i. leaders of arrived in the japanese city of asarco for what could be a g. 20 gathering. expected to be. conflicts in the persian gulf. before. threatening china with a further $325000000000.00 worth of. his agriculture secretary complains that u.s. farmers are bearing the brunt of the trade war. and the world. trade war i think they are one of the casualties they are the trade issue of.

iran's foreign minister he was the white house. threats to obliterate his country. and the un special rapporteur. he says has been on the victim of a relentless smear campaign. 10 o'clock here in moscow you watching a life with me walking. thanks for joining us on the program. the leaders of the world's major economic powers have arrived in japan for the g. 20 summit which gets underway on friday president putin will be among the heads of state in attendance and is expected to meet with donald trump on the sidelines reporting from here. let me just give you

a feeling of downtown austin could just before the main events of the summit the roads are almost deserted and it is very quiet. while there is something that explains it easily this area is filled with some very important people who say they want to get together to sort busy out what's troubling the world nowadays i'm very happy to be here for the g. 20 where the challenges are great but let me be honest with you for several previous g 20 gatherings in a row journalist were really hungry for formal round table discussion for how the president and the prime ministers were reading out their vision for global development what mattered most back then and what matters most right now are so called by last when to the leaders sit right next to each other and deal with what

piled up between their 2 countries by the way the japanese prime minister shinzo abi will be welcoming some of his guests because medieval summarized. so what are these so to say golden by lots of this year the american president and the chinese leader everyone wants to know what's going to happen with the trade wars next especially after what happened to chinese tech giant huawei another highlight well that's easy to guess donald trump together with the russian president vladimir putin by the way i was told that we are approaching a hotel where one of them is staying the raul hotel. yes indeed this is the home of. and also go.

to that cost to me let's see if we can try and get in a few hours before the president was. obvious the special type of i.d. was required to get in there. face to face was also meant to be one of the highlights but let me remind you what happened just before mr trump got on his plane i'll have a very good conversation with what i said is none of your business obviously everything could change at the very last moment here too but compared to what mr trump said before he had to also go. based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to ukraine from russia i have decided it would be best for

all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting in argentina with president vladimir putin so the protesters that were viciously gather in the whole cities for these kind of events might want to change their agenda a little bit the g 20 summit isn't any longer that much about the group of 20 itself or globalization right now it has a different twist to it. geopolitics experts are money wealth among told us that in a lot of the shifting balance of global power meetings on the sidelines of this year's g. $20.00 will be particularly significant. what you're experiencing is in you were psych your. job pretty texan but ward it means new power emerging varies a great power rivalry which dominates the scene and the outer one organizations

are less and less of a center of. attention of great powers and he can see that as his g 20 eva be let taylor didas and meetings who would be more important fans of g. 20 summit said if he's seen it i know we've or the new american doctrine america 1st. rather putin has declared liberalism to be dead the russian president made the comment during interview with the financial times on wednesday in which she gave his thoughts on the rise of populism around the world among other political trends as well we're going to she now is our correspondent laura has the if for more on this pretty interesting comments from the russian president in this interview or what more they have to say well we will get more of his what putin had to say i'm video shortly but the liberal idea he says is dead over the last 10 years he says liberals progressives of trying to dictate to

the world what to do how to do it without taking it into account any sort of. opposing views in any other opinions and they made a huge number of mistakes big mistake she says multiculturalism immigration open borders people have come out against that these things are no longer seen as ideals and you know such great achievements as well souse of problems that have been caused mentioned. the german leader who invited the 1000000 syrian refugees in that position huge mistake as well he says he also spoke about the upcoming meeting with donald trump the 2 is said to meet and he said traditionally he has had good working relations with past u.s. presidents that george bush who he said he had the most contact with barack obama

less so but still workable and he says he respects he respects donald trump he doesn't agree with his message methods he doesn't agree with that how he solves problems but he speaks to the people he speaks to the electorate in the electorate likes what he does he said he has a lot of respect them and he hoops that their relations can you know progress. but. mr trump is not a career politician he has a distinct world outlook and vision of u.s. national interest i know except many of his methods when it comes to addressing problems but you know what i think i think he's a talented person he knows very well what is very does expect from him russia has been accused and strange as it may seem it is still being accused despite the minor reports of mythical interference in the u.s. election what happened in reality mr trump looked into his opponents attitude to him and saw changes in american society and he took advantage of this but only

