really was very european and his approach would be very well suited is. brussels for example doesn't represent america is america for better or worse think what we're trying to do here is to let the world see. here. with the people's polity the f.t. is now represented in the region after the great success it has. early results in the german region of suggest a decline in popularity for the ruling coalition together with a rise of migrant d which now has seats in every single regional parliament. the. controversial right wing populist. is swept to power in brazil's

presidential election. but still people come to this that we have more money than anybody else but we'll build it up in the stories that shape the week president trump threatens a new arms race with russia and china as he looks to pull out a major cold war nuclear agreement causing further division with his partners. and europe and its transatlantic allies canada and the u.s. appear unwilling to freeze arm sales in saudi arabia in the wake of the killing of dissident journalist. by broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us right. counting is

underway in local elections in the german region of has early results suggest to the anti migrant party will win a place in the parliament giving it representation in every region in the country. they also show waning support for traditional parties in favor of the greens and other left wing forces the f.t.'s leader has already congratulated her fellow party members on the result and the ruling christian democrats meanwhile say the elections show they need to rethink their policies with the people's party the f.t. is now represented in every job and region after the great success it has brought with us highs this evening there was a very mixed message has there once the christian democratic union to continue leading this state many people have shown during this election that it must be different not in has it in. political analyst as stephen mizar believes the

ruling parties are going to need to change their politics if they want to stay in power. state election of probably a proxy vote nationally as well that's not just a local vote it will definitely put in a weak position she's been getting weaker and weaker as and more and more unpopular and now if they lose and they seem to have lost big there as well again i would expect she'd be under a pretty severe pressure now. as far as the support on the federal level that at some point this city you is going to have to look for a new face she's getting very unpopular i think she's a more of a liability for the party than she is a positive fact for instance there have been these so-called. demonstrations going on for about a year and a half now that means in german the english translation is merkel has to go and i don't ever remember seeing shrewder like the chancellor before. the goal

demonstrations or before him was cold i don't ever remember having demonstrations here in germany saying cole has to go at least in part of the population she's become really highly unpopular. on tuesday the u.s. president again to threaten a new arms race with russia and china just days after he announced he was willing or pulling his country out of a major nuclear treaty signed during the cold war also repeated his earlier accusation saying moscow was in breach of the i.n.f. accord. right here to the agreement should have been done years ago but don't people that we have more money than anybody else. will build it up until they got there when they. were told. by the way not only the. moscow insists it hasn't violated the nuclear treaty and believes it

should be preserved saying it's in fact washington and that has not been sticking to the deal russia's foreign. ministry's has recently said the u.s. sent a list of its concerns to moscow just days before announcing its decision to quit leaving it no time to reply under the agreement signed back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven all short and mid range nuclear indycar invention or missiles were banned with the exception of those launched at sea washington says it's in talks with its european allies about its withdraw some of which aren't too happy about the month. the announcement by the us that it's going to withdraw from the i.m.f. accord is regrettable the i.n.f. agreement has been an important pillar of our european security architecture for thirty years for us in europe it's of great importance we call on the u.s. to consider the possible consequences the u.s. and russia need to remain engaged in constructive dialogue to preserve the treaty and to ensure. it to ensure its cool and verifiable implementation which of

course is crucial for europe's and global security problem is others have pointed out in particular this is a problem i think for europeans that this treaty was designed to prevent or reduce the risk of nuclear weapons being used by the nuclear threshold being lowered and not should we say long range heavy nuclear weapons being used against the united states and the soviet union or today russia but that with the shorter range weapons it would be europe western europe that would become the nuclear battlefield and there's some concern i think a great deal of concern amongst all european leaders except the united kingdom who yesterday have stated that they support the american position predictably enough there is concern that this reduces the prospects for nuclear disarmament increases risks for western europe and its people. little surprise then that america plans to

pull out of the accord dominated tuesday's meeting between u.s. national security advisor john bolton and president putin and although the subject at hand was no laughing matter there was still room for some humor. as far as i remember there is an eagle on the us national emblem and there are thirteen hours in one foot's and an olive branch with thirteen olives as a symbol of peaceful policy in the other my question is did your ego eat all the olives and leave just the arrows. i'm 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 all of. them that's what i thought. well during the talks putin said he was puzzled by washington's move in the absence of any provocation from moscow as for the i.n.f. treaty itself john bolton called it outdated and insisted it should be revised to include other nations mostly notably china international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes it's the fear of beijing's growing military might that is

behind trump's plans many commentators think that this is the american decision is linked more to china of them to russia because the chinese are not part of the treaty very been developing their missile capabilities and there are military capabilities and southeast of the south china sea and the americans want to be able to confront. the treaty which we're talking about prevents the americans of course deploying missiles not just in europe and in asia as well and the americans want to get out of it so they can start putting missiles that. trumps threats had to ditch the treaty falls in line with his america first. comments now on the wider ambitions of the president. donald trump can be called any number of things bad it all depends on which side you're on interesting really enough though it's donald trump that keeps giving donald trump new titles a globalist is

a person that wants the globe to do well frankly not caring about our country so 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 centers above all else. yeah 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 google ism is when mr trump tells south korea meaning outside america that they can't lift sanctions their own sanctions on north korea without his permission but they won't do it without her approval they do nothing without her approval and by the way us 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 currently fighting in seven wards that's really really globalist as well.

