was. it. was. the u.s. and russia trade accusations of the un security council over the collapse of the i.m.f. arms control treaty. the russian federation preferred a world in which the united states continued to fulfill its eye and a treaty obligations while the russian federation did not in accusing russia and the united states in the countries that support it or ignore in facts and common sense donald trump cancels a state visit to denmark after cooling remarks by its prime minister nasty she had rejected his offer to buy greenland is calling the proposal absurd. and aid organization oxfam lashes out at g 7 countries ahead of their summit this weekend i think uses their policies of driving global inequality equality how to bridge the

increased if a lot of the last year actually the well the british just billionaires was growing while the wealth of the poorest half of society had fallen. hello you're watching r t international i'm ours on a local thank you for joining us. russia and china have called for global action to prevent a new arms race following the collapse of a key arms control agreement mosco in beijing called the un security council meeting after the u.s. tested a cruise missile previously banned following the i.n.f. treaty and rival powers blamed each other for the ongoing escalation. do you realize that because of the us ambitions we are one step away from an arms race that cannot be controlled or regulated in any way the united states will not remain

a party to a treaty that is deliberately violated by russia just a bit as if this depended only on us we would not have reached this dangerous situation the united states is taking the necessary steps to address the threat posed by intermediate range missile forces being deployed in ever larger numbers by russia and china with a budget what about you are you going to evade responsibility for what is happening you will future generations forgive you for this russia's present actions are in line with a pattern of aggression there represents a clear threat to international peace and security the russian federation is the sole responsibility for the reason demise of the treaty really when you when you might just do not understand that by your response to the americans you're returning to a historical situation when missiles were targeting european citizens from different sites. there was a heated debate at the united nations security council now the united states has recently withdrawn from the i.n.f. treaty the intermediate range nuclear forces agreement and not only has the usa

withdrawn from the treaty but the usa recently tested a missile that would have been a violation of that treaty had it still been in effect many are viewing this as an escalation of a potential new arms race between russia and the united states now when the representative of the united states spoke to the security council they accused russia of being responsible for the agreements demise this is the us representative here today because the russian federation preferred a world in which the united states continued to fulfill its i.n.f. treaty obligations while the russian federation did not we've heard a narrative today that the united states had itself been in violation of the i.n.f. treaty because of our recent flight test which used the m k 41 launcher that is also found in our aid. the sure missile defense system this is categorically false now russia emphasize that its concerns about the m.k. 41 launcher have been proven to be indeed correct and that this launcher could

easily be tested in transformed into the tomahawk missiles that were recently tested by the united states and those missiles do indeed violate the treaty now russia which had been accused of having violated the i.n.f. treaty had repeatedly requested that inspectors come to russia and see if indeed these allegations from u.s. leaders were true however the united nations and the united states ignored their requests to defend themselves against these allegations of violating the i.n.f. treaty russia asked for dialogue around the issue and this dialogue was ignored here's some of what we heard from the russian representative. in accusing russia the united states and the countries to support it or ignoring facts and common sense as we proposed closed door meeting to look at all missile of this close and could fool information to convince them that it did not violate the treaty they refused we cannot understand the arguments from the u.s. but we do want to save the treaty china was also subject to us allegations that the

security council the united states accused china of boosting its military arsenal as well china responded that it was not correct for the united states to withdraw from the treating and blaming china for their decision was not honest or correct either this is the chinese representative addressing the security council with the i.n.f. treaty is of great importance to not only the u.s. and russia but it's a global peace and security it is an accent to which use china as an excuse for leaving the treaty china rejects that by societies ations from the u.s. now the i.n.f. treaty was signed in 1987 it was a key moment in the deescalation and ultimate end of the cold war between the united states and the soviet union and the recent decision of the i. states to withdraw from that treaty as many concerned about the potential for a new nuclear arms race now many hoped that today's meeting could be the opening of dialogue toward restoring some kind of treaty regarding intermediate range nuclear

forces missiles and such however while a lot of accusations were exchanged no real consensus seems to have existed among the countries represented at the u.n. security council while the investigative journalist dave lindorff says the u.s. is forcing rival powers into an arms race the u.s. was preparing to do this. that the fact that they launched this tomahawk missile from a mark 41 launcher proves what russia had been complaining about when the u.s. put these agents missile systems near the russian border russian western border and said oh these are to guard against iranian missiles which of course don't even exist there are no russian intermediate range missiles based around the united states and there aren't any chinese intermediate range missiles based around the united states the united states however wants to return to

