petro poroshenko is suing britain's national broadcaster for libel over allegations he paid a hefty sum to me donald trump in june of last year your study hawkins' with more on what we know. getting that one on one meeting with the leader of the free world himself is a priority for many world leaders as it was for ukraine's president poroshenko last summer russia and ukraine remain firmly in global headlines so get in that chats handshake and photo opportunity with trump early some say before vladimir putin was crucial. as new sanctions against russia were announced and the president spoke of how productive discussions had been some officials behind the scenes may have breathed a sigh of relief mission accomplished but reports of most at the meeting that may have been arranged unconventionally according to the b.b.c. diplomatic routes would have given poroshenko little more than a photo opportunity so ukrainian officials opened a back channel through a chain of contacts including trump's lawyer michael cohen now facing numerous federal charges to secure that tete a tete and the latter w

lessons from poroshenko, the president of ukraine. his nation is literally on the front lines of russian aggression, and how to handle immigration from across the global. i'll talk with mexico's president, switzerland's president and new zealand's prime minister on their views about one of the most divisive issues today. >>> but first, here is my take. president trump's speech on tuesday at the u.n. was an intelligent, at times eloquent presentation of his america first world view. he laid out an approach of pursuing narrow self-interest overbroader global ones and privilege ledges unilateral action over multilateral cooperation. he might not realize as he withdraws america from these global arenas, the rest of the world is moving on without washington. donald trump seems to be hastening the arrival of a post american world. take one of his first major actions, pulling out of the transpacific partnership. this sweeping trade deal was and a attempt to open long-closed markets like japan, but to create a grouping that could stand up to

diplomatic routes would have given poroshenko little more than a photo opportunity so ukrainian officials opened a back channel through a chain of contacts including trump's lawyer michael cohen now facing numerous federal charges to secure that tete a tete and the latter would take a handsome cut for penciling a meeting into trump's story allegedly around four hundred thousand dollars now the story citing top official sources in ukraine featured on the b.b.c. back in may this year but it seems the ukrainian president's office wasn't happy with the revelations the head of state's office is apparently suing the broadcast the for libel since low correction or apology was issued the allegation that the claimant was guilty of serious corruption is self evidently in extremely grave and serious one it has also caused him considerable distress an embarrassment since yeah the geishas strikes at the core of his personal dignity and integrity. understandably all parties involved have denied any such shady dealings ever took place the b.b.c. couldn't offer any more details on the allegations althoug

russian also you talked about ukraine so there are fall in that context of mr poroshenko has been saying their joint resolution has been developed. ukraine u.s. france or germany they say that the are a kind of a united for odd and he is not willing to go into too many details because russia may know about this and torpedo this so yesterday you had a meeting with one month ago he said well that kind of step could be a bit too pretty much you're diddy's position change or europe on the u.s. have different positions for regarding what you said about mr walker. but the ukraine is not about mr low draw. as for statements by mr poroshenko i wouldn't want to comment on them because we have the minsk agreements. but it was raining and there's a proposal on the on the un table with a vote in the form of a resolution proposed by russia which involves sending their own un. peacekeeping mission with. the mission to protect the observers because. sometimes we need to provide. good environmental conditions for the observers. i haven't seen anything in the side because you can drive up anything make u

partners wanted now the minsk accords which was signed by angela merkel to me a putin and petro poroshenko amongst others is aimed at resolving the four years old war there it was not in particularly good shape before this killing and it seems to be even worse shape now. u.s. president donald trump has warned congress against interfering with negotiations on a north american free trade agreement or nafta trump says that there's no need to keep kind of in the pact to both countries missed a deadline to revamp the deal danny alack reports from toronto. president trump has long said nafta was unfair to his country and he was visibly pleased when he announced last monday that u.s. and mexican negotiators had reached a deal to replace it canada was left out and trump said the canadians had until friday to give in to us demands so it could join the new pact that deadline is passed with no deal and trump is keeping up the pressure because i love canada but they've taken advantage of our country for many years they have tremendous tremendous trade barriers and they have tremendous tariffs. the sti

such scenarios that you just laid out before us well if president poroshenko with. these type of mordor and liberal secular police he wouldn't have intervened into the affairs of the church i cannot imagine for example president trump saying to the orthodox in the miraca that you have to be united into one jurisdiction and it should be in the miracle church and there should be no preacher accused of moscow it's a. your minutes your opponents with immediately are sponsored by pointing to a pretty harmonious relationship that exists between the russian orthodox church and the russian state with president putin being a practicing orthodox christian how being the church to expand its role within the society what is the difference between how state political and religious matters and intertwined in russia and how they are mixed up in the ukraine i can tell you was the difference if for example president putin would decide that all christians in the russian federation should belong to the russian orthodox church and if you would say that the roman catholic church in russi

european partners wanted now the minsk accords which was signed by merkel to me a putin and petro poroshenko amongst others is aimed at resolving the four years old war there it was not in particularly good shape before this killing and it seems to be even worse shape now. still to come on this program a final farewell to republican senator john mccain but not from the u.s. president. we take a look at some of the documentaries pulling in the crowds at the venice film festival. how we got more blustery shadows fading that way down across southeastern parts of australia but they are in the process of sliding away and they're heading towards new zealand say things going downhill here well the weather front just making its way in there's a possibility of one or two spots of rain as we go on through the second half of the weekend but nothing too much to speak of cool enough fourteen cells is fragile eight at all save the city but twelve degrees that high in melbourne it will be a touch form of that for a perth at around eighty degrees celsius come monday off name well maybe seventy top temperatu