the 3000 kilometer long power off siberia gas pipeline and has been commissioned by russia and china on a monday the ambitious project has united the northern hemisphere 2nd largest gas producer along with the world's 2nd largest gas consumer market economic unity and friendship between neighbors or russia and china. and for china it couldn't be more timely the country has been using increasing amounts of gas and it's a trend that looks set to stick around for. the she's a major strategic project for bilateral energy cooperation it is of great significance to deepening incorporation between the 2 countries and integrating our interests now russia is also quite pleased with this project when the sram we have starts with the biggest restructure the projects in the world there will be nothing you bigger in the sphere for years to come because this is not about breaking records this is an extremely important project force russia and china but we all know that energy is a stake it's all fake and there is no pleasing everyone especially when someone's been cut out of the deal now the world'

this is significant for both china and russia for china even sun lot in terms of energy security in terms of diversification of use energy sources from the east africa and so on to to the russian siberia it is also significant for russia because it means that it is less and under group in market it opens up the china market with tremendous potential and infrastructure built can also be used to supply oil and natural gas to south korea and japan so there is a lot of potential to develop the asia pacific market in support of the development of russian far east and eastern siberia in russia. residents of asbestos thought so for mining town in canada speak out against plans to change its name due to its negative connotations more stories after the short break. what politicians do. you put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to be rich. to going to the press which is what before 3 of them or can't be good. interested in the waters in the. bush should. spend mollusks in america and the average income for americans hasn't

this is significant for both china and russia for china even some law in terms of energy security in terms of diversification of use and as he so says from the video e's africa and so on to to the russian siberia it is also significant for russia because it means that it is less and under group in market it opens up the china market with tremendous potential and infrastructure built can also be used to supply oil and natural gas to south korea and japan so there is a lot of potential to develop the asia pacific market in support of the development of russian far east and eastern siberia in russia coming up in germany want them to fit their political top and if as the ruling coalition had just close to collapse i'll tell you more about it after the short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back kotter let's head straight to john meanwhile a change in leadership and one of the ruling coalition parties has left a big question mark hanging over the alliance's

got bogged down in the wars in the middle east while china came up it got bogged down in the wars in the middle east while russia got back on its feet and so these 2 other major centers of power china and russia big enough big enough economies and strong enough militaries and large enough population wise of those 2 countries have come up now both russia and china said look let's make this win win our growth our development doesn't have to be at your expense your include the american government doesn't see it that way you know that's such a fascinating point you know because james with rising powers they could potentially in a way we have to stress the word potentially be a threat to the unit polar moment i mean would it be kind of maybe a better idea to engage them instead of you know turning them into hostile rivals and that's it. sadly what we've seen happen. so a a rising power by definition is a threat again that is a historical which need you could look at a number of times through history where rising powers you have to accommodate the international system why because it works for everybody you this what w

and also involving other major countries including china russia which can make d.p. r. k. feeling more comfortable about its future about its security about for example giving up nuclear weapons that is the key that is the gravity one nighters that we got through that big one more measures should perhaps the u.s. take all due from the perspective of beijing to make north korea feel more comfortable giving up its nuclear weapons and how it should involve china more. 1st of all china has been involved over the past 2 years in the major initiatives in the united states when chairman kim jong il and flew to singapore for the summit meeting with president trump he flew in the air china special plane for example and when he met with president kim in vietnam he traversed through china by a real way and there are many other reasons but i think the current way of trying to achieve a breakthrough purely between the p r k and the united states in a bilateral way is doomed to failure because d.p. r. k. will never fundamentally trust the strategic objective of the united states it will

zeeshan ping said he wished the 2 sides would work harder and build more bilateral projects like the china russia east through pipeline. he said that would boost both countries' development and benefit their peoples as well china is turning to gas in part to deal with their pollution and for russia's gazprom it's a welcome opportunity to reduce its reliance on europe as well as the china pipeline the russian state owned company is working on 2 other major projects north stream 2 connecting russia with germany is almost complete and in january the turkish stream pipeline via the black sea will begin supplying gas to southern europe from the black sea to black friday madness we know now it's cyber monday that's today and expectations are high for yet another record breaking 24 hours of online sales in the u.s. but since digital deals are now spreading all around the globe there are warnings about the excesses of consumerism and even the pope. francis' story in advent in vatican city in jubilant fashion this year the start of the christian countdown to christmas happened to coincide with the now tra

