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 an easy way for. subscribe to roughly roughly constant for just twelve euros fifty per month. despite political tensions gripping the g twenty in argentina nonetheless flood him approaching happy to meet and greet other leaders in a positive start the proceedings even though donald trump council that much anticipated face to face with the russian leader we'll tell you all about that coming up also.

violence now tearing through the streets of the belgian capital as the so-called yellow best movement spreads to brussels in a mimic protest following similar scenes in france over the last few weeks. and racism in middle earth and author claims the beast like walks from the fantasy classic lord of the rings maybe victims of discrimination. hello there and welcome to our national just call nine pm here in moscow that's their full through the afternoon argentina's capital and those are is where the big news is coming from this hour most of the world's industrialized economies are getting together.

despite a cloud hanging over a number of big issues and strange alliances for the leaders the things do appear to be getting off on a positive footing. but you know. you're . covering all the action thing for us is that he patrolling current live in what is it or is this summit seem to go off to positive enough stuff for president putin if not many others. get high again and indeed at one point it seemed that the saudi crown prince and the russian president were the men who were the very room they were really enjoying the fact perhaps they were sitting next to each other laughing and that handshake it didn't even look like

a handshake it was more of a hey bro how are you doing high five kind of thing really but something bad i just want to add here is that in the background we could see the u.s. president donald trump and his face was completely different for some reason he's mood is very gloomy today he refused to clap during the family photo and the reporters there are traveling with him said that he actually walked past m.b.'s and vladimir putin when he entered the room and completely ignored them refusing to shake hands with them or talk to them just to remind you donald trump while he was on his plane flying to argentina cancelled the long awaited talks with his russian counterpart because of the russian ukraine naval clashes and the current strait and however we remember that just before he boarded air force one donald trump said

that probably he was going to have that meeting with vladimir putin however later it all changed the russian side were grad that mr trump made this decision but they're not making a big deal out of it and anyway a lot of our putin has many other things to do here and what assad us apart from that meeting that was going to happen between him and don. but he's already sat down with the leaders of brazil south africa china and india as part of a little brick summit on the sidelines of the g twenty and what he did was he took a hit at the countries whose favorite instrument in international politics is sanctions. you don't you just can't go on notice that unfair competing practices increasingly replace the international dialogue based on honesty inequality this vicious practice of using lawless unilateral sanctions is expanding as well as protectionist measures violating the un charter. all the big talks big

press is akin to how maybe later tomorrow at this time you just really want shouldn't some of these leaders arriving it wasn't a smooth setting for all of them was it. well kevin i just cannot tell you what it is really possibly bad luck or someone's been cursed by someone some of the leaders were in trouble even before they stepped foot in argentina now here's one situation for you the plane of the chinese leader xi jinping was in parking position and then the door opened but one of the other senior officials from the chinese delegation stepped out but then the orchestra music went off for him instead of xi jinping angle marco she was having issues with her planes even experienced and emergency landing and she have to travel to madrid first and then board a commercial plane she was late for the g.

twenty summit donald trump was having issues with translation when he was welcomed by the argentinean leader perhaps there are hundreds of thousands of people on this planet who could be the perfect translators from spanish to english but apparently the man who was doing the job during this event probably had a bad day or maybe some other issues there but donald trump wasn't happy with it at all however perhaps the most awkward moment happened to the french theater emanuel mark and yes that took place when he was coming out of his plane as well.

everything was scheduled down to the last minute but when we got direction now we understood president micron was already getting into his car. well these most powerful people on this planet have already been talking to each other at this massive round table they were already had lunch but the cameras and camera microphones were off and next time i see them i'll tell you all bought it or of course all the locals being sent off early bank holiday to get out of the place

because of the security in them to get on with their lives or more from you over the coming hours we're going to close tomorrow as well for not much for now that's done your friend she's the director of growth through the consulting with us and i know thanks for your time as i say the talk is going to be dinner tonight we're going to be talking amongst themselves we don't really have an idea of what they're talking about but we don't know specifically maybe well we will get some more information tomorrow what are your expectations for this g. twenty summit. i don't have tremendous expectations for the summit besides potential bilateral minor trade deals however here in the u.s. of course our great expectation is what happens between president xi and president trump is there any headway that can be made in negotiation to avert the tariffs increasing to twenty five percent or will this shadow trade war extend and the impact on domestic markets to any company trading you know for apple for

instance and others and the implications on their market share away takes place so they think. the expectations are well. sorry that is the big thing they're going to build on anything or. the expectations are pretty low for most market analysts and from the political class over here as well that there may be the greatest expectation is that there may be just an extension of some sort of trade dialogue and that there is some wiggle room on not increasing the tariffs to twenty five percent that's the conventional wisdom as to what might take place but this is an unconventional president and a very unconventional trade war and very very poor advisers around him like the likes of peter navarro who will be at the meeting between the two leaders so there's a mixed bag i mean it's very unpredictable to say what may happen besides some sort

