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fired hundreds of rounds and killed hundreds of civilians probably killed women and children. in the city when we invaded so do i get judged to. speak to human rights lawyer compiled a case against. the deaths of thousands of migrants in the mediterranean. systematically. civil population of the most responsible. very good evening to you watching international. pressure in china reached an unprecedented level of friendship xi jinping delivered those words shortly after talks in moscow with. dozens of different agreements were also signed following

that meeting as the story. well it has been overall a very warm meeting the sides have exchanged pleasantries well left and right i should say the russian leader vladimir putin calling this visit the events of the year when it comes to the relations between moscow and beijing and. reminiscing kind of reminiscing to the long history of very warm and friendly personal relations that ease had with delegations seize the opportunity to tap into international crises like the situation in iran and venezuela in. syria and so on and so forth the russian leader vladimir putin in the closing media conferences summed up what they agreed on. exposure in china have common views on the situation in the korean peninsula and follow the joint road map lucian of the situation the noting that there is no alternative to diplomacy for solving existing problems

we'll continue to work with china for the escalation of tensions and strengthening security in this region will also continue working for a peaceful resolution in syria and venezuela we remain committed to the iran nuclear deal now when it comes to russia china relations we have seen lots of business documents signed deals is sealed but one of the most exciting developments that i should probably point out is the prospect of the chinese smartphone giant huawei bringing the 5 g. mobile internet technology to russia they've already met their russian counterparts the representatives of one of the major mobile carriers here in russia and they've agreed on you know getting this thing go in and in fact the testing of the 5 g. to knology here in russia could begin as soon as this yeah but you know all of this kind of brings the international agenda back in the frame because one way has been at the epicenter of a nasty trade war between the u.s. and china especially after google refused to google bandit from accessing its

android technology and other companies followed suit so really it is no wonder that the chinese leader xi jinping talked about unilateralism the way he did. we discussed the development of our bilateral relations since their standard 70 years ago and included they've reached an unprecedented level new possibilities have opened for us the world is changing protectionism and unilateralism a raising heads china and russia as leading world powers will protect the international system based on international law and multilateral trade now that was it for today but in the next few days the chinese leader said to go to sing petersburg and to a business forum and the world judging by what happened today think it could be expected that it will be kind of like today but on steroids. the chinese leader on democracy with presents for his russian counterpart xi jinping handed moscow 2

pandas 2. good. independent political analyst alexander bruno joins me live on the line and good evening alison seemed like pretty warm words coming from both the leaders there what did you make of that meeting. well i expected the warm words because i think the most. most rapidly evolving relationship in geopolitics these there the one to watch is between moscow and beijing. the cup potential

cooperation extends to all kinds of relationships and not in the least of which is a trade to be conducted in currencies other than the us dollar i think china is looking for ways to put pressure on the united states and the dollar is definitely one of those tools you can use more over china's also developing its so-called one built road initiative and russia will be a very important piece of that puzzle not even on the logistical side because many of the routes will necessarily have to go through. russia just your graphically. and i see the most important aspect not necessarily intrigue because china cannot expect to. use the russian market which is i don't know $100000000.00

to replace the united states given the trade pressures that it's under right now but mostly i think china will be shopping around for technology for expertise in developing big hardware like airplanes where it's probably going to be trying to reduce its dependence on boeing. to put more pressure on the united states and military development. i see a potential market for not only the as 400 and successive generations as 500 i believe is already in design. rocket systems but the 57. fighter jet i think china is. very interested in upgrading its military and russia is really 2nd to none in this department let's talk about huawei because the us is concerned the chinese using the mobile tech giant

to spy on other countries and has been warning its allies not to get involved with them and then you've got russia russia immobile operators seemingly going to work with why would you think of that arrangement. i think that again that this is to be completely expected. apart from the one built road initiative which will need probably its own new communication network to facilitate logistics and all kinds of other things i think this is an expected alliance now. 5 g. have had other issues associated with them people some people are concerned with health but the technologies nobody is going to abandon the technology is. not go ahead mode because other companies in the west i think horizon for example are also interested so. china wants to. reach.

critical mass in this area before anyone else so that is expected and while how we dispute the only way that this can result itself is not by the united states granting howey access again to google no i think the chinese don't care about that anymore they realize that they cannot rely on the united states so they're going to try to replace every single aspect of the technology depends on for example. platforms like google and software and so on they were going to probably invest and redesign this whole. area. and they need most likely russian engineers to help them achieve that. so i see a lot of technological cooperation in key strategic areas from telecommunications.

