the european union is now going through several crisis at the same time if at the same time we're not able to tell the american you know you call and do this we need to be respected then the crisis in europe we continue to escalate and you can start worrying about the future of the organisation i do the only way we are going to convince voters next year we have a european election that this whole thing deserved the repacked it and i believe it deserved what they did but the only way you're going to do to convince people is that makes it's relevant right you can put the ball those against migrants you can put take europe against american or chinese behavior you can have a policy that you russia and ukraine don't go really so yes you need to beef up what's supposed to be the european union mr lish we have to take a very short break now but we will come back in just

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it's. welcome back to worlds apart but you're a loser former secretary of state for foreign trade mr lulu's just before the break we started talking about whether or not the european union can muster enough will power its you stand up for itself and you know we had a former obama administration official in charge of the show just a short while ago and as much as he wanted to protect the iranian deal he was absolutely convinced that the europeans. i have no choice but to come along and

support the united states and that and incidentally that happens to be their opinion of the majority of the russian expats who also believe that you know the europeans may sound indignant for a while but at the end of the day they will do what's required of them i mean missing something fundamental about the europeans and their ability you know to stand up for themselves but i write for their interest i do know many things have changed since nine hundred ninety six even z. ownership of many of the european companies building editions. you have all kinds of interest in the sale of the american interests and so on which make it more difficult for governments to a private company to do with the do when you have a union between twenty eight countries it's much harder to make decisions jill here is ition that this is a major political problem not it is not just a question of strategic consequences on the run the it's not only the impact on the

company it's easy impact on the sovereignty what is the point saying that i'm an independent country or an independent european union if i have to submit to what's in this to fail says the hardest sanction in history decided by him if if we don't give it could elected things. on the whatever or ukraine because of the behavior of russia ukraine and its collective. and there isn't a political agreement that this is the right policy that's one thing but if ses move along good agreement then we should be able to say look we don't agree taking a back to the issue of terrorists when trump extended this latest exemption and we're speaking just on the eve of him deciding whether or not tariffs are going to be applied to the european companies once this latest exemption was granted the

european commission issued a whole statement that they will not negotiate on death threat but just this week the news came that the german finance minister is going to meet with the european commission trade representative and the americans to discuss this terror specifically and what i want to ask you is whether you believe in principle it's a good idea for the europeans to ask for individual concessions rather than trying to push against what you i think quite rightly term the us legal imperialism in other words should they be asking for a privilege or should they be asking for rules that are commonly applied to everybody no no it's not mix issues what you just talked about this terrorist trade and. we are. different with different countries the issue is is more fundamentally was a respectful national sovereignty or not and it's not turning point you know if we

miss the point and. i'm not capable to show we must be respected then i think it would be very dead in the who for the future of the u.s. but mr bush when you say i agree with you that terror is a individual but at the same time for example the other day c.n.n. wrote an article suggesting that the way china can deal with its trade deficit trade imbalance with the united states is by reorienting its. imports from the european union so let's say the united states still buying airbus and by boeing and that's it's individual but it's also relevant to your interests in a pretty direct way you mentioned your grievances against china before. and i think that megan i only want to live in cities and if i were a russian i would be much i was

a little more worried when my question is more about whether this issue should be decided on a quid pro quo basis or indeed whether there is a common valley in trying to come up with some common approach because you know it could be argued that the union the european union has never said a word when russia or even china was treated unfairly by the united states so if the european union now experiences a problem should anyone really be concerned not to let you say unfairly is because of political problems. and i and i and i want to help resolve this political problem but i need gestures on the russian side as the west nothing is happening and we have this sort of at the center of every six months and it's a lose lose situation i've told mr level of this morning you know how do we get out of the box nobody wants to isolate russia certainly not france so let's get out of

it show us how we get out of this ukrainian mess i thought i didn't know it so we who have to show you how i don't know i didn't go into ukraine you did so we're going to we're going to fix it ok so this goal and it only russia that has to fix it for everybody involved i quite agree everybody has to make gestures but people are waiting because the sanction on the. on the part of a sham is the level of those that mr didn't know that and just getting out of here is what kind of gesture tell tell me what kind of gesture is progression me only just a very simple we need to see move movement of troops out of these. minsk. there is not interim they don't even mentioning i mean they they say if you don't want to get into this at this point there is a series of steps to be taken by all sides. i think it's very important for two shows away and then to process stuff and if the treatment the unfair

treatment you're talking about is linked to a political situation which i find quite different from zero rest of the issue of trade what i meant by unfair treatment is not only sanctions related to the ukrainian case for example i'm sure you know that one of our biggest companies who saw it was just sanctioned by the americans and nobody actually knows what for i mean it's supposedly related to their latched interference in the elections but those reasons have never been really laid out i think this accumulation on sanctions on russia is not exactly a good idea frankly i think the hysteria thing on going back to the cold war is not a good idea and we should deescalate all this but whether there was an interference in the u.s. election i think if you look at the f.b.i. report it's very easy if you look at their very worst i think it would not i am very basic academic creative. than i have read it university thesis and you really