a putin also spoke about the poisoning of the school pals and in the u.k. he said the the story itself isn't isn't worth 5 copecks basically means it's it's worthless he says we can spend ages trading accusations compiling lists of what the other side did wrong he says that this should be taken out of the media spotlight out of the political spotlight and that intelligence agencies people who you know who are professionals that they should look at what happened to this group as they should collaborate work together and solve exactly what happened who did it and where to go from there he says that. the way the way things are going now it's just going to dead end obviously there's there's a lot more that he said the interview was just the transcript has just come out and

bring you more as we get it it was interesting listening to these interviews with major western outlets always some good food for thought the more guys there for the latest there on the course of interview. before jetting off for japan donald trump threatened to hit all remaining imports of chinese goods to the u.s. with tariffs that if a trade deal is not struck. so they want to make you feel they want to make you feel more than i do let me put it back ok they want to make a deal i've only done phase one phase one is 25 percent or 250000000000 i haven't done phase 2 years now phase 2 does it have to be 25 percent it could be 10 percent which people can absolutely handle. the united states of course so far employers tariffs on $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports over what it sees as unfair trade practices among washington's concerns of beijing's subsidies to chinese firms its restrictions on competition as well as alleged intellectual property theft china for its part has placed import taxes on $110000000000.00 worth of american

goods that hit the u.s. i grew cultural sector particularly hard china of course its laws that market accounts for most 20 percent of overseas sales that was in 2017. picks up the story . one section of the u.s. economy is certainly on edge and that is the agricultural sector farmers have long been upheld as almost sacred in americana from the writings of thomas jefferson idealizing the yeoman to the iconic speech of paul harvey delivered in 1978 and on the age they looked down on his planetary eyes and said i need a caretaker so god made a farmer i need somebody with me to get up before dawn milk cows work all they can the fields you know cows again each summer then go to town and stay fashion that night at a meeting in a school board so god made a farmer now you would think that farmers would be a central focus of drums promise to make america great again after all it was the

agricultural states like iowa wisconsin and minnesota where trump won big however at this point as the trade war with china continues farmers aren't winning they're hurting bad and the farmer. almost trade war i think they are one of the casualties they are the trade disruption yes but trump says the farmers should just take it after all it's for their own good in the long term and we're going to help out our farmers we will ensure that our farmers get the relief they need and very very quickly. it's a good time to be a farmer this claim doesn't match the actual numbers look at soybeans corn and wheat production at this point the midwestern heartland of the united states is already suffering from d.m. dust realisation and now it's seeing its agricultural base plummet income of american farmers has dropped to half of what it was in 2013 and the rate of debt of farmers has reached $427000000000.00 the highest it's been since the farm crisis of

the 1980 s. farmers are also defaulting on their loans left and right the highest rate that it has been in 7 years and 3 months a lot of us were forced to take loans to keep our businesses afloat but yet some businesses were so far and the banks wouldn't give them their operating loans for the your the prices for greens and stuff have gone down significantly that we're unable to pay more of our bills and get the banks paid off to get our loans back in check with the banks that they don't threaten to shut us down the mood's a nigger culture of community are very stressful it's theirs angers everything else our planet the window of this year has been so long from the wet spring that we've had half the farmers don't even have all their crops they need to feed their animals to make the livelihood this year in the growing it's very stressful and very irritating now farmers received a $16000000000.00 subsidy in the hopes of making up for what they cannot sell to china but it was only a drop in the bucket the bread basket at the center of the american economy seems

to now be on the chopping block as trump plays his art of the deal game with the 2nd largest economy on earth a lot of voices have to be asking how much longer. r.t. new york. the g 20 would also be overshadowed to some extent at least by the crisis in the persian gulf on the risk of conflict that wins that iran's foreign minister zarif shot when he criticized the old trump's bullish behavior as well as his threats to annihilate the islamic republic. president trump should remember that we don't live in the 18th century the united nations tried to and threat of force. when most recently asked about the possibility of conflict with iran trump boasts that it would be a brief affair but also clarified that he didn't seek conflict something should happen were a very strong position it wouldn't last very long i can tell you that it would not last very long and i'm not talking boots on the ground i'm not talking we're going

