2 is so important because of north stream 2 it will be completed even if u.s. sanctions are imposed on project participants that was announced by kremlin spokesperson to me trip is called he noted that the u.s. actions violate international law are unfair competition and many expensive and uncompetitive products will be forced on europe as gas consume is moscow does not like such actions nor does berlin nor paris these sanctions are a direct violation of international law an example of unfair competition and an attempt to spread artificial u.s. dominance to european markets via the imposition of more expensive and uncompetitive products construction of north stream to began last year as of november 29th seen more than 80 percent of the pipeline was built its launch a shuttle for 2020 the 2 lines of north stream and north stream 2 from russia to germany are currently bin laden and the baltic sea total capacity is expected to be $55.00. 1000000000 cubic meters of gas to get some of europe's biggest energy funds are involved in construction of north stream to the

project are using illegal tools that threaten the global economy moscow has repeatedly stated that north stream to is an absolutely commercial and competitive project germany has also repeated lists . that no stream to is an economic project and does not threaten the energy security of europe ukraine opposes nostrum to fearing it will lose revenue from russian gas transit but as realizing a peace in net add to the construction of the gas pipeline does not imply a hold of transit on the russian gas through ukraine the budget bill is expected to be signed into law by donald trump later this week if he's not impeached of course as you. say. and on that note boom bust bridges born i were joined by professor richard wolfe host of economic update to talk about these sanctions due to the north stream 2 project and recent opec cuts professor will start of the conversation by giving his take on the think sions richard let's be clear about what's happening here sanctions again as i said they're typically used at least that's what we're told right to deter bad behavior by governments that's clearly not wh

the the known lamentable end time north stream to trust in mr putin and try resetting of relations with russia so there is open campaigning against mrs merkel here but again she repeated her position which clearly coincides with mr putin's that 1st of all this is largely an economic project the she understands the political considerations but in fact she probably also understands or sees as anybody else that the. opposition by the poles and the baltic countries are largely also being instrumentalists by you as geo strategists who really do not want. our porch more between russia and germany between russia and western europe as a whole because for of for washing for a certain part of the political factions in washington it's very important to keep the rift between russia and western europe in order to shore up support for the us when the us while the us are concentrating on completely different international theaters of conflict. in terms of u.s. influence it's made it clear its opposition to the north stream to project can it do anything about the fact that germany is thinking of itself

germany has been critical of washington's decision to sanction companies in europe's north stream to gas pipeline project as unacceptable chancellor angela merkel says that germany is against any extra territorial sanctions the measures may prove to be a major setback for the transatlantic relations meanwhile in russia the move is seen as an attempt to counter the country's energy project and promote america's own economic interests are t.v. . reports from moscow. on tuesday the u.s. senate approved the national defense authorization act for next year it's a red coat $700000000000.00 military budget more than $700000000.00 has been allocated to contain russia among other things it's obliges that ministration to impose sanctions on russia. gas pipelines and approves military aid to ukraine the white house opposes the construction of north stream to believing that the protrude will give russia leverage over the foreign policy of european countries plus it promotes its liquefied natural gas in the pipeline if completed. would make europe even more dependent on russian energy would gener

no i don't think so there's this guy isn't going to germany north stream 2 is going to germany that is something that the u.s. is not in agreement with and that many european partners of germany are not in agreement with that's a conflict that i think is more serious politically and economically but so far germany's chancellor merkel is holding of course on that one all right but about in front thank you so much. interpol issue it's a red notice for men the san remo executive colleagues go and stay in a spectacular scapegoat jumped bail in japan earlier this week and flights to lebanon to avoid a trial where they are on charges of financial misconduct and the question is whether go on will face any sort of legal proceedings in lebanon and whether that would satisfy japan. outside goans home in beirut the wait for answers continues for their part lebanese officials say they will respond to an interpol notice even if they aren't obliged to reskill on. i suppose the general prosecution will fully implement the notice and that includes summoning him in and listening to his testimony that a