a situation like 3987 when the u.s. said pershing missiles and highly accurate 300300 kilogram ton were head missiles all over europe aimed at russia and the danger of these missiles is that they can strike their targets within minutes so it forces countries like russia or china to put their i.c.b.m.'s on here trigger response this is very very dangerous time now and it's a going to lead to an enormous arms race i. don't know it's trump claims he canceled his state a visit to denmark due to non-sterile moxon the country's prime minister who had to buy greenland which is a danish autonomous territory but the office was quickly dismissed. 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 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 know if you did the united states of america you don't talk to the united states that way at least in the me the queen of denmark who would have hosted trump express to shop at his abrupt cancellation greenland is the world's largest island and it has plenty of results is to but trying to buy it is not entirely new as a new patrol 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 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 calm 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 force bright sun as abruptly as exceeded

by dense fog or blinding snow american ingenuity and daring have built a new outpost in this country is due 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 us 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 us or wait there's always something to worry about even if we're talking arctic beijing's already made an attempt to buy the 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. a vice president mike pence next month saying she has prior commitments 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 a state visit to denmark and that it was not about snubbing the white house mike pence is expected to discuss ice and 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 bergman who is a professor of politics of by force university in iceland thinks the prime minister isn't too upset about missing the meeting. current prime minister of iceland.

president of the political spectrum to trump's ministration might feel or not i'm happy. to come to class but it seems to be occurring there's clearly a difference of opinion between the park your car to get an irishman's old propose to military operations. to serve in the arctic to guard dogs or. what it's an administration so clearly there are there are right your differences between the 2 are. restaurants and shops and other businesses are closing their doors near the french resort of pierrots 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 previously. marvet you know parliament voted for

a budget of 36400000 viewers 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 evil. meanwhile g 7 countries have been blamed for aggravating inequality and around the world by oxfam my colleague 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 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 of our and others have recognized that tackling inequality is absolutely essential in order to beat extreme poverty. times 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 that doesn't suit the needs of workers and many people in developing countries on a low income. oxfam's report highlights wealth inequality across g 7 countries in the us for example the poorest half of the population own just one percent of the country's wealth john data 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 drive government policy the charity adds that the g 7 care more about shareholders the work is and warns the group of nations is worsening the climate crisis that you thought of and 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 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. he and help reduce poverty through tackling inequality. a belgian region's proposed ban on hull and kosher slaughter is set to come into force next month but the move has tested the type balance in either legislation between animal welfare and religious freedom her lao and kosher slaughter requires animals to be

alive and healthy they are killed through having their necks cut pretty stunning is not widely used which is one of the reasons why the prince is banned in several countries but the new law in a region of belgium has stirred controversy among the country's jewish and muslim communities to have the government interfere in this way is damaging to the reputation of the jewish people as a community it implies that we as a group are responsible with the world of animals and need government supervision which is of course a very negative few of us we spoke with slovenian philosopher slabber asia couchette his thoughts on the upcoming ban in belgium. i don't think it is necessarily let it. go we should never forget they believe in your own rule of. election only right.

but they find the kind of break you could just take that. again. our effect i claim big. leaps and you know. if you've got big buck in rio fundamentally immediately it's never just let it go close. up but explode when it. exists in the same. degree when they embed. in germany a syrian asylum seeker has been found guilty of manslaughter in a killing that sparked race riots in the city of kennett's last year the man was sentenced to 9 and a half years in jail and european correspondent peter out of 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 healy

who was stabbed to death in cam that 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 understood he 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 with other members of the far right. an anti 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 cambridge 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 was behind a number of rock concerts including one really large one in 10 minutes and demonstrations including a colossal march here in the german capital in 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 party pro came it's which has some links to prominent neo nazi groups took 8 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 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 manslaughter 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 cabinets which sparked such ugly violent scenes last year. and he wore activists have revealed the extent of british arms contracts with the saudi led coalition operation in yemen. 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 that there is 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 was have to stop was serials or every do know from obscured 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 news 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 darter 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 year kate 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 also to review those that it had orders 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 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 or to review its future participation. in other news this hour a major as show gets underway near moscow next week the max 29 teams head of that don't of course got the chance to take to the skies was one of the aerobatic teams

. the russian team is preparing for the international space this is a major air show that's going to take place to be end of august and it's going to be their target and pilots from countries all over the globe no doubt the pilots are going to be showing off their best of the bad and we were lucky enough to get invited. well blame you join one of those pilots i hope you're not afraid of i.

know you've been brought. down. but i want to go into. that but. after we returned in one piece our pilot constantine told us all about the international aviation in 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 championships

rolls and loops etc the international tournament features competitors from many european countries and none european countries including the us the airshow is not a contest the contest happens at the championship with the aerobatics and other events so what the airshow age group shows is skills and this big daters decide for themselves what they like of course who will show what we do best and what's new. staying in russia we've got some dramatic footage from the city of saran square a drunk father his baby daughter adds a window threatening to drop likely some local police officers managed to save the day. i. i. c

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