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a low life in the arts international you sent of moscow welcome to you my name's kevin though in here for the next hour with this updated just to midnight now this early friday morning in moscow and the start of a big news that came in from washington earlier on donald trump has announced that he won't be meeting with president putin on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit in argentina there's due to start later today friday. has the latest on trump's decision and the possible reasons behind it. well this didn't come out of nowhere completely we had known that donald trump was going to somehow we act to what's going on between kiev and moscow however still donald trump's decision is a shock for everyone here and boy assad is first of all the point when they were going to sit in one room and start talking was of course going to be the number one highlight here at the g. twenty but also just before stepping inside of his plane donald trump said this

i probably would be meeting with president bush we haven't terminated that meeting i was thinking about it but we have to say like there have been i think it's a very good time to have this getting the full report of what happens next and that that will determine what well there's no other meaning of the word probably so all the journalists here in the argentinian capital were gearing up for these poor interim talks but then while the american president was in the skies this tweet appeared online based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to ukraine from russia i have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously should meeting in argentina with president vladimir putin who are to emitting full simon again as soon as the situation is resolved so this is indeed because of the russia ukraine standoff but this issue wasn't by far the only thing that the two leaders were meant to deal with together from the very point

when donald trump took over at the oval office his administration has pretty much been trying to turn the system of international agreements upside down and just a couple of months ago mr trollop announce that he was going to ditch a cold war era nuclear agreement with russia that's important for the stability of europe it's crucial for the stability of the entire. the world and the world was counting on the leaders of russia and the u.s. to sort this out together apparently this discussion isn't happening anymore the russian lawmakers have already reacted to donald trump's tweets they said that russia is still open to any such meeting but only on equal terms besides this the russian official suggested that mr trump could have been forced to do this by the internal bickering in the u.s. with some in washington using the current strange incident has

a free text earlier on thursday there was something else really adding fuel to the fire donald trump's former lawyer michael colons testimony who admitted that he lied to u.s. officials about the way that donald trump comedic a did with the russian side during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign before and after the previous u.s. russia presidential summit the american leader was under immense pressure and when the talks were over some people even told him a traitor and the u.s. media have a look at some of the reaction that followed that summit. i don't know where side is the bride and where side of the groom enters and it is there were sort of feels like we're in a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president why is president trump putting himself in his along or a ball high stakes scenario at and letting platen here however mr trump's tweet

doesn't mean that the president won't meet at all here in buenos addis there will be the g. twenty family photo and all kinds of other events for all the leaders here at the summit and now it's completely unpredictable how the leaders are going to look at each other what their handshake is going to be like if it happens and we'll tell you all about it when these things come in. donald trump meantime has been trying to distance himself from his former lawyer despite speculation that michael code's admission that he lied to congress could be the reason behind canceled talks and i would let him have polluted u.s. president didn't hold by when describing cohen as a weak individual. he was convicted of various things unrelated to us he was given a fairly long jail so he's a weak first. being weak i'd like other people that you watch or he's a weak person. what he's trying to do is get a reduced set so he's lying about

a project that everybody knew about the u.s. leader there referring to a scrapped project to try to build a trump tower here in moscow cohen no says he gave false testimony on trump's contacts with russia earlier the former lawyer said the talks about that project ended in january twenty sixth but now he claims those talks continue well into trump's presidential campaign so many details are taking the let's talk to joe lauria independent journalist north are joining us live on the line may headspin all this doesn't it joe thanks your time today so michael cohen admitted making false statements just hours before trying counseled the putin meeting and then that brings about a bit of deja vu here just what four months ago kind of could be something similar happened remember that trump putin summit in helsinki just before the much vaunted meeting though there was twelve russians were indicted for interfering in u.s. politics is there a partner merging here or is it just simply coincidental. how could i forget that

oh probably there's a pattern here but that g.r.u. indictments were far more serious and this summit was far more important terms of its build up and trump went to the summit house thank you of course and you could play those clips the reaction here in the us was well has beyond belief. brennan from syria director john brennan called him a traitor. you heard anderson cooper of c.n.n. saying he'd never seen a more outrageous between an american president and other leader i mean it was just over the top so this time i think maybe trump got the message i'm not i'm not going to meet them after this. this time very well timed release of kohen having lied about what not about collusion to shame the election results but about a business deal or have been going on and maybe was still going on and he lied about it because he was afraid that it could be construed that way i don't really know exactly the details of the business deal but there's still no collusion but trump you will see how russia gate even without proof of collusion is having its