north stream so north stream one is functioning north room 2 is not operational yet and everyone is interested in diversifying their gas supply and there are going to continue working in this direction and this project is really of very importance we have also discussed the matter of international conflicts. firstly i wanted to talk about libya i thing between the turkish president our de wine and russian president vladimir putin they had a productive meeting and his tent pole. and. the work is being done to achieve a cease fire agreement that could be a part of the approaches among 5 countries that can federal decision say in the security council of the u.n. and there is a certain document that was developed at the highest level with the other conferees in the we can now in the vide. of participants to join the. u.n. meeting this. is the yard the main responsibles for these pros has. and . eventually believe been part is and stakeholders they must have the right to have a sovereign country were not going to intrude to interfere with their its sovereign it is so now the party of so this confli

then to stand that the sanctions will not be able to stop north streams construction as it's already near completion germany is already preparing to tell a true measures top officials slammed the bill congress has indeed decided to impose sanctions we are against extraterritorial sanctions not all of those docked yesterday but we also have the same problem with the sanctions against iran there's no other option left for us but to hold very decisive talks to show that we are not accepting these sanctions we believe that is unacceptable.

we already have north stream ones so that's not incredibly new with the newest north stream too and that there is an interest for them to diversify their gas supply and that they were bring this forward but i think that is a very important project and. we have also spoken about the question of international conflicts 1st of all i would like to mention libya i believe it was a good meeting between turkish president at the un and russian president vladimir putin in istanbul where. they work has been done towards a cease fire which can lead to what in the berlin process the 5 veto members of the security council and 5 other countries concerned have worked out on a high official level and we had agreed that we that they were very soon be able to answer invitations for a conference in berlin together with the united nations i want to emphasize general secretary general tears and sammy are. putting up for setting up a process which is to give the libyan parties a possibility to have a future in a peaceful country noninterference and sovereignty and that is why the countries who are presen

decision to threaten sanctions or gas problems partners in north stream when it comes to nordstrom you know i don't think that. the compromise the u.s. companies that are exporting l.n.g. to you would hope they they are consulting with the europe this or a u.s. government and asking them to impose sanctions on gust from or are are on russia to export gas to europe that's not the case of you slowly and that's a saying in europe it's more we are talking more about the healthy competition and the competition is a kind of current lease battle that will see for our market share while there are u.s. sanctions on russia the european seem to want to be wanting to ease sanctions will be are paeans be able to do it. well i think there are some major countries again like france or germany and austria that are putting a lot of a force to it is them and this is this is their market the gas market especially you know. if we're talking about the north stream then it's a german market and i sing for instance germany never can be able to ease the sanctions you know that to get some extra value him some

military escalation between america and iran as well as washington's efforts to stop russia's north stream to gas pipeline to germany to speak to all of his details. it's that difficult times that angular merkel arrives in moscow for what will be her 19th visit to russia as german chancellor certain to be up for discussion between herself and president vladimir putin are taking energy out of the current situation in the middle east and the standoff between iran and the united states and getting energy from russia into germany via the nord stream 2 gas pipeline. chancellor merkel and president putin are in agreement when it comes to a deescalation of tension in the middle east mrs merkel spokes person stressing the need for cool heads this week it's constant it's important that all involved parties exercise restraint and turn away from the logic of escalation towards the logic of dialogue both the federal chancellery and the kremlin have their concern at the situation in the region with the government here in berlin sounding less than convinced by the justification given by washington for t

both 'd participants at the press conference commented on north stream to signal that they seem to be very confident that with a certain delay of some months or maybe a maximum year they will manage to get this project close i think i would interpret this whole effort this coming back of miss miss miss america after almost 5 years as well i wouldn't go as far as say mission of failure but in a way the fact is that over those 5 years the whole foreign policy international foreign policy philosophy has returned to a sort of riyadh politic to the taking care of the we realize asian of physical job graphical economic own interests mrs merkel clearly understood but she's been allowing this to go too far because occupying the moral grounds is nice but if you have no tools in your hand to get any more of mileage on the road you are not not really in a favorite position. that camera man who's contributed to work in iraq city was shot dead on friday his colleague a reporter from a local news agency was killed in the attack on cross that davis' body. there's only about 2 reporters one correspon

