so. the. u.s. later donald trump cancels a state visit to denmark after calling remarks by its prime minister nastase she had rejected his offer to buy bring the cooling it. also made organization oxfam lashes out at g 7 countries ahead of their summit this weekend accusing them of driving global in the quality of their policies. rich increased over the last the last year and actually the wealth of richest billionaires was growing while the wealth for top of society had fallen. and the head of a major moscow regional correspondent takes to the skies with russia's elite aerobatics team and gets behind the problems. about your brother.

but what. about. yeah. like good morning just gone 10 here in moscow he watching international now the u.s. president donald trump claims he can sort his state visit to denmark because the country's prime minister made some quite nasty remarks he had offered to buy greenland a danish dependent territory but that was quickly rejected. prime minister's statement that it was absurd that was that it was that absurd idea was that asked the daughter was that inappropriate statement all she had to do is say no we wouldn't be address that you're not sure. it's an absolute discussion and a prime minister of greenland has of course made it clear that greenland is not for

sale and that's where the conversation and. don't say what it absurd idea that is because he's not talking to me. he's not to appear to me you don't get to the united states of america you don't talk to the united states that way at least and to me. when denmark's queen he would have hosted trump express shock at his abrupt cancellation greenland is the world's largest island and it also has a penchant for sources to trump's ambition to buy it is not entirely a new one isn't a prank now reports poor queen of denmark it just happened to be that way you know the way that part of her land is the world's biggest island greenland just to the northeast of america and that it's donald trump who's in charge at the white house right now how about the u.s. greenland all of it and i guess we 1st heard of people like he was joking and said can we buy greenland and he was joking and then kept coming back to it the danish

prime minister would not sell him greenland calling the idea absurd we must face the truth that our president is raving like a lunatic you can check out some of the trump greenland means if you haven't seen them but now everyone who giggled at donald trump adding the island to his shopping wishlist have realized his being absolutely serious just so you know the president's idea is an old 1150 years old in fact. i have heretofore expressed the opinion that we should purchase iceland and greenland but especially the latter the reasons are political and commercial now the acquisition of greenland will flank british america for thousands of miles on the north and west and greatly increase her inducements peacefully and cheerfully to become a part of the american union but the actual proposal didn't come until just after the end of world war 2 that was when the state department officials once again

outlined the benefits. the committee indicated that money is plentiful now that greenland is completely worthless to denmark and the control of greenland is indispensable to the safety of the united states and so washington offered denmark $100000000.00 in gold bullion for the island copenhagen's answer was no well we have much to america i do not feel that we have been the whole island of greenland although the us shouldn't really have been disappointed because of what happened next in just a couple of years denmark joined nato plus not only it gave up attempts to get rid of the us military on the island it allowed the pentagon to set up america's northernmost air base there here where temperatures dropped to below 0 and winds rose to 150 miles an hour give you force bright sun is abrupt blizzard created by dense fog or blinding snow american ingenuity and daring have built

a new outpost in this country to do them. based on the top of the world that documentary was even nominated for the cademy awards by the way anyway since the pentagon can still pretty much treat greenland as its own backyard there isn't much for the u.s. administration to worry about their radars are out there in a perfect position to track intercontinental ballistic missiles and satellites and low earth orbit before they reach the skies of mainland u.s. or wait china is always something to worry about even if we're talking arctic beijing's already made an attempt to buy a former american base on the island and try to secure a contract to build a new airport there for now the chinese were shown the door but now what the white house man read the stirring things up around greenland we could be in force in very odd twists in the story. poor queen of denmark. well the u.s. president is also one happy with germany at the moment not coughing up enough on