effect on relations between the united states and russia he had to cancel this meeting and this is a very serious matter this is a kid isn't journal politics that's having an international effect joe let's take it on face value the u.s. really concerned the state department about what happened in the state a father given a statement to the outcome strike by. the president's tweets. on the subject who are quite clear that what we look for and that is the return of the ukrainian sailors and the vessels the aggression that we witnessed this week is unacceptable and a strong message has been sent placing. that was a strong message to say just the isolation that people see in isolation is going to make any difference is the u.s. really in a position of leverage with whatever's going on not going on in the can the strike . well there was aggression by ukraine in going in russian waters and this was

russia's right to seize these vessels of course we want this to be resolved i don't know how the u.s. could be in any way seen as a neutral arbiter in that. so if they had met and if they maybe they do meet anyway and who knows i'm going to sars you never know what trungpa change his mind every five minutes maybe this thing could be helpfully you know there could be some push towards resolving it a huge crisis that of course petro poroshenko the president of ukraine obviously staged in order to help him win this election because he now called for martial law he can cancel those elections and make some tough so. that you know that is being made into a major crisis here in the u.s. and it gets worse if trump does not mean to tell you to hold absolute you know you'd think maybe maybe it's all fashion these days maybe we just paid all fashion to it but you know if you've got a problem we're trying to sort it out with someone you want to face to face meeting even some u.s. democrat surprised they want to the president's to meet at the g. twenty to thrash out whatever problems they've covered go including the coach straight in fought is said it's

a bald melendez we just learned from the president and he's announced that he's canceling this meeting with are you happy to hear that. i would have liked him to meet putin and challenge putin so now officially starts not going to happen good idea or bad idea well not a good idea to challenge him a good i know to donate to him will not make us. of to meet of course it's a good idea to meet me they have to meet every russian and american leaders since the end of the second world war a durant from the second world war would stalin have met repeatedly over and vast number of important issues that need always to be monitored and somehow resolved to keep tensions in check that's a long tradition there now we see people like even menendez saying he should only go there to challenge him and all the others who were crying after helsinki they don't understand what how dangerous the talk is well maybe they do and they don't care which is even more troubling than how much chance they have german chancellor angela merkel of course she's very firm on who she blames was having the straight

sheep blames russia for it but none the less on the sidelines of the meeting in one as there is the g twenty coming up later that day she still plan to talk to putin and she or why is germany had to do that america's not. well germ of. america is not under that kind of pressure of be having so-called colluded with russia the way trump is i think that's probably the reason although you know there is just not enough time maybe to have reined her in as us often during rains in its western european leaders or where we could say vassals maybe so angle merkel you know should take an independent statue should have all along when it comes to russia and russian sanctions out of her german interest and i've done nothing to help. russia or to help germany or to help resolve its tensions in ukraine and i've only gone along with the americans because of american pressure chart hope and america takes an independent stance more and more and the russia for her own country it's a little international it's joel or a dependent journalist author and former wall street journal correspondent think if

you tend to have a good day it. was midnight here in moscow when you get on with your day i think you well meantime talk about what's going on in the crimea an area russia is moving to ramp up its defenses in crimea now following naval clashes with ukraine by deploying a new s four hundred anti across missile system last sunday just to recap but what's happened there if you're catching up with the russian border patrol's sees three ukrainian ships in a peninsula moscow said for violating territorial waters as joshi is saying that our senior correspondent lourdes the of take takes us through these latest developments happening there right now. the s. four hundred triumph as the school does in essence a defensive weapon. and missiles that can shoot down aircraft that can shoot down cruise missiles as well as ballistic missiles up to four hundred kilometers away and at heights of up to thirty kilometers so it's a it's a defensive weapon this is the fourth detachment of four hundred missiles to be

stationed in crimea over the last several years and no surprise really given that what's happening on the other side of the border on the other side of the crimean border that the ukrainian military mobilized that isn't a state of high alert and anything the russians believe could be expected especially after what they call this provocative act that happened on sunday where three ukrainian naval vessels when did that russian territorial waters without filing any notification something that they had done previously the russians believe this was ordered by the government in ukraine for political reasons because of elections that are just four months away since then martial law has been established in many regions of ukraine and while some ukrainians prove others. happy about it now i'm going to my sister was a model for my children are getting complacent yes mr johnston just remember just

you know you could you it was it was you know you know when you were you were able to muster what beautiful. beautiful boy you got all that was sitting. with. you it. would be unusual seems possible that where you were. but you could be you could are you going you must hold off and i will tell you what you do because if you. don't know how. to show much as you're. going to go neo. nevertheless this. of s. four hundred missiles is a serious move it is babson message to the ukrainians that russia is willing and able to defend its territory irregardless of what incidents may come up next let me recap for you the official ukrainian position kiev claims it warned russia it says about the presence of its vessels in the area further its called the