we're talking about the north stream then it's a german market and i sing for instance germany never can be able to ease the sanctions you know that to get some extra value of gas or nostrum to hasn't the whole iran file showed the europeans struggle sometimes to try and counter or get around the impact of u.s. sanctions i know that you know their own situation obviously is a bit different because the u.s. was penalizing countries you know companies that do business with iran anywhere but using this still could be some fallout from u.s. sanctions i say here is the iran issue is a bit different because some of the european countries they were importing oil not gas but oil from iran and those countries they had an option to import oil from elsewhere in the burbs but when it comes to a natural gas imports it's the situation is a bit different because many. european countries are pretty much the pendent and almost entirely reliant on gas from gas and that will be extremely painful for them to change this situation moscow's also looking eastwards isn't it with the china pipeline is that p

2 project is already 94 percent complete it will be finished by the russian side the north stream to is designed to connect the natural gas pipeline between russia and germany by circumventing ukraine and then tying russia and europe together the us play sanctions on any companies and german interests that attempt to help complete the pipeline. the federal reserve will meet this week to discuss fine tuning their control of short term rates now after the fed lost control of the very rate they were mandated to oversee last year the response was just to pump more liquidity into the market to alleviate the conditions they claimed it was a. plumbing issue that was temporary and would last no more than a few months well that few months dragged on into a quarter and now into the new year it has now become a semi permanent fixture in the repo market as traders and investors have come to expect the fed to bail out the market when it gets into trouble but as all good things come to an end so too must this the fed flooded the market was cashed in september of last year in order to pump liquidit

middle east and the government in moscow calls the sanctions that have been put in place on the north stream project illegal expect both chancellor merkel and president putin to be singing from the same song sheet when it comes to joint statements on these particular issues but they'll also be close attention paid later on saturday to what i'm glad merkel has to say and how closely she aligns herself with the russian president and that's going to be paid attention to not just here in berlin but also in brussels and in washington peter all over r.t. belin. now to round up some major international news the sultan of oman has died at the age of 79 been stayed outside ruled the gulf nation for almost 50 years and was the longest serving leader in the middle east he had no children and a successor will be chosen by the ruling family a man has declared 3 days of national mourning. 2 people have died and 6 are injured after a classroom shooting in the mexican city of tori on an 11 year old boy reportedly asked to go to the bathroom returned with 2 handguns and opened fire killing his teacher he the

middle east and the government in moscow calls the sanctions that have been put in place on the north stream project illegal expect both chancellor merkel and president putin to be singing from the same song sheet when it comes to joint statements on these particular issues but they'll also be close attention. haid later on today through what i'm bill americal has to say and how closely she aligns herself with the russian president and that's going to be paid attention to not just here in berlin but also in brussels and in washington peter all over r.t. berlin. but we return to our breaking news now iran has just admitted to unintentionally shooting down the ukrainian plane on wednesday killing all 176 people on board and that comes from an official statement released by state t.v. and news agencies in iran it says the military fired a missile due to human error hit a ukraine airlines flight 75 to the bering 737 went down there tehran on wednesday morning and later that day the u.s. the u.k. and canada cited their intelligence services as saying the plane was brought down by an iranian surfa

middle east and the government in moscow calls the sanctions that have been put in place on the north stream project illegal expect both chancellor merkel and president putin to be singing from the same song sheet when it comes to joint statements on these particular issues but they'll also be close attention paid later on saturday to what has to say and how closely she aligns herself with the russian president and that's going to be paid attention to not just here in berlin but also in brussels and in washington peter all over r.t. belin. u.s. aviation authority has proposed a $5000000.00 fine on boeing for allegedly putting defective parts into it 737 max planes internal memos from the company have been released suggesting staff were aware of numerous problems with the aircraft but failed to alert inspectors. i still haven't been forgiven by god for the covering up i did last year would you put your family on a mac simulated trained aircraft i wouldn't know this blue news designed by gloams who own certain supervised by monkeys over 100 pages of internal communications were delivered to co

