the. the. trade wall showing no sign of abating old. china making the best of a bad situation. economically. to revise its budget which was rejected by brussels to make the point more vividly

one italian m.e.p. made a. cave in. calls to be represented in all of the countries sixteen regional parliament for the. last remaining region is going to the polls on sunday and the campaigning. is committed. program here on r.t. international a pleasure to have you with us today. japan's prime minister. and the chinese premier have shaken hands and spoken about war my relations at this summit in beijing it is the first visit to the country by

a japanese leader for bilateral talks in nearly seven years in the current thought follows years of territorial disputes. takes a closer look at what has led to this change. the japanese prime minister is in china and he's smiling. that was him with the chinese premier who was smiling too. so why of course these kind of guys put up a happy face for the cameras during the protocol handshake well sometimes things between countries get so bad that even handshakes can save the day. but both leaders surely would have preferred not to stand there together like that just a few years ago the gloves were off between beijing and tokyo because of these tiny

islands in the east china sea just to realize how much hate that land dispute generated have a look at this. i really wouldn't want to be a japanese car owner in china back in the days the two thousand and twelve conflict was spiraling out in all shapes and forms mr abi mr she didn't even talk on the phone up until may this year today though we're pretty much back to seeing the new un friendship with the chinese state run media telling us this kind of stuff so what happened what kind of magical friendship did the several in the dragon get prescribed maybe it was the donald trump pill the world knew mr trump was on a mission to give beijing a real business beating the united states has just announced tariffs on another two

hundred billion dollars in chinese made goods china's market distortions. and the way they deal. cannot be tolerated but who knew the president will then take aim at his biggest asia ally japan in his economic bowling well last month the media got a trade war to pay off and anyway the steel and alimony on tariffs had already kicked in you know how it works now america first. we understand that president trump wants to reduce the trade deficit but i think it's very important for president trump and his administration to find out the root cause of why there is a trade deficit in america i think there is a possibility that they do not yet understand why and so the world silver and bronze medalists in g.d.p. are shaking hands smiling and are possibly even ready to team up what will the

golden boy have to say one expert on asia pacific relations we spoke to says trump's only got himself to blame if indeed he's on the happy about china and japan cozying up to one another to us did not expect that the other that other countries would be able to set aside their differences and get to get to the table with each other as relatively easily as they have been able to do so but at the end of the day it is the u.s. which has to britain has to which has to carry the blame for this both the countries are frankly facing uni lateral and hostile trade enforcement action from the trumpet ministration china primarily but i would also suggest that part of the reason for the coming together is because both countries realize that they are important players in the sheer and that without speaking to each other the

relationship their relationship with each other as well as the larger geo political environment in which they operate it. a little more negative. shoes flung out speakers old podiums make the parents and politics and now the e.u. rejected italy's proposed new budget it was the tone of an italian m.e.p. to put his foot or rather his shoe down. it's the first time the european commission has rejected any member state's budget proposal. three weeks to revise its spending plans donald quarter breaks down the dispute. brussels is sharpening its knife in preparation for

a new battle with rome for the first time the e.u. has flat out rejected a member state's budget demanding a resubmission. for the first time as a commission is obliged to a. country that it was off budget. but we seen no alternative to it all and to do so it is really into the whole. the e.u. claims that italy's debt situation is out of control and that salvini is government needs to tighten its purse strings and fulfill its obligations the euro skeptics say it doesn't have anything to do with money since there are other states with bloated budgets that have never felt such a heavy hand from brussels this is the first time in budget the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rome not in brussels. the italian economy is healthy and this is an economic move that will

give italy to stability it needs we won't change one comma in this document to. be you know to go to. the. on. the future. spain belgium portugal and slovenia have all been in violation of the e.u. agreements in the past and for years france has broken the three percent deficit threshold imposed on it by the e.u. as for debt it's been in the red since two thousand and two and only this year the second largest european economy received a carefully worded letter in response asking all very politely to reduce its debts . we thank you for sending the from twenty nine thousand draft budget that we received on october fifteenth we would like to ask you for more details the

