the mother of. the end of this. month. the russian president the practice. calling them fundamentally flawed and offers a system to promote international relations between close economic partners.

at the g. twenty summit in argentina also ahead this hour. through the streets. of the so-called yellow vests movement spreads to brussels then to mimic protests folding similar scenes. coming up on the program racism in middle earth. or from the. lord of the rings maybe. the script. hello and a warm welcome to our to international just six pm here in moscow this friday on midday in argentina. where leaders of the world's most industrialized economies are

getting together. well proceedings are officially about to get under way any moment now for the annual g. twenty summit the meeting is expected to be clouded with differences over many issues as the year has seen new alliances formed on longstanding one strained the day started with a meeting of the brics nations on the sidelines of believe a trade reports from buenos aires some of the meetings on the sidelines of g twenty are already in full swing in particular between the brics leaders the leaders of russia shina brazil india and south america and we've already heard from the

russian president vladimir putin who is saying that these countries should join efforts to advocate a just system of international relations and he also slammed those who are using sanctions unilaterally vladimir putin says that this kind of vicious practice is harmful for international relations and international economy now i just want to tell you about some of the really awkward situations that happened to other the years even before the twenty events began and i can tell you what it is probably bad log or maybe the summit's been cursed some of the international leaders got in trouble even before they stepped foot in argentina here's a situation for you the chinese leaders plane was in parking position the doors opened but instead of paying the first man to come out was another senior chinese official but the orchestra music went off for him. instead of paying and that was

a really awkward moment how about german chancellor angela merkel she couldn't even fly out of germany there was a technical malfunction her plane had to be grounded and she experienced an emergency landing but then technical issues continued and she had to take a commercial flight to argentina well i bet there are probably hundreds of thousands of people on this planet who could be great translators between spanish and english but the man who was working when the argentinian leader was welcoming the u.s. president donald trump perhaps isn't one of them or probably he was having a bad day apparently the translation was a real mess which made donald trump say that probably he would have understood the argentinean leader better in his language than with the translation that he got and now moving on to the french president emanuel macron here's what happened to him

when his plane touched down in one of side. anyway the main g. twenty events are gradually kicking off as we speak. a little earlier though i went

to the area of the latest artist where the most powerful people on this of signage are staying and i've put together a summary of what we can expect from them 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. well the folks from that point aside us have recently made us realize that we are and be 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 us mid terms china has been attempting to interfere in our election 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 the great depression 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 and stall on how the rest of the world's been dealing with saudi arabia's mohamed bin saw money by the way has been in bonus

a lot of since wednesday on the snow this year we look at the monstrosity that happened in the sound you made in construction talk eat as long as it's not that would be nice. to saudi arabia. someone else saying hello 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 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 treats said some of trump's recent decisions have been done to the detriment of. the u.k.'s painful divorce might lead to a few awkward moments for. 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. and you may have got a sense from his piece there that security is tight a run the summit's venues with reports saying police have fun petrol bombs in the city center and if there is one constant at any g twenty meeting no matter where it's held or run the world whatever is happening outside the protests over at the streets no exception.

well. plenty of headlines even before the official g twenty opening to be american leader council meeting between the two at the last minute russia's foreign minister has suggested that u.s. domestic politics and pressure from russia in washington are preventing trump from building relations with the russian leader kim open brings us to. 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 when trump was leaving for argentina it seemed to everyone that the meeting was still on probably were.

