if you can describe the bridging the way the. government actually i'm not sure i will she was obviously still thinking over that was. a challenge and this and both i'm still leaning it was that there will not be to see a rush but for all saying yes i should actually i did look at the. front runner in the conference look at that i thought. that was it you. know i don't know but we sure didn't actually. that's good for us but i think we're going to keep watch on that news briefing and then when john bolton does start to discuss what he's been discussing with president putin during the course of the day and indeed with security officials last night to be taking reporters' questions later to will go straight back to that when it happens before the eagles you don of our correspondents been across what happened at the earlier discussions we'll get to that

a bit later on we're going to go back to that news conference john bolton is about to talk to reporters. deliver news of the bush administration's decision to withdraw from the a.b.m. treaty but his message was that i am. against the facts that that's the nuts that. he wouldn't. look at us but i guess and she has since it would have to if she had a. i've even seen if you suggest that we could see this is in the step that is the go to puppet i also want to thank jon huntsman and his team they are doing a fantastic job here in moscow under very difficult circumstances limited personnel in very trying environment and they have us descend on them with all of the needs and requirements really puts a strain on the embassy so we're very grateful to him and everybody who pitched in to get that national look at that is bus alleging a concern that the form how much you can put up with make up a source that and he said what the which is lost in the cups that just took so let

me get this on the deal it's a solution in the. what you could or should what they're. not sure it is if you think it's not then that's just looking to see if i'm not in the market on the form we should reach and that's in the shows that was a. joke here in moscow over the past two days have had a series of very comprehensive and i think very productive discussions with senior russian officials such as made me advise me at the best but i will what she. thought and they did it i would it. look i was there and i see it had included about an hour and a half meeting with the president from which we've just come with foreign minister sergei lavrov with french minister sergei shoreview with my direct counterpart the secretary of the russian national security council nick alive. and with president

putin's foreign affairs advisor ambassador if you're you. yes viciously. but it's just that was to visit in the police and then with the you get this it is the chick actually you have. these three men that's been on the game of love at all of them i mean these that are about on the city i'm sure or. a secluded they don't or person someone is that doesn't this to me. this was the second meeting especially with the secretary following up on the meeting in helsinki between president putin and president trumps and their instructions to us in our colleagues on our respective national security council is to look at ways to enhance practical cooperation and expansion of dialogue between russia and america . and if that is. my impression of it and that's as they always said as opposed to each if you could set the pace and came out of that. and that's the number two

seeing at speeds that said that was the united states would see it go pick him up if it was a fresh shoot past a little and even they see the protective scheme at a shooting in nashville just so we had discussions that covered the whole range of issues different in certain respects depending on. who we were speaking with from the russian side but just to give a couple of highlights of what we covered and what we discussed is president putin said in the opening of the meeting today chris was there the in his words now it would be useful to continue a direct dialogue with the president of the united states primarily on the fields of international events that will take place in the near future for example in paris course if the american side is interested in these contacts friends and i say yes the president trying to be would look forward to meeting with him in paris so

we will make the precise arrangements. but it will happen. in connection with the one hundredth anniversary of the celebrated armistice the french are hosting on the ground with you. nobody else is doing it so that other but also a. very sinister chalice. eventually. this national spirit letting you. know that it will still be good. to share. them. but yeah usually i don't like. seeing the stage the. least it's. ever going to dip out of valid you can tell it's in a rather strange format that news briefing in the john bolton is speaking in trunks of passages of what he had to say and his being parallel translated but we are

listening across to what's being said and will listen across the questions to we'll bring you the highlights of that news conference that's happening right now in central moscow you can see the full interview if you want to follow that stream it's online right now streaming live. dot com. well the russian president vladimir putin wrapped up that meeting a short while ago with the u.s. national security advisor john bolton in moscow and despite the tension surrounding the two countries at this point both still managed to lighten the mood when they met. as far as i remember there is an eagle on the us national emblem and there are thirteen arrows in one thing and an olive branch with the olives as a symbol of peaceful policy in the other my question is did your ego eat all the old leaves and leave just the arrows. grateful for the opportunity to speak with you on behalf of president and hopefully i'll have some answers for you but i didn't bring any more although. that's what i thought. all jokes aside and

