you. know we're. going to move even you're going to see in. the. week's top stories here on our team international the g twenty wraps up in argentina with a truce in the u.s. china. and a shorter than expected conversation between presidents from. coming up more recent post in ukraine after russia seizes ships off the coast of crimea.

i. reels from its worst the rest than a decade does the so-called yellow vests movement keeps up the pressure on the government over rising fuel costs. thanks for joining us on the weekly on our team from ashland. 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 have just one. crew was there following all the action.

china and the united states have agreed to halt any new tariffs for ninety days she paying and donald trump on day two of the g. twenty summit in argentina none of those gave a news briefing afterwards for the russian president did speak to reporters giving his views on the summit it was frank it was there in the time capsule 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 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 happened somewhere on the sidelines of 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 canceled 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 provocation in the. x.e. 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 invited to go americal 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 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 a. posed 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 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 in the 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 and 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 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. has been one week now since russian border god seized three ukrainian ships off the coast of crimea moscow accuse them of entering russian walters' without authorization incident sparked fears of an all out 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 entered 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 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 and old sailors offices and the 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 of rounds. ammunition dozens and dozens of weapons from brigade launchers to machine guns the ukrainian side for its part claims that he'd

fallen 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 stablish ing martial law with the sky for months to go until elections russian men age sixteen to sixty longer welcome and 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 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 the ukrainian ships were arrested they've been charged with

illegally crossing the russian maritime border are found guilty they could face up to six years in prison was released the video in which the ukrainian commander who's being held in russia says he ignored orders to stop. so i am going to melissa boy command 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 coast straits provoke it if i was following orders to move our ships from the port or for this to mario people 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 because that 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 grim and if 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 c. is wealthy this is something new we thought 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 provocation. about session the russian deputy un envoy spoke to r.t. exclusively he said western powers seen the willing to discuss the specifics of what happened in the current strait. 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 so far as through the night and i specifically mentioned that crimea was not topical security council agenda. i fear that some of the western countries so 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 don't gauge unfair as a provocation is of these type because they haven't heard they didn't hear during the meeting any approach is from from western side that they did something wrong. the film is solid the latest in a brutal standoff between french riot police and fuel tax tax protesters stay here with us on the international.

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be the one person. we can all middle of the room sit. back to the weekly in just a hour's time may so use rocket 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. at the baikonur launch site.

at the local garden a drawing 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 your 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 you're a good daughter and but this time is different the last men launch didn't go well no one wants that to happen again and. looked over his takeoff started smoothly but ninety seconds into the flight something went wrong its value hoped it would happen. while separating the rocket stages prompting to each

other the fifty meters three hundred ton construction was quite full 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 lose steps hundreds of kilometers from way they had taken off just minutes earlier by 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 but also 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 they skills saved two lives. the russian cosmonaut and american astronaut seemed unharmed after the incident on the little blue given that it may fail 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 he was deformed to trigger in their margin say 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 there or to launch in a cobra seem more. than ever 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 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 will feel much longer refreshed now r.t. from baikonur in kazakhstan. fuel tax protest descended into chaos in the french capital on saturday cars and buildings were set on fire over one hundred thirty people were injured including our correspondent peace all of us is what he witnessed that 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 man you well might call actually is remove into this we're seeing riots is riot police tear gas everything you can possibly imagine ah 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 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 to hospital i was hit me on kill with will myself thankfully might be 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 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 think 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 as a fiat herod set up as 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 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 a. number of people incredibly upset particularly with the french media they still were from one of the french broadcasts is the. we 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 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 or to france for four to lucas leisure was also hit by a rubber bullet during that standoff in central paris here's how he described what happened. 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 made it lethal 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 and 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 fresh 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. president micron has been struggling to contain that fallout from saturday's riots he held crisis talks with security officials on sunday he did stop short though of declaring a state of emergency in french government is so far refusing to back down they're saying high fuel taxes are needed to fund public services and also reduce pollution political commentator john breaux qualm believes the leadership is in a tough position. it's not just about the gas prices but it's a general revolt against the police the of the government the politics not most of the government can do because the government are still being the orders from the european commission and the european commission want to balance the budget and do cuts in the public services and that has been going on for years and years and years including and then sarkozy in turn. it things he has the solution to everything in his head i think he's extremely out dance extremely said center he's

teeny detached from realities i don't think understand the depth of the problem and india and india and the people around him and the distance of the mainstream media the dettori least it's a class they're incredibly incompetent they're maybe scared for fans when they see this level of competence and. hundreds of the depth of the problem of the reality of their own country and the problem of the protestors is that the food to some where they don't seem to realize that the problem is much deeper and has to do with the general policing of the european union. for myself and a team here at r.t. join us at seven am moscow time for the latest rundown on the week's top stories.

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the manner in which it was cancelled over twitter without as much as making a courtesy call may sting the kremlin more than the council ation itself. the mythical trump putin bromance finally over to discuss that i'm now in joined by nicole attach a 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 that was in titled 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 on the other hand if the positions of the two nations are fundamentally far apart then that's not going to go very far this is at this point it's not even about personal relations or by letter relations between the two nations it's simply about the diplomatic protocol as i'm sure you know this is something people take on both sides very meticulous of a deliberate presence each sparing minute with great care and here you have somebody canceling a meeting that have hundreds if not thousands of people who.