to. subscribe to the right people to fold up he comes in for just twelve euros fifty per month. takes a second time. to create. joint news headquarters with some locals fearing the retail johnson rival is going to drive up the. us democrats are reportedly planning to hit the white house with an eighty five plus investigation this once they regain control of the january.

welcome to the program here on r t international after nine am on wednesday your top stories. u.s. president donald trump has been on the attack on twitter his target yet again emanuel. it comes after their awkward meeting in paris on the one hundredth anniversary of the world war one. about his french counterparts proposal to create a european army and to make europe more independent from the united states.

and beyond. that i want to. thank you. briefly to refute it all to me. the media has been speculating on whether what was initially billed as

a bromance between the two presidents is now over and we spoke with our p.r. emanuel tom and the president of the euro continental organization who thinks that micron is being outplayed by donald trump but not a trump before to come to paris eve was. shocked and angry but the spot of these niggas she eighteen tactic he made strong statements ignored up to make the spot noce take a different position on each works on the following day he still just repeats what the americans once from europe on the say we europeans should spending more we didn't need to for our security sigs actually went to the united states once it said p.t. that french president was not strong enough to keep peace on position. i mean while the german chancellor angela merkel has also received a mixed reaction from the european parliament after coming out in favor of

a single e.u. army i made the applause part of the chamber booed and jeered the german chancellor then as i clued you. some years ago ready set that a common european on you show you while that there will never again be uniting in europe i'm not saying anything against me to feel smart we can be a good second i don't need to add thad i'm really pleased about it this is great i'm annoying. global policy analyst george some really believe the calls for a european army are merely a political gesture i don't think we should take any of these. statements from macro more than merkel very seriously it's something that they do in order to win some popular support but in order to get something like this off the ground you

have to do a lot of preparation for it and you've got to be ready to take on the americans in those who have a goal that the americans were bound to react very negatively and i you know he hadn't really done the groundwork also obviously he gave up because he wasn't that serious about it is just you know neither he nor merkel nor anyone in europe has the stomach to confront the americans on this issue and the americans know this and those this so you know it wasn't it was entirely predictable that micro would give up immediately. about southeast asian countries caught between the u.s. and china vying for influence in the region or russia is looking to assert its interests both commercial and diplomatic and i wednesday's russia summit in singapore looks like a pretty good opportunity to use it you could have done off is a separate us right now is for. live to him a good to see you go to expectations for the summit today.

well indeed rory wednesday's the day when russia goes on the charm offensive here in singapore and with latimer putin himself leading the delegation it really leaves no room for doubt as to how really important this summit for russia is now there's a number of things most who could be seeking from this gathering the first and the most straightforward one is pushing the market seeing its weapons in the region a number of regional countries have already invested well a couple of more than a couple of billion of dollars i should say into russian arms like for example indonesia vietnam the philippines got their free tranche of weapons to help them combat eisel on the territory another and a more subtle diplomatic pursuit russia could be in here is revolves around the fact that china and the united states well they're rather hostile the relations between the countries are quite hostile over

a multitude of things and so are the nations who are present here they are concerned that they could be confronted i should say with the perspective of having to take a side between the united states and china and since many of these countries do have relations with both of them and they may not want to spoil those relations russia could be another way out of this catch twenty two situation now to discuss this further i'm joined by dr jang who is assistant director and a research and senior research fellow at the national university of singapore dr john thank you very much for having your time to speak with me well my big question here is i guess this summit could be a great platform for the united states and for china to with least start resolving their differences donald trump and she decided to avoid they decided to abstain from coming here why. i think the main reason is that they do not want to come from each other especially at the current situation where the two big powers are come

from the child the various issues like trade like security and ideological use but i think the all sense the. top aides to these regions will further discussion and the dialogue. actually the could not. have kind of a deal current to be on on those disputes and i don't think this kind of confrontation between the two big powers and at this summit ok but what about other nations who are present here and what about them being implicated into this raul by potentially having to pick a side here where does this conflict leave them a definite definite today for us in countries that do not want to take sides in this game between u.s. and china they want to do business with both big powers specially with china and we know that trade and investment between china and the us in countries being growing

rapidly over the past decade is specially now china has launched is a belt and rose strategy which will again for a lot of money billions of dollars into this region and all these cells these days soon countries do not want to provoke and neither power china or us but of course us not also has this kind of indo-pacific strategy which you also complicate the situation in this region i think all the us and countries are still watching. the have not decided what kind of solution finally they could have with. powers russia seeking to gain sort of a diplomatic foothold in a just so does the united states do you think that the united states diplomatic stance could see washington losing its position in asia. i think currently the u.s. does not want to lose asia you definitely want to have more you vestment more

