washington beijing hold their first talks since the world's largest called a truce. are also ahead on the program. paris is the scene of yet more violence women hold their own yellow vests demonstration. with authority. to join us russian plan for a space station orbiting the moon is under threat. stateside visits by the head of russia's space agency is blocked the requests.

for every you're tuning in from this hour welcome to our international and to moscow my names you know me alone welcome to our top story as american chinese officials meet in beijing aiming to put an end to their country's bitter trade war the u.s. will china by sailing out destroy the speeded islands in the south china sea the islands are claim not only by china but also by vietnam and taiwan which is a longstanding u.s. ally a spokeswoman for the u.s. pacific fleet say however that the move wasn't intended to be a political statement but china reacted with fury calling it a provocation and claiming the action was in violation of international law last month the world's two largest economies agreed to a ninety day truce in their trade war. which so far has seemingly created more

losers than winners yourself to richard. well the next round of the u.s. 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 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 or shortfall is over one hundred percent arthel 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 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 g. twenty 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 my team there is not sufficient pressure to cause either side to be reasonable i don't think it will be good to see reasonable approach 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. let's turn our attention to europe and i worked russia's erupted in part a speech when protesters and police also women's yellow vest demonstration took shape in the french capital over the weekend. oh i. the female only rally took place on sunday as the yellow vests continued for an if consecutive week several hundred made a stand they say against dropping living's it was largely peaceful until late in the afternoon when scuffles broke out between protesters on the police and it seems one police union has had enough and this is the monday in a file to list violent protesters r t sharla dubin ski brixton in the aftermath of

another weekend of tension in paris well essentially this means the police could have more rights and the ability to perhaps put what they describe as violent protests as and surveillance that could also stop them ten truly from being able to go to protests in the first place and that's one of the calls that's coming from the police they've also said that they want tougher. action against anybody who is found to have cause to file and 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 vest 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 of course front 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 of the decorated police commander punching several protesters throwing her birth was. the only route that you know the. 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 a bridge in paris on saturday was. was. well the interior minister took it to social media to describe that attack by this alleged former boxer as being at. how it lead it back now he's also come 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 such as 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 stop 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 folk news to use without moderation some people may have been hoping that the yellow vest movement would have died down and sort of pretty much left two thousand and nineteen alone it doesn't seem to be that way and already knowing is planned for this forthcoming saturday. turkey and the united states have again find themselves an odds over the fate of the kurds in north eastern syria the us has the monday before it polls its troops out of the region and. the security of the y. p.g. militia which turkey views as a terrorist group but was instrumental in defeating eisel on sunday the us national security advisor outlined the preconditions for a military withdrawal. objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think the turks ought to undertake 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 made that statement during a visit to jerusalem where he met with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu to discuss the changing dynamics of the conflict in syria he was attempting to allay is really concerns about iranian influence in syria which have been growing since donald trump initially announced on conditional troop withdrawal. so our boys are young women are men they're all coming back and they're coming back now there will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria a very deliberate very orderly. middle east analyst told us he believes the u.s. is attempting to destabilize north eastern syria by forcing turkey into

a standoff with other regional players so we think that the united states is using troop withdrawal in order to create a vacuum in northeastern syria and try to push us you 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 turkey under the threat brazil is also in the

sights of the u.s. military just days after a visit by a u.s. secretary of state the country's newly elected president. once 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 on the physical the physical issue of 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 yeah your bowl sonora was sworn in a new year's day and was immediately congratulated by donald trump on twitter it didn't take long for the new brazilian president to respond for mentioning the benefits of cooperation between the two nations and it appears the u.s. is serious about working with brazil. we believe the 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 yet with an a because we want to work with. the u.s. department of defense has yet to give a response on the prospect of a military base in brazil however human rights lawyer dunn public told us he believes trump and bolton auto are united by a common hostility towards the 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 island and trump share in a right wing at the ology they share antipathy towards the left wing governments of

latin america so clearly balls in our own work very close with trouble 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 us 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 us russian space program in jeopardy plenty more on the other one more besides up to this. 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 the health of the chinese economy based on that their interest rates are better than america.

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hello again love them or put us pledge to help india fight international terrorism the russian president spoke over the phone to the indian prime minister earlier on monday among other issues moscow has invited not render a motive to a major economic forum in russia later this year brings us more 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. sending out invitations in advance in a phone conversation flat america potent 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 which when ating russia and india we could 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 us russian space station orbiting the moon or at risk after a visit stateside by the head of the russian space agency was called off the recent pressure from american politicians 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 us however we will continue our strong working relationship with russia as it relates to the international space station and sending our astronauts into space not invited dmitri rico's into the u.s. several months ago but thought was criticized in washington and is subject to u.s. sanctions former commander leroy say space missions are heavily influenced by politics this spotlights all the possible work they do. it is unfortunate that. the head of those who 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. twenty again wall's a challenging year for the russian space agency when a soyuz rocket suffered a launch failure back in october eager shit on offer caps if it were. for decades the soyuz rocket has been at work of course allowing humans to escape their cradle. fail proof for more than thirty years until this. latest interest that to be if they produce

a plane. full of those that can use. its first. option of. pushing to get to the. two people on board one of them on he's 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 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 believe unimaginable in scale for most people real for the families of the crew . as we know it of genius life spoke to me moments after learning her husband was doing well that's not the funniest not got to. be which is a piece of art then you cut your branches because that spicy bus plus side to be on top. of this really 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. is the. word if you are the future. there was a good number of someone who. was with sure you could. be one of the. many so all.

of the. investigators checked every entity and person who as much as laid a finger on the soyuz and eventually bend 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 fault 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. find a design that i am. in a way with this in that event to me was actually reassuring in their smart design so using your credible work the suggestion would all be on the ground and if you have it in every every. it was a nick or alexei but they are set for round two in just

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to. determine that you're the one. who did it. so i'm going to move into the interrogation. i'll leave the role. there for several minutes because i want you to get anxious. to think about the error of your way. and then i walk back you're. going to have a big fix with me. all kind of a person may have seen. our surveillance video blanks. the show you that i have a strong investigation and i have all the evidence. so the first thing i tell you

is. our investigation has proven that you are the one who committed this crime there is no doubt about it whatsoever we have the evidence that you did it there is nothing that you can say that will convince me otherwise. all i want to know is why . could you confess to a crime that you did not commit. and interrogation technique used by the majority of police officers in the united states is causing controversy across the country. created in the sixty's by the private company john reed this method has gone on to influence most of the interrogation techniques taught in american police academies it involves nine different stages leading from confrontation to spoken confession to a final written confession this technique has allegedly compelled thousands of innocent people to confess to crimes that they did not commit interrogations should be conducted in a non supportive environment we want to get the person on our territory away from

his or her own surroundings the interrogation room should be quiet private free of any outside distractions or noises. so please. remember what. i don't know they tell these interrogators that you can tell whether someone is guilty by looking at them and listening to what they say that confirms their belief that the suspect is guilty and it is a recipe for disaster what are finally realized what had happened in that interrogation room it was like oh my god oh my we begin to move closer shortening the distance between the suspect and ourselves moving into their personal space.