and some people also give already comes in for just twelve euros fifty per month. today's news in the week's top stories from the g. twenty wraps up in argentina with the potential for a bruising trade war between the u.s. and china plus we'll look at the much anticipated conversation between president putin on the sidelines. russian border patrol seizes three ukrainian ships near crimea after moscow said they violated its territorial waters also ahead.

is recovering after seeing. more protests against higher fuel taxes. demonstrations in france are now into that third week. good morning from moscow this december the second it's sunday so we're wrapping up the biggest stories covered here over the past seven days but first to overnight developments the annual g. twenty summit concluded in argentina with the leaders of the world's most industrialized economies tackling a raft of crucial problems including the u.s. china trade war the ukraine crisis and strengthening international cooperation.

getting you up to speed then the u.s. president had a keenly watched meeting with his chinese counterpart of the summit neither give a news conference afterwards though the russian president did speak to reporters to share his thoughts on the gathering in buenos aires from now reports. 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 in the future for the scottish first of all it was a u.s.

initiative and then we council meeting in paris because we didn't want to interfere in the shenzhou from one commemorations so we decided to meet and going to serious but then the provocation in the black sea took place so the us decided not to have to meet we still have the chance to chat with president trump on this issue we expressed our positions and remain committed to the islets no we think of the incident is a shame that we are unable to have this this meeting. but i hope it will take place sooner or later when the u.s. is ready for it a 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 carts troy straight incident we heard from sources that the russian delegation that mr putin grabbed

a piece of paper and a pen and physically draw them out 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 mr putin said that the reaction of western leaders to russian position was very calm and he said that he tried to convene in detail a full timeline of events that happened there and besides that 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 has a result of this incident in the current strait in parts of ukraine here's what he said you know. i am concerned about some of the things nobody impose martial law in

ukraine when there were big events going on and then before the elections they go ahead and do it why to cattell civil liberties. activities what is worse is the introduced martial law in just ten provinces where the current president does not have much support city crimean 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 vladimir putin chose not to wait for the translation he said it's absolutely fine the question was about the recent statements by a senior official in the u.k. military he said that right now russia poses a greater threat to his country than that of state to this russian president reply 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. here while the council. was not the only anticipated meeting in buenos aires has been an important breakthrough between the u.s. and chinese leaders over the two countries trade routes the american and chinese delegations agreed to a temporary freeze on tariff increases leaving them a ten percent instead of raising them to the twenty five percent as was expected but that freeze expires off the ninety days if both parties are unable to reach a further agreement. although it was mostly serious business at the summit there were a couple of lies and moments and even a few hiccups along the way. everything

was scheduled down to the last minute but when we got direction now we understand president was already getting into he's car. illegal. or to. illegal. we've been sounding out experts for the week on the g.

twenty former republican congressman michael patrick flanagan give us his view on the relationship between presidents trump and those in. mr putin doesn't seem to be isolated at the summit at all but he seems to be doing a good job on behalf of russia and taking taking on the issues of the day i don't i don't really see his isolation happening so if that was the plan it failed but these summits are not designed to come to conclusions at least as far as i understand and they're designed to give the world leaders a chance to air confusion and misconception with each other and to make their point decisions are made by pure accuracies and larger organizations later afterward 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 and 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 imagine he would have been whenever these gentlemen get a chance to talk frankly it's a good. call just a few days before the g twenty leaders got together russian border patrol seized three ukrainian ships near the crimean peninsula moscow accuses the ships of violating its territorial waters the incident brought russia and ukraine close to full blown conflict and international concern. contrary to the un convention on russian voters ships carried out frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy.

