author of the new book shadow war inside russia is operations to defeat america. the book was extracted in various forms in the atlantic and most of "the wall street journal." and it's had a lot of good critical success. you may not know jim was also the chief of staff at the u.s. embassy in china. he's a graduate of the university in washington with his wife and former journalist for abc news and they have three children and he is reported he'd around the world in asia and europe and the middle east and made some opening observations throughout the book and then we will open up for q-and-a. >> thanks to all of you for taking time out of your busy friday and the folks at home appreciate having you here as well. thank you to peter. he was one of the first few people to read the manuscript of the book early on and since he didn't throw it back in my face i thought i was probably okay moving forward with this and he was kind enough to write one of the blurbs on the back of the book. i wanted to start by getting atd how i came to write this book, with my intention is also what the

for more on the latest headlines up next though crosstalk examines the growing alignment of russia and china on the world stage. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the bear and the dragon over the last few years the russia china relationship has grown in depth and in magnitude it is not hard to understand why with russia constantly demonize. sanction and china targeted it's a serious western security threat there's no wonder moscow and beijing gravitate towards each other this is much more than a marriage of convenience. cross talking russia and china i'm joined by my guest joel and paris he is the president of the bridge tank in washington we have earl he is the executive vice president of the eurasia center and in singapore we cross to jim rogers he's an international investor and author of street smarts adventures on the road and in the markets all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate jim let me go to you in singapore as i said in my introduction this is no longer a marr

cross talking russia and china i'm joined by my guest joel and paris he is the president of the bridge tank in washington we have earl he is the executive vice president of the eurasia center and in singapore we cross to jim rogers he's an international investor and the fact that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate jim let me go to you in singapore as i said in my introduction this is no longer a marriage of convenience if it ever was the reason why we're doing this program as i remember is reflecting upon a bed in the new york times and they were basically reacting as like wow the everybody notice this happening which all of us have and remarkably said it trump was right to improve relations with russia as actually to do and reverse nixon when it came to china what are these people talking about where have they been it seems like they've just crawled out under from a rock go ahead jim in singapore. but i would tell you peter if you go to moscow airport now it's full of chinese 5 years ago there were nobody there if you go to red square they're all spea

restaurant tasty taipei starts september 1st on d w. iran russia north korea venezuela what do these nations have in common they're all targets of economic sanctions sanctions a punishment for misbehavior they are a weapon in the geopolitical game and if they don't have the desired effect the next step could be military action but are sanctions useful do they work that's what we're looking at today in terms of 14 russia occupy than an x. the crimean peninsula in contravention of international law thus a further destabilizing ukraine country that is regarded as a partner by the european union so the e.u. imposed economic sanctions against russia in response they may not have prompted vladimir putin to change his ways but they have affected businesses on both sides as it turns out not always for the worse while some european exporters i heard saying production in certain sectors in russia is flourishing apparently as a direct consequence it's complicated. dairy farming in russia. engineering companies in germany. and the military conflict in ukraine how are these 3 connected. this engi

something that russia is now doing in his home state. tom hamburger is the lead reporter of the "washington post's" piece. he's going to be joining us live in just a moment. but there's something from my vacation, from my cozy couch time with my crutches and the pentagon's latest strategic multiyear assessment on russian strategic intentions, there is something from that vacation reading that i did that has been really, like, pinging like an alarm clock in my head about this new reporting. in this new pentagon report that i just read, one of the main ideas is that russia is operating in a sort of gray zone in its efforts to try to get what it wants around the world, but also specifically, to get what it wants against us. a mix of military and intelligence and seemingly private operations that are organized by the cell lkremlin designed to coerce us, weaken us as an adversary and a rival. "while the united states focused on executing the global war on terror, russia actively pursued malign influence in all regions of the world to mitigate their inferior conventional capability. russia has a

