washington and beijing hold their first talks since the world's two largest economies called a truce in their trade war. new condition as the united states has placed on the troop withdrawal from syria the u.s. says the pullout on hold until i correct the security to fight. and the us russian plan for a space station orbiting the moon is under threat after a visit by the head of the russian space agency is blocked at the request of american senators. monday the seventh of january twenty ninth here i'm calling bray in moscow with the world news from r.t. international first off for you a u.s. destroyer has sailed near disputed islands in the south china sea at the same time an american trade delegation is trying to find

a solution to the ongoing trade war being waged currently between washington and beijing here's where we're talking about the peristyle islands which is claimed by china but also by vietnam and the 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 and stressing it was in violation of international law 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 and now explains well the next round of the us china trade battle and 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 areas and points of dispute 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 and 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 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's primarily china and what i believe to be the case is the trade sanctions 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 released a 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 the meeting in buenos aires argentina between the u.s. side of 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 reasonable i don't think we'll be going to see reasonable approaches the merge until we get closer to the date that it's 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. turkey's 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 that any targets terrorist groups in the region not the kurdish population of the whole on sunday though the u.s. national security adviser laid out the conditions for the u.s.

troop withdrawal from syria to begin. there are objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think that took so if you want to take military action it'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 how 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. saying no 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 whatever is needed to stay bolton will be in turkey wait will 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. paula slater 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 assume a bigger role than is agreed 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 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 and of course the physical 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 still pending on what might happen in the world who knows if we have to talk about a us base in the future. president both in our i 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 the countries and it seems the united states is serious about working with brazil to. we believe the opportunity between present president both know in our two teams creates

a truly transformative opportunity for our two nations for two peoples who. live along with whatever happened yet with an a because we want to work with. the u.s. defense department he had to get back to us about the prospect of a military base in brazil human rights lawyer done kovalchuk things that the trumpet both sonora and 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 and trump share you know a right wing at the ology they share antipathy towards the left wing governments of latin america so clearly paulson our own we 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. a series of health incidents at 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 incidence fan to be a new route between the cold war arch enemies could actually have a natural origin so. there have been medically. as having been affected by incidents in chief.

u.s. 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 russia. and they couldn't cricket coal rather than the sun it could not go all the technological device is responsible for the sounds of the released recording. based on investigative and medical findings we do not believe this trauma was caused by a naturally occurring phenomenon. you're

watching i'll tell you political pressure is putting a major u.s. russian space program in jeopardy and it's our next story after the break. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar

a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business show you can afford to miss the one and only. backup plans for a joint u.s. russian space station to orbit the moon are at risk after a visit to the us by the head of the russian space agency has called off the move was to satisfy the demands of american sentences. 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 demitra goes in 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 nasa had invited to dimitri who goes into the u.s. several months ago but the move was criticized by american politicians because he subject to u.s. sanctions former nasa astronaut commander thinks that space missions have been politicized it is unfortunate that. the head of rest rooms were goes and visit was canceled 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 as 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 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 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 if the physical stuff. to 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 and we continue to get it from the russian my control team but everything seems to be fine with the crew we had become with them and they are ok. and believe unimaginable in scales and modes became real for the families of the clip. as minority opinions wife spoke to me moma. after learning her husband was doing well that's not the funniest nagato you. will not be what you think it is of our church because then you cut your cultures go that spicy buspar side to be on top be doing all of this to most by seeing that they are even nicer you know it's nice seeing you really mean you've had you many are many called it a miracle but professionals called it an packable 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 serious issues. of the corrosive of the of someone who. was pushed into a vehicle. that are going. to miss all.

of them are. 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 the accident occurred due to a fall which in a sense this could only happen at the assembly stage at this 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 thing with a full house the new crew successfully launched in december even a bit earlier than two months after the incident the new crew was unfazed.

they went inside. to say it is a bit small. this any time they wish with me. in a way with us in that event to me was actually reassuring in their smart as i was so using the work that is with us all here on the ground ready to do every every. 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 are back on earth we've decided to review some of our most prominent you stories of twenty eighteen. of the rise of anti migrant sentiment spikes 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 a national was there for r.t. and september. so we 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 generous 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 hot dogs now it's sort of a you never find it is swedish anymore. because this rigging issue. is just here. all the signs are in or out big. problem here

order nor is owner of a no no no no let me wrong for me to believe you sure do. i'm very sad that sweden is not a swedish country anymore it makes me want to cry i don't regulate my eyes i only have you if you like knowing cloyd discrimination. we don't talk about it because so used to that all swedes say oh we love immigration we love all you on here and so they get really you know they're not used to us we say what i say that's why they get zero while we continue to walk with the camera more and more people come up. most of them to argue. to complain. but good luck so you see even immigrants think that we are a meek country that only don't have good laws adam tells us he's been an asylum

seeker in sweden for almost fifteen years with no law work permit and no id so how do you get your money when you get one of the migration you get out of the stuff like that also but one who pays that money. yeah but who pays migration the us we dish taxpayers you know how much money how much we work and how much taxes we pay i don't understand how this can go on for fifteen years as an issue we did ask 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 they're 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 to have this. i'm like a dog no more i have. until to morrow comes 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 coolant of iran and seven euros in swedish crowns every day and other social benefits but he's banned from studying or working here immigration give me a paper i don't need to take his money if two thousand two hundred it's not money is right but give me a paper i dropped and i bet bucks like her help and enema. and if it's not just refugees here question the system's efficiency but the most base signs of the

political spectrum people have a sensation of that this is. slowly deteriorating everything is going the wrong way you cannot ignore also the fact that we have one thousand eight hundred given approval for two three point three million people from other countries to live here and seven percent of them have been courting to the united nations and the rest have come here for for many other reasons. and this just contained breeds fear and anger where you can't immigration. you need to do. is example like wake up is it me i'm not. is it me boy i do what i can do to make like for you cause you know give me a paper. from sweden. that's it for me unions here with you next i'll see international updates in just over half an

hour off the sofa. you know like the e.k.g. for countries a ten year bond rate look at that you say oh. well looks like. of the chinese economy based on that their interest rates are better than america. you know world's big partners. and it's talking to. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart 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. desperate for a single purpose. they have a superman. they start training very young. eight months of intensive schooling. rats. and they save lives. on. the front seat of lengthy thinking

unless you. think as you live in the city. no easy. oh. good. movie. welcome to sophie and tell them sophie shevardnadze so-called here in paris but terrorism still remains a threat here and friends as a country targeted by terrorists. all you members. how can the terrorism threat be contained here in europe well as doubts plus in the former head of the french

internal security or a. dangerous extremism is on the rise in france the country targeted by islamists both at home and abroad and is only just coming to terms with the new reality of through a string of the riff attacks in recent years. what is the french know how containing terra compare is dealing with the danger alone. when it came to each european allies to come together in the face of radical extremism. thank you very much for being with us today hello so france's bill eight takes and border controls with its neighboring countries for another six months to a persistent terrorist threat if this measure is so effective in combating terrorism maybe the border controls to return of the borders should be permanent.