to military and everything in between i just wonder if it is the us forcing some of its geo political rivals into each other's arms be it you know sanctions against russia trade wars with china is it forcing its opponents together i think this is what's happening and this is a mistake of course because they it's like allowing. children to play all the time instead of studying you know the you you want to grow old timidly i think. i've said this many times but trump is playing poker and china and russia are playing chess they're playing the long game and the u.s. is simply facilitating this approach you know. and in 10 years it'll pay the price because china will inevitably come its target is 2050 and it's that's where it's looking 2050 being the dominant

economic and technological power in the world and forcing it to do these things now is only going to accelerate that process i was under oh thanks for coming on good to speak to alice under bruno is my guest independent political analyst thank you. u.s. military judge has removed the lead prosecutor in the case of a navy seal accused of committing war crimes just one week before the trial serviceman has pleaded not guilty to the charges republican congressman himself a former soldier recently defended the accused in a way that shocks some killer more than explains. the case of a u.s. navy seal accused of some pretty nasty crimes in iraq has grabbed headlines the man is eddie gallagher he's accused of murder attempted murder and a slew of other crimes now according to the reports when his team initially reported him and demanded an investigation a nothing was done about it and 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 who was simply walking with other girls furthermore the teammates 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 eddy'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 right and killed probably hundreds of civilians if not scores if 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

. there's. a lot of this. so we've got a sitting member of congress who is now it mid in that he himself is guilty of the crimes for which any gallagher is now charged now what about pentagon was in 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 tribunal he should be brought up on charges this idea that there is 5 year and 7 year statute of limitations actually not true. of course there are nazi war criminals that 30 and 50 years later are still brought up on charges and

every one of the people in the us officers and commanders who are guilty of war crimes should and ultimately will get caught up on charges of war crimes keep in mind that trump has already pardoned michael brown hen a former soldier convicted of killing a prisoner trump's 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 for 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 person 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 a pardon this elected representative is to say no charges and yet chelsea manning julian assad and all the ins for revealing these crimes are facing very heavy charges now that shows the absolute wallace of united states war today that's the way they conduct war. human rights lawyers are planning to sue the european union in connection with migrant deaths they argue thousands of people needlessly lost their lives crossing the military. see they say migrants rights were violated in numerous ways by the e.u. for example by scaling back 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 to help libyan coast guards catch migrant boats the lawyers allege certain

statements made by e.u. leaders make it clear they were aware of the risks we spoke with 2 of them one bronco and. we're talking about one of the most serious situations in terms of. crimes committed since the beginning of the century 14000 people. sure that there was a clear consciousness and willingness to let part of them all these people out today intercepted by day. infiltrated libyan coast guard and now being detained in detention camps and told to how is this where they are exposed to these crimes it's not as according to investigating the in the forest in congo where it's a very easy task to go to the perrysburg living room in brussels going to the archives and there to mine who was the most responsible for those crimes. the influx of refugees to the 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 so then european countries in particular italy greece and spain they were the main e.u. and she points in the spokesperson refused to comment on what they branded a nonexistent legal action saying only that it was a priority of the blog to protect human lives lawyers though say the e.u. failed in that. we really hope for for a huge trial in the sense something that the international criminal court doesn't known for a simple reason there's been virtually several levels of responsibility and we have to very clearly distinguish from those who executive that we did and who created the objectives that triggered this execution and you cannot just you have to distinguish between people like the ministry of interior. and the commissioner if you see the most and then another lever the director frontex and then another lever

the militia leaders of libya both but what we show is that they are all connected in a common plan which was to systematically and widespread to the. civil population and therefore to commit crimes against humanity the most responsible doctors which are the agents in. straightening this policy that designed it and had to stablish it to achieve their own political goal and goal is to stem migration to europe. history in broadcasting corporations found to continue reporting without fear after government forces carried out a raid on its sydney h.q. a spot of a scandal a single thing in the country it all centers on the publication of the so-called afghan files that prompted the authorities to target journalists across the media the search was in relation to allegations of publishing classified material contrary to provisions of the crimes act of 1914 this is the result of supporting documentation or material being presented to the court which provides sufficient

suspicion that a criminal offense has been committed. well the files were published in 2017 and exposed operations by a stray in special forces in afghanistan the report alleges war crimes including the killing of innocent children and unarmed civilians on case involved the killing of a man and his son allegedly shot by mistake while they were sleeping in another case an afghan detainees who was shot dead after being left alone with an australian soldier now the shocking revelations were leaked to the media by former defense lawyer david mcbride he says that he tried to draw officials attention to the seriousness of the crimes before ultimately going public earlier this year the whistleblower was charged with 5 counts of leaking classified information is expected to stand trial meanwhile a.b.c. says that the raid raises concerns over freedom of the press and public scrutiny of defense issues the broadcaster says it stands by the reporting and will continue to work in the public interest we've got reaction to the story from our guests. i