you france's position on russia's return to the council of europe to pace and. we hold that this will help to appeal to our normal relations on in europe and we rely on france to support. it when dealing with the e.u. authorities with brussels this is our agenda in brief and finally we'll also talk about our humanitarian carp ration human to human contact mr mark ron mentioned that. we do have very close contacts the next year we want. to host several events in france the so-called moscow seasons $270.00 activities. in all major cities of france i hope this will be of fairy insightful for the french audience and for the russian performance this. will the hits another step to build single full fledged relationship between the 2 countries. thank you very much for letting me i think we will ask for a couple of questions from each part. and then was. called the instrument crawling the you have just said during this. hue may be able to agree on the conditions on having the somme and the normandy your way with the country leaders and you have mentioned a number of times to have a summi

russia we also have to me she is a political analyst and editor at me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander mackerras is a writer on legal affairs as well as the editor in chief of the duran dot com or a german cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i'm very happy to be back from vacation and i'm glad that have all 3 of us on this program today it's but was a good big cation but we have much to talk about let me go to alexander it's been a few days since the g. 7 i came to an end one of the probably the most useless annual event in the world right now. and the interesting thing is looking at the news coverage of it particularly in the west it's all about trump everything's about trump and i think that really blindsides almost everyone looking at how international relations are evolving and the relationship the between the united states and the european union it seems to be floundering for a number of reasons or so eloquently curiously euro greek ok and greeks are really tough language but i know 2 good words in greek it's hubri

conflict with russia. >> we are going to get underway. i am richard burton and my day job is a managing partner of associates, and and in both of these capacities at both think tanks. the lunch epicenter for the national interests, better than the atlantic council. to top off the excellent lunch we have a great dessert, ambassador john herbst is with us today. the future of ukraine, ukraine russia relations. we couldn't have a better speaker to address this issue. john has not only served as the us ambassador to ukraine but followed ukraine, the ukraine related issue for many years in his current capacity, running his european program at the atlanta council and having a real "in depth" understanding for, let's call it eastern priority and central asian affairs not only served in ukraine but is pakistan if i am not mistaken but he told me one of his first jobs after leaving the state department was running a program called dealing with complex problems at the national defense -- the state department trains you for dealing with complex problems. without further a do i'm going to

september 2nd d. w. . believe. iran russia north korea venezuela what do these nations have in common that all targets of economic sanctions sanctions a punishment for misbehave they are a weapon in the geopolitical game and if they don't have the desired effect the next step could be military action but our sanctions useful do they work that's what we're looking at today in terms of 14 russia occupied than an extent crimean peninsula in contravention of international law thus a further destabilizing ukraine country that is regarded as a partner by the european union so the e.u. imposed economic sanctions against russia in response they may not have prompted vladimir putin to change his ways but they have affected businesses on both sides as it turns out not always for the worse while some european exporters i heard saying production in certain sectors in russia is flourishing apparently as a direct consequence it's complicated. dairy farming in russia. engineering companies in germany. and the military conflict in ukraine how are these 3 connected. this engineering company in eastern

about the political agenda of the country's president and the ongoing conflict with russia. >> we are going to get underway. i am richard burt in my day job i am a managing partner of mclarty associates. i am also a member of the board of the center for the national interest. i might add a member of the board of the atlantic council. having spent time at both think tanks i can tell you quite sincerely that the lunches at the center for the national interests are far better than the atlantic council. and to top off this excellent lunch we have a great dessert and that is investor john hooks who is with us today. to talk about the future of ukraine and ukraine russian relations. we really couldn't have a better speaker to address this issue. john has not only served as the u.s. ambassador to ukraine but as followed ukraine ukraine related issue for many years and its current capacity. running his program as european program at the atlantic council. and having a real in-depth understanding for, let's call it eastern european and central asian affairs having not only served in ukraine als

is with us today to talk about the future of ukraine and ukraine-russia relations. we really couldn't have a better speaker to address this issue. john has not only served as the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, but has followed ukraine, the ukraine related issue for many years in his current capacity running this program as, european program at the atlantic council. and having a real in-depth understanding for, let's call it eastern european and central asian affairs, having that only serve in ukraine but also uzbekistan, if i'm not mistaken. and he told me that i think what his first jobs after leaving the state department was running a program called dealing with complex problems at the national defense university. and if it actually the u.s. state department trained you for dealing with complex problems, and creating them. [laughing] so without further ado i'm going to ask john to begin. and as is traditionally the case, you should know that this is being filmed by c-span, so we are not following -- we are on the record. >> rick, thank you very much and richard, thank you for the invit

