currency wars lead to trade wars more. currency wars that's been going on now for 10 years 15 years really particularly with china you know they artificially keep their currency to export their way to becoming a large economy and now this is led to trade wars. pretty much declaring secession from the global economy as we go to. work and tell them days of globalization and lot of tourism dollars ation is over. we've got a few little hot spots there the encroaching hot war scenario is that. the russian and chinese presidents herald the current state of relations between their countries paying begins a state visit to moscow. a republican congressman defends a u.s. navy seal accused of war crimes saying killing civilians is part of the job.

and we fired hundreds of rounds in a palooza right probably hundreds of civilians probably killed women and children who were left in the city when we invaded so do i get judged to. be restricted to human rights lawyers who have piled a case against the e.u. intending to sue the blog over the deaths of thousands of migrants in the mediterranean. sea the population of the most responsible. agents in the field. to design dates. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team international on sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now russia and china have reached

an unprecedented level of friendship. deliver those warm words shortly after talks in moscow with vitamin porton dozens of different agreements were also signed following the meeting are artie's off as more. while 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 ping reminiscing kind of reminiscing to the long history of very warm and friendly personal relations that he's had with lattimer putin 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 major conferences summed up what they agreed on richard. structure in china have common

views on the situation in the korean peninsula and follow the joint road map resolution 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 acknowledge here in russia could begin as soon as this year but now all of this . kind of brings the international agenda back in the frame because one way has

been the epicenter of a nasty trade war between the u.s. and china especially after google refused to google banned it from accessing its android took knology and other companies followed suit so really it is no wonder that the chinese leader xi jinping talked about unilateralism the way he did. she even discussed the development of our bilateral relations says 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 the 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 well judging by what happened today think it could be expected

that it will be kind of like today but on steroids. the chinese leader arrived in moscow with presents for his russian counterpart xi jinping handed over to pandas to the moscow's new 2. international affairs commentator jonathan steele says russian chinese relations are better now than ever. friendship is. stronger than it is the moment is almost never sure if you can find disagreement. $150000000000.00.

sounds enormous and it comes at a time. when chinese american tensions even higher because of the trade that's been imposed by china well i think it's a kind of warning to the west. to say look. the united states or can china and get together. this russian china american triangle american china. russia and china. the 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 servicemen has pleaded not guilty to the charges the republican congressman himself a former soldier recently defended the accused in

a way that has shocked many. comments. 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 nothing was done about it and his 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. perience is 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 emitting 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. norms

or 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 people in the u.s. officers and manners 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 trumps critics say that sends a bad message we're looking at a lot of different partners for a lot of different people some of these soldiers. those 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 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 a pardon this elected representative is to say no charges and yet chelsea manning julian a song and all the ins for dealing these crimes are very heavy charges now that shows the absolute lawlessness of the 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 mediterranean sea they say migrants rights were violated in numerous ways by that you for example by scaling back sea rescues in 2014 and hampering of 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 the libyan coast guard stop 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 omero shots. we're talking about one of the most serious situations in terms of. crimes committed since the beginning of the century 14000 people died and we showed that there was a clear consciousness and willingness to let part of the people out today intercepted by day. to day being close to god and being the.

camps and he told you how is this and where they are exposed to these crimes it's not that it's going to investigating the in the forest and it's very easy task to go to the living room and go into the archives and there to mine 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 are missing southern european countries in particular italy greece and spain were the main entry points in the e.u. spokesperson refused to comment on what they branded a non-existent legal action saying only that it was a priority of the block to protect human lives the lawyers though say the e.u. has failed to do so. we really hope for a huge tried in this sense something that the international criminal court known

for its simple reason there's been 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 you have to distinguish between people who are likely ministry of interior. and the commissioner if you see the most and then another lever the director frontex and then another lever diminished. but what we show is that they are all connected in a common plan which was to systematically and widespread the. civil population and therefore to commit crimes against humanity the most responsible doctors we agents into. these police say they designed it and had to stablish it. on political goes to stem migration to europe. the australian broadcasting corporation is valid to continue reporting without fear after government forces carried out

a raid on its sydney h.q. as part of a scandal engulfing the country it all centers on the publication of these so-called afghan files which 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. were published in 2017 and exposed operations by australian special forces in afghanistan the report alleges war crimes including the killing of innocent children and unarmed civilians one case involved the killing of a man and his son allegedly shot by mistake while they slept and in another case an afghan detainee was shot and killed 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 he tried to draw fishes 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 and is expected to stand trial meanwhile a.b.c. says the raid raises concerns over freedom of the press and public scrutiny of the defense issues now the broadcaster says it stands by its reporting and will continue to work in the public interest and we've got reaction to the story from some of 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 severe so oh oh your was the actual if this is going to come to the. obvious that the attention of the public it will be probably even boyd the body the body

