i. we start with breaking news this hour from the g. 7 summit in france were really in foreign minister joe zarif arrived at the invitation of his french counterpart while the event's main focus is on inequality this year the iran nuclear crisis has been one of the most pressing issues all 20. in the news the shape that week or putin calls for asymmetrical response to new

u.s. missile testing as tensions grow following the collapse of the arms control treaty . under a dizzying display your correspondent takes to the skies with russia's elite team before the show. at talk about. it but. if you missed any of the big stories from the past 7 days you're in the right place certainly is recap the weekly starts. we get to the breaking news now at the g. 7 there are many. foreign minister zarif has arrived in the french city of b.o.t.a.

it's where the summit is taking place is the only expected a rainy and plain you're looking at right now live pictures from southern france at we believe he's now inflects holding talks with his french counterpart of course being one of the main focus points for world leaders during their talks this sunday . joining me here in the studio is our senior correspondent here for more on this just to point out the obvious here to run is not in the group of 7 it's starting to be one of the primary topics in fact all of the g 7 why the unexpected arrival well as you say it was a huge surprise journalists tripping over themselves to get to that their portland film that jet but what we know is that. has arrived in france at the invitation of his french counterpart the french foreign minister.

because this is all part of the mark on president effort to save to salvage what can be salvaged of the uranian nuclear deal and we know they'll be holding talks with various g 7 leaders. all of this not a pleasant surprise for the united states who was going to say it will be holding talks with america new no there will be no official talks with the united states or delegation but donald trump when asked by a journalist what he thought of all of this he just answered coldly no comment so you know his position is clear the united states is at this point not willing to engage with the iranians the europeans do and everyone else involved in the uranium nuclear deal they really want to see it succeed they really want to see it because they believe that ultimately it works. mom will do

just that no member of the g. 7 once iran to develop a nuclear bomb or the g. 7 people who want stability and peace in the region and therefore do not want to take actions that could affect it in this context we discussed our various initiatives. has taken initiatives towards iran i have taken several initiatives and we have reported on them the g. 7 is an informal club there is no formal mandate given within the g.'s. 7. and when asked about donald trump food these initiatives he said well they can go and talk to anyone they like the french the japanese they can engage in. outreach to the iranians all they want but the united states is sticking to its own and that means maximum pressure maximum sanctions military pressure on iran to get them to submit to get them into a new deal because it isn't enough for the united states that iran could tell its

nuclear program now they want iran to curtail and to stop its ballistic missile program its regional role its role involvement in various conflicts here though mark warner is floating an idea he's had a plan to lift slightly lift sanctions in order to allow iran to trade its all and for that iran will go back to its commitments under the ring in nuclear deal it's a stopgap measure until the they manage to get a bigger agreement in place but the united states you know having pulled out last year out of the renewed deal and seemingly i'm willing to budge anyone's guess where the all of this will work yet we wait and see what comes out of that news line today interesting stuff senior correspond rockers if i hear. staying in the region antti couple of protests are underway there not for a 2nd day triggered by the g. 7 summit of course in the resort of be

a ritz hundreds of social change i just took to the streets of nearby so they could be seen cari upside down wrapped up portraits of among the demonstrators are demanding that the g 7 take urgent action to tackle poverty inequality and environmental issues to at least 9000 demonstrators turned out yesterday the 1st official day of the summit. well the international aid organization oxfam is also accused the g 7 nations of failing to address growing inequality in a new report in the u.s. the poorest 50 percent of the population own one percent of the country's wealth germany and the u.k. aren't far behind either earlier i spoke to date oxfam's head of government relations about his organization's fund. 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. the russian president has ordered the country's military to person metrical response to the united states testing of a previously missile last weekend

a lot of putin stressed however that moscow will not be drawn into a destructive new arms race with washington following the collapse of the arms control treaty. i ordered the ministry of defense the ministry of foreign affairs and other cool offices to analyze the threat level created by the activities of the united states and to undertake comprehensive measures to prepare a symmetrical response besides russia is still open to an equal and constructive dialogue with the united states to recover trust and to reinforce international security the pentagon's test of a modified tomahawk cruise missile came just 2 weeks after the u.s. decided to kill off the long standing intermediate range nuclear forces agreement the projectile test would have violated that accord which by on the production of certain london based short range missiles. when america's development of new weapons appears to be part of a broader attempt to country a rising china just this month the u.s.