three ukrainian patrol boats say the russians were approaching russian territorial waters which they ended they were asked what they intended to do they said that they had no intention of crossing the street of. but continue making their way forward certain point refusing all communications from russian border patrol vessels then ounce their intent to cross the strait of kutch without the russians say filing notification notification that is there to make sure that the passage of the strait of cuts which is very narrow and there's a lot of traffic to make it safe what ensued was

a dangerous high speed chase in the streets of. after which the ukrainian vessels were fired upon eventually in the cruise twenty four people and all sailors offices and s.b.u. counter-espionage agents detained the russian side also claims to have found documents that ordered these vessels to proceed with maximum stealth they found tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition dozens and dozens of weapons from brigade launches to machine guns the ukrainian side for its claims that it did fall and notification of its intent to cross the passes the streets of. into the as of see that the russians acted brazenly aggressively that this was an act of war the russians we must say that this was a provocative act that the ukrainians ordered by the top by the very top the

government itself to carry out this provocative act and to give them justification for stablish ing martial law with the sky for months to go until elections. well the sailors on board are charged with illegally crossing the russian border and could face up to six years in prison moscow that released a video in which the commander in detention in russia was heard saying that he ignored orders to stop so i'm going to melissa boy command of the navy division of the grain and military forces were answered the code straight after crossing the russian border we had visual contact with the russian border service vessels i consciously ignored their commands to stop on our boat we had small arms and a machine gun with ammunition i was aware that the action of the ukrainian vessels in the coast straits provoker to i was following my orders to move our ships from the port or for this to mario a western countries were quick to express serious concern over what happened both russia and ukraine called for an emergency session of the un security council

russia's representatives seem to make it all headway with the others around the table though here's how it unfolded. what we witnessed this weekend is yet another reckless russian escalation it follows on from russia's illegal annexation of crimea in two thousand and fourteen grains because the ukrainian side violated our border in a place which even before twenty fourteen was russian territory. russia must respect the full implementation of the means the grim and you're not an additional i hope that you read the mid ski greenman to know perfectly there's not a single word about crimea russia wants to conics the sea of us or at least and now it's surprisingly turns out that we occupy the hands of c. is wealthy this is something new. and i'd like to assure you create an affair with solidarity united states will continue to stand with the people of ukraine against the russian aggression. so this could be perceived as cult braun's for ukraine to

carry out further provocations of the russian deputy u.n. envoy who you just saw there told us he believes the west response will only encourage more reckless action by ukraine. we try to concentrate on our least concrete provocation would try to ask everybody why exactly the ukrainian ships so that previously interacted so with our own border guards and which best leader the coach straight without any problems the ship or the ships will know all the rules all the procedures suddenly decide it or to award them and throw in given these in this provocation so that's why we tried to ask these questions or to our fellow members or to get an answer from them and actually it or i discovered that they were not very eager to discuss these countries it usually immediately changed to the l.h. turn and excision of crimea by my country which were of course of ours for the

night and i specifically mentioned that crimea was not topical security council agenda. i fear that after the western countries that have particular influence on the ukraine are really displayed session of attitude to the ukrainian side might feel a little bit and bold and to engage in further of provocations of these type of because they haven't heard they didn't hear during the meeting any approaches from from western side that they did something wrong or were it seems to me that the issues are slightly clearer it is directly linked to the prospect of elections in ukraine it is their act or link to salute falling ratings of president poroshenko so it was very strange that the security council colleagues actually avoided calling calling these things by their real well you. know without see plenty had chaos in paris this weekend those fuel tax protests strike again scores of injuries

and hundreds of arrests we'll get you up to speed on that after the break. donald trump bowing out of a meeting with vladimir putin doesn't seem like a big deal given the already poor state of affairs between the two countries is the manner in which it was cancelled all over twitter may sting the kremlin more than the cancellation itself is the mythical trump truth in a bromance finally over. who should start if you. will read can. chancellor merkel runs who. will choose between germany and europe and russia.

to destroy the bridge to see this quite easy and very forced. to loop through a whole lot of. welcome back central paris was brought to a standstill on saturday by the so-called yellow vests a movement against soaring fuel prices and the most violent of three successive weekends about unrest and riot police were out in force more than one hundred people were injured including our correspondent all about who was hit by a rubber bullet is what he witnessed throughout the day.

