which. one would be would be easy to see just. what would. you do with. him or the stories that shaped the week the russian and chinese president speak out on america's attempt to dominate international trade they were in russia's northern capitals and petersburg indeed for one of the biggest events of the business calendar. breaking cover while the u.s. is venezuela with new sanctions are leaked or do recording suggest washington is failing to unite the country's opposition against president with durable. just to keep the opposition. we've got a. journalist one of the threat to press freedom and whistleblowers in the

straightly after police raid the country's national broadcaster this after the disclosure of classified data in the media. and the german serial killer who murdered 85 patients while working as a nurse was given a 2nd life sentence on thursday but police suspect that his final death toll could be more than 200. elo get after their welcome to the weekly around of all the big stories of the last 7 days as reported by us here without international in moscow when it was kevin 1st world leaders the business elite gathered in russia's northern capitals and petersburg on friday they were there for the annual economic forum president and china's leader took part in a lengthy q. and a in the pipe congress all their a correspondent. and also r.t.

sophie shevardnadze who incidentally was the main moderator at the event because through a taste of the main address the. but you why wouldn't you need him without any conditions or. did i refuse i wasn't invited do. we know what kind of negotiate a trump is he's a wonderful businessman or a fast tom unaids who exist in contract and he stops playing by the rules then there are false negotiations and in the end he gets a deal which is favorable to him it was the same was nafta something similar happened to japan what will happen with you. maybe i have an answer to this question in my notes. received it's good i also don't generally it's good that you hear and asking questions for years now 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 but you had many other things to talk about that are very important for this world or the right moment i think we're already had one plenary session that was dedicated to russia to play into the american election so i didn't think it was morris going into that one more time yet and the time passed and we had the reports it was obvious that there's nothing to talk about that was that. there were a lot of things that we could have discussed it in terms of china russia cooperation road balance cooperation and persecute them presidency they were post their diplomatic you know my question today what answer me straight forwardly. 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 serving heating hinting that. american site starting work but they wouldn't be

playing the americans are a very diplomatic but both of them. pretty much agreed that. they could not be that global war on the global economy and free trade with protectionism and isolationism and if you want to weave together in one world that we better do it together you were talking about trade wars that was of course the number one topic because you were sitting right next to vladimir putin but chinese leader. now i just want to play you a segment of that discussion when the leaders. were quite metaphorical in the way he answered sophie's question let's take it worse. but you know if you're unhappy with fleas in your fur coat you can simply throw a fur coat into the oven it's that's and see above natural 30 chairman she has explained the tariff as a fight between globalization within my station and the question is why does moshe

stand and fight economic superiority what you get this ship is a good chinese proverb when the tigers are fighting in the valley a smart monkey sits out of the way and watches how and then. so you see the presidents are not giving me this but it's clear who they're talking about and it's clear that they are not the ones war initiating this conflict when it comes to the economic international battlefield play that's what i meant that were very diplomatic in their answers because both of them are way to brands to actually point fingers at anyone in particular but i think will understand that they meant america and they meant that we didn't start this trade for america started and it's best that we need to clean up together because it is not a good thing for the world economy and then we went on to talk about russian sanctions we've got to the russian sanctions are we got to that point

a bit later and the line up of the panel was very and. as well because we had the leaders of. the biggest country russia the 2nd biggest economy china of course there's no disrespect to the smaller countries but the e.u. members that were there on that title there are perhaps not the most important voices in brussels but still they have something very important to say and it was great to see how you dug into the matter with them as they were saying that in many cases. even though they support the common position of the european union. in many cases they're against the anti-abortion sanctions and this is not the way to go right but actually i wouldn't agree with you when you're saying that the voices don't really matter in the u. because the sanctions they're actually reenacted the latter so their voices do

matter if either of them like i point out voted against the sanctions that the sanctions will be off so that was a very important point. to ask them and i mean you could tell that their hands are tied and they couldn't say that we really want the sanctions to be off that we're part of the european union but that's like the usual answer that you european representatives get and i mean we can understand them right because they're not in a position to go against the whole union but they're very clear about the message that it's crazy that even the people who are actually putting these sanctions placed. in 5 minutes are looking for ways to trade somehow with russia and this is devil standards that shouldn't be taking place and it is better for everyone involved for the sanctions to be off and i believe it's very important that you were able to get this kind of answer from them.