heck the united states. militaries one of the most globalist organizations in the world it has bases in roughly every third country one in three nations has a us military base in it that isn't nationalism that's good lobel ism i just want to see venezuela great now that frankly could be toppled very quickly by the military regime change we're placing or helping replace governments you just don't like why arming local rebels to the teeth or financing the opposition by sanctions as globalism glue lism suits terms purposes to talk about globalism is the enemy but if you look at the politics it's anything but nationalist in terms 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 conceives it 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 in 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 schrage face that really isn't catholic. right after the break here of canada and

the us rule out any halt to arm sales to saudi arabia that's despite the killing of with the saudi journalist. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in this period dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time to sit down and talk. trying has been coming up with a lot of statements saying that the arab states of the gulf should take care of the

middle east or other we're still committed to the middle east so there's there's a lot of incoherence there but i think saudi arabia is hugely important to the united states and i think trump understands that and this is this is exactly what was driving his kind of commentary on the. killing i think that's the end of the day it's not going to change the status of america's polls you saw you go. welcome back to washington weekly here on r t international let's now start with brazil after a turbulent in a hard fought presidential campaign the right wing populist candidate. has seen off his socialist a rival for. and the former army captain won almost fifty five percent of the vote

which turned out to be closer than the polls and been predicting wilson auto is a controversial figure in brazilian politics he has called for the murder of a sitting president lamented the demise of the country's military dictatorship and launched a bitter attacks on women in minority groups he ran on an anti-crime anti-corruption platform and has proved skillful at engaging with energy and energizing voters. workers party opponent fernando is a former mayor of sol paulo he stood as a candidate after jailed former president lula da silva was banned from participating here's a look back at the race and the issues that have defined it. it's

not just excitement for a better country it's we've had enough of corruption and of stealing from the people in africa steaming our health care we're not stupid. i saw people mess sixty seven on the road ladies and ate your minds who have lived through that with come out of the homes to fight for democracy i can't help but

those people. are now joined by other anon santos who is the co-founder and a coordinator of the libertarian movie mento but us we'll leave it a thank you very much that's also known as n b l. so what does victory mean for brazil and what is the mood like there where you are on the ground. well this is a completely sure. the former way of making politics off writing and directing elections the two political parties brazil not only the left last selection they were really elections has two thousand super also what we call here a so-called big center. parties there are always establishment they are always supports and the government charge if it doesn't matter a six last score and so it's all right hold government and is the center of the had their own kin data they expected to we don't actually use you what we call here the

machine to cease to be like deputies all supported structure and they lost miserably the last also lost even though he had a good number especially the second round bubble so not only doubts spending much money he spent like a maximum two million has reached a small streams and he didn't have any structure or anything he just like he got stepped and he wasn't he's hols. and says a big change a loss the way weirdly politics here and we know the county somehow is divided because it's very controversial but in the same way people are really excited never seen a party like that we're having brazil because somehow brazil therefore it's the left in left as far as doing the kind of revolution we had since two thousand and forty is brazil elected is their presence it's the and awful close as they started in two thousand so. you mentioned the fact that he is

a controversial candidate in actually now he's he's the winner bussin or has expressed some extreme views is he likely to make good on all of those campaign promises or will he move to a more moderate stance once he actually takes power. well we or he was always a controversial deputy and we must understand first of all that most of the time he wasn't here by people didn't terrible what he said when he was deputy moles that now that he became a candidate he started going towards specially ill only economically ships he hired all gets which the very serious political future few are here in brazil and his stock in special jewelry each weekend. showing statements and which is natural for a candidate it was the elections and if you want to see you have stability especially

in the first two years of government he who needs to. turn up somehow this more extremist speeches that he had to pass into a more. and more friendly speech or else he will have big problems as a set as same time he broke the structure of the big center they used to be the stablished here is there has to be the strategy establishment. that you have to do that will have to talk with all those the ship's aldous diggers or else he won't be able to walk and so. he will want brandel i promised the time but. the siren last year my ear piece just for a second there so how alarming are both scenarios totalitarian leanings for brazilians the people on the ground in terms of the support for the country's former military dictatorship do you think the country wants to return to that style