long term goals is to reduce gas transit through ukraine with alternate pipeline projects such as north stream one and 2 under the baltic sea and turk stream its gas shipments through ukraine are set to drop by more than 40 percent by 2024. the world's biggest consumer electronics show is back in las vegas but c.s. is no longer just a showcase for tech companies boasting new phones are network technology today it firms like airlines and car companies are also showing off their latest just another sign of how personal technology is migrating into every aspect of our lives . a look at the future of automobiles german com maker b.m.w. presenting the self driving electric eye 3 urban suite the prototype has only one passenger seat feet up and let the car do the driving. this car might become reality soon but until then the car makers have to overcome of a riot deal of hurdles. we call it a holistic approach not focusing on your new technology rofocale singh also on the legal discussions roof also. focusing on enable people to develop such kind of complex systems and you have to do all of these thi

long term goals is to reduce gas transit through ukraine with alternate pipeline projects such as north stream one and 2 under the baltic sea and turk stream its gas shipments through ukraine are set to drop by more than 40 percent by 2024 flying cars smart diapers and a gadget to combat stinky shoes those are just some of the innovations on display at this year's consumer electronics show in las vegas thousands of companies are exhibiting their cutting edge tech at the event where the focus is turning increasingly towards mobility. this is home i say days in visions the future of driving its concept car inspired by the movie franchise avatar features scale like flops and technology that can recognize drivers by their heart piece it's just one example of the futuristic vehicles being showcased at sea yes. also causing excitement flying cars this model was produced by south korean carmaker and u.s. right sharing service. the 2 companies coming together to sell a dream we would be able to fly on demand just imagine their rather than fitting our lives around the lives schedule. i would like to ca

to accomplish i think the middle east will dominate it's i do think that issues pertaining to north stream to a gas pipeline the builders of sanction by the united states may also be on the agenda what we do know is that mr putin respects miss america and really would like probably to talk a broad range of subjects have the ghost frankly speaking that are not too many western interlocutors this day these days talking to him all right to govern a correspondent confident anchor thank you very much for your analysis. they're up to date now on d. w. news a stay tuned for shifts to w. so i'm cutting edge technologies omarion edelstein from me and the entire news team here in berlin thanks for watching. what secrets lie behind the small. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. to double your world heritage 360 getting up now.

what else can we expect from these talks well it seems likely that the 2 leaders will touch on north stream 2 after set us sanctions against that gas pipeline between the 2 countries were brought in december but also a particular focus today seems to be libya berlin has been pushing for a peace conference on libya in the coming weeks to take place in berlin and it seems that russia could be on side when it comes to that putin has been calling for peace he's been speaking to leaders calling for a cease fire in libya so it seems likely that putin may come out and support that conference in fact he also cautiously already supported it along with this week russia of course hasn't officially taken sides in that conflict but they have potentially been tacitly supporting. it is advance on the u.s. u.n. backed government in tripoli with mercenaries but it seems that again they're on libya we can be we might be seeing a united front. between russia and germany today our correspondent in moscow emily show one thank you emily and here in the studio political correspondent thomas barrett thank you very

mean illegal migration smuggling illegal commerce and the proliferation of weapons and drugs the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany is another problem washington wants to stop the project with sanctions against companies who work on it berlin and moscow intend to complete it by 2021 anyway because with more we can finish the pipeline ourselves without foreign partners. germany and russia have major disagreements over the conflict in ukraine and european sanctions against russia but merkel said it's better to talk to each other than about each other. so i took notice of the other stories making news around the world maybe unions have marched through paris and other french cities to protest pension reforms planned by president to money what about call the demonstrations came off the talks between the government and unions failed to break a deadlock a strike against the reform had disrupted public transport since early december. judges and lawyers from across poland to doubt that in the capital warsaw to protest judicial reforms proposed by the conservative government they say t

