oh many so. a lot of these guys get knives from their has say it's not that they go buy them they get they can readily access and access in their homes we also caught up with a former metropolitan police officer for a professional take on the knife crime situation well i think it's a nice gesture but it's not going to go like a day on the problem as a whole. will be going to do with here is a very very stringent legislature so that the punishments and the deterrents for carrying noise in these circumstances are extremely hoeing. this sort of thing is a step in the right direction but it's a very small step and it's a very long journey we've got to go on so we've got to look for government and we've got to look to our legislators to give us the tools to deal with this but these tools need to be very very powerful ones because we call continue down this road for a very. political a cultural things like in places nation to address that you've got to go. right

through you know sort of forming on forcing social trying to use and that's going to take a long toing and i think you know you need to look at government changes in social services the choice of fact that what we have to do something in the sort of you know we read about a sticking plaster on your lawyer and then sticking plaster again needs to be a crease in the amount of first officer as we do in the freedom of movement place i had to exercise that but we're also you know we have to put the placement in the perpetrators more and so the vial of the terran. will perhaps stop these youngsters from carrying these doors in carrying out these awful tax is a very very stringent one indeed we've almost got to go back to it but the victorian actually shoots at this because you know they deal with these things that various storms of one war or the other and they did it with you know you would almost extruding legislation. but because this is an extreme problem i think that's

the kind of extreme cure that you know we're looking for just come out half past one here in moscow the what's hot international thanks for staying tuned. in will be guiding you through the night headlines in just about half an hour's time. lead. but you know just like. name country. mark i want to point out to her but let's work on more. of the good will come after. that oh it was early. in the.

u.k. wants its sovereignty so with that sound she comes coronated chicken you know what the good comes the bad you know you get your voted down you're going to get the chlorinated. welcome to sophie uncombed sophie shevardnadze and the new trade agreement between the united states canada and mexico is under fire as mexico pledges not to ratify it with trump still cherish in place. while the agreement make it or will they are to have no deal prevail ask questions she added in mexico's undersecretary for dorothy america and the country's chief negotiator in the us on she talks. an eleventh hour deal of lutes a trade war between mexico and the united states but with terror still pending and

trump building a border wall how will the new mexican government steer the country through this standoff with the central american powerhouse managed to stand its ground is it be its northern neighbor or would it have to bow down to the interest into pressure from washington. ambassador just sad that mexico's undersecretary. for north america and the country's chief negotiator in the u.s. and ca talks welcome to the show it is really great to have you with us lots to discuss and mr savage you are mexico's kin diplomat in the talks over the us mexico canada dale the new knocked up the process of negotiation was started by the trumpet ministration do you think that was the right move a good thing to do was good enough for president clinton president bush president obama does it really not work anymore. that's

what president trump was saying the that the treaty was the the worst treaty have heard didn't work anymore. i would say with time there are things that happen you have music tours for example digital trades there was no trades or labor there's an environmental standards in the original enough to five years ago those recouped out because relations were more punitive konami but now the relation is very very close in the client so i think it's ok to have a new treaty a new negotiation to donald trump one to into the talks with a companion promise to put america first do you feel that mexico now has to sacrifice some of its interests to peace that policy to say in some kind of an agreement with the united states because i wonder if this new deal is favoring america trump promised it would. no i don't see that being the outcome it was the intention. is not the outcome. the main part of the

trade relationship is manufacturers trade in industrial goods but peculiarly the car industry and what the agreement dos is to make it more difficult to bring parts from the rest of the world. forcing the companies if they want to continue to sell into the u.s. just because market well forces them to invest but invest in mexico in the united states in canada i think it's a good investment. but it's a balance that it's ok is good for mexico so when the backlash against a proposed pacific an atlantic free trade deal is eventually killed them it was as if the tree free trade dream is over with this new deal on your hands do you think it is and we're back to terry if scale. no no no it's not such

a fantastically big change it's evolution of the nafta it takes enough them and improves the rules in many areas it improves then it increases what is called the rules of origin which is what i was talking about it makes it. necessary for the foreign companies to use more in north america therefore to invest and then every interesting part of the treaty is that it has a number of areas that i call social agenda. labor rules environment rules and they corruption rules. it has ways to help small and medium enterprises even us culture protection facilities provisions so it is a very interesting treaty that is more pro investment than pro trade but also a social agenda. so they did see a good agreement for the second quarter of the century ok so they t.p. and the t.t.

ip tears were criticized as being too friendly to the large multinational corporations but looking at this new deal for instance it hands quite a few benefits to the big pharma prolonged patents on drugs for instance can we be sure that the new deal doesn't put the corporations first. you touch the one area and they want to see what you think of the deal is thirty five chapters is a huge gigantic thing the one area where i think i would have changed the results a little bit is pharmaceuticals yes protection to pharmaceutical. companies protection to bio med this ins is a bit higher than i wish it have been. in mix.

