help citizens become healthier and happier than poor just 7th of july is this program interactive exhibition open held congress of them thanks to the military junta also the forum dot com 16 plus. a republican congressman defends a u.s. navy seal accused of war crimes thanks. to the job. to i was an artillery officer and we fired hundreds of rounds of the pollution right probably hundreds of civilians probably killed women and children if there were any left in the in the city when we invaded so do i get judged. also this hour the russian and chinese presidents are set to hold a news conference following talks in moscow bring that to life. and we speak to 2 human rights lawyers who have compiled a case against the intending to sue the block over the deaths of thousands of migrants in the mediterranean. systematically and widespread. civil

population the most responsible. agents in the piece of history. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our to h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. a u.s. military judge has removed the lead prosecutor in the case of a navy seal accused of committing war crimes one week before the trial the serviceman has pleaded not guilty to the charges and the republican congressman himself a former soldier recently defended the accused anyway that's shocked some artist explains. the case of a u.s. navy seal accused of some pretty nasty crimes in iraq has grabbed headlines the man is gallagher he's accused of murder attempted murder and a slew of other crimes now according to reports when his team initially reported

him and demanded an investigation nothing was done about it he's teammates say they saw him taking pointless shots they say they saw him gunned down an old man in a white robe as well as a girl that was simply walking with other girls furthermore the teammate. insist that he was unloading gunfire as well as rockets on the areas that were not known to have enemy forces now it all sounds pretty horrendous but some members of congress are speaking up on any gallagher's behalf congressman duncan hunter not only defends eddie's actions but says that based on his own experiences serving in iraq killing civilians is just part of the job so i was an artillery officer and we fired hundreds of rounds in a palooza killed probably hundreds of civilians if not scores of not hundreds of civilians probably killed women and children if there were any left in the in the city when we invaded so do i get judged too in addition to the other crimes that he is charged with taking a photograph of himself next to the corpse of a captured i still combatant that he allegedly stabbed to death now congressman

duncan hunter says that taking photographs with dead bodies is not uncommon i think . a lot of us. so we've got a sitting member of congress who is now it middling that he himself is guilty of the crimes for which any gallagher is now charged now what about pentagon war and military courts if mistreatment of the dead were committed intentionally it could be considered a violation of the law of war u.s. service members have been charged and punished under the uniform code of military justice for posing for pictures with human casualties by any standard. war crimes trial he should be brought up on charges this idea that 5 year and 7 year statute of limitations. actually not true. nazi war criminals that 30 and 50 years later. still brought up on charges and $31.00

people in the u.s. officers. who are guilty of war crimes should and will. on charges of war crimes keep in mind that trump has already pardoned michael brown hen a former soldier convicted of killing a prisoner trumps critics say that sends a bad message we'll look at a lot of different partners for a lot of different people some of these soldiers are people that have fought hard long you know we teach him how to be great fighters and then when they fight sometimes they get really treated very unfairly in this case the president is also the commander in chief of the armed forces so he is in fact undercutting the rules and regulations that contribute to good order and discipline in the military and that to me is anathema and it's immoral those who committed the crimes such as

duncan hunter defending the crimes or a navy seal operations chief edward gallagher he is facing. this elected representative is to say no charges and yet chelsea manning julian assange and. for revealing these crimes are facing very heavy charges now that shows the absolute wallace. united states war today that's the way they conduct war. it's now day 3 of donald trump state visit to the u.k. today he's in the city of portsmouth joining the queen and prime minister theresa may for the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings and world war 2 they want is also being attended by french president emmanuel mccrone and the german chancellor among other european leaders on tuesday the u.s. president spent the day in talks with his british counterpart and they reaffirmed the special relationship between britain and america. the extraordinary alliance

