people are. interested in the water's edge. and they should. trump again lashes out at his french counterpart emanuel micron who wants greater independence from washington. for me the ceasefire deal reached yesterday combined with the long term deal with the mass is that surrendered to terrorism. the israeli defense minister resigned says the death of palestine militant groups announced the ceasefire in an attempt to stop an escalating conflict which has claimed eight lives in just twenty four hours. cancer patients in iran find it increasingly difficult to get life saving medication as

washington's would impose sanctions begin to bite. footage comes to light of a ukrainian summer camp where children are treated like young soldiers and trained by far right activists to fight russian threats. joining us this evening this is r.t. international. it seems that the burgeoning bromance between donald trump and ammonia micron is a thing of the past it's been a sudden cooling in relations with the french president talking of putting distance between europe and washington state and his favorite platform twitter to lash out at his counterpart dubin ski has the details. shocked and angry but. nicholas sheley cheek he made. strong

statements in order to make us take a different position on each works on the following day mr must. take a look at some of those international headlines now the bromance is over this hour in the bromance of the saying that the friendship is come to an end that's what is being discussed in the international papers here in france if you take a look here this is le parisien it's basically saying that trump is making fun of mark or not something that's being discussed across the papers talking about those tweets which attacked french wine which attacked much popularity it's have a look at those tweets that trump made and say exactly what he said 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 or 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 an unemployment rate of almost ten percent make france great again well for so long the two presidents had been having this beautiful romance that started here in paris just around a year and a half ago hugs and kisses but it's all gone sour as a result of this interview that much gave. depending only on the united states that exhibits greater sovereignty well it's not the first time that much corn has spoken out against trump's policies and being in stark disagreement with them remember when trump pulled out of the paris climate accord this is what mcconnell had to say back then there's a lot guys. i consider the mistake for the u.s.

and its people and to mistake for the future bar planet then of course who could forget the fact that trump pulled out of the year a new clear record something that really riled president macron on it is new. it was a proposal after the americans rooftop of the agreement stop has been seen as a catastrophe. one of the most part it seems that trump has let all of those criticisms slide but not this one when it comes to the creation of an army why is that will some experts are suggesting it comes down to one thing and one thing only money the idea that if a new peon army was created that could mean less cash in the pockets of the usa and donald trump as a businessman the idea of losing money is a kin to a capital offense he may also be unhappy that matter could incite others to join this revolt already we know that the german chancellor angela merkel has said she

is fully behind this idea so this idea of castigating my call and twitter could be just serving another purpose of trying to keep the troops in order. geo political expert appearing on your top man believes that micron has been played by trump. boehner trumped before to come to paris was. shocked and angry but the spot of his negotiating tactic him a strong statements ignored or to make a spark notes ticket different position on each works and the following day. just repeats what the americans once from europe and he said we europeans should be spending more we've been made to for our security six actually went to the united states once it sit b.t.u. that french president who was not strong enough to keep his own position.

israel's defense minister has quit slamming his country's response to palestinian attacks as week and monday israeli fighter jets struck palestinian targets at the militants in gaza last rockets and mortar shells now bigger lieberman's resignation comes as palestinian armed groups and israel confirmed a cease fire he branded the truce a surrender. for me the ceasefire deal breach yesterday combined with the long term deal with a mass is a surrender to terrorism there's no other word no other meaning but surrender to terrorism. and all residents of an israeli town on the border with gaza strongly oppose a ceasefire with hamas and claim its government is caving in to militant violence have a cross border has killed one israeli and seven palestinians. we

discussed the israeli defense ministers meeting mordechai kid from the begin site at center for strategic studies and israel's bar ilan university he says leap of ins resignation will help him at the next election. did what he did because he heals the voices which come from the us is an instinct usually he withdraws also from the coalition and this way the time you know is losing the majority which he has in the knesset and now we are entering a new election liberman in his speech of liz ignatius he mentioned not only what happened yesterday of the ceasefire which he was against he mentioned at least four

events they're connected to other things which he had a dispute with them when the time you know this time was the strong way balck his own back if every minute if i can say it and they decided that enough is enough is enough it might actually believe him to a position which. you would be better in the elections because people don't know what he did definitely a good thing with what to do and this actually might play. to his cards in their neck in the coming elections. the president of the iranian academy of medical sciences a center powerfully worded appeal to the u.n. secretary general over the reimposition of u.s. sanctions it describes how the lives of many patients in iran are in danger sanctions have put off drug firms from working in the country we visited one cancer treatment center in tehran doesn't a rational man 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. on my little 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 describe is iran hard as 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 this health clinics with the sanctions are just not able to respond to half a million patients. i can. see professor of political science calling believes that washington's ultimate goal is to bring down the iranian government at any price. the united states is going to say we iraq

until it's free will is allow said 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 is organized some account for kids which looks more like a boot camp journalist from the associated press visited the sign to a children live under strict rules and learn how to be soldiers and you're trying

to pick up the story now that's what i call a legit summer camp. oh you know early morning wakeup calls. 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 did just that 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 should 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. but. what may seem as an ugly display of far right saw the brain washing 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 kill sort 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 neo nazis were believed to have trained

white supremacists in america just wait till some of these youngsters grow up. in january ukraine passed a law recognizing russia as an aggressive state and last week ukrainian vice prime minister said the country is trying to build a strong democracy where is the kremlin supposed populist nationalist movements the journalist brahma dawdled has been monitoring coverage with the current conflict since it erupted four years ago believes that we may have reached a turning point i'm just shocked that it's finally been reported in the west the main associated press have gone in there obviously a syndication agency so obviously that you know there copy that has to be reported in other mediums i'm pleasantly surprised that you know outfits like the washington post notably have covered it although some of the usual suspects you know the guardian and out of sight out of ignore the story once again but that's not surprising but it's good that for the first time you know many readers in western

countries are finally learning something about what's really going on in western ukraine particular with these nationalist groups the way things work in the west is that you need pressure groups you know think tanks to kind of get on these bandwagons and kind of you know almost force the agenda and what's very interesting is here we've got children you know schoolchildren minors being trained to hate being trained to kill and been trained to fight and where is amnesty international where is human rights watch i mean they're not interested i mean where is the american embassy what it's supposed moral leadership you know lashing out against this where the british embassy i mean time to. you know complain about other subjects and cities are vying for amazon's affections as searches for a second home for its headquarters but the company isn't being welcomed with open arms by all details after the break.

