her. office headline news political flashpoint and trade routes the g. twenty leaders gather in argentina. unexpectedly called off is much anticipated encounter with. edward snowden's former lawyer claims the

whistleblower was forced to flee hong kong in twenty thirty after pressure from chinese authorities. this is this was not an ordinary situation i literally had minutes. once i was instructed. to make decisions that would affect his liberty even slightly. and racism in the middle. east like from the fantasy classic i want to bring maybe victims of discrimination. of will welcome from me in the t.v. reality h.q. it's ten am here in moscow and four in the morning and one also writes where leaders of the world's most industrialized economies are getting together.

the latest g twenty summit kicks off in argentina later this friday and there's a lot at stake but two leaders have already made headlines even before the official opening as donald trump canceled his much awaited meeting with putin open explains bated breath the world waited for another announced meeting between the presidents of russia and the united states but then lo and behold the twitter sphere lights up with news that the meeting is off the issue was the maritime incident between russia and ukraine but one trump was leaving for argentina it seemed to everyone that the meeting was still on roughly. what we. think it's a very good. that was despite the media beating the drums of war why does this

president seems so simple when it comes to vladimir putin a lot of demands on the president right now to get tough on russia we've got to be tough with them it's the only thing putin understands he just seems incapable of criticizing putin i don't want him to do that again stand next to putin and said well that was a provocation by the ukrainians that would not be in america's national interest just better not that the media coverage like this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone the last time the two leaders met in the media went into a total meltdown i'll think he was treated like an abomination now every aspect of the face to face meeting was question there were calls for the interpreter to testify before congress there were some who wanted the ball that putin gave to trump to be inspected for k.g.b. style bugs there were rumors that hypnotism could have been at play and amid all of this frenzy trump actually backtracked on some of his. words about election hacking president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be looking for reason in the same sense should have been i

don't see any reason why i would or why it would be russia sense that another meeting had been in the works for months and the two leaders had plenty to discuss president trump would look forward to seeing you in paris still important to work in areas where there is a possibility of mutual cooperation president meet with president putin i think it will be a full agenda the issues that we have on security issues on arms control issues of regional issues including the middle east last month the two world leaders opted not to me not wanting to steal the thunder of the world war one commemorations this time they are stealing the founder of the g twenty by not having a meeting table mup and r.t. new york from counseling that meeting with putin spoke why debate in the media where russia u.s. relations now and the next hour on r.t. sophie shevardnadze discusses that with the chief editor and publisher of the nation magazine in the u.s.

the irony is that trump is hawkish he's brought in john bolton as your viewers may know and the leading neo conservative who is the architect of america's withdrawal from the ne ballistic missile treaty in two thousand and two the sanctions continue so the relationship is at its lowest most dangerous point and i just think trump doesn't have a team that is capable of moving in a different direction nor is he disciplined enough for american establishment for american politicians for american media it is just that it sells so well to have this anti russian stance i'm just wondering maybe you know it's just going to go on forever because there's so little consequences to pay cannot make well let me put it a different way the election we just had showed the disconnect between the media political establishment and ordinary people russia gate the scale. all alleging that putin put trump in the white house was not an issue in the election it didn't figure the

issues were issues like health care like pensions which i think is a big issue in russia too but what we call bread and butter issues in fact a recent poll a gallup poll showed fifty seven percent of americans want to more cooperative relationship with russia so there is a disconnect that a smart politician democrat would understand needs to be seized. next hour with negotiations on where the world heads next to not expected to be with the nation is divided on the solutions to many critical problems facing the globe right now if you are trying to is in one of sarah's force with more months ahead. right now there are two cities a boy and a scientist one behind these fences for the g. twenty leaders and one on this side for everyone else and it does make sense because those who are attending are the most powerful people in this world these are really the ones that are making our planet spin.

cocos from that point aside us have recently made us realize that we are in the living in a multi-polar world where everyone's holding on to their national interests and that head of the summit has led to a whole lot of problems between those who've been saying my country first. donald trump lately after china all the time he has blamed beijing for stealing to call jeep unfair trade and even meddling in the u.s. midterms the great ability we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight. election against my administration because i

am the first president ever to challenge china on trade beijing has been much more careful with what they're saying but they are giving out warnings to in the last century we had two world wars and in between them the great depression i don't think anybody should really try to have a repetition of history these things should never happen again so people have to act in a responsible way. the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi has been taken at stall on how the rest of the world's been dealing with saudi arabia's mohamed bin psalm on by the way has been since wednesday on the snow this year we look at the monstrosity that happened and it sounded great in concert and it must be cleared up as long as it's not. sound you i can assure you i thought.

