this is. going to. be the stories that shape of the week here on our t.v. the russian and chinese president speak out on america's attempt to dominate international trade they were in russia's northern capital same petersburg one of the biggest events on the business calendar. breaking cover while the u.s. hits venezuela with new sanctions a link to audio recording suggests washington is failing to unite the country's opposition against president majority. leader the underwear just to keep the opposition united as devilishly difficult to get

a table with iran so i want some journalists warn of a threat to press freedom in australia after police raid the country's national broadcaster following the disclosure of classified data in the media. and a german serial killer who murdered 85 patients while working as a nurse was given a 2nd life sentence on thursday but police suspect he may have been killed hundreds more. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. our business leaders and politicians from around the world have gathered in st petersburg for the annual international economic forum this week president putin and china's she took center stage at the conference on friday putting on a show of unity and back to back speeches and offering their thoughts on trade

relations with united states social sophie shevardnadze moderated their q. and a session she joined our correspondent go to discuss the highlights. why wouldn't you meet him without any conditions or. did i refuse i wasn't invited. we know what kind of negotiate a trump is he's a wonderful businessman a fast tomine ate some existing contract and he stops paying 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 with nafta something similar happened to japan what will happen with you. maybe i have an answer to this question in my notes. i. see it's good i asked it generally it's good that you hear and asking questions now

i was here last year the year before that 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 right now right. he had one plenary session that was dedicated to russian heavily american elections and it was more us going into that one more time and the time passed and we had the reports it was obvious that to talk about that was that. there were a lot of things that we could have discussed in terms of china russia cooperation. road valves cooperation and persecute them presidency they were 1st very diplomatic you know my question today what answer me straight forwardly. when i was asking them about the trade war because i do believe it is the most important economic topic of today between china and america they were sort of hitting hinting at

a. american site starting war but they wouldn't be playing the americans are a very diplomatic 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 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 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 the answer to sophie's question let's take a listen. 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 c. of us natural that if we were a new chairman she has explained the tariff as

a fight between globalization with my station and the question is why does russia stand in the fight for 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 it it's clear that they are not the was war initiating this called flip when it comes to the economic international battlefield play that's what i meant that were very diplomatic in. their answers because most of them are way too grand to actually point fingers at anyone in particular but i think well understand that they meant america and they meant that we didn't start the straight 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 the we went on to talk about russian

sanctions we got to the russian sanctions so we got to that point a bit later and the line up of the panel was very interesting 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 the tunnel there are perhaps not the most important voices in brussels but still they have something very important to say right and it was great to see how you dug into the matter with them 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 you they latter sit their voices do matter if either of them like i point out would vote against the sanctions that the sanctions will be off so that was a very important point for you 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 are part of the european union but that's like the usual answer that you european representatives give 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 the sanctions in place. in 5 minutes are looking for ways to trade somehow with russia and this is double 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.

for. there is some relief for the people of venezuela as the crisis there continues to drag on thousands have crossed into neighboring colombia to receive humanitarian aid with the border now reopened after being closed for 4 months the colombian authorities say more than 30000 people moved across the border it was closed back in february by the venezuelan president nicolas maduro as opposition leader prepared to allow u.s. backed material aid into the country meanwhile washington's standoff with caracas is not letting up new sanctions were stuff slapped on one of venezuela's state owned oil companies on thursday but it seems the u.s. is still unsure about the future of president majority leader to audio recording suggests the u.s. secretary of state is finding it difficult unite the fractured venezuelan opposition into a cohesive force that he's come up and has. mike 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 there oh if his regime change efforts are successful. just to keep the opposition. groups devilishly difficult moment but surely it's everybody's going to the summit it says. residents of this will be people who believe they're the rightful heirs are 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 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 though 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 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 listen to what he said in 1904 once 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 our 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 you know is 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 affectively destroying the existing by the institutional structure that has been built in venice while also in the words of john bolton that to open up venezuela's busy oil sector to us and you know to really we're turbot as well to the pre 1900 that status quo where it was a reliable ally in the region and you know a reliable agent of the us and opec to maintain a low oil prices as u.s. diplomatic cables themselves acknowledge. concerns over press freedom have reverberated across australia following a series of police raids the 1st on the prominent journalist and then on the country's national broadcaster a.b.c. though the cases are not linked to police say this week's searches are based on the disclosure of classified information. the criminalisation and crackdown on national security journalism is spreading like a virus these sons precedent is already having effect 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 at 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. both stories were released over a year ago with the help of leaks a.b.c.'s afghan files were revealed in 200-1000 or excuse me 2017 and exposed possible war crimes by australian special forces in afghanistan based on classified defense documents while the home of smith hurst the political editor of australia's sunday telegraph was rated in relation for a story from 2018 she disclosed

a government plan to expand its spying on australian citizens but article relied on secret correspondence between ministries obtained from a whistleblower and an australian radio host revealed that the government is now also investigating how he obtained unauthorized data that. boasts that excuse me boats filled with refugees had tried to reach australia ben fordham said the focus of the probe is not on him but more his source about an hour after we shared the information we were told that the department of honda phase will investigate this disclosure i was told by high buffet's that i'm not the target of this investigation it's about the people who was supposed to keep this stuff confidential last year australia widened its scope for raiding media organizations related to leaks of classified data and australian free speech activist we spoke to thinks it is more alarming that the government is targeting those behind the leaks instead of those allegedly committing crimes. scientific tools were very dedicated

