the u.s. and russia trade accusations of the un security council over the collapse of the i.m.f. arms control treaty. for the world in which the united states continued to fulfill its eye on the treaty obligations while the russian federation did not in accusing the russian the united states and the countries to support super ignoring funds in common sense donald trump cancels a state visit to denmark after calling remarks by its prime minister nonstate she had rejected his offer to buy green calling the proposal absurd. aid organization oxfam lashes out at g 7 countries ahead of their summit this week and it accuses their policies of driving global inequality equality how rich increased

over the last last year actually the wealth the bridge just billionaires was growing while the wealth of the poorest half of society had fallen. a low you're watching altie international law is on a lot 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 moscow and beijing called the un security council meeting after the u.s. tested a cruise missile previously banned by the i.n.f. treaty and rival powers blamed each other for the only going escalation. we've see you realize that because of the u.s. 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 used with 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 which is what about you are you going to evade responsibility for what is happening it will future generations forgive you for this russia's present actions are in line with a passive aggression that represents a clear threat to international peace and security the russian federation has the sole responsibility for the reason demise of the treaty so you can only do you not understand that by your response to the americans you're returning to a historical situation when missiles were targeting european cities from different sites. was a heated debate at the united nations security council now the united states has recently withdrawn from the i.n.f. treaty the intermediate range nuclear forces agreement and not only has the usa

withdrawn from the treaty but the usa recently tested a missile that would have been a violation of that treaty had it still been in effect many are viewing this as an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 u.s. 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 that support it or ignoring facts and common sense 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 u.s. 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 the price the psyche's nations from the u.s. now the i.m.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'd. 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 what investigative journalist dave lindorff says the u.s. is forcing rival power as into an arms rice 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 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. sign here trigger response is very very dangerous time now and it's a going to lead to an enormous arms race. don't trump claims he canceled his state visit to denmark to turn nasty remarks from the country's prime minister he had to buy land which is a danish autonomous territory but they'll quickly dismissed. prime minister's statement that it was absurd that was that it was that absurd idea was that the daughter was inappropriate statement well she had to do is say no we wouldn't be address that you're not sure. 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 off to the united states that way at least and to me the queen of denmark who would have hosted trump expressed his shock at his address abrupt cancellation greenland is the world's largest island and it has plenty of results is to the trumps idea to buy it is not entirely new as any 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 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. buying 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 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 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 as a rock blizzard created by dense fog or blinding snow american ingenuity and daring

have built a new outpost in those countries 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 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 china is 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. 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 ireland's iceland strategic position in the arctic and increase 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 at by force university in iceland thinks the prime minister isn't too upset about missing the meeting. current prime minister of iceland.

a president of the political spectrum to trump's ministration might feel or not i'm happy. this column to class seems to be occurring there's clearly a difference of opinion between the part you're cutting out of stock to get an irishman's old propose to military operations. reserve in the arctic to. what it's an administration so clearly there are there are right your differences between the 2 archers. restaurants shops and other businesses are closing their doors near the french resort of 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 previously. margaret 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 even. meanwhile g 7 countries have been blamed for aggravating inequality around the world but oxfam my colleague jacqueline vega 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 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. report looked at the record of g 7 countries in tackling inequality and we found 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 hauffe of the population own 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 drive government policy the charity adds the g 7 care more about shareholders the workers and warns the group of nations is worsening the climate crisis. the do 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 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 tackle inequality and help reduce poverty through tackling inequality. a belgian region's proposed ban on hull and kosher slaughter is said to come into force next month but the move has tested the tight balance an e.u. legislation between animal welfare and religious freedom. and kosher slaughter

requires animals to be alive and healthy they are killed through having their necks cups pretty stunning is not widely used which is one of the reasons why the practice 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 we is damaging to the reputation of the jewish people as a community it implies that we as a group are responsible with the will of animals and need government supervision which is of course a very negative view of us and we spoke with slovenian philosopher slab who shared his thoughts on the upcoming ban in belgium. i don't think it is necessarily let me. tell you clearly we should never forget that there is in your all alone the rule of. let's call it right we call it but they find the candidate they

could just take that both sides again if you're a psych and get nothing psych effect that i claim big lunatic utterly summerfest limits and you know. if you've got big chunks buckling real fundamental if you see them immediately it's never just let differ and go close. explode when they don't go trust exists in the same country when bade him back. in other news this hour in germany a syrian asylum seeker has been found guilty of manslaughter in a killing that spot race riots in the city of kenya's last year the man was sentenced to 9 and a half years in jail 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 healy

who was stabbed to death in camp 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 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 hashtag we are more 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 we can really see the effect that the killing of this man really had if we look at the local city elections in came in 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 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 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 came it's which sparked such ugly violent scenes last year. a major air show gets underway near moscow next week and the max 2019 head of that artie's donal course 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 to be 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. them.

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 featuring aerobatics performance and the standard maneuvers championships rolls and loops etc the international tournament features competitors from. many european countries and known european countries including the us the air show is not a contest the contest happens at the championship with the aerobatics and other events so what the airshow each group shows is skilless and this big data is decide

for themselves what they like of course who will show what we do best and what's new. antiwar activists have revealed the extent of british arms contracts with the saudi led coalition operating in yemen artie's poorest 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 is 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 it is the amount that they were entitled to export the u.k. 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 sales or every week do you know from a huge body of evidence from united nations that house members to international all the most respectable n.g.o.s in the world people in the ground in yemen they're 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 exporting 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 data now about. 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

usage 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 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 use 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. that's your news round up i am or is on a lot could not be back here in just over half an hour's time with a roundup of the headlines and see them.

he's challenging donald trump in the g.o.p. primaries the former 2 term republican governor bass and chooses bill weld on this edition of politicking. politicking on larry king one certainty in the often erratic and unconventional presidency of donald trump is that the base of the report of the republican party loves this man and this policies thus far that has never wavered in this support forum so why was so many stand up and challenge the president and once the argument to switch candidates midstream let's find out as that man former 2 term republican governor of massachusetts bill weld joins us from bush. good to see a bill thinks great are great to be with you as always you know you know when i as

dad allays seems oh i like to name drop when i ask them who is stevenson when he was appointed ambassador to the u.n. can i call you mr ambassador he says no called me governor close or was one the title of governor do you feel i feel the same way fan way what is it about being governor of and that was closed citizens like you and mrs stevenson the same thing you run your own show and you're very close to the people much closer than you are in washington so if you mess up you hear about it right away up close and personal from people you talk to every day and that really makes it more rewarding because you can sort of get feedback right away you have slimmer more furthermore go ahead it's going to say also you can really have an impact on your state like i cut taxes 21 times because i want to get rid.