that the nobel peace prize committee in north will let them come to donald trump and say congratulations i know that trucking and get your price and need to tend i don't have to save us time for the war because it would be the only way to save that noble peace prize after obama gorbachev are far and others go right ok let me go back to our before we go to the break here i think which i don't want to go into it in great depth but i mean you know we had on my pump a zero come out with his twelve points for in dealing with iran here i mean we can compare that which was all quite ludicrous and very much out ridiculed by foreign people in the foreign policy blah it seems to me that does mirror the north korean strategy meaning there really if they really haven't thought it out very well go ahead alex yeah we have steps to a war is really what it was toast as to regime change but i mean i think you're right peter can't overstress the fact that it's not only the libyan model that north korea is nervous about it's the iranian model that libya north korea is

nervous about let's not forget it's only been a couple of weeks since the united states broke their agreements with iran so there's no doubt that. i'm looking at what happened in iran. yeah north korea has already made two significant gestures of real significance they have detonated their tunnels that they used for nuclear detonation and they unilaterally returned three u.s. spies so they've obviously done their part but even both in this sabotaging this not only referring to the threat of libyan regime change but by demanding that north korea completely denuclearized right from the get go without anything to force the meeting in saying are boring for there is a peace treaty signed before there's fear any type of face steps and this is a way of raising expectations but when they actually said that he wanted the talks to go forward as soon as possible so that nothing could be done to then skip steps later and jump right to morse. serious measures we all know we all know what that

means well as i actually went away the boldness saying first surrender and then we can sit down and talk yeah ok i and this is exactly the same message gentlemen that the u.s. trumpet ministration is sending to ram we're going to go to a short break gentlemen after that after that short break we'll continue our discussion on some real new stay with r.t. . i've been saying the numbers mean something they've mater the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need

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i. was going. to be. welcome back across where all things are considered i'm peter we're discussing some real news. ok gentlemen it switch gears i just came back from the st petersburg international economic forum up obviously in st petersburg one of the things i find really quite remarkable not the fact that i was there because he'd just been in the united states and you know was got a lot of hugs and you know that his dandruff and taken off his shoulder but he didn't get anything. in st petersburg looked very very different. there was an opening brace and we had to. they drew up

a nice prime minister there we had angle merkel that is visited putin twice in sochi gone to china there seems like a lot of movement on the table right now go ahead. if isolation is about fifteen thousand international business figures come into st petersburg that's a very nice isolation i wish many countries in europe these kind of isolation but indeed there are i think it was a success you know mr monk wrong and and then come to st petersburg however in general i don't think has the power to he'd like to he'd like to go up there confrontation with russia unfortunately there you know that article. so-called energy dependence on russian. a lot of other discriminate tree calls us relations with russia they're written in there in the. norms of the european union

mr monk simply doesn't have the power to change that and i think this is something that a lot of people don't understand but do go to alex in cyprus here i deme is absolutely right a lot of this is really kind of written into stone here but i think there is we're in a moment right now where people are beginning to look at options something we haven't seen on this scale in my lifetime middle east ok i mean you do have the europeans actually considering different ways of moving forward because of the growing mistrust with white house go ahead alex in cyprus you know we're seeing the world under president trump and just as president trump. art of the deal lorie policy practice it works both ways and we're seeing the europeans were. you know we're seeing russia and china also weigh their options and look at their negotiating leverage when dealing with the united states as well as when dealing with each other so i think we're seeing a lot of joy. for different positions we're seeing the national interests of

countries come back to the forefront and this is really all because of trump's instability use of predictability but also his style of bringing you know everything about foreign policy too to a transactional level it's all about negotiations and so it works both ways and the europeans i think are starting to realize that they can exercise their their options mark yeah well you know i see your dismissals work as usual. i mean i think we have to take all of this with a not just a grain of salt but a good dash of salt over the shoulder because mccracken seems to have this type of simpering ego instict personality where he has to kiss the rear end of whoever he's in the room with and play to whether that's trump or or putin and as we saw it i mean to add insult to injury and his recent trip to the white house evidently the tree that he planted that he and his wife planted with his teacher his wife