to send millions or use it but i'm just saying if something would happen wouldn't last very long despite trumps numerous warnings that iran could be heading for obliteration the u.s. secretary of state says he believes to iran is wholly responsible for the current tensions. america's done everything it can to deescalate if there is conflict if there is war if there is a connecticut activity all because the iranians made their choice now the trumpet ministration for the past year has been waging what it's called the maximum pressure campaign against iran it's been attempting to financially strangle the country while deploying additional troops as well as a carrier strike group to the middle east the mounting tensions between washington and tehran in recent weeks have been of particular concern to rock which is allied to both sides its president's sali has warned he will not allow america to use his country to launch any military action against the neighbors the american troops the

coalition troops in iraq again at the invitation of the iraqi government for the specific exclusive mission of fighting isis we do not want to be a staging post foot any hostile action against any of our neighbors including iran or tensions between iran and washington the escalated when the us abandoned the 2050 nuclear deal just last year here is the view of an iranian journalist the relations between the 2 states. the pressure or the approach that the americans or their allies have had toward iran has impact that this behavior iran now we are in this collection more than the region as a result of the united states withdrawal from the nuclear deal and then followed by maximum pressure against tehran on the one side we're seeing the americans talking about negotiation on the other hand they're using military threats as well as economic war against the country this shows inconsistency as well as i think

ambiguity in their policies because i think donald trump is enjoying advisors who have conflict viewpoints towards iran and other international issues and this has caused this broad chaos to the white house in relation and is of iran dissolution in the region needs cooperation and talks and diplomacy between different sides in the region this is the argument of iran. the un special rapporteur on torture has once again highlighted his concerns over the case of wiki leaks founder julian assange is now accusing the media of ignoring the alleged inhumane treatment of the whistleblower outlets such as the guardian the washington post and reuters have apparently declined to publish to u.n. officials latest report notes meltzer told us the reasons he was given for the refusal. some of them said it wasn't high enough on their news agenda some of them

said that it was not within their core area of interest but you know there have been reporting all of them on the case of julian assigned when it was about his character and his skill and or and kind of the allegations that he smeared excrements on the walls but when you have a serious piece that actually tries to do mask this this public narrative and to actually show the facts below it then they're not interested the special rapporteur earlier highlighted a songes prison conditions as a major concern he's currently serving a 50 week sentence in the u.k. for skipping bio that was back in 2012 i missed a month so i also brought up other issues last month saying lawyer visits have been limited and too short and access the case files and documents has been lacking here is what the official had to say. i think it's very important to point out i knew that i was going to get into a very politicized environment when i visited julian assange i didn't know him

before so i took with me 2 experienced medical experts a psychiatry and a forensic expert and have worked for decades in examining torture victims just to get a objective scientific medical basis for my assessment and what they found is a person who shows all the symptoms that are typical for a person has been exposed to prolong psychological torture he has been exposed to public mourning now that's a slippery slope you know we will be in a debate when it's 2 side it's done more being basically is something like mudslinging that's not torture yet but when you start exposing a isolated individual who cannot defend himself to a sustained campaign of shaming of humiliation of ridicule of even death threats and calls for his assassination and he's completely isolated then that can cause severe psychological trauma the foreign secretary jeremy hunt is my counterpart in the u.k.

and i asked him for authorization to visit during our songe in order to examine the situation and the risk of torture and so he knew precisely what i was going to do and when obviously they didn't like the result of my observations now all of the sudden this should be meddling in the judicial process it is my mandate to examine whether to digicel proceedings are fair whether they are in compliance with human rights and whether or whether we have come to come to the conclusion that rather we are observing judicial harassment that are designed to put under un due pressure and to actually break him psychologically. well suspects a swedish programmer and digital privacy activist all are benny he was released last week from prison in ecuador after being arrested on the very same day as julian assange is back in april he was accused of trying to hack government computers then he told us his case was politically motivated and the prosecutors allegedly tried to link him to a song he says though that he's never worked for we can except i feel persecuted

because public official from going on t.v. lying about my case and then giving conflict they have to mount me i feel persecuted because my legal rights have been broken repeatedly and many many times over this process i can't tell you what the reasons are behind it but i can tell you that it's politically motivated and there are 2 main reasons why i say this the 1st one is that during the 1st 3 hearings the reasons the judges gave for keeping me in prison were not actually compatible with ecuador law my initial detention was illegal which was confirmed by the habeas corpus tribunal last week and finally the president and the minister of interior has repeatedly gone on television show. saying several different strands about my case that they didn't contradict it when they gave witness testimony 2 weeks ago. i washing powder has

