very dramatic development but only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful betty. in the stories that shaped the week here are to international the russian and chinese presidents speak out on america's attempt to dominate international trade they were in russia's northern capital st petersburg for one of the biggest events on the business calendar. breaking cover while the u.s. states of venezuela with a new round of sanctions elite audio recording suggests washington is failing to unite the country's opposition against president maduro. hard to measure but just

to keep the opposition you guys. we got a few of the routes i want some. journalists warned 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 killed hundreds more . are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international certainly glad to have you with us by business leaders and politicians from around the world gathered in st petersburg for the annual international economic forum this week president putin and china's xi jinping. 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 sophie shevardnadze moderated their q. and a session she joined our correspondent go to discuss the highlights. but you why wouldn't you need him without any conditions. that 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 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 with nafta something similar happened to japan what will happen with you. maybe i have an answer to this question in my notes. you 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 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 right now right ali i think we already had one plenary session that was dedicated to the russian heavily into the american elections so i don't think it was worth going into that one more time yet and the time has said we have a new report so it was obvious that there's no doubt about that was that. there were a lot of things that we could have discussed in terms of china russia cooperation road balance cooperation and persecute them presidency that were posed. you know my question today what answer me straight forwardly. when i was asking them about the trade war because i did. believe it is the most important economic topic of today

between china and america they were serving heating 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 . if you want to leave 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 he answered 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 30 new chairman she has explained the tariff as a fight between globalization with an antique replies ation the question is why does russia stand in the 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 it then. so you see the presidents are not giving me but it's clear who they're talking about it's clear that they are not the war and swore 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 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 the we went on to talk about russian sanctions we got to the anti-abortion 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 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 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 since their voices do matter if either of them like i pointed out voted against the sanctions that the sanctions will be 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 represent an excuse and i mean we can understand that 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. 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 venezuelan president nicolas maduro as opposition leader one quite 0 prepared to allow us back to humanitarian aid into the country meanwhile washington's standoff with caracas is not the letting up new sanctions were slapped on one of venezuela's state owned oil companies on thursday but it seems that the u.s. is still unsure about the future of president maduro in a leaked audio recording suggests the u.s. secretary of state is finding it difficult to unite the fractured venezuelan opposition into a cohesive force and he's come up

a. bike pompei always been caught making some comments about venezuela that were not intended for the prime time 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 the moment certainly. everybody is going to believe there isn't anything that says the next 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 got 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 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 when she 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 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. intervening in libya but who needs play . 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 effectively destroying the

existing the institutional structure that has been built in venezuela so in the words of john bolton that to open up venezuela's oil sector to us you know to really were charged as well to the pre 1900 that 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. concerns over press freedom have reverberated across australia following a series of police raids the 1st on a prominent journalist and then on the country's national broadcaster a.b.c. though the cases are not blamed the 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 sun 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 the leaks a.b.c.'s afghan files were revealed in 2017 and exposed possible war crimes by australian special forces in afghanistan based on classified defense documents now the home of smethurst of the political editor of australia's sunday telegraph was rated in relation for a different story from 2018 she disclosed a government plan to expand its spying on australian citizens that 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 an authorised data that boat filled with refugees had tried to reach australia ben fordham said excuse me the focus of the probe is not on him but 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 buffets 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 wide and its cope for raiding media organisations related to the 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 leagues instead of those allegedly committing crimes. sigh and eventually so very dedicated to the what message engine ossie from stopping that this very dangerous thing this jet us will

have to consider. those of missiles as whether this was before lots of this the genesis question won't necessarily go to jail the sources that they are have you saying in terms of people's lives that they are very much at risk which is the agenda behind these arrests of these 2 investigations the particular release of the file it's has been something you know some of the disillusioning thing for all those in the. u.s. trained military to sense the press relations up this s. and also to be the threats fests rather than actually seeing it on the s.a.'s as anything frightens the issue has been more than those revealing of those crimes committed the act of documenting kazakhstan is getting its 1st a new president in decades and we report on sunday's landmark election after a short break that this week when our 2 international.

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back to the weekly on our national now voters in kazakhstan have cast their ballots in an election that will produce 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 was off. 2 independent pollsters have given their prognosis have given their forecast as 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 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 in the 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 are wrong because our strong there are so many challengers who situation

the wrong the war is becoming increasingly too mild heroes so we believe they're hearing coinstar and we need to our words reduce and pitfalls we need to meet our challenges come from outside or uniform in sorry but the only way we are believe there due to the we work with almost the people of color started 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. by it 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 really the numbers as to how many people showed up to cast their ballots they speak for themselves it's are they the the 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 12000000 of the catholic people here people here . a german nurse who murdered 85 patients was given a 2nd life so. on thursday neil's hogle had earlier said that he was endlessly sorry back in 2005 ogle was caught tampering with a syringe banded ministering a cardiac medicine without cause that led to a series of investigations he was initially convicted of attempted murder in 2008 and a sentence to just over 7 years in prison then in 2015 a judge sentenced him to 2 to life for 2 murders and 2 attempted murders artie's maria has more. oldenburg festival hall this is where court proceedings had to be held the original 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 jonjo 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 study 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 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 so few 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. now 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 the 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 resistance to the use of the word genocide

caused anger in the audience. here many decades indigenous women and girls across canada have disappeared suffered violence or been killed. and our justice system has failed. was. this is an uncomfortable day for canada now the report which is entitled reclaiming power and place it 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 struggled to find a legal redress due to difficulties navigating the criminal justice system the report states that the disappearances and deaths of thousands of indigenous women have likely gone on recorded 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 i have before my sister loretta was murdered she was stack's to me she was like what are you doing delilah this is not just one abrasion a woman or girl this is being considered a national epidemic there's a whole bunch of really you know are problematic criminal activity as regards to indigenous women and girls and it's been on addressed for all of these decades until this inquiry schon 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 haven't 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 to voice their anger over a proposed extradition more draft bill would allow fugitives had to be sent to other jurisdictions including mainland china protesters carry to signs calling for the resignation of the city's chief executive carrie lamb who has been a driving force behind the bill hundreds of riot officers sealed off on kong's legislative council which was taking up the issue. one woman is reported dead in

a crane collapse in dallas texas on sunday local fire and rescue says several people have been injured with some in critical conditions one person has already been released from the hospital with only minor injuries a crane fell on a 5 story apartment building and parking garage during a fun of. have not yet confirmed if the severe weather conditions were a factor. and also. people were protesting in the haitian capital demanding the resignation of the country's president. reports say 2 are dead and several more protesters. roads. become commonplace and 80. perceive the government. back in 32 and a half minutes with a final look at your weekly. what

politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. i want to. get you going to be press was like before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. first sip. you know to go 2017 the german newspaper developed published an article claiming

that the european union have lost 30000000000 euros as a result of it's a very anti russian sanctions. particularly affected eastern europe many polish film as went broke and even committed suicide. sometimes i can't recall that i was i was of on the good. will put on the political front on the. young victim to have to finance my view on the whole saga going against the dolls and on to other kind of unknown. doesn't then lets me see in the all the pulling. the smiths. and doesn't dance with all the faults and that's what you call.

hello and welcome to cross talk or all things are considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of the program we discuss what drives the russia china relationship critics claim it is a marriage of convenience proponents say otherwise it is the pivotal relationship of the 21st century. and some real news i'm joined by my guest dimitri she's a political analysts we spoke nick international and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he is the editor of politics 1st magazine.