our headline story. talks the world. demonstration turns violent in the french. eighth week. by the protest movement. placed on u.s. troop withdrawal from. the. security . of the joint of us russian space station.

run stateside. space agency is. three pm here in moscow on this the first monday of twenty welcome to r.t. international community know neal our top story a u.s. destroyer sealed near disputed islands in the south china sea. an american trade delegation is attempting to find a solution to the trade war being waged between washington and beijing the part. claimed by china but vietnam. a longstanding u.s. ally a spokeswoman for the u.s. . fleete says the move wasn't about making

a political statement wherever china reacted with fury calling it a provocation stressing the action 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 as seen more losers than winners is that you are a cheater just through. well the next round of the us china trade battle begins and the both sides appear to be quite enthusiastic just have a long and very good cool would present she of china deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering old subjects and 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 shooting ping 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 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 or shortfall is over one hundred percent from our thought that it's primarily china 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 first 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. miss wangel once you 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 a 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 persons legal rights pretty much the whole of twenty eight hundred 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 g twenty meeting in buenos aires argentina between the u.s. side and 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 approaches the merger 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 to show we're not going to be bored watching this next round of china us trading . plus's erupted in parra speech when protesters and police and also women's yellow vests demonstration took shape in the french capital over the weekend. oh. god oh god the female only rally took place on sunday as the yellow fast continued for an eighth consecutive week several hundreds making

a stand and they say against dropping living standards it was largely peaceful until police stepped in later in the afternoon on scuffles broke and it seems one police union has had enough and has the money in a file to list violent protesters are a space correspondent charles devinsky has been taking it all in for us charlotte what's the aim of this protester wanted list if you will. well essentially this means the police could have more rights and the ability to perhaps put what they describe as violent protest as under surveillance it could also stop them attention from being able to go to protests in the first place and that's one of the calls that's coming from the police union called the early on to me and they've also said that they want tougher action against anybody who's found to be used by aliens in protests. we hear statements saying that we need to be tougher it's been two years since we demanded more firmness against those who

assault the police since the beginning of the yellow vests movement how many of those arrested for assaulting law enforcement officers have gone to prison. well that call comes after yet another weekend of violence here in paris as protests took place across france for the yellow vests movement around fifty thousand people was said to have been involved across france and we saw violence from both sides of the crowd this wasn't just the protesters this was also from the police including some pretty shocking footage that some merged of a decorated police commander punching several protesters take a look at this. oh mark they're both. going through both that you know. very very.

well one woman who's thirty five years old says she was also attacked by that commanding officer and she's now filed a complaint which is currently under investigation interesting really though there has not been any response about that particular incident caught on camera by france's interior minister christopher kastner who has been quick to criticize violence from the protesters including one protester who is apparently a former champion boxer who was caught in a bout of fisticuffs with officers on the bridge in paris on saturday. was. well the interior minister check to social media to describe that attack by this alleged former boxer as being a coward at least attack now he's also come and to attack for something else that's

happened this is something published on social media that appeared to be an official decree from the ministry of the interior suggesting that the police would have the right. to round up any legal arms that were owned by the protesters so this is things that just perhaps hunting guns if they have a license knives or even patents now he's been quick to point out that that indeed is not true and he called it fake news. story fake news another original idea from those who dream of insurrection and who don't hesitate to spread false documents information is the best remedy for fake news to use without moderation. well some people may have been hoping that the yellow vest movement would have died down and sort of pretty much left two thousand and nine hundred lone it doesn't seem to be that way and already act nine is planned for this coming saturday chara thanks for taking us through all that charla dubin ski

live in paris. turkey hittite after united states over the situation surrounding kurds in syria washington is the money in that regard in t. security for the us backed kurdish fighters in northern syria turkey say's it only targets terrorist groups in the region not the kurdish population as a whole well on sunday the us national security advisor laid out to conditions for the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria to begin. objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think that took so what 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 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 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. we spoke to mr trump those terrorists should go east of the euphrates if they would go. because the both the ring of us were asked were strategic partners with the u.s.

