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 truth in a bromance finally over. it was. week's top stories here on r.t. the g twenty wraps up in argentina with a truce in the u.s. china. and a shorter than expected conversation between presidents. also coming up. is imposed on ukraine after russia seizes three ships off the coast of crimea. i.

reels from its worst rest in a decade as the so-called gallo best movement keeps up the pressure on the government over rising fuel prices. thanks for joining us on the weekly here on scene with me daniel hawkins. from trade wars to climate change the leaders of the world's biggest economies have been pushing some pretty different agendas at the g. twenty summit two days of talks wound up and what i saw on saturday on our crew was of course they're following all the action.

our china and the united states have agreed to halt any new tariffs for ninety days being and donald trump met on day two of the g. twenty summit in argentina neither though gave a news briefing afterwards however the russian president did speak to reporters giving his views on the summit it up a trunk i 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 who's 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 x. president george h.w. bush and eventually the lattimer putin found the time to talk to the journalists and the first question was obviously about him and trump. first of all it was a u.s. initiative but then we canceled that meeting in paris because we didn't want to interfere in the shuttle for one commemorations so we decided to meet and going to series but then the provocation in the black sea took place so the u.s. 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 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 u.s. 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 hagel americal 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 iu was dollars a day now going back to his talks with anglo markel 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 cranium vessel's log book mr putin also said that their reaction 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 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 to cattell 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 but sure that they have discussions regularly as there are various. yes 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 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 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 and misconception with each other and to make their points decisions are made by pure accuracies and larger organizations later afterward. it's been a week now since russian border guards detained three ukrainian ships off the coast of crimea moscow accuse them of entering russian waters without authorization that incident then sparked fears of an conflict between the two countries.

contrary to the un convention on russian border ships carried out a frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of 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 they 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 is 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 agents 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 guns the ukrainian side for its part claims that it did fall a notification of its intent to cross the passage of 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 establishing martial law with four months to go until elections russian men age sixteen to sixty longer welcome or no longer allowed entry into ukraine russian foreign ministry they've said that this is merely a political ploy a political play in order to shore up the part. martial law being put in place is an attempt by him to radicalize the solidify the base the twenty four sailors on board those ukrainian ships were arrested they're being charged with illegally crossing the russian maritime border if found guilty they could face

up to six years in prison moscow's released a video in which the commander of one of the ships says he ignored order to stop. so i'm going to 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 coast straits provoke it if i was following my orders to move our ships from the port or for this to mario in the wake of that 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 minsk agreement 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 can access the sea of us all. and now it's surprisingly turns out that we occupy the hands of c. is well this is something new to 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 cult braun's for ukraine to carry out further provocations after that heated session the russian deputy un envoy spoke to r.t. and an exclusive interview he said western powers seemed unwilling to discuss the specifics what exactly happened in the strait.

discovered that they were not very eager to discuss these concrete situationally immediately changed to all the alleged an accession of crimea by my country which were of course so far as for the night and i specifically mentioned that crimea was not topical security council agenda. i fear that after the western countries so that have particular influence on the ukraine are really displayed session or at its roots 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. come this hour the latest on a little stand off between french right elise and fuel tax protester stay here with us on our team for national.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be press it's like them for free in the morning can't be good. i'm

interested always in the water. they should. welcome back to the weekly here on r.t. international now and just that ten hours from now or so use space rock will be blasting off to the international space station it's going to be the first manned flight since that failed mission almost two months ago now. is in the thick of that launch site in.

type of brotherhood of hardened drawn raised her braces 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 poor it's raised through a vertical position and if you know then check and double check. it was done here when the first human was sent to space from here yuri gagarin but this time is different the last men launch didn't go well no one wants that to happen again. first take up started smoothly but ninety seconds into the flight something went wrong if they only hoped it would happen. while separating the rocket stages prompting to each other the fifty meters three hundred ton construction with all the automatic emergency

systems immediately aborted that mission until the crew capsule. instead of going to the international space station they landed in kazakhstan's and lives 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 merge is the capsule with two fortunate crew members landed safely. in the rescue training as part of an obligatory routine for every launch helicopters jeeps navigation systems are involved and people are in how to coordinate to find the

crew quickly and they stunt is a skills saved two lives. the russian cosmonaut and american astronaut seemed unharmed after 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 cold days and miracle. a special commission was formed do 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 investigate as relieve the sensor metal detail that b. was deformed to trigger in their margin see 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 for the full. the full. 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 seem more. 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 of the so use and the incredible work of the city this people here on the ground can do i really do every every day i went inside. the 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 c. news is expected to reach orbit and just six hours later a doctor with the international space station but this time it will feel much longer reach russian r.t. from baikonur in kazakhstan. fuel tax protests the send it into mayhem in the french capital on saturday causing buildings were set on fire over one hundred thirty people were injured including our correspondent patron of a here's what he witnessed. these demonstrators have been very clear in what they've wanted to say they want to

say the 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 missing riots is riot police tear gas everything you can possibly imagine ah oh oh oh oh oh oh yeah. we're actually seeing tear gassed 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 til the end of the month i suspect as 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 patients we are being taxed from all sides we work we study we raise our children now we are overtaxed so suck moving the problem aside we're seeing more room or problems fall couple around here is 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 set to 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 new kilis there isn't just one group that the police all trying to contain the it. was. that 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. stopped 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 r.t. france correspondent lucas was also hit by rubber bullets during the standoff in central paris this is how he described what happened that night. most of the protesters who 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 plaster shows to go and at that moment i was shot i meet 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 phone in my hands for a live stream you know in this situation everything is hard to understand i had an armband with pressure written on it but i put it in my pocket i didn't want to wear it is it looks a bit like

a police armband and i didn't want to have any problems with the protesters the president has been struggling to contain the fallout from saturday's riots he held crisis talks with security officials on sunday but stopped short of declaring a state of emergency the french government so far is refusing to back down saying high fuel taxes on needed to stay in place to fund public services and reduce pollution political commentator sean brick wall believes the leadership is in a tough position. not just the gas prices but the general take into policy of the government the problem is that it's not most of the government can do because the government asking will be the orders from the european commission and the european. nation want to balance the budget and do get into public services and that has been going on for years and years and years including on the lawn and sarkozy and sun to snuggle my cause fault they didn't see as a solution to everything in his head they think the sixteen year old dance extremely said sent a steamy detach comedy early d.'s i don't think he understand the depth of the

problem and the index and and the people around him and the stance on the mainstream media the dettori least the cloud they're ok the really incompetent there may be skillful fans when they see this level of incompetence and. hundreds of the dept of the problem of the reality of their own country and the problem of the put their staffs is that they focus on my core but they don't seem to either is or the problem is much deeper and has to do with the general policing of the european union. more on that story another five or moscow times joins us again on the weekly on r.t. international. the e.u. the end. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to from day

shouldn't let it be an arms race is on often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it's meaningless 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 there's just no really there hasn't been that we're even many of the times 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 what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in saying.

not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washington closely watching the hawks.

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