it's a fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the heads of european powerhouses germany and france sign a treaty to deepen ties but critics do warn the deal will affect their citizens sovereignty adding it's a smokescreen for problems at home. meanwhile italy calls for sanctions against france accusing it of treating african countries like colonies and fueling the migrant crisis bus or so to come this hour an hour see clashes intensify in venezuela as washington throws its backing behind the non-elected opposition leader against the country's president. anger in the u.s. media after

a native american vietnam veteran was reportedly heris by teenagers wearing make america great again baseball caps we'll look at whether outlets were too quick to judge what actually happened. oh good evening welcome you watching our international where gone six pm here in moscow now germany's angela merkel in france is a man who macron have signed a treaty to boost relations it comes amid rising tensions in the e.u. from bickering between member states uncertainty over breaks it and also a rise in populism across the continent peter all of us this morning talks germany and france must tackle the challenges of our time hand in hand those were the words . she put pen to paper on the treaty of arc in no it was signed. in our

historic city hall the the historic well significance of the place wasn't missed at all by anybody that was speaking in fact if you didn't know about the history of arkan after this well you clearly weren't listening it was charlemagne's capital it's changed hands numerous times between france and germany sometimes in bloody conflict over the centuries but the message that was coming from the leaders was the past is in the past but there are still battles to be for today and are there a stark now about populism and nationalism becoming stronger in our countries for the first time with britain a country is leaving the european union that is why the fuss need a renewed commitment to our responsibility within the european union the responsibility of france and germany in the. new europe wouldn't survive disunity it would make it die that is the new frankly german responsibility for europe given the tools in terms of defense security also exists in terms of

migration environmental and digital transitions so that was echoed by the european council president who was also in attendance he said that there were those at large today that would seek to bring down the european union well his colleague the european commission president jiang cord younker was a little jolly and he ended by saying long live franco german cooperation long live year up the whole reason that they streety was signed in the first place isn't because there's any major conflict between france and germany right now thankfully not the reason it's being done is to try and shore up some of the cracks in the european union from the major cracks like breaks it to the potentially major cracks the fact that italy hungary poland none of them want to play the game the way brussels wants to see it played and that is why brussels paris and berlin all came together to say there may be trouble elsewhere but we. unified here so i had

a look at what's in this treaty and why some of the plaudits mentioned today well may be hard to put into practice in reality the draft of the deal was a little light on real details but there is a clear intent with it let's have a look at the deal was set for an increase in bilateral statements when it comes to major e.u. issues now this is something that's already fairly commonplace from the two now it's going to be in writing there's also plans for both fiscal integration and what's being called the franco germany konami zone. on the military front both nations want their armed forces to be as into twined as their economies with germany and france combining to reinforce nato and defense also what's being called the fostering of a common culture in the ranks and a franco german security council so the brass the politicians pulling in the same

direction there's also foreign policy goals which may prove a little less straightforward including a permanent seat for germany on the un security council but not everyone is happy about these e.u. powerhouses getting even more chummy and cementing their position within the bloc. europe is used to the franco german axis but we're seeking a new balance a new energy and in this sense poland and italy will be the protagonists of this new european spring there's also domestic upset over the deal alternative for germany say it erodes german sovereignty while the same sentiments have been echoed by the usual suspects in france are seen also triggered by signing this act on the quiet similar way to market on commutes treason with briggs's on the rise of euro skepticism it makes sense that berlin and paris would look to team up but not brings us back to the question of foreign policy how will it be. interventionist

french sit with the germans renowned for their caution. with germany fundamentally changing the global military outlook it's hard to see how this deal changed much or anything at all peter overall the berlin. meanwhile france to some the italian ambassador over hostile remarks apparently made by the country's deputy prime minister. paris of pursuing a colonial policy in africa and of worsening the migrant crisis even going so far so call for sanctions when italy's other deputy prime minister matthew salvini has also ruffled feathers too because he said that france has no desire to stabilise

water in libya due to his energy interests with more his charlotte to ski. apologies we've delayed that report just quickly now to go to a press conference being held by the russian president vladimir putin of what we're going to use and many political and defense related insists that all of us to for months to really listen to that but also have the work of our to compute get to that that all goes to show that the two countries take interest in developing relations on the basis of good neighborliness and respect for each other's interests this is the kind of positive attitude we had when discussing the bilateral agenda with my on there will counterpart. as is tradition we've buried most attention to expanding our trade and investment cooperation we've noted our trade is rising. last year it's well you.

