it was. the leaders of the world's most powerful countries meet at the g 20 summit in an effort to ease growing trade tensions and find solutions to a slew of political crises. we've not seen each other since the helsinki meeting of the r.t. if you would get it they gave us great opportunity to follow up on that. one of which is largest waste management firms is convicted for attempting to send tons of contaminated household rubbish to china wrongly labeled as paper for recycling. forward his blog

a rescue ship with dozens of migrants from docking on the country's southern most violent as the captain accuses rome of doing nothing to help those on board. live from moscow what's your the international 8 pm here in the russian capital. thanks for joining us president vladimir putin and donald trump held a closed door meeting on the sidelines of the g. 20 summit in japan on friday it was the 1st time the 2 leaders had met since the publication of the report on interference in the 2016 u.s. presidential election with the details trying to reports from osaka. well i can tell you that the full big fat agenda of the who get together didn't stop the 2 leaders from having a few light hearted moments and despite the dilapidated state of relations between

russia and america donald trump tried to lighten up the mode as best as he could. do you. have to really be. a little. while the white house and the kremlin remained why tight lipped about what was discussed in that room even though they did list the usual range of topics from iran to venezuela it definitely seemed like the president's word definitely making some sort of headway at least on a personal level the kremlin eventually said that donald trump's reaction to an

invitation from vladimir putin to take part and the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the victory in world war 2 was quote unquote very positive again what i can tell you was that a lot of our putin's day was very long he also had a face to face meeting with to resume a but that one wasn't at all to say the least but 8 hours after mr putin met the american president that was it 10 pm local time very late he had a face to face get together with the french president emmanuel macron and the mood there was perhaps just as warm as in the room. donald trump and vladimir putin sat down and emmanuel macron began by greeting his russian counterpart in russian. well another

highlight of these talks between lot of. drawn was when the french leader we acted to an interview that mr putin gave to the financial times where he said that the idea of a liberal democracy was out of date. believes that they can still 1 have a conversation about it and the model is pretty much alive so definitely a very busy day for the russian leader here at the g. 20 in. the 1st day has wrapped up. in there another meeting drawing a lot of attention on friday was of course that a lot of the british prime minister to resign may it was the 1st time that. since that nerve agents attack against the script and march 28th team the unease was

pretty evident as a grim faced shook hands with the russian president is a quick look at some of the other body language we've seen so far at the fore. police. believe.

me. you can pick out you can pick up on how relaxed are together how tense they are together so we can definitely see a whole bunch of things happening we can certainly see to reason may and fatima puton very they're not friends we don't need to be told that we can't see that donald trump that's that he's much closer with that i'm a puritan and of course we see the whole the whole the japanese chinese situation they're looking to move toward something positive but they're not there yet it's

very very cold the old it's very very structured and you can't really tell if that is going to move in the right direction yet or not. now the key aim or those you twenty's to promote global financial. billeted much of the focus of this year's gathering has been on the global tendency towards protectionism and in particular the trade dispute between the u.s. and china. stressed on friday he believes the brics countries brazil russia india china and south africa have a crucial role to play in shoring up the global economy business analyst thomas fassbender gave us his thoughts on the world trade tensions. of course international trade suffers but for some people and for some strategists the political gains from containment from same sions a more important. economic well being this plays out with respect to russia with this with plays out with respect to iran and in a way the increase increasing tariffs put up by washington also another form of

sanction so again i point to or the mix of political and economic aspects and it's us very increasingly difficult to keep one apart from on the other big becomes more complicated and money. one of britain's largest waste management has been has been found guilty of attempting to send heavily contaminated rubbish to china 7 shipping containers were stopped after the u.k. environment agency found they contained household waste instead of paper for recycling inspectors said the rubbish gave off a pungent vomit like smell shot who can ski brings us the story. ever wondered what happens to your rubbish at the end of the day or where those carefully placed for cycling in several bins actually ends up well for you is much of it was being

shipped off to less developed countries china in particular but now it looks like the tight is turning. now it turns out that the u.k. firm has been caught red handed trying to use this as a loophole to export contaminated with tiriel zz this company a big waste services has been convicted after a spot check discovered a host of unsanitary items amongst the $725.00 ton load contain is that would do you to be shipped to china instead of waste paper the investigators found