someone else saying go marco is not a big fan of is us president donald trump along with one of her best european buddies emanuel macron they're trying to push for a european army and donald trump really hates that idea now mr macron who's really been trying to make an effort to become close friends with mr trump it seems is beginning to have issues with the u.s. administration truth said some of trump's recent decisions have been done to the detriment of. these fundamental overtones the legal basis for friendly ties between japan and south korea and is extremely regrettable that was what you had to say on south korea's supreme court verdict ordering a japanese firm to pay compensation to koreans for forced labor during world war two and as you heard that could be enough to reignite old has still between the

countries. the u.k. spain feel divorced from you it might lead to a few awkward moments for two reason me. the prime minister will be looking for new friends at the summit and she's convinced other countries will feel the same way we might as well bear all of that in mind when we see team g twenty getting together for the family photo perhaps some of those smiles will have to be faked. but in the run up to the much anticipated some of the host cities witness numerous protests over the past few days. will. be.

on top of the headline news then and the lawyer who defended edward snowden in hong kong has revealed that the n.s.a. whistleblower had to flee the city back in twenty thirty because of pressure from the chinese authorities over to both talk to us exclusively on his claims that the whistleblower was hounded by police. when mr snowden was in hong kong in two thousand and thirteen. it was in a situation where the most wanted man on the planet with the world's largest manhunt underway. this is this was not an ordinary situation i literally had minutes. you know once i was instructed by mr snowden to make decisions that would affect his liberty in this life. former cia employee snowden leaked a vast trove of classified national security agency data on u.s. government spying operations he then fled to hong kong where asylum seekers helped

shelter him from the authorities for two weeks russia later granted him asylum and he's lived here ever since. china says it was edward snowden himself who took the decision to leave quote through a lawful and normal channel but robert tibo insists that snowden was persecuted as were the other refugees who were sheltering in. 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 the first question police had for my clients was all about mr snowden and i had to put a stop to this quite frankly i was shocked that the whole called 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. a growing number of shootings at schools and universities in the united states has got administrative scrambling for ways to protect everyone on campus oakland university in the state of michigan's decided to teach it students to fight potential shooters using whatever every day item comes to hand. they have enough mass to cause injury small enough to be thrown.

in a matter of seconds. no way you can lock a door with this it can't get shot out you can't get around it. it's something that we should think about america about putting guns in the hands of law abiding citizens whether they actually be talented children or how to train a three year old cannot defend itself from a assault rifle by throwing i hello kitty pencil case that our founding fathers that i put an age limit on the second amendment. this is our to your new twisted accusations that donald trump's former campaign chairman met you're going to song

guess who's being accused of planting the story it's among our stories after the break. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand down in the news business you just leave as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. seemed wrong wrong wrong just don't call. me but yet to say

proud disdain become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground . welcome back u.s. officials have confirmed that a deadly bombing raid earlier this week in afghanistan's helmand province was carried out by american war planes local officials say thirty civilians were killed along with sixteen taliban fighters. this young boy was in the area and luckily survived the bombing yes trucks were called in by afghan government forces and u.s. advisors after they came under fire from the taliban in the compound the afghan

government says local forces were not aware of any civilians in the area at the time relatives of the dead have been describing what happened. here but a number given out around nine pm the first helicopters circled overhead and then a jet from the house there were thirty people in the family all of them. one survivor is my nephew he was at my house he is the only one who survived the others died a six month old baby among them. in my mind i'm on to the government is to know why do they kill innocent people they didn't do anything wrong come out. and say tional claims the president trumps former campaign chairman met several times with the wiki leaks founder julian assange has taken a new twist a former cia officer is questioning the story saying it might have been planted by russia more on that from daniel hawkins. it's another link in the chain of the trump russia collusion probe the guardian article exposing alleged multiple

meetings between the former chairman of trump's presidential campaign and wiki leaks founder julian assange and naturally it's caused quite a stir in the us media story is shaking washington that is a bombshell. held a secret meeting around the same time that man a four joined the tram campaign a direct connection between a campaign. and wiki leaks they actually published e-mails that were hacked by the russians now stolen by russian spies but doubt soon began to emerge about the article's content and sources but not to warry politico has the answer even if the guardian story is false it's all russia's fault you know i'm being serious rather than being the bombshell smoking gun that directly connects the trump campaign to wiki leaks perhaps the report is something else entirely a distant from asian campaign is it possible someone planted the story as a means to discredit the journalists that article was written by next year yeah agent under a pen name and to prove a point the former officer draws our attention to those who dare question this

bombshell rush's disinflation now has jumped into the ring to promote skepticism of the story one of russia's propaganda networks called the story into question and bolstered the skepticism by quoting tweets from at the golan juggling greenwald with leaks itself r.t. also a crime and mouthpiece. and wiki leaks do you see a pattern here it's clear why there's some skepticism the story raises more questions than answers both and metaphor strongly deny the meeting even threatening legal action ok perhaps they're both simply covering for each other you could say but assad has a man under close surveillance with police literally on his doorstep a few days pass yet no other source can confirm or show substantial evidence of manifolds alleged visit to the ecuadorian embassy because a minister apparently the washington times says pull me out of false passports show he didn't even visit london in those years the guardian claim and r.t.

