for all generations of them i just got this memo from the circulating branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money those with. if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort for easiness for. joining me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. the russian president said the practice of unilateral sanctions calling them fundamentally flawed and offers a system to promote international relations between close second all my partners.

here putin attends the g twenty summit. also. through the streets of the belgian capital as the so-called yellow vests movement spreads to brussels in a mimic protest following similar scenes. of. racism in middle earth and claims that peace like works from the father of the rings may be victims of discrimination. alone welcome to our two international just gone seven pm here in moscow this friday means it's well known in the afternoon in argentina's couple of buenos aires where leaders of the world's most industrialized economies are getting together.

the proceedings are officially underway for the annual g. twenty summit the event 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 with president putin taking the stage. and you can go on to. the increasingly replace the international dialogue raised on honesty inequality this vicious practice of using little you no matter sanctions is expanding on this that when you as well as protectionist measures are violating the u.n.

charter. for. all the leaders together gathered for the summit on this no hopping from buenos aires so you can see is our own the trend has been following developments. a challenging here i think it's safe to say for the g twenty members tell us about the atmosphere there as the summit gets underway this two day event. union high again well we have already seen the standstill and say cheese moment it is the family photo as it's known here for the g. twenty it's the first time all the leaders gets to get a get together and that of course grabs a lot of attention now right after the photos were taken the leaders started clapping all of them except for one. at that point it seems that everyone was given him a round of applause now then everyone went to this massive round table and

journalists were trying to figure out who's sitting next to who and the folks right there a lot of them pointed out that vladimir putin ended up right next to mohamed bin psalm on the crown prince of saudi arabia now he should have really seen the way these two leaders said hi to each other it felt like they were two best buddies who haven't seen each other for years and this g. twenty summit will already be remembered for the extreme awkwardness that happened even before they get together began i don't know just can't tell you what it is maybe. bad luck or the summit's been cursed because some leaders got into trouble even before they stepped foot here in argentina just take this situation with the chinese leader his plane was already in parking position the doors opened and the first person to come out of the plane was another less senior member of the chinese

delegation but the orchestra music went off for him instead of xi jinping how but angle of merkel she couldn't even fly out of germany to come here to argentina there was an emergency landing for her some technical issues with the plane then she couldn't use it because the issues continued and she had to take a commercial flight to boy now i bet that on this planet there are probably hundreds of thousands of people who can be perfect translators between spanish and english but apparently the man who was doing the job for donald trump in the argentinian leader maybe was having a bad day or something else donald trump said it was a real mess with the translation and he would went on to say that he would have understood the argentinian letter leader better in his language instead of having to listen to the interpreter right there but something perhaps even more awkward happened to the french leader and manual macron when he was stepping out of his

plane to have a look. at . everything. scheduled down to the last minute but when we got direction now we understood president microphone was already getting into his car.

well the big round table discussion that i was telling you about is in full swing but cameras and camera microphones are off anyway a little earlier i went to the area of the argentinean capitol where all these important people are staying and i put together a quick summary of what we should expect for them here. 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 ahead 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 g 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 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 in bonus on his since wednesday on the snow the if you look at the monstrosity that happened in the sound you rape and consent as long as it's not a top there will be no exports 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 our allies. 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 betrayed go and win a sari's well if there is one constant m e g twenty no matter where it's held it's the days of the couple it's protests around during the summit on the argentine capital well it's no exception.

well don't trump. plenty of headlines even before the official g twenty opening after the american leader come to hold a meeting between the two at the last minute it was just forty eight hours after he said the opportunity to meet with his russian counterpart was too good to miss out on came up and takes a look at what is behind this isn't. 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 front 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 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 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 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 like it was a little sort of also one sentence should have been i don't see any reason why i wouldn't or why it wouldn't be russian sense then another meaning 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 on 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 we got the thoughts of former top us state department official lawrence wilkerson and he's of the belief it's the russia collusion allegations that move trump to council the meeting with the. 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 as 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 . and as if we needed another story president trump's former lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty on thursday to lying to congress in the continuing russia collusion probe on the us leader in response in typical fashion as well didn't mince his words. he was convicted of various things unrelated. he was given a fairly long jail sentence and he's a weak person advice being weak i'd 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 i should point out that the american president was referring to a scrapped project to build the trump tower in moscow earlier cohen said the talks on the project ended january twenty sixth when he claims nadal was allied another