human waste used not bees condoms and cemetery towels amongst a host of other don't pay pal items such as plastic the u.k. environment agency described the smell from the container as a moment like its welcome to the 3rd act the regulations around should we use were brought in to stop the west's mentally pos and the problem to other countries it was commonplace in the 970 s. and eighty's for developed nations to send vast amounts of waste to brought the waste contains offensive material likely to have been discarded by the receiving contrie at great risk and cost to the environment and people the guilt of your to justify our decision to prosecute be. big fat remains adamant that he did nothing wrong and says the real problem is actually down to a lack of clear guidance for the industry overall more sceptical levels of purity

are we strongly contested this case and are very disappointed with this outcome the materials we supplied commanded market lead in prices and we match both international industry and customer standards the environmental agency has been continually asked to specify a required level of purity by both the industry and in one instance the court of appeal and the feeler to do so is a breach of its responsibilities to the market in the absence of any e.a. guidelines our products always met the standards set by our customers and provided a route to recycling in an environmentally sound manner so as countries like china cracked down on taking care of the west's inability or unwillingness to deal with its own rubbish the question is what. next challenge even ski otty high wycombe. disposing of the country's wastes the spot britta disputes in

the recent past the philippines earth can either take back tonnes of household rubbish wrongly labelled as we saw what tiriel or the malaysian government vowed to send up to 100 tonnes of contaminated plastic waste but to australia vaughan and this from the break free from plastic movement says developing countries are being used as dump sites. we've seen in cases in in malaysia for example where it's important to go up in so-called illegal operations by and these are called a regulated. open burning and the open them in indonesia there's been a meeting destination always coming. from. us we've seen for example. once clean or cultural. in the. italian government's hard line immigration policies are in

the spotlight once again or thirty's on the italian island of lampedusa close to to museum have blocked a rescue ship from docking with dozens of moderates on board now the captain claims it has done nothing to help them. but it lets. you perhaps if you want to come out and fought on the give it a fun box named. dr target of 1000 midlevel here to down but become. does this need loosen up. its charity organization which owns the ship says they've been caught up in a political game rome itself has reiterated that the migrants are attempting to enter the country illegally with more on the story r.t. sport. well migration is again splitting europe and becoming the new taste for your city's hardline migration policies roman says it will not take these migrants in

and it has reached out to the netherlands to become involved and to intervene and this is because the ship is saving under a dutch flag on thursday the dutch foreign ministry said it was preparing a statement and a response through diplomatic channels but it did issue a statement in which it states that it takes responsibility as a flag state but this does not mean that it will take over the migrants at the same time getting these interior minister said he was becoming a straight. i have objectives a fine of 50000 euros for the ngo the detention or seizure of the ship the arrest through the expulsion of the crew and the removal of migrants from italy on board if these conditions are met i'll be happy there is a question about holland because they say they don't care that is their ship and we like the same way. those who are not entitle to international protection need to be sent back immediately on arrival at european borders without

a clear perspective for such a structural solution the netherlands will not participate in ad hoc measures for the disembarkation italian authorities and also reached out to germany and france germany because the charity that is involved in pushing this ship rescue together is based there but as of yet hasn't given a response and france neither has come forward and said that they will be involved now it's worth pointing out that i stress for the court did recognize italy's right not to accept these migrants at the same time we're hearing from the new migration commissioner there says he's closely involved and is trying to coordinate between member states to find a solution in terms of where these migrants should go once they disembark the solution for people on board is only possible once they are disembarked i hope that it will in this particular incident will contribute to a swift resolution for the persons and board e.u. countries are clearly divided over this issue the ship has been in the mediterranean sea for the last 2 weeks and earlier 2 brothers will hold on to land

but there are still 40 remaining migrants on board. a woman from the u.s. state of alabama who lost her unborn baby when she was shot in the stomach during all to cation is now being charged with manslaughter police believe the woman is guilty for putting ourself on the child at risk for initiating a dispute. the only true victim in this was the unborn baby it was the mother of the child who initiated and continued the fight which resulted in the death of her own on born baby that child is dependent on his mother to try to keep it from home and she shouldn't seek out unnecessary physical altercations. marché jones was 5 months pregnant when a fight broke out outside a store the shooter was initially charged with manslaughter but then acquitted after an investigation found she was acting in self-defense the police say it was mrs jones who initiated the fight allegedly in this speech over the baby's father