with the. generic medicines. patent. for the patent. so intellectual property is the one area that is. good news but again is that good use across manufacturers so it's like a. member of canada's parliament has recently accused mexico throwing his country under the bus when it sealed and bilateral trade agreement with the united states while the three countries where renegotiating the nafta deal last summer do you think canadians. outraged you think it's justified. yes there was a difficult time the united states managed to you know the old the old dictum.

separate and conquer divide and conquer and the united states managed to close the negotiations first mexico then canada for mexico it worked well for kind of it was. difficult in some areas that were negotiated primarily by mexico. and this is something. quite understandably took against the mexican authorities it was a previous garment in mexico there was eating when the new government came in and hear your friend. speaking now became the chief negotiator we really made every effort to bring kind of into the fold fully. a million times this treaty has to be trilateral. this is with canada in synch with kind of the other you could now.

ok what this treaty the new x. and ca deal has not been ratified while the u.s. congress was rad and now democrats are on the lower house and there seems to be some criticism of the new deal as it allegedly doesn't deliver on what the u.s. workers wanted from it can the deal fall prey to the domestic politics in the united states. you're right the main area. number of. those congressmen in the united states. complaining expressing concern related to labor but i really think this is a misunderstanding because the chapter is extremely powerful the little chapter is very strong very best practice what they want is not. provisions but trade provisions to enforce the labor commitments so it's a question of believing that mexico will do what mexico has committed but they

don't understand that in mexico the top priority of the new center left government is to work for the workers so i think good communication will go a long way to clarify that our objective in their objective are very much in line i think communication would be part of this we have to understand what they want to say and agree respectfully deal with it reopening that the treaty is very complicated it will be upon the moanin for everybody but i don't think it is necessary we need to understand each other and to see what they want and we want the same simply more of this bilateral deal between united states and mexico was forged last summer you were certain it would happen you sat back then that trumps push for the deal was merely and negotiating trick tactic and

here it is are you sure you can read him right. well we are sure we like what came out of it the dynamics the politics of the extremely complicated i believe one reason why president strong decided to go for this negotiation was a theory in his approach to trade with other countries they ended up fighting with the european union and with china and with korea australia canada mexico everybody then all of sudden in this kind of divided world of trade they've managed to have a trophy and achievement is an important achievement i think sincerely and honestly . but also politically is very important that's why president trump is very post devoted to his government is in that's why some democrats are attacking it not

because it's any bad but because it will want to award the trial off to prison trump i hope politics will be a point compressed into looking at the interest of the united states and the states like this and that mexico are intertwined and supported very well by this forward who can treaty that's what it is said that they trumpet ministration will soon remove the u.s. steel and alan minium tariffs which it has right now imposed in mexico but the discussion of this issue has been dragging on for many months already while many are certain that it's going to be solved soon. well i would say softly that this situation is worse and that the problem still has not been dragging on for months has been almost abandoned there's been no progress none gauge meant. at least mexico has been dealing with it as if it is

a separate question a separate chapter but the reality is that they're completely connected it is impossible to think of u.s.m.c. going through without still be resolved and ratification well let's see how long it takes but hopefully sometime this year. all right we're going to take a short break right now when we're back with you this question has to be resolved ok we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue discussing the relations between mexico and the united states with say at it mexico's undersecretary for north america and chief negotiator at the u. s. and c. stay with us.

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it we're back with say out in mexico's undersecretary for north america and. in the u.s. and ca talks discussing the challenges mexico. facing in the relations with its northern neighbor so mr said to try him just to find the steel and aliment him cherubs we've just touched upon by concerns of national security. just using that as a pretext or it is about to go now have to work on not being seen as a threat to the united states. there is no way a mexican steal can be a threat to the united states for one thing the trade instilled products is quite strong in both directions but bigger the exports from the united states to mexico

so that the us has a surplus with mexico how can import from mexico be a threat i really think this was a pretext to create some extra room for the stimulus three a in accordance with the vision of president trump would support the mystic industry rather than thinking of global engagement of trade so the excuse is not good but it doesn't matter whatever it is it has to go and i believe that the this is it is this government and prob the my information is that even the industry are ready to. to see this out assess the mexican government or the mexican industry so we just have to engage and discuss how to do it but but this has to go to the mexican president has said that his country will continue to pursue friendly relations with the u.s. now how easy is it to do that when trump openly calls mexicans rapists people with troubles simpering troubles chile united states i mean to not get under your skin

when you are negotiating. well we certainly don't appreciate those expressions. we have on a number of occasions indicated. disappointment to hear certain things these are things that are said largely with the domestic politics in mind and. we don't take them personally we are just dealing with the actual relations the actual things that bind those the negotiations trying to move forward to a better relationship to a high level of relationship. this remark. all the reference about the wall of mexico being the wall. in mexico it is internal politics in the usa ok but the wall you just were it up when we're talking about cross border trade inevitably the plants of try to construct a border come into play if it is constructed what