nickel she continued into june of when troops campaign will say hold sway followed wall street journal correspondent jill dougherty it told us there have been efforts to stop trouble meeting with that and ever since their summit in helsinki this past summer. time very well timed to release of cohen having lied about want not about collusion to change the election results but about a business deal had 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 that 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 course and the reaction

here in the u.s. was beyond belief this time i think maybe trump got the message. there's been an escalation in the late to show done between moscow and kiev the ukrainian government has announced that russian meals aged between sixteen to sixty will be bombed from entering the country altogether our senior correspondent. they have told me more earlier from crimea. well we've seen similar bans put in place over the last several years repeatedly where russian men were entry into ukraine but this is the first time that they've officially confirmed that russian men age sixteen to sixty longer welcome and 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 on the 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 job 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 collecting opinions from people in the interview for example one woman amongst other. those who says that she has relatives in russia relatives that you know it's going to be harder to contact because because of this new ban there are millions of russians and ukrainians on both sides of the border that have relatives on the other side and 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 president. putin's name but brought the old smile among the. 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 one thess two when. i had an r.t. international yellow vests protests erupt in belgium inspired by events in france live reaction after this. you know world's big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up

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hello again a mimic protest in belgium has erupted in clashes so-called yellow vests rally spread from france to brussels let's go live now to independent journalist luke reveal a who is in the belgian. look good to have you back on the show i believe you've been following the rally there give us a sense of what you witnessed today. well this demonstration editing being canceled because the organizers couldn't organize the security they said to the police so they had originally cancelled it and it's only through social media then a few hundreds people with their ten o'clock two to demonstrate of these yellow vests like in france of course it's mainly in the french speaking part of the country of belgium that they demonstrate imitating france and in

a sense but with the same ideas that taxation has come to. papal levels that's how it started in france so today the few hundreds of people for a peaceful in a way but as usual with these demonstration at the end in the afternoon of the demonstration you had. you had people who like to break everything while not demonstrating with the yellow faced actually the day they have hidden death race is in their own ante fascists they call themselves they just want to destroy everything down the list and you have the same in every country in europe you have these groups very difficult for the police to deal with them so there was. a police van set to fire today and the demonstration is finished of course it was a bit difficult to solve the moon and behind me to thorough fare which is called to . the main thoroughfare in belgium between the european commission behind myself

and the center of what is called a neutral zone was blocked because of the demonstration for a long along a good part of the day in the morning special one hundred forty so that's what the goal in actually these yellow just on the actual events to how far do you see it going because just weeks ago look the protests in france were peaceful largely the rallies have no spread under seemingly becoming increasingly violent. yes well in france two three weeks ago it was two hundred fifty thousand people who demonstrated every word in france around brother by. roundabouts and it was the silent majority people very peaceful everywhere with a yellow first to say that they were fed up with the taxes especially the tax on diesel which has been increased one spine michel and by present my home and needs to be increased again in generally just answer to the ecological policy of the french state it's the same in belgium by the way so the problem is the tax on fuel

in europe is sixty percent taxes sorry that the price of the of the few is sixty percent taxes fifty five to sixty percent depending on the country it's much too high and when you have a single mother with kids in the country that who needs her car to go to work and earns one thousand one hundred maybe net and has to pay three hundred three hundred fifty four for petrol or gas as you said american they can't do it anymore they're dying simply and it's a sign that plays its taxes normally so the problem is what happened that happened in part of the chance of the say at the end of the demonstration is that you have again these own tea far small groups that try to distort everything that just steal jewels from shops along the shores of the city breaking windows shop windows in and stealing things it was the same in process that is so it's it's

a great problem because of course the yeah yeah we just have to wrap it up there because we're running rather to time but thank you so much for giving us a first hand experience of what is occurring there in brussels independent journalists reveal a. figure. they found of the fantasy classic lord of the rings' know that the beast like works are a force to be reckoned with but one side author believes the way they're depicted in the books is racist and that has quote dire consequences for society. flight back on.

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