went up by eighteen percent reaching as much as almost twenty billion dollars chip uneasily response and russian economy accounted for by two point two billion dollars we continue to work hand in hand. on that track to implement. a poor and plan. which was proposed. as well as the russian plan after our priority investment projects japanese and turpin us invest in many sectors of russia's economy actively contributing to the work of the same but his book forum and the fire east forum. we have laid down a very good groundwork for further progress in the energy sector gazprom mitsu a mitsubishi or constructing the third technological lie for the as big g.

project as for the as she. project we also work together on the projects such as the baltic asp e.g. the arctic a species we will work together in. many regions of russia and we develop together the neutron detectors to address the issues left after the fukushima incident we work together in infrastructure and transport sectors last year japanese acquired ten percent and of the share so the company which is now engaged in modernizing the a portal. we build up the volume of transports cargo over the transceiver u.n. . route which will help last to improve the speed

of the delivery of chip unease gets to western markets we also discuss the northern tier of as a good way to transport liquefied natural gas to japan and to the countries of the asia pacific all in all our konami car peroration. which has been developing in a very positive manner we've had a number of good milestones we appreciate but as things are both beliefs we haven't achieved a major breakthrough and we still. need to tap into the to ensure we both have to in the handset we work. you discuss more projects more investments and more technology called cooperation we can attain in the future in the upcoming year we believe we can. put the trade on to a new level of at least thirty billion dollars we also have talked about the

humanitarian cartridges so we've seen a successful completion. of the cross cultural years ago we started these events last year and. four hundred events are expected to take place by the end of this course car show year initiative russia and japan of core organizers of the international fear of. the year competition which will take place in st petersburg and it will see a. thirty countries with big bands and theatrical groups will also discuss the prospects of signing a peace treaty we paid a lot of our time to this topic our dialer khan this subject has been ongoing for a couple of years in singapore prime minister and i agreed to meet you rely on the joy and declaration of the society. of nineteen fifty six.

and that declaration acknowledged the signing of a formal peace agreement we take interests is siding and peace agreement. we are signed the has of our foreign ministries to coordinate this work and today we were briefed by them on the results of their meetings we are in for a lot of work to do to create the necessary environment for a new surely beneficial solution we. seek to ensure long lasting development of our relations on whole new level and we would a looking for a solution that would suit the peoples of our countries youth russia and japan it this solution should be supported by the people and for all where greta continue to

apply our for its to conduct cannot make activity on the south korea while and in the five years previously disick native areas agriculture agriculture. and and waste recycling. in conclusion i would like to thank my counterpart mission and all our friends colleagues from japan for a very useful exchange of views that we had today this discussion was a very frank one and very fruitful i think that this visit will surely contribute to the last moment of our tie said to will help us move closer towards finding the solution store all the questions we have thank you for your attention. you know i think in the world today i tried to be all that but i visited moscow the last time you asked me about let me go with. you and moscow.

impresses me even more i mean some of them and you know it. well. it's only recently that was celebrated the new year but now with president putin we're discussing a lot of issues in different spheres about what to do to. hold relations. eighty years ago right here in moscow when the very first cross here or. of russia in japan and japan and russia. and today i can say that the first half of such a year has been very successful. i hope that the next six months. because this here is going to be in june. will have achieved a lot woodchipper lauded by intensifying our relations deepen our cultural ties

the last year about one hundred thousand people from each country participated in such activities. also i should like to say that a lot of football fans visits russia. and japan. a lot of citizens also watched. the broadcasts of football matches and enjoyed a lot of the atmosphere of the champion of the world cup. and by twenty twenty three we hope to increase the number of visitors from japan to russia and the other way around and our economic ties are getting much closer. and of course in the tourism we give a lot of improvement. and