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 michael actually as we move 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. oh. you have a central new killer of police in full riot gear fully equipped we're actually seeing tear gas flying 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. 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 but i'm with humanity should be fast not a 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 something to say we already

work in the minimal tariffs for social insurance and i don't understand what will the next glide to be 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 with the least of the yellow bests but not fully on the side of protesters as long as the peaceful we are being taxed from all sides we work we study we raise our children now we are overtaxed so stop moving the problem aside we're seeing more room or problems fall couple around here as a fiat herod said. still has a blockade across the street of their one of the streets off of the new five and this isn't so this certainly isn't going anywhere anytime soon and one of the big issues that i am seeing from this whole situation in paris is that it's not just one nucular is there isn't just one group that the police are trying to contain was . was.

a good. number of people incredibly upset particularly with the french media they thought we were from one of the french broadcasters they were insisting that we stop broadcasting once we told them that we weren't well now we've been allowed to again speaking to a large amount of the police that have been taking part in this operation in paris on saturday if you surprised how many were willing to say off camera that they were actually in support of those that were demonstrating against lower fuel costs however that certainly wasn't represented in some of the the violent scenes that we've seen from say violence from police towards demonstrators also from demonstrators towards police peter all of our reporting from paris there well r.t. spoke with the head of a french police union who says there is broad sympathy for the protest movement

among law enforcement personnel but ever threat in fact most of my colleagues support the yellow vests movement as we are affected a lot by the fuel price rise to that we can't live there where we were either because it costs too much because we have to arrest our neighbors our colleagues on the ground have to follow the orders of those who are not on the ground and the french president told reporters at the g. twenty that all those responsible for the violence will be identified and held to account. see pursues will be a perry what happened in paris today has nothing to do with peaceful demonstrations of legitimate discontent the organizers of this violence don't want any change they want chaos they will go identified they will be held responsible for their actions and they will be taken to court but i will always respect those who disagree and i will always listen to any dissent but i will never accept violence and i'm pretty sure that mccoy who is going to lose the year of an election which is coming in

next next year and in fact is as yeah as what was the last you know it tries in fact to hear somebody who is promises and he doesn't want to change a policy of policy and i think this is very dangerous it only shows the last time i'll read. you know you concern of the french nation. donald trump's patience has long worn thin with america's main news providers so this week he floated the idea of setting up his own state run alternative he goes down of takes a look at how if it ever makes it to where trump t.v. might measure up against the established networks. it's been a long brutal and tiresome fight fake fake disgusting. house fake i'm not going to give you a question you are fake do the level of dishonesty is out of control the two go mad

and clashed and found themselves in a stalemate now trump appears to be opting for a new approach if you can't beat them join them throughout the world c.n.n. has a powerful voice portraying the united states in an unfair and false way something has to be done including the possibility of the united states starting our own worldwide network to show the world the way we really are great. and i wonder what it will look like. hello and thank you for joining c.n.n. i'm your host for today anderson blooper and our top story a huge announcement from the white house nato is obsolete some powerful words from the president that the united states indeed has been the biggest loser in this decrepit organization to quote president bad and well actually now we

do have some breaking information just in fact donald trump has just announced that nato is very much relevant again now they do fight terrorism i said it was obsolete it's no longer absolute now just to clarify things this is most definitely not a u. turn on behalf of mr president but rather a direct result of his artwork and we have reports that otherwise is fake news speaking of which c.n.n. is proud to be recognized as the only fake free t.v. network and like these other stations especially the. well on the political front donald trump has revealed that there is no reason to believe that russia meddled in the twenty sixteen election i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be getting a confirmation from vladimir putin himself never settling for this anonymous source

is rubbish just as we don't as well well. now actually we do have an update on this story have a listen and a key sentence environ marks i said the word word instead of what. the sentence should have been i don't see any reason why i wouldn't or why it would. rush well you know what this is hardly an update though obviously would instead of wouldn't i mean yeah the complete opposite of each other but that's just being unpredictable the great thing about our president and now finally that we have that sorted out to domestic affairs and our contributing show cooking with friends the type of deterrent being used is. pepper spray it's literally water tap or with a small amount of alcohol for evaporation purposes it's natural you could actually

put it on your nachos and eat it well nachos with tear gas topping is actually the only way we have nachos here at c.n.n. so some spicy peppery nachos with a water cannon shower to wash away the tears delicious try it if you haven't so that was it our morning kids show this is c.n.n. . that is the weekly for this hour your next update from us is in just over thirty minutes time off we've got the u.s. veterans campaigning to convince their government to stay away from war paying the price for peace is next on our international. manufacture consent to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round

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