happening which all of us have and remarkably said it trump was right to improve relations with russia as actually to do and reverse nixon when it came to china what are these people talking about where have they been it seems like they've just crawled out under from a rock go ahead jim and singapore and i would tell you peter if you go to moscow airport now it's full of chinese 5 years ago there were nobody there if you go to red square they're all speaking chinese mr trump and they're americans are pushing the chinese and the russians closer and closer together breaks my heart i'm an american but this isn't saying it's insane if you can get out a map or study demography or geography you would know you don't want to be against those 2 countries combined ok well very good point joe let me go to you in paris i mean this is being going on slowly but surely in for a variety of reasons here of course russia is against nato expansion it seems that is a existential threat to its security which it is and any military alliance moving towards your borders is by definition and the chinese well we s

russia and turkey these are the 2 countries right now that are really holding. the key the keys to to resolving the syrian conflict to some to some extent they still need to agree actually and for the names for the establishment of the constitutional committee we expected actually this round of talks as a process to put the 2 countries actually to agree on these 4 names and and say that we will start from now on and working on the on the constitution of syria but a petition for presidential elections in 2021 but they haven't really done that so i think we still need to see where some time maybe until the 2 countries agree on also on the constitutional committee so all in all actually i believe that this is this is not going to change much of the of the scene at the moment about it thank you very much indeed for your insight thank you now humans who the rebels have for the 1st time released images of the ballistic missile system they've used to target saudi arabia who say the medium range birken misawa is domestically produced 11 they say they'll continue launching attacks on the sa

of people arrested in russia and the leading opposition politician jailed protestors say president putin's opponents are being excluded from taking part in moscow city elections why is the government taking such a hard stance and could violence against the demonstrators backfire this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. it's one of the biggest security crackdown seen in russia for many years i guess what the authorities say are illegal demonstrations an independent monitoring group says more than 800 protesters were detained on saturday the week before the figure was almost 1400 and the leading opponent of president vladimir putin unexplained avani was jailed russians are angry at the ban on some opposition minded candidates for the next month's city elections in moscow the council controlled by the pro kremlin united's russia party is responsible for a last minute simple budget the vote comes at a time when putin's approval rating although still high at more than 60 percent has actually dropped that's been put down to discontent over the economy and falling incomes w

20 years ago today vladimir putin became russia's prime minister this semi anonymous k.g.b. colonel hand picked by boris yeltsin rose from prime minister to president and seemed to talk sincerely about partnership with the west so where did it all go wrong i'm phil gayle in berlin and this is the day. has become a kind of brand has become a symbol of great power and the return of russia's strength. putin's popularity rating is now completely different from the one he had before previously was true worship. but today it's a popularity rating based on the absence of an alternative. that people today are looking for another stronger voice. has been the strongest voice of the last 20 years. a good sportsman must stop at the top of his form currently putin is not even able to leave because his popularity is declining. he wants it to be written in russian textbooks that he is a great man similar to peter the great catherine the great. because you have got a. also coming up possible snap elections in italy after a far right deputy prime minister imitator salvini questions the ruling coalit

from russia at the u.n. security council following the recent u.s. cruise missile tests and the collapse of the landmark truth. council's a state visit to denmark after calling remarks by its prime minister the nasty she rejected his offer to buy greenland adding the proposal was absurd. aid organization oxfam lashes out at the d.c. 7 countries ahead of the summit this weekend but accuses the policies of driving global inequality. the quality how to bridge the increased over the last year and the wealth of the richest billionaires was growing the wealth the poorest half of society had full. thanks for joining us on r.t. international tonight welcome to the program russia and china have called for global action to prevent a new arms race following the collapse of a key arms control agreement moscow and beijing called the un security council meeting after the u.s. tested a cruise missile previously owned by the i.m.f. treaty rival powers blamed each other for the ongoing escalation. on the whole do you realize that because of the us is geo political ambitions we are all one step f