this is significant for both china and russia for china even said a lot in terms of energy security in terms of diversification of use energy sources front that they don't. and so on to the russian siberia it is also significant for russia because it means there is less and under group in market it opens up the china market with tremendous potential and infrastructure built can also be used to supply oil and natural gas in south korea and japan so there is a lot of developed the asia pacific market is support of the development of russian far east and the area in russia. there are china has slapped sanctions on a number of u.s. nonprofit organizations and also put on the u.s. navy visits to hong kong on hold and here comes in retaliation for some recent steps by washington which are viewed by beijing as hostile. to me family spawns to america's unreasonable behavior the chinese government has decided to suspend all u.s. navy and air force visits to hong kong china will also impose sanctions on the national endowment for democracy national democratic institute for international affairs

today china and russia. people told point in our development our relations are entering a new era and i sincerely hope that the countries china and russia will do even more to start new projects such as this chinese russian pop line which would serve the interests of our countries and which we would be to the benefit to our peoples thank you let me put and i thank you everyone. here here as you see. all of. you know. i. thank you ping and now i give the floor to the. chairman of the border gazprom actually there are from the moscow compress the station. president putin chairman she. together with the team that took part in the construction of the power serbia and we you know and i want to be dispensed. with the demands. compressor station when we go. hour is $180.00 megawatts it's on the border between china and russia and will supply the necessary pressure that is needed to supply natural gas from russia i want to start with china power there is one of the most large scale project of god's promise almost 100

this is significant for both china and russia for china even sun law in terms of energy security in terms of diversification of us energy sources from the video east africa and so on to to the russian siberia it is also significant for russia because it means that it is less and under group in market it opens up the china market with tremendous potential and infrastructure built can also be used to supply oil and natural gas to south korea and japan so there is a lot of potential to develop the asia pacific market in support of the russian far east and eastern siberia russia. presidents of past press toss a form of money into it and kind of us speak out against brown some change its name due to its negative connotations that it's on other stories off of this bridge. to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on all fronts very dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. organized labor has spent a mollusc in america a

and also russia and china strengthened their ties by launching a strategic natural gas pipeline to the power of siberia. from moscow watching r.t. international i'm daniel. from thanks for joining us on the program. we start in the u.k. where dozens of people convicted of terrorist offenses who were released early on license will have their cases reviewed that's according to prime minister boris johnson this comes after it was revealed that the suspect in friday's london bridge attack had himself been released. early or in the same he was allowed out there was no in this has nothing to do with there was nothing to do with how many legally same's legally there. or friday 20 year old who's won a car and killed 2 people and injured 3 others before being shot dead by police in 2012 he was jailed for plotting to bomb the london stock exchange according to some reports he also wanted to target the home of boris johnson who was serving as london at the time the attack was released a year ago and took part in a divided congress ocean programme with the u.k. general election in full swing the q

this is significant for both china and russia for china even said a lot in terms of energy security in terms of diversification of use energy sources from the east africa and so on to the russian siberia it is also significant for russia because it means there is less and under group in market it opens up the china market with tremendous potential and infrastructure built can also be used to supply oil and natural gas to south korea and japan so there is a lot of potential to develop the asia pacific market in support of the development of soviet of russian far east and eastern siberia in russia. a new team has just taken office at the e.u. commission with germany's. last president they've pledged to keep the block united and fight for democratic values or against the if as supported some possible complications. it's all about perspective if you're standing here the european union looks like an apex democracy freer than free fair or than fair if you budge over and stand here it's an increasingly all for a tarion club ruled by a cabal of a few dozen commissioners who no one ever elected