who 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 saying 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. the reporting well middle east analyst suspects the u.s. is trying to drive a wedge between turkey and other major players in syria so we think 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 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 it under the threat. of school a scythe america now where 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 still pending on what might happen in the world who knows if we have to talk about a u.s. base in the future you know what's your reaction to that including from president trump president bolsa noro he was sworn in on new year's day almost immediately congress led by the american president on twitter but it didn't take long for the new brazilian leader to uncertain mention the benefits of cooperation between the countries and it seems the u.s. is serious about working with brazil to. we believe that opportunity between present present both know in our two teams creates a truly transformative opportunity for our two nations for two peoples who will not live along with whatever happened to them of because we want to work with we believe them or we solo but more info on this the u.s. defense department they're going to get back to us about the prospect of military

bases in brazil human rights lawyer done culver lake though he believes trump on both sonando are united by a common hostility towards left wing governments in latin america it's very clear that 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 tube it's a very concerning situation both in our and trump share in a right wing at the odyssey they share antipathy towards the left wing governments of latin america so clearly balls in our own we've done 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 and 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. political pressure is putting a major u.s. russian space program in jeopardy that story on plenty more besides in under ninety seconds. he's gone into a nihilistic fever. thank god the road and the traveling across america what makes america the charlotte. the south american hero this is a point. we always are on the current system the. culture

is really important. we're starting west with this is going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i'm going to leave now doesn't get any more ground on them it may be completely different to mr. among us here at r.t. international love them or has pledged to help india fight international terrorism the russian president spoke over the phone to the indian prime minister narendra modi monday learner among other issues moscow invited him to

a major economic forum in russia to be held later in the year patrik a spoke to me earlier on this well a serious economic forum wouldn't really work without very big names so even though the landmark event and vladivostok is nine months away moscow is sending out invitations in advance in a phone conversation flatterer pope and told prime minister modi that he wants him to be the number one guest at the forum and september and guess who that number one guest was last year chinese leader xi jinping. indeed when it comes to setting records in scoring economic points beijing and new delhi are competitors in asia but russia is not trying to take sides as you can see in this case the only thing that moscow wants to do is to show that it's looking forward to

doing business with all the top players in asia so this year it will be mr modi stern and just to remind you and twenty eight thing russia and india have set a trading turnout target of thirty billion u.s. dollars of the two countries want to achieve that goal by two thousand and twenty five. plans for a joint u.s. russian space station orbiting the moon are at risk after a visit to the us by the head of the russian space agency was called off the reason 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. have

invited to meet three ricos and to us several months ago but the move was criticized by american politicians as he is some checks u.s. sanctions former nasa astronaut commander leroy thinks the space missions are being politicized. it is unfortunate that. 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 the government 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 ken trees get into space programs and space exploration is primarily for national prestige and and soft power over seas amongst allies as well as adversaries 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 twenty thousand proved to be a challenging one for the russian space agency in october a soyuz rocket suffered a launch failure or shutdown off campus 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. yes 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 because. it's beyond. 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 and we continue to get it from the russian my control team everything seems to be fine with the crew we had to come with them and they are a pain. relief unimaginable in scales and modes became real for the families of the clinic. as minority opinions wife spoke to me moma. after learning her husband was doing well that's not the kind just now got. to not be what you think it is of our church because then you cut your branches go that spicy bus by side to be on top be doing all of this you must by seeing you look at the area even. you know it's nice seeing you really mean you voted 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 of 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 if you're the reason behind the failure was open. aeration the accident occurred due to a fall out in a sense 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 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 she had told in two months after the incident the new crew was

unfazed. they went inside out students saying it is a bit small. there is any time you wish with me that. the party designed. in a way with us in that event to me was actually reassuring in the smart design that is so use in your little work that is with us all here on the ground and 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. it's a lively cross talk next political and media analyst lionel is among the guests discussing the new left. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. nobody could see coming that false confession this would be that profile in the

spot placed before the conviction. had any interrogation out there what you'll see is fred promise threat promise threat why a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable makes them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said therefore would. say i stayed there i would be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all their crime. on. the field and even see. on t.v. and you say you. played as you know live in the city.

no easy a mob. moves. please. hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle not long ago the political left are the guardians of free speech along with the big tag the left today has gone from protecting speech to enforcing speech even to the point of penalizing you if you say the wrong thing in public you could lose your job and livelihood welcome to the era of simply shut up and not.

talking in forced speech i'm joined by my guest emanuel galvin paris he is a french lawyer in new york we have lionel he is a legal analyst and the news decoder at lionel media dot com and in lake jackson we cross to dan you make adams he is the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity all right let me go to danielle first hero we're pretty much the same age here i was i remember growing up and it was a time of being sensitive to people let's put it that way there are certain words in our vocabulary i'm sure we probably exist in french as well is that things you don't say and i think you know what i'm talking about and you know what i thought that was all right i think that's cool all right all right but in the last two days we had a.