alternative for germany party congress is taking place in our book and as i looked into well those counter-demonstrators are getting prepared for that in a big way alternative for germany will be holding their party conference in the beautiful bavarian city of the summer however on t fascist groups of the turbaned to disrupt it going as far as to publish to guide for those wishing to turn up and demonstrate that contains a few tips on how to stop the riots we suggest tracking and exploiting the f.t.'s weak points across germany so that we can guarantee the necessary space for

protests and it's a very detailed guy did include some ops of where members will be staying the routes that they'll be taking in the best places to disrupt the event from and there's also a section that includes rioting and life sucks everything the first time riots will need like how to block roads how to prepare paint to be correctly but there's also some more unsavory instructions as well the best ways to tie is to smash shop windows or to cause all without leaving any evidence that you with their all for not being able to be identified on security footage we wish you a lot of fun trying hour in. we showed the so-called right guy to the spokesperson ronald glaser and i asked him just how worrying it is to his members the meth just clear we no way a living we're going to come for you this is some kind of disgusting kind of

intimidation but he will not cave in you know with anybody in the party that considering any extra security measures. will extra security measures. can be helpful but we did not have any party gathering any big party without a lot of security around the police and private security organizations so it would be different this time we also spoke to the left party and asked whether they endorse this guy or if they thought the far left group anti far gone too far this time. it's left to the traditional. which simply never get interested and never again and years fifty years of clearly anti human this. action there is bring forward racist statements bring for children she or even work together of context to militaristic fascist groups so we all the human list forces and

actors and society have to stand together. to do resistance against the politics of the deep police in oxburgh are preparing for what's being described as an unprecedented operation some two thousand officers will be drafted in including reinforcements from nearby areas and they may well be needed fighting between demonstrators and police has turned nasty in the past as i found out firsthand during the twenty rights and how. does the. we're actually right between the police on the demonstrators right now so we're going to try to get out of the way.

the police and humbug we're also warned ahead of time that something big was being planned there and with just over a month to go before the a half day conference on the thirtieth of june. to see if they can stop a similar situation unfolding there peter all over all to see. how a public inquiry has been launched into the grand final tragedy almost a year old that's among the stories to come here on the weekly. if we continue to discuss only about some commenters of the maastricht. six spots i know we don't we have nothing to give to the next generation our reason

for which to be proud to be utopian these is the reason all of us kept. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be rich. but you'd like to be for us that's what we're hopeful three of the more people that i'm interested in the waters of. this city.

hello again now almost a year on from the ground fell tower fire in london in which seventy two people died a public inquiry into the tragedy was officially launched this week it opened with emotional testimony from victims' families and survivors the first to speak at the opening day of the inquiry told of how his son was stillborn just hours after the tragedy a warning you might find the video disturbing. so i held my son. hoping . it's what i treat my wife. she's made of the hardest the serial. killer for strength and courage.

more survivors have given their accounts to of how events unfolded and how their loved ones were lost the probe was set up so you also look into wider issues like the government's response time and preventative actions including a ban on the flammable cladding used on the tower the day rich has been to meet locals who say that 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 can be seen here behind the scaffolding it's a harrowing reminder of

a tragedy that has left many questions unanswered. there are over a hundred towers lost in london alone similar take 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. it just costs us. streakiness cheap to. see this bill comes from the state. so we know that it's obviously not safe before they could hop in the. book. so what can the residents of tower blocks like these do in an emergency the advise 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 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 even as i could see i mean the guardians sort of coming over and sleeping 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 r.t. . britain's housing minister though does say that the government is listening to concerns more discuss a policy review over a ban on flammable materials used in construction. another new america's ambassador to israel has been criticized this week after posing with a rather controversial gift david friedman was presented here with an aerial image of jerusalem but the photograph had been altered to replace the islamic dome of the rock with the jewish the temple third temple is a biblical reference to a new place of worship to replace an ancient one which has been destroyed the photo immediately sparks fierce criticism from the muslim world with some official saying it expressed quote rude and i prefer to call behavior the us embassy insisted the

envoy was simply taken advantage of and demanded an apology. 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. temple mount. while the incident with the picture came at an extremely sensitive time for the region shaken by violent anti israel protests over one hundred palestinians have been killed in the last two months and thousands have been wounded the situation worsened us move this into jerusalem a step strongly opposed by palestinians both sides have long lasting state and for the city we discuss the latest developments with our guests this might provoke for the tensions it builds the rhetoric against the u.s.

policies it would pressure governments to go in face of been 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 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 an unfortunate. reflection of that insensitivity that was corrected by the u.s. administration. that he wants and we can hear not international thanks the company

the soft i mean don't forget we've got plenty of stories for you to our website you can find that. when gold make this manufacture consent instant to the public well so. when the roman classes project themselves. with the financial merry go round of lives only the one percent. of the time to ignore middle of the room signals. relieves. the world. in july twenty second team on and also to the freelance journalist working with our two people to militant

shelling in syria. jonah his second vice goatee has established a while ago such as memorial day will recognize more reporters who often risk their lives with the sake of the truth and through the use you can submit to your published works in a video or written form until june twelfth go to a dot on t.v. dot com. our. phone of welcome to worlds apart as an all chinese fable has it out since the tigers clash of our 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. what should the other players wait until they sort out their differences or should they try to influence the outcome of this fight to discuss that i'm now a joint by brahma to lenny professor off to teach 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 died 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 had the spur tense 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. because both china united

states are pursuing aggressive you do not follow some america's defined. mira's trying i was assertive you know a lot from some so both believe in flouting international rules so in this situation in a 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 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 ohio this situation arose this close economic interdependency between china and united states. emerge from

a conscious whois policy from the one nine hundred seventy s. onwards to aid china's economic rights successive us administrations have ended china's economic rise ever since the one nine hundred sixty nine so with chinese border clashes the medical 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 scaling down i agree that there is the love and the slow 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 family or 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. spinner to have got 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 coursing 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 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 imported from the united states by more than two fault it can certainly but not 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 that the straight relationship is pretty lopsided 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 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 a 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 war round 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 if 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 weaving dealing is not going to strengthen the global creating 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 and 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 and stat 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 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 office ice but this isn't the heart of the nickel see the negotiating strategy of the night states they are trying.