was heralded as a new spring of nations and the end of communism decades on what is the legacy of this historic event the promises of $989.00 been fulfilled. first funerals are held for an american family brutally slaughtered in mexico by a drug cartel has revealed that they were killed with weapons originating from the united states but now the illegal arms trade is fueling violence. squeezes its u.s. rival apple out of the lucrative chinese market with a surge in global profits despite washington's bid to discredit the tech giant. in a show of unity a survey of south korean suggested aid rather support the north in the event of a war with you. it is midnight here in moscow thanks for joining us here on r.t.

. hundreds of people have gathered in northern mexico for the 1st funerals of an american family brutally slaughtered by a drug cartel earlier this week little to restrict the flow of arms over the border . 9 americans dead 3 women and 6 children hit by mexican drug lords a 13 year old boy who walked 23 miles to get help for the others and now us politicians are willing to run through walls to serve up justice it seems this is the time for mexico with the help of the united states to wage war on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth we merely a way to call from your great new president the mexican government can't protect americans inside of mexico but america may have to take matters into our own hands this is only 50 miles away from our southern border we can certainly defend american citizens inside of mexico with mexico and mexico was not willing or able to do so is the senator suggesting that the united states send authorities or

perhaps even troops into sovereign mexico now the perpetrators of this heinous crime may be subject to a high profile murder trial but are we overlooking something this was a mormon family slaughtered with 223 remington rifles made in america over 200000 firearms are smuggled from the usa to mexico every year this comes at horrific cost to society south of the border and $28000.00 alone the mexican police opened $33000.00 different homicide investigations at a higher rate of homicide than conflict at syria mexican law makes it near impossible for civilians to legally purchase guns in fact there is only one store in mexico that actually sells firearms but yet the mexican drug cartels continue to get their hands on high tech weaponry because business weapons that are right in the united states of america because they are in the united states and they are for

ordering them to mexico the low is so that that's very low or in there if the united states. or or they went to order they would be in in lima. the axes are arm or leg some the structure on the snow arm and also on the session or harm in concert or prick no or who are going to be by it's a hypocrisy in that sense the office of government accountability in the united states is documented that 70 percent of the weapons seized by the mexican police originated in the united states mexican leaders have long urged the usa to crack down on the flow of weapons into their country however attempts to do so so far have failed for decades here's the thing mexico is certainly dangerous or at least that's the message that donald trump rang out pretty loudly on the campaign trail in 2016 nearly 180000 illegal immigrants with criminal

records ordered deported from our country are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens when mexico sends his people to not sending their best to sending people that have lots of problems at their bringing those problems with us . they're bringing drugs they're bringing crime drugs like heroin and cocaine are flowing over the mexican border into the united states however the gangs that are executing people resisting law enforcement and transporting those drugs are armed with guns that originally flowed in the opposite direction the united states has to you know with its diction problem with this problem of consumption not just like being on the supply side of the things but also on that man and treating these as a public health issue would be a good idea to start with it's also the sales of arms not just like benefiting

those businesses that also benefit the economy of the united states and cup orating with next providing information to do financially teligent in a more appropriate way and really participating in an m. and g. money laundering strads. chinese take awhile way has seen a surge in global profits will also continue to squeezes u.s. rival apple out of the lucrative chinese market despite the us government service to all but banned the company it has close ties with the beijing government and intelligence agencies or a c.e.o. remains confident about the company's future even without the us or europe or don't care about the china u.s. trade negotiations we won't be used as a bargaining chip we can survive very well without the us we don't control the equipment so we have no idea how they operate i don't even know who's monitoring my phone i don't know which country maybe america is easy dropping all my phone calls

. back in may washington are the commerce department entity list that means the world's number 2 maker of smart phones would not be able to deal with american companies it's limited ways ability to source key parts in particular also the daughter of always founder remains under house arrest in canada she's fighting extradition to the u.s. is washington accuses the company of violating sanctions on iran it was also as countries around the world to boycott the 1st ever 5 g. network developments by weiwei the company's profits rose 25 percent a record 8800000000 last year it also shipped 206000000 smartphones in 2018 sales were up 45 percent this year while he's already passed the 200000000 phones mark 2 months earlier than last year with the expected rollout of the super fast 5 g. network in china in the months to come while way is expected to strengthen his position further more than 30 countries have already signed 5 g. deals with the company. just below all of the london capital group believes that as

of now washington steps i've been to while these advantage. the revenues that we're seeing reported now from while way were actually preedy us ban in may so even though that ban was actually delayed until november all those products are a result of the whole ways free ability to deal with u.s. companies since then it's been more problematic for example always soon to release a phone that doesn't even have the official license android version so that is going to limit sales moving forward so what we could be looking at here is a is a peak moment in overseas shipments of its smart phones there's been a bit of a nationalistic spirit in china to. buy our way products and more specifically not to buy u.s. products and apple has taken the brunt of that and we know that actually according to recent reports apple's market share has actually dropped significantly in apple is looking at some of its worst couple of quarters in a row here of sales in china that experience to date. clearly not.

