donald trump cancels a state visit to denmark after calling remarks by its prime minister nasty rejecting his office of why greenland that in the proposal was the. aid organization oxfam lashes out at g 7 countries ahead of the summit this weekend it accuses their policies of driving global inequality. and the like last year and the wealth for the rich just billionaires was growing while the wealth for top of society had fallen. and not as easy as it looks our correspondent takes to the skies with russia's elite robotics team before the mikes show. about a bad thing but they get made by something.

down. yeah. they. love from moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international daniel hawkins with you tonight's welcome to the program u.s. president still trump claims he canceled his state visit to denmark over the nasty remarks of the country's prime minister it 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 an inappropriate statement well she had to do is say no we wouldn't be address it and i'm sure it does 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. giving 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 and to me then marx queen he would have posted trump express shock at his abrupt cancellation you know it is the world's largest online that's got plenty of resources as well trump said it's a boy it is not entirely new as you put trying to 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. grain land all of it and i guess we 1st as a people thought it was joking and said can we buy greenland and he was joking and then kept coming back to the danish prime minister would not sell him greenland

coal and 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 realised 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 plentiful now that

greenland is completely worthless to denmark 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 the temperature has dropped to below 0 and winds rose to 150 miles an hour gave you a force where 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. meanwhile in nearby iceland the country's leader said she will skip a visit of the u.s. vice president mike pence that's coming next month she said she has prior

commitments to speak of 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 bans this 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 of saying it had nothing to do with trump's cancellation of his they visit to denmark and it was not about slamming the white house mike pence is expected to discuss size than strategic position in the arctic and increased nato operations in the region the u.s. plans to invest $57000000.00 in a military naval base there next year. man who's a professor of politics at bifrost university in iceland thinks the prime minister isn't too upset about missing the meeting. current prime minister of iceland to stop opposite end of the political spectrum to trump's ministration might feel or not i'm happy. with their class but it seems to be occurring there's

clearly a difference of opinion between the part your cutting out cups took to get in iceland old group both. military operations. preserve in the arctic. what it's an administration so clearly there are there are a right it's you're pretty speech in that took our troops. and the war activists have revealed the extent of british arms contracts with the saudi led coalition operating in yemen artie's explains. 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 half 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 has to international order most respectable n.g.o.s in the world people in the ground in yemen all it used to say led coalition or routine violations going to merge with humanitarian law and that means destruction of schools means destruction of hospitals news the destruction of all this is a terrible humanitarian crisis that's only possible because of the complicity in support of arms exporting governments such as be 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 it granted licenses of a 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 near the french resort of beer it said of the g. 7 summit more than 13000 police officers have been deployed to the area organizers

say this year's event will be run on a much tighter budget than previously. reported in live with you know parliament voted for a budget of 36400000 iraqis 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 college jacqueline vega spoke to john date he's the head of government relations for the international aid organization but was the oxfam report on the g 7 summits based on. so 7 leaders including in 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 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 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 or say 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. report highlights wealth inequality across g 7 countries in the u.s. for example the poorest half of the population own just one percent of the country's wealth so one day to gain 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 taxes thems that favor the rich and says the wealthy drive government policy the charity out of the g 7 care more about shareholders than workers and warns the group of nations is worsening the climate crisis. they do so haven't 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 had 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 tackle inequality and help reduce poverty through tackling inequality. laser show gets underway near moscow next week the max 2019 and ahead of that

artie's donald quarter got the chance to take to the skies with one of the robotic 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 up their bets for this is 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. 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 performance 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 u.s. the air 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 its 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 coming up just after this short break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only move really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk.

in germany a syrian asylum seeker has been found guilty of manslaughter in a killing that's. in the city of last year. and a half years in jail european correspondent speak to all of us has the details. 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 healy who was stabbed to death in camden 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 tories neo nazi organizations we thought the members of the far right and the immigration political parties turned very violent at times the police really not in control as these marches clashed with anti fascist marches throughout the city of kemet 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 hashtag we are more behind a number of rock concerts including one really large one in kemet and demonstrations including a colossal march here in the german capital in however it's when we look at the political impact that we can really see the effect that the killing of this man really had if we look at the local city elections in came 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 party pro came it's which has some links to prominent neo nazi groups took. 80 percent of the vote 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 were representing anti immigration parties and it was certainly being represented almost across the country certainly though in the east of germany so we do have a sentence of verdicts man 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 in chemists which sparked such ugly violent scenes last year.

