victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want to that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. we've been through this this isn't the way. we. look. at the week's top stories here on our team to national the g twenty wraps up in argentina with a truce in the u.s. trying to tar a for a shorter than expected conversation between president trump and putin. imposed in ukraine after russia seizes three ships off the coast of crimea also

coming up. paris reels from its worst on the rest than a decade does the so-called yellow vests movement keeps up the pressure on the government over rising fuel prices. we've seen those for joining us here in our teens and ashleigh with me daniel hawkins wherever you are today you're very welcome with us on the program. from trade wars to climate change the leaders of the world's biggest economies have been pushing some very different agendas at the g. twenty summit two days of talks wound up in what i saw on saturday and our crew was there following all the action.

china and the u.s. have agreed to halt any new tariffs for ninety days and donald trump met on day two of the g. twenty summit in argentina neither of them gave a news briefing afterwards however the russian president did speak to reporters giving his views on the summit was there in the argentine capital. 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 ex-president george h.w. bush and eventually. found the time to talk to the journalists and the first question was obviously about him and. first of all it was a u.s. initiative but then we cancel that meeting in paris because we didn't want to interfere in the one commemorations so we decided to meet and point to series but then the. revocation 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 them 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 he invited anglo-american for breakfast and treated her with a traditional russian 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 iu was dollars a day now going back to his talks with angle of merkel and emanuel 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 ukrainian vessels log book mr putin also said that the reaction from the western leaders that he got to that was rather calm and then went on to talk about the state of martial. a law that was imposed by the ukrainian leader petro poroshenko in parts of ukraine as a result of this is collation. i am concerned about some of the things nobody

impose martial law in ukraine when there would big events going on and then before the elections they go ahead and do it why ticket sales civil liberties and district political activity what is worse is the introduced martial in just ten provinces where the current president does not have much the pool's city craning government is dividing the country i'm sure that they have discussions regularly as there are various there are 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 imagine he would have been whenever these gentlemen get a chance to talk frankly it's a good thing in history 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 in 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 these summits are not designed to come to conclusions at least as far as i understand them they're designed to give the world leaders a chance to air confusion a misconception with each other and to make their points decisions are made by pure accuracies and larger organizations later afterward. and one week ago russian border guards that same three ukrainian ships off the coast of crimea moscow accuse them of entering russian waters without authorization incident sparked fears of an all out conflict between the two countries.

contrary to the un convention of russian voters ships carried out a frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the ukraine. 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 continued making their way forward to 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 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 showdown this case took place and were russian woods is even before the reunion of crimea and russia twenty four people in old sailors offices and s.b.u. counter-espionage agent detained the russian side also claims to have found documents that ordered these vessels to proceed with maximum stealth. tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition dozens and dozens of weapons from brigade launches to machine gun the ukrainian side. claims that he'd fallen

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 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 stablish in martial law with the sky for months to go until elections russian men age sixteen to sixty 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. ratings martial law being put in place is an attempt by him to radicalize the solidify the base twenty four sailors on board the ukrainian ships were arrested and charged with illegally

crossing the russian maritime border now found guilty they could face up to six years in prison moscow has released a video in which the commander of one of the ships says he can order to stop. so i'm going to melissa boy commander of the navy division of the grain and military forces were entered 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 code straits provoke it if i was following my orders to move our ships from the port or for this to mario or the wake of the incident both russia and ukraine called for an emergency session of the un security council here's how that 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 the mid-scale greenman to know perfectly there's not a single word about crimea russia wants to contacts the sea. and now it's surprisingly turns out that we occupy the azoff sea 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 culpable launch for ukraine to carry out further provocations after that session the russian deputy un envoy spoke to r.t. he said western powers seemed unwilling to discuss the specifics of what happened in the kurdish. i discovered that they were not very

eager to discuss these concrete situationally immediately changed to all the alleged turn an expression 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 further provocations 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. still to come this hour the latest on a brutal standoff between french riot police and fuel tax protesters they want us here not a flash. what

politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. too great to be close it's like the three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in

the wives of our. elected weekly here auti now in just twelve hours from now or so use rocket will be blasting off to the international space station is going to the first manned flight since a failed mission almost two months ago. is that baikonur lost sight. that's

a volatile carbon drawn raised for grayson's may loop routine they've been doing it for sixteen years the rocket has some bold look at this it's really the entrance for the to the long side where it's raised through a vertical position and if you know then check and double tip. it was done here when the first human was sent to space from here you're a good daughter and with this time is different the last men launch didn't go well no one wants that to happen again. next overstay called started smoothly but ninety seconds into the flight something went wrong in family hoped it would happen. while separating the rocket stages prompting to each other the fifty meters three hundred ton construction was critical the automatic