here of course russia is against nato expansion it sees it as a existential threat to its security which it is and any military alliance moving towards your borders is by definition and the chinese well we see that the united states again raising the issue of tariffs and possible sanctions chinese interaction with a country like iran i mean china and russia are natural allies in light in reacting to the policies coming out of washington and it doesn't really matter who's in the white house by the way go ahead and paris yeah you know i think 2 ways of being friends you know you have the same enemies who share the same and he's but i'm not sure it's what models the most you know of course the fuel the frenchie but i think that the 2nd way we choose to come on issues is more important i would suggest the centrally. growing lead to middle east ease shared issues between the nation's economy called the. temple security so i think it's a friendship which is going to last there are all of the same question to you this is much more than a marriage convenience because that's what you consta

the troops did the trump can commune with russia did you at any time of the urge the former f.b.i. director james call me in any way shape or form a close or to back down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you will know. next question battlefield washington on al-jazeera. welcome back let's just update you on the top story so far today a citywide general strike is now taking place in hong kong the police have been deploying tear gas to disperse crowds that blocking traffic in various parts of the city earlier this strike disrupted train services and led to plain cancellation. india's government to scrap possible or to give significant autonomy to indian administered kashmir the region is set to be split in 2 parts and a special protections are being moved to stan has condemned the move. their arms foreign minister says the us government is sanctioned him because he refused an offer to visit the white house and hold talks earlier this month jabbered zarif made those comments at a news conference in tehran. they impose sanctions on a minor government employee like me w

since pulling out of a cold war era pact russia which was designed to prevent the production use of such weapons. on the british social media network aimed at young british muslims is revealed to be part of a government plan to tackle radicalization. global headline news 24 seventh's. international on monday night at 10 here in the russian capital it's 9 pm in france that's where we're starting for you this hour the french president met with russia's vladimir putin at his summer residence on the mediterranean coast ahead of this weekend's g. 7 summit the talks lasted about 3 and a half hours with a quite cordial evidence evidence when the leaders spoke to reporters around the time the reports from the french riviera. well i guess you don't really give personal invitations to an international leader to these kind of places and this kind of format even if it's the president of a very important geopolitical player unless they are your friends so clearly in the past 2 years mr mack on and mr putin developed a close relationship we heard emmanuel macron call his counterpart dear vladimir

missile since pulling out of an arms treaty with russia. a british social media network aimed at young british muslims is revealed to be part of a government plan to tackle radicalization. hello you're watching international i'm rosana lockwood welcome to the program the leaders of france and russia have held a meeting ahead of this weekend's g. 7 summit emmanuelle mccaughan i'm glad i'm a putin spoke for about 3 and a half hours in a patrol car reports from the french riviera. well i guess you don't really give personal invitations to an international leader to these kind of places and this kind of format even if it's the president of a very important geopolitical player unless they are your friends so clearly in the past 2 years mr mack on mr putin developed a close relationship we heard emmanuel macron call his counterpart dear vladimir a few times in death of lot of our putin just when he arrived he came with ok of flowers for emanuel macedoine's wife and it seemed that the french president wanted to make his russian counterpart feel as much comfortable as possible on his visit to

pulled out of its landmark arms control deal with russia the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty increasing fears that there might be some sort of new arms race between the 2 nuclear powers now the u.s. says russia didn't stick to its side of the bargain and instead built missiles banned under the agreement moscow denies that and says washington made a serious mistake pulling out of the deal just for a bit of background the treaty known as the i.m.f. was signed between the u.s. and what was then the soviet union in 1978 banned all short and medium range missiles both nuclear and nonnuclear with the exception of weapons launched from the sea within 4 years and the $2700.00 missiles were destroyed and both countries were allowed to inspect each other's installations but washington's withdrawal means there is now only one arms control agreement left between the u.s. and russia that is the new start treaty which limits long range nuclear weapons in both countries and is considered the most important agreement reached during the cold war but the u.s. national security advisor john bol