between the american and the british people it's the greatest alliance the world has ever known i've always believed that cooperation and compromise on the basis of strong alliances and nowhere is this more true than in the special relationship. and may also discuss iran and think your concerns over the chinese tech giant while away the u.s. president had a phenomenal trade deal was possible once the u.k. had a story around both sides committed to ensuring tehran will never develop nuclear weapons and although they disagreed on the threats posed by war way about to protect intelligence sharing. has more on the talks. to not always seeing eye to eye on politics but today finding some common ground around the special relationship donald trump going so far to say that the relationship with britain is the greatest alliance in the world and on the issue of the brics it

he mentioned that there will be phenomenal opportunity for trade links and trade deals in the post as the u.k. makes preparations to exit the european union the united states is committed to a phenomenal trade deal between the u.s. and the u.k. there is tremendous potential in the trade deal that he seemed to be almost reading from a script because he moved away from his usual famous candid approach but he kept that behavior at bay apart from when talking about jeremy corbett and in fact we actually sort of his signature. is the procedure so i have to tell you because i commented on it yesterday we left the prime minister the queen the royal family there were thousands of people in the streets cheering and even coming over today there were thousands of people cheering and then i heard that there were protests i

said where are the protests i don't see any protests. did see a small protest today when i came very small so a lot of it is fake news i hate to say thousands of protesters took to the streets to condemn his policies surrounding climate change immigration international relations and of course the issues surrounding women and. i was taught was. was an aside the telling thing issued how much is all of this costing what in tens of costing it seems like trump has out trump himself as this is the most expensive state visit in british history. we asked our guest to assess the chances of a trade deal with bracks it's still not sort it. because she's the i'm going prime minister and she's always she not on his wavelength always seems boring shouldn't. be will probably be coming in and also with mr ferrars correction i think britain

is moving in the same direction of the united states and policy and all beaks and trade and if we said if we can get those fabulous trade deals with the united states great for britain great for brakes it well you know perhaps it is really undermined a lot of the international power of the u.k. despite what their own leaders will say they're so busy every single day trying to figure out how to leave the european union what does going to look like that i can't imagine they won't be exhausted when they get to the negotiation table about specific. trade deals and certainly there is some pushback about some things that donald trump wants certain types of education for instance and how they're being prepared being brought over he wants to consumers to decide whether they will purchase or not and he's made that quite clear when it comes to the negotiation table there are so many things yet to be understood about whether that's going to mean about leaving the e.u. that the u.s.

might just get a little bit more than its burden for because of that weakness well it wasn't just the prime minister waiting to meet trump at downing street on tuesday someone else was also there to give him the perfect welcome. human rights lawyers are planning to sue the european union and connection with

migrant deaths they argue thousands of people needlessly lost their lives crossing the mediterranean sea they say migrants rights were violated in numerous ways by the e.u. for example by scaling back the sea rescues in 2014 and hampering the work of n.g.o.s they also slammed the decision to send 40000 migrants back to dangerous camps in libya and to help libyan coast guard catch migrant boat lawyers allege certain statements by e.u. leaders make it clear they were aware of the risks we spoke with 2 of the lawyers one branco and omer shots. are talking about one of the most serious situations in terms of. crimes committed since the beginning of the century 14000 people die and we show that there was a clear consciousness and willingness to let part of them all these people out today intercepted by day. to treat to be in close to god and being detained i'll be to be in detention camps and he told her how is this where they

are exposed to these crimes it's not that it's going to investigating the in the forest in congo it's a very easy task to go to their career perrysburg living room in brussels to go into the archives and there to mind who was the most responsible for those crimes. the influx of refugees to the e.u. from 2015 to 2017 involved more than one and a half 1000000 people more than 12000 are reported to have died making their way over or missing southern european countries in particular italy greece and spain were the main entry point and e.u. spokesperson refused to comment on what they branded a melon existent legal action saying only it was a priority of the block to protect human lives and lawyers though say the e.u. has failed and that. we really hope for for. trying in this sense something that the international criminal court doesn't known for its simple reason there's been several levels of responsibility and we have to very clearly distinguish from those who executive. who created the objectives that triggered

this execution and you cannot you have to distinguish between people like the ministry of interior. the commissioner if you so your most. other lever the director from pics and then another let me show. you a boat but what we show is that they are all connected in a common put and which was to systematically and widespread to the uk. population and therefore to commit crimes against humanity the most responsible doctors we agents in the field orchestrating these policy to designed it and to establish it to achieve their own political goals to stand migration to europe still to come as h.b.o.'s chernobyl mini series hit the top of the ratings r.t. speaks to one of the key figures and bold in the cleanup of the nuclear disaster a real major general to talk about after the break.

