headlines for this. offensive donald trump lashes out at his french counterpart. again. independence from washington. so patients in iran are finding it harder to get their hands on lifesaving medication as washington's newly reimposed sanctions begin to bite the. associated press journalists released a video of a ukrainian. children are treated like young soldiers and trained by far right activists to fight quote russian threats.

quickly becoming a busy wednesday for your worldwide news headlines welcome to the program here we're not. dominating the media has been the sudden sharp cooling in relations between the american and french presidents after their rather awkward meeting in paris on the one hundredth anniversary of the world war one missed this last night donald trump went on the attack on twitter his target again emanuel. let's find out what's really going on. joining us here on the program their relationship charlotte had been termed a bromance but evidently these days they don't seem to be well kissing and hugging quite as much as they were. about that's right.

headlines seem to be in shock and dismay over the fact that this broom and seems to have fizzled out so you spectacularly this is the bromance being over between trump let's have a look at now some of the international headlines about the end of that relationship some saying the souring of the bromance the end of the bromance some also suggesting it's the end of the friendship that's how the world press are reacting to it well what about here in france well some of the headlines here if you can see it this is from le figaro and it says the return to washington trump castigates the protectionism of france or of paris then here we have in the end it basically says trump makes fun of says the president president has rallied on twitter against the side of the popularity of his former french friend and also talked about his opposition to the european army this one

here in le monde also talking about european army suggesting that merkel and mccrone in solidarity against in facing trump so that some of the headlines here in france were what sparked that to rage on twitter it was this. but it was germany in world wars one and two how did that work out for france they were starting to learn german in paris before the u.s. came along pay for nato not france makes it very hard for the u.s. to sell its wines into france and charges big tariffs not fair must change the problem is that emanuel suffers from a very low approval rating in france twenty six percent and unemployment rate of almost ten percent make france great again. well that was the tirade on twitter of donald trump and why was it like that because for so long it seems to be in hugs it seems to. kisses caught off attention lovely remarks and

glances at each other but it seems it was all down to the interview that emanuel gave last week about the possibility of a european into european army. that can defend itself. depending only on the united states that exhibits great the sovereignty of the good of the security. well it's not the first time of course that much corn has spoken out against trump and being in the stock disagreement with his policies let's not forget when trump came first into power he decided that he was going to leave the paris climate accord agreement this is what i had to say about that. little guy i consider to mistake for the u.s. and its people and a mistake for the future by planet. and then back up some more seriously and more

recently there was the fact that the us decided that it would withdraw from the a rainy and nuclear accord something fronts and mccall is incredibly unhappy about. trump has lost the battle to make no one followed his decision and now we have to make good on fulfilling our obligations. well as you may recall that trump seemed to let all of those disagreements between the two slide but not this time so what's the difference now with this in regards to the idea of the creation of a european army well it could be down to plain old cash yes just that as we know trump is a businessman and he would be very unhappy with the idea of seeing money that could go into american pockets go elsewhere so it seems that's what this is coming down to for him the idea of losing money is essentially to be treated like

a capital offense and of course there's also the fact that much could incite others to do the same and follow him in fact he already has with engler merkel the chancellor of germany saying that she fully support. this idea so in fact what trumps pat's trying to do is ensure stop a revolution. oh my god he's a child it was he thank you. the president of the iranian academy of medical sciences has sent a powerful e worded appeal to the un secretary general antonio ters over the reimposition of us sanctions he describes how the lives of many patients in iran both young and old are now in danger due to washington preventing vital medications and equipment from entering the country so we visited one cancer treatment center in tehran to get a firsthand accounts from the patients and their relatives present a rational and 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 rare and we are 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. no when they impose sanctions on our banks the money cannot be transferred easily to a foreign country in order to buy medication.

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 describe is iran hard is the british say to make to squeeze them until the pips squeak. want to hear we have nine minutes which are full every day in these health clinics with the sanctions just not able to respond to half a million patients. we spoke with called in capital an associate professor of political science told us washington's ultimate goal is to bring down the iranian government no matter the cost. the united states is going to say we

iraq until it's still is allow says of course the iranian people will be harmed with any type of economic blockade the whole by the members of the ministration the trump in this race is that this will cause the iranian people to rise up and overthrow the current government in iran so even though john bolton is regina cheney is not with us is seeking 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. ukraine's far right freedom party has organized a summit com that's more like a boot camp there so state oppressive visit at the site where children live under strict rules on low and how to fight is really a patrik now that's what i call

a legit summer camp. oh you know early morning wakeup calls. oh yes roy. chance that kids will remember for the rest of their lives. 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 up 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 to let you know they can still

move that sealants new color then that insists it but it used to know what it was as though he surely must post pickle fun things when one of them only to see what is mostly. 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. west that was. what may seem as an ugly display of far right shod 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 atlanta 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 kills of uncontrolled violence posed by radical groups and the total impunity principally noone 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 neil nazis were believe. to have trained