as john bolton mentioned just a moment ago some serious issues were discussed at that meeting correspondent a goshdarn of has more on that. so the meeting between the russian president and the security advisor for donald trump has just wrapped up and well in fact judging by what's come out so far it has been a rather general discussion the russian president vladimir putin has expressed it all he said that he's perplexed by the fact that washington keeps taking unfriendly steps towards russia even though russia according to lattimer putin is not even responding to most of them you also kind of reminisce to his meeting with donald trump with these tete a tete. which took place in the helsinki in finland and he called that meeting a hard to all but also a very productive thing to have happened to both countries and he explained he said that such meetings are really very useful to move the relationships between the relationship between the countries forward and he also said that the world that

kind of john bolton has said expressing his opinion on the fact that it is very useful finding common ground finding common ground even when relations are not in their best state really have a listen and appreciate your taking the time to get together and be pleased to go over all the items on your agenda and to begin to as you indicated i think president trump would look forward to seeing you in paris on the sidelines of the celebrations under the anniversary of the armistice because despite our differences which exist because of different national interests it's still important to work in areas where there is a possibility of mutual cooperation any minute now john bolton could come here to a venue here in central moscow not far from the kremlin to address the media but in general he's had a rather social day today flowers to the grave of the to the tomb of the unknown

soldier he also laid flowers to the memorial of the tragedy of courage just last week more than twenty people were gunned down. there at a college in the mass shooting and also he laid flowers to the place of murder of a once prominent opposition figure here in russia. in fact to john bolton's visit has been preceded by some very strong rhetoric coming out of washington and. personally from mr trump what he did he basically just yesterday as bolton john bolton was here kind of explaining america's position on the i.n.f. treaty a crucial treaty all know sort of a massage of the terran thing donald trump promise to keep bolstering its nuclear washington's nuclear capabilities unless well other countries grovel really i should say so all that happened while mr bolton was here have a listen right here as noted here to the agreement this should have been done years

ago but still people come to this that we have more money than anybody else by far we'll build it up but until they come to their senses when they go then low bar and was done as well and by the way not only will read you so just to give you some background john bolton's visit to moscow had been planned in advance but right before the donald trump made a very strong statement saying that he was going to pull out of the treaty unilaterally so mostly the his advisor here has had some explanation most of explanation to do on just on monday this monday he said that apparently the united states still do not have a solid position on that they are not pulling out just yet at least the procedure has not been launched and that while they are going to keep consultations with russia with their asian partners and of course was what with washington's european partners since they do feel threatened with rhetoric like this since many european countries see this treaty is key to european stability but for other reaction

earlier kevin owen heard from john laughlin from the think tank the institute of democracy and cooperation he thinks europe will find it tough to back washington over the treaty. obviously america has full spectrum dominance and trump has repeatedly said he wants to maintain that he wants to maintain a position in which no country can come even near even group of countries can come near challenging american power so i think there's a very clear line in terms foreign policy that he thinks that international relations are determined by force and the treaties come about when there is agreement but agreement comes about when there is a balance of power there is an argument for saying that america does not have an interest in withdrawing from this treaty because with the treaty it can prevent russia if what russia were to want to from deploying these intermediate range missiles it could be that america is shooting itself in the foot let's not forget

that mccall and merkel are going to next week to talk to mr putin and mr erdogan about syria this was unthinkable only a few months ago and the europeans do not like trump ism in foreign policy they prefer the world of multilateral treaties international agreements and so on so let's see what john bolton has to say about his meeting today with president putin back to that news conference in central moscow. i might say. for for the for the context involved here this is not a subject it rose yesterday this question are russian violations. and something that both from the obama administrations were very concerned. in fact just to give a little context to say i what i would like to read. from a speech in two thousand and fifteen by the obama administration's then undersecretary of state for arms control and international security rose

gottemoeller that's a position i held the bush administration and just this is what under secretary geithner said in two thousand and fifteen. at the focus of the bells defense was that it is about first. which it was in him but the ideal is it's. what the intoxicant you let them sit out. that's a new c.n.n. senior national meaning this is the united states is. and again you can follow that online to our other headline news now the turkish president said that saudi dissident journalist jamal khashoggi was motives in a vicious manner and a preplanned operation because he was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul at the beginning of october riyadh denied any knowledge of the incident for more than two weeks more details earlier from correspondent in the upper track go. most people thought that president will shed light on the details probably even