triggered a gender equality row in pakistan the brand owned by american multinational procter and gamble opted to show men and women taking on traditionally male roles. now the advertisement ties drummed up plenty of response online with some people even calling for the authorities to take action against the product. you were muslim and we love our culture religion and no rituals the government should take strict action against ariel bron i miss my request to my dear pakistanis that please boycott ariel the soonest possible because religion comes 1st and this is our responsibility to protect our religion because prime minister of pakistan we

want ariel cloth washing detergents banned in pakistan immediately for driving and spreading anti islamic campaigns through media we are some media commentators whether that was wrong to push the boundaries of social norms in pakistan. i don't think it's a big u.s. companies job to insert themselves into pakistani culture if it was women speaking up against their own culture that would be one thing but i feel that it's very wrong for a western company to come in and insert themselves in a culture that maybe isn't adapted the same way that american culture has in a lot of these women it has been their position and their desire to see a change within their country their desire has been for women to have more rights to you know education to financial stability financial empowerment that's come from within the culture so for these women to be on the commercial simply gives them

a platform to add enhanced their voice that they've already been using this kirshner may set back that agenda this commercial may set back that initiative for these women this commercial may create children are you married at the age of whitney a gallon can it be i understand how much that we're not sure brady in our years here did in order to have marilyn company in jail getting them said are willing to you know why you claim saying how i see any women i think they're really pushing the envelope when they're dealing with sharia law and just like i don't want sharia law to come here to one america and take over my western american values i don't necessarily think i think it's very confrontational. all to go into a country that does have shari'a and insert western values there has never in the history og i'm just curious if you're reading now is that any type of or your knowledge that without women i met were willing to speak up you're not going to acknowledge if we were in america in the 19th 28 where you were not about where

they were sitting up there is not america up against not america if we were in america at its peak you would tell that is a lot of americans speak up against the way very because they were put people at risk of being list. of companies have challenge to an up time was overlooked scorchingly conservative values in other countries as well coca-cola came under fire for a video showing a woman driving in saudi arabia critics described it as sort of an over the oppression of women face in the gulf kingdom and advertising specialist told us it's simply the nature of the industry. brands need to find a way to cook through the massive humiliation. and resentment by one way of doing that is to be controversial and that means not going to if they don't cook through if they don't. they can't succeed in getting consumers to make choices and. they will attend a number of people going to doing so but it's very serious. and potentially

increasing sales which. when you get down to it then runs on that road that's why they exist they have to make profits they have to. try and i'm not what they're doing great thank you but. an exhibition of all things military the annual forum 29 team has been taking place just outside of moscow this has been showcasing cutting edge technology here in russia with the foreign audience what's going on as well as our very own egos that of. army 21000 years is the event for russian and international manufacturers alike to take their brand new weapons and technologies and showcase them to the world i mean look just here we have dozens if not hundreds of pieces of military equipment full fugit exposition warehouses and this is just the geographically central part of the exposition you can take a bus and check out the naval part of the expo you can check out the military drill

site and see some of these pieces of hardware in action or you can take another bus and go to an airfield and enjoy the airshow it's an international event so companies here are often not competitors but partners and representatives from russia and from abroad are side by side here it's a battle of brands for exposure here manufacturers resort to all sorts of tricks to attract more attention to their creations from seeking solutions like this one to a life sized iron man mask right over here and something with a clay appeal to children as well because tomorrow already this place is expected to be swarming with families with kids. right next to machines of war and put your section where you can not just try

something on but gear up to. the hour those are not what they see and this is the latest interpretation of an unmanned drone i mean apart from a clearly only theological disguise this thing can pinpoint narrowed down the location of a target to 10 meters something clearly worthy of the attention of the commander in chief. it seems there's nothing military you. can do here you can go window shopping you can buy something for personal use on a corporate scale you can play around with various interactive models or if you get impressed enough i guess you can even in list in the armed forces. but that's it for the sell just come up to $2230.00 here in moscow back at the top of next hour which is global headlines.

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