of government. no no no it was not even in discussion among the supporters of chaebol so not a yes he in a past he used to make austrians the fans of the three regime we're adding to pass and. it's breasts he made statements on t.v. and stuff but the corporatists. are the group that we too who is now besides he is a columnist for the hot seat he's always said that he would support democracy this is for speech as elected president was a change the constitution and defending our democracy and same thing it's fine for brazil that we see the let's talk about democracy is the used our system the use brazil two finest plant into supports all the level of needing to read in all the root regimes and also america it's a very. early for us presumes that the left in brazil spoke in baltimore city in

all they did it. was about it a proceeding a mold our neighbors and even in the county in which this was. all right interesting to hear thoughts are non santos co-founder and coordinator of movement memento but i still leave it which is the m.b. l. as for being able in this here on on to international. thank you very much. all right switching gears now turkey continues to demand the killers of a saudi journalist are brought to trial the turkish president says the murder of jamal khashoggi in istanbul was politically motivated. our security and intelligence services the still analyzing the in for they have it's already clear that the murder of jamal khashoggi was well since this is a political assassination we also call for the inclusion of possible foreign accomplices. saudi royal family has met with the son and brother to express condolences to journalists eldest son was pictured shaking hands

with the saudi crown prince was suspected of orchestrating the killing of his father he later left saudi arabia for washington according to sources u.s. president this week condemned the cover up of the shoji murder but still stressed the importance of continued weapon sales to. cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups. so he really is a bit of really great ally they had one of the biggest investors maybe the biggest investor or. they are doing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of investments and you know somebody. somebody. thousands and thousands of jobs they've been funding go a lot of things are trumps statement was met with huge criticism by e.u. powers but they're refusing to cancel multibillion dollar arms sales to saudi arabia so far germany is the only exception. i agree with all those who say that

exports which are already limited must not take place in the concert. 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 suppressed. it's not a press conference of german chancellor. i mean all that has nothing to do with this event nothing. nothing so i want let's put some context on that front is one of the biggest sellers of defense and on this equipment in the world and saudi arabia is one of its biggest clients despite the fact that president has tried to play down the trade relations between the two countries the figures 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 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 worth two billion dollars. by the previous government which correspond to the demands of international national especially considering the un resolution if you're going to look i am the head of the government now. legal security not permission to comply with international law. and it will 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 just in food has said that is more concerned about the cancellation fee which is around one billion dollars if they decide not to go ahead with that contract then roll that than holding saudi arabia to account for the killing of journalist it is only acceptable in. 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 beginning to king that which is the second biggest supplier of arms to saudi arabia just behind the us with heels worth around fifteen billion dollars now the idea of sanctions it was a muted following the foreign secretary jeremy hunt but no clear indication of what those sanctions could be over whether they'll be applied when the prime minister to resign raises questions about this is that when she said she would speak to the king of saudi arabia the new concrete information whether they would be sanctions against the country it seems that they were germany is the only country it's going alone putting its neck out in suspending and comes these contracts for their desire

for me this hour i'll be back with more of the weekly at the top of the hour trying tom stay with us and. i will prefer to say. the human space this must be. terry wish me instead so we have a living in the solar system. and for sure we show that. on all this. i see this as a way of bringing in and developing more technologists new technology so that's becoming even. increase. in improve the quality of life on. earth bamma really was very european in his approach he would be very well suited. and brussels for example doesn't represent america is america for better or worse

and i think what we're trying to do here is to let the world see here. come on and welcome to worlds apart the killing of saudi journalist. compelling into the middle east policies of several key players all to take a hard look at both the values. well the current geopolitical alignment in the gulf beyond survive the challenge to discuss that i'm now joined by yuri barmen the

middle east and north africa expert at the russian international affairs council here is good to talk to you thank you very much for coming over thanks for having me after two weeks of denying the death of the journalist the saudi leadership has finally acknowledged that it had taken place although it's still denying the grisly details or the grisly allegations of what happened to the body what is the scope of plausible deniability for the house of south here or do they even need to come up with a believe a bull story. sort of question i mean the saudis have sort of have been doing it for so long and now they thought probably that once they admit to the killing of. that would be the end of the story but clearly that is not the case and you know the story going to keep spinning and you know the the turks can keep putting more pressure the americans keep coming coming up with more pressure so at this point. doesn't seem that it's the end of the story and it seems the saudis will have to

fight back will continue to i think it's a very rare case when the sheer fact. of the killing or of the murder is less egregious than demand and we should was carried out the dismemberment callousness. if mr. resurfaces. cynical as it may sound coming from me do you think it would provide some sort of relief if not exoneration for the saudi authorities this point i don't think it's going to be a sort of relief for the saudis the sheer fact that they were not able to produce the body in the sheer fact that they were determined to get rid of the body that is already terrible enough to kind of you know. put a lot of pressure on them politically this story has a very determined for sure this point president. turkey who security services continue leaking the most blood curdling the.