think and police and judges they do their job is it a major interference with the election of course not was there any difference most likely. the russians alone to interfere of course not so. is this a reason to escalate this into a new cold war and a whole wall of sanctions probably not. we should fix this seems to me with a little bit of wisdom now i do not. have bit. of heating on the people with all the time is necessarily the best way to move them except serious issues ukraine's. now let me ask you because there was a change of the vote since the war and there was a ferris shot in ninety nine. you don't do these things don't interfere was a goal of us over. this illusion i really do not want to get. i mean when

france interfere is in countries like libya for example or even in syria it never for some reason things about you know doing those matters in quite the same terms but let's not get into that because i want to really did libya signs of his military leave it was a sovereign state and did you hear me say that this was a wonderful idea now but i mean if. this thing the international community everybody will you can't demand russia to be you know holier than the pope when other countries behave in that and i'm not trying to sound apologetically but i think it's a valid discussion about it in light of what roles apply it is a discussion and not saying i find western strategy. since the end of the or extreme your brilliance otherwise we would not be in the situation. having the climate we have between russia and the west the worst since

the end of world war two today is. stupid and tragic the european union has filed preliminary complaints but the w t l is seeking to pressure the trumpet ministration by targeting u.s. goods produced in states that don't trump and to the white house you know we're talking about on holiday davidson bikes produced in response and you know whiskey from kentucky etc. it seems to be a very specific case of mixing politics and economics you know you try to pinch us economically we will try to hurt you when it hurts the most politically is that a fair game as far as europe is concerned because the europeans have long been very moralistic when russia tries to mix politics and economics where using trump is doing what he does he's doing what he does because it she'd into his electorate but i'm asking you do you think it's a fair game of course is a thing what's wrong with well i mean what's wrong when you subsidize got gas for

your neighbor and expect a certain political outcome to happen there what's wrong with bad but apparently you know in your crane the european union didn't like russia having both economic and political leverage the economic and political verge of always been. into existence marxism in this country for a number of years well it's hard to me but i mean the world where we've been told by the europeans this is not their head way to do that and i'm just struck that the european you know you're hearing about the you know in itself was built on the cutting tax tariff remember it was a custom union frings a market with low free circulation of people and consolidate democracy and peace so the link between openness and trade and openness of society has always been xeni line of the western countries so you cannot you know we tend to discover that politics and economy links of course selling the traditional free trade school in

the anglo-saxon country and all the. u.k. germany us that the more it's free voice have you that's why as a public in the u.s. was always pro trade trump is not proof we trade and use this. in a very spectacular way. but you know and china has a point to diffuse it with china is huge by the way we have a huge deficit in france with china and we need to fix it we are too complacent the problem is there is no trade as you know in europe straight policy is federal you have a permission to do that and it's so you need to show collective power in order to do some said mr lewis don't you see the irony in that because respond this half an hour talking about you know this bare knuckle of prose by donald trump and what you're actually telling me that it's ok to be your itself implying that kind of any

other point known them when you have to protect your interests you you may take measures that are necessary to protect your interests when you have a huge deficit that you accumulate with china which is in part because of unfair like this is not always that it's also the hunger of consumption of the us for cheap products but there is also in. very dedicated strategy which and say it is not always fair to destroy production in the west or in russia and says very cheap products are unfair competition. you entitle to defend against that yes you must that's one issue but please don't confuse with. well anyway mr milosevic have to leave it there thank you for being with us today i'm i hope our viewers can keep this conversation going on our social media pages asp i mean this here again same place same time here on the wall for part.

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this i was told headlines on oxy russia's foreign minister meets with the leader of north korea saying that the peninsula can only clear eyes gradually and if sanctions against pyongyang. criticize ukraine for staging the muddle of russian opposition journalist. a new intelligence tool could possibly predict if a protest is going to turn violent. media activity. something you feel as opposed to winning the hearts of the syrians. and in an exclusive interview with syrian president bashar al assad insists that damascus would never

have used chemical weapons against its own people and claims that there is there was never in fact any civil war in syria. on thursday here in moscow this is r.t. international a very warm welcome to you. well the russian foreign minister has met with north korean leader kim jong un as pyongyang prepares for a potentially historic. peace summit with south korea and the u.s. . the peace process remains. regarding sanctions it's completely obvious that when we start to increase the nuclear issue there's another issue on the korean peninsula it's with the understanding that nothing can happen with sanctions still in place how that's going to be achieved

isn't of the question a matter of the art of the. how that's going to be is another question a matter of the ox of the gear she should but it can't be done. just like denuclearization that is why they have to be stages this progress at each stage. rushers interested in working with both koreas and that the north should consider all factors in the peace talks including recent history our correspondent in pyongyang right now with some exclusive images from inside north korea. this is a truly incredible opportunity for us to film inside the place where most high profile meetings in north korea happen just as the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is talking to his north korean counterpart behind closed doors right there the moment when the russian top diplomat is gang is absolutely unique on the one hand the resolution of the korean peninsula crisis might be just

