if the united states she wishes to proceed with them even needs to be more sincere . how can we help citizens become healthier and happier moscow open forum full of the 7th of july as our united business program interactive exhibition open health congress open festival for movie titles go to also been forum dot com 16 plus. headlining this hour on our t.v. and calls out america and other nations are not practicing what they preach and not only when it comes to trade the russian president's assessment came at the same petersburg international economic forum speaking alongside other world leaders a live update in less than a minute. and other news british prime minister to resign may officially step down as leader of the conservative party now the race to replace him with 11 count of

the job. turned serial killer gets a 2nd life sentence for murdering 85 patients while working at 2 hospitals in germany. global news and analysis 247 this is our international money choosing in this friday welcome to the program 1st world leaders taking to the stage in some petersburg including the chinese and russian presidents in a lengthy q. and a at the international economic forum there president putin told the packed congress hall that america's push for dominance might be a driving force towards something more serious than just economic war i just gave it to speed on that now a correspondent of the event is. lost inside over the past few hours but definitely some recurring themes what's been up for discussion. call and well i'd like to begin with tell you about the opening remarks of lot of

the highlights in those remarks for me was when the russian president come here the situation with chinese take john while way and also the north stream project for direct natural gas deliveries from this country to the european union now these are the shots that were fired by washington in the trade wars. so yeah it was really interesting to hear how the russian leader was comparing these 2 and the president set the tone of the rest of the discussion which was by the way hosted by the host of sophie in co so if it goes over a nod say we'll get back to that a bit later probably she'll even be able to join me live but let's just move on again perhaps the 1st half of the panel discussion was all devoted to trade wars

and that's not really a surprise because as you said the russian president vladimir putin was there but also with leader of china paying and questions about this economic battlefield were flowing coming out one after another and this led to a rather funny metaphorical exchange so to say between sophie and and leaders of the 2 countries russia and china take a listen. kyra traditional farmer globalization is a double edged sword of course there are those who stand to benefit and those who stand to lose so this is a question of distribution has benefits and interests but you know if you're unhappy with fleas in your coat you can simply throw a car into the oven it's that's in c. of us natural 30 fluid new chairman z. has explained the tariff war as a fight between globalization and to globalization the question is where does

russia stand in the fight for the economic superiority at the bus loads of business good chinese prober when targets of fighting in the valleys smog monkeys sits all the way in which is how it will end. well i have to tell you that all the participants of the panel were quite careful with what they were saying but it seems that they were unanimous in their assessment that the origin. of this straight confrontation is from across the atlantic in washington now one of the main and treats ahead of this form literally everyone was talking about it here it was whether u.s. businessman michael calvey who's now under house arrest here in russia whether he'll make it to the form he'd been doing business in this country for years and always attended this forum until he was arrested because of

allegations of fraud now i have to tell you that mr kalvin is widely supported by the russian community again for the investments that he's made in this country even though he's a u.s. businessman and at one point even a lot of our portland spokesperson dmitri peskov said that the kremlin. actually wanted to see him here but house arrest means house arrest and we didn't see mr kalvin at the forum but that doesn't mean a lot of our point was it was supposed to be asked questions about him and this is exactly what he did so let's listen to what the russian leader had to say about that. with me to be sure to. take the bible and read it don't steal don't covet your neighbor's swine you know with his blame for the embezzlement of tuna how doing routes which of the proven by law enforcement and

all the charges would be dropped american businessmen get 10150 years in prison on them so don't steal the shortly with the repeated again since there's no conviction in court the person is innocent until proven guilty and you might remember them wouldn't it. of course i don't want to show any disrespect to the smaller countries but the composition of the panel so to say was rather interesting because we had to choose. 2 of the biggest countries in the world russia and china leaders of these countries but they were joined by the leaders of 2 eastern european countries slovakia and bulgaria also the prime minister of armenia and the u.n. secretary general now when i mentioned the countries from. europe's east didn't do it for nothing of course. they were asked about

how some of the parties of the european union are they keep on supporting economic measures against russia despite the fact that it seems clear to everyone that they're only losing from it and we heard a rather frank statement that was quite surprising to hear these kind of words from the leader of slovakia. i always like to say what i'm thinking in this moment and really i have to say. it looks sometimes very very funny when the biggest supporters of sanctions and who are fighting for sanctions against the russian federation's the added they are looking how they can sell their goods in russia and how they can invest in russia. again the leader was very careful he said that he supports the common take of the european union on this but

