washington and beijing hold their first talks since the world's two largest economies called truths in their trade. eastlands new conditions the united states has placed on the troop withdrawal from syria the u.s. says the pullouts on hold until ankara guarantees the security of kurdish fighters . in the joint us russian plan for a space station orbiting the moon is under threat after a visit by the head of russia's space agency is blocked at the request of american senators. with news and analysis twenty four seventh's this is r.t. international from moscow i'm calling break this is what we're across for you this hour the united states and china are holding talks in beijing right now to see if

there's a solution to the economic deadlock that they've reached last month the world's two largest economies agreed to a ninety day truce in their trade war which is so far seen more losers than winners as the day richard or explained well the next round of the u.s. china trade battle and the both sides appear to be quite enthusiastic just had a very good call were president xi of china deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering all subjects and areas and points of disputes big progress being made. u.s. trade negotiators will optimistically and constructively communicate with the chinese delegation on the important agreements achieved by the two leaders during the meeting in argentina this is the first formal meeting since presidents donald trump and the xi jinping agreed a ninety day truce last month when washington hit the pause button on the shuttle to increase in tariffs and beijing vowed to buy more products from the u.s.

and there's no doubt that for both countries this ongoing trade war has stirred up the financial markets and dampens their economic outlook we saw a number of companies who have suffered financial losses and they are finger pointing towards the top political dogs for being responsible for a decline in their profits apple didn't hold back in airing its views or shortfall is over one hundred percent arthel it is primarily a trial and what i believe to be the case is the trade between the united states and china put additional pressure on their economy they're going to be fine apple is a great company but that's not my look i have to worry about our country plus using the daughter of a chinese telecoms giant as a battering tool might not be the best tactic to persuade your opposition to work with you either the hallway saw their court huge diplomatic ways when the company's c.f.o. miswiring one jew was arrested in canada trumped even pledged to intervene when he

thought it would help to secure a trade deal to benefit america beijing was furious we have made solemn representations to canada and the us demanding that both parties immediately clarify the reasons for their detention and immediately release the detainee to protect the person's legal rights pretty much the whole of twenty eighteen passed by with china and the us at each other's throats with tit for tat sanctions and now with the american and chinese trading giants have all their fingers and toes crossed so that it can be business. as usual sooner rather than later but who knows it's a very important meeting it's a very significant meeting but keep in mind that the deadline that was set at the key to winning a meeting in buenos aires argentina between the u.s. side and the chinese side was more first in terms of coming to some sort of agreement or some sort of resolution i dare say that the early days of january two thousand and nineteen there is not sufficient pressure to cause either side to be

reasonable i don't think we'll be going to see reasonable war approaches the merge until we get closer to the date that is march first two thousand and nineteen that's where we are now and no one really has an idea of where this is all going to but one thing is for sure we're not going to be bored watching this next one to china us trading. okies head out of the united states over the situation surrounding the kurds in syria washington's demanding that ankara guarantee security for the u.s. backed kurdish fighters in northern syria turkey says it only targets a terrorist groups in the region and not the kurdish population as a whole on sunday the u.s. national security adviser laid out the conditions for the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria to begin. now objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think that took so what you want to take military action that's not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the united states so that they meet the president's requirement that the syrian opposition

forces that have fought with us and not endangered john bolton has been here in jerusalem meeting with a number of israeli officials and giving details of a hard the u.s. withdrawal from syria will work we have heard him say that there will be no timetable and then for the first time we're hearing a condition that turkey must guarantee the safety of the until now u.s. backed kurdish forces now all of this follows the surprise announcement last month by the american president donald trump that he was withdrawing american forces from syria so our borders our young women our men they're all coming back and they're coming back now it will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria very deliberate very orderly the turkish president added one has always held a strong position these are the the kurds. so you know we are in the terrorists and the world they dug themselves and will continue to bear it we spoke

to mr trump those terrorists should go east of the euphrates if they would go but. because they're both the ring of us were asked were strategic partners with the us then we should do what is needed to stay bolton will be in turkey way he'll be holding discussions on this very topic the focus of course is on the african region which is in more than syria where we are witnessing a standoff between syrian soldiers who have been sent there and are lying to the syrian president bashar al assad and who are supporting the kurds who requested their help and turkish fighters on the other side so the situation certainly is very tense. reporting that middle east analyst suspects the united states is trying to drive a wedge between turkey and the other major players in syria so we think that the united states is using troop withdrawal in order to create a vacuum in northeastern syria and try to push turkey to su a bigger role than is agreed with with russia and iran and that supposedly would

bring it into conflict with the interests of syria and russia and iran and basically try to destabilize that alliance the outcome of the negotiations are clear how rational turkey is going to be in the face of american demands we don't know america has a lot of power and they could give turkey and ultimatum it's either us or the russians. you know the trump administration one wouldn't think that this is a remote possibility because they are like that the very direct president trump and his administration. they might put turkey under the threat of the u.s. military is also in focus in brazil just days after a visit by the u.s. secretary of state the country's newly elected president announced he's open to the possibility of an american military base in brazil. that include the possibility of