are the only ones asking for evidence who are the sources if you can't say then doubt anonymous sources is dangerous at best. striking catalogue of reflexive credulous acceptance of a story that looked shaky from the start and looks more so by the day maybe they've all been duped by russia but what does politico think this fake news operation by russian intelligence actually proves someone is novice and eager to lay the groundwork for yelling fake news out what other stories are about to drop so either what the guardian says is true and there is collusion or it's a fake story planted by the russians which also proves collusion win win situation one thing seems clear someone is feeling the heat. the story's almost the power to the next cia agent using a pen name says that if the guardian piece on a song in metaphor is false the russians must be behind it anyway you really can't

make this up. for fans of the fantasy classic lord of the rings no the beast like orcs are a force to be reckoned with but the believe the way that depicted in the books is racist and that that die of consequences for society. looks like beat back on. it's hard not. to know surely i'm told. by adults. and not

a great choice in the matter what. are we not allowed to root against treacherous fictional cannibals any more welcome to twenty feet in one time. clearly the races of men elves and dogs should have welcomed the immigrants and allowed them to feast on the mound freshly designed how terribly racist of. it is just to. good triumphs over evil story not meant to be that deep. germany's vice chancellor is pushing for the european union to have a place at the u.n.

security council by suggesting france should share its seat the french of held one of the five permanent seats since the united nations was formed in one hundred forty five 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 to the united nations as you might imagine the french u.n. ambassador is knocking saying that it contradicts the organizations charter french and paid on exactly happy about it either the proposal comes after president suggested the creation of an e.u. army earlier this month and got backing from germany's angela merkel political analyst alexander adler told us germany's wrong to have made it un proposal public . putting together all the europeans in one concept and one mccann ism is nearly impossible wave of germany's has done so is exactly opposite. favorable issue. using

a megaphone diplomacy to soothe to assume all the constraints of germany is one of the most efficient way to course in such a question has to be discussed. public adults are very much such a caring european representation in the security council in european institutions can be. created soley by a dog between germany and france and doing v. and doing it so so votes making the necessary concessions to other europeans is a sure recipe for disaster ok that's the way look from moscow this hour thanks for watching your next world update from marty is in just over half an hour after larry king.

when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer it be with the death penalty just because i think that's fair make the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict just found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people was terrifying there was just no way to parent and that we're even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the respect to get help here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. the fate of julian assange is on clear washington is determined that he be sent to the u.s. to face criminal charges most likely under the one nine hundred seventy espionage

act the british government is more than happy to make this stop and even the ecuadorians are in the media we are watching unfold in front of our eyes is that criminalization journalists. who take one. on one no but i think you might find that out by going to one news real body. one of them one night you should have been this way. to get them to i don't want or i can't give her name yes i knew she was going to that community yeah i am kind of whom keep it taking that he had to keep. going i

may have to move on with the one that you know enough i don't have before i don't mess with. the fact a recent poll a gallup poll showed fifty seven percent of americans want to more cooperative relationship with russia so there is a disconnect that is smart politician democrat would understand needs to be seen because there's not a lot of hunger appetite for this kind of and the russian politics is being fanned by a media political establishment. is dong. now willing to compromise in his economic war with china and shimmy expert opinion on this edition of.

politicking on larry king according to several ports recent gyrations in the stock market a rise in the interest rates and general motors plan to close several of the american manufacturing plants and lay off thousands of workers have president trump rattled about the impact that these will have on the economy from present parent leaks was the willingness to compromise was china when he meets privately with that country's president later this week following the g twenty summit in argentina what happens if compromise is reached and what impact will that have on the u.s. economy if the two leaders walk away without some sort of new agreement on trade let's talk about that with neil gross. commentator he's the managing partner of t.k. n.-g. global investment funds joins us from new york ok neal what do you expect to happen

with the president of china and the president of the united states. first of hi larry how are you. i would i would not expect an awful lot in terms of an agreement at this meeting the question i think is going to be whether they come away expressing a willingness to conduct negotiations to try and reach a compromise over the next number of months and if that sort of understanding is reached whether or the president will be willing to delay or or moderate some of his threats to impose more say more more tariffs or higher tariffs on what is already existing is saying a negotiation to negotiate i think that's pretty much the best you're going to expect i don't think the president and i would states and the president of china are going to sit and get into detail negotiations at this go around they may have they may. agree to a nice framework and you know target that some of the issues that the trump

administration feels are essential but i don't think anything's going to come away with any sort of solid agreement at this time from comes out of a lot of the meetings with what he says are agreements and everything's great and then nothing happens you know that seems to be if a fairly standard process. you know again i think there is an element of making this look positive i think that the president is very focused on the stock market and i think you understands that. a real negative outcome would probably be detrimental to the market at this time i should the president be concerned about a bird try to trade war with china. should be concerned i mean it depends laurie i mean. i think the president wanted states as is is focusing on issues that have been ignored and need to be addressed.