defense chiefs wants to see missiles deployed in the asia pacific region drawing the ire of both beijing and moscow with a look at the growing tensions here show you the tranquil. that was quick only last month this ground law inched smoking toy was illegal. it's already wiping out makeshift targets off the coast of california just like that and the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty is now part of history so soon be ready to see those in different parts of the world the pentagon boss was even quick to say they want to start with the asia pacific but russia is already worried about a different part of the world to eastern europe right near the russian borders as you can see american officials have said they're launching systems in romania and

poland are different from the m.k. 41 used in california well the russian government's not buying it. but the american still believe rejected this claiming that the ground based and kate fools who will no inching system was allegedly unable to launch tomahawk cruise missiles now the fact of the violation is evident it is impossible to dispute it they themselves spoke about it and of course the question arises how can we now understand what will be located in remaining poland with the missile defense systems or missile strike systems sufficiently long range so why was the i.m.f. treaty signed by the u.s. and russian leaders more than 30 years ago so crucial to make sure that europe where nowadays america's nato allies and russia actually share a border doesn't turn into a vulnerable danger zone dotted with launch pads when following the test in california the u.n. security council convened this week the russian representative threw a question in european diplomats are you actually ready to find yourself in between

2 rivaling cruise missile arsenals. are you going to avoid responsibility for what is happening to future generations forgive you for this. russia's present actions are in line with a pattern of aggression that represents a clear threat to international peace and security the russian federation bears the sole responsibility for the reason demise of the media because it would be my judgment do you not understand that by your responses to the americans you are returning to historical situation when missiles will target european cities from different sites well so far most european states have a grade with the us line d.c. kept blaming russia for violating the i.m.f. deal and that was exactly how they explained their own pull out there's nothing that russia can say osho to change the fact that russia has already tested the 9 and 79 cruise missile to ranges beyond 500 kilometers in violation of the i.m.f.

treaty moscow's message has remained the same all claims that they were breaking the rules are a lawyer and on friday vladimir putin had a real go at the us government for what's seen in russia as completely twisting their reality in favor of uncle sam's ambitions to the worst of it is pretty instead of fixing and an extent to situation and returning back to compliance with the treaty the americans will constrain to the propaganda campaign alleging violations by russia as is now clear this was just a smokescreen to hide washington's own breach of the treaty and its intention to leave it but this will leave 0 doubt about america's real intentions having got rid of the existing limits is now free to deploy previously forbidden missiles anywhere in the world as i said earlier though in the 1st place washington's thinking over a bold chess move in the asia pacific not that brush is far from that area either but it's clear want countries on the mind of strategists and the scene in the 1st

place people in the trump administration. yell that. they need to push back on beijing and a hard way they feel that they're running out of time feeling that china is getting stronger and they need to act fast to provoke china into some kind of military conflict all the things that involve china right now is really just a bigger is just a piece of the bigger picture of political tensions between us and china whether it's the trade war whether it's taiwan whether it's the hong kong protests. the excitement is building. 20. choose the. quarter well he will sweep which meant he got to go up to.

the russian team for 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 pilots from countries all over the globe the pilots are going to be showing up there. and we were lucky enough to get invited to a plane to join one of those pilots.

we returned in one piece our pilot constantine told us. at the international aviation and space along yup 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 at 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 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 . we will have more of the week's top stories after the break among them linked audio appears to support claims that a powerful us all and gas lobby group has been working to get a pipeline of protests. accent.