now the decision comes shortly after alabama authorized the controversial abortion bill the bill was signed in may it's said to be the harshest one in the united states it bans abortion at any stage of pregnancy even in the cases of rape or incest and criminalizes the procedure both for women and the doctors who carry them out now is still unclear when and whether we're told the bill will become law and mr jones has now been released on bail but the case has already sparked outrage marshy jones was pregnant when she was shot in the stomach while in a fight with another woman over the baby's father the fetus died now she's been charged with murder this antiabortion laws are unjust she must not be charged alabama is one of the most dangerous places in the country for a black woman trying to carry her pregnancy to term and this prosecution is just one more attack on the basic human rights and dignity of black women in our state.

the anti abortion initiative does have the support of many men obama believe it should be in shrine in law and run the movie historic stand for human life and tourney evan turk though believes it is unfair that a woman can be charged for losing a child. it's a very interesting case where it linking the right of portion to. manslaughter under alabama's new abortion laws we're just going down. the 1st of many things which seem to be quite contradiction to the case roe v wade which is been decided by the supreme court i believe it's extremely unfair and unprecedented that they're going to try to charge her for manslaughter. or the loss of her child in an altercation has not been heard before and it

seems as if the state of alabama is trying to test new orders i don't think the outrage is going to have the state of alabama to reconsider those up so. i think in fact the outrage is what they're looking for you in my. see this case possibly overturn roe v wade so i think they're counting on the outrage. the u.s. congresswoman has been accused of staging photos next to margaret detention center for children in a bid to highlight the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the region and the actual pictures taken last year in texas but have only now surfaced alexandria because their court says he's shown near a chain like fence looking rather upset critics however have pointed out that no actual migrants can be sci fi should and that she appears to be facing an empty parking lot instead of a detention facility. was it the tree the car or the emptiness of the life that

made you so motional griner to now until last year we really need to stop this such pain such anguish all of the humanity cyc is just an empty parking lot. that's better know you can truly relate to us or cars or quarters has denied the photos were staged in a twitter post she lashed out at america's migrant policies claiming no one is being held accountable for the conditions in which children of being kept now this comes after the lawmaker was heavily criticized for comparing the migrant centers to concentration camps are back in washington the humanitarian crisis has seen doll trump come under fire from the democrats especially over his plan to build the border wall however some of the images used to illustrate the severity of the migrant issue were actually taken during barack obama's time in the oval office he

spoke to the director of political commentary website rection re times. this is becoming the thing to do for the democrat party to support everyone except tax paying united states citizens they're playing the emotion game this is just another example of political propaganda the democrats were actually for the building of a wall before they were against the building of a wall and the reason why they're against it is because it's a central theme of trying populism which is obviously elevated him to the highest position of government in the united states they want to undermine him they want to try to inspire the american people to believe that what donald trump is trying to do which is just to enforce the rule of law is something horrific and deplorable as they like to say they think it's going to provide optics which will be beneficial to the democratic party in advance of an election they attempted to try to do this

last year during the midterm election i don't think the american people are going to be fooled by it in 2020 but of course with one year to go until the election that remains to be seen. iran has agreed not to violate the rules of the 2050 nuclear deal following talks with representatives of the e.u. in vienna. because i don't want to give any medium term forecast as there are lots of factors influencing the situation but at least for now the task of preserving the iran nuclear deal and solving the most acute issues surrounding it has been achieved we must create protections for around from the negative effects of us sanctions which are continuing to prove harmful. challenges to the integrity of the nuclear deal stem from america's destructive policies which have isolated it from the global community. iran and the e.u. countries agreed only in the implementation of special mechanisms allowing iran to

trade crude oil with europe while on will reserve the right to increase its enriching uranium if other parties to violate the 2015 deal the u.s. unlike the e.u. continues to impose sanctions on iran our europe correspondent peter all of us has been across the relevance for us in austria. tehran had described this meeting in austria as the last chance to save the 2015 nuclear deal it certainly doesn't seem like that has happened as this meeting is wrapped up but what we have seen is that they are willing all of the sides are willing to continue talks to try and salvage what is left of the deal it's really been a rocky ground since the u.s. pulled out unilaterally in 2018. as the meeting ended the iranian side described it as a step forward but certainly not the finished deal just yet iran has threatened to exceed the enrich uranium levels that would set down in the 2015 agreement