think to violation over here that i would sit in a palace down by one of the united states bill u.k. and while still you're is oh i'm so sydney you're so full oh enormous the actual if this is going to come to. our eyes through to attention of the public it will be probably evil boy the boy the birdy likes normalcy of the verse than of public i think it will be could be buried oh it would be an acceptable. and those truly are those who should all really very bad the records already gets in malta broads will be doing a bit upbeat and upon a star in the boston so they station east and eventually the very dedicated and what message not see them stopping but this very dangerous thing this generous said about this is whether this was before lots this the genesis question won't

necessarily get channeled to the sources that they are you saying in terms of people's lives that they are very much at risk which is the agenda behind these arrests of these ticking investigations the particular release of the files in house and something you know some of the dissolution and then for those in the. district in military a sense the revelation of this s. and also seemed to be the drafts fence rather than actually seeing the s.a.'s as that in crimes the issue has been more those revealing that those crimes committed in. germany has rejected fresh greek coolth to negotiate over war reparations woodburning claiming the issue was legally settled is again autism if an option has more. we hear from greece's foreign ministry that the country's

ambassador filed a formal request inviting berlin to take part in negotiations over war reparations athens claims indeed that germany owes greece billions of euros for damages and sufferings in the 2 world wars one side believes the matter was settled long time ago while the other side disagrees here is how the greek foreign minister explains why they believe this is very important government it was the german government through negotiation for the practical satisfaction of these demands which are of particular importance to the greek people as a moral and material issue well i have to say didn't start today or yesterday there earlier in april there was the greek parliament's decision to force germany to pay and although there was no any concrete figure discussed or mentioned we know that back in 20163 years ago the country's parliamentary committee estimated that the claim coote amount at around $308000000000.00 euros minimum germany has

rejected to join the talks claiming that it's war time dads were all well set a long time ago it's worth a mention that greece is not the only country addressing germany with such claims poland in a similar request as us can believe in to pay war so up to one trillion euros in reparations for damages had suffered during the 2nd world war. the latest h.b.o. mini series chernobyl is proving a huge hit and it's also generated intense interest in the $986.00 nuclear disaster one of the key figures in the clean up operation after the tragedy was soviet major general nicholai had a call of he was in charge of the so-called liquidators division tasks with removing radioactive material from the chernobyl site tara conner says the disaster will stay with him forever. it is the war there i spent 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. it's a normal does nothing shock waves around the world war than 30 years ago it's considered the largest nuclear accident in history almost $600000.00 people were affected by that blast that the nuclear plant the thought at least $4000.00 died as a result radiation levels at the epicenter were massively higher than a lethal dose nicholai to recall of again recalls what happened. when i spent 3 months the chernobyl the hardest part as far as i remember it 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 while 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. with the character really looks like i mean i really like 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 when you have one minute to make a decision over a word no one will blame you for it because it's your life and i am responsible for it. the death of the bank card looks 9 in china where payments have surged in popularity meanwhile chinese electronic pay service hourly pay is tripled the number of its european merchants evangelise its us takes a look at 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 a 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 fuck this item for simply $0.60 us if i use my big account which will be connected to u.s. 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 human food to $50.00 times

a day or use we chop it so convenient. convenient we need is in my low food around tweed nothing but you my phone. i have friends and we 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 new report the banks are set to 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 call. in one being do we really need retail banking in our everyday life is a question that the baking in there she would rather you weren't asking americans might block a particular chinese companies but they can't block the overall trend and i think it's basically been in since not so much of a single firm monopoly as an industry sector monopoly of course now we have the presidents of hawaii 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 trade war so it's more likely going to work is if those companies lawson's their software to other companies post in europe or maybe even in america or if other companies just basically emulate what the chinese applications are doing and therefore will still be a danger to the banks. u.s. president on from today visited the u.k. city of portsmouth he joined the queen and

a number of worldly this for the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings in world war 2 in a speech the president thanked the people of the united kingdom and the united states for defeating the nazi regime the normandy landings were the only turning point in the 2nd world war. the 6th of june 1944 the allies land in normandy is often touted is the key turning point in world war 2. d.-day can be found across mass culture in books music. films. have smoked famously in hollywood's saving private ryan. is frequently cited in political speeches here in normandy the rescue began. here the allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled.