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good morning live from international's main headquarters here in moscow is just one am one named kevin thinks that using his fuel news update this hour with them. has been an intense day for vladimir putin at the g twenty summit in argentina's just wrapping up tonight holding talks with will of leaders plus an informal conversation did happen eventually with donald trump and also a press conference as well that we brought you live. for us one of the top reasons if not the top one why this g. twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber was the planned one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there that is the russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart donald trump however just one day before the summit began the american president really put all of us in breaking news mode by tweeting out right when he was on the plane to argentina i won't meet with putin over ukraine the

journalists were left guessing whether the east still shake hands or maybe have a little chat on the sidelines and finally on saturday lattimer putin spokesperson confirmed that this quick chat happened and everyone was hoping to ask president trump about it at his press event however the american leader canceled that one as well he said it was because the sudden passing of ex-president george h.w. bush but then finally vladimir putin found the time to talk to the price and obviously the first question that was asked was about his relations with mr trump and that quick conversation that actually happens lattimer putin began by saying that he doesn't think mr trump is afraid of contacts with them and here's what else he said he used to. this commission for switching said first of all it was a u.s.

initiative but then we cancel the meeting in paris because we didn't want to interfere in the. commemorations so we decided to meet. but then the provocation in the black sea took place so the us decided not to have the meeting still have a chance to chat with friends and trump on this issue we expressed our positions and remained committed to them i let's no we think of the incident is a shame that we are unable to have this meeting but i hope it will take place sooner or later when the us is ready for it like this quick exchange between mr trump and mr putin we know that there were full proper meetings between the german chancellor and the russian president and also the day before mr putin met the french president emmanuel macron and the number one focus of these talks was also the current straight straight incident we heard from sources in the russian delegation that mr putin grab a piece of paper and

a pen and physically draw the map of what was going on on the ground to explain russia's take on this and at the press conference there were also questions about this of course for mr putin he said that the reaction of western leaders to washington was very calm and he said that he tried to convene in detail a full timeline of events that happened there and besides this he brought forth some evidence which included some notes from the ukrainian vessels logbooks so this was also something that a lot of our putin brought with him to argentina the russian president continued by talking about the state of martial law that was imposed by the ukrainian president petro poroshenko as a result of this incident in the current strait in parts of ukraine here's what he said and yet through it. i am concerned about some of the things. nobody imposed

martial law in ukraine when there were big events going on and then before the elections to go ahead and do it why we could tell civil liberty this political activity what is worse you is the introduced martial law in just ten provinces where the current president does not have much support city ukrainian government is dividing the country at this media event we weren't supposed to hear any questions in other languages however at one point a journalist from the u.k. took the microphone and asked something in english lattimer putin chose not to wait for the translation he said it's absolutely fine the question was about the recent statements by senior official in the u.k. military he said that right now russia poses a greater threat to his country than that of islamic state to this russian president replied that he believes at this point moscow is the number one opponent of terrorists on this planet mr putin said that by doing this british officials are

only trying to put up a show back home and are aiming to score political points or alessi will this looks like from the united states true from against president clinton consulting and former republican congressman please join us on the line there overnights international thanks for it well we've watched in great depth the g. twenty the comings and goings there in the leaders now they interacted over the last forty eight hours or so. let's start with president trump the view from your side of the pond first of all the council that meeting that was shared with mr putin over on the face of the ukraine thing ok moving on today he then very gloomily canceled the press conference that was in the give to everyone at the g. twenty because all he said the death of. president bush sr and again commiserations there of course but is that really what's happening because you kind of get the feeling with donald trump if he really had something to say or upbeat to

say because he looked miserable most of the time he was there he would have gone on in front of the cameras and spoken to anyone to get his message across what's up why wasn't he communicating. well i don't know that he has any ulterior motive mr trump over the last two years has become more sensitive to the workings of diplomacy and i think he has a greater respect for state now the pomp aoe is there than anyone else and if they want him to be quiet about a particular subject while they have the official meetings with state and with mr lavrov and the others to discuss what needs to be discussed not to mention ukraine i think the president today is far more willing to bow to that request by his secretary of state than he might have been even a year ago as far as i see or that's why he's now not talking to folks i got you was far as dealing with russia there wasn't even anything behind the scenes either was there i mean considering all the things that ought to talk about of the moment we're talking about the. america pulling out the i.m.f.

treaty the start treaty coming up so many other things going on as well what's been happening in saudi arabia or not you'd think that he would make some time if he wasn't in front of the cameras there's no great media philosopher to it that there would be some quality time to try and solve this that was he simply under too much pressure be on the sayings did not get involved. well you know that's that's c.n.n. in this country pushes that line that it's that it's all about muller and that the president is completely distracted and and all the insanity with that keeps him from doing his job and he's polacks by indecision i i can think of nothing more ridiculous than that it simply is and so i think the president went to the g twenty to do the work he needs to do and because he was able to have a press conference or or wasn't able to talk with putin directly in front of everybody i'm not sure that the work is still isn't being done here but he didn't have much of a conversation beyond the scenes either by all accounts he wasn't coming in for the cameras apparently had a very very brief bump into each other all orchestrated bump into each other but

there was not much talked about in any detail that is the forum with everyone else there as well to be doing that isn't it even if it's not public. well i. i don't know that these guys are never talk unless they have a big summit to go to i'm sure that they have discussions regularly as their various. individual i should say foreign ministries and state department permit them ask them and encourage them to do it and i think mr putin's being very straightforward about what was happening in in the black sea and with ukraine in his view of it whether we agree with it or not is helpful to the discussion and i think mr trump was was happy for that i can't imagine he would have been and ever these gentlemen get a chance to talk frankly it's a good thing and and i went when the smaller insanity is over and it is just a lot of noise and i can't wait for it and i think you can probably look forward to mr trump traveling to moscow i really i think he's dying to do this and i think we're we're looking forward to having new new ability unconstrained with the

craziness of domestic politics to be able to actually have the president of the united states conduct foreign policy in this country which is his main task to do or i'll remind our producers of the what it was michael patrick funding and what we can argue back online again to talk positively present live here and former republican congressman on the line from the u.s. thank you so much for being with us appreciate it. friends capitol hill problems there today listen up literally by flares in flames saturday after thousands of protesters took part in a not a big demonstration of the yellow vests they're rallying still against the rising fuel taxes in the pressure is putting on people it is much calmer on the streets of paris now as you probably expect but they were nasty scenes earlier with riot police deploying to gas and rubber bullets over two hundred fifty would detained over one hundred were injured even our own correspondent trying to cover it for you people all of it required symmetry even from paramedics as did the one of our correspondents from uscis to john lott and friends but here's what he said paid to

witness well that day in a potted history. these demonstrate to something very clear in what they've wanted to say they want to say that fuel prices are getting too high and they want to say they're unhappy with the current government headed up by a minute call they were invited to a meeting on friday. but by the prime minister affronts dot meeting well it turned into an obsolete pos only two out of the six main leaders they were expected to did turn up out of those two one of them left after less than two minutes this is a very very fluid situation we see riot police moving in one of the demonstrators falling to the floor right there actually we see we. are actually is remove into this we're seeing riots is riot police tear gas everything you can possibly imagine

as they try and take away that one person who fell to the floor. god. i'm just next to where you've actually shown those pictures from they will say to paint a picture of what situation looks like here at the arc de triomphe in paris says you have a central new killer of police in full riot gear fully equipped we're actually seeing tear gas trying over our heads right now i'm going to be moving out of the way as i'm talking to you that's really not safe for me to be stood there doing that it's also not to just explain what was happening the place that you can see located just over there which was exactly one hundred eighty degrees from where i

was facing they just fired several rounds dangerously close over my head right then that's something i've certainly never seen by any riot suppression force used in europe. that. they have been numerous incidents of people being hit with rubber bullets legally cliche as off the hospital i was hit me on kill with will myself thankfully my boot bearing most of the brunt of that put those demonstrate is that i spoke to they say they aren't going anywhere and they told me exactly why they've come here this saturday to say no to the rise in fuel prices but also to say no to president's money well my call humanity should be put first not money it's not impossible you know you come to these protests because you don't have enough money to survive til the end of the month then you find out you are more privileged than the others

there because you earn more than one thousand era a month because we already work in the minimal tariffs for social insurance and i don't understand what will the next. sure we can do the best we can to provide good conditions for patience i don't know for sure who's to blame for escalating the situation the police of the yellow that's but not fully on the side of protesters as long as that peaceful. tomorrow if it is it will continue they are covering it for you coming up a it's actually a fifty minutes past one of the morning moscow time by the way school kids in a stray a demanding action on climate change we're going to debate that story the side of it say we're going to go after the break.

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thousands of schoolchildren across australia have skipped class to protest against the government's inaction on climate change youngsters got together in sydney on friday calling on prime minister scott morrison to resign. the are in the i meet i strongly in the power politics usually the fact i'm trying to say style i was actually doing it and now it helps stop find. anyone you know told well we will say and he was i. used to eat. environmental groups accused the strain of ignoring scientists warnings on climate change or failing to take action across an ocean destroyed those are actually think it may be one of the largest come to riches per capita in

the world seventy percent of its electricity from coal still there's a catch and the government recently defied calls to phase out coal power to the other catch responding to the students prime minister scott morrison said they should focus instead on their education and not activism or cover up future. we do not support our schools being turned into parliaments what we want is more learning in schools and less activism. let's get some thoughts on this is it right that the kids are taken actions into their own hand with us now. nellie's professor of urban studies at queens college in new york and also plays a commentator and see brian logan hi guys thank you for your time today andre you first yet we had the prime minister voicing kids that don't get involved in this you need to be going back to school now you can get the point discipline and all the you know don't don't bunk off school etc but heck it's their future lives decades down the road that could be affected by climate change except for do you think they did the right thing or if they overstepped the mark and just upset their

teachers. i think absolutely did the right thing what the prime minister said i believe it really speaks to a different paradigms and understand what education is floor like you mentioned yourself some people you education has just been about discipline and following orders and deferment to authority but others happen to be your education is about personal development about understanding your society and about being engaged socially and politically in the world that you inhabit so i think it's fantastic and really inspiring to see the students. take it take initiative and start to view the importance of this issue which is going to affect their livelihoods and my life all of our livelihoods but in particular them as they get older we're going into the future in a world where climate change is already having an impact and for the good to see these guys get involved literally they would think about the same time we got a day off school they really do care i think it's all about them just trying to be

part with news popular right now i don't it really understand exactly what they're doing i mean climate change why are you going to let it play with them i'm going to . i me in class i'm not going to just change the weather i mean if you're going to go out there and do a dance to jam it to the water come down from the sky or temperatures decrease they're not going to do anything. close though this is all trump most people would would guess from all the radii could do about it the climate change is a break is a big actual problem it is going to face people decades actually probably sort of up but certainly schoolchildren decades down the road in their kids to it is going to be a big problem for the near future isn't it surely and it isn't right that they're taking part. i mean ok let's just say let's just say for the argument's sake there climate change is a rude thing and everyone's affected what is cutting class really going to do they need to be in class getting prepared for the future become a more educated about the environment about the climate in which they live so then they can she be in a positive way but in class look if it was me when i was very age abby happy to

classes because not in school i can go go tomorrow go get some meat and just have a good time this is really silly to need to be focused more on your education rather than just trying to act up and be nine disciplining claes oh andrea the bigger picture here is you know the camera still this big question mark over whether climate change actually exists or not depends what you listen to well i mean first of all i think that that's pretty insulting to people that are interested in their education to begin with to say that becoming politically involved and aware is an excuse to cut class and just pull around or something to do what they're doing they can't place in that going to do anything i couldn't play and you're not going to get anything like they're already trying to cut back on coley mission is trying to cut down the c o two emissions so what are you really going to do by cutting place what is actually going to help well i think there's two things that are important one is the deeply anti intellectual nature of what my point is saying right here that has no idea really about what about number one and

we need to be serious about something you know ok climate change is real. the ninety five percent overwhelming of scientists understand that it's real and it's fact in the world right now as we speak and it's going to be a fact in the world in a much more serious way by the time the students get older ok so becoming politically involved and disrupting the status quo is something that we have used to gain civil rights all around the world all throughout his own to really examine it climate change good lord absolutely no man absolutely that i was that was a hard you saw right there and say you. and you just tell me formally you don't believe in climate change by the way i'm getting the impression i mean not really i'm a climate skeptic and i have a right to do that because you say ninety five percent consensus whoa there is a factor of seeing nine consensus as says day they don't really believe in it so do you just call those five percent of people that are sciences that are actual legitimate people do you just call them heretics do you say to do city reform or do

you say they have a different opinion than the majority you know not get your point out by the reaction of promises scott morrison saying these kids should focus all on educational activism but you know it's more than activism if climate change is true it's these guys future isn't it and surely they you know kids are intelligent they they get a picture early on in life they've probably worried or this is not going to do anything i mean clays you just you just skip in school are you going to go protest ok what do you really protests and the protest in the sign are you protest a new wind are you protesting the water quality or did you really believe it is up maybe and do something about it especially as far as strength is concerned because it burns a heck of a lot of coal do you think that's wishful thinking on. i mean i can't believe i'm having this conversation right now and protesting has changed. things and policies and ideas and power all throughout history in so many different ways climate change