likes normalcy of diverse than of public i think it will be could be buried oh it would be an acceptable and those through in those who should who really really bad the records or whatever he gets in malta broads will be. beaten up on a star in the boston so they station these and eventually the very tight against them what message not see them stopping but this is very dangerous thing this generous and said about this is whether this was because last this the genesis question well yes and against channel the sources that they i've used things and people's lives that they are very much at risk which is the agenda behind these arrests of these ticking investigations the secular release of the files has been something you know some of the dissolution in thanks for all those in the. history and military this sense the revelation that this has been also

seen to be the graphs fence rather than actually seen the s.a.'s as that in crimes the issue has been more than those revealing those crimes can it actually hit series of entre noble has raised renewed interest in the horrors of the disaster one that after a short break this is art international. what

politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express an injury. or somehow want to be. that you do like to be close it's like the frank story of the morning can't be good . interesting falls in the waters of our. city. back this is our chief international and germany has rejected fresh greek calls to

negotiate over war reparations with berlin claiming the issue was legally settled years ago artie's more of an ocean 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 to a negotiation for the practical satisfaction of these demands which are of particular importance to the greek people as a moral material issue well i have to say didn't start today or yesterday they earlier in april there was the greek parliament is decision to force germany to pay

and although there was no any concrete figure discussed a mentioned we know that back in 20163 years ago the country's parliamentary committee estimated that the claim could 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 was so up to $1.00 trillion euros in reparations for damages hate suffered during the 2nd world war. the latest h.b.o. mini series eternal boy is proving a huge hit and it has also generated intense interest in the 1986 a nuclear disaster one of the key figures in the clean up operation after the tragedy was the soviet major general nikolai to a kind of he was also in charge of the so-called liquidators division tasked with

removing radioactive material from the trouble side to kind of says the disaster will stay with him forever. it is that over 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. but china will disaster sent shock waves around the world more than 30 years ago it is considered to be the largest nuclear accident in history almost 600000 people were affected by the blast at the nuclear plant it is thought at least $4000.00 died as a result radiation levels at the epicenter were massively higher than a lethal dose and telecom off again recalls what happened.

i spent 3 months. 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 grade 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 facility yes 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. really looks like 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 the men our people are tired of the constant reports about this huge disaster at your nobody 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 over a board 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 ny in

china where payments have surged in popularity meanwhile chinese electronic pay service has tripled the number of its european merchants evangel seps us 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 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 app 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 that they are used to each other it's so convenient. and human just convenient we need is a mobile phone to get around with nothing but you my phone and i have friends and we chat it's convenient for transferring money to them but chinese mobile payment apps are not only limited within china there are now spreading outwards and so the united states and canada alley 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. i mean one being do we really need retail banking in our everyday life so a question that the baking in there she would rather you were an asking americans might block a particular chinese companies but they complicate the overall trend and i think is basically being a in sense not so much of a single firm monopoly is an industry sector monopoly of course now we have the presidents of here 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 and sense of china zaps i'm sure they'll do something to block them as is all part of trump's tried will 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 in 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. in the disputed region of kashmir with clashes erupted between a group of young people throwing stones and security forces following prayers marking the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan. after demonstrations began against recent killings of rebels and civilians the the gathering turned violent protesters were scenes throwing projectiles out the police security forces fired pellet guns to disperse the crowd as of now there are no reports of any serious injuries. of course we'll stay on top of that situation and monitoring to make sure if there's anything that needs to come your way will let you know you're watching are to international more news in 33 minutes.

as the time come for google and other big tech companies there's 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 our. welcome to. the down. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. as a report. so you say that breeze is the end of the series so we could just let josie marino walk away and say we decided to treat us to a very special farewell to the guys.

we walk along an interesting path as a team but this time to go back to the time slot and thanks for putting once a student body. with the red carpet the only thing that i didn't enjoy was my eyes in moscow my dancing. on ice. well thankfully we nailed it literally a week. readings

and salyut patients and informed educated knowledgeable populace is without a doubt the greatest threat to those in authority who value the art of corruption and the greed of power over the peace of freedom and diversity of equality and one of the most valued and important tools for bringing education and knowledge is a free press and it seems that since the incarceration of wiki leaks founder julian assange and the us government charges against him of violating the espionage act journalism has been under siege quite literally the new york times reports that the australian federal police raided the sydney offices of australia's public broadcaster on wednesday apparently in connection with an article published back into 2017 about australian special forces being investigated over the possibility of war crimes in afghanistan this police raid follows hot on the heels of a different raid on the all of the news corp journalism and weakest members of the so.