emergency system immediately aborted that mission until the crew capsule. instead of going to the international space station they landed in kazakhstan's and liz steps hundreds of kilometers from way they had taken off just minutes earlier but i couldn't alongside intension the remote back in the nineteen fifties at the height of the cold war it was a practical necessity to hide the spaceport away from prying western eyes we're told so away from people to avoid victims in case of a rocket disaster this will dinner's is why. or the merges the capsule with two fortunate crewmembers landed safely. in the rescue training as part of an obligatory routine before every launch helicopters jeeps navigation systems are involved and people are in how to coordinate to find the

crew quickly and they stunt their skills saved two lives. the russian cosmonaut and american astronaut seemed unharmed off into the incident on the little blue given that they fell from a height of fifty kilometers making a steep ballistic descend on their force many times stronger than gravity some call they skate and miracle. a special commission was formed do the best to gauge what went wrong three weeks later they reached a conclusion a sensor that was supposed to detect the separation of the stagers was faulty. the reason behind the failure was operational reaction occur due to a fault in the sensor so this could only happen at the assembly stage of the baikonur cosmodrome. and behind me is where they put the rockets parts together as always manually and this is where they investigated relieve the sensor metal detail that he was deformed to triggering they were margin c lending securities

higher than ever extra people are invited to supervise the prices no journalists are allowed inside but we've got the video of the space agency shared with us what they call a technical shooting they filmed assembly in fine detail every screw every joint they know now it may help the investigation. just seven weeks after the feeler baikonur is ready for the next man flight further delay could disrupt the work of the isis and the crew some of their weakness therefore to launch in a cobra seymour. it's an effort in the russian technology that carries astronauts to the international space station in a way witnessing that event to me was actually reassuring in the smart design for so use and incredible work for the city this people here on the ground can do i really do every every day i went inside feeling absolutely safe is

a bit small. as any time and i wish to. take part in the design but. eight and a half minutes after takeoff the sea news is expected to reach orbit and just six hours later dropped with the international space station but this time it will feel much longer and refresh our tea from baikonur in kazakhstan. fuel tax protests the sentence and mayhem in the french cops on saturday cars and buildings were set on fire more than one hundred thirty people were injured including r t correspondent peter all of a here's what he said what. these demonstrators have been very clear and 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 man you well might call actually is remove into this we're seeing riots is riot police tear gas everything you can possibly imagine. oh. oh oh oh yeah. 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. 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 to 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 till 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 so some move in the problem aside we're seeing more room or problems fall couple around here as a fire herod set up as a blockade across the street of one of the streets of a new five on and this isn't the certainly isn't going anywhere anytime soon and

one of the big issues that i am seeing from these whole situation in paris is that it's not just one nucleus there isn't just one group that the police all trying to contain the it. was. that made. a. number of people incredibly upset particularly with the french media they thought we were from one of the french broadcasts as they were insisting that we see. dr 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 you'd be 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 on two fronts reporter lucas ledger was also hit by a rubber bullet during a standoff in central paris he described to us what exactly happened. most of the protesters he wanted to go back to the show joined in small groups i was following one of them in the end we came back to the plash shows to go and at that moment i was shot i made at least thought the bullet had come from law enforcement as the police were shooting from that side of the protesters they were able to understand i wasn't a protester i wasn't wearing a yellow vest i was wearing a leather jacket and a helmet i was also holding a monopod with my mobile foreign in my hands for a live stream you know in this situation everything is hard to understand i had a non ban with pressure written on it but i put it in my pocket i didn't want to wear it as it looks a bit like a police armband and i didn't want to have any problems with the protesters

president micron has been struggling to contain the fallout from saturday's riots he held crisis talks with security officials on sunday he did stop short of the caring a state of emergency the french government has so far refusing to back down saying high fuel taxes need to stay in place to fund public services and reduce pollution political commentator sean brook won't believe the leadership is in an impossible position. not just the gas prices but it's a general hold against the government. the government can do because the government the orders from the european commission and the european commission want to balance the budget and do in the public services and that has been going on for years and years and years and. years the solution to everything in his head. is teeny detached from reality i don't understand the depth of the problem. in that the people are.

incompetent they're mighty scarce we're fans when they see this level of competence and. the depth of the problem of the reality of their own country and the problem of the put is that they focus on my core but they don't seem to the problem is much deeper and has to do with the general opinion. that's it for this off from the team and myself join us again at three am moscow time for the latest global news updates thanks for staying with us. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist

i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. to confound me. i'm one of them but i think. we're buddies. i don't want that or i can just let me as a nation into that community yeah. he could feel that he had

a chicken dad's going to say he made a move of the one that he i want to go to before. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer it be in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying lose just noodle hasn't been that we're even many of the families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victim. families want to that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. this isn't the

way. hello and welcome to worlds 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 courtesy call may sting the kremlin more than the cancellation itself. the mythical trump put in bromance finally over to discuss that i'm now i'm joined by nicolai petro 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 the summit between the two leaders are heard in the one interview you particularly noted the tone they it to president struck 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 so least it was entitled a summit of low expectations and that's because the personal relationship between the any two leaders.