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ukraine are brought to the brink of open conflict after moscow seizes three ships. its territorial waters also ahead on the program. is recovering after the worst riots sparked by more protests against higher fuel taxes the yellow demonstrations in front into a third. story start shaped the week coming up but first to this weekend's developments on r.t. international the g twenty summit has concluded in argentina with leaders tackling a rough. crucial issues including the u.s.

china trade war ukraine on strengthening cooperation. with the u.s. president held a keenly watched meeting with his chinese counterpart at the summit but neither gave a news conference afterwards the russian president did talk to reporters though to share his thoughts on the gathering in buenos aires and live a tranquil as in the argentine capital today. one of the top reasons why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber is the one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there it's about to depart the russian president vladimir putin and his

american counterpart donald trump but just one day before the summit kicked off donald trump sent all of us into breaking news mode by tweeting out right from on board air force one i won't meet with putin because of ukraine and we were all left guessing whether they'll at least shake hands or have some sort of little chat then finally on saturday the russian president's spokesperson confirmed that a little chat happened somewhere on the sidelines of the g. twenty event everyone was hoping to ask president about it at his press event however he canceled that too he says it was because of the sudden passing of acts president george h.w. bush eventually lattimer putin found the time to talk to the journalists and the first question was obviously you about him and. first of all it was a u.s. initiative but then we cancel that meeting in paris. yes because we didn't want to

interfere in the shuttle for world one commemorations so we decided to meet and going to series but then the provocation in the black sea took place so the us decided not to have the meeting still have the chance to chat with president trump on this issue we expressed our positions and remained committed to the i let's know what 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 vladimir putin has just got inside his limo. he began his second day at the g. twenty summit right inside this hotel invited anglo-american for breakfast and treated her with a traditional washing meal that featured caviar and tank. now

that the president's not here anymore we were actually able to get inside the lobby of the hotel i was told that the average price for where he was staying is four thousand u.s. dollars a day now going back to his talks with anglo merkel and emmanuel macron the president's spokesperson told us that he physically picked up a piece of paper and a pen to just draw a map for them of what happened between russia and ukraine in the current strait and he also brought forward evidence of what he called ukraine's intentions to provoke russia there that included some notes in the cranium vessels log book mr putin also said that there were. action from the western leaders that he got to

that was rather calm and then went on to talk about the state of martial law that was imposed by the ukrainian leader petro poroshenko in parts of ukraine as a result of this is a collation. 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 i could tell civil liberties and political activity what is worse 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 all the council to trumpet putin said dawn was not the only in to support it meeting in buenos aires i was touched upon there's been an important breakthrough between the u.s. and chinese leaders over the two countries trade rather they agreed to a temporary freeze on tara thing creases leaving them at ten percent instead of

raising them to twenty five percent as had been expected but the freeze expires after ninety days if both parties are unable to reach a further agreement so a big issue let's get into it with international independent china specialist. drew you're very welcome you know when you look at the meeting between the two presidents great headlines but before the delegates would have had a number of days maybe up to a week to thrash something out of the g. twenty why then maybe nothing more concrete than a three month truce. well it's not just a question all balancing the books much more as they. first of all china has been exporting much much more of groups to the united states. something like five hundred billion. the united states has been expanding as exporting to china hundred fifty but the trouble is that lots of things carnival's the bible states

including high tech. technology in the. trial of one strategically but that's precisely those products. so china so straight about imbalances be going on but as i was saying it's more than just. previously when china was close. to a lot of states to get into that its c.e.o. . but it was using only t. shirts and like issues so that they're not swept in americans interest but now china's nano has this national. making two thousand and twenty five going to artificial intelligence also so. that is the thing under isn't it that the details of this forced technology transfer intellectual property protection cyber theft there's so much to kind of iron are to or do you see it actually happening in

three months geo political issues of course as well are overshadowing a lot of what's happening. well often with trade i think people look at the. history when a country is growing in size and influence equal into about sixty percent of america's world then america would take action to contain even trying to. actually think about russia in the old days during the cold war. at a time of us as on when informed us of a state. recently closed to the united states sixty percent of the economy back in those days. cold war started between the united states and russia think again. whole of it japan when japan you know there's

a whole euro of japan dependence. dominating also some products and. they're going to trade war against japan and link up with the so-called draws a cold forcing the. government to. appreciate again resulting in twenty years the last decade. but i think the third thing is that. another important issue is hold the world order not being looked at multilateralism all you did after is an american focus so there's a lot of things at stake. and it's good to have a call the truce but even if it was all agreed in say of the days. between united states and china. to carry on for a long time yeah absolutely thank you for the analysis great as always

international independent china specialist on drew a long. well though it was mostly serious business at the summit as usual there were a few lifer moments too and even then the cation all heck up along the way. everything was scheduled down to the last minute but when we got direction now we understood president macron was already getting into he's car.

passing. to some of the week's other headline news nod last sunday russian border patrol sees 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 stirred international concern.