i think. 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 for 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 the media went into a total meltdown hell 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. out of the ball that putin gave to tromp 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 like you want to. send should have been i don't see any reason why i would or why it went to russia sense then 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 it's 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 and 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 the meeting table mup and r.t. new york well former telep u.s. state department official lawrence wilkerson told us it's the russian collusion

allegations that move to council the pitch meeting. i think this was all based on domestic politics there is growing concern in the u.s. congress and growing concern out amongst the american people about the investigation about the possibility of there being collusion between the administration and moscow about trump's russia contacts period. and so i think he's doing all he can now to demonstrate that there is no such thing as collusion there's no such thing is a. relationship between him and moscow that is anything other than formal and official and so he uses this in the cancellation of the meeting on the side of the buenos aires g twenty as a way of demonstrating that to his base and to the american people in the congress . well that's not the only thing trumps mind his former lawyer michael cohen

pleaded guilty on thursday to lying to congress in the continuing russia collusion probe and the u.s. leader in response typically did not mince his words. he was convicted of various things unrelated. he was given a fairly long jail sentence and he's a weak first. by being weak as like other people that you watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about and that's just flesh out what he was talking about there he was referring to a scrap the project ability trump tower in moscow earlier cohen said that talks on the project had ended in january twenty sixth but no planes it was a lie the negotiations continued into june of about a year when trying to contain it was in full swing former wall street journal correspondent joe lauria told us they're helping efforts to stop trouble meeting with putin ever since their summit in helsinki last july. time very well timed

release of cowen having lied about want not about collusion to change 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 you had to cancel this meeting and this is a very serious matter it's just it isn't terminal politics that's having an international effect 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 the reaction here in the u.s. was beyond belief this time i think maybe trump got the message. ok it's more news where across this hour there has been an escalation in the latest

showdown between moscow and kiev the ukrainian government has announced that russian males aged between sixteen and sixty will not be bombed from entering the country at all or senior correspondent rocco's the it brought me up to spec all not from crimea earlier. well we've seen similar bans put in place over the last several years repeatedly where russian men were barred entry into ukraine but this is the first time that they've officially confirmed that russian men age sixteen to sixty new longer welcome were no longer allowed entry into ukraine the president has talked about this he has said that one of the justifications is to prevent russia from forming private armies inside ukraine we must remember of course that president poroshenko over the last four years has full cost repeated russian invasions of the ukraine which have. to materialize but the russian the russians have also reacted the russian foreign ministry they've said that this is merely

a political ploy a political play in order to shore up mr parr shanku ratings just four months to go until elections and martial law being put in place is an attempt by him to radicalize to solidify the base and to guarantee himself more votes russia meanwhile that said that it is not planning on responding in kind that it isn't going to put in place any sort of restriction on ukrainians coming into russia for now but we've seen other restrictions put in place by the government in kiev we've seen for example foreigners banned from moving into from journeying into crimea from the ukrainian side this includes journalists and this is drastically called complicated jobs because now foreign correspondents seeking to cover events in crimea even if they do manage to get into crimea they you know they might be punished by the ukrainians but we've seen a c.n.n.

crew for example now in marry you pool which is a ukrainian city in the south of ukraine they've been elected opinions from people in the interview for example one woman among others who says that she has relatives in russia. relatives that you know it's going to be hard to contact because because of this new band there are millions of russians and ukrainians on both sides of the border that have relatives on the other side she identified herself as one of those if we had a normal president she says women work like this in this kind of job yet another she adds good presidents. named the brought the old smile among them. strange while the c.n.n. correspondent may be surprised that there are ukrainians who want friendly relations with russia the situation politically socially economically in ukraine isn't black and white there are many many people who share similar opinions who

want three consult who want friendly relations and it's rare that we hear their opinions voiced in the mainstream media and western press nevertheless there are many many ukrainians who share similar opinions and who want this to end we're back with live reaction in ninety seconds on protests bricking in the belgian capital moving on from france more not coming up.