with iran's president if conditions were right russia's president says the u.s. must take the 1st step. plus he was an anti corruption campaigner but the life of sergei magnitsky ended in a russian prison now the european court of human rights condemns moscow for his death. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us the brazilian president i hear balsa naro has rejected an offer of aid from g 7 countries to fight the fires in the amazon the group said it would give brazil $20000000.00 to help contain the blazes but also narrow question the motivation earlier he accused the g 7 host french president to manual mccrone of treating brazil like quote a colony more than $80000.00 fires are burning in the amazon right now many are out of control. the air is thick with smoke and it's hard to bring him in a tree and now on the ground in the state of brown tonia which has been hardest hit by the blazes as soon as one fires under control the next one breaks out huge areas now resemble under another landscape. will fall if there are as one or 2 big fires we could deal with them better than all

president is heading to this weekend is the g-7. the president repeated and renewed his calls for russia to be readmitted to the g-7 saying that the only reason he believes they were expelled is because president obama was upset that they outsmarted him by an exing cri crimea. they were expelled because they an exed something that was international law. and even france's president who said he would consider having them rejoin the g-7 said there were conditions. the president did not say any conditions. emthey're talking about russia at the g-7. russia might as well be there. >> in one breath, he has words for denmark. a u.s. ally. and then he's praising russia. >> and again invoking obama. if you got stuck in traffic today, if you don't like the family separation policy. >> and that's false. >> yesterday he was for cuts. somebody said obama did this twice to get the president to back off. the staff members know, he will be as far as possible. russia did. take crimea on obama's watch. the world community said this is wrong and imposed sanctions. they decided instead to impose economic sancti

internationally for russia's annexation of crimea he walked away from a key nuclear missile treaty raising fears of a new arms race and despite solid support at home opposition to putin is growing over his authoritarian repression of political opponents for more i'm joined now by our moscow correspondent emily sure went and we thank you for joining me glad i'm here putin came to power in the midst of a highly turbulent times in russia did people back then believe he'd still be around today. well letting your putin was largely unknown when he became prime minister 20 years ago today in fact so much so that when he became president just a few months later one famous one journalist american journalist famously asked who is mr putin now he has always represented the stability he was very much in contrast to boris yeltsin yeltsin his predecessor as president who was kind of known as a bit of a drunk putin represented a fresh face he didn't drink he represented stability particularly because he came to power just after the ninety's which was a decade of huge social upheaval and economic chaos he

tech giants like facebook and google. russia and the u.s. trade accusations that the u.n. security council over the collapse of the i.m.f. arms control treaty. in the public using russia the united states and the countries that grumpy. but also to a ship captain who faces jail for saving migrants from the mediterranean has turned down a french bravery award using iris of a popular see that as european states still wrangle over what to do with the new comes. the good morning welcome it's just gone 10 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international back in servitude activists in the u.s. are hopeful there's a court reconsiders essential case against facebook google twitter and also apple bringing the lawsuit accused the tech giants of bias and of suppressing content from the conservative end of the political spectrum. as more. if you haven't heard of a laura loom or now is the time the young female activists dared to go against the almighty big tag and could actually shake things up more on that in just a sec she's known as someone who's been banned from seemingly all kinds

with russia some are talking about improving relations with russia macross says that but when it comes to taking any step at all even the token one of readmitting russia to the g 8 they can't bring themselves. to divide the hubris of that alexander me curious is that no one's even asked of russia 100 join the newly reformed ga but maybe we'll talk about that another time here in glen it seems to me and in many ways looking at the characters . at the summit here the european union is stuck in 2014 i mean you know this whole issue of bringing up russia which kind of surprised me ok. obviously the united states is not thinking about its relationship with its european allies it's looking at what it's doing and what it should do or shouldn't do with china and we have this whole steve bannan concept again of trying to bring russia into the fold which i think that train has left the station years ago again it shows the blindness and the the arrogance of western political elites who are so 2014 it seems to me they're stuck there and they can't move away from it. i think that's what i wou