in other news from the we've just gone the united states continue to ramp up pressure on president maduro. government in venezuela on thursday it announced new sanctions against a state owned oil company but it seems washington still unsure about whether or not madeira should in fact step down or not because a leaked odio recording suggested the u.s. secretary of state is finding it difficult to unite the fractured venezuelan opposition into one cohesive force. morning 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. just to keep the opposition as really difficult moments really. everybody's going to really the result of this is me president of the us will be people who are the rightful here if you're going to. pompei i was pretty clear about the fact that this discussion was not meant for

public consumption so we got a favorable response i was 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 my comp aoe 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 u.s. 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 and we came we saw that he 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. in 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 you know out of 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 while also in the words of john bolton 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. opec to maintain a low oil prices as the u.s. diplomatic cables themselves acknowledge. a german who murdered 85

patients was given a 2nd life sentence the the us hogle said earlier he was endlessly sorry his timeline back in 2005 was caught with a syringe pump and administering medicine without cause that led to a series of investigations he was initially convicted of attempted murder in 2008 and sentenced to just over 7 years in prison then 2015 a judge sentenced him to life for 2 murders and to attend to his. was his latest. 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 rammed by without of a 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 deaths 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 through to the nurse but before they gave him a very good recrimination letter that he would hear it to this hospital in the neighboring town of delman horst mr her go get hired here and. his 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 there 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 the details then things would have been different so we have to the afternoon here in moscow hoping we can is going good coming up here the hit t.v. show chernobyl renewed people's interest in the world's worst nuclear accident that took place just over 30 years ago r.t. coming up to give you more insight speaks to one of the key figures in the clean up operation after that terrible tragedy soviet major general nikolai to the colonel is coming up.

what politicians do. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to the press this is like them before 3 of them or can't be good. interested always in the waters about how. they should. agree has long positioned itself as a sovereign player within the e.u. it can stand up to brussels and put its foot delane when it comes to its own national interests but when it comes to dealing with the trumpet ministration is the government just as ready to put hungary 1st.

again concerns over press freedom of being raised in australia after police raids on a prominent journalist and then on the country's national broadcaster the a.b.c. now the cases are linked police say this week searches have been based on the disclosing of classified information. the criminalisation and crackdown on national security journalism is spreading like a virus these sanch president is already having affect journalists must unite and remember that courage is also contagious this police raid against our partners at a.b.c. is an attack on press freedom which we the b.b.c. find deeply troubling the australian federal police rate race serious concerns about freedom of the press they could have

a chilling in fact on the right of journalists to carry out their chops the scene might be expected in an authoritarian country but not in a democracy stories were released over a year ago with the help of links the a.b.c.'s africa files were revealed in 2017 and exposed possible war crimes by stray special forces in afghanistan based on classified defense documents there in the home of anarchists methods the political editor of a stray a sunday telegraph was raided in relation to a 2018 story she disclosed a government plan to expand its spying on its straightly and citizens that article again relied on secret correspondence between ministries obtained from the whistleblower and further illustrated in radio host revealed that the government is also no investigating how he obtained unauthorized data that boat filled with refugees had tried to reach australia but for them said in fact the focus of the probe is not entirely on him it's on his source about an hour after we shared the information we were told that the department of home of peers will investigate this

disclosure i was told by home affairs that i'm not the target of this investigation it's about the people who were supposed to keep this stuff confidential last year increase the punishment for leaking classified data it's no crime for any public official to share an authorized information straight in free speech activists but i can't spoke to us about it thinks it's alarming that the government is more concerned with leakers than with crimes it's allegedly committed. scientific tools were very dedicated they were the best engine ossie them stopping but that is a very dangerous thing this generous will have to consider. in this force as whether this will soon be called las vegas the genesis question won't necessarily go to jail the sources that they are have you saying incidents of people's lives that they are very much at risk which is the agenda behind these arrests of these investigations the particular release of the files has been something you know some

