i don't want to think you know i'm going to let you little. donald trump canceled a state visit to denmark after closing remarks by its prime minister nasty she had rejected his offer to buy greenland adding the proposal was absurd. also this hour aid organization oxfam lashes out at the g 7 countries ahead of their summit this weekend it accuses their postings of driving global inequality. the quality high temperature increased over the last year and the wealth the richest billionaires this growing to you both. for society and for britain. and we get our correspondent takes to the skies with russia's elite aerobatics teams before the max air show. a valuable thing what they did but

what they. did yeah. but that. is. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. u.s. president ultram claims he canceled his state visit to denmark over the nasty remarks of the country's prime minister he had offered to buy greenland which is a danish dependent territory but the offer was quickly rebuffed. prime minister's statement that it was absurd that was that it was that absurd idea was d'asti i thought it was inappropriate statement well she had to do is say no we wouldn't be address that you're not sure at this because. it's an absolute discussion and to

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 go up to the united states that way at least under me. denmark's queen who would have posted trump express shock at his abrupt cancellation greenland is the world's largest island and has plenty of resources so trump idea to buy it is not entirely new as into trying to report the 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 oil and 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. grain land all of it and i guess when it 1st was appealed 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 indicates that money is principally 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 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 the temperature has dropped to below 0 and winds rose to 150 miles an hour gave you were bright sun is abrupt blizzard created by dense fog or blinding snow american ingenuity and daring have built

a new post 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. meanwhile in

nearby iceland the country's leader said she will skip a visit of the u.s. vice president mike pence next month saying she has park amendments to speak at a trade union conference in sweden. the fact is i was long ago i asked to give the keynote speech at the annual conference of nordic trade unions bassus visit which was organized by the minister of foreign affairs has been rescheduled many times so it's been hard to organize oneself around it she made a point though of saying it had nothing to do with trump's cancellation of his state visit to denmark and that it was not about snubbing the white house mike pence is expected to discuss iceland's strategic position in the arctic and increase nato operations in that region the u.s. plans to invest $57000000.00 in a military naval base there next year bergmann who is a professor of politics before us university and iceland things the prime minister isn't too upset about missing the meeting. current prime minister of iceland to stop opposite of the political spectrum to trump some ministration might feel

not unhappy. with their comment to class but seems to be occurring there's clearly a difference of opinion between the park your car to get up so to get an irishman's old propose to friends military operations. preserve in the arctic. what it's an administration so clearly there are there are a right you have to persist between that took our troops. anti-war activists have revealed the extent of british arms contracts with a saudi led coalition operating in yemen artist paul fleer the details. well the latest figures from the campaign against arms trade reveal that the u.k. government granted export licenses to the tune of some 6200000000 pounds over

a period of 4 years since the saudi led coalition began its strikes in yemen back in march 2015 there's no public data however over whether or not the license holders exported the goods in their entirety or hofner all or none but essentially what it does show is the same as the amount that they were entitled to export the government doesn't really want to know how those weapons are being used as weapons are being used in a way that violates international humanitarian law and of course it would have to act and there would have to stop was cereals or every do know from a huge body of evidence from united nations that. international order most respectable n.g.o.s in the world people in the ground in yemen they have all it used to say they led coalition or routine violations going to merge with humanitarian law and that means destruction of schools means destruction of hospitals use the destruction of all this is a terrible humanitarian crisis that's only possible because of the complicity in

support of arms exports and governments such as the campaign against arms trade says that the total amount is likely to be higher because many of the weapons and ammunitions that were used by members of the saudi led coalition in fact were licensed by a separate body for which there is no public datta now back in june of this year the court of appeal ruled that the u.k. government had acted unlawfully when ed granted licenses of the u.k. made weapons to members of the saudi led coalition without 1st checking if they use it in the past had led to britches of international law the government was ordered not to approve new licenses and offer to review those that it had already given and it was agreed that the government would not allow new sales of weapons to the 5 participating members. of the saudi led coalition in yemen now the british government denies this and it has rejected these allegations outright the u.k.

operates one of the most robust export control regimes in the world licensing decisions are based on the most up to date information and analysis available at the time including advice from those with diplomatic and military expertise and reports from our overseas network and n.g.o.s the saudi bombing in yemen began back in 2015 and has resulted in what the united nations cause the worst humanitarian disaster ever. and the campaign against arms trade is highly critical of the role that the u.k. has played and once

a to review its future participation. restaurants shops and other businesses are closing their doors to the french resort town berets ahead of the g. 7 summit more than 13000 police officers have been deployed to the area although organizers say this year's event will be run on a much tighter budget than previous ones without a mother to you know of up to 20 subject parliament voted for a budget of $36400000.00 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 oxfam earlier i spoke to john date he's the head of government relations for the international aid organization. was the oxfam report on the g. 7 summits based on. so g 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 oxfam's report looked at the record of g 7 countries in tackling inequality and we found that actually in a number of areas countries are fueling 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. they report highlights wealth inequality across g 7 countries and the us for example the poorest half of the population and just one percent of the country's wealth 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 not point 5 percent on their wealth then it could raise over $200000000000.00 pounds a year now that's a huge sum of money that's enough to educate the $262000000.00 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. oxfam accuses the g 7 of having tax systems that favor the rich and says the wealthy wealthy drive government policy that charity as they do so in care

