the solution. lies up in association with the potato. i noticed any salsa on those it is just some really really came to an investigative documentary. ghost war on oxy. transatlantic allies canada and the u.s. appear willing to reconsider weapons sales to saudi arabia in the wake of the killing of the kingdom's dissident journalist. donald trump stressing the importance to the american economy. with riyadh. saudi arabia's bit of really great ally they are one of the biggest that russia has been the biggest investor country

. they are doing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of investments. ecuador announces it will no longer negotiate with u.k. authorities over the face of wiki leaks founder julian assange however ecuador's former president feels his country is obliged to protect him. without these. so it is not just. now. and his fate an oil leak in the gulf of mexico that's been ongoing for fourteen years could become the worst environmental disaster in american history. hello there welcome it's five pm here in moscow you're watching r.t.

international now a key european powers are refusing to cancel multibillion dollar arms sales to saudi arabia in the wake of the killing of dissident journalist. he was murdered in the kingdom's consulate in the stumble at the beginning of the month france says it will impose restrictive measures if there's enough evidence of the con that the country was responsive. but when front french president. was asked about his intentions he refused to answer the question. and i don't have to react to every single statement. so i won't answer that question. if you are interested in the issues related to this event. but this is not some first. it's not a press conference to react to the german chancellor. i mean all that has nothing to do with this event nothing and. nothing so i won't let's put some context on that front one of the biggest sellers of the fence on this equipment

in the world and saudi arabia is one of the biggest clients despite the fact the president has tried to play down the trade relations between the two countries the figure is don't lie between two thousand and eight and two thousand and seventeen deals with more than twelve billion dollars was struck between the two countries but it seems. to have a discussion about that nor a discussion about suspending those possible deals between the two countries and that seems to be a similar thing that we're hearing in spain where they have said that they will not deal with saudi arabia that would two billion dollars. by the previous government which correspond to the demands of international national especially considering the un resolution if you look i am the head of the government now. legal security not permission to comply with international

obligations and it'll be well it seems that that's a similar view that's being taken by the canadians now they have deals with saudi arabia that are worth almost twelve billion dollars and the prime minister there justin trudeau has said that he's more concerned about the cancellation fee which is around one billion. dollars if they decide not to go ahead with that contract then rolled out the holding saudi arabia to account for the killing of journalist it is only acceptable and i think google that someone could have murdered a journalist on foreign soil like this i do not want to leave canadians holding a billion dollar bill because we're trying to move forward on doing the right thing seems not much also coming from to get knighted king that which is the second biggest supplier of arms to saudi arabia just behind us with heels worth around fifteen billion dollars now the idea of sanctions was and muted by the foreign

secretary jeremy hunt but no clear indication of what those sanctions could be all whether they'll be applied when the prime of the situations are made with questions about this to a prime minister's questions well she said is she with the saudi arabia news concrete inspiration or whether they would be sanctions against the country it seems that they were germany is the only country it's going alone and putting its neck out in suspending and canceling these contracts levinsky there now while saudi arabia claims because saudi was killed in a fist fight turkey's president to the journalist had been murdered in a vicious violent manner that was politically motivated in what he called a pre-planned operation by the saudis he added that all those responsible would be brought to justice meanwhile the u.s. remains the biggest exporter of arms to saudi arabia while condemning the cover up

of. stress the economic importance of continued weapons to riyadh. cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups. so he really has been a really great that one of the biggest investors maybe the biggest investor in the country. they are doing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of investments and you know so many jobs so many. thousands and thousands of jobs they've been funding go a lot of things what americans i think don't understand is that the relationship that we have with the saudis is based and tiredly on money they sell us oil we sell them weapons and we pretend that we're friends we pretend that we have a special relationship in fact we don't have a special relationship it's transactional nothing but transactional and then we choose to overlook their fundamentalism don't forget that fifteen of the nineteen

nine eleven hijackers were saudis don't forget that saudi n.g.o.s and governmental organizations were implicated in the financing of the nine eleven attacks the saudis really are not our friends and we should not trust them in an operation like this with from trying to keep his billion dollar deals with the saudis afloat in line with his american mantra but against the. could his foreign policy agenda. donald trump can be called any number of things good bad it all depends on which side you're on interesting lee enough though it's donald trump that keeps giving donald trump new titles a global. is a person that wants the globe to do well frankly not caring about our country somas you know what i am a nationalist. kind of obvious if you think about it what with all this talk of greatness walls and how special exceptional americans

are it's going to be only america first american people first american center's above all else. now if i may mr president you seem to be confused about what those words mean it's right there in any dictionary globalism a national policy of treating the whole world as a proper sphere for political influence a globalist is someone who treats the entire world as a playground making national decisions which affect the international community in simple terms globalism is what mr trump tells south korea meaning outside america that they can't lift sanctions their own sanctions on north korea

without his permission they will do without her broom they do nothing without her proven and by the way u.s. sanctions which basically force everyone to abide by them because of how the dollar works by definition a globalist venture you know what else is globalist war invading other countries the us current. fighting in seven wards that's really really globalist as well. the united states military's one of the most globalist organizations in the world it has bases in roughly every third country one in three nations