whatever the the story is they're planted in the white house grounds was then dug up after he left so i didn't hear what he did and i think. he certainly i mean is that breaking the mc i don't want to deal with that you know there's you know it was widely reported the head of the i.m.f. the french president the japanese prime minister and the chinese president that that's in or that's isolation vice president vice president you have a second in command in china that is international isolation. but this these steps by. merkel visiting sochi a gad and visiting china for a second time across and coming to russia talks of reconciliation mccraw that admitting the the obvious must stakes were made when talking about reconciliation with russia you made a lot of the day which i'm very glad who made. yeah exactly this is we shouldn't

we should be happy for this but we shouldn't take it for more than it is this is normal realist balancing this is what states do when states other states do things that anger of them they. send a message that they have other options to explore and that's where your system works absolutely right but what is not right or kind of. out of balance is that and we've mentioned this on this program before trump doesn't care you know he doesn't care about the implications and we have said here he's playing to his base i'm sure he's got a checklist in his pocket you know he's checking them through i mean is unpopular in his why moving to the embassy to jerusalem going out of the iran deal being very fickle when it comes to north korea i mean these are these these are things he ran on well i think we should always remember that we're not being told by states

where polls by an ideology and the problem with trump is that he is aggressive stupid dangerous but he does not understand this ideology he was not certified by them he won unexpectedly and the conflict gave it to him even though he did all the things that they wanted he bomb syria he he was very threatening to north korea he did everything they usually do continuing threatening a venezuelan agents on russians engine on right thanks and you know russia russia russia should these sanctions agents agent because that's what is water bottles if the zombie. and the funny thing is they're the democrats and the european liberals and used him being in coops with russia they continue to use them even though he has done more anti russian things than any president in history of the united states before him i mean to me this is all just inboard it in that terrible loss you would think that democrats have made. and that they were trying to support

them just let me remind our listeners don't put too much into the lawsuit there i think that is a job there for you in russian federation russian intelligence trumps competing in georgia in a song gendered. to me it's like if they had been given a tail is crosstalk on that list growing up it's not like that thing is to. me it is it is bill gates and santa claus on the loose you know jericho and jordan a silent it's likes you and mother three s and stormy daniels invited to not go out there to do in their minds they would have to wear stormy daniels free zone here. maybe go to you know in cyprus but one of the interesting thing of the and i'm and i'm agreeing with the mayor is that it's it's an anglo-saxon cobol here that is the anti russian i mean obviously elites in europe are going to play along with it because that's the cue that they're given from the berlin i'm sorry from washington but it seems to be very anglo-saxon when continuing this anti russian rhetoric and

policies they see the europeans that is something we have european leaders coming here to moscow and to negotiate negotiate is the beginning of the beginning of a process go ahead alex you know we were right in the beginning i believe that marco alert even stated whites rights essentially that you know that russia is in a trickle part of europe and he was very clear in his statements that he has now what russia to drift through east but you know let's not forget that trump is not a statesman or a good lad he's a business guy so i don't think you really understand any of this stuff that's going on i think you brought everything to business level and let's face it being a real estate tycoon in new york is probably a very dirty business and you make agreements and you break agreements and you twist arms you can do a lot of stuff that you know maybe see below their belts in foreign diplomacy and trump is bringing a lot of that to the world stage and you even had russia's president who did say that it seems to be right now that. you know the new rules are all about breaking

the rules and that's very much an allusion to how trump is dealing with a lot of the foreign policy issues today and it's a very good point i mean you know it's breaking all the rules but you know if you're always breaking the rules you can't make a new rule and that is the big problem here right now mark i think trumps art of the deal is like a mafia don when john bolton brought up the you know the. option for. north korea. trump replied well well that's not what we're planting the libyan option we totally decimated them that was a decimation he said and it case you don't know what that means that was with the omen roman legionary practice of killing why the out of every ten people and north korea has already been through worse than that with their the us. hellacious bombing campaign of north korea during the north korean war so that it could have