white supremacists in america just wait till some of these youngsters grow up. meanwhile in january ukraine passed a law that recognizes russia as quote an aggressor state and last week the ukrainian vice prime minister said that the country is trying to build a strong democracy whereas the kremlin supports populist nationalist. and independent journalist martin somers things the western media is slowly waking up to the growing worry of the nationalism in ukraine the people who set this up all connected to survive a so called freedom bridge in the. neo nazi organization they are quite radical militant not just against russia but also as in relation to things like gay rights innovations or things like. semitism and so. it's in many ways not

really acceptable to the western public opinion there is beginning to be mainstream media in the west an understanding of some of the extremist ideology behind the ukrainian nationalist movements and investigation of this summer camp for some very young children is part of this investigation is gradually seeming to appear. lots of information about what's going on in ukraine in the western media but some more realistic assessments do seem to be beginning to appear. u.s. cities have been vying to host retail giant amazon's new second headquarters and not everyone thinks having the mega corporation would be best for the city. 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 or 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 in the 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 at a time when i was subways crumbling and our 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 jobs 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 harder 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 beg before huge multinational corporations. r.t. new york so russia takes center stage at the current us u.n. summit in singapore today so it's where ping and donald trump noticeably absent a report from the host city after the break.

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 its purpose are journalists now nothing more than ideological i think you. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

thanks for joining us for the wednesday program today with southeast asian countries caught between the u.s. and china vying for influence in the region russia is looking to assert its own interests that both commercial and diplomatic and wednesday's russia summit in singapore looks like a pretty good opportunity if you go to reports 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 couple of billion of dollars to russian arms like for example indonesia vietnam the philippines got their free

tranche of weapons to help them combat i still own the territory in another and a more subtle diplomatic pursuit russia could be in the here is revolves around the fact that china and the united states well in their relations between the countries are quite hostile over a multitude of things and so are the nations who are present here they're confronted with the perspective of having to take a side in 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 teaching jang this summit could be a great platform for the united states and for china too with least start resolving their differences donald trump and she jinping 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 confronting each other on various issues like trade like security and ideological you suze but i think the all sense the. top aides to this region for further discussion and the dialogue but 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 but of course the u.s. now also has this kind of indo-pacific strategy which are 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 would have read. powers. the us democratic party is reportedly planning to hit president trump with eighty five investigations the party will take control of the house of representatives in

january this of course coming after last week's elections there is going to have to be investigations if the democrats do take the house president 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 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 now the democrats are expected to demand that trumps tax returns which she has refused to release since taking office they could also launch new probes into suppose it 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 so that of the administration's spending

on furniture. although 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 just since september the republicans have blocked sixty four subpoena requests from the democrats a former illinois congressman michael patrick flanagan believes the democrats should use their new powers more wisely. 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 ran not 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 returns things about that that's ridiculous and nobody wants to see the time and energy spent on that last week so u.s. midterm elections under school the divisions in american society however it does seem there are still some things that everyone can agree on.

i love clean for no difference between see no burning no body no carry no bleeding . if hillary clinton runs again twenty twenty we're screwed. all the people think hillary clinton running into song and going to 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 or 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 workers in this country who have lost limbs eyes their lives and so forth for comenius already just who that for a joke one day the left and the right finally came together you agree on something .

a large number of e.u. made weapons have ended up straight in the hands of islamic state militants in syria and iraq that's according to a new report from the e.u. parliament speaking at a debate on tuesday as expressed anger and shock at the situation six. skipp feeling conflicts and out. of human rights a snap shot approach delivers bad policy countries need to share their interpretation of arms control's rules because currently we see member states failing to even make full submissions the draft penned by german m.e.p. sabena listing expresses shock over the volume of e.u.

weaponry going to die ash it calls for much tougher action to revoke export licenses that might be used to supply terrorists writer and broadcaster jonathan fryer says the front that european weapons are going to islamists in syria as actually been quite well known about for at least three years now. well the reports are that indeed that has been the case this is something we've known about really since two thousand and fifteen when diana shaw dubnyk state was much stronger than it is today the syrian government was reporting that finding caches of weapons which the origin and even more importantly at that stage what all the weapons that were being found in iraq which had been c i s fighters but the really key element of this is really the end use certificates what seems to been happening is that weapons which are not in principle destined for the i went through particularly

ball garia into a lesser extent room amy and within channels to i guess five times and that's very concerning and one understands completely why members of your opponent in strasbourg this week all taking this very very seriously and wishing to bring in the measures which could basically stop this sort of abuse of and use all thank you for joining us here on r.t. international for your wednesday world headlines more to continue the top of the hour. you know world of big partisan. 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 smarter 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. that's not only me.

alone welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle 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 its purpose or. now nothing more than ideological advocates. in the media i'm joined by my guest charles or tell.