seizure of it ships an act of aggression and ukraine is demanding the immediate release of those twenty four crewmembers who are currently serving a two month pretrial detention here in russia. the lawyer who defended whistleblower edward snowden in hong kong has revealed he had to flee the semi autonomous city because of pressure from local authorities he also believes that the refugees who helped shelter snowden hong kong are in grave danger now this is new in former cia employee snowden leaked those classified national security agency said it dates back in two thousand and thirteen on the u.s. government spying operations then he fled to keep track of it to hong kong or asylum seekers help shelter him from the authorities for around two weeks human rights lawyer robert helped organize the hideout for the whistleblower edward snowden's passport was then revoked and then he was charged with espionage in the u.s. now russia granted him asylum he's remained here for the past five years the former lawyer for edward snowden gave us some exclusive insights on how the whistleblowers

helpers have been victimized in late december two thousand and sixteen when i was in germany speaking at a conference the i received a phone call that the. sri lankan police criminal investigation department had flown into hong kong specifically targeting the snowden refugees so once i received that information from some witnesses i contacted the clients and i advised them to leave their homes immediately and we had secure locations for them and in march two thousand and seventeen the immigration department wrote to me and they said it basically they had said that they weren't in vesta getting anything about the sri lankan police coming to hong kong and they suggested we go to the police the first question the police had for my clients it was all about mr snowden and i had to put a stop to this quite frankly i was shocked that the whole police were focusing on mr snowden's activities in two thousand and thirteen one in two thousand and

seventeen. the issue that the police had to address were the safety and security of my clients. at that point that raised a red flag for me and i became concerned the hong kong police had. put it to them that the story about the sri lankan police coming to hong kong was fabricated and that i had fabricated the story and i asked my clients and also the sri lankan witnesses to this snowden refugees that they asked them to make it up to hong kong police had actually asked the that had asked the so witnesses to the police if they would testify against me in a criminal court. and you know without evidence and i realized that my instincts were right and it wasn't safe anymore then i found out they continued to arrest some of my clients and former clients and trying to make a case against me. and at that time because we had closed down our

house and we had vacated it in our call i found out there were seven police officers at my former home and they were actively searching for me. the so-called yellow vests protesters have announced plans for more rallies against the president's fuel tax increase digging in though right now and is refusing to change course despite angry nationwide protests for a fortnight now. saturday's demonstrations led to unrest between protesters and the police according to reports the one hundred thirty arrested more than half of them happening in paris meantime think about the people have to deal with this five police officers were injured including one who suffered burns and that's where our next story is taking us the

mayor of paris has joined one of france's police unions in expressing worries over the safety of officers under face this off the union's general secretary told our sister channel r.t. france their superiors they said don't understand the conditions police face during the rallies. that are started on martin short intervals the police that overseen from the operation room at the headquarters they give orders saying do that go there the situation on the ground might be very different but according to the information we have here everything is correct or and the problems happen when management does not understand the risks we are taking on location because they're sitting in their office. as i was told an interesting story one location workers were laying paving slabs and no one from management has told us to close off the area to prevent the protesters from pulling up those slabs and using.

those protests as a hooligans and criminals the people who don't want to abide by the law the inside conflict they're ready to commit crimes the question of who they really are i would say they are against society they used in the protest movement is a pretext we had direct from a spokesperson for the yellow vests who is apparently representative for the protests as you're in direct talks with the french. government. we think we're forced to pay taxes saying that this is necessary for they send that letter the same time we do not see what has actually been done here and so does this institution and other issues i think they put all the problems together and today we see the results of this it does not surprise me there's so many people signed the petition because not everything is good and everyone understands this the problem is how to get across it and the petition has become a way of trying to get explanations from the government an exclusive for you now

the case of maria bhutto know she's the russian student now being accused of being a kremlin spire america seen her request to be removed from solitary confinement rejected by u.s. court we can tell you lawyers are still struggling to prove their innocence and artie's daniel hawkins spoke exclusively to maria put in his father about the ongoing efforts to free. how much do we know right now about the conditions that maria is being held in detention in the united states. for the time being she's being held in federal prison in alexandria in poor conditions she's in solitary confinement and alone so it's a tough regime our family our lawyers and russia's foreign ministry believe she isn't deserving of it. what do you think could be behind this isn't to keep on mainly in those conditions i should say the version being reported in the media is that she passed her lawyers phone number to another inmate but i believe that's