the fence washington is putting pressure on. in to meet the nato target of 2 percent of g.d.p. despite germany revealing it is spending hundreds of billions of euros just on u.s. troops stationed in the country germany's current expenditure is 1.4 percent that's about $47000000000.00 euros in comparison greece does meet the 2 percent target for half ins that amounts to just $4000000000.00 euro race peter oliver takes a closer look. it's been a refrain of u.s. politicians for quite a while now germany must spend more on its military under president trump referring has turned into a crescendo now struck about germany i mean germany honestly is not paying their fair share do you think germany is doing enough to meet the 2 percent target you know. what should germany do they should meet the goals that they

agreed to we have 52000 troops in germany. germany is not living up to what it is supposed to be doing which we speculate on the thing is though opposition politicians here have requested from the finance ministry documents that show that actually germany has been spending more than was thought for the privilege of having u.s. troops in their country over the last 7 years germany's contributed 243000000 euros directly to the us armed forces for things like pension contributions and building maintenance there's also being a previously unheard figure of 480000000 euros that's actually germany's contribution to the nato construction budget however the documents that were requested by the left party show this money went almost exclusively to u.s. projects the m.p. who made the request is far from happy about what's being revealed germany is a half of global u.s.

small flamm it's subsidized by the german taxpayer must be stopped at last a recent poll of german citizens found that 3 quarters of those asked didn't think they'd be any risk to their safety if u.s. troops pulled out of the country altogether germany's a. $1000000000.00 for the privilege of having a u.s. soldier on its soil and not only u.s. soldiers but also nuclear weapons of mass destruction that the united states brought here gas will look the german population we want both weapons out of here fast as possible you are both. that all adds up to well no small chunk of change $723000000.00 euro that's gone almost exclusively to the united states to put that in the bit of context well that's more than the agriculture ministry requested to fight climate change with a reforestation programme it's about the same as the 10 year refurbishment plan for

the. actual history museum and it's almost as much as the annual budget of the german space program earlier this month the u.s. ambassador to berlin suggested the u.s. troops could pull out and relocate to poland but the some here at the moment that seems more like a hope than a threat peter all over r.t. berlin. now restaurants shops and businesses are closing their doors in the french resort of b.r. it's a head to head of the g. 7 summit over 13000 police officers have also been deployed to the area over organizers say this year's event will be run on a much tighter budget in previous summits. palomar who do not lead to parliament voted for a budget of 36400000 a year for the organization of the g. 7 summit and this figure is much lower than we have seen for previous summits whether in canada or italy. meanwhile g 7 countries have been blamed for

aggravating inequality around the world by the international aid organization oxfam my colleague did speak to oxfam head of government relations john de. what was the oxfam report on the g 7 summits based on so 7 leaders including my new mccrone who's hosting the summit decided to make inequality a key focus of this year's g 7 and we think this is really important because the world bank and about and others have recognized that tackling inequality is absolutely essential in order to beat extreme poverty. report looked at the record of g 7 countries in tackling inequality and we found actually in a number of areas countries are fuelling rather than reducing inequality for instance by not implementing progressive tax systems by fueling the climate crisis and also by promoting a shareholder 1st business model with that doesn't suit the needs of workers and

many people in developing countries on a low income or oxfam's report highlights wealth inequality across g 7 countries in the us for example the poorest 50 percent of the population just one percent of the country's wealth situation is worse in other member states john date again once the g 7 to take action. why do you think the g. 7 don't work properly what are the main problems more widespread as well so we think one of the kind of major barriers is how wealth is distributed between people across the world and in g 7 countries so that the 7 biggest economies in the g 7 hold nearly half the world's wealth and actually if g 7 leaders implemented a new tax a new wealth tax where they to tax the top one percent of richest people in g 7 countries an additional no point 5 percent on their wealth then it could raise $200000000000.00 pounds a year now that's a huge sum of money that's enough to educate the 262000000 children across the