it's understood that they could do that as early as saturday sunday but we are led to believe that they won't do that immediately that it would be something that would happen at a later date should they pursue with that threat the people who have been here in vienna to try and hammer out some kind of solution include representatives from the united kingdom france germany china and russia all of the remaining signatory since the u.s. decided that they didn't want to be part of it and donald trump moved them away from it one of the things that has given a glimmer of hope to saving the iran deal has been the proposal by the european union sides france germany of the united kingdom they put forward a mechanism called instincts which is essentially that to isolate european companies and the reining in companies from u.s. sanctions as they do business with iran the e.u. side has promised a large influx of cash into in sticks to try and make it do the job it was designed

to do 6 months since this mechanism was created it still is an up and working in the iranians are far from happy about that because they of course are suffering financially at the hands of u.s. economic sanctions this meeting has happened here in vienna while world leaders are meeting at the g 20 in a sock and we have. from seeing a you figures in japan who said they were really still maintaining that diplomatic solution was the only way to solve the current impasse the paradox is that we see an international community or some of them that is becoming more tender with the one who already has nuclear weapons and who is threatening and harder with iran whose activity has already been controlled since 2015 where is the coherence the strategy of maximum pressure can be the right one because one of the consequences is that we are all talking about how serious the situation is and that there is a danger of war this is the time for diplomacy we have to ensure that these tensions are reduced because otherwise an event without it being clear who caused

it could lead to spiral of violence that and in a war where in recent weeks in the gulf area we've seen attacks on oil tank is that the united states firmly blamed tehran for being behind we've also seen a u.s. drone shot down by the iranian military now what we've heard from the u.s. side that while they've been speaking in there is they've said that they want to put together a new coalition of the willing and the united states is calling on its allies to join forces with them as they try to get iran to bend to washington's will iran's hostile actions are an international problem that affects many nations let me be clear the united states does not seek war with iran. in focus conversations with allies i discussed the need to internationalize this issue by encouraging nato allies and regional partners to voice their opposition to iran's bad behavior and

to help us deter further provocative acts so this highly anticipated summit here in vienna has ended without any concrete solutions that was described as i said is the the last chance to save the iran deal it hasn't really done that but what we have seen is these talks resulting in perhaps a little bit more life support for the deal. un special rapporteur on torture has once again highlighted its concerns over the case of julian science is that accusing the media of ignoring the alleged inhumane treatment of the wiki leaks founder by refusing to publish an article he wrote about his findings mills meltzer argues that assad has been slow in slanted to divert attention from the revelations that wiki leaks has helped expose it also says the whistleblowers been deprived of his fundamental rights and suffered full fledged psychological torture during his time in the ecuadorian embassy in london we spoke to mr meltzer ali some of them said it wasn't high enough under news

agenda some of them said bad it was not within their core area of interest but you know there have been reporting all of them on the case of julian assange when it was about his cat and his skateboard and kind of the allegations that he smeared excrement on the walls but when you have a serious piece that actually tries to damascus. this public narrative to actually show the facts below it then the modern interested sarge is currently serving a 50 week sentence in the u.k. for skipping bail back in 2012 he's expected to face a u.s. extradition hearing in spring. last month mr meltzer highlighted a songes prison conditions as a major concern the whistleblower was said to show an alarming deterioration in his mental and physical state the u.k. responded by saying well so was wrong to interfere and should leave it to british

courts to make their judgments. once again on the sufferings your sons' has faced. i knew that i was going to get into a very politicized environment when i visited 2 innocent i didn't know him before so i took with me to experienced medical experts of psychiatry and a forensic expert would have worked for decades in examining torture victims just to go to the objective scientific and medical basis for the assessment and what they found is a person who shows all the symptoms that are typical for a person who has been exposed to prolonged psychological torture he has been exposed to public more being now that's a slippery slope you know will be in a debate when it's 2 sided then 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 off ridicule of even death threats

and calls for his assassination and he's completely isolated then that can cause severe psychological trauma see comment from the news media listed by nelson elsewhere asking them why the article wasn't published we'll show you any response as soon as we do get. up next it's the documentary channel back at the top of the hour the 9 pm oscars time for all the latest global news updates see that. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. we're going to st petersburg international economic forum.