having an american base in brazil is the physical issue over it would be symbolic nowadays the american shoney's and russian military powers can reach any part of the world independently of their bases but depending on what might happen in the world who knows if we have to talk about a u.s. base in the future president was sworn in on new year's day and was immediately congratulated by donald trump on twitter it didn't take long for the new brazilian president mention the benefits of cooperation between their countries and it seems the united states is serious about working with brazil as well. we believe that opportunity between president trump president also not our two teams creates a truly transformative opportunity for our two nations for two peoples who. live along with whatever happened yet for them to. we want to work with dili. the u.s. defense department had to get back to us about the prospect of a military base in brazil human rights lawyer dunn kovalchuk thinks the. are united

by a common hostility towards left wing governments in latin america it's very clear that a pulse in our at the new president is in lockstep with the trump administration in wanting to militarize latin america and wanting in particular regime change in countries like venezuela nicaraguan cuba it's a very concerning situation both in our early and trump share you know right wing and the odd she they share antipathy towards the left wing governments of latin america so clearly paulson are always going to work very close with trump he will try to do his best to partner with the united states but i think the u.s. has more bases throughout the world than any country should i mean they just don't need a military in terms of national security so i don't see why the u.s. should have a base they are i think it could only be viewed as an aggressive stance again

towards countries it doesn't like like venezuela. series of ominous health incidents that the u.s. embassy in cuba has been jeopardizing ties between the two countries for more than a year but now after a number of probes and an f.b.i. investigation new research has revealed that the incidents which were fit to be a new route between the cold war autonomy's could actually have a natural origin. and there have been medically. as having been affected by incidents. it was officials consider russia the prime suspect in their investigation into

a mysterious attack on u.s. diplomats in cuba more and more evidence they say three u.s. officials tell us pointing to russia russia is to blame there is some place of blame or at least. looking seriously at the russia. and they couldn't cricket coal rather than the sun it could go all the technological device is responsible for the south of the released recordings. based on investigative and medical findings we do not believe this trauma was caused by a naturally occurring phenomenon. you're watching out a political pressure is putting a major us russian space program in jeopardy to our next story after the break.

he's gone into a nihilistic fever. i think we got to. get out the traveling across america to find what makes america the charlotte. place the central american hero this is a point. we always are on the current system. we're starting with is the beginning heading east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more gonzo than this maybe completely different end of history. join me

every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again at least thirty miners have been killed in a gold mine collapse in northeast afghanistan a landslide trapped dozens of people who were mining in a sixty me to deep shaft in a river bed some may still be trapped below ground it's hard to say that about ten thousand people pan for gold in the river and dig tunnels with simple machinery often illegally afghanistan's known to be rich in natural resources much of which remains on tapped. afghanistan's one of the world's most complex humanitarian emergencies according to the u.n. more than three million people are in need of lifesaving assistance well over one million have been displaced many two were forced to live in very poor conditions

caused by smoldering conflicts. not don't run syria your houses were destroyed and the school and health clinics were still functioning before but now they're completely destroyed to. get better care two years ago i still came to this village and some of these houses were torched by i still and some of them bombed by the government because this was a battlefield. that if i still came here they had positions here and then been there can spawn bided this area. must the bundle marsh we had a school here before and now it's destroyed some of the villagers are living in the desert because they're not able to rebuild their houses some of them don't even have tends to live in.

plans for join us russian space station to orbit the moon are at risk of after a visit to the u.s. by the head of the russian space agency has called off the move was to satisfy the demands of american senators we had heard from numerous senators suggesting that this was not a good idea and i wanted to be accommodating to the interest of the senators so i have rescinded the invitation for dimitri rigors and to visit the u.s. however we will continue our strong working relationship with russia as it relates to the international space station and sending our astronauts into space and thus are invited to me to go into the u.s. several months ago but the move was criticized by american politicians because he subjected to u.s. sanctions former nasa astronaut commander leroy chiao thinks that space missions

are being politicized. it is unfortunate. the head of roast cosmos were goes and visit was canceled these things you know are of course political above the just nasa has to do with government to government who may have something to do the fact that the congress of the united states congress has just changed hands for the republicans to the democrats and it could be read some kind of a response to that or influence to that everything is about politics at the end of the day right i mean even every even the reason that kerry's get into space programs and space exploration is primarily for national prestige and and soft power over seas you know most allies as well as adversaries here the relationship between russia and the united states in space has been very much a positive one i hope that this this latest the problem is just a hiccup in an otherwise fairly fairly healthy relationship last year proved to be challenging for the russian space agency in october a soyuz rocket suffered

a launch failure of recap of the story. for decades the soyuz rocket has been a workhorse allowing humans to escape their credo. fail proof for more than thirty years until this. law is to just that to be i think that against the. full quote there's that thing it's the. it's the. option of. push to get to the.

two people on board one of them on he's made in flight rescue teams watched the capsule descend with nothing more than pure faith that also note nick haig and cosmonaut alexi of chanaan were ok. we're standing by for information and we continue to get it from the russians by controlled everything seems to be fine with the crew we had to come with them. relief unimaginable in scale for most to keep real for the families of the crew.

