washington and beijing hold their first talks since the world's two largest economies called a truce in their trade war. new conditions the united states is placed on a troop withdrawal from syria the u.s. says the pullout on hold until encourage guarantees the security of kurdish fighters. and the joint u.s. russian plan for a space station orbiting the moon is under threat after a visit by the head of russian space agency is blocked at the request of american senators. by the allies world wide international is now mid day here in moscow on call and bright welcome to the program first for you a u.s. destroyer has sailed near disputed islands in the south china sea just as an american trade delegation is trying to find

a solution to the ongoing trade war being waged between washington and beijing the islands claimed by china but also by vietnam and taiwan a longstanding u.s. ally a spokeswoman for the u.s. pacific fleet says the move wasn't about making a political statement however china's reacted with fury calling it a provocation stressing that it's in violation of international law now all this comes as the two sides meet in beijing right now trying to reach a solution in the economic that look last month the world's two largest economies agreed a ninety day truce in their trade war which so far has seen more losers than winners as in a day or a tutor explains well the next round of the u.s. china trade battle and both sides appear to be quite enthusiastic just had a very good call were present she of china deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering old subject 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 dampened their economic outlook so 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 are or shortfall is over one hundred percent from our thought that it's 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. missed when one jew was arrested in canada trump 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 you know the deadline that was set at the key to winning meeting and when those ideas 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 one team there is not sufficient pressure to cause either side to be resolved i don't think we'll be going to see reasonable approaches the merger 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 round china us trading. he said 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 terrorist groups in the region and not the kurdish population as

a whole on sunday though 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 the turks ought to undertake military action that is 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 boys our young women our men there all come. back 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. we spoke to mr trump those terrorists would go east of the euphrates if they would go but. because the bothering us were asked was strategic partners with the us then we should do what is needed to stay bolton will be in turkey where will be holding discussions on this very topic the focus of course is on the athlon 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. middle east analyst our work of 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 that 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 an 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 that president

trump and his administration and they might put turkey under the threat the u.s. military is also in focus in brazil just days after a visit by the u.s. secretary of state to the country's newly elected president announced that he's open to the possibility of an american military base in brazil. would that include the possibility of having an american base in brazil the physical the physical issue of it would be symbolic nowadays the american shoney's and russian military powers to 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. because the 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 to answer and mention the benefits of cooperation between their countries and it seems the u.s. is serious about working with brazil to we believe the opportunity between present

programmable snow in our two teams creates a truly transformative opportunity for our two nations for two peoples who. live along with whatever. for them and. we want to work with. the u.s. defense department he had to get back to us about the prospects of a military base in brazil human rights lawyer thinks that. 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 own and trump share in a right wing in the odds you they share antipathy towards the left wing governments of latin america so clearly both in our own we've done work very close with trying

to try to do his best to partner with the united states but i think the us 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. a series of all menace health incidents and 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 fit to be a new route between the cold war could actually have a natural origin. so. there have been magically. as having been affected by incidents in cuba.

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

know without international political pressures putting a major us russian space program and jeopardy it among all story stories ahead after the break. but politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. get it right to be close it's like the forks tree in the morning can't be good. i'm interested falls in the waters in the. first six.

plans for a joint u.s. russian space station orbiting the moon or at risk after a visit to the united states by the head of the russian space agency was 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 dmitri rogozin 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 that's i had invited to be true for goes into the united states several months ago but the move was criticized by american politicians because he subject to u.s. sanctions former nasa astronaut come on to leave thinks that space missions have been politicized it is unfortunate that. the head of the us congress were goes and visit was cancelled these things you know are of course political above the just nasa has to do with government the government may have something to do the fact that the congress the united states congress has just changed hands for the republicans to the democrats and it could be really is some kind of a response to that or influence 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 soft power overseas 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 the ghost of recaps the story. for decades the soyuz rocket has been at work of course allowing humans to escape their cradle us fail proof for more than thirty years until this. just cook that those are the last two just the to be if they produce a plane. full of those that's convinced.

it's the first. option. especially with the ship to. get mail if the. two people on board one of them on his maiden flight rescue teams watched the capsule descend with nothing more than pure faith that also note nick hague and cosmonaut alexi of chanaan were ok.