then even went on to say i allowed that slovakia as a sovereign country is a nation that does not support sanctions against russia and the sanctions that were taken and response there were many other things discussed as well but will talk about that later in the program. ok here's the key. but there's another day of business to go out for and for now though a of a trend in some places but thanks for that. well we'll continue our special coverage of the some petersburg economic forum throughout the coming hour so stay with us we'll get more expert analysis reaction on all of what's going on there and coverage of the big economic issues. on to another headline news british prime minister to resign may has officially stepped down as the leader of the conservative party opposes held for 3 years now

the scramble to replace her is in overdrive nominations for the party leadership start on monday with 11 candidates still vying for the job takes a look at who's in the running. she's been burned by brags that and now the woman known as teflon to reason is on the way out after repeatedly failing to push her e.u. withdrawal deal through parliament last month the pm finally announced that she'd be stepping down and she did it with a whimper rather than a bang the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last. i do so with no ill will but with enormous during gratitude to have had to the opportunity to serve the country i love there is looking at the number of candidates that have joined the race to replace may as prime minister may find themselves crying too and they're seeing what's going on here they've got no say in

what's going on they can see there's 11 people standing up saying they want to you . know you always call me no it's even worse when this is going to be detrimental blow long term of the conservative party sure officially the race only begins on monday but already there are in leadership content is with 2 having already dropped out and the british media is indulging itself poring over the kaleidoscope of varying degrees of soft and hard brags it's candidates like foreign secretary jeremy hunt health secretary matt hancock or environment secretary michael gove although there is already one clear. favorite. and he's already got donald trump's seal of approval no worse i like you're my i've

liked him for a long time he's i think you do a very good job but the tory leadership contest is a complicated process and past experience has shown that the favorite never wins so this is anybody's race each candidate has to have the support of at least 8 members of parliament from the conservative m.p.'s will be asked to vote several times in order to whittle down the crowd of power hungry politicians to just one final head to head battle now at that point the decision will be turned over to conservative party members that grassroots conservatives that could be hauled from down the road or tricia who lives next door and it is they who will ultimately decide who becomes the next prime minister with such a crowded field of hopefuls this summer britain is bracing itself for

a political popularity contest like no other as for 2 reason may the woman that's been forced to leave 10 downing street before securing britain's departure from the e.u. will stay on as a lame duck leader her job now is to keep the chair warm for several more weeks until one of this lot finally takes over the top job only because i will we heard from the deputy research director of a british economics think tank who says a serious battle awaits to resume a successor. well unfortunately she's left behind very very difficult situation for the incoming prime minister i think another vote unlikely in the short because this will be seen as not simply trial by those type of votes and leave i mean it's kind of undermines the whole idea of democracy if you don't stick to

results and then keep repeating the election over and over again and so you get the result that the establishment wants so that would really really further undermine trust in politics nevertheless it's going to be very difficult given the vast majority of m.p.'s are probably you're not going to let probably block any real breakthrough deal so if we get so prime minister he's really he or she's really going to struggle to get through parliament and could even face a vote of no confidence to prevent the u.k. leaving with no deal which point he or she will probably have to call a general election and that would be hugely risky. united states continues to ramp up pressure on president duros government in venezuela announcing new sanctions against a state owned oil company but it seems though that washington still unsure about the future of the latin american nation and whether the duros should in fact step down a leaked audio recording suggests the us secretary of state is finding it difficult to unite the fraction venezuelan opposition into one cohesive force as kind of more

pain explains bike pompei always been caught making some comments about venezuela that were not intended for the primetime viewers apparently he's not sure who would replacement dural if his regime change efforts are successful lerton under which just to keep the opposition as crude as devilishly difficult the moment it's really . everybody's going to be there isn't anything that says i did x. president of the us will be people who believe they're the rightful heir if you're going through. pompei i was pretty clear about the fact that this discussion was not meant for public consumption so we did get a favorable response. this is what america's top diplomat said at the united nations when the lights were on and the cameras were rolling now we have a new leader. in venezuela who has promised to bring elections and constitutional order back to venezuela and security back to the region we cannot delay this critical conversation which has the world's attention for the sake of venezuela and