has a u.s. military base in it that isn't nationalism that's good lobel ism i just want to see them as well straighten out a regime that frankly could be toppled very quickly by the military regime change we're placing or helping replace governments you just don't like by arming local rebels to the teeth or financing the opposition by sanctions that's globalism glue lism suits trumps purpose is to talk about globalism as the enemy but if you look at the politics it's anything but nationalist trumps attitude to the world as an individual is that he should have complete sovereignty and that includes sovereignty abuse the sovereignty of others you know he wants america to be able to go and do business wherever they want he wants to be able to remove regimes that he doesn't like he wants to act truly globally but in the national interest as donald trump himself can save that he is

a fun fact the word globalism its modern meaning was first used to describe us imperialism after the second world war the way the united states which wasn't destroyed by the war like europe dominated an international trade pushing its products its ideology its politics on every what it could they called it american globalism. so hearing mr trump who believes in returning america back to its glory days say that he isn't a globalist is like hearing the pope say with a straight face that really isn't catholic. now the russian president vladimir putin is meeting with the italian prime minister you said in moscow they've talked about boosting ties including in the organization for security and cooperation in europe which is currently chaired by rome condo's visit does come just a day after a visit to moscow by the u.s.

national security advisor john bolton insists that washington will still pull out of a key nuclear weapons treaty with russia while playing down fear is it will spark an arms race but despite the tensions between the two countries at the moment the mood of the talks at times was lighthearted little group all new as far as i remember there is an eagle on the u.s. national emblem and there are thirteen arrows in one fruit and an olive branch with thirteen olives as a symbol of peace through policy in the other my question is did your ego eat all the olives and leave just the arrows. and grateful for the opportunities because the i'm going to have frozen and hopefully i'll have smelters for you but i didn't bring any more all of. them that's what i thought. well during the talks john bolton said that the treaty was outdated and should be revised to include china and he accused the russian side of violating its terms something denied by moscow which actually sees things the other way around accusing the us of violations the

historic treaty was signed back in one thousand nine hundred seventy between the then soviet union and the us under the green mint all short a mid range nuclear and conventional missiles were eliminated apart from those launched at sea well let's get some reaction to this now and go live to rowing for you there the former italian foreign minister and former european commissioner franco for. very welcome thank you very much for coming on mr for taney just your views first on what could be on the agenda between the italian prime minister vladimir putin during their meeting do you think that they will discuss the i.n.f. treaty. well i don't know but i. sincerely hope that our prime minister will confirm to president putin net italy should be really conservative about the possible seizure to be taken by president try

on i.m.f. debt could be a decision dream game instability and sought service of a concert by york that our prime minister will come third to president putin the italian concert about such as the siege and what would be the major concerns which we see perhaps an arms race then with the build up of missiles in europe if countries pulled out of this treaty well i think there anyway there will be less security there will be more instability there will be a vicious circle two wars more closely for a show and seems no war today is already threatened by asking metric threats what exactly we don't need to have i would say a back. transliteration common strategy debt look be

a step back very doubters do you think this much opportunity them for a compromise hope perhaps renegotiating some sort of deal some hinting that that that is perhaps what america is angling for. oh well i think the all the very important global players should take into consideration debt we shouldn't ask for compromises we should ask for good cooperation and stepping proliferation and for ending such as the lateral measures you know perfectly that not only italy should but also korea france germany as us press publicly their concerns and they would say negative opinion about the possibility dead america will really

think about i.m.f. do you think those countries can have much of an effect on the opinion of the united states in on this matter well i don't know we used to see america at underestimating in many cases position from its allies but declare lee in europe in this case i think america should take it very seriously because it is not just a preoccupation in not just an expression of concern it is a very clear sign that some of the most important european allies can see their debt as a factor of instability may hold i warmly hope that the president of united states will taken very seriously the pm each audience french german concerns about it what was your reaction them when john bolton

said that the world wouldn't be a more dangerous place as a result of pulling out of this treaty. well i know john bolton for many years i think the war will become more dangerous because it is clear dec could be in another vicious circle two wars a lot and probably for asian with putting a new messiah is of european territory and of course measures of reciprocity to be undertaken from the russian federation not to say about the chinese position you know that china is not a member of i.m.f. but in k.'s of the new escalation two wars probably for asian of course these wouldn't help china to stop to refrain on the contrary they

could be just as sign of incitement and china as you know is thinking about more strategic and military presence in asia that's the nother element as should be matter of conserve show i mean america did touch on this didn't they they did say that china could perhaps be included in any treaty would you like to see them the chinese come to the table. well it could be just an excuse to say ok i'm denouncing i.m.f. seems russia is not a round table like if you want to have a russian round the table is not just the best way to say i'm withdrawing from the treaty on the contrary you have to us plain you have to open a dialogue with china you have to explain it would be mutually advantages to

