other country then they are from from the first country and it's not necessarily a bad thing both sides have to have yet to engage in trade and there and the issue with the with china is that they purchase less from the u.s. because the g.d.p. per capita there on average is about ten thousand dollars whereas in the u.s. it's fifty two thousand dollars so as americans we purchase we have a lot more purchasing power and we purchase a lot more from china than they do from us and we when we get good there's no losses there ok let me go about this fever in new york. how much abuse is this political because we already heard them mention the mid terms being mentioned here is this something the donald trump needs to serve up to his base because as we pointed out here is based in the process could be damaged i mean it's a delicate balance isn't it go ahead steve. it's a very delicate balance when you look at the state so that where the farmers are is

and the hurt that they're feeling in many respects and could feel down the road but in that case donald trump is a promise to use federal funding that's available to to to a bailout if you will the farmers who promise that they will not suffer i don't think he needs this politically for the midterms right now i think he's riding on the tax cuts he's looking to make the. individual cuts permanent he's looking to pass that legislation prior to the midterms he's also has the summit coming up june twelfth or eleventh hour time if you will you know if you want to get technical with north korea and he's talking about a summit with putin so i think he has enough accomplishments and he's doing enough things to to to satisfy the base and motivate the base heading into the midterms but this is something i've known donald trump to interview him and to you know and to have a relationship in that respect with him since the early eighty's and then it was sports but when it matured from sports this is something that has always been on

his mind the way we're treated unfairly whether it's a nato whether it's through trade whether it's with bad deals and he what he was he ran on fixing these things he is fixing these things and he's going to fix these things it's one big negotiation and we have yet to see where it will end up we don't know where it will end up you know one day there's no tariffs there's no trade war next day he's going he's putting tariffs on it's all part of a grand scheme he keeps them guessing. ok guys how we are right steve let me get let me go back to the pro let me go back to sarah but you know it cuts both ways steve ok markets investors don't like unpredictable unstable situations and i think this is the environment we're in and on top of it the kind of rhetoric that's been used against china i don't think is a very good negotiating strategy with the chinese go. head to. this chinese this is

not how they negotiate this is they see this type of maneuver as a slap in the face and the way china negotiates is five making conciliatory measures going back and forth and this is something that is going to take to actually stonewall our relationship with china and have a really negative impacts it also hasn't helped the stock market every time there's an announcement out potential trade wars the stock market goes way down and also companies both in china multinationals in china that was what was i was. down well very ugly because we've seen the stock market go way down then it would back up ok but this is proving my point steve ok we have these really good extremes going on here the markets are down the stock market is doing very very well everybody knows that but when we made the announcement i think it dropped two hundred fifty points again this predictability that's the issue i'm trying to highlight here and also here what they what two hundred fifty points with all due

respect and today's market of twenty five thousand two hundred fifty points is nothing so are you saying well we're actually here on the right the edge we're already there we're action ok we're going to jump in here we'll continue our shouting out the guy thing when he got out but after a short break we'll continue our discussion on trade war stay with our team. you can see a good. church secret indeed catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it would literally like to call this the do graphic solution so what the bishop needs to. do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply moves him to

a different spot where the previous standard was not known the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that end of that so nasty i don't think that i can flip out it just is out in. the south right there. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw 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 to remember is one to one business show you can afford to miss the one and only. welcome back across the uk were all things considered i'm peter a bill to remind you we're talking about potential trade wars. ok let's go back to our sort and i want to read a few words a quote here from jeffrey sachs where very well known economists particularly in eastern europe and russia now for the best reasons i'd like to point out here described donald trump as isolating america indeed he declares him a psychopaths treed war how do you react to jeffrey sachs calling the president the united states a psychopath i think psychopath is

a bit over the top i mean he is i know he didn't get elected on the basis that he was like the other politicians but he is a politician and you know he behaves rather like one just maybe a little bit differently he hasn't spent a lot of time studying the book on the art of diplomacy. and way of doing things and i think that's fine with you know we will get used to it it's not there's not a huge problem i think the other thing is that what we see in the headlines of course you've got to press which you know having been accused of fake news and all the rest of it i mean they're not all that kind to the man they never were never on the same page as donald trump to begin with so an awful lot of what we hear i think we've got to take with a bit of a pinch of salt the feeling i get is that there is a lot of communication actually going on between donald trump and president xi and also vladimir putin i don't know this for certain but it just this is the way