world who are currently not in school and also you to have enough money left over to put money into health care and to fund. enough health care to save the lives of 2000000 people. well oxfam accuses g 7 countries of having tax systems that favor the rich adding that it's the wealthy that drive government's policies the charity also says the g 7 care more about shareholders than workers and accuses them out of aggravating the climate crisis is john data again taking us through some of the issues that you 7 has existed for quite a long time are these problems that the report has highlighted something new or where they there from the beginning we know that inequality has existed for for a number of years but actually under a lot of measures inequality is increasing. so oxfam's own research found. that inequality hurt increased over the last the last year and actually the wealth of

the richest billionaires was growing while the wealth of the poorest half of society had fallen do you think that this oxfam report will have any impact on this upcoming g. 7 summit we hope that the 7 leaders will take it seriously as you know it was a menu mccrone himself and g 7 leaders who decided to make inequality a focus of the g 7 so what we're doing is providing some ideas to how they might tackle in a quality and help reduce poverty through tackling inequality. major esho does get underway in moscow next week it's called the max 2019 the head of that art is done quarter did get the chance to take to the skies with one of the aerobatic teams.

called the russian team is preparing the board the international space. the major error here all that's going to take place to be. august and there's going to be there ted and pilots from countries all over the globe the pilots are going to be showing off their bets and that's a bad and we were lucky enough to get invited to a plane to join one of those pilots i hope you're not afraid of my.

life but. after we returned in one piece our pilot constantine told us all about the international aviation and space so long yet you know i have been training for more than 10 years and i've been in the pilot for 4 years the air show include the mock scott featuring aerobatics performances and the standard maneuvers that championships rolls and loops etc the international tournament features competitors from many european countries and none european countries including the last year's show is not a contest the contest happens at the championship with the aerobatics and other events so when the air show each group shows his skills and the spectators decide

for themselves what they like of course we will show what we do best and what's new . so coming through this still plans in the usa to michigan is temporary that enough hundreds of pay to play. tried the most and terrorists will have the details just off the press. the be. led.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i'll see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. hello again you with r.t. now russia's president has criticised the recent test of a u.s. cruise missile and says it appears to have been developed long before washington

quit the i.n.f. treaty which banned the weapon. was asked about the issue after talks with the finnish president in helsinki. it was which are on the wheel disappointed with what we see this test goes against the i.n.f. treaty and escalates the security problem in the world and europe in particular the us tested this missile to force right after they lift the iron if treaty we suppose that the work on this missile started long before the search for reasons to leave the treaty while the us had tested a land based cruise missile with a range of over 500 kilometers just 2 weeks after the arms control treaty expired the cold war era i.n.f. treaty ban precisely this range of cruise missiles and for over 30 years it helped prevent an arms race but the us quit in february blaming russia for noncompliance something that moscow to nice where russia says that it will not be used its military capabilities as long as washington does not take steps of its own security

analyst bridge explained why short a mid-range and mid range missiles a such a concern. the main problems we've got is that as she reduce the range and the shoe say the payload the nuclear payload of weapon systems so you blur the boundary between perhaps conventional systems and then the use of smaller nuclear weapons and then because what they really that you terence situation that we've had over many many years really depends upon that boundary being very distinct and clear one because if they a boundary is actually diminished in other words you can use perhaps small nuclear weapons in what's called a war fighting way rather than just to terence it was interesting to see that it was exactly this kind of vertical launch a system that is used for those interceptor missiles that was used to test this weapon system this cruise missile that would have been banned under it i have treaties in other words we've got clear proof that the russian suspicions and those

were raised repeatedly throughout the pre ending of the i.n.f. years that those suspicions were actually well grounded. now stated in the u.s. state of michoacan is laying off hundreds of people blaming the impact of donald trump's trade war with china the swing state was crucial to his victory in the 26000 election and who is there with promises of reviving local industries of more pain as the story. michigan the traditional home of the auto industry is a big chunk of what's referred to as the rust belt of the american heartland recently the industrial state has been economically declining as many u.s. factories have closed their doors hundreds of workers at the great lakes facility will be getting a temporary layoff according to what has just been filed by the u.s. steel corporation it is anticipated that the total number of layoffs will be less than 200 these are just so that you see current market conditions and recent reductions in customer demand for the pons products last year donald trump opposed