important to this region but i can also see that in donald trump's of ministration the actually already changed the previous approach towards this region previously for president obama and they had this kind of pivot to asia policy and not on the tom has changed and his approach and we can see more you do that the world approaches from the on the tom towards the bit towards this region which has not being. welcomed by many countries in the region so i think all of these are still evolving and we still need to see to what extend this kind of new strategy of. civic strategy. play in the region office ok mr junger thank you so much for having time again to talk to me here now dr chen jiang senior research fellow and assistant director at the national university of singapore now i will be staying here in singapore for the rest of the day bringing you all the

latest from the as the in summit and from how russia's pitch go now looking forward to your reports later in the day ati's you go to an off thank you. for tempest the hour here in moscow u.s. cities are being vying to host retail giant amazon's new second headquarters and not everyone thinks having the mega-corporation pitch is best for the city and now explains. the mega corporation an online retailer known as amazon is looking for a place for its second headquarters a competition of sorts began with cities across the country offering tax incentives and making cringing videos in the hopes of luring them in how the proud amazon customer. amazon. amazon your amazon your smart sexy city that thinks outside the box. please join us. where should amazon locate h q two in fiscal texas so who wins the big prize of

having amazon set up shop in their backyard well in a plot twist that's worthy of a bad reality t.v. show there are now two big winners not just one the new offices will be in arlington virginia just across the river from washington d.c. and the new york city borough of queens now at this point jeff bezos the owner of amazon is presenting himself as your friendly neighborhood billionaire the team did a great job selecting the sunny south and we look forward to becoming an even bigger poets of these communities but not all new yorkers are exactly thrilled many are concerned the already high cost of living will increase and others worry that small businesses will suffer the newly elected democratic socialist congresswoman alexandria kazuo cortez is ready for battle amazon is a billion dollar company the idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks and it's a time when i was subways crumbling and all communities need more investment not

less is extremely concerning to residents here we decided to talk with some locals and see how they feel about amazon setting up shop i'm not happy about this i think i've read a lot of articles saying it's not great super excited about amazon coming in and i think there are other cities that can use the extra job more for their movie when you work they do they're the ones that do the jobs i'm. not sure what effect it would have on small businesses but i'm sure they'll try to print up the extra burden everything's already closed without them so it will be a lot more let's not forget that new york state governor andrew cuomo promised to legally change his name if it would convince amazon to move in. two. and a time one talk of the low wages income inequality and money in politics is everywhere nothing is more reassuring to a frustrated public than seeing their elected officials grovel and big before huge multinational corporations. r.t.

new york meantime the us democrat party is reportedly planning to hit president trump with eighty five investigations the party will take control of the house of representatives in january after last week's midterm elections. if there is going to have to be investigations if the democrats do take the house president trump will wake up wednesday morning to a very different political scenario here on the hill they are going to investigate this president and his administration thoroughly they do intend to request president's tax returns former speaker pelosi insisting that her party will be strategic when democrats take control of the house in january they're going to begin immediately to investigations on impeachment of the democrats are expected to demand trump's tax return switchy has refused to release since taking office they could also launch new probes into suppose that could luzhin with russia and they'll be looking into the president's alleged role in paying hush money to a former porn star plus there are plenty of other items on the list ranging from

the legality of a travel ban from several muslim countries all the way to the administration's spending on furniture now with control of the lower house and congress the democrats will have subpoena powers meaning they can legally require any witness to testify in congressional hearings and produce documents that just since september the republicans have blocked sixty four subpoena requests from the democrats the former illinois congressman michael patrick flanagan believes the democrats should use their new powers sparingly. congress is not an investigative body it's not what it does it has the power of oversight but oversight of the administration executing congressional will and spending and in the direction of the nation democrats who have no agenda and rana know what john and i have no desire to actually manage the business of the nation have only this to run on and they want to distract this

president from the work he's doing because they just disagree with him they just don't want him to be successful and this is a way to derail him and the policies that he's doing i think the nation would like everyone to just take a breath step back let's do some stuff if there's really some wrongdoing the democrats think are some are some genuine wrongdoing not just we need to see his tax returns because we need to know he's not worth as many billions as he says he is we want to publicly embarrass him which is all the tax return thing is about that that's ridiculous and nobody wants to see the time and energy spent on that last week's us mid-summer elections underscore the divisions in american society but it seems there are still some things that everyone can agree upon.

i love clinton but no two friends in twenty no bernie no biden no kerry no clinton . if hillary clinton runs again in two thousand and twenty we're screwed. all the people think hillary clinton running into silence twenty is a good thing kidding me. you may be surprised to hear you use a congressional candidate from texas and not in a porno movie i know it was. war or whatever all of it's disgusting it's over the top that's not even close to being funny at all and that is still disgusting and despicable to all of the wounded warriors in this country who have lost limbs eyes their lives and for comedian

s.r.t. just who that for a joke one day the left and the right finally came together you agree on so. hard after the break here on oxy international we report on a children's comp and ukraine some international journalists who visited one sure if it was a summer camp or a boot camp we'll give you details and. i've

been saying the numbers mean something they matter us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars fine tamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth to the old from rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show you know or to miss one in only.