just happens to be one of them and to get to the point about the fiber the small percentage of scientists that don't agree i mean you send you a little bit of research to see that they're hiring the same people that they hired to speak about tobacco in the past speak about. to speak against seatbelts to do all these and we named people that it was a lawyer because the new status of the study you're talking about by many factors in their curating these people are selected no that's not good let's not do that because if you're going to say that they're hiring people that are going to come if you could get climate change i also say they're going to put people in this study they agree with climate change mostly because if you don't agree guess when you're not going to get funding you're not going to go and he dot com you see a job listing for the you sciences if you don't agree with climate change are using good looking for an apprentice or a government who wants to have dues think about climate change be under a respond to the. i r u i mean i don't think this person understands the way that scientific and peer reviewed research actually happens it's not that way doesn't

function that way people all across the disciplines are arguing all the time this happens to be something that has overwhelming consensus based on scientific methodology and not based on just popular opinion but what we do see is that some institutes are being funded to produce site science skepticism by the same people that produced skepticism about the dangers of tobacco in the past this is well documented and either way i mean even if it wasn't true and if it wasn't the case in something like scientific analysis ninety five percent it's probably higher than that is are believably overwhelming and this is something we don't want to play around with i'm going to be going back to these kids coming out of school. and think you know isn't it just like the people if nothing else these youngsters that are tomorrow's politicians are tomorrow's parents a getting involved in what they maybe see as their civic duty to the world for their kids down the down the road and taking part in the so that does matter to such a lot of people do you not think that's a good thing that we're saying here that they've all taken to the streets today

even though having a day off school. well there are two different things i'm glad to get in the involved with politics and i'm glad to understand it was going on as a good thing because the younger you are when you get involved with a you'll be better off or worse you become an adult you would have experienced with the rabbit in you know you're eighteen years old and you have no idea it was going on you have to ability to vote so it's good to get in the involved however it's a great way to do things i mean you got to go to a school i mean last actually anyone who states i'm not quite sure but i'll show you but you could that's actually a problem yeah you can certainly find the wood for the ghetto you certainly. want to see more of it is going to see more kids taken to this take it to the streets with the banners around the world saying a word about climate change you want to say that it was that way absolutely that's absolutely the way and i think what my point here is talking about is a prison pipeline system we have in the united states. seen on a mission and put a bunch of people particularly students of color in prison for our hands of social

issues in their lives and that situation we're in and obviously we have a very anti intellectual environment here night stage as you can see from my point to know what he's talking about when he took a great you got to leave it for no andre but now a professor of urban studies at queens college in new york and political commentator often a guest on our international have a nice day guys thank you for being with us and let's hope that climate change isn't quite so bad fingers crossed. all right keep track with all the latest on g twenty that's it from us tonight still more to come from argentina next they just as president putin meeting with the argentinean leader machree very soon i think sean's going to be across that maybe in about an hour and a half they said to be some sort of a media briefing maybe the cameras were there i'm having a chat we'll bring it to you live as it happens for now is kevin though in this early sunday morning saying thank you for watching out international for me in the rest of the team in r t h q good morning.

national council we're going underground as new liberal world leaders shake hands with economic hitman at the g.

twenty in argentina coming up on the show debating the end of the earth ahead of cop twenty four on monday we talked to the nobel peace prize winning pulled up principal advisor on climate change the u.n. secretary general about manmade environmental catastrophe and meanwhile off the g twenty moscow's trade envoy and presidential commission on warming business ties between the u.k. and russia despite britain appearing to be on a war footing with the largest nation on earth plus tributes to this man and cuse i feel somehow we have a chance no one to call them to mid beat but when we show up why did bush caption and maybe change things for the better over some more coming up in today's going on the ground but first on climate change trey's amaze clear she wants fracking for fossil fuels. thousands of jobs in the oil and gas industries and you know the sector is underpaid why don't you domestic energy sources. and her ally in the white house appears to be even more proof also fuel i don't believe it president

donald trump reacting to his own government's report released friday the report warns climate change could cost the u.s. economy hundreds of billions of dollars and kill thousands of people before the end of the century i've see that i've read some of it. present all trump clearly equivocal about climate change that will be in evidence on monday at the u.n. framework convention on climate change conference call twenty four joining me now via skype from seoul in south korea is nobel laureate emeritus professor reich one chung former principal advisor on climate change to the u.n. secretary general in south korea climate change and data he's also on the global energy prize international award committee established by vladimir putin thanks for coming on the program ambassador the u.s. president of trump said to the washington post when you were talking about the atmosphere oceans a very small do you understand the kind of work you have done for the u.n. .