he. was really. cool with. the way it is even. really you know really if you. eat i was going to move the i mean you're going to see in. the. in this week's top stories the g twenty wraps up in argentina with the troops in the u.s. trying a tariff war and a shorter than expected conversation between presidents from. martial law was imposed in ukraine after russia seizes three ships off the coast of crimea.

i. and paris reels from its worst unrest 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 you're watching weekly here on r.t. international live from moscow i'm daniel hawkins wherever you are welcome to 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 one up and burnside is on saturday and our crew was of course there giving you all the latest information. on the.

china and the u.s. have agreed to halt any new tariffs for ninety days she jinping and donald trump met on day two of the g. twenty summit in argentina neither one though gave a news briefing afterwards however the russian president did speak to reporters he gave his views on the summit and did a patrol go was there in the argentine capital with the latest. 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 trump 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. 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 cancel the 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 a 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 russian meal that featured caviar and pancakes. 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 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 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 i'm 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 are 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. just a week ago russian border guards detained three ukrainian ships off the coast of crimea moscow accused them of entering russian waters 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 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. what they intended to do they said that they had no intention of crossing the street of. but continued making their way forward a 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 courage which is very narrow and there's a lot of traffic to make it safe the federal security service is also in position 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 would even before the reunion of crimea and russia twenty four people and all the 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 britain to machine guns the ukrainian side for its claims that they'd fallen

notification of its intent to cross the passage of the strait of. into the eyes of see that the russians acted brazenly aggressively of that this was an act of war the russians meanwhile 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. the law with the sky and four months to go until elections russian men age sixteen to sixty no longer welcome were 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 are mr poroshenko ratings martial law being put in place is an attempt by him to radicalize the solidified voter base. twenty four sailors on board the ukrainian ships were arrested and 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 ukrainian commander who is being held in russia says he ignored orders to stop so i'm going to melissa morey 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 people in the wake of the incident both russia and ukraine called for an emergency session of the un security council or here's how that played out. what we witnessed this weekend is yet another reckless russian escalation it follows on from russia's illegal an accession of crimea in two thousand and thirteen grains because the ukrainian side violated our border in

a place which even before twenty fourteen was russian territory you know russia must respect the full implementation of the means grim and if you're not a magician i hope that you read the mid-scale greenman to know perfectly that there's not a single word about crimea russia wants to comics the c. of s. or at least and now it's surprisingly turns out that we occupy the hands of c. is well this is something new in the afternoon 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 provocations of that heated session the russian deputy un envoy spoke to r.t. exclusively he said western powers seemed unwilling to discuss the specifics of what exactly happened in the strait. and discovered

that they were not very eager to discuss these concrete situationally immediately changed to the alleged an accession of crimea by my country which were of course forest in the night and i specifically mentioned that crimea was not stopped because security council adjourned. i fear that after the western countries that have particular influence on the ukraine are really displayed session or attitude to the ukrainian side might feel a little bit and bold don't gauge and further provocations of this type because they haven't heard they didn't hear during the meeting any approaches from from western so that they did something wrong. to come this hour the latest on a brutal style. between french police and close as the approaches.

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the. worlds apart. welcome back to the weekly here in r.t. international now in just seven hours from this moment to 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 know what if it is in kazakhstan at the bar.

had to walk through a hardened draw these preparations made a loop routine they've been doing it for sixteen years the rocket is assembled to look at things it's ready then transported to the launch site where it's raised to a vertical position twenty fueled 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 from the last many launches didn't go well no one wants that to happen again. next over is takeoff started smoothly but ninety seconds into the flight something went wrong the 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 the mission until the crew capsule. instead of going to the international space station they landed in kazakhstan's and liz steps hundreds of kilometers for. i'm way they had taken off just minutes earlier but i couldn't alongside intentionally 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 dinners is where the merges the capsule with two fortunate crew members 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 out of the incident on the little blue given that they fell from a height of fifty kilometers making the 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 occurred due to a fault in the sensor so this could only happen at the assembly stage at the baikonur cosmodrome. and behind me is where they put the rockets parts together as always to manually and this is where they investigate as relieve the sensor metal detail that b. was deformed to triggering they were merged in 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 dog. and they know now it may help the investigation further. just seven weeks after the feeler they can or is ready for the next manned flight further delay could disrupt the work of the isis and the crew some of them witnessed their ported launch in october see more confident 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 of the so use and the incredible work of the city this people here on the ground can do i really do every every village i went inside feeling absolutely safe it is

a bit small. that it has any time and i wish that many said i could 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 dropped with the international space station but this time it will feel much longer refreshed nasty from baikonur in kazakhstan. fuel tax protests to send them into chaos in the french capital on saturday causing buildings in the south and fire and over one hundred thirty people were injured including our correspondent pete sort of a is what he witnessed in the midst of it. 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 manual might call actually is remove into this we're seeing riots is riot police tear gas everything you can possibly imagine. 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 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 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 subject 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 some move in 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 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 nucleus there isn't just one group that the police all trying to contain the oil. ok. 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 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 place that was demonstrators also from demonstrators towards police r.t. france reporter lucas was also hit by rubber bullets during that standoff in central paris he described what he saw during those riots outputs of hope most of the protesters he wanted to go back to the show sillies a joined in small groups i was following one of them in the end we came back to the plash i was 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 that you know in this situation everything is hard to understand i had a non ban with press 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 declaring 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 commentators on brick want believes the leadership is in a tough position beveled it's not just about the gas prices but in general have all the gains ability of the government but 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 commission want to balance the budget and do that in the 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 close hauled he didn't see as a solution to everything in his head aching a sixteen year old dance extremely said center extremely detached from reality i

don't think he understand the depth of the problem and the index and the people around him and the stance on the mainstream media the dettori least that apply the ok the incompetent there may be skillful plans 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. and i set for myself on a team for this hour goodbye from me as well my colleague or researcher will guide you to the latest global updates this morning here in moscow.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. 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 the is just no way to parent and 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 and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

hello and welcome to crossfire were all things considered i'm peter lavelle from very bad to even worse russia ukraine relations and my palm pale gives credit to the saudis for relieving suffering in yemen and the guardian simply fake news. across talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dimitri bobbitt he's a political analyst we spoke international and in cyprus we cross to alex cruciform he is the director and writer for the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let's go to the first story here the passage of. bush forty one the president of the united states over the last day or so there have been all these eulogies and morning from the political class and i think i would really get to your take on the

passage of forty one here but first let's look at the most memorable moment i have of the forty first president of the united states. i'll never apologize for the united states of america ever i don't care what the facts are i will lead her i will do my level best to stand up for freedom and democracy around the world by keeping the united states of america strong and they keeping our eyes wide open as we welcome change in the world. ok let me go to alex in cyprus here it doesn't matter what the facts are ok that for me is the most interesting takeaway here damn reality it's the projection that you want and i mean and this is really the opening of the unit polar moment with the end of the cold war and it's.