been well received there but then he said that is that's only if we if you break that if you don't sign a deal that's the only time decimation so either side on the bottom line or get decimated that is a mafia don threat something to sleep the whole st petersburg and international economic forum was overshadowed by trump's trade war on global trade i've not not just globalization but trade with allies trump has put effectively sanctions on south korea he's put tariffs rounds of tariffs on china sanctions on russia syria north korea iran he's promising the biggest sanctions in world history because they don't trump the trump run where there's little fingers loves everything big right here bigger that and it is he likes to exaggerate the size of everything but he's also threatening sanctions in two ways over both iran and the completion of north. stream against his own allies in the e.u.

right which is sure to you know really what all of them in europe really interesting is i'm glad you brought up the energy security or kadima because you know there's a lot of things that the europeans will go along with with the with the americans traditionally. not specifically with trump now but their energy security is something that is very real and very much theirs and i see in the germans are leading that push back that they will have north stream we also have that the pipeline will be coming through turkey so i mean it looks like there yeah well and that's if you want because turkey is always a wildcard but i mean this is an issue that is very real and very important to them and russia is a reliable partner we've seen that but there are two different things the european union and europe europe needs russian gas the european union needs to damage russia basically why did they destroy the project of. the so it was

a savior for europe you know it was going to bring cheap energy to the two most problematic states to that end to greece but they did everything before the project to be fair the germans rule the south stream so they can get an order. energy oh if you don't get it through to. that isn't yours are gentle they're going to have the judgment run out of time there are many thanks to my guests here in moscow and in cyprus this is the end of our broadcast segment stay with us with the extended version on our you tube channel see you next time and remember cross talks rules. fifty years ago bring them within to come together as a sleeping pill does this because this is. the sort of thing. what terrible

but not on the road. in the. war. across europe. legal battles demanding at least some compensation in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well that the constant mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been the justice and it has been. hard selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. for new socks for the tell you that the cost of a couple of myself most important. doesn't tell me on the whole enough to fight. the hawks that we along with all the walking.

you know. you never know what's around the corner never know what's in the pub even walk into excitement is that not knowing that's where the adrenalin rush comes from. and you can easily move by definition and the extreme through all. the violence is a part and it's almost a schizophrenia you know we can do all these things and behave badly. i. don't want to be holocaust colorful all. the more so for the last. funniest man infirmed. role. in this part. of a broader where no really did uphold i don't want to get. the

meaning anything is the belief if you don't get me involved it's constantly evolving. in the stories that shaped this weekend ology correspondent is among the small pool of foreign journalists invited to north korea to witness the earth shaking shut out of its only known you there to have so. many photographs. and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud of dust. another day another diplomatic u. turn from donald trump i see hints that the historic summit with north korea's kim jong il may be back on just a day off putting up and. everybody. knows. that better than anybody. and he said be just bug international economic forum seize global business leaders

political elites gather at russia's mall the capital. we'll take a closer look at what was one of the most anticipated meetings between the french and russian leaders. welcomes the weekly here at all to international law daniel holkins wherever you are today thanks for joining us this hour. north korea has taken a highly symbolic step on thursday pyongyang appeared to destroy its only no nuclear test site in front of the world's cameras he goes off was about a select group of journalists invited to witness the closing ceremonies. were in the beijing international airport and as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities here goes to go to north korea and now we will be proceeding to check in to our flight.

so you walk out of any airport what's the first thing you expect to see it's a bustling crowd people pushing and shoving it's a taxi drivers offering their often overpriced services well check this out nothing of this sort here it's just an empty parking lot and three buses that will take us to the city. this is where i will be spending the next eleven hours or so my very own oriental express i guess to check out the room the first thing to notice about it is the windows the blinds are shot there is some sort of a seal and we're not allowed to even peek from them never mind film anything with an air conditioner some beverages but really not much left to do but to go to bed.