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the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back the latest h.b.o. many serious trouble is proving a huge hit and that has also generated intense interest in the 1986 nuclear disaster one of the key figures in the clean up operation after the tragedy was the soviet major general talk of he was in charge of the so-called liquidators division tasked with removing radioactive material from the site tom says the disaster will stay with him for ever. 2 it is there were there 2 years of my life in hospital but i was still in the army i returned to service as deputy chief of staff of the

russian civil defense but 2 years later my symptoms caught up with me again my doctor said you will be suffering the rest of your life chernobyl will never let go of you the chernobyl disaster sent shock waves around the world more than 30 years ago it's considered to be the largest nuclear accident in history as almost 600000 people were affected by the blast as thought at least 4000 died as a result radiation levels at the epicenter were massively higher that a lethal dose. of again recalls what happened. when i spent 3 months the chair noble the hardest part as far as i remember was when we came in by helicopter we hovered above the reactor and it was simply frightening to view the results of the catastrophe i could not even imagine something like that what kind of a nuclear catastrophe could destroy that giant construction made of armored

concrete about 300000 cubic meters of soil where excavated collected and brought to a special disposal area immediately after that the radiation level in the area decreased a 1000 times that allowed us to tell the soldiers to enter the station and start deactivating the facilities i usually give the scientists and others credit for the very important job they did there but ordinary soldiers were the main heroes. radiation sickness for example i could shave and accidentally cut myself and the bleeding would not stop a small scratch wouldn't heal for weeks it's scary just to think about it my dear wife who was a ph d. took very good care of me i was taking a ton of pills and i still am in my kitchen i have about 8 different kinds of medicine i take them 3 times a day where. the character really looks like i

mean i really like him you know i almost fell in love with him then the division commander assembled his men and this scene was included because i stood in front of the soldiers and said men our people are tired of the constant reports about the huge disaster at chernobyl we have to get rid of the consequences of this catastrophe all of you are volunteers and if anyone does not want to continue please leave the team you have one minute to make a decision no one will blame you for it because it's your life and i am responsible for it. china's president xi jinping has arrived in russia for a 3 day state visit right now he's meeting with his russian counterpart vladimir putin we go live now to our correspondent for more on what to expect ahead of the joint statement the 2 leaders will be giving what more can you tell us.

well indeed jackie russian president vladimir putin is indeed hosting a very sizable chinese delegation he's already called of this event the sort of event of the year when it comes to the bilateral relations between the 2 countries now not just the political circles are meeting behind me in the russian kremlin here but also the business circles are discussing all sorts of how to move the relations forward especially in the frameworks of economic divide. and also in regards of the belts and road program now also what is said to come today of course what we're expecting right now is a media conference which the 2 leaders expected to give really any minute now so well as for that you can watch it later here on nazi will be bringing you it live both leaders giving their closing closing statements i should say following their meeting but also it's not just confined to the walls of the kremlin the program is

said to spill beyond to other parts of moscow for instance so far both leaders is set to attend a ceremony over the official ceremony of china gifting 2 large pandas to the mosque so that's where they're set to go off to the media conference now as for the official part i'll be standing here standing by to update you. biggers on of bringing us the latest from central moscow thank you for. the death of the bang car looks ny in china where a payments have surged in popularity and now the chinese electronic pay service alley pay has tripled the number of its european merchants and analysts obsess reports on the trend. so i'm buying this item with one of the most common payment apps here in china alley pay. 0. there it is i just speak straight from my phone answer they are bank account and no banks between us and then no way there's any bank that made feet out of my transaction so