term goals this to reduce gas transit through ukraine with alternate pipeline projects such as north stream one and 2 under the baltic sea and tarc stream it's gas shipments through ukraine are set to drop by more than 40 percent by 2024 and that's it for me and the business team here berlin you can find out more about these and other business stories on our web site that's t w dot com slash business i'm stephen there's in berlin thanks always for watching. every 2 seconds the person is forced to flee their home. the consequences and disastrous our documentary series displaced depicts dramatic humanitarian crises far from. phuket then we don't have time to think i didn't go to university to kill people. the people feel for their lives and their future so they seek refuge abroad but what will become of course who stay behind and simply. my husband went to peru because of the crisis that if he hadn't gone there we would have died of hunger manana found. displaced scores turned her age 15. hello welcome to news from the world of arts and culture hollywood stars will smith and martin lawrence w

mean illegal migration smuggling illegal commerce and the proliferation of weapons and drugs the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany is another problem washington wants to stop the project with sanctions against companies who work on it berlin and moscow intend to complete it by 2021 anyway. we can finish the pipeline ourselves without foreign partners. germany and russia have major disagreements over the conflict in ukraine and european sanctions against russia but merkel said it's better to talk to each other than about each other. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. taiwan's pro independence president sighing one has been reelected by a landslide margin side won 57 percent of the vote showing strong support for her tough stance against china in her victory speech see she warned beijing that taiwan would not be influenced by threats. labor unions have marched through paris and other french cities to protest pension reforms planned by president and then you had back demonstrations came after talks between the government and unions failed to brea

mentioned on their desire to save the iran nuclear deal which donald trump left fairly recently and on north stream as well on that gas pipeline that's set to can take a next the 2 countries they both said that they're determined to finish the construction of that pipeline despite the fact that the u.s. hit the pipeline with sanctions last year or so in both cases u.s. policy seems to be pushing the 2 countries closer closer today. went to moscow. to get something from growing influence in the middle east on the other hand putin wants to become a key player in resolving conflicts is so how far did each get in their goals today . well when it comes to the middle east we did see some concrete results merkel has been pushing for this peace conference in berlin to take place on the libya conference on the libya conflict and putin did today agree that that could take place he did have a caveat where he said that both sides of this proxy war of this war in this proxy war had to take part in that conference he also pointed out that there was going to be a ceasefire that was announced by him and the turkis

all the way to baumgarten and then you have north stream sure under the baltic sea bringing us to central europe so there is an abundance of gus supplies coming then the question will be of course how realistic is to have some additional gas. at what price and also politically complex strain whether this will constitute and the risk so also financing will be a huge hurdle because e.b.e. our view european investment bank they made clear that they are not going to fund natural gas projects in the future so there are so many complex issues at hand and i hope that this will be resolved and this pipeline project will go smoothly and don't also forget an example that we had in the past number of projects started in 2002 abundant in 2013 then transformed into turner the lessons that that we learned from such pipelines you can sign all this intergovernmental agreement m. or use and whatever you have but the realisation is very very very difficult you need a very strong lead country in this case i don't see who will be delete country is going to be italy which will be absent in the meeting today s

thing to do and after today's discussion with president putin i believe it's possible to complete north stream to despite those sanctions. the tone of the meeting was neutral positive i should say in fact angela merkel she repeated at least twice that it is better to talk to each other rather than about each other so this could be an indication that russia and germany could drift closer towards each other in the near future. the libyan ceasefire which mentioned of their took effect at midnight local time just a few hours ago that was confirmed by the libyan national army led by commander. now according to local media the l m a has already accused to the un back the government of violating that truce but says their troops are still committed to the ceasefire this week has seen an escalation between the 2 rival governments in libya there have been numerous reports of clashes and airstrikes around the city of sered which dozens with dozens killed. now the cease fire was brokered by the leaders of russia and turkey at a meeting in istanbul on wednesday and on saturday the german chancellor urged t