more about shareholders than workers and mourns the group of nations is worsening the climate crisis that you 7 has existed for quite a long time are these problems that the report has highlighted something new or were 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 hard to reach increased over 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 g 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

clinic quality and help reduce poverty through testing inequality. a major air show gets underway near moscow next week marks 2019 how about though our team has done the quarter got the chance to take to the skies with one of the aerobatic teams. the russian team is preparing for an international aviation and space this is a major air show that's going to take place at the end of august and there's going to be there tech 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 so i hope you're not afraid of. that but. after we returned in one piece our pilot constantine told us all about the

international aviation and space so long 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 featuring aerobatics performances and the standard maneuvers the championships rolls and loops etc the international tournament features competitors from. many european countries and known european countries including the us the year 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 this big daters decide for themselves what they like of course we will show what we do best and what's new. more news after this short break.

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welcome back in germany a syrian asylum seeker has been found guilty of manslaughter in a killing that sparked race riots in the city of candidates last year the man was sentenced to 9 and a half years in jail or europe our european correspondent peter all of our reports . a 23 year old syrian asylum applicant has been sentenced to 9 and a half years by a court in dresden for the month slaughter of the 35 year old man daniel hilik who was stabbed to death in chemists last year now it's understood that the main suspect in the killing a 22 year old iraqi national has not been found by police yet it's on the study may

well have fled the country after initial shock there was violent and at times ugly scenes in the city which drew the attention of the world's media we saw some footage of refugees and migrants being chased by purported members of far right groups there was also marches through the city by the police video nazi organizations we thought the members of the far right in the immigration. of anti immigration political parties. turned very violent at times the police really not in control as these marches clashed with the fascist marches throughout the city of cabinets over a number of days following the violence what that was finally got under control there was an attempt to try and bring communities back together the hash tag we are more behind a number of rock concerts including one really large one in chemists and demonstrations including a colossal march here in the german capital berlin however it's when we look at the

political impact there we can really see the effect that the killing of this man really had if we look at the local city elections in came it's from earlier this year we saw alternative for germany the immigration party they came in 2nd that's not really surprising in the east of germany but what's more surprising about the city elections is the fact that the well party. proclaim it's which has some links to prominent neo nazi groups took 8 percent of the vote giving them 60 seats on the city council of kim that's but also when we look at this on a national level if we compare how people's voting intentions looked in 2017 compared to 2018 after this killing there was a marked support for those who will represent seeing on t. immigration parties and i was certainly being represented almost across the country

certainly though in the east of germany so we do have a sentence of verdicts slaughter is the verdict busy 9 and a half years for a man who stabbed or took part in the stabbing death of a 35 year old and chemists which sparked such ugly violent scenes last year. one of the reasons donald trump is waging his trade war with china is his promise to voters to revive american industries like the steel factor but despite flapping heavy tariffs on imports some companies are still struggling artist come up and report on the swing state of michigan. 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 into consideration and not just in pre-election campaign promises but when they get into

office as well cable mop and r.t. new york economics professor richard wolfe believes people are waking up to the fact that trump won't be delivering on all of his promises if you impose a tariff and if the chinese as they have done respond with a tyrus that is going to hurt the american companies that used to sell to china i don't think anyone is surprised that mr trump's promises that this kind of job and being in the united states would stop turns out to be a promise he can deliver and i think it will hurt his image in the united states because it more and more people are confronted with the difference between what he promises and what he can deliver the underlying economic reality is driving people to recognize that mr trump was just a republican version

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middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. paradise with some ground turned into a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritant there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments that often in day you have many of these people who have one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the 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. the city of into. a short drive down the hill from the hollywood dream they

south-central one of the most notorious addresses on the planet. like its famous neighbor south central has made its place in the imagination and. beyond the fiction the reality of this residence lives seldom touches the t.v. screens in movie theaters of the one. ready monday afternoon of december fall 2012 police chase an armed robbery suspect across the city. i am the driver and carjacked by motorists following a car on shooting an honest wild pursuit into next in the field with the spare sounds and. i os getting from come to the chase continued into the neighboring district the boss.

i am the suspects destination is the imperial court builders temporary housing of the 2nd world war the project and those around it survived and became synonymous with the origins of dentistry games or civil unrest and home to one of america's most neglected oslo no-o. o.-o. o. o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o cause i'm not an unfamiliar psycho. but as the suspect abandon his car that home they were particularly hunted for less than the hour. so the. city's chief of police charlie beck but today we're having a you know wait wait.