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of the world this is r.t. international my names you know neal hello and welcome. as american chinese officials meet in beijing with a view to putting an end to their country's better trade war the u.s. . destroyer spitted islands in the south china sea the islands are claimed not only by china but also by vietnam and. a longstanding u.s. ally a spokeswoman for the u.s. pacific fleet say however thought 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 the world's two largest economies agreed to a ninety day truce in their trade war which so far have. seemingly created more

losers than winners in a direct tutor examines 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 were 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 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 arthel it is 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. 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 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 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 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 for sure we're not going to be bored watching this next round china us trading going. right turning our attention to paris where clashes erupted between protesters and police cells a women's yellow vest demonstration took shape in the french capital over the weekend. the female only rally took place on sunday as the yellow vests march is continued for an if consecutive week several hundred making a stand they say against dropping the living standards it was largely peaceful until later in the afternoon when scuffles broke out between protesters and the police as one police union has had enough on this demanding a file to list violent protesters showed to been skiing with more. well essentially

this means the police could have more rights and the ability to perhaps put what they describe as violent protest is under surveillance it could also stop them the tension 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's found to have caused a file and in protests we hear statements saying that we know. 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 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 a decorated police commander punching several protesters throwing her birth was. the only group that broke her. neck. oh. 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.

was was. well the interior minister took to social media to describe that attack by this alleged former boxer as being at how urgently attack now he's also come in the door attacked 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 act nine is planned for this forthcoming saturday. turkey and the united states have again found themselves out of odds over the fate of the kurds in northeastern syria the us has the money before it pulls its troops out of the region ancrum must guarantee the security of the wide peachey militia which turkey views are as a terror group but was instrumental in defeating i saw on sunday the us national security advisor outlined the preconditions for a military withdrawal now our 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 valid statement during a visit to jerusalem where he met with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu to discuss the changing dynamics of the syrian conflict he was attempting to allay is really concerns about a reunion influence and syria which have been growing since donald trump initially announced an on conditional troop withdrawal. so our boys our young women are men they're all coming back and they're coming back now there will be a strong deliberate then orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria very deliberate very orderly a 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 of brazil is also in the sights of the u.s. military 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. would that include the

possibility of having an american base in brazil and of course 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 ball son otto 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 present me and president to respond mentioning the benefits of cooperation between the two countries and appears the u.s. is up for closer ties with brazil today. we believe the opportunity between present president also know 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. department of defense to give a response on the prospect of a military base in brazil whoever human rights lawyer done things that trump an auto are united by a common hostility towards left wing governments and not an american. it's very clear that wrote 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 r. and trump share in a right wing at the odds you they share antipathy towards the left wing governments of latin america so clearly false in our own was going to work very close with trying to try to do his best to partner with the united states 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 and more right after this. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. some want to be. considered to be crooks it's like the for. the more people. interested

in the logs. welcome back to the program fly them are put in house pledge to help india fight international terrorism the russian president spoke over the phone to the indian prime minister earlier on monday among other things moscow invited narendra modi to

a major economic forum in russia later in the year. 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 flat america 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 and 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

moti 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 one achieve that goal by two thousand and twenty five . as for a joint us russian space station orbiting the moon are at risk now after a visit stateside by the head of the russian space agency was called off the reason 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 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 finance of interior goes into the u.s.

several months ago but the aunt was criticized in washington for goes and is subject to us as former nasa commander lee roy chyle say space missions are heavily influenced by politics the spite all the positive work they do. it is unfortunate that. the head of the us 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 with 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 so 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. with twentieth dean was a challenging year for the russian space agency when a soyuz rocket suffered a launch failure back in october igor shoot down the recap if it were. for decades the soyuz rocket has been at work of course allowing humans to escape that credo. fail proof for more than thirty years until this. latest in just a to b. if they put it in supreme. court there's that thing it's the. it's the. option of. pushing to get it.

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 hague 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 and.

relief unimaginable in scales and modes to keep 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 now got to. be when you the pieces of art then you cut your branches cause that spicy buspar side to be on top of you do most esteemed most by seeing you look at the idea even. get a no it's not easy and you 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. what if you know that if you choose. the girls are going to have someone who. was worse than she would be a good. deal for the regular normal. person many so 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 if you look at the reason behind the failure was operational the accident occurred due to a fault in a sensor so this was under way 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 shuttled 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 to make.

the final design i am. going away with this in that event to me was actually reassuring in the smart design just so using credible work to secure. we will be 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. just approaching half past five pm here in moscow on time for some more great programs on our to

international so you and thirty. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us of the with one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and one 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 numbers you need remember of one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only.

you know like the a.k.j. for countries is their ten year bond rate look at that is say all that country south a country is not healthy well looks like day health of the chinese economy based on that their interest rates are better than america. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already several generations of them so i just got this memo from a certain branch office says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money on those with dives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness

for. one else seemed wrong when all. just don't call. me old yet to shape our disdain comes to add to it and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to get a little the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

but. thinking. of the. movie. welcome to sophie and callum sophie shevardnadze so called here in paris but terrorism still remains a threat here and friends as a country targeted by terrorists out of all your members. how can the terrorism

threat be contained here in europe while i asked about the former head of the french internal security of the or a. dangerous extremism in france a country targeted by islamists both at home and abroad and is only just coming to terms with the new reality through a string of the recent attacks in recent years. one is the french know how containing tara compare is dealing with the danger. to come together in the face of radical extremism. square sunni thank you very much for being with us today hello so france's relate to extend border controls with its neighboring countries for another six months due to persistent terrorist threats if this measure is so effective in combating terrorism maybe the border controls to return of the border should be permanent. distance with this question brings

forward two problems first we are in the schengen european zone where there is freedom of movement so when isis was around there was a very strong terrorist threats against europe and notably our country in particular was bloodied by terrorist attacks isis planned to infiltrate by the must have climbed this time immigration networks which destabilized the functioning of europe dormant networks to attack the states that were sending armed forces to fight in syria today massive illegal immigration has created a political problem for europe germany is directly affected due to stance of i'm glad merkel italy as well but surprisingly their new minister of the interior has decided to slam their borders shut it is true that we could occasionally close the borders for example for a weekend during those big international protests at the beginning national summits but right now there is insecurity linked to illegal immigration.