the region we must support the venezuelan people and do so right now the mike pompei o isn't too concerned about what happens in venezuela after the current leadership is overthrown now let's not forget that the us meddling in the country's internal affairs is motivated purely by selfless humanitarian concerns about the people so after regime change there are 40 plus contenders who will then fight it out for power now does that remind you of any recent events in current history take for example the us invasion of iraq dick cheney said that it would go well my belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators but there's been nothing but chaos and civil war in iraq since the usa invaded there are 288000 deaths so far and counting and dick cheney wasn't completely clueless wasn't what he said in 1904 but you got to iraq and took it over and took down saddam hussein's government the money going to put in place for take libya hillary clinton was delighted to hear

that gadhafi had been put to the sword we came we saw you died but now even barack obama admits that toppling the libyan government didn't come with a game plan for what happens next what he considers his worst mistake as president probably failing to. plan for. the day after. what i think was the right thing to do in. the intervening. libya but who needs planning right after all the people of venezuela would probably love to have their homeland go the way of iraq and libya nothing says freedom and liberation like having regime change followed by civil war and thousands of refugees fleeing for their lives it confirms something that we you know long suspected but you know now it you know is out in the open that the opposition is so internally divided washington you know would take over the figures like marco rubio favor

a radical regime change scenario which involves the effectively destroying the existing institutional structure that has been built in venice when the you know in the words of john bolton that to open up venezuela's busy oil sector to us and you know to really return but as well to the pre 999 status quo where it was a reliable ally in the region and you know reliable agent of the u.s. in opec to maintain a low oil prices as the u.s. diplomatic cables themselves acknowledge. still to come impeaching donald trump is still the sole goal for some of the more assertive democratic washington of the angle of attack strange like saucy reports among our stories after the break. you know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up

to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final. the one percent. nor middle of the room.

back a german nurse who murdered 85 patients has been given a 2nd life sentence earlier 42 year old neil's hogle said he was endlessly sorry back in 2005 hogle was called while tampering with a syringe pump and administering a cardiac medicine without cause this led to a series of investigations he was initially convicted of attempted murder in 2008 and sentenced to more than 70 years in prison then in 2015 a judge sentenced him to life in prison for 2 murders and 2 attempted murders. and it was at the latest trial. oldenburg festival hall this is where court proceedings had to be held the regional court hole was simply not able to accommodate all those people who wanted to attend and massive trial huge public attention the case raised many questions but gave a few on servers and one of the biggest questions was what is the exact number of

people that mr her girl killed we heard from many including the main geology of the process that it is still unclear this is he entering the room packed with people he's caused so much harm to someone who is supposed to relieve the pain and prolong life but instead brought death to his patients this is where news her girls started playing his german version of a russian roulette oldenburg clinic working as a nurse here for 2 years studying 999 mr hurdle would pick up a patient could be any race so done there any age or health condition or social background to make an injection that would cause complications so that later mr hurdle could calm and quickly and professionally revive the patient getting everybody's admiration he's calling us at the clinic or so impressed with his skills that they even gave him a flattering nickname resuscitate rambo without of knowing that the person they

praise. was in most of the cases behind the patients complications in the 1st place not all of mr her goals victims who were able to survive many of them died the clinics personnel suspected nothing until the statistics came out showing that the number of das in the clinic almost doubled since mr hurd who joined the team but instead of investigating the cases henri paul to their fears they simply decided to get rid of the nurse but before they gave him a very good recrimination letter that he wrote here to this hospital in the neighboring town of delman horace to mr her go get hired here and. these deadly game continued for another 3 years until he got caught in 2005 how did this all happen we have been able to talk about that with so many people and all of them almost agree that their reason a complex of reasons behind this terrible situation it's not only the system of

hospitals and and. people who are working in those hospitals but i think it's almost a problem of each person just to look away don't want to see what's happening we have several problems the perpetrator who is completely without feelings and empathy and then we have a culture of looking away if people had paid more attention to the information to do so then things would have been different. president trump says things could be very different between washington and moscow without all the rhetoric surrounding russia he was speaking to the fox news channel on thursday. i quote have a good relationship with russia i think the church by the folly which you know i did have a good relationship with russia is close to 2 months in special counsel robert miller's report said donald trump did not collude with russia to win the presidency but the fight hasn't died down u.s. democrats are still desperately trying to find a way to impeach the president now building their case on an obstruction of justice