the number of lives claimed by saturday's suicide bomb attack in the capital of afghanistan has now risen to 80 that's according to a country's interior ministry the victims were guests at a wedding party that was attended by hundreds of people some 200 are still being treated in hospital the terror group islamic state says it was behind the attack the country's deadliest since january of last year. commenting on the reemergence of eisel in the water one country donald trump said that afghanistan and its neighbors have to do more to combat terrorism. russia. afghanistan arad iraq turkey they're going to have to fight their battles through ok we wiped out the caliphate 100 percent i did record time but at a certain point all of these other countries where isis is around they've been decimated by the way badly decimated but all of these countries are going to have to find out because do we want to stay there for another 19 years i don't think so

we heard from her deputy director of the afghan center for conflict and peace studies you told us trump is being realistic. the americans for a long time since the trumpet in the stray ssion came into power. was trying to encourage other countries particularly countries like india to to do more in afghanistan but none of these countries in the region that one can expect of the influence and the capability to come in in do more in afghanistan so i think it's very unrealistic to expect these countries to. that would be left by by the americans if you look at isis in afghanistan it is increasing significantly we have foreign fighters that are that are returning either from the middle east and we have new arrivals from countries in central asia we are headed to a situation where it will be cut dystrophic in and i think if the americans are thinking

that they can leave afghanistan right now just like what happened in iraq in 2011 and once of the situation is getting even worse than right now because return i think that will be will make their job even difficult you have excellent show coming up in just a few by which time we're back in 30 minutes with the latest. i did. not want it to mean i want to make you know that's really what i think.

what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to be press that's like them before 3 of them or 10 people that i'm interested always in the waters and the. question. why a paradise with some all around turned into a round the experimentation field the agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants 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 but often in day you have

many of these people 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 races going on in hawaii whether these. companies feel they can get away with that because the people have less political power. my. welcome to the alex salmond show where we continue our series on the politics of protest and previous programs we've looked at the evolution of protest in the u.k.

over the last century from working class glasgow taking to the streets in 1919 to the rock against racism movement to taking to the stage in the 1970 s. to middle class life and defending their green spaces against environmental destruction obit christy and this show we continue our theme against a background of a hot summer of mass demonstrations and one set on the climate some urgency. and must go over the collections in paris for this year the show on i'm not in the way of a protest in hong kong we asked peter tatchell the most famous human rights campaigner in the u.k. of the last generation to deflect on his most effective campaigns i've read the single issue and single minded protest can still move the needle of political debate for me protest is the lifeblood walk receive all the rights and freedom we have all the result of protest that's how it began protest and then eventually parliamentary change we ask medea benjamin the celebrated american political

activist what exactly is going on today are we seeing an international wave of discontent with established political structures i can to the 1960 s. or is this impression just a feature of the modern social media world without banner held aloft in hong kong goes viral before you can say presidential tweet i think social media can be. to mobilizing like we see in hong kong but i also think that before social media we had enormous protests we had mass protests around civil rights issues in the united states when there was no days no twitter no instagram but 1st let us take a look at your reaction to our series on motor programs which collectively registered over $800000.00 viewers on alex's facebook page alone but it's more than the entire population of europe smallest member state clearly the tiger economy of

this tiny island is attracting a great deal of interest internationally 1st we hear from jill he says find our french holiday apartment unpacked turned on the t.v. happy to find alex i mean sure but still sad for us but little malta has what we could have had very interesting kept hitting our voices heard good on them and hope we join them soon if you want to says great show one to watch explores the good and that not so good about malta but at least the independent to cite that for themselves kath says malta has no not true resources and yet they cost people as their most valuable resource create we see these could through a booster says alex i love you more to see these new pretentiousness know doesn't pop your high horse narrative your document as a lovely string of honest and mature the spec for encounters thank you so much linda says christopher and i went there in 1965 but the boy lester regiment loved it had been back many times finally wrote he says i wonder if the show touched on

the issues surrounding walter's bunk or treating it has already cost one journalist her life just to clarify most it's a beautiful country and a great place to visit where already you can watch all of the seas and see just how much of these topics we covered seas of course being available on r.t. dot com and alex's facebook and on you keep an eye to the politics of protest in morton scotland the last. for years to see a growing wave of demonstrations in favor of scottish independence from modest beginnings after the referendum campaign of 2014 these marches have been gaining ground and momentum largely ignored at 1st by the mainstream media and a guarded with some suspicion by at least some in the s.n.p. hierarchy the crashes campaigners have been turning in growing and impressive crowds as they march across the country we ask some of the campaigners 1st question dependents whether they are completely peaceful marches around scotland are really making up.