commission's preliminary assessment also indicates that the growth rate for france does not respect the reference rate of ditch reduction in twenty nineteen so italy refused to be taken to heel by this double standard. except the e.u. commissioner in charge of budgets didn't seem to find the stunt very funny even connecting the italian shushan and against to a potential quick path to fascism the episode of the made in italy shoe is grotesque at first you smile and we trivialize it because it's ridiculous but then we start getting used to this kind of muted symbolic violence and one day we wake up with fascism stay alert democracy is a fragile treasure or the draft budget would have seen over five hundred million dollars worth of cuts to defense spending while putting more money towards social welfare and tax cuts not exactly a sound way to revive fascism and certainly not

a good way to be a shoe in with the e.u. donald quarter r.t. . in germany angela merkel's hard won grand coalition could be in for a new blow as polls predict low support in the regional election in the state of her say on sunday among the main contenders are the green party allied with other left wing forces though national conservative alternative for germany is projected to strengthen his position as well as peter all of the now reports the party known for its anti immigration stance is said to chalk up another milestone in german politics just over a year since they shocked the country by entering the body to start for the first time polls predict that this sunday alternative for germany will enter the state parliament in ahead for the first time that will mean that they have representation in awe. all sixteen german states as well as the national parliament head of the vote in her alternative for germany have been campaigning aggressively. but you

just want to just come in and that moment momentous to case. if he. holds a special place for alternative for germany or the air it was at a meeting there back in february twenty fifth the party was formed setting themselves out from the get go as an anti establishment group focused on the economy. the parties in the bundestag and bundesrat don't do any politics in the interests all consideration of germany and europe. in the five years since its formation alternative for germany has been widely criticized by those who condemn what they see as its populist and racist stance. be able to enjoy many has the rhetoric of the one nine hundred twenty s. and we'll move to karl and the continent see evil have a blatant problem with anti semitism the whole of the f.t.

is an anti liberal anti civic party i was in that here. was here. despite that they have enjoyed steady growth in the polls here in germany at times even coming in as the second largest political group in the country while taking up seats in has so would see them represented in all sixteen of germany states they aren't going to see this as job done or out. they just are ruling. who've the heads of the people they are doing things well the people don't want only as a politician we have to serve to be able to do what the people want is not only about the. if you look. at other european countries in whole or in how degree in children already

artists are on our ruling the same house with the f.b.o. . and we see now also italy. and. all those movements all those new products which are behaving the same way like the air eat they becoming stronger and stronger and in many countries in europe they are already on the flour. and white supremacist running as the republican congressional candidate in the chicago area is trying to appeal to voters in the arab community by ratcheting up his anti israel and anti gay messaging arthur jones placed a campaign at an arab american newspaper though he didn't quite get the reaction he was hoping for. the holocaust is a fact. you know it's real. ridiculous

. are white superior blacks. no question about it you know that's racist that you know that's true but i consider myself a way to refill those. clashes

erupted between supporters of marks a. football match in the french quarter thursday night. police were forced to intervene and used tear gas to separate the french and italian supporters roughly eighty fans from each side are said to have been involved we understand three were injured two of them italian local media report the. fans were dressed in black carrying knives. the club is known to have a violent far right fringe among its supporters did end in a three one victory. here in moscow a school in the us has a pool that stage adaptation of a lot in the parents complained.

after almost two years in office many still question whether donald trump has a coherent foreign policy the same cannot be said about the president's national security advisor john bolton when you think of the word subtlety and diplomacy don't come to mind so is there now. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. priest who raped me when i was fourteen years of age was known to be a sexual abuser when he was ordained

a priest the church knew about his offending behavior and they ordained and continue to abuse from these ordination right through his entire career as a priest. if you join us today here for the friday program authorities in russia have declared a state of emergency in the south after six people were killed as a result of severe flooding three others have been injured and one person remains missing hundreds of evacuated from their homes in some areas roads bridges and buildings were just swept away around nine of villages are without power and public transport have also been severely disrupted the trench will rains began on wednesday full cost is now warning about.