quite what the u.s. intended there and certainly what apple would have liked but certainly seems to have been so far a benefit for weiwei. germany has been facing widespread demonstrations from its farmers as they disrupt transport routes using tractors to block traffic comes into it feels it's being unfairly blamed for climate change or have to bend to burn and push towards carbon neutral and sips us as more of a story. german farmers are furious but this is not a united front 2 camps are taking aim to the government over its environmental rules for very different reasons although one corner thousands of farmers causing gridlock in several major cities over environmental measures which they say are crippling their life the biggest one in bonn hold to the german argued cultural ministry were a 10 kilometer convoy brought the city to a halt. a

looming ban on the controversial weed killer and tighter controls on slurry and fertilizer are just some of the measures that farmers say will force them out of business germany's last 16 percent of its farms between the years of 2007 and 2017 a trend that the germans farmers association says is reflected across western europe farmers see the had enough of being labelled as the bad guys in the growing climate change movement we are not satisfied with the agricultural policy which is being shaped it's a policy that's not based on facts new requirements are being issued all the time at a rate we simply cannot keep up with we have no chance to adjust our farms in time

the wish list from different n.g.o.s is getting longer and we are getting fed up with the fact that with being made responsible for every dead insects and so on them we are fed up with this pharma bashing campaign. we simply want to show that we're fed up with being scapegoated for everything is negative we are to blame for climate change for air water pollution you can't go on like this. but on the other corner are the german farmers are accusing the government of failing the environment and putting them out of business if you want the federal government to rethink its crime and goals rather than take further action to reduce c o 2 emissions instead of roadblocks they try taking the legal route the 1st time the government had been taken to court for failing to protect the environment. he has become clear that climate action is prosecutable we can end up in coolant that is how i see it and i believe that we should move forward with

a positive attitude and i think more action must be taken now. germany's plan was to cut 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and compared with those in 1990 but it has fallen short it only reduced 31 percent but a court in berlin found that the targets were not legally binding on their turds the farmers are digging in on both sides we want to be perceived as people who produce healthy products in harmony with nature and not as the biggest destroyer of nature in germany more needs to be done so the government recognises that it must act now they may be opposites over the impact and solutions of climate change but there's one thing that they do agree on that bird lyn is failing them both federal law suits us for our team. on the history of animosity between north and south korea people in the south would side with north korea in the event

of a complete with japan that's the result of a survey by think tank based insults almost half those are said that they would back pyongyang even though there was an option to stay neutral only 15 percent said that they would side with tokyo despite continuous warnings by western allies of the threat posed by north korea. korea's 6 test of a nuclear device ellice missiles launches are a threat not only to the people of south korea but to the people all across our globe it has never been more important to be working closely together given the shared threat of north korea and north korea has conducted 10 missile tests this year 2 of them involved solid fuel missiles which the north can march with less morning we were to korea the most immediate threat tonight from north korea is far more conventional they could fire on south korea. the survey also comes as relations between south korea and japan are seeing another low disputes resurfacing

of a longstanding controversies back in $1000.00 turn japan turned career into its colony and fought hard against the independence movement back then japan controlled almost every aspect of life on the peninsula so in the 2nd world war japan drew heavily on korea hundreds of thousands of koreans were forced to work in japan conditions were so bad it's estimated more than 60000 actually died as a consequence women from korea we used a sex slaves by japanese soldiers many koreans believe the treaty signed between the countries in 965 didn't demand the wrongs that have been done human rights attorney eric surat can believe that both japan and the u.s. often paint a dark picture of north-south relations to fit their own political agenda. these outside influences japan in the united states for their own political purposes i think they exaggerate the desire of the north koreans to somehow attack south korea and i think that this will begin to bear out and these types of surveys and