of further dialogue but a great breakthrough is not expected away from the china. but to relations between america and russia at the moment was. playing he went on listening as he was going to talk to putin but then we got off we did read some of the briefing notes would have been blown to what was home to the straits with you by the little mall who's really twisting here just speaking for himself regarding russia. at the at the end of the day regarding russia the conflict in syria and so many other things trump just wherever there is a personal financial interest or his base that thirty six percent better way party baby boomer and very neo con in their ideology that is where his focus constantly is and as far as what took place the meeting was intending to move

forward but he had his neo con convention of people that is based support it's with the abbess or bolton as well as conversation with kelly and pompei oh who are extremely anti russia full of russia phobia and even ambassador bolton the national security adviser was on the payroll of the ukrainians over a million dollars to his political action committee before he took this government position so he's conflicted already and i believe very fundamentally that when they had their private time with him using the ukrainian situation as an excuse this was a good optics is the image thing for them to cancel this meeting if the politics will . voters with the do you think he really would like to have a one to one with putin drawing on some of his own going stuff. absolutely i do he is a deal maker at the end of the day he writes himself on that especially when it comes to economic development and de confliction between major powers and absolutely i

believe he would be if it weren't for the apparatus around him and the base that he has to play to grow up in the sixties and seventies error and have natural russia phobia with from the media apparatus and and from advisors like bolton and pompei oh and kelly yeah i absolutely believe if you were able to separate the two that there would not just be a meeting right now that we would have better relations in general at this point to just pull away from u.s. relations look at europe relations. squarely in the we put the problem down to russia's door however she still meeting with putin there you'd think that is the prognathic way forward if you're a politician to draw and speak. absolutely kind of interesting it was president trump that did say it's better to talk then not to the likes of even came junk but then is not able to hear so just as

a comparison but yes absolutely chancellor merkel the austrians the italians there are many within the european community that may make a stance one way or another on the ukrainian situation but still desire to have trade dialogue and a deescalation of unnecessary tensions with the russian federation and you'll see them meet and have dialogue just like chancellor merkel is doing and that is much better path forward then shunning and not having conversations and letting unnecessary tensions escalate. or if you're ever going to solve or have dialogue on the ukraine situation how do you do that without talking. with the who wants. to go there you know ukraine fits into it all as well. that could be more sanctions against come december over this is going to be the g. twenty did the table isn't it. it absolutely will but the e.u.

is split like i had referred to would germany italy austria and others who want to have relations and have dialogue even after this situation and then there are the others led by the coalition that backs donald tusk and various other countries the u.k. who would like this escalation of tension and sanctions and would like to continue that posture so sure it could be an awkward photo op and that's why that dinner is going to be quite close to on top of you have the saudi situation and many other things playing in the room at the time but you know there are those that believe in dialogue in a fundamental way forward and there are others who just want to continue sanctions and escalation of tension. to further their own political careers hopefully not too much of the just around the dinner table tonight down there and what is or is done affront she director of grassroots truth consulting thank you for your time your educated thoughts on it nice to see the good. now this one poll says at the g.

twenty of course about where it's held it's those days of mass mainly anti capitalist protests around the summit but as there is has been no exception either . that. or g twenty later more the day's news next has been an escalation of the latest showdown between moscow and kiev we can tell you the ukrainian government has announced that russian males no age between sixteen and sixty will be banned from entering the country our senior correspondent or galaxy of reports from crimea. well we've seen similar bans put in place over the last several years repeatedly russian men entry into ukraine but this is the first time that they've officially

confirmed that russian men age sixteen to sixty new longer welcome or 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 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. 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 harder 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 president. clinton named the 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 want this to end. central europe now mimic protests to belgium's erupted in clashes a so-called yellow vest rally spread from france over to brussels.