. the entire problem and through the relations develop in the world to. july. of the poor house of the japanese parliament visited moscow it was the very first visit of such kind last year the parliamentary association of friendship between russia and japan also signed a joint memorandum one bullet through all corporation into parliament to relations very important are a very important part of our people it's really relations who are going to maintain them ok just listen there to a joint press calls are being held right now in moscow it's between the russian president vladimir putin and also his japanese counterpart president putin said there had been had been a useful exchange of views today in moscow frank and thoughtful he said he said the business links had been developed but no major breakthrough in that issue finally

signing up world war two peace treaty between the two countries because a major sticking point there up until now has been at russia's. lays claim to and has always been a problem well ahead of today's talks hundreds rallied in moscow calling on the kremlin not to see the disputed islands. it's guaranteed barely anyone possibly even zero people in this crowd have been all the way here seven thousand kilometers away roughly the distance from london to miami but the protesters are out there standing in the cold to defend the fate of this group of little islands. which also in this case means defending what came out of world war two without digging into history too much japan was then germany's ally and eventually lost along with the rest of hitler's

axis and these three men the winners agreed on see item three the handover of the karylle islands to the so that union some ten years later the u.s.s.r. and japan officially ended his still ities but never signed a peace agreement more than six decades later we're in a whole new reality where the russian president can say who it is that he should be meeting me to go to. meeting in the summer with. the associate you be ready to fully where japan's prime minister makes an oath on his father's grave to sort the russian issue as journalists have reported but despite the apparent friendship i mean putin and i have been seen clinking glasses enjoying ballet at moscow's bolshoi watching a judo showdown and even having a fun moment with mr putin's japanese dog something has always gone wrong with the peace treaty progress tokyo keeps saying it has

a historic right to claim the south corals they call them northern territories moscow keeps repeating its sovereignty over the islands can't be questioned and some of the words that come out when russian and japanese politicians are not together aren't helping the inhabitants of the northern territories or russians. position of the negotiations is not about saying please get out of there or rather quirky thing to see where nothing's been decided moscow was unhappy with that at all so when smiles and all kinds of positive signals get mixed with a bunch of disclaimers you won't call wasn't even the journalists are left baffled . prank reporting there has been revealed one of the first people to administer hope to the police and russian spies so it is going to powell and his daughter in the u.k. was a senior army medic so let's get the latest now on the story and she joins us from london good evening polly a long running story this one of the latest developments. now is this senior army

medic and her teenage daughter. it's been revealed one of the first responders when so again you were found collapsed on a bench and souls last march now the local teenage girl had recently undergone a first aid course at school and the family had been celebrating the girl's brother's birthday so they were out in the city center and the sixteen year old girl spotted the pair unconscious and she didn't initially thought that so we're suffering from a heart attack so she quickly alerted her mother who happens to be a british army know that together the two of them gave the script stayed until the paramedics arrived now the reason we know about this now is because the mom in this story nominated her daughter for a local bravery award that was handed out by

a local radio station and the radio station that handed out the award said they didn't want any press attention immediately sort of in the aftermath of the script powell saga which is why it's only become public knowledge now now as for the mother the mother's name is colonel allison mccord and she is now. the chief nursing officer for the british army and she's got an o.b.e. she's had quite a career it's got to be said she's worked in kosovo bosnia iraq and also treating a bowler in sierra leone it does appear that the the girl and her mother and her mother live locally and allison mccourt appears to have worked in some of the military installations around that area as part of her role in the british military now the russian embassy in the u.k. has published a statement on its website in response to the emergence of this story take a listen to what they have to say the fact that this young girl was present at the

crime scene together with her mother allison mccourt who happens to be a conal and the chief nursing oversight of the british show me to the numerous extraordinary coincidences characteristic of this group els boys and furthermore one has to wonder why this information unusual as it is has only been made public ten months after the incident. the russian embassy has long had a bone to pick with the way the british government has handled the the the aftermath of the script poisoning ever since the incident took place the russian side has been asking for clarification over what happened as well as access to the victims who remain russian nationals as well and a calling for an open and co-operative investigation we've also asked the ministry of defense to comment on this story which they've said is a local story so they won't comment on it however they did refer us to teresa mayes

a regional condemnation of the attack against sergei and. ok thank you polly for the latest on that was party boy there for us in london. he said there are two sides to every story and that's certainly true when it came to reports about the standoff between a student wearing a make america great again baseball cap and a native american veteran a video of the two taken in washington d.c. did go viral sparking outrage in the media however artie's kalam up and looks at what is not being reported a visual like this will get your blood boiling. and the catholic high school student who comes face to face with a native american hero and if i were a video is now responding to the media went wild youth in trump's trademark tat disrespecting an elderly native american just starving viral video has sparked outrage toward covington catholic high school just stirring viral video shows

a model seems to make america great again around seeing a native american out there in washington a troubling incident at the foot of the lincoln memorial and it wasn't just any native american this guy is a vietnam veteran he was instantly turned into a hero by celebrities and the media the red make america great again to have is the new white hood without white boys been able to empathize with other people humanity will continue to destroy itself this is appalling the ignorance the goal the disrespect is shameful that native american man showed incredible strength and dignity or heard him say you would. hear this it appears. that we have just been struck all of a sudden the one who has all that anger and all of that wanting to. i have to freedom to just rip me apart but there's always more to the story than

a single snapshot. that make america great again i. think. we've not thank you again. it turns out that the boys were taunted rather hatefully by black nationalists and others and all kinds of hate was unloaded on them simply for wearing trunks a baseball cap and furthermore unlike those trying to provoke them the boy in the picture he simply stood silently however he did put a defiant grin on his face. compared to. the young man is now penned his version of events he's getting death threats from across the globe i'm being called every name in the book

including a racist and i will not stand for the small black character assassination of my family's name so some channels are now editing the story but the damage is already done this is turned into a huge story only because this child was wearing a make america great again i think that there is a serious lack of integrity in reporting at the end of the day everybody wants to put their own spin on a story it's no longer about who what when where and why it's about how could we spin this in a way that benefits our narrative. the forces in venezuela have to taint twenty seven members of the national guard accusing them of launching an uprising against the government it comes amid a political crisis in the country that after president the jury's inauguration was branded illegitimate by the opposition from quarter. it's all out chaos in the streets of caracas with especially violent protests raging in the streets the

beginning of the week saw an explosion of violence when government soldiers were arrested for stealing weapons in the capital right wing protests in support of them broke out into warlike clashes with government forces opposition a national assembly leader called for a meeting with supporters to be held on wednesday but it's a bit too late to play nice as last week why declared venezuelan president nicolas maduro as entire claim to power illegitimate and c.n.n. announced the trumpet ministration may be prepared to recognize quide though as venezuela's unelected president as a result of venezuela's supreme court has declared the national assembly political power null and void trumps national security advisor john bolton didn't seem too happy. today's action by the madrid controlled supreme court was a predictable and hold the united states resolutely supports the national assembly

. democratic institution that is brave to restore democracy u.s. vice president mike pence even said i'm a door or has no right to exercise legitimate political power nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power who has oppressed the villa's wailin people for for too long the united states strongly supports the courageous decision by one of the president of the national assembly to invoke constitutional protections and declare the country's presidency vacant the mainstream media has been adding fuel to the fire with headlines predicting a venezuelan doomsday going on for years already it's hard to tell if the opposition is really that popular but one thing is for sure the trumpet ministration and mainstream media might not agree on much but when it comes to venezuela the government must go donald quarter r.t.

. self-proclaimed russian sex guru along with one of his female pupils who were arrested at a moscow airport last week have been released the woman claims though that they were only detained because they have proof of russian collusion with team trump when asked if the russian citizen who was arrested in thailand as part of an investigation into alleged prostitution on the seventeenth of january she arrived in moscow and was immediately detained at sheremetyevo airport officials there when since she was held due to her alleged links to prostitution so let's get more on this now from rif and ashley is following this story for us or maria this is galling gradients of a sensational story hasn't it what more can you tell us. well indeed it is to see of a ship which also known as nice little fish in russian is now free decided early on tuesday and while it is no doubt a good news for the girl it could be rather surprising or maybe even disappointing for some western media that used to portray nicer as a martyr and

a victim of bloody putin regime that oppresses and destroys all its opponents well tuesday's release puts basically and then to all this hysteria making it well known since here's a video clip to refresh the memory. she comes across these days as somebody wants everything that she said meanwhile anastasia will be back in court tomorrow presumably still apologizing trying to save her life so what would they say now when the city's free twenty eight year old model scored and the so-called sex trainer from belarus nice to rip became famous after she had claimed having added insult the russian into theories in twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election campaign and donald trump's collusion with granlund allegedly obtained during her meetings with the russian billionaire who nice to claims she had sexual relations with allegedly on the list of the russians.