has been a lot of genius life spoke to me moments after learning her husband was doing well that's not the funniest now got to. be what you the pieces of art design you cut your bridges cause that spicy bus bus ride to the top you do most the stimulus by seeing you look at the idea even. though we mean you did you many many called it a miracle but professionals called it impeccable performance of the soyuz rescue system you see the capsule carrying the crew this one is basically a small rocket built into the larger one soyuz during an emergency the rescue module kicks away the capsule separating it from the soyuz here's how it works. the. good work. you know the future.

of the corrosive of the of someone who. was worse than she would be a. regular in the. midst of all. of the. investigators checked every entity and person who as much as laid a finger on the soyuz and eventually burn the blame on the rocket assembly defect

but if you look at the reason behind the failure was operational the accident occurred due to a fall out in a sensor so this could only happen at the assembly stage at the baikonur cosmodrome but while the probe was underway it was clear with only three crew out of the required six stations on the i assess it had to be manned and fast vi assess has entered twenty nineteen with a full house the new crew successfully launched in december even a bit earlier than she had held in two months after the incident the new crew was unfazed. i went inside out students say it is a bit small. there is any time you wish me to. design i am. in a way with this in that event to me was actually reassuring. to you. marcus i was

so used to the work of the security we all here on the ground. is really everything . it was a nick or alexei but they are set for round two in just a couple of months and with this still being a maiden flight for nick hague they are both as excited as ever. we've decided to review some of our most prominent news stories of twenty eighteen.

of the rise of anti migrant sentiment spiked last year with growing support for populist and nationalist movements across europe sweden was one of those countries where newcomers faced a better backlash rif and often i was there for r.t. in september. the swedes will be a minority in our own country within two or three decades even if you stop all immigration now we will become a minority that's the demography journalist in good carlquist has been branded a racist by many she's calling for the borders to be closed and all immigrants to be sent away nowadays when people call me a racist i say ok fine let it say that i'm a racist can we now go on to discuss the facts the fact is one one of the most

homogenous populations in europe almost a quarter of all swedish people today have a foreign background and some parts of society really aren't happy with that reality sweden is not swedish anymore i mean this is still the change here used to be a small little shop where you could buy drugs now it's sort of a you never find any swedish anymore but then as i ask out. if this were going it. is just here. all the signs are in or out big. problem here org is owner of no no no no let me wrong for me to believe you sure do. i am very sad that sweden is not swedish country anymore it makes me want to cry i don't regulate my eyes i only feel like crying cloyd in the nation. we don't talk

about it because so used to that all swedes say oh we love immigration we love all you are. so they get really you know they're not used to us we say what i say that's what they get oh what while we continue to walk with the camera more and more people come up. most of them to argue. to complain. but get back at so easy even immigrants think that we are a meek country that if we don't have good laws abou adam tells us he's been an asylum seeker in sweden for almost fifteen years with no work permit and no id so how do you get your money when you get motivation to migration you get out of the stuff like that but one who pays their money. yes but who pays migration the us we dish taxpayers you know how much money how much we were and how much

taxes we pay i don't understand how this cabin going on for fifteen years was sufficient we did ask a swedish migration agency and immigration minister and ministry of justice and social democrat party without getting any clear answer yet we look up on the agency's website twice he was denied asylum in two thousand and four and two thousand and seven his third application is currently pending according to swedish law an asylum seeker can appeal against the decision if there placation is refused today fifty thousand immigrants remain in sweden illegally have to failed asylum cases another seventy five thousand are still waiting on the migration board's decision including. for the third time in fourteen years today i have this idea. like dogs. wish i didn't. until to morrow comes jim holds

a so-called l m a card very fine him as an asylum seeker he can legally stay in the country and receives the equivalent of iran and seven euros in swedish crowns every day and other social benefits but he's banned from studying or working here give me a paper i don't need to take his money it's two thousand two hundred it's not money is right but give me a paper i drop and i bet bucks like her help and the money. and if it's not just refugees here question the system's efficiency but the mode and base size of the political spectrum people have a sensation of that the society is slowly deteriorating everything is going the wrong way you cannot ignore also the fact that we have nine hundred eighty given approval for two three point three million people from other countries to live here and seven percent of them have been refugees according to the united nations and

the rest have come here for for many other reasons. and this discontent breeds fear and anger where you can't immigration immigration bond given paper. you need to do that. is example like hello wake up is it me i'm not partial is it me boy i do what i can do to make like problem for you cause you not give me paper. from sweden. ok that's how i look so far this month your next update from r.t. international is after crosstalk.

it's seemed wrong. but old rules just don't. mean the world to get to shape out just a you can stick out to it and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the. nobody could see coming that confessions would be in this population of. any interest nation out there bill c. is. the process of interrogation is designed to put people in that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i were to. send

a statement that i would be home by the next day there's a culture and accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with. the senate seat. that you say you. played as you know live in the be. no easy.