syria and oil and of course the trade wars between washington and beijing as well as over russia's north stream gas pipeline to the u. so let's give trade lor's a look. now at some of the world's largest economies are locked in a bitter trade battle the stabilizing the globe but due to questionable looks at how it all started. 29000 so a full blown trade war with washington finding on 2 fronts but the art of war whether the conflict is military or economic in nature consists of certain universal status while let's have a closer look at the class that has taken place this year and that has had trade tariffs and saying sions as its weapons of choice. trade confrontation with china was a u.s. a major concern and i do. that trump was fixed on since day one of his presidency big meetings today with china china which i where the enemy chosen the only thing missing was a selected target. so at the beginning of the year the trumpet ministration started to portray the chinese tech giant huawei as an enemy u.s. secretary of state mike brown pale as a latch that while way is owned by the chinese governmen

thing to do and after today's discussion with president putin i believe it's possible to complete north stream to despite those sanctions. the tone of the meeting was neutral positive i should say in fact angela merkel she repeated at least twice that it is better to talk to each other rather than about each other so this could be an indication that russia and germany could drift closer towards each other in the near future hugo should on their reporting from central moscow that brings up tonight that's i think they're looking for from us in a bad. often. time after time called parishioners repeat the same mantra sustainability very important . transitions to sustainable prize board sustainability spain overmanned a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely harmless. it. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something i'll just want any minute i mean look. this is the moon we do want to. underscore the. banks geysers financial survival. the delegates are going to be easy this is the c

in the region but the middle east wasn't the only thing on the agenda another big point is the north stream to gas pipelines it's a gas pipeline currently under construction from russia into germany to provide the whole of europe with russian with the russian gas it was a major it is i should say a major bone of contention between germany europe and the united states because washington sees that washington doesn't want this doesn't want to see this pipeline it doesn't want this pipeline to be built so it has for instance european countries european contract under sanctions it has threatened them with sanctions and while european contract has had to pull out in the face of this threat of lattimer putin has stressed that russia is able and will finish the construction of this pipeline on its own he just said that while the finish the end of construction will be delayed by a few months because of that but also angela merkel that she has stressed how important this project for germany and from her standpoint to the whole of europe to here's what she had to say about it. this is 1st and foremost

thing to do and after today's discussion with president putin i believe it's possible to complete north stream to despite those sanctions. the tone of the meeting was neutral positive i should say in fact angela merkel she repeated at least twice that it is better to talk to each other rather than about each other so this could be an indication that russia and germany could drift closer towards each other in the near future of the libyan cease fire which he did mention could actually take effect at midnight local time that was just a few minutes ago and it's being confirmed today by the libyan national army that new justin. now there have been more protests against pension reforms in france rallies in paris and other french cities too we're joined by members of the yellow vest protest movement in the capital things did turn violent though with police resorting to take us. i. was the i. was. i. the. the. i further west in the city of najaf and also boiled over police she swore can intersperse the crowds there almost 3000 people took part in that rally unions to say that some half a 1000000 peop

middle east and the government in moscow calls the sanctions that have been put in place on the north stream project illegal expect both chancellor merkel and president putin to be singing from the same song sheet when it comes to joint statements on these particular issues but they'll also be close attention paid later on today to what has to say and how closely she aligns herself with the russian president and that's going to be paid attention to not just here in berlin but also in brussels and in washington peter all over r.t. early. this expected the when the 2 leaders to emerge from that meeting they will be addressing the media if and when that happens will be across that life. it's another day of protests against pension reform plans in front of these live pictures coming from the french capital rallies in paris and other cities have also been joined by members of the yellow vests protest movement. some parts of the capital the protests turned violent with police resorting to the use of to gas people are angry about government plans to hike the retirement age and to unify the pension