china and russia are endangering military satellites in space. we know the importance of space as a war fighting realm, but talk to us why it's important to have a separate organization created, why the air force doesn't have the resources or commitment to get it done. >> the place to start is the importance of space for our daily lives as americans. one of the examples i use is every time you fill up your car to pay at the pump, the pump connects to a satellite to verify your credit card before you put gas into the car. every transaction on the new york stock exchange is timed to the gps satellites. you go through example after example of how our economy and daily life is dependent upon space. as you point out, adversaries such as russia and china have made incredible progress, partly because they know we are dependent upon space, they want to have the means to deny us the use of space. that's what makes space now a war fighting domain. a lot of folks, even in the government, are getting used to that sort of idea. if you think about it, air and

this is significant for both china and russia for china even inside a lot in terms of energy security in terms of diversification of use energy salsas from the video ease africa and so on to to the russian siberia it is also significant for russia because it means that it is less and under the repeated market it opens up the china market with tremendous potential and infrastructure built can also be used to supply oil and natural gas to south korea and japan so there is a lot of potential to develop the asia pacific market in support of the development of russian far east and eastern siberia in russia. president salva asbestos a formal mining town in canada speak out against the plan to change its name due to its negative connotations that said most stories offer a short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic development the only move slowly and. i don't see it. will be very critical. to sit down and talk. the program over to germany where a change in leadership in one of the ruling coalition parties has

right now both china and russia are an important periods of their country's development china russia relations are entering a new era i hope we will both continue to make persistent efforts to build more knock out projects like the power of siberia pipelines to assist in each country's development to better bring benefit to both countries and both countries as people put them go to work this year marks the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations and this year we start supplying russian gas to charter this step takes russia china strategic energy cooperation that's a whole new level and brings us closer to achieving that goal so that along with chinese president xi jinping to extend by water all trade turnover to $200000000000.00. 2024 so russian gazprom built the russian side from new siberia gas fields all the way to the chinese borders meanwhile the chinese side starts right there in northern the hay along john province and it reaches southward down to shanghai it runs total more than 3750 miles and it will eventually carry this extraordinary amount of natural gas of up to $380000

starting with the nixon administration we tried to drive a wedge between russia and china. ia doesn't have access to warm water ports. it does if it has a connection with iran. the three of them together marry up russia's military capabilities, iran's location and oil, and china's wealth and technological advantage. it's an absolute unmitigated nightmare disaster for us if those three countries ever decide to have a military alliance. ashley: how much do you think the democrats and nancy pelosis of the world have played into this allowing our foes to see us as weak as our leader is under attack in this country. >> i lay it at their door. i was in china last month. what i heard from many officials, we think donald trump is going to be removed from office. or we are sure he won't be re-elected. it gives them leverage. they don't think they have to do what he wants them to do. the united states is in a position economically particularly that we haven't been in in decades. we have a record stock market. it's historic job creation. iran's economy is imploding. russia's economy is

they triedo say, listen, we have the backing of russia and china two superpowers, and, so, we can't belated. for th russia and china, it's also a way to flex muscle, to show to the u.s. and their national cawnt community tht they're key players in the region. >> nawaz: the secretary of the navy also said as iran creates mischief, sotimes the u.s. has to react. they've already sent 14,000 additional troops to the egion to deter iran, said they could send another aircraft car overif they needed to. how much of trying to provoke action from e u.s. is iran's reasons. >> the united states withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018. for a year, iran just sort of sat and waited and negotiated with the europeans to try to offset the cost of the maximum pressure campaign. now, what it's trying to do and what it's been doing since may t of this year o actually show it, too, can take action to poke the united states e eye and that, whatever action the u.s. takes, it won't go without a response to iran. >>aawaz: the sttements we've seen publicly from iran versus those from russia and china, there's a

russia, china and iran have started a joint naval exercise in the gulf oman.rills last until monday. joining me to talk about it, colonel douglas mcgregor. how concerned should the u.s. be about these exercises teaming up russia, china and iran. >> i don't think we need to be concerned have much. the russians and the chinese are concerned by the high prit