include china i would be in principle very much in fear of having one day china or round a table but knowing china is not the best way to say to say take or leave it in that case china will continue to say i live it and do you believe that or could an international organization by haps the u.n. for example play a role here an organized or perhaps mediate between these countries and find a solution. well i think since what president triumphed set at the opening of the u.n. general assembly i don't think you will take him to so high you can see duration and eventually initiative from u.n. on such as very important matter what i believe it should be. a now where now

as raising exercise with the cooperation of an international organization the international media and civil society as well to make president try and understand it would be in danger if problem for america itself to go in debt be sure circle well america we draw from i.m.f. so i would prefer some convergence in the shared. just a un nice shirt to drop dudley president trying. to start us in a shit ok mr pertain i'm going to have to leave it there but it's a very nice it's so she thanks for your time this evening that was the former italian foreign minister franco for. watching us internationally going to take a quick break we're back with more.

i've been saying the numbers mean they matter 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 to the rich eight point six percent markets thirty percent. some with four hundred to five hundred per second per second and. twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one showed ford to miss the one and only.

welcome back to wate now its fate an oil leak this going on for fourteen years in the gulf of mexico could become america's worst environmental disaster it was in two thousand and four when hurrican a van slammed into a florida's gulf coast severely damaging an offshore drilling operation just. however the company in charge did manage to cover up the incident for the for a whole sixteenth's.

thanks thanks. thanks. flying over the gulf of mexico our search for spots of oil coated gas and bubbling and i'm miles long. people are not the only ones who call the now polluted waters hole and for the indigenous animals there are countless birds and wildlife the stakes are high life or death time is rather. i suppose the big difference is that. arose and there was a big explosion and people got killed instantly and on and then the most of all it was released extremely rapidly in the case of the. first the original incident. and you see. it was in the context of her and

her and both the company and the american regulators managed to keep the entire incident pretty quiet it's one of those. accidents which. bought into the cool. with this menu so it was a daily. into the go it. being the same kind of food as that really since. back in twenty fifteen the company in question said that there was no evidence to suggest an ongoing link or any significant environmental damage it hasn't given any further explanation since journalist all of a tickle again says though that even rick. saying oil spillage is can result in a lot of damage the gulf is currently producing something something like twenty percent of americans or those rather a highly rated max three fires breaking out every few days there's

a high rate of oil spill huge with routines pollutants in the hundreds of thousands of pounds per year the just through new york. and this entire gulf coast is highly industrial used and it is bound to leak in concert amounts of modes and also its environmental impacts impact other industries which are also tourism and fish roos show finish the tens of thousands of miles of oil pipelines transect to this entire region and if you've got a pipeline you were around two hundred leaks. now ecuador says it will no longer negotiate with the u.k. overachieving the sun she's currently held up in its embassy in london it marks a sea change next door's position when it comes to the wiki leaks chip. ecuador has no responsibility to take any further steps we are not mr songes lawyers nor real

representatives of the british government this is a matter to be resolved between songe and great britain and so on just relations with the country have soured since the change of government last year is strongly internationally suing ecuador for allegedly violating its human rights that after the embassy imposed house rules for the whistleblower as a condition for partial access to the internet on record going president. who has called his country's handling of the case shameful. we gave us a long. piece. of it why don't government to protect us you have to remember that no. science. citizenship so it's not just this a look now. these rules are really a shame don't try to humiliate. so. my

point because. these rules are really against human rights and they're trying to isolate. as such to push him to abandon our embassy a stone has been holed up inside the embassy in london since twenty twelve when he was granted political asylum and if he leaves the building he will face arrest for breaking his bio conditions but the whistleblower theory is that he'd then be extradited to the u.s. in a letter to ecuador its current leader then in moraine lawmakers in washington demanded the dishonor be handed over to u.s. authorities or face a possible diplomatic fallout. we are very concerned we join a sanchez continued presence at your embassy in london and he's receipt of ecuadorian citizenship last year it is clear that mr assad remains a dangerous criminal and a threat to global security and he should be brought to justice. we feel that it's

very difficult for the united states to advance our bilateral relationship until mr assad has handed over to the proper earth or east may or may has. you know according to our constitution. for intimately because of the behavior of this government. absolutely committed to the american government or that will be very difficult i think they want to turn over such to the american government and they've already seen this story now so. positive in the sixth year of. equality and judges also you don't have to to forget that he has a very important to this issue you know the nation's. tell him who are meant to protect the us is mandatory we have to protect you have such.

now we have got some breaking news before we go because there have been a series of bomb scares in the u.s. suspicious devices have reportedly been sent to the white house and also to the homes of the former presidents barack obama and bill clinton along with his wife hillary to the c.n.n. building in new york has also been evacuated we're told we'll have more on this story at the top of the next hour. so that brings up to date that's how things are looking don't forget that we've got plenty more stories that for you at our website and you can find that.

below in welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this unique edition of cross-talk we review a new and very important book john mearsheimer the great delusion liberal dreams and international realities it's a real bombshell. sucking a great delusion liberal dreams and international realities i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark slaughter he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst we spoke nick international and we have plenty.