discussions take place and when the mood in ministration finally i hope has the ability and the the guts frankly to do what they say they want to do and that is engaging peace and settled agree more with the north koreans and so i think japan will continue to stay on these flames until the south koreans really put an end to it by formalizing relations and taking further serious steps toward peace. president barack obama francis claimed they once robust nato alliance is in terminal decline and becoming brained that scholars have been dismissed by other members of the bloc. francis or president the french president used rather drastic

words to express his views this is not how i see the state of corporation with nato i don't think that such a sweeping judgment is appropriate made to is in our interest it's all security alliance obviously we have to take our destiny in our own hands but the transatlantic partnership is absolutely indispensable i agree with the transfer market nato is strong. united states north america and europe we do more together than the done for decades we have implemented the strongest reinforcement so collective defense since the end of the cold war or some nato members are correct in negatively to micron's words russia says it will not get involved in the dispute and still hopes to find common ground with the military alliance. once the drug was self into a discussion about the medical side of this issue if mcgraw had felt that the diagnosis he made of notes it was so evident he had every right to state it as for russia we'd like to establish an adequate dialogue with nato and once they to

recovers we'll be right then. michael made the remarks in an interview with the economist magazine the french president also cast doubt on the reliability of nato as article 5 which requires member states to come to each other's defense if attacked he suggested the terrence been undermined by washington's faltering commitment and said that europe needs to assert itself as a geopolitical power. europe is now dealing for the 1st time with an american president who doesn't share our idea of the european project if we don't wake up there's a considerable risk that in the long run we would disappear geopolitically or at least that we will no longer be in control of our own destiny i believe that very deeply. i said broadcaster jonathan fryer believes that the french leader wants to see a more independent europe. president mccall seem to be concerned about in particular was both the disengagement of the united states under donald trump who has made it

clear that he would like europe to look after itself militarily much more than is the case the president think it was a little premature in the sense to certainly call nato brain dead but it does need to work out exactly what it's for these days it was founded 40 years ago in principle to oppose what was perceived at the time communist threat from the east but of course that's no longer the case and its operations have spread into other parts of the world but that does need really to be serious thinking about what is nato for. a new poll in the us suggests that most people are feeling stressed about the upcoming presidential elections fact it worries people almost as much as terrorism or climate change and they concern is the media apparently blowing things out of proportion because of the nearly 40 percent of people say they have cut their news consumption. at the same time we're seeing democracy under

threat we're seeing state actors try to meddle in us elections this is bad for democracy they want to disrupt our democracy they want to disrupt our our system they want to cause doubt in their our state its traditions and our and our leadership donald trump's circus has ruined our country and our country is all through like nothing we have ever confronted before as a nation now we can binge watch the end of america with the increased attention i think that news media particularly in the united states has given. the political body i guess you'd say i don't think that that is that notable a certain level of stress around election time can prompt action everyone knows for sure there is going to be an election and elections absolutely have consequences no matter where you live and so if it prompts people to take action founding fathers

of the united states would say that might be a good thing and that some stress that leads to action in terms of voting would be a good thing and so sometimes a little bit of stress around an election time that leads to action might be a productive thing according to the poll many americans feel they can do so this low is the point i would put mixed feelings about the nation's future with less than 4 in turn believing it's all a good time to gina london again says americans are now beginning to understand that the media is skewed in the way it presents information. there's definitely a disproportionate negative coverage of politics in the united states media there's no question of that i think the figure is the high ninety's percentage of coverage in us media is negative and so that isn't surprising that that would leave some level of cynicism or negativity with the electorate and some level of stress absolutely and as so you know the media does bear some responsibility on the

way that they present the news a good news on that is that americans are very aware of this in ways they didn't used to be americans understand that the media is very skewed and that more than 90 percent of the media in the united states presents the negative side of it so americans kind of know to look for the positive and that's the good side that's the good news if you will. u.n. general assembly voted overwhelmingly to because economic embargo cuba the last thing the leaser to use but the u.s. position israel voted no. you know we had assumed that the president donald trump's government has begun to escalate its aggression against cuba by apply an unconventional measures in order to prevent the supply of fuel to our country its goal beyond disrupting the economy is to damage a cuban family standards of living by us but it is time for the majority to be

heard if you know actually demands in the media to definitive and to the end the chronic and inhuman good case against you but it is time to put an end to double standards in international relations. like all nations we get to choose which countries we trade with this is our sovereign right so it is worrying that the international community in the name of protecting sovereignty continues to challenge this right. the resolution is not legally binding but it follows a trend of u.s. isolation from the international community here's a look at just this month on the 1st the general assembly overwhelmingly approved a draft resolution that called for a middle east free of nuclear weaponry the u.s. and israel voted against a couple of days later the organization voted on a draft resolution aimed at preventing an arms race in outer space the us and israel also said no to that as well as on a draft resolution calling for prevention of militarization in space let's go