the un's it should manage tarion aid agency has confirmed the deaths of twenty one people in a saudi airstrike close to the yemeni port city. of hard data the attack hit a fruit and vegetable market hospital chiefs say all the victims are civilians with children among the dead there is one witness account. another one of them down here through washing and packaging and the plane came and hit us from above as we were working the u.n. calls the yemen war the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world with twenty two million people in dire need of assistance and up to fourteen million people right now are facing starvation a saudi led incursion in the country began in twenty fifteen with the aim of restoring the ousted government a riyadh has repeatedly denied attacking areas where civilians are present but we heard from our author and contributor abdel bari atwan who thinks that the

international community instead of standing by should stand up against the military attacks on yemen when i believe that there's a community now is concentrating on that that journalist. this actually. a crime in itself should. make the international community concentrate on that they don't want the bigger muscle which is taking place in yemen in more than thirty years and a half until now it is absolutely. unbelievable it is hypocrisy of the international community why they are silent is it because saudi is there is it because they can't make money by sending weapons especially you know european countries and united states i don't believe this kind of hypocrisy is should continue there should be as bad as trying to stand against this intervention in yemen to put down in. the story of a lot and may not be quite as family friendly as disney makes out at least

according to parents of pupils at one u.s. school in baltimore county the school drama club canceled its production often a lot in student play because of alleged until our up and barbaric content. is being brought to our attention that disney's aladdin jr has historically been criticized for its inaccurate negative stereotyping of arabic culture after careful consideration and within per from the perspectives of teachers parents and community members we decided that this production is not the best fit for our community in the play arabs are described as barbaric those are the exact words they used and the actual play was very controversial apparently in the early ninety's. it's not the first time the supposed barbarism about latin has provoked anger a year after the release of disney's aloud and the lyrics of the opening song which changed the original version included the line where they cut off your ear this was

replaced with a neutral description of the desert not everybody sees the offense in the end out in the story and some parents have criticized the school's cancellation of the play they're saying we're a community but yet they didn't even ask anyone they just made this decision by themselves middle east analyst john how john says that these days people are just too easily offended. it seems to me more to be about a love story it's an animated movie it's a disney movie does the you know wants to attract as large an audience as possible so i don't think there's anything in it that's particularly offensive anybody wants to claim victim status you know it to their benefit to the other side as it risks being you know call the big good or intolerant or hater of some some kind and in everybody has a very low sensitivity to that so really it relies a lot on solve policing for people to say really is this really that offensive is

this really doing harm to the group that it's claiming the harm or is it or is it just a you know a very minor matter that should just be overlooked and that is the program for this hour here on r t international there has been a pleasure having you with us for the friday program today my colleague andrew farmer will be manning the helm in twenty five minutes with more of your talk well new stories. this week about saudi arabia is the oil as a weapon and if they get too close to investigating what's going on over there they push the price of oil up now on. last ten years because of fracking in america america position the south as energy independent and no longer subject to the political pressures that could be borne upon them from opec and the saudis so we're

going to see a real test of this because. all of the litany of horrors coming out of saudi arabia is making people feel. when the let me just manufacture consent to step into the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round to listen to the one percent of. the time to ignore middle of the room signals. to leave room for the real news. you know world of big partisan. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than

ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. say. i'm not there. while give easy of while send this us. one flag yet. yeah. the rational. designer of the need he thought. that the new doc was i'm not.

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the sale to general electric a triumph for patrick crone who will distribute four billion euros between them three days later the company pleads guilty in american courts it recognizes all charges of corruption of which it stands accused this is the conclusion to several months of political scandal and the end to years of judicial pressure on one side defeat masquerading as a victory three quarters of the group is sold and on the other a confession and admission to a decade of corruption as if the applause of one day was a condition for reaching a legal compromise on the next. did the sale influence patrick runs impunity a low. in with other senior group executives why did no arrests follow. if general electric had made the largest acquisition in its history and if patrick cronin managed to rid himself of all his problems before retiring of france.

had its industry its economy and its sovereignty nevertheless been preserved by our want to borg. was it a total or partial american victory was the alliance with the french the internet. or reality. who. couldn't speak to it. on film is. going to go. it is. fine i'm one of these sort of back to the twenty first of june twenty fourth team are no man to book terms the sale of l. storm into an alliance three joint ventures a created run equally by general electric and the first and networks the second in renewable energy and the third in nuclear power it appeared to be an equal

partnership between france and the united states. going to take. on an oil. price a. she demands of again you. divorce she said every year good. news some ask simple you sure. it was you know that jeep who volunteered. no more. to do chemo resolution i did action they did it at reform and not like wow. you took you know it on you don't need you to. five months later on november the fourth emanuel mccrone concluded the sale the final agreement turns out quite different.