of the dissolution and sang for all those in the. u.s. trained military a sense the revelation of this as family also seemed to be the grace fence rather than actually saying the s.a.'s as in crimes the issue has been more than those revealing of those crimes committed by documenting the. final episode of a hit t.v. show chernobyl had monday the series based on events around 1986 nuclear disaster has revived interest in the tragedy. i'm pleased to report that the situation in chernobyl state. is on fire. and every atom of uranium is like a bullet. some of them will not stop firing from 50000.

that catastrophe happened over 30 years ago it is the largest in this day nuclear accident in history it's estimated that almost 600000 people were affected and that up to 4000 could die early as a result radiation levels in the epicenter were massively higher than a lethal dose the disaster lead to massive radiation exposure it was made worse and more widespread by the winds at the time that blew fallout across europe in asia and this is what the tower where the reactor exploded looks like today.

one of the key figures in the cleanup operation after the tragedy was the soviets made general. terra count off he was in charge of the so-called liquidators division which was tasked with containing the radioactive material at the chernobyl site the general says that meltdown is going to stay with him for. i spent 3 months at 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 grade of onward 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 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. 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 or no one will blame you for it because it's your life and i am responsible for it. the horrors of 1906 revisited worse just some of the top stories now the pound we just gone thanks for watching out international please continue to call the brazier throughout the coming hours only breaking news that we have was was a recap of all the big stories of the last of days i'm kevin i have a great sunday.

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putting its foot down and standing up to brussels when it comes to pour national interests but when dealing with the trauma administration is the organ government equally forthcoming in putting hungry 1st to discuss that i'm now joined by the country's foreign affairs minister. this it's always a pleasure seeing you in russia thank you for your time and you're happy to be here now judging from your. and interviews one of the most popular words in your vocabulary is hypocrisy involved almost every time you're asked about hungary's relations with china russia with the e.u. itself is he really so prevalent in your line of work well actually if you look at european politics recently especially during the campaign of the european parliament elections you will see a big big portion of hypocrisy political correctness and the fortunes of double standards and this specially when it comes to cooperation with china comes to cooperation the real russia and when it comes to internal issues of the european

union as well sometimes you do have the feeling that some smaller member states. the same things for which some of those got praised you know and this is really something that we have to change that's why we are very vocal and it comes to debate about the future of the union we want to take part in these debates in very actively in order to. now the last time i heard you mention that where it was in relation to central and eastern european countries willingness to do business with china and you made the point that bigger countries like germany and france are far ahead in the game and yet for some reason they seem to be rather displeased about other countries willing to catch up how do you interpret that kind of criticism is the competition is it an effort to exert control is it something else 1. making business with china is pretty beneficial for everyone because the chinese companies are getting stronger and stronger. chinese investors. are the.

countries of the logical upgrading no question about it i mean the old. the only flaws from west to east looking for cheap labor knowledge base of the of the changes regarding global economy. some companies as well at least as much as by western companies and if you look at the figures you know figure. the 11. countries have a share point 9 percent 11 countries 9.9 percent when it comes to the china trade and the 5 countries making the biggest business for china are of course of western european countries by germany which we have no problem i mean we why do you think they have a problem. they always criticize us for business just for the art of

criticism for the engine off. chinese investors in our countries but you know what i'm telling you is that there are 16 a major investments by chinese companies in hungary 11016. so the americans. there is in hungary immediately became chinese investments so what we can do for how we know how so the thing is that we are always criticised. the so-called 16 plus one. no one raises the same question when the german chancellor and the french president together meet the chinese leadership and so. you know. how do you explain that is the. difference here is different sets of rules for different. number one this is double standards and number 2 that as i told you at the beginning making business with china is beneficial.