groundbreaking details that could have been revealed by investigators it is stay a bowl well he didn't instead his speech was more of a political message in which he basically made it clear that turkey skull voted that mr khashoggi these death was a preplanned political murder but. the evidence that we have so far indicates that your molecules shot jews were slain in a vicious violent murder did over those responsible from the highest level to the lowest level who brought to justice and will get the punishment they deserve the incident was not a momentary recent article but rather of the result of a planned operation right to recal people who didn't see the whole thing you saw in the punishment the people who carried out this deserved are we any closer to knowing who he thinks who thinks the should go to is behind it he mentioned the

people who are responsible for this three people because. group of fifteen people were set from saudi arabia although mr aired fell short of directly blaming the saudi royal family for this. still though he was clearly eager to put pressure on saudi arabia he made an outright bad to hold the perpetrators responsible for this and also came up with a list of direct questions for the saudi government who gave instructions to those people to come to istanbul why were the consulate premises not open to examination on that day or the following day we need an answer to this it's clear now it was a murder where is the body why do we still not have a bit of information that the body was given to a local operative who is he it's not an order. person saudi arabia needs to reveal his identity so right now saudi arabia's earlier version that jamal khashoggi was

killed as a result of some sort of brawl or a fist fight would really do after such comments made by mr of people picking up on this story before it all kicked off to a lot of people around the world the name jamal khashoggi was not particularly well known remind us who he is why he all this trouble around him jamal khashoggi is a journalist noted for his criticism of the saudi royal family he was flood to the us and was a columnist for washington post but in order to get married he had to go to the card so that bull to get some documents side a second visit to the cause that happened on october the second that was when the tragedy happened.

so i just want to point out once again that's days passed since the actual birth or happened a tobar second before the saudi officials admit it happened within the walls of their called so much has gone on a reaction has been around the world to this big story well i can tell you that the international community hasn't really been active in trying to hold saudi arabia to their accountability their reaction was pretty much. vague cautious or slow

even if you want but perhaps the most outstanding evolution of the assessment of what's going on was thought of donald trump's let's have a look sounds like. terrible and disgusting about that if that were the case so we're going to have to see we're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment but he'll be able to get to the bottom fairly soon but i would have to be very severe i mean it's bad. but we'll see what happens in the reverse. i do i do i mean it's again it's early we haven't finished early view or investigation but it's. i think it's a very important first step and it happened sooner than people thought it would have been. the ground for it i am not satisfied with what i'm going back to president aired towards choose day speech apparently this was not only a direct message to the saudi government but also to the international community to

keep putting more pressure on saudi arabia so well be watching what the international leaders are going to do now and also the saudi officials as well. of the saudi royal family has met with son and brother to express their condolences to journalists son was pictured shaking hands with the saudi crown prince who is suspected of orchestrating the killing of his father and with the saudi king rob reports the son is not allowed to travel outside the kingdom meanwhile dozens of top business executives have pulled out of a high profile konami forum in saudi arabia as international pressure continues to mount on riyadh over the journalists murder however crown prince mohammed didn't bring up the no shows all the murder case in fact he didn't say a word as he briefly made an appearance at that conference of his supporters want him for a selfie opportunity. the former turkish and the edge a man by gosh told us that there are still many questions to be answered as the probe is still very much ongoing. turkey needs to find out what really happened all

we want to justice and that's what the whole world wants and needs because an innocent man was killed and there are reports that he might even be milo to kill we don't even know where is remains are so there are many questions that need to be answered and pres no they want us the saudi kingdom for full cooperation you see mr trump even president of the united states has been confused if you follow his statements first he was backing them hundred percent now he has questions chess look at the look germany has announced that they will not sell any military equipment to saudi arabia until does issue to solve this is a question about justice global justice human rights. this is i'll tell you coming up exposure to a dangerous chemical has led the british man to file a lawsuit against the u.s. army the details on that when we come back.