we're standing by for information as we continue to get it from the rest of my control team but everything seems to be fine with the crew we had become with them and they are. beliefs unimaginable in scales and modes became real for the families of the crew. eleanor the unions wife spoke to me moma. after learning her husband was doing well that's not the funniest not got. to not be what you thought because of arch cause then you cut your branches cause that spicy buspar side to talk be doing all systems by seeing that they are you. know it's nice seeing you really mean you've had human ear many called it a miracle but professionals called it impeccably 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 so huge during an emergency the rescue module kicks away the capsule separating it from the soyuz here's how it works. yeah. but if you are the future. of the corrosive of the someone who. was pushed into a vehicle. there is a world. of

some. investigators checked every entity and person who as much as laid a finger on the soyuz and eventually then the blame on the rocket assembly defect but it sure the reason behind the failure was open. aeration oh lucy actually encourage you to follow it in a sense sort of because it only happened at the assembly stage at that point you know 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 the i assess has entered twenty one thirty in with a full house the new crew successfully launched in december even

a bit earlier than in two months after the incident the new crew was unfazed. they went inside our students saying it is a bit small. then there's any time you wish to make that. part in the design. in a way with this in that event to me was actually richer in. the smart design so using your little work that is with us all here on the ground if you are ready to do is read everything.

it was a nick or alexei but they are set for around 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 back on earth we've decided to review some of our most prominent news stories of twenty eighteen. well 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 bit of a backlash refresh it was there for r.t.e. in september. the swedes will be a minority in our own country within two or three decades even if all

immigration now we will become a minority that's the demography journalist ingrid 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's just say that i'm racist can we now go on to discuss the frogs the fact is one one of them is to more generous populations in europe almost equal to 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. if you.

know what is just here. all the signs are in or out big on. the earth org is owner of. the room well in addition with me even if we didn't expect to actually be using the. public i'm. very sad that sweden is not a swedish country anymore it makes me want to cry. regularize i only have you written if you like crying cloyd humiliation. we don't talk about it because so used to that all swedes say oh we love immigration we love all you are come here and so they get really you know they're not used to us we say what i say that's why they get old what while we continue to walk with the camera more and more people come up to us most of them to argue. to complain that it lies. so easy even immigrants think that we are

a meek country that only going to have good laws tells us he's been an asylum seeker in sweden for almost fifteen years with no like permits and no id so how do you get your money when you get. migration you realize that those. who raise that money. but who pays migration swedish taxpayers you know how much money how much we work and home much taxes we pay i don't understand how this can go along for fifteen years as a nation we did ask swedish migration agency and immigration minister and ministry of justice and social democrat party without getting any clear answer yet. on the agency's website twice he was denied asylum in two thousand and four and two thousand and seven a third application is currently pending according to swedish law an asylum seeker

can appeal against the decision if they're cation is refused to date 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. for the. third time. today i have this id. like dog. swedish i did. until to morrow can answer them holds a so-called l m a current problem 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 the big bucks like her help. and if it's not just refugees here

question the system is efficiency but the most base size of the political spectrum people have a sensation of that this is site is slowly deteriorating everything is going the wrong way you cannot ignore also the fact that we have since 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. this just contained breeds fear and anger we can't immigration immigration bond given paper. he 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.

thanks for choosing r.t. international for you news this hour next firsthand accounts of a controversial interrogation technique used in the u.s. that's called suspects to admit to crimes they didn't commit. chose seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any object to shake out just to come out ahead and in detroit because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. you know like the e.k.g. for countries is their ten year bond rate you look at that you say oh that country

southie the country is not healthy well looks like big health of the chinese economy based on that their interest rates are better than america. you know world of big partisan 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 watching closely watching the hawks. on. the belly of the button see. the hunky

game you say you're going to. fade as you please each of the thirty one. years out loud. at the time a local television reporter from detroit is following the case closely bill proctor is well aware of the methods used by local police to close certain cases as quickly as possible why. they did this all the time. they had people make statements where they are in right. or they did the writing they had somebody thought and with the suggestion that hears this

and you can go home i've heard that doesn't. sound dozens of them and it wouldn't surprise me at all the three real number doesn't run into the hundreds or thousands because the same cadre of bad detectives that probably were two dozen of them were in place for over thirty five years. the mark on her. medication. with no evidence or witness statements against him on the seventh of march nine hundred ninety seven lamar monson is sentenced to fifty years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of kristina brown. only one element was used against him the confession that he signed. martin and believe that this is going to pay. off years.