russia, china and iran have started a joint naval exercise in the gulf oman. the drills last until monday. joining me to talk about it, colonel douglas mcgregor. how concerned should the u.s. be about these exercises teaming up russia, china and iran. >> i don't think we need to be concerned have much. the russians and the chinese are concerned by the high probability the iranian government could suddenly implode. the government is very weak as a result of the uprisings in november and december. they want to stiffen the resolve of the iranian government. they don't want to see chaos break out in the region. gregg: the u.s. embargo of weapons sales to iran is set to end. they are making noise about how they are going to sell weaponry to iran. >> the russians don't have anything to offer anyone in the world other than weapons which are cheaper than what we would offer. if the government falls apart. the economy implodes and you have widespread chaos, they won't have anybody to sell anything to. gregg: president trump issued a stern warning to russia and iran aga

the same with russia and china how much that can be maintained in reality we have to take into account, there are cultural factors >> do you have a view on the growing axis in the world with russia and china pivoting closer to one noeranother. and the framework that existed since world war ii breaking down >> i largely agree the strategic alignment between russia and china would exist and is deepening is more a reaction to perceived pressure from the united states and its alliance system very important the asian system as well in japan and south korea and the philippines and so on. it is a common ground contrasting here, i would agree with the more organic relationship between the united kingdom and united states which has a well-known historical a finities it is not a grand alliance for all time but it is certainly a strategic alliance today all of those ladies and gentlemen we are seeing on the screen will have to take seriously. the previous role in arms control is a very important priority britain and france as nuclear powers nato as such is difficult to see the particular role in

the project is unlikely to make much money as the only feasible custom of the gas from russia's eastern fields china bargained hard russia was keen because it is facing resistance to its plans to export more gas to europe some european countries and the united states have tried to block development of a new pipeline to germany they think it will leave europe too dependent on russian gas so russia wants to shore up its strategic ally to the east but china to more russian gas means less reliance on liquefied natural gas shipments from the united states and middle eastern countries potentially employed by u.s. policy the pipeline then is a strategic link as much as one about money to thomas al-jazeera her in northern china protesters in india have held more vigils for 27 year old woman who was raped and murdered near hyderabad an angry crowd gathered outside the police station where 4 men are being held in connection with her death there are also been peaceful protests elsewhere in the country campaigners want tougher laws against such crimes. now suriname as president has returned to his country after

or from each other the 1st to describe how we're approaching 5 strategic challenges russia. china north korea iran and terrorism over the long term we should expect russia to test our alliances purpose stamina and commitment the irony in all of this is that a recent poll found that half of american military families see russia as an ally television back and that u.s. bases that they somehow missed the years long tidal wave of and see russian propaganda almost every major us network definitely had involvement in the american election russia was meddling in our election russia harvested american rage to reshape u.s. politics how the russians are trying to turn the tragedy to their advantage to target almost every major american social movement what the hell's the point if the target audience the troops that are supposed to protect america from that imminent russian invasion n.b.c. promises coming any allen now if they american troops don't buy it but of course the brass has an excuse merican troops refusing propaganda shoveled down their throats for years actually get this the victi

lucas tomlinson is at the pentagon with the latest. >> reporter: it's the first time iran, china and russiary exercises especially with the navy. and now early this month the u.s. navy's top admiral called china the biggest threat of the three. >> the ranges of the missiles continue to grow, and they run a very steep trajectory in terms of capabilities and numbers. >> reporter: the joint military exercises are kicking off in the iran port city in the gulf of o man, and over the summer and the attacks on commercial oil tankers and iran forces shot down that $100 million american drone. u.s. officials say iran, russian s and chinese don't trust each other very much and will also not be alone, and the u.s. navy aircraft carrier harry true man just arrived on station with dozens of striker aircraft which carries hundreds of tomahawk cruise missiles and in a statement the pentagon don't appear concerned about the exercise, we are aware of the multilateral exercising conduct ed between iran, china and russia in the arabian sea, we will continue to work with partners and allies and the free flow o