contrary to the un convention on russian border ships carried out a frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy. three ukrainian patrol boats say the russians were approaching russian territorial waters which they entered they were asked what they intended to do they said that they had no intention of crossing the street of. but they continued making their

way forward to certain point refusing all communications from russian border patrol vessels that they're now it's their intent to cross the strait of kutch without the russians say filing notification notification that it's there to make sure that the passage of the strait of kutch which is very narrow and there's a lot of traffic to make it safe the federal security service is also in possession of information that says the provocative actions of the ukrainian fleet were ordered by the government in kiev the territorial waters in which some of this in this case took place in russian woods is even before the reunion of crimea and russia twenty four people in old 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

largest to machine gun the ukrainian side. claims that it did fall a notification of its intent to cross the passes the streets of. into the eyes of see that the russians acted brazenly aggressively that this was an act of war the russians 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 martial law with four months to go until elections russian men age sixteen to sixty new longer welcome were no longer allowed entry into ukraine russian foreign ministry they said that this is merely a political ploy a political play in order to shore up. martial law being put in place is an attempt

by him to radicalize the solidify the base well the sailors on board were taken into custody and charged with illegally crossing the russian border they face up to six years in prison moscow then released a video in which the ukrainian commander in detention in russia is heard saying that he ignored orders to stop. i'm with the melissa boy commander 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 straits provoke it if i was following my orders to move our ships from the port or for this to mario. or plenty of western countries were quick to express serious concern over what happened both russia and ukraine call for an emergency session of the un security council russia's representative seem to make little

headway with others around the table here's how it all played out what we witnessed this weekend is yet another reckless russian escalation it follows on from russia's illegal acts ation 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 could prevent you're not an additional i hope that you read in the midst greenman to know perfectly there's not a single word about crimea russia wants to conics the sea. at least and now it's surprisingly turns out that we occupy the hands of c. is wealthy this is something new if you me for 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 calm braun's for ukraine to carry out further provocation as well afterwards the russian deputy

u.n. envoy told us he is disappointed with his western counterparts positions. i discovered that they were not very eager to discuss these countries situationally immediately changed to the alleged an accession 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 or at its units of the ukrainian side might feel a little bit and bold and to engage in for as a pro occasions of these type because they haven't heard they didn't hear during the meeting any approaches from from western side that they did something wrong.

here else in parise this weekend as fuel tax protests strike again more than one hundred people have been injured and hundreds more arrested we'll take you through what went down when the rich. donald trump following doubts of a meeting with vladimir putin doesn't seem like a big deal given the already poor state of affairs between the two countries to the manner in which it was cancelled over twitter may sting the kremlin more than the cancellation itself is the mythical trump truth in a bromance finally over. who should. we call chancellor merkel runs.

germany and russia. but. let's start back in france where central park us was brought to a standstill on saturday by the so-called yellow vest the movement against soaring fuel prices it was the most violent of three successive weekends of unrest and riot police riot in for some incredible numbers associated with this four hundred twelve

people arrested one hundred thirty three injured including their correspondent peter all over he was hit by a rubber bullet here's what he witnessed throughout the day. these demonstrators have been very clear in what they've wanted to say they want to say that fuel prices are getting too high they want to say they're unhappy with the current government headed up by a minute call actually is remove into this we're seeing riots is riot police tear gas everything you can possibly imagine. and if. 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 tonight 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 clichy as off the hospital i was hit me on kill with will myself thankfully my boot bearing most of the brunt of that those demonstrators that i spoke to they say they aren't going anywhere 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 suspect as we already work in the minimal tariffs for social insurance and i don't understand

what will the next i'd like to be sure we can do the best we can to provide good conditions for patients we are being taxed from all sides we work we study we raise our children now we are overtaxed. moving the problem aside we're seeing more room more problems fall couple around here is a fire herod set up is a blockade across the street of one of the streets of a new five and this isn't the 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 new killis there isn't just one group that the police all trying to contain. it. 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 wouldn'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 ferris on saturday you'd be surprised how many were willing to say off camera that they were actually supports 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 place towards demonstrators also from demonstrators towards police. don't want trumps patients has long weren't thin with america's main news provider so this week he floated the idea of setting up his own state run alternative igor shutdown of takes a look at how if it ever makes it to where trump t.v. might measure up against the establishment works. 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 news the level of dishonesty is out of control the two go met 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 in my remarks 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 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 mostly pepper spray it's literally water pepper 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 not chose here at c.n.n. so some spicy peppery nachos with a water canon shallots of wash away the tears delicious try it if you haven't so that was it our morning kids show this is c.n.n. . there you go it's more current affairs with this weekend's planned formal meeting of the g. twenty between a lot of more putin counseled by the american president where does that leave relations between the two leaders oxana and worlds apart attempts to unravel violence next.

hello and welcome to world apart donald trump bowing out of a g. twenty meeting with vladimir putin doesn't seem like a big deal given the already poor state of affairs between the two countries but the manner in which it was cancelled over twitter without as much as making a call. the call may sting the kremlin more than the council ation itself is the mythical trump put in bromance finally over to discuss that i'm now in joined by nicollette pacha professor of political science at the university of rhode island professor petras good to talk to you thank you very much for your time nice to be

here now you seem cautiously optimistic about the two countries moving forward after the house and summit between the two leaders are heard in one interview you particularly noted the tone the two presidents truck and i agree that they seem to have found if not there are a poor but at least sound way off not purposefully offending each other given the recent cancellation do you think that optimism was a bit premature well i actually wrote a piece at least it was entitled a summit of low expectations and that's because the personal relationship between the any two leaders only goes so far then gets fleshed out by the. experts that are brought in to finalize the details of any agreement so it's good in principle always for people to talk.