things work you have back channels and so the idea that. this public slanging match if you like you know on the one hand it's going to be ten percent tariffs on twenty five percent tariffs on something else and then china responding i think this is really for. or the public if you like and as i said earlier you know we are in coming up to midterm elections that i think is very very important so you've got all this sort of stuff going on but i think at the end of the day. things get sorted out in the background and i'm quite optimistic that this won't degenerate into something really serious i think there are other things that do worry me however. that's really over the isolationist stance of america it seems to me that the rest of the world is actually growing quite well without america america will grow well on her own because she's putting in massive budget stimulus and that budget stimulus i think which current which will coincide with china's purchases of

raw materials with the way the european union is beginning to take off i think that's going to lead to big inflation problems down the road now that might if you like put an extra spin into this if you like trade tariff type thing because this this is bound to increase protectionism i think in europe and also possibly in america ok then what is the role of the world trade organization in mean in again this is western driven the rules were conceived by the west and china did join in a lot of people said took advantage of it that's a different topic and subject and program itself here but it seems to me when we have so many of these large economic blocks or powers squabbling among themselves then the whole point of having the world trade organization is really quite meaningless and what about nafta and what about. if it will then brags it happens what kind of relationship is the u.k.

going to happen to have with the united states these are be the european union i mean what i'm saying is that it gets very very complicated there are so many different angles and different dots that connect here and then you have the largest largest economy in the world and yes it is china in the middle of it all going. the world trade organization was created based on the presumption that the world was moving towards a system of free trade and the u.s. was leading that it illogical effort and now the u.s. is moving away from it and so. it has become less relevant in a way particularly for american politics potentially for the u.k. and elsewhere and i don't know that it's necessarily going to be something that people are able to ignore entirely certainly the tariffs that our president is attempting to impose on china as well as other countries would be questioned

and possibly rejected by the world trade organization i don't think that it's necessarily going to become a thing of the past the world trade organization that is i think that sound how there might have to be some reorganization of it either that or the u.s. will have to go through another it illogical change again towards free trade but that's not their direction that we're moving and currently you know it steve you know the united states has a long lineage of protectionist. strategies that presidents have been deployed in again and to grow and industrialized the american league economy i mean it's been a big plus being very selective here but you know again there's the historical thing and i mentioned the beginning of the program is that after the second world war germany and japan later south korea were really given really sweetheart deals by the united states to grow their economies for geopolitical reasons of course during the cold war no one denies that but the cold war has been over for

a long time and and it's time for the europeans to move in you know in every sense pay their own way ok nato trade and all that i mean i could i understand the logic of donald trump in doing this here. the united states is very benevolent to these this part of the world because of geopolitical reasons not because we're all like each other no it was a good solid geo political reasons but those reasons are evolving and changing and everybody has to pay their way we all know what's happened to the middle class the working middle class in the united states it's it's if it's not suffering it's gone ok that's why trump was elected go ahead steve well i don't know that it's gone i think it was suffering and i think that that's that's one of the reasons our trump was elected but but you're absolutely right and the americana are fed up with this scenario that you just pour trade there they realize what we had and why we had it

but there's no reason to really have it anymore and what i'm talking about basically and donald trump's terms is that america keeps getting screwed and gets the short end of the state whether it is funding in nato whether it is in trade deals whether it is in funding the united nations no matter what it is or the paris accords that we dropped out of it's always the united states that bears the brunt of the burden of the cost when there are other countries that could well afford it and don't pony up what they what is their fair share and this is all part of the thinking all part of the the mind set of donald trump and it extends to these trade deals and trade in general and that's why you're seeing what you're seeing and his base loves it and so did the american people they love it they don't they don't want confrontation but they don't want to get stepped on any more those days are over ok ok also let me go to alastair i agree with along with steve there sad to say but it wasn't you know if this is not just state to state these sort of

corporations and what we saw over the last thirty thirty five years is western companies moving their production outside of the country making huge profits not being repatriated i mean the reason why we have these policies is not to you know the president has. asked trackability who wrote all those bills i may have a pretty good idea who did it work it wasn't politicians i can't remember the last time any politician actually wrote legislation was always a lobbyist go ahead our exit or. you're absolutely right about lobbyists and i think lobbying is just appalling and i'm looking forward to bret's it so there's no more lobbying in brussels as far as we're concerned but i just want to sort of go back a little bit and you know i think this sort of concept that germany and japan got sweetheart deals after the war they got financing yes but i don't think we should rubbish the effort that those two countries of those two countries their recovery.