everybody so we just woke up it's. six in the morning but check this out i just want to show you something really quickly they've opened the window the blinds are out so it probably means where really really close. so we finally arrived this is the dog station we're being told a cell in the now we're up for a bus ride these are the buses that will take us through the next leg of our journey. behind the east northern tunnel number two that's where the fight for the nuclear tests five most recent nuclear tests have been conducted people here are reassuring us saying that there have been no radiation leaks that the environment is good but many journalists may think that well it's but a safe than sorry as you can see some are wearing respirator mosques and some crews

have taken those he meets his with them to this trip which were billed confiscated at the customs we were also handed out these yellow safety helmets. didn't oppose the war in iraq but now it is because it's way out. of. those bags were used for living for the soldiers to help to locate soldiers and what has that well now north korea is showing that it is destroying the infrastructure to. surround this trip we have to be made very clear that what we've been treated to on

this trip was a privilege. too many people here who are here get to experience it because done of reporting from north korea for r.t. . a u.s. delegation has met with officials from pyongyang at the demilitarized zone separating the two countries the state department says it's positive of ration is for the potential summit between donald trump and cuba though the planning has suffered its fair share of diplomatic ups and downs this week the u.s. president cancel the talks and that was just hours in fact after pyongyang closed its nuclear facility however for the first time with this position changed very quickly because on friday he said that the get together may still go ahead after all. but we're doing very well in terms of the summit with north korea so we're looking at june twelfth in singapore that hasn't changed. it to terminate the planned summit in singapore in june twelfth. everybody. knows you know that

better than anybody the world continues to come to terms with donald trump's unpredictability and just a day after he announced of the historic summit in which he would meet with kim jong un in singapore was called off well now he seems to be hinting that it may be back on the table so what changed his mind once again what appears to have been a statement made by north korea and which they said they were still open to meeting and sitting down with the united states at any time now seems particularly sensitive to these statements from north korea his previous decision to cancel the summit was also based on a statement from north korea this is donald trump sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel it is inappropriate at this time to have this long planned meeting north korea has actually released three american prisoners and they've actually gone as far as to blow up their only nuclear test site however it seems that for donald trump words

speak louder than actions some people are looking on this and saying that maybe something deeper is going on beneath the surface here perhaps this is what you might call a psychological tactic of attrition donald trump did after all right the art of the deal and it seems like he might be playing hardball in the lead up to a potential meeting or no potential meeting with north korea people wonder what the ultimate outcome will be but it seems like only donald trump really knows what's going to happen next who know what he thought to i'd suspect least of all don't we knows what he thought i mean this is somebody who jumped into the main thing first of all quick of an affair it's up a drawing there's no. policy behind this is somebody who is into making headlines and appeasing the base what we're seeing is the huge naivety in the current american administration when it comes to foreign policy making or fueling hopes that the summit will take place after all on saturday the leaders of north and

south korea held a surprise meeting at the border. told his northern count of art that trumps committed to ending hostile relations later they reveal that hard to trust trumps words the leaders of the two koreas agreed to hold further talks this coming friday . now in russian news the world's business and political elite gathered this week in the country's northern capital st petersburg the international economic forum brought together more than fifteen thousand business titans investors and politicians on friday a panel of world leaders from russia japan china and france discussed the key economic and political challenges facing today's world. and with 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 put 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 but 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. i asked 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 the president from because you were somebody who was. associated with the election abroad president term. a provocator i've got nothing to do or translation

campaign and you are not a natural provoke it. 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 you have 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 was of course between a lot of the approaches it was the french leaders first visit to russia as president was there as the day and the events unfolded. this here in front of the cameras is going to happen right here. for now if you were diplomatic small none of that tapping on the shoulder but a few smiles were visible out there. now that the presidents are busy

talking and.