was live from berlin the end of an era the u.s. and russia abandon a key cold war treaty on nuclear weapons nato sounds a note of caution. we will mirror what threshold bush we don't belong to and you officers each side points the finger at the other for ending the medium range missile agreement but both calls for restraint also coming up 5 years ago the so-called islamic state trying to exterminate you see the people of iraq now work begins to do mass graves in hopes of finding those to prove that. they are thank you so much for your company everyone in the west does not want a new global arms race well that's what the nato secretary general yes stoltenberg said earlier today all that was his response to the collapse of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty dating from the cold war era the ending of the intermediate range nuclear forces agreement or i.n.f. as it's known where moves limits on the arsenals of both the u.s. and russia so berg blames russia for the u.s. withdrawal from the treaty saying moscow failed to comply after it developed a new cruise missile. it was a tweak that an

liked, he's also once again agitating to get russia back into the g-7. >> that is another whole issue. i wanted to play a little bit of the danish prime minister today. she spoke in danish, but also a little bit in english about the regrets. >> is it with regret and surprise that i received the news that president trump has canceled his state visit. a discussion has been raised about the potential sale of greenland. this has clearly been rejected by the position that i share of course. this does not change the character of our good relations. >> now, there's also a lot of controversial comments. heidi, join us here on this. the president apparently did double down on controversial statements that he made yesterday in the oval office about american jews and whether they would be disloyal if they voted democratic. he's doubling down on his criticism on the so-called squad, including two muslim members of congress and his antipathy to their positions on israel. disloyal to people. >> like michael said, he's talk talk talking at this point. and i'm seeing two themes here when it comes to

party to a treaty that is deliberately violated by russia we are one step away from an arms race that cannot be controlled well regulated in any way. to capture a migrant rescue ship facing up to 20 years in jail in italy for her activities rejects an award for bravery from france accusing paris of hypocrisy. good morning just gone 9 o'clock am in moscow you're watching international now a u.s. court will decide whether there is enough evidence to go ahead with the censorship case against facebook google twitter and also apple is bringing the lawsuit accused tech giants of bias and suppressing content from the conservative end of the political spectrum and even as the story. if you haven't heard of a laura loom or now is the time the young female activists dared to go against the all mighty big tag and could actually shake things up more on that in just a sec she's known as someone who's been banned from seemingly all kinds of the sensual online services from twitter and facebook to pay pal and when i got banned from twitter. and i lost $95000.00 and i got banned from dell for me i go

dots on a number of fronts on which both russia and china to surpass the u.s. and these were friends of a shadow were that i experienced firsthand on the ground in ukraine as the little green man in europe in the 21st century. on a spy plane as china manufactured territory in the minutes of a half dozen allies. i went on to the arctic where u.s. reinforces our training to track more capable private, another stop in this work. i spent weeks traveling around the u.s. space command and the president has talked about a space force, the u.s. already has a space force in the base command and there's already a space for on the way in the heavens above us. so i was traveling and of course many years both regarding russia and china is seen more connections that both russia and china are using with great effect. now you write about these things, talk about and colored by the political advisors. i want towe be clear it's not a political book. by both republican and democratic administrations in their approach to russia and china. and just to establish the point section which a is the last three

the bad. news this is the deputy is coming to you live from bahrain the u.s. and russia walk away from a soviet era treaty on new kill weapons nato responds. with mirrors what russia. we don't long continued on church. each side blames the other for ending the medium range missile an agreement with north korea for restraint. also coming up dollar from slaps a new 10 percent tariff of $300000000000.00 but the chinese goods markets tumble as relations between the top 2 economies take a shot for the us and. for a german village of fuckin is transformed into the hard drive capital of the what. kind of welcome. good to have your company nato secretary-general e n stockton bird has insisted the west does not want a new global arms race his comments came as a nuclear weapons treaty dating from the days of the soviet union collapsed. the ending of the intimidated grange nuclear forces the i.n.f. agreement doesn't have a limit on awesomeness of both the u.s. and russia stilton bank says russia is to blame because it has developed a new cruise missile. we will not mirror what threshold us w