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welcome back with the u.s. and china currently locking horns in a tussle for greater influence in the southeast asia region russia is looking to assert its own interests both commercial and diplomatic count wednesday's russia a c. on summit in singapore looks like a good opportunity but these are just on the off reports from the event. 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 several. invested couple of billion of dollars to

russian arms like for example indonesia or vietnam the philippines got their free tranche of weapons to help them combat eisel on the territory in another and a more subtle diplomatic pursuit russia could be in here is revolves around the fact that china and the united states are world 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. bring in professor simon shen from the chinese university of hong kong good evening to you simon a lot to talk about at this summit but in your opinion what's been the most interesting development at this year's gathering. basically of the trade war

between china and. countries of very famous order hedging diplomacy there is to have to in the two giants so the urgency of russia's option for them to consider does that. as i understand trade wise there's a huge free trade deal being discussed. how significant would that be and how close do you think it actually is to coming to fruition. well that's been discussed a long time and that's kind of evangelical and that would be. very is live because of this but i don't think it's a likely tosk simply because of the fact that the r.c.n. countries are torn between china and the states both have their own issues to support them for instance cambodia always follow the chinese and generous countries like singapore and to another extent in the nation is are more inclined she was the

american agenda so i'm like leave them to the real achievement that listed. the russian president hoping to increase russian influence in the region in what ways could he do that. he has been quite a long time since the russia and the r.c. and signed these kind of collaborative treaty to make the constructive strategic partners and the major advantage for russia is the resources actually in the last meeting the russians and the chinese had signed some deals with the idea and countries to collaborate in energy front and that's because it has never reached out the russians can rely on i do think in the future if the russians can keep exporting resource in all in particular to the arts and countries the importance of these very important join in the world with even more enhanced so probably the russians are looking for a critical role to play between the chinese and the americans for the asean

countries right now and the indo-pacific of gender from the state is being put forward i do think there will be more opportunities for a lot of countries to enter into the screen and russia is that it's kind of in. the hand of those of us assignments and from the chinese university of hong kong sana thank you. to. u.s. cities been battling it out to win the affections of amazon after it announced plans for a new secondary headquarters but not everybody thinks having the mega-corporation move into town is such a good thing a skill i'm open 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 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 to put 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'll 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 i'll change my name to. whom or in a time when 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 this is joining us this evening here what you ought to international updates coming your way at the top of the hour. 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 new cycle are all about trump and much of this coverage is negative as journalism lost its purpose or journalists know nothing more than ideological i think it.

would make this manufacture consent to stick to the public will. when the right wing plus is one protect themselves. with the famous merry go round listen to the one percent so. we can all middle of the room sick. to lose the real news group. greetings and salutations. as the world embraces automation on line living rapidly

becomes the reality of our times and is pretty much the guaranteed future of our evolution the safety and security of the internet of things should be one of mankind's highest priorities one would think much like nucular power for the baby boomers the internet and its connectivity in every aspect of our lives and infrastructures not only the greatest source of this generation's power but could also very easily become the cause of its destruction as well which is why many feel this past monday reveal at the paris peace forum of the new paris call for trust and security in cyberspace initiative is long overdue simon more than fifty nations ninety nonprofits and universities and one hundred thirty private corporations and groups the initiative is designed to establish international norms for the internet in order to support an open and secure stable accessible and peaceful cyber space

and to reaffirm that the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online some of the signing these include countries like germany france and the united kingdom in fact all of the european union signed on as well as japan and south korea but curiously it was the countries who didn't sign the agreement that surprised the world the least given their respective histories in the world of cyber offensive weapons spying and hacking the biggest names not on the list include russia china and the. united states of america along with israel iran and north korea now as to why the united states chose not to sign its name on the dotted line no one at this time knows except the new york times posits that it could be because the u.s. does not want to limit its options for using offensive and defensive cyber weapons because hey you know who wants to lead the way for cyber peace in the

twenty first century when you've got to feed the three headed conflict addicted beast that is the n.s.a. cia and the pentagon which is why my friends we must always be watching the hawks. that. would. like you that i got. with that we. would. welcome them on the watching the hawks i robot and. yet why are we not that i am i in fear is why are we now as you know it's empty. how you would think with all of the bellyaching that we do about cyber security and all of the

complaining over and over and over again and over the hacked our elections and all of this that we would be the first people to sign up for a set up and say you know let's lead the way this has to stop you know and let's put our name on the line and. the agreement lays out about nine different points kind of going forward and it's and a few of those are to prevent and recover from malicious cyber activities that threaten or cause significant indiscriminate or systemic harmed individuals and critical infrastructure i think a good point you know i brought weapons we don't want to countries knocking each other's power grids out or their banks or their banks great point. it's also talks about preventing activity that intentionally or substantially damages the general availability and integrity of the public or of the internet so you know not depriving people the ability to communicate and that also says that these countries are growing and corporations and everybody that signed this are also going to

develop ways to prevent the proliferation of malicious i.c.t. .