allegation our senior correspondent i guess the expository. there are those who support trouble those who want him impeached. who really really really want him impeached preferably now and in the painful way take for instance this particularly enthusiastic new york times contributor who is gone and written up actual articles of impeachment to save everyone starve i suppose or maybe just a hobby of his who knows others c.b.s. have impeachment track is literally counting congressmen who are calling for trump to be impeached. just like kids opening chocolate filled advent calendars 63 now out of 535 senators and representatives just a few 100 to go and trump will hiring just need a reason you can't impeach for annoying tweets about noxious hairstyles or know

exists and collusion all that's left is obstruction when a subject of an investigation obstruct that investigation or lies to investigators it strikes at the core of the government's effort to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable here's a question that's been giving lawyers migraines how or why does one obstruct an investigation an investigation that later proves he was innocent of the crime he was being investigated for the special counsel's report states that his investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities namely any sort of collusion with russia it's almost impossible to have an obstruction of justice no underlying crime what makes trump especially awful obstruction is he voluntarily gave his investigators sometimes and writing material

on how he allegedly tried to obstruct the investigation like when he reportedly told the then white house counsel to get rid of mueller fire him and then allow that counsel to go and testify to mueller the faily new york times wrote a fake piece today implying that because white house counsel done my gann was given hours of testimony to the special counsel he must be john dean type of rant but i allowed him and all others to testify i didn't have to i have nothing to hide in fact trumpet boasted earlier about what a good boy he was being about how much workload he had provided. the investigators the white house had to do over 20000 pages of documents the 2016 campaign 1400000 pages 20 white house employees gave voluntary interviews it's like trump was building an obstruction of justice case against himself and on

top of that he was terrible at it. wasn't fod he investigated for 674 days and only finished when he was done so this is it if you couldn't figure out how to impeach trump for trying to conceal crimes he didn't commit contact your local democrat immediately i expect any time soon you'll be offering a reward it is not obstruction of justice in any way again this was the obstruction of justice not for a court proceeding of course this was not a court proceeding this was an informal investigation through an executive agency an executive body and so because of that the elements are a little bit different it would have to be willful omission or willful concealment or destruction of evidence during an investigation which of course did not happen in this case i don't think in the end there will be any consequences for

obstruction because i don't think obstruction can be proven i do believe that the democrats are still real and the democrats want to make sure that they are not seen as having wasted $40000000000.00 of taxpayer money in order to start or engage in an investigation and a spying campaign based on evidence that wasn't even legitimate so i think the democrats are going to continue to try i think that will be a term that continues to be thrown around just so they can save face because they're looking to retake the white house in 2020. ok back to some petersburg now host city for the annual international economic forum let's go live again to our correspondent at the ford if i'm trying to add also sophie shevardnadze who is the moderator for the softening in signature q. and a. session with world leaders. call it a hike and indeed i am keeping my promise is the main discussion of the end of the international economic forum in st petersburg wrapped up just about 30 minutes to

go and here sophie shevardnadze hey she was hosting she was moderating the event this year and it's a special privilege for teeth so feels great and it's great to have you here at the our cheap order so i mean i was here last year the year before that and this event was always moderated by western journalists this time though when it was you know questions about russian meddling or russian interference because you had many other things to talk about that are very important for this world work now right on it being willing to have one plenary session that was dedicated to russian heavily into the american elections though i don't think it was more us going into that one more time but yet at the time pass and we have the mule reports it was obvious that there's nothing to talk about that was that and there were a lot of things that we could have discussed in terms of china russia cooperation

road balance cooperation there you russian economic. tokenization sure and i think it was very indicative acela that. first clinton presidency they were focused very diplomatic you know my questions they want to answer me straight forwardly but when i was asking them about the trade or because i do believe it is the most important economic topic of today between china and america they were sort of hitting hinting at the. american side starting war but they wouldn't really blame the americans or a very good planning but both of them pretty much agreed that. they could not be. the global war on the global economy and free trade with protectionism and isolationism and if we want to live together in one world that we better do it together just to make it clear for our viewers so pete was talking about the eurasian economic union it's our it is an equivalent of the e.u.

so to say but when it comes to the former soviet republics and russia but you were talking about trade wars that was of course the number one topic because you were sitting right next to vladimir putin and the chinese leader xi jinping now i just want to play you a segment of that discussion when the leaders they were quite the metaphorical in the way he answered sophie's question let's take a listen. cartridge globalization is a double edged sword of course there are those who stand to benefit and those who stand to lose so this is a question of distribution as benefits and interests but you know if you're unhappy with fleas in your fur coats you can simply throw a fur coat into the oven it's that's and see above natural 30.