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

ok let's start in asia hong kong work up to the again this sunday there was this protest campaign continues right police fired tear gas in an attempt to this person the crowds of demonstrators some activists have been throwing bricks and shining strong laser beams out officers the authorities appear to be taking a tough line the point of water cannon for the 1st time in recent months it comes after the semi autonomous chinese territory was rocked by violence on saturday night in which 29 people were asked the people in the city are protesting. the erosion of the one country 2 systems policy beijing's influence over the cities for years. britain's prince untrue broken his silence on his friendship with geoffrey epstein insisting he knew

nothing of the convicted paedophiles illegal behavior the disgraced american financier killed himself in jail this month while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges but the spite the jukes attempt to put an end to speculation about the relationship he did not explain why he continued to see epstein after the multimillionaire had served the sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor. and no stage during the limited time i spend with him did i see witness or suspect any behavior of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction i met mr epstein in 1909 during the time i knew him i saw him infrequently and probably no more than once or twice a year i stayed in a number of his residences i've said previously that it was a mistake and an error to see him off his release in 2010 epstein's death has raised a lot of questions and prompted a huge amount of speculation so much so that his lawyers say they're not satisfied with the current findings and plan to carry out their own investigation what major

question is why epstein was taken off suicide watch this by previously having attempted to tick is own life.

and just keeping with the story more folate u.s. attorney general william baretta sucked the director of u.s. prisons following epstein's suicide for more money manager epstein was being held at a facility reserved for the most dangerous criminals alongside the likes of 14 el chapo guzman the notorious mexican drug czar and i spoke to mark furnish a lawyer for the disgraced financier. the conditions to which he was subjected would go even the needs of the strongest among us it's this is one of the toughest federal pretrial detention facilities in the country and the conditions are inhumane epstein was subjected to conditions that were similar to those of guzman but not remotely justified by his character or what he was accused of because he was not. a violent

individual like chapo was alleged to have been and he's not a guy who has escaped from prior facilities like guzman was alleged to have done. the real miracle is that we don't hear about these sort of things more about murdered pretrial detainees or suicidal pretrial detainees because the facility. is barbaric and it's a whole it's a it's it's like i don't use the word lightly lightly but it's sort of like an american go log for people who have not yet been convicted of anything. one doesn't want to treat the symptom while ignoring the disease and the disease is. how people are routinely denied bail with a shocking ease given the laws that congress passed allowing prosecutors and judge

to do that. the story we're closely following today or do you support your view of a major u.s. oil and gas lobby group helped craft legislation that criminalize the pipeline protests that's in response to demonstrations against the construction of a pipeline in north dakota in $26.00 being during which activists in themselves to equipment protesters also started fires when the authorities tried to remove them from the site with more on the story. you want to have big influence in washington d.c. and need to have a big lobby and that means you need to have big money meet the american fuel and petrochemical manufacturers the f.p.m. represents all the big names in the energy markets koch industries chevron exxon mobil valero energy to name a few now the f.p.m. has been around since 1902 making sure that the voice of the ultra wealthy oil

monopolists are not left out of the political process and it seems like their latest target has been protesters now the f.p.m. has crafted legislation in $22.00 different states already passed in 9 states that would severely restrict the activities of political activists who might get in the way of oil pipelines and other profitable infrastructure in an audio recording obtained by the intercept the group's senior vice president discusses the strategy that they're using to criminalize protests. really well. with. now the language of the riot boosting act is a little bit vague it could be a stretch to outlaw even thinking about protesting big oil companies.

now this is the only law that's been pushed by the a p m $28.00 team a $30000000.00 lobbying effort killed a carbon tax in washington state bigger cars means more gasoline and more gasoline means more profits for the oil companies the money and influence of big oil certainly outweigh the efforts of grassroots environmentalist everybody knows that in the united states of america if you want something you have got to pay for it and the oil industry certainly has all the means necessary but are to see new york . ok the colombian government promised farmers they would help them fight naturally and socially if they stopped growing the coca leaf used in the manufacture of

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