what politicians do something if. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to be rich. but you'd like to be close it's like the full screen the whole can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters in the. first city. that start back in europe where a mimic protest in belgium has erupted in clashes the so-called yellow vests

rallies spread from fronts to brussels. a lot of five hundred demonstrators gathered in the city center on friday morning they are protesting in solidarity with the french movement against fuel price hikes on what they say are rising living in close. yes chanting for the french and belgian leaders to resign protesters started to throw stones out police officers responded by deploying tear gas dozens of people opting to taint we will be picketing across the the protests there to see to the flare up this evening because they are at judo towards the parliament in brussels that is a no go zone for rallies let's get more all this with geo politics expert peer among you well tom you're very welcome to the program why do

you think the protesters in belgium have taken to wearing yellow fast like in france is it such that a larger movement perhaps across two countries will achieve more. first of voter feces usually the caves about to go in france in social movements because french speaking. belgian people very much. tory seasoned political debates in france. to countries are very close second these people are share of a same problem so we've the high taxis and low incomes and mass movements a research actually from coming from the crisis in two thousand and eighteen europe and start to see big results of the

economic crisis which started ten years ago and no east or touching. neither crosses people review low income high far do you see this going because just some weeks ago the protests in france were largely peaceful the rallies have spread they're becoming increasingly violent it seems. the best seems to be two types of violence first of all or interests at the beginning of a movement which was largely peaceful but in shows it is in paris they started to be riots but it up here not. been proven of through video and also weaknesses but the movement has been infiltrated by violent people who wanted to discredit the movement because of course were governments. in france. they are. they need

they have an interest in a discredit of these movements because they don't want to change of more than of society and these movements. actually asking much more beyond these or of indications like your smooth small talk season the fuel prices it's. more a movement on change of society each secrets of. globalization of open border europe where more and more middle class he's under pressure and the people are doing the anymore. at a future and i think this is not the start of the big movement play also we're hearing a lot of cries of protest particularly against the leaders the president of france and the belgian prime minister they're really being put under the microscope in

these protests over as you're saying they're the economic policies do you think they will listen and perhaps alter their stance or is that too late. so far they didn't listen and this is why. must protest started to be much more important and but they know about behind this must move and as i say varies much more there is a critique of the system itself and this is why the leader political leader was sworn in power or is difficult for burma to respond to these revenue cations because you sit change of system but the people who want this is why is very difficult and. you can see river indications comes from lower taxis. better accommodation but also. dismiss our political clus and so it's. very important movement and do reach probably

stay for months to come and do we deepen fragmentation of western societies we appreciate your take on this very interesting getting some of the background there from from brussels in fact expert in geopolitics p.r. and money well. thank you. a controversial and historic rift is the developing in eastern orthodoxy the ukrainian orthodox church has been granted independence from the russian church by the patriarch eight of constantinople however the plan has been criticized by religious heads in ukraine for not specifying a date for the rule changes to come into effect. state blue titian's of the highest level who constantly promise cuts and all the suffering simply deceive us there is a full understanding of the fact that constant noble leads us on with various

promises since most likely it's statements about the ukrainian orthodox church are motivated by something more than just spiritual goals well the chairman for the russian orthodox church has also reacted saying it is the third time constantinople has talked about granting a thomas powers for national churches but still no conclusion in sight he also stressed the separation is something orthodox believers don't actually want the breakaway crisis started last month when ukraine started pushing for its independence constantinople then overturned a centuries old act of the union to sever ties between the churches in kiev and moscow know both the russian and ukrainian churches responded in turn to cut away from constantinople i spoke to a professor of church history who believes the government is forcing the church to separate ukrainian go and is really really trying to force the new

nickel bishops uncanonical church to produce patient members quote unquote council unification so off mark of this pursuit of bursaries or structures or was to threaten with confiscation of churches and monasteries and started to pull discipline into life which arabs always chose one of the most respected monasteries in the ukraine. we could go to a break their agreement. will not be able to use the premises anymore or the second step is trying to get a lot of the caves in kiev which is like the holiest place of both ukrainian and russian belorussian and also all. raids had called her. apartment the residence or for metropolitan paul who is the. lover of the cage and here is the

second step of this strategy of intimidation and violence. it's all very fun to see classic lord of the rings no doubt the beast like orcs while they're a force to be reckoned with aren't they but one side folly aurthur believes the way they're depicted in the books is racist and another dire consequences for society. that's right back on. not that he did no show and tell.

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