to the what message not see them stopping but that is a very dangerous thing this general us will have to consider. those in this force as whether this will soon become a monster because the genesis question won't necessarily go to jail the sources that they i view saying in terms 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 thing for those in the. u.s. trained military a sense the revelation that this has been all 17 to be the grapes offense rather than actually saying it's not the s.a.'s as committing crimes the issue has been more than those revealing of those crimes committed by documenting their colleagues don is getting its 1st new president in decades who we report on sunday's landmark

election after a short break this is the week when are the international. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake 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. and 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. manufactured to send to the public well. when the ruling classes

protect themselves. in the final merry go round be the one percent. nor middle of the room sick. come back this is the week we hear on our 2 international now voters in kazakhstan have cast their ballots in an election that will produce of the country's 1st new leader in 3 decades the exit polls are indicating that the nation's interim president has a considerable lead with details he has are choosing or stuff. 2 independent pollsters have given their prognosis have given their 4 custis to who's going to be the next president of kazakstan and well both of them give an overwhelming lead to

the all time favorite of the race assumed to ca of the 2 pollsters give them just about a 70 percent lead so well it does look like a landslide but well just to give you a an idea as to who this person is well he's the appointee and a protege of the previous president of kazakhstan. and it does seem that a lot of people that the majority of kazakhs they put their trust in the in this candidate and well i had a chance to ask him a question to ask him what he envisions for his country if he indeed becomes president here's what he told me the wrong kazakhstan there are so many challenges to situation the wrong the war is becoming increasingly too mild heroes so we believe that hearing goes down we need to our words reduce and pitfalls we need to meet our challenges to come from outside or you know from you sorry but anyway we

are believe there due to the we were raised almost the people are cover star and will be successful parents we will all account now just to give you an idea as to how big of a deal this election for the people of kazakstan is as a buyer of has been the president of this country since the fall of the bewas aside yeah it's been that long and this is the 1st election he hasn't taken part in so really the 1st new face at the helm of this country in decades and now it is really the numbers as to how many people showed up to cast their ballots they speak for themselves it's of a number of the the show the people who have chosen to spend their time and to cast their ballots has been that over a 77 percent and it amounts to the 12. 1000000. people hate people here now i mean started to rain again you have today well this is the latest as to who

is going to be the next president. who murdered 85 patients who was given a 2nd life. earlier said he was endlessly sorry back in 2005 who was caught tampering with a syringe pump and administering a cardiac 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 in 2015 a judge sentenced him to life for 2 murders and 2 attempted murder. was at his 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 fletcher a nickname resuscitate rambo with out of knowing that the person they praised. 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 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 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 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 who are paid more attention to the information to the details then things would have been different. successive canadian governments have been responsible for a race based genocide against the country's indigenous peoples this is according to a long awaited official inquiry which concluded on monday the findings of the investigation into the murders and disappearances of aboriginal women were made public at a ceremony attended by prime minister justin trudeau and while he conceded that many mistakes have been made his initial reluctance to use the word genocide caused some anger in the crowd here many decades indigenous women and girls

across canada have disappeared suffered violence or been killed. and our justice system has failed. this is an uncomfortable day for canada. the report which is entitled reclaiming power and place took more than 2 years to write the inquiry heard more than 2000 witness testimonies and says that the abuse of indigenous peoples stems directly from canada's colonial past now it also argues that they struggle to find that legal redress a due to difficulties navigating the criminal justice system the report states that the disappearances and deaths of thousands of indigenous women have likely gone unrecorded some estimates put the number of victims at over 4000 for the period between 198-2012 the 1200 page document includes numerous

statements by victims and their relatives here is just one of those accounts. i was hitchhiking and this was literally just a month and a half before my sister loretta was murdered she was texting me she was like what are you doing delilah this is not just one operation a woman or girl this is being considered a national epidemic there's a whole bunch of really you know problematic criminal activity as regards to indigenous women and girls and it's been unaddressed for all of these decades until this inquiry on a light on it i am calling on all canadians and in fact others countries around the world to put political pressure on both our federal government and all of our provincial governments to to do something and to actually investigate state actors who are complicit or directly involved in the murders exploitations and

disappearances of indigenous women and girls the state has done nothing about it so they've been very complicit in the ongoing sexualized violence and murders of indigenous women and girls but you needn't have been able to put all of those pieces together until now. take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the globe this hour hundreds of thousands attended demonstrations in hong kong on sunday devoiced their anger over a proposed extradition draft bill would allow fugitives it to be sent to other jurisdictions including mainland china protesters carried signs calling for the resignation of the city's chief executive kerry alam who has been a driving force behind the bill hundreds of riot officers sealed off hong kong's legislative council which is taking up the issue. one woman is reported dead in a crane collapse in dallas texas on sunday local fire rescue says 5 more people are

in critical condition one person has been released from the hospital with only minor injuries the crane fell on a 5 story apartment building and a parking garage during a thunderstorm look at those pictures are pretty intense authorities have not yet confirmed if the severe weather conditions were a factor in the accident the death toll could increase as search operations are still underway. you're watching arch international i'm sean thomas will be back with more the weekly in 33 minutes stay with us. you know touga 2017 the german newspaper developed published an article claiming that the european union that last 30000000000 euros as a result of its very anti russian sanctions.

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