a fact will that have one mexico u.s. trade relations well i think it is. constructed. to be so negative on trade relations trade through. every meter of the three thousand kilometer border it goes through certain points in the trains have you know roads too for who for the trucks to cross that's not going to be affected. the wall we see a subject is not constructive but is not directly impinging a safety trade a soft. question the answer is no we will see that as being particularly relevant for a program that mexico by virtue of geography is on the way of asylum seekers had eight for the united states and new trump policies on immigration are creating

a backlog and so those refugees have to stay in mexico before they can present themselves to the u.s. authorities how does mexico deal with this situation and what kind of problems does that create for your country. we have an extremely interconnected region i mean there's thirty six million mexicans living in the united states twenty four of those are permanent residents with a permanent resident that permit or visa or dual nationality twenty four and then twelve only mexicans how few of them regular with the with the with the appropriate working conditions half of them illegal immigrants most mexicans a hundred percent mexico's all the same so the relationship is extremely complex without having to of any walls or anything the reality is that the migration from mexico to that states used to be huge twenty years ago even ten years ago and in

the last six to eight years has gone into negative there are more mexicans coming back from the u.s. to mexico than going from mexico to the u.s. so there's not what is irritating now. north american authorities is the fact that . there's pressure there lots of central americans coming through mexico and trying to go to the united states so that certainly creates its difficult situation at the northern border for us but that's a situation related to. people from honduras guatemala el salvador coming through mexico relations with mexico on mexican people. quite balance that's not where the problem is so let that china to the picture because that's important the u.s. and see a deal with discussed earlier includes a provision that forces all signatories to informant each other of talks on trade

deals with non market economies and can be used to freeze them out if these talks result in a deal how much of a blow would that be for mexico and canada its relations with china. well china is of course the giant not in the room i mean the most important trading partner for each of us outside ourselves. mexico wants to develop a good relationship with china mexico has a huge trade deficit with china so we want to find ways to export more to china but also perhaps more importantly to attract investment. the treaty they use m.c.a. has a provision that says that if any of members the three countries start negotiations dorsett free trade agreement these will be notified to the oh there is a new this can get out of the of the u.s. m.c.a.

but nobody's thinking at these not in mexico of creating a free trade agreement with china anytime soon we need to develop a stronger links develop a stronger investment flaws and we can do that perfectly well and we intend to do that perfectly well we are working with china as well as we are working with kind of the units this week in the terms of the treaty to china is now reportedly the biggest creditor of latin america and there is some talk of mexico approaching it for help with the railroad infrastructure project this is new it with a concern from washington which warns that chinese investment comes with a have a dose of just certificate interest are you afraid of becoming a pawn in china or u.s. big rivalry game or can mexico and other latin american countries play they'd to you again rather. rather than afraid i would say that we of course would be very careful very careful dealing with china is complex the line between the company and

the state is most of the time the three will draw on a very clear so you are you're working with a partner investor or whatever in some measure you're working with a whole country with china so you have to be careful. an important part of developing relationships must be to develop improved provisions and mechanisms to discuss problems to create confidence in both directions the chinese also have a deficit of confidence with mexico how does that country work it's too distant so we have to educate our people in earth to work together and of course because just as rick if you were to read. germany states. china is. a country with an investment system very much of its own and we have to be very clear that that we need over the table relationships and.

links but we welcome the investment. one day terms you hear most often way to chinese investment stay feared that trap basically a situation where the recipient nation bites more than it can chew in terms of loans have you considered this scenario will fracture in mexico's case or nah. no i mean that's that's very much something that the depends on you not on china how much how far you go how much are you invest me investing what is the balance of your macro economy if there is one thing that makes it go has in abundance is matter economy stability it is a country has an extremely well on the stability front for other know thirty years twenty five years saw this. we have all the mechanisms we have the internal checks and balances controls and we are not going to lose track of where we want to be in

didn't we china want to welcome their investment that's not going to vote the boat in terms of our economy so the us china trade war is still on despite hopes of resolution in the meantime in early february the un released a report saying that mexico could capture a major deal of the exports lost because of the ballot or will terrorists between china and the united states do you see a prospect of gain here could it overweighed long term damage from the trade war itself well you've. you can always look at things in contradictory ways at the same time if there is a trade war we build in the united states and china you can think oh the spillover into benefits to mexico because because exports and he said forced to have still more complex a facility that's generally more complex mexico can come in but i think that center you have to understand the there is

a trade war within that stays in china the american economies that have the chinese economies that much and each of those is important to mexico so i think the balance of preference is that we applaud the fact that the units in china seem to be coming to a healthy balanced agreement to avoid a trade war and in the avoid a trade war they'll be good for. groff of the international economy the world economy and the people for mexico we're not looking at opportunities for small benefits because somebody's. blood far from the other one we prefer big benefits from a healthy world economy particularly involving our two main trading partners i'm bassett or thank you for this interview we're talking to say add in mexico's undersecretary for north america and chief negotiator wayne de u.s.m.c. a talks discussing yes mexico's economic cooperation and that the border crisis

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