just an attempt to pressure her into a forced admission of guilt. according to some of the latest reports maria may enter some sort of plea bargain with the court before the trial starts all these reports are accurate and if they are do you think the condition she is being held in has influenced her decision to enter that bargain. i can't say it's true i don't have any details to make any conclusions but i can say that her lawyers are well qualified people for a long time they've been trying to prove her innocence and i'm sure they will what measures are currently being taken by the russian side to ensure maria's release and return to russia and what more do you think could be done by the russian authorities. different measures are being taken from russia's foreign ministry and the embassy in washington to try and solve these questions human rights groups are also doing everything possible so that maria is treated fairly but if you could

send a message to the media to your thora teased to the courts involved in this case what would your message be you know where it is. i want to pay my huge respect to the american people maria has never done anything wrong in the country who goes to study and she did so very well and i hope that not only the court but all people who see what's going on will come to the right conclusion i hope they'll be assured that maria is not guilty she isn't guilty of any wrongdoing or crime she didn't do any harm to the state she respected that much and still respects it. here is a day islamic states ideology of terror permeated every aspect of daily life in the regions they occupied and also the education of children is no exception they've got their own twisted ideas of what youngsters should be taught and how to teach them now r.t. arabic channel got a glimpse indeed of the kind of indoctrination that was going on in former eisel

facilities in iraq. one would say he'd seize twenty three weapons as trophies from infidels while another with the heat seized only seventeen weapons how many weapons did they seize in total. where the line caps of the caliphate where the soldiers. will attack. if he calls us to jihad breadline culp's of the caliphate where.

with all this out of the name of this policy was to create a new generation of militants to strengthen the terrorist group i'm still afraid if i say because they killed and tortured us. a molotov cocktail isn't something you normally would ever see a football match but dutch farms had to take cover from flares in a petrol bomb during a game in the greek capital wednesday aka athens were hosting. in the u.a.e. for champions league but the game build up to it were marred by violence scenes were but tell you about that with. yet another night of senseless football related violence in europe when the famed dutch club from amsterdam went to the greek capital of eight and to play a local side in the champions league now we've seen violence in the football stands

before but this was something on the next level when part of the fans broke onto the pitch and threw molotov cocktail into the way stand. the police when went into that stand and handed out some beating to the traveling fans resulting in injuries to some of them and all that after a night of craziness in the streets of athens with the two sets of fans fighting each other and now the u.a.e. the european governing football body said that it will punish those fans involved but here is one problem in such cases usually usa for hands in a find for the club and a disqualification for the travelling fans for the very next game in this case next game is on december twelfth in lisbon portugal and the disciplinary committee will review this case on december thirteenth essentially meaning that the very same fans

who threw molotov cocktails in the stadium will have a chance to do it again in lisbon and in this case we're seeing bizarre double standards from you a for let's go back to september twenty seventeen when spartak moscow travelled to slovenia as a matter of war flair was thrown on the pitch some scuffles outside the stadium not not really many injured in this case yet immediate ban for the next away game for spots are the same story with the serbian side sort of as the a red star from belgrade bitch invaded in austria during the champions league qualifier a ban for two games consecutive games away for the fans of red star belgrade but there are cases when these punishments are not applied equally to the club from the . italian capital first they travel to liverpool in april sending one fan into a coma which he still hasn't recovered from later no punishment at all and guess what does it again in october they play c.s.k.

moscow at home clashes outside the stadium with one fan reportedly being stabbed again no no sanctions no fire no fan no bans no fines no anything so it all back for a question why are the standards so different if you a fire has this so-called zero tolerance policy towards for related violence it should be applied to all sides involved and now we have to wait and see whether eight athens will behave in lisbon in two weeks time. r.t. reporting from moscow. this is going to cause trouble the german vice chancellor is pushing for each new membership at the u.n. security council at the expense of france the french held one of those five permanent seats since the us is formation at the end of world war two i realize this will take some convincing in paris but it would be a bold and smart goal to lessen the pain of losing the powerful seat france could become the permanent e.u. on buses to the united nations the french ambassador to the us cast out already on

berlin's proposal saying it contradicts the u.n. charter indeed other french employees of also voiced concern this comes of course backdrop to this after the french president emmanuel mccrone announced his desire for an army earlier this month in plans also merkel political analyst alexander adler told us that germany though is wrong it has made its un proposal public. putting together all the europeans in one concept and one mccann ism is nearly impossible waver germans have done so is exactly opposite to favorable issue. using a megaphone diplomacy to do it all constraints of germany is the most efficient way to cause such a question has to be discussed notes public. very much such a sharing.