five hundred demonstrators gathered in the city center friday morning they're protesting in solidarity with the french movement over the border against price hikes and what they say are rising living costs chancing for the french and belgian leaders to design a test to start with throw stones at police officers and they responded by the point t. a gas dozens of people have been detained the brussels based journalist lived with hey he says the price hikes are hitting people. this time a stray. being canceled because the organizers couldn't organize the security to set to the police so they had origin make cancelled it and it's only through social media and a few hundred people. with their ten o'clock to demonstrate of the yellow vests oh like in france of course it's mainly in the french speaking part of the country of belgium that they demonstrate imitating the french and in

a sense but with the same ideas that taxation has come to. pave all levels people very peaceful everywhere with the yellow first to say that they were fed up with the taxes especially the tax on diesel the price 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 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 american they can't do it anymore they're dying simply and it's the silent majority that pays its taxes normally. goes authorities been accused of forcing edward snowden's former lawyer to flee the city last year. and exclusively know the pressures he claims he faced and the

victimization of the people who helped shelter snowden back into anything. 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 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 complex 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 for the safety and security of my clients then i found out they continued to arrest some of my clients and former clients and trying to make a case against me. former cia employee snowden a potted history here. trove of classified national security agency data on the

u.s. government spying operations you may recall he fled first of all on kong where saddam seekers helped shelter him from the authorities for two weeks for a brief period they left on kong through official channels and then since then russia is granted snowden asylum for the past five years he's lived there ever since but the reality it seems was much more cruel for those who helped shelter the whistleblower back in hong kong is robert tibo again. in hong kong there's a point two percent acceptance rate of asylum seekers so pretty much every single asylum seeker in hong kong will be rejected and deported the snowdrift proven that they are extraordinary individuals and this doesn't fit in with the narrative of the hong kong government. the government has portrayed asylum seekers as you know being undesirable criminals etc. trying to come into hong kong and take away.

you know financial prosperity of hong kong which is all nonsense and speculation my clients need to leave hong kong they need to leave to a safe country because they're not safe in hong kong and they can't go back to their home countries. a bit different to break up the news fans of the fantasy classic lord of the rings knows that the beast orcs are a force to be reckoned with or the best but one author now believes the way they're depicted in the books is racist and that has die of consequence his fellow the rest of us. that's right beat back on that. it's hard not. to know surely and. so.

creatures that were sort of i eased out of the air or sorry my audience and not a great choice in the matter was what. are we not allowed to root against treacherous fictional cannibals anymore welcome to twenty one title. clearly the races of men elves and should have welcomed the immigrants in and allowed them to feast on the man freshly designed how terribly

racist of it is just a good triumphs over evil story not meant to be that deep. claims the president trumps from a campaign chairman met several times with wiki leaks founder julian assange to take the new twist meantime a former cia officer is questioning the story saying it might have been planted by russia with more on but theory is daniel hawkins. it's another link in the chain of the trunk russia collusion probe the guardian. as in alleged multiple meetings between the former chairman of frumps presidential campaign and wiki leaks founder julian assange and that's really caused quite a stir in the us media story is shaking washington that is a bombshell of foreigners are held a secret meeting around the same time that man a four joined the tram campaign a direct connection between the 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 articles 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 to trump campaign to wiki leaks perhaps the report is something else entirely a distance 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 agents under a pen name to prove a point the former officer draws our attention to those who dare question this bombshell rush's disinflation network has jumped into the ring to promote skepticism of the story sputnik one of russia's propaganda networks called the story into question and bolstered the skepticism by quoting tweets from ever gone and glenn greenwald wiki leaks itself r t also a crime and mouthpiece but nec 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 x. 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 is 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 paul minor 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 see them doubt anonymous source and 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 of this fake news operation by russian intelligence actually proves someone is nervous and eager to lay the

groundwork for yelling fake news out whatever 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 a parody and x. cia agent using a pen name says that if the guardianship piece on a sergeant metaphor is false the russians must be behind it anyway you really can't make this up. ukraine security services have raided the residence of the russian backed her father superior for kiev the biggest and oldest monastery raid was carried out over accusations of causing into religious friction there this comes the backdrop to it after the ukrainian orthodox church was granted independence from the russian church by the patriarch of constantinople however the plan is being criticized by religious heads in ukraine for not specifying and this is the

catch a date for the rule changes to come into effect. state politicians 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 nobile 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. the chairman for the russian orthodox church has also reacted to saying it's the third time constantinople has talked about granting autonomous powers for national churches but there's still no conclusion in sight he also stressed the separation is something orthodox believe is don't actually want the breakaway crisis started last month when ukraine's government started pushing for the church's independence constantinople then overturned a centuries old active you need to sever ties between kiev and moscow both the russian and ukrainian churches responded in turn to cut away from constantinople

while r.t. got the thoughts of a professor of church history about what's going on here. you create him go and is really trying to force canonical bishops uncanonical church to participation in various quote unquote council of unification so part of this procedure for a series of structure was to threaten with confiscation of churches or monasteries and started to pull discipline into life. of which was one of the most respected monasteries in the ukraine if we could go to break their agreement. will not be able to use of premises anymore and what the second step is trying to get out of a lot of the caves in kiev which is lake of the holiest place of malta ukrainian and russian belorussian and also all.