a few steps away with a massive concessions the north and the south have both been making and even donald trump to however we understand that any wrong move can make everything collapse so the question is why exactly surrogate lavrov and it up in the north korean capital russian diplomatic sources suggest that it was after several invitations in a row by mr lavrov apart during his visit to moscow we were also told that the north korean side wanted the trip to happen asap during a traditional quick chat with the journalists on the plane when we asked. why this was happening and what to expect. the visit his answer was well just have to see i don't know for now believe the train co from the monsoon to palace the home of the north korean parliament in pyongyang meanwhile in north korea is also planning

multiple talks with u.s. officials amid on certainty over the upcoming summit between washington and pyongyang former u.s. diplomat jim john trust says the language of ultimatums is unlikely to solve the situation on the korean peninsula but be aware there are a lot of people here in washington who do not want this summit to take place and they certainly do not want any kind of accord between north korea and the united states idea that this could be a gradual process which i think the president trump is open to a gradual process of denuclearization in exchange for a step by step change in the relationship between washington and pyongyang is a realistic one but i think here people here would like to present the north koreans with an ultimatum which of course will will will not solve the problem. journalists have rounded on the ukrainian authorities for faking the assassination of a russian opposition journalist in kiev international media and security watchdogs

have slammed the stunt as deplorable and regrettable. the staged murder of journalists i can see bumps in could by the ukrainian security service is distressing well the reappearance of the report i'm a great relief is deeply regrets believe crane's authorities have played with the truth no matter what the motive relieved that. he was alive i deplore the decision to spread false information on the life of a journalist it is the duty of the state to provide correct information to the public early in the ukrainian authorities had claimed that they had found a russian journalist out of the above genco with gunshot wounds in his flat in the capital it was claimed that he died on route to hospital however later it was revealed that the murder had been staged apparent. in order to foil and actual plot to kill the journalist. was a prominent kremlin critic who is condemning the russian activities in ukraine and syria he was a contributor for a major u.k. news outlets like the guardian and the b.b.c.

. an old quarter now reports on the fallout of this controversial case when a russian journalist was pronounced murdered in the ukrainian capital it didn't take long for the ceremonial finger pointing at russia to begin he was only working on things that were critical and investigative of russia and of the russian government as well he said there was nothing that was critical of ukrainians of course that network and its boss placing the blame on the kremlin and on russia journalist known political leanings have led some to point the finger in one direction it was a calculated deliberate international terrorist crime committed on the direct instruction of the russian authorities he figured it's who can blame them when the story has all the perfect ingredients the russian totalitarian machine putin's regime going after the kremlin critic except the guy turned up alive and well a magic in everyone's confusion what on earth is showing on fred all of these developments in just the last hour or so i know left out absolutely gobsmacked it

is second so what the heck actually have been here russia said it was relieved that our cause alive but also fiore us and understandably so after being falsely accused of murder questions of life and death in ukraine as well as the international community's trust in its politics are not the more than a bargaining chip for the kids regime to stir up russian hysteria fellow journalists were outraged too when a state says a prominent journalist who had received threats was murdered i think the media have to report it but with the fake news in ukraine have reduced all of our credibility trump would be proud had learned not to trust ukrainian authorities on don't best warrant but assuming something. this official confirmation was solid apologies it's on wikipedia as most notable fake deaths so what gives all the murder was staged by the ukrainian secret service to foil an alleged kremlin plot they say they did it

secretly not even his wife knew imagine what the poor woman went through but one ukrainian lawmaker thinks this is ok because shown a comb successfully used the method of staging his own death to effectively investigate difficult and complicated crimes well if it happened in fiction must be good in real life too whether ukraine will produce evidence that there was ever a russian plot in the first place remains to be seen but after a stunt like this it's hard to imagine many will take anything he says at face value taming is key i think just before we start the world cup in russia which is a sure case event for any country that will cut their or sort of cut and suddenly we're getting the story switches does that which are designed i would speculate to discredit russia and discredit russia and the eyes of the world just as a supposed to host the world cup and so this is a very little mental campaign that's been targeting russia because it's no

interfering in areas in which only sions have in the past understood that they are off limits when it comes to using them for propaganda purposes such as trying to use a world cup to undermine the host nation that does no good to anyone especially at a time when we need to try and form an understanding. syria's president bashar al assad says more u.s. strikes targeting the syrian government are possible but it was during an exclusive interview he gave to r.t. is what i guess the assad also explained why he thinks it's wrong to call the conflict in news country a syrian civil war is a preview. the timing of this illegal strike was after the victory of the syrian troops. let alone the fact that we don't have chemical weapons anyway and let the other folks that we're not going to use it

against old people because the but the new syria was about winning the heart of the civilians this is the main button and we want it so how can you use chemical weapons against civilians that you want them to be supportive to the second if you go to that area it was very clear and by armies by factions in by civilians we never use such armaments or weapons in that area are going to harm everyone something that didn't happen and if you go to that area and you ask this if there was no chemical attack me or anyone. would have it all is not according to what we have actually from the very beginning mercenaries syrians and foreigners being paid by the whist in order to topple the government this is the reality of the myriad of the very stark reality.