you're probably wondering now how does this all work like this item for simply $0.60 us if i use my big account which will be connected to us payment i would have to actually pay a certain fee for it and if i bought it offline i would have to pay up to 2 percent if i bought it online i would have to pay 2.3 to 2.5 percent even if i used apple pay i would still have to pay a certain amount a fee because it's connected to my bake account but i'm currently in china and i don't even need a bank account to buy this item so we went around and asked people to see how often they use payment apps such as hourly pay and we chat and whether they even have a bank account at all i use my bio payment food $250.00 times a day you switch on it's so convenient. i mean it is convenient we needed somebody who flew around with nothing but you my phone. i have friends and we choose it's convenient for transferring money to them but chinese mobile payment ups are not

only limited within china there are now spreading outwards and so the united states and canada i only play which is the largest chinese company in its field is now operating in the united states and canada but it's only limiting itself for chinese tourists there but just the thought that this company or these type of companies could potentially be spreading outwards outside of china is bringing big headaches to u.s. banking businesses according to a nielsen report the banks are sets of make 43 dollars 2020 from transaction fees in the united states alone so if these ups managed to get a similar market share in the united states as they enjoy here in china that would be big sis for those banks so more and more of these questions now are popping up with the most. in one being do we really need retail banking in our everyday life so a question that the baking in there she would rather you weren't asking americans might block the particular chinese companies but they complicate the overall trend and i think it's basically been a in sense not so much of a single firm monopoly is an industry sector monopoly of course now we have the

presidents of him who are being blocked by america on the telecommunications argument which is slightly digital meant but at the same time it's because china has a large leap on america in this technology in terms of china's apps i'm sure they'll do something to block them as is all part of trump's tried war so it's more likely going to work is if those companies lawson's this off with other companies based in europe or maybe even america or if all the companies just basically emulate what the chinese applications are doing and therefore will still be a danger to the banks that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports.

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a growing consensus the near monopoly status of many of these companies is bad for competition bad for the consumer and even for freedom of speech no doubt silicon valley is lowering of. cross talking big tech i'm joined by my guest bill new in london he is a privacy campaigner and c.e.o. of the cyber crisis for the crisis team in dallas we have. a wealthy advisor is well is a managing partner at chapel and investments and in c. back we cross to geoffrey carr he is the author of inside cyber warfare mapping the cyber underworld and founder of 30 up a video streaming platform right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate let me go to bill in london bill is it time to break up companies like google and facebook and we can talk about what should be done if they are maybe they should become public utilities go

ahead bill in london there's been very left a little appetite in the polls for breaking up these come these companies indeed there's been very good less appetite for challenging them in any way because the enormously lucrative in terms of the lobbying that they do and all of this lead they have a very strong position in the bucket i think what we've seen very recently with some of the scandals around privacy that these companies are now vulnerable and possibly their future is in play ok the same question to you because we do have 80 and we have standard oil we have microsoft i mean there are press. it inside out there are there ways about doing this here to create more competition that's all we need more competition and more privacy is ok and a little bit more tolerance of people like me conservatives go ahead ed well and i am one of those those conservatives as well and you know the problem has really come because of a privacy issue and because of you know what some people say some political leanings but i love competition but you know on the flip side facebook competed one

google competed one and now we're going to come in and say you know you did too well so we're going to raise you abbott and i don't like it i don't either but i'll take a lot of my devices are commercial but buying the competition to destroy competition is not good business practices and you know that ok we saw that with these other big standard and i'm not saying you know i don't go by their competition and they destroy it ok all right jeffrey the same question to you time to break. you know i'm i'm in favor of google mostly because of the privacy issue google has more group it has more data on people than the n.s.a. . than any government agency ever dreamed of. it has tracks you across every platform. is ubiquitous browser therefore if you are fewer any company anywhere in the world you need to have a presence on chrome which grew our hands and the only area that google really suffer.