i mean it was a fear that it was very you know and not only that but the big difference the big difference between between germany and japan and america was germany and japan when they borrowed they borrowed to invest in production in more efficient production in production which people actually wanted to buy in the case of america they expanded credit really not for production but for excess spending rather like italy today if you like or worse things that are not quite as bad example. so you know in a sense i think you know i think i think to sort of you know blame the the germans and the japanese for being successful in the purse war years i think actually misses the whole point i don't know why but i'm not dismissing hardworking germans and hardworking japanese and really hardworking south koreans are not dismissing they're ok please. so what is right so you know they were right before you were

going on were rapidly running out of i'm sorry you want to jump in that's the point of the program go ahead i know that the us is necessarily getting the short end of the stick i mean as you mentioned. multinationals american multinationals have gone overseas and they've produced in china and other countries before that at a really low cost of that meat a huge amount of profit in export those goods back to the u.s. and other nations so i don't know that our free trade policies have necessarily been you know against our own interests ok i would just be ok let me let me go to steve you know you're ok right well where i. got it would cause all of you disagree and that's van task like i let me go to our real quick and then i'll go to steve go ahead ouster. ok now i think the point actually that sarah was making is right i mean where apple friends made in america no i designed the maybe but basically they're made in eastern asia so you know trade is global and if you

start throwing spanners in the works then basically consumers will pay and the rate of inflation in america will only increase if don't trump introduce his trade tariffs it's really as simple as that ok steve i'll give you the last word of the program go ahead how is this making america great i was just making america great forty seven because kevin mccarthy the majority leader of the house is backing down on. his tactics in the terrace he points to canada for instance and says look at they treat our dairy products look at our winds which can't go in their supermarket shelves so it becomes a matter of pride it becomes a matter of of of being treated fairly the optics of being treated fairly as well a very important here don't overlook that ok well i'm going to end on the note here probably controversial for all of you you know i don't tend to see the united states as a victim in the world very often ok so let's keep that in mind and we'll see where

this is going to go we've seen the past trade wars are bad for everyone that's it many thanks to my guests in new york and an exit and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and remember cross talk rules. for men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. for a different version of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because. well that's do not share around a corner. from. what politicians do something that. would put themselves on the lawn. they get accepted or rejected

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most of that you have i'm going to compete in the doesn't seem to do more in the middle. don't piss off. the. top stories here on our amnesty international says the u.s. led coalition in syria may have committed war crimes during the battle for iraq last year and that as the coalition admits that the real number of civilian losses will never be no. theory in germany over the american ambassador has vowed to champion europe's conservative groups. maybe he needs to be a little bit more careful do this gusting. and we have a world cup special for you in this pilot and it's not just the united manager chose him out in your unveils his predictions for the group stage while another member of the r t team star goalie peter schmeichel gets cultural and host city

simply does but. the. second piano concerto solo is going to show me. your top stories for. live from moscow this is the international and a very warm welcome here. it has been one year since the start of the operation to liberate the syrian city of raka from i saw the actual human cost of the operation remains far from clear according to the u.s. led coalition the number of civilians killed in the battle for rocca will never be known as far as how do we know how many civilians were killed i'm just being honest no one will ever know anyone who claims they will know is lying it comes as i missed the international releases a report that accuses the u.s.

led coalition of relentless air and volatility restrikes in a patrol car investigates. getting to the bottom of what was really happening in iraq as the americans and allies were freeing it who will be bothered to do that or it will take ages the prose of war behind these walls may have thought but scrutiny was inevitable coalition claims that it's precision and campaigns allowed it to bomb islamic state house of rocca well causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny based on information from amnesty international is filled investigation and public reporting coalition or an artillery strikes killed hundreds of civilians and injured many more open amnesties report and you'll find words like this