right now twenty twenty posterity moscow ukraine's far right freedom party has organized a summit county that looks a lot more like a boot camp a journalist from the associated press a visit at the side with children live under strict rules on how to be soldiers into trying to fix up a story now that's what i call a legit summer camp. well you'll have a little early morning wakeup calls. chance that kids will remember for the rest of their lives. i catching march. welcome to the temper of will summer camp in western ukraine it's pretty much

a boot camp hidden in the forest the people who set it up are from the national socialist svoboda or freedom party so who can get enrolled officially it's for teens but a.p. journalists who went there say they saw children as young as eight here they're being taught how to kill. just because you know they can still live then it seems limitless nicole then that insists it but it used to know what i was doing he should post pickle fun things when one of manila's i'm only a few of his more. but not only do they get to learn how to take down those who adults are calling russian invaders the kids are also taught to stand up to what the instructors see as degrading trends in the west. should we. sell the welcome. of the. west that

was. what may seem as an ugly display of far right shaw the brainwashing appears to get full support from the local administration well earlier this year kiev splashed some of its budget on youth projects the goal is to prop up what they call a national patriotic education some of these projects are run by the stream far right. even the nato backed atlantic council think tank tried to raise international awareness. with this article and indeed we didn't write that amnesty international's pointing out the issues more than just critical ukraine is sinking into a chaos of uncontrolled violence posed by radical groups and that total impunity

principally no one in the country can feel safe under these conditions and if you're wondering if any of this could actually spill beyond ukraine well just lately and f.b.i. agents criminal complaint said ukrainian neo nazis were believed to have trained white supremacists in america just wait till some of these youngsters grow up. meanwhile ukraine has officially called russia an aggressor and last week the ukrainian vice prime minister said that the country is trying to build a strong democracy whereas the kremlin supports optimist nationalist movements independent journalist martin so most things the western media is finally waking up to the growing nationalism in ukraine. the people who set this up all connected to survive a so-called freedom party was actually

a bridge in the. neo nazi organization and they are quite radical and quite militant not just against the law but also as things like gay rights and semitism and so on. course that's in many ways not really acceptable to the western public opinion the risk beginning to be in the mainstream media in the west and understanding of some of the extremist ideology behind the ukrainian nationalist movements and investigation of this some account for some very young children is part of this investigation that's gradually seeming to appear. to see the snow off an awful lot of information about what's going on in ukraine in the western media but some more realistic assessments to. you seem to be beginning to appear. weak after the u.s. reimposed old preety fifteen sanctions against iran a national security advisor john bolton says he's confident that european countries

and companies are coming to terms with the restrictions adding that any attempt to bypass them will prove an effective when of all people in the islamic republic are already feeling the impact. the present about my husband is a cancer patient and we are worried about his medication and their costs medications used to be available before but after the sanctions they have become more expensive and rarer and we're worried about the future and what will happen. only this is the second round of my chemotherapy off to sanctions before my chemotherapy used to cost two hundred eleven euro but now with each round i need to pay four hundred and twenty two year zero and drugs cannot be found easily like before we have to search them in different pharmacies with every single one of them not having a specific kind of drug. i. know

when they impose sanctions on our banks the money cannot be transferred easily to a foreign country in order to buy medication. that we're not allowed to bring in many devices and some of them like components it's obvious that without these parts the devices simply won't work. we're going to do everything we can dissuade iran hard as the british say to make to squeeze them until the pips squeak. well to the day here we have nine minutes every day of the clinic's with the sanctions i'm just not able to respond to half a million patients. again we spoke with call and an associate

professor of political science who told us washington's ultimate goal is to bring down the iranian government no matter what the cost. the united states is going to see. iran until it's cory this bill is collapsing of course the arabian people will be harmed with any type of economic blockade the whole by the members of the administration trumping the great is that this will cause the iranian people to rise up and overthrow the current government in iraq so even though john bolton says regime change is not with us is thinking that is simply a euphemism because what he really wants to do is to bring down the current iranian government with economic pressure and economic sanctions. all right

that's a wrap for this i was program here when alex here we are back with my. tax guys are financial survival guide stacey let's learn a salad fill out let's say i'm not sure i get it here please grease the fight. thank you for make. sure. that's true. lavery. fracking gave americans a lot of job opportunities needed to come up here to make some money

twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was among the employment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar. but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and. they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality and. as the media become unhinged in there of trump the president's most ardent critics in the media hang on his every word news cycle after news cycle are all about trump and much of this coverage is negative as journalism lost it's for our journalists nothing more than ideological i think it's.

the worst drug disaster in history would spread through more than forty six countries and produce up to twenty thousand badly deformed babies worldwide. but historians today single out one birth in one nine hundred sixty one that changed the course of history in hamburg germany linda shield hill and age twenty three gave birth to her first child her husband wasn't with the time and he was quiet. and then lay back and was relaxed and some. and somebody whispered into my ear is your husband not all right and i was here white awake and i said. what what's got what has happened to my baby is

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