agreement of russia is raising fears of a new arms race and how hong kong is bracing for protests go in defiance of the government wants more that stay with us. i know that cooperation across much of the middle east we've seen as someone signal showers across areas of pakistan the very dry the last 24 hours and really the weekend looks pretty much the same you can see there on the satellite and the temperatures city top of the table here today 46 degrees celsius 43 degrees in baghdad meanwhile into the north of turkey but a couple days ahead of temperature wise i mean might just see if you show they just brushing by that north coast then further to the south through the arabian peninsula the heat of course really is on here and the cloud is still very much in the picture a lingering illness the south coast of oman and again into the southwest region of yemen the north of that a little bit low those temperatures in doha 41 degrees celsius has picked up a little bit actually brushing through the as a little bit less hot and sunny a little bit less humid and then you notice on sunday we ge

this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: nato blames russia — after the collapse of a cold war nuclear deal between the us and moscow. we do not want a new arms race. that is the reason why we will respond in a defensive way. the head of brazil's government agency that monitors deforestation in the amazon, quits his job and calls president bolsonaro ‘a coward'. vast swathes of arctic siberia are ablaze after intense summer temperatures and high winds. we have a special report. hello and welcome to bbc news. the united states has officially withdrawn from an arms control pact with russia that dates back to the cold war. the intermediate—range nuclear forces treaty was a landmark agreement at the time but now the us accusses russia of violating it — —— accuses russia of violating it, which moscow denies. the fear is that without the restrictions a new arms race could get underway. the bbc‘s diplomatic correspondent james landale has more. it was a crucial moment towards the ending of the cold war. the moment in 1987 when the leaders of the united states

withdraws from a 31 year old landmark nuclear agreement with russia. protests in south korea up to japan's move to restrict trade relations as part of a growing dispute. and a year since the latest outbreak of ebola in the d.r. seen the death toll continues to rise. out of elephant story the syrian government and the opposition today agreeing on a cease fire in the last rebel held province of it live it was announced during the 13th round of the so-called standard talks the opposition says it has already withdrawn its heavy weapons under the sochi agreement but the government and its allies broke the deal 3 months ago but they insist they will abide by the cease fire as long as the government doesn't violate it. we withdrew the heavy weapons following the sochi agreement but the regime violated this agreement and took advantage of the withdrawal so they can launch their cunning criminal attacks if the regime commits to the cease fire we will commit an hour and there will not be any need to talk about heavy weapons in the area under simmons is a correspondent joining us this from ne

on t.w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin the end of an era of the u.s. and russia abandoned a key cold war treaty on nuclear weapons and nato sounds a note of caution. we will merely abandon the brush over us and we don't control the new parsers. each side pointing fingers at the other for ending the medium range missile agreement but both are calling for restraint also on the program freedom to travel at lax new laws allow saudi women to go wrong without the consent of a husband or male relative the move is a game changer that takes effect at the end of the month. i'm called aspen welcome to the program the west does not want a new global arms race at least according to nato secretary general danced stoltenberg he was responding to the collapse of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty dating back to the cold war era the ending of the intermediate range nuclear forces agreement or i.n.f. removes limits on the arsenals of both the u.s. and russia stoltenberg blames russia for the us withdrawal from the treaty saying that moscow failed to comply after it develops a new cruise miss

fixating on russia. and the u.k. . for its move to strip citizenship from the former islamic state known. international news center in moscow this is r t pleasure to have your company i mean and o'neill our top story french president is meeting russia's vladimir putin his summer residence on the mediterranean coast today ahead of the summit in the weekend. on the french riviera too where the 2 leaders are i believe soon to start talks. said i can see perhaps not entirely though a holiday out what's expected. you know and you really can't help feeling like you are on vacation here called who are in france but this is a very special moment because right when i began talking to you the. helicopter of the russian president i hope you can see it behind my shoulder i just want to ask my cameraman to try and zoom in it's right there. you can we see it we can actually see it this is the helicopter of the russian president vladimir putin arriving at the fort of song that is the summer residence of emmanuel macron what a coincidence and it's great to be talking to you now and right when this is yo