proportionate indiscriminate bombing the use of white phosphorus claims which could turn into a reputational disaster if proven things that amount to war crimes the u.s. led coalition mission to free rocka went on for more than four months from june sixth to a tobar twelfth last year and the pentagon proudly told the world they'd fired thirty five thousand artillery rounds while they were at it that fired more rounds and rockets syria than any other marine that tillery battalion any marine battalion since the vietnam war yet we kept hearing from those whose orders matter how cautious they wore their it has been known military in the world's history that is paid more attention to the limited value of the guests of minister john the battlefield and the coalition military were not perfect guys we can make a mistake and in this kind of warfare will happen but we are the good guys and

munitions people on a battlefield know the difference you can't help wondering how the. many innocent locals general mattis has actually met i'm sure you can find many of those who are genuinely grateful to the coalition for kicking myself out but just compare his words to some of the witness accounts our team heard while in iraq there was the death of the conversion of the we were directly targeted by the coalition after the recognizance craft filmed us it was a low altitude it was very clear there were no terrorists in the area but there were kids playing in the streets and we were collecting water and i knew little that i knew that if the aircraft bomb using phosphorus targets everyone it is not hidden i still the coalition is boned randomly if you're sitting at home a bomb may come down on you there are houses that collapsed on their residence and they could not get out all this happened because of the aircraft they were plane comes in strikes for instance

a five story building i said would be on the second floor while civilians on the third and fourth floors how comes the plane still strikes then most civilians died the night of terrorists and we weren't alone in hearing those worrying calls from that devastated syrian city humanitarian groups on the high alert had to many more whores to share with us and the rest of the world there are worries about how this operation will affect civilians we're concerned about the safety and protection of more than four hundred thousand people in iraq as these operations commence to strike we've investigated it was. not a year in coalition authority so you actually believe that the actual number report about who is under reported if you thought any of that led to a change of tactics by the coalition or at least an apology i have to tell you they sealed it themselves from scrutiny with monthly casualty reports we've been largely

focusing on the fate of rock of civilians in our coverage and nationals now weighed in with some serious work it could be high time we hear something new from the u.s. pros of war. on friday the russian president vladimir putin will visit china the shanghai cooperation organization summit and head to being when he was asked by journalists whether he would be bringing any gifts for his chinese counterpart. will you bring a given piece here it won't be a surprise if i say in advance what exactly i'm bringing. you know. i told you before how the chinese businessman told me how chinese love russian ice cream i promised him i'd bring some over myself and so i brought you an

entire box of ice cream as a gift. between me and you i will whisper it to you later in the interview touched on many topics and now reports say doubts that president casey will be bringing a gift in with him during his state visit to china. to meet the president and see him it's still a very good friends present. day with him as well take a listen. chairman cieszyn pink is the only world leader with whom i have spent one of my birthdays i

just have not had that kind of relationship with anyone else and my schedule did not allow spending my birthday with any of my other foreign counterparts but i was able to do so with decision. now during this three day state visit the president facing the attend the shanghai cooperation organization seventh also known as the as c.e.o. and together these countries make up the fourth largest production of world g.d.p. and they also make up forty three percent of the world's population now it's also a security organization as well so the topic of north korea will no doubt simply come up so that when talking about the korean peninsula in the instigate president putin said that they want to go down the path that will have to use tensions between was a red. suit a courteous go to go was stopped by the north korean leadership has taken unprecedented steps towards deescalation of tensions and frankly i did not expect that. i can understand the north korean leadership when they say that for the full

denuclearization of the peninsula they need absolute guarantees of their security and how else could it be it is not possible to imagine it any other way you especially after the tragic events that happened in libya and iraq the north koreans remember them very well. because i still hoped at this meeting a very brave and mature decision u.s. president donald trump has made to have direct contacts with north korean leader kim jong un will take place and we all expect a positive outcome. and the chance to ask. questions and they will obviously. which kicks off on. the difficult one there are many title contenders there are latin american teams like argentina and brazil but we also know that the german team showed great game

at previous tournaments and a high quality of football was also demonstrated by the spanish team i am sure there are going to be other title contenders but the strongest will win. the most. have a couple of footballers whom i consider extraordinary and who can obviously lay claim to the title of the among russian and soviet players it is live among foreign footballers it's pale a well i also like mara dawna the people. discussing our all time footballing. world cup predictions and. for which country will lift the world cup in the final in moscow next month we have been picking the brains of perhaps the most famous manager out there. and how the tournament will play out.