to 25 percent tariff on foreign steel imports saying it would help make america great again we're going to build our steel. tariffs seemed to have the opposite of the desired effect the price of the stock of u.s. steel has decreased by 73 percent for trump who is looking to get reelected in 2020 this is not a small matter michigan which had previously gone for obama was key in sending him to the oval office he knew how to tap into the resentment of residents of michigan who've seen their state decline over decades of dnd serialisation and decay furthermore hillary clinton almost ignored the state of michigan during the 2016 campaign why is secretary clinton going to michigan today isn't that sort of considered you know one of the pillars of the infamous blue wall wife then time there rather than you know one of the places it's more of a swing plus as secretary of state hillary clinton oversaw the sale of high tech battery firms to china this cost lots of industrial jobs donald trump said that he

would do the opposite and for michigan we will bring back your automobile production and we will bring back your industry when bill clinton was in office he signed the north american free trade agreement some argue that resulted in losing 168000 jobs in michigan the obama administration didn't help things much the rate of poverty into. troy has increased from 33 percent to 40 percent at this point southeastern michigan has the highest rate of concentrated poverty of any part of the united states and the region is rapidly depopulating with a 2020 elections looming candidates should really take this state indic consideration and not just in pre-election campaign promises but when they get into office as well. r.t. new york. mussa professor of political economy says that u.s. steel companies are just not competitive. a lot of voters took

a chance on trump but trump's policies have clearly failed not only in michigan but in other areas of the great lakes where we had a lot of manufacturing us steel companies are are not competitive they've taken the money and raised their prices instead of investing and becoming more cost efficient and hiring more workers that's what they did so the tariffs don't work what happened was those 25 percent tariffs on steel imports the u.s. steel companies took advantage of those tariffs distil companies name it related the tariffs to their benefit didn't hire workers and now because their prices are too high they have to lay people off because they're losing cannot competition demand. for week out we have got some dramatic footage from the russian cities that runs because of lucky though some local police officers managed to save the day.

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battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental racism going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. cash calendar is drawing alfonzo among. this changing pay change guard service. whose 1st words were at a low a c. or a challenging post you've got 2 years to live. i have no doubt that what happened was criminal. defense calls and trade market is a $1000000000.00 industry these companies have a huge financial motivation to solve these problems there are numerous stuff

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i. this is boom bust broadcasting around the globe and covering the world of business and finance and the impact on a soft and daniel burrito and here's a look at what's on deck today. borderlines on with a new twist seemingly every day but what the chronicles looked like from what in asia our correspondent for mother's day opened a look inside. and rumblings about the risk of recession and the recession fears wimped off the top of the food from the pushing of the in calling pessimistic coverage part of a conspiracy professor richard wolfe is on hand to give us his latest take on the transpacific fight and the near term future of the u.s. economy and finally days of corporate titans are squaring off in court and tesla is under fire yet again as they face a super wal-mart over solar panels our correspondent alex mahela just standing by to break down the trouble for the lecture john can one show really cover all that

we're about to find out let's go. threat of sanctions over an arms deal leaves our global report today as china's foreign ministry says it will target any u.s. company involved in the sale of advanced fighter jets from the u.s. to taiwan the island nation and u.s. ally plans to pay a $1000000000.00 for $66.00 f. 16 v. fighter jets made by the joaquim martin corporation beijing still considers taiwan which was founded after chinese nationalist forces retreated from the mainland to be a renegade province of their country and previously threatened similar sanctions after a separate u.s. sale of missiles and tanks to taiwan was announced last month while the chinese sanctions may not have a significant economic impact since u.s. defense contractors are already barred by the u.s. from selling to the chinese military the increasing intersection of economic relations between the u.s. and china with issues of security and foreign policy.