analyst and former u.n. officer francisco cologne a told us in his opinion what makes washington act this way they're desperate to us . but we know what it called a crime of i mean. because we haven't built a new world order i mean there are all repeats based on. their own. reality on their own. but. wars conflict disorder i mean not only the trial i mean for you and barack obama there was no new world order so you know after 4 you know. base nor work order i mean does it leave a book and the main responsibility lives on the use. by us policy or reaffirm a constant we are proud of. russia says it's

ready for further talks on euclid disarmament but is waiting for the united states to respond to its suggestions for mr circular made the comments at a key 4 month nonproliferation in moscow on 40 countries have been taking part although not america despite being invited of these ria phenomena reports. seems that all the participants all the speakers i heard a good we all know the importance of a sincere and productive dialogue between the states in order to find common ground but they all confirm there is a lack of such discussion hand they disagree on who is to blame for that russia point america saying that after we draw in from the i.m.f. treaty after rejecting what my putin's offer to suspend deployment of missiles in the europe with the new start treaty that expire is next february now in danger and following numerous violations of nonproliferation treaty america's behavior threatens global security here is said again russia's foreign minister speaking

about that. the problem surrounding the nonproliferation is weapons of mass destruction require special dialogue and we are ready for it however when the main partner here in the united states doesn't give us a comprehensible reaction to anything we suggest it's hard to try and act alone we constantly remind the us of our numerous suggestions and they know it already as well as other countries some have been complaining that today's discussion is not quite balanced since official american representatives are not here although they have been invited and basically they have rejected this invitation so i talked about america's role with un high representative happy or not you have to take it for granted when they tell me that they still share the global object to fulfill a new world free of nuclear weapons i have to take it for granted i think it's all very important we keep you know. with the united states like very much

like. regular contact with the the rest of the piece to china diplomat tez also taking part in today's hot debates and he was almost attacked with accusations that the gene an important player when we speak about global security spam. actually given that one of the biggest threats is coming from south asia rejects the dialogue with the us china has never let me repeat china's never rejected the so-called meaningful dialogue anymore in the u.s. has made this so much noise about having the strength natural negotiations but let me make it clear so far until now the u.s. is never told as what exactly they want to talk about in the strand that today's gathering here in moscow is a very good chance for participants to prepare for next year is meeting to make it more productive and more effective because finish with

a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world starting with a hospital room by doctors without borders or surely destroyed in yemen no casualties have been reported but all medical activities have been suspended charity claims he was hit in an aerial attack he sounded like coalition has already blamed who 3 rebels claiming they fired 4 ballistic missiles riyadh's been orchestrating air strikes against the militants in yemen since 2015. police officers been arrested over the shooting of 2 students this was during protests in the capital santiago does the demonstrators rally there against the government plan to tighten public order measures include a ban on wearing hoods and greater protection for police the arrest began in the south american country 3 weeks ago over an hour suspended i can subway fare is which grew into demands for the president's resignation. demonstrations are supporters and opponents of president. violent in bolivia reports say several

protesters and police officers have been injured protest the marches of an ongoing bolivia since the general election earlier this year amid claims of fraud. appreciate company this evening here on r t join me for updates on our top stories at the top of. her. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. in my i phone i have a 1000 times the capability of the of the computers we had on board the spacecraft at that time i mean it's ridiculous that in my back pocket i have much much more

capability than we had in the hood in the entire apollo program. today there are good dentists and bad evidence from bad to those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat the look to those who work in syria the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right away military windows funding an army of death squads there's no. because there's always a small. profit.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle 30 years ago the berlin wall fell the cold war had essentially come to an end the fall of the cold war symbol was heralded as a new spring of nations. the end of communism decades on what is the legacy of this historic event the promises of 1909 been fulfilled. in the fall of the berlin wall i'm joined by my guest john laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james he's a professor of history and international affairs at princeton university as well as

author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to geoffrey roberts he is emeritus professor of history at university college cork and a member of the royal irish academy all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to john and paris 1st time in 30 it's been 30 years now believe it or not because i remember it so vividly when it happened a few months before i had been living in poland for a number of years and an avid student of eastern european communist affairs at the time john 30 years on what is its meaning because i look at cursory reviews of you know that in commenting on it it is the people's power the rise of.