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rust definitely on the deep dollar is a sink him they are warning goal they're building a goal as the play to de dollar rise they are looking for the dollar to trade significantly lower. and lower again a british man who is taking on the u.s. military over claims he was exposed to a dangerous chemical has received his latest test results back david paterson says he has high levels of cadmium in his body a carcinogen which can damage the central nervous system the first hearing in the case is reportedly due to take place later this week i received or medication for stress for high blood pressure and other ongoing to use i want to know all that i am not ill i do not have some ticking bomb inside my body

be my colleagues are still working on sites they really cannot see in the the higher blood cadmium level than i did it goes and through the body it's a risk or it's right then it was and to other parts of your body it could take a month a year or it could take up to five years but be in a house that. is very watery where there's a small pox or a lot of like we worked on the floor for two weeks without any protection i made last year david who was a contract i was inspecting equipment at the u.s. base in germany he says boxes were covered in a white dust but no warning was given as to the nature of the powder stuff working with no protective gear it wasn't until a year later that the u.s. army told him that it was kept me him david fall the lawsuit after he was sacked for complaining about the incident the army says it's now changed how it handles equipment. we know we won't earn your trust if we don't perform better so will the

contractor has redoubled efforts and safety training and proper methods for receiving processing handling and cleaning i tense there possibly contaminated with cadmium only a year later to be fighting though this is had been a problem ongoing with a us army going back to two thousand and eight when i asked about who's going to assist on medical checks anything they just sent me away and said whatever just not care not was not my problem go see someone else it was like a hot potato being passed from one to another to another until i eventually had to go to my own doctors fight myself and pay for all my own medical expenses we breathed this cadmium in and we don't know what's happening to us it'll happen when all happen and how bad it will be no one no one seems to give no one is taking responsibility no one is assisting us the managers have said we are helping them and put them through a medical they have done nothing we have had to fight just to have

a blood tested everyone is ducking and diving and no one is taking responsibility. that's the way it looks for now we'll be back in just over half an hour with the latest out international news we're keeping watch on that john bolton news conference off the u.s. national security advisers meeting the both president putin and also other senior government officials here in russia if you want to watch it yourself it streaming live now on our team dot com but we'll give you the highlights and often out. with this manufacturer to sentenced him to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous larry go round live certainly the one percent.

we can all middle of the room sit. room. this is says harlan kentucky. boy you go to st. a co money city it was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal was it said. that it was alive to these people the survivors of a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happening it's happened.

when i was so small seemed wrong. one old rule. i mean you get to shape out disdain you can stick out to it and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact upon all of us i'm part killed in washington thank you so much for joining we're glad you're on board coming up today german chancellor

angela merkel is making news today on two fronts hillary for which the australian market standing by to take a look at the latest plus over the weekend president trump spoke about pulling out of yet another agreement this one dealing with nuclear weapons we'll get to the latest with mr trump's national security adviser had a meeting in moscow with his national security counterparts and what should we make of a trumpet ministration poll out of these trade deals environmental treaties and now potentially a nuclear weapon we'll talk through it with an all star panel plus what could turn out to be the largest oil spill ever maybe fourteen years old and getting worse with age are to have insured gives us the latest on the debacle in the gulf of mexico and we take a look at women in business around the world and in the u.s. dr jean say it all all of that directly ahead but first we had some headlines let's go. to the drama surrounding the new italian government budget process seems to be

moving into the second act as prime minister conti's says he will press forward despite red flags from the european commission and a major credit rating agency on friday moody's investor service took note of mounting uncertainty and seeming instability in the latest mediterranean monetary melodrama downgraded to tell you a sovereign debt to one tier above junk movies also signal they did not expect to downgrade further that assessment came after brussels had. again word italian leaders to abandon their camp pain pledges to voters on spending the european commission has pushed e.u. states to keep budget deficits below two percent g.d.p. for his part the prime minister seems defying it here's what he had to say in rome as my leaps. for that is no chains snow way to get to. there's no way to get out of.

and updating a story we brought to you last week there are new developments in the fight between general electric's and siemens for a lucrative contract to upgrade iraq's electricity generation last week u.s. space g e seem to have taken the entire prize from siemens a germany but now it appears looks like there will be more business for both corporations in the war torn iraq the german firm says they will contract to build new infrastructure that can generate as much as eleven gigawatts of power that's enough to increase current production by fifty percent overall and sell one point five gigawatts of that yield to iraq over four years seaman c.e.o. reportedly flew directly to iraq to avoid missing out entirely on this round of iraqi infrastructure upgrades. and chinese leaders are pushing back after u.s. secretary of state mike pompei all last week.