planet. and not as easy as it looks so our correspondent takes to the skies with russia's elite i robot 60 before them max. value of the. white. yeah we're back now. live from moscow thanks for joining us. with you tonight welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump has canceled his state visit to denmark claiming it's over the nasty remarks of the country's prime minister it offered to buy greenland which is a danish dependent territory the offer though was quickly rebuffed. prime minister just a bit that it was absurd that was that it was that absurd idea was that the i thought it was inappropriate statement which he had to do is say no we wouldn't be address it you're not sure at this because. it's an absolute discussion and to prime minister of greenland has of course made it clear that greenland is not for sale and that's where the conversation and. don't say what it absurd idea that is because he's not talking to me. he's not to appear to me you don't get to the united states of america you don't talk to the united states that way at least in the me denmark's queen who wou

motion and calling for snap elections also coming up from political unknown to russia as a positive ruler putin marks 2 decades in office we'll ask our moscow correspondent what lies behind the scenes power. in the footsteps of the fab 4 we report from abbey road 50 years after the beatles created one of the most recognized album covers in music history. one of a will continue i'm honored that she. italy has plunged into a political crisis the far right league party now says it will go ahead with a no confidence motion after calling for snap elections this after its leader interior minister matteo salvini announced at the coalition with a populist 5 star movement has collapsed over policy differences italy's prime minister has accused salvini of fabricating a crisis. this is not an election rally. but it looks like mathias salvini is already gearing up for a vote. i do my job with my heart with with pride if i can do it freely and until the end i mean if i realize that someone is trying to stop me then the decision must go back to the italian people with no ifs and buts. you decide

russia and for ukraine so most details that we have right now they exist in the realm of speculation reports even rumors and the only concrete thing that we have to work with is that post or even rather every post by ukraine's attorney general what it does it assume is that some ukrainian sailors and 4 other people could be on the way home from russia to ukraine now those 4 people mentioned by name in that post most of them were jailed in russia on terrorism charges and one of them got prison time for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition this is pretty much all the details we know so far we don't even have the official figure as to how many ukrainians russia is ready to give up last year in november on the 25th of november some ukrainian military vessels entered the coach straight it's a straight right off the coast of the crimean peninsula and of course russia says crimea is part of its territory ukraine disagrees so those vessels the nord warnings by the russian navy so all the russian ships had to intervene and to intercept those ukrainian vessels there was a rough interc

relations between russia and turkey they are progressing on the principles of friendship you show respect and the consideration of mutual interests the cup aeration is deepening in the economy of the tourism in 2018 the turnover by 16 percent and reached $25.00 and a half 1000000000 u.s. dollars. some investments reach 2020 1000000000 dollars what is carried out on the preparation. of the agreements on the fair. depending on the settlement of payments international currency us in our trade. so the there is constant settlement of accounts between the banks we discuss this is your separately and the level of minister is russian territory they close the copyright in the energy sphere. this new complex is being built new energy blocked should build launched 23. because struction the turkish line is also according to the schedule. and the russian gas will be reaching turkish show. at all but the 2nd branch will be made and the deliveries who were made by transit to europe and want to stress both projects. turkish streams there meet the most high ecological requirements will become impo

scientific research and. from political unknown to authoritarian ruler russia's vladimir putin marks 2 decades in office we'll ask our moscow correspondent what's behind this staying in power. and the cough really welcome to the show italy has been plunged into political crisis after the far right league party said it would go ahead with a no confidence motion against its own government that's after the party leader deputy prime minister matteo savini and nouns that his coalition with a populist 5 star movement had collapse over policy differences the prime minister accuses salvini of fabricating a potentially destabilizing crisis. this is not an election rally but it looks like mintier salvini is already gearing up for a vote. i do my job with my heart with with pride if i can do it freely and until the end i mean if i realize that someone is trying to stop me then the decision must go back to the italian people with no ifs and buts. you decide that you and no one else is not a people that you. will. sell feeney is leader of the far right league party currently in coalition wi