is here in moscow for a 3 day state visit. but he's been having talks with the russian president vladimir putin. at the kremlin and a visit affirming the increasingly close relationship between the 2 former cold war communist rivals. she who arrived in moscow earlier today will attend a ceremony marking the launch of a chinese car factory and also as we mentioned earlier stop by moscow's zoo. she will also be one of the key speakers at russia's major investment conference and st petersburg on friday. hooten and she are meeting in russia as world leaders gathered on the east coast of england to mark the 75th anniversary of the detail landings hootin who attended the 70th anniversary commemorations in france 5 years ago that has not been invited russia was not involved in d.-day but the soviet effort was crucial of course in defeating the nazis on the eastern front with china and russia in recent years has aligned their foreign policy positions at the united nations and in regard to major international crises such as syria and i

live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international from the team myself union o'neill hello welcome. yet we will be jumping in and. presidential in a anything couldn't taste he will bring it right to you but 1st u.s. government documents reveal about the f.b.i.'s conclusion that russia was behind on alleged the democratic party service in 2016 let's go through what we know about this the agency never got a final report from private cyber security. company crowd strike which was hired by the party to investigate the hock the report was the core evidence for the russia investigation our senior correspondent. being trawling through the reports. faith is a remarkable thing it can move mountains if you believe something hard enough heart and soul it doesn't actually matter if it's real it ot faith in god in family or in russian hackers russia also who now after having hacked into the d.n.c. russia hacked into the pillar of our democracy russia is hacking and having gas currently and we did not mention exactly that did occur n

good morning just today to thursday the 23 junior moscow one is kevin irwin here with the latest from the r.t. international news of this hour for you then the u.s. government documents reveal doubts on the f.b.i.'s conclusion that russia was behind an alleged hack of the democratic party's server back in 26 states it appears the agency never got a final report from a private cyber security company crowd strike that was hired by the party to investigate the hack the report was the core evidence for the russian hacking investigation our senior correspondent laura gadgety of reports. faith is a remarkable thing it can move mountains if you believe something hard enough heart and soul it doesn't actually matter if it's real or daughter faith in god in family or in russian hackers is russia also who now after having hacked into the d.n.c. russia hacked into the pillar of our democracy russia is hacking and having gas currently and we did not mention exactly that did occur nobody is debating that that did or did not happen it did happen faith no need for evidence proof friend's ex or facts

to pandas to the moscow's new 2. international affairs commentator jonathan steele says russian chinese relations are better now than ever. friendship is. stronger than it is the moment is almost never sure if you can find disagreement. $150000000000.00. sounds enormous and it comes at a time. when chinese american tensions even higher because of the trade that's been imposed by china well i think it's a kind of warning to the west. to say look. the united states or can china and get together. this russian china american triangle american china. russia and china. the u.s. military judge has removed the lead prosecutor in the case of a navy seal accused of committing war crimes one week before the trial servicemen has pleaded not guilty to the charges the republican congressman himself a former soldier recently defended the accused in a way that has shocked many. comments. the case of a u.s. navy seal accused of some pretty nasty crimes in iraq has grabbed headlines the man is eddie gallagher he's accused of murder at

the chinese leader arrived in moscow bearing gifts paying over 2 giant pandas to moscow as it was part of a conservation program. and just to let you know kind of tied in with this the state visit comes amid growing tensions of course as we've been reporting between china and the u.s. for the ongoing trade war more on that side of it a bit later in the program a few minutes. concerns over press freedom of been raised in australia after police raids on a prominent journalist and then australia's national broadcaster the a.b.c. the other cases are not linked to police say the searches are based on the disclosing of classified information the criminalisation and crackdown on national security journalism is spreading like a virus the essential president is already having in fact journalists must unite and remember that courage is also contagious this police raid against our partners at a.b.c. is an attack on press freedom which we the b.b.c. you find deeply troubling the australian federal police rate of race serious concerns about freedom of the press they could have a chilling effect on

to pandas to the moscow zoo. good. 2 to see you even some of these people. international affairs commentator jonathan steele says russian chinese relations are now better than ever. friendship is hardly ever been stronger than it is at the moment there's almost never sure if you can find disagreement to turn age of reason 150000000000 dollars who offered it bilateral trade richardson sounds enormous and it comes at a time when russian american tensions are high in chinese american tensions even higher because of the trade war that's been imposed by donald trump on china but i think it's kind of warning to the west. to say look russia can support. the united states or can china and in fact they can get together in the cold war there was this russian china american triangle with american china against russia russia has supplies united. america. china. the u.s. military judge has removed the lead prosecutor in the case of a navy seal accused of committing war crimes one week before the trial the service man has plea

moscow alone chucks out more than 10 million tons of waste a year. and because local landfills are overflowing, the local government has its sights on more remote areas. one such landfill is being built on the upper reaches of the northern dvina river. but there are concerns that sewage from the site could pollute the river up to the city of archangelsk on the white sea. reporter: in early april, local authorities tried to prevent a rally in arkhangelsk in northwestern russia. to no avail. thousands showed up to protest against moscow's plans to build a new landfill in the region for waste from the capital. among the organizers of the demonstrations was 23-year-old medical student alexander peskov. alexander: the protestors are getting ready. we'll be marching to lenin square. we hope that the government listens to our demands. reporter: moscow has been struggling with waste management problems for years. now the capital is looking to solve the crisis at the expense of other regions. >> we're here because the government isn't listening to us. >> i am

well in moscow after. i 1st took my baby to the doctor we were given a list of certain procedures that we had to go through in the 1st 3 months of my baby's life so after we moved here we realized it's actually. regardless of whether or not you make an appointment there is still alive q and the 1st time i came here i had to sit in the queue for 2 hours and there's a lot lack of specialists so they have no doctors for us to go through we go to boarding to those lists that i got so where do you go to see those doctors well we haven't we haven't gone anywhere yet so we we might go to somalia. the center of our region but it takes us to our suit get there by bus and with a little child it's very difficult to do that. situation is clear so we'd like to see it here at different points of view we came here without announcing our visit so let's go talk to the doctor. here we have. to go with him this little window where you would get slips to see specialists but today is the day because let's ask for a little hell

and moscow closer together. war had helped push beijing and moscow closer togetherlj war had helped push beijing and moscow closer together. i think that definitely the trigger, but i think it probably goes back further. you could think of what is going on between xi and putin at the moment asa between xi and putin at the moment as a bromance, but it is a bromance with geopolitical implications, because russia and china are two signal taking political cultures that really look to the top to see what is going on. and so yes, this is the us pushing xi and putin into each other‘s arms, against a background of two cultures that are still quite deeply suspicious of one another. so with xi and putin best friends, could this impactjump, do you think? i think anyone who tries to pretend to know what is in the mind of donald trump, you know, is onto a losing game there. but i think that, over the long run, this isn't really about trade, and it's more about the geopolitical, the military alliances, and just the signals.

i guess 1 45 pm moscow time. thanks for watching so back to president putin who is in questions as we speak and coals as well from the public here in russia as they tackle him directs not evil things what matters to the most is. the 1st one if you're trying to close covered local to come here i think could go on for as many as 45 hours couldn't it europe came up one of the would have to say about that. kept high after about an hour or 20 minutes of mostly domestic issues being covered from wait $62.00 salaries and the general level of poverty in russia europe and in fact the e.u. sanctions against russia came up the hosts reminded lot of our putin that the european union is about to make a decision on whether to extend the economic measures against russia that you were imposed as a result of what happened in and around ukraine in 2014 and they did mention that some of the questions were about the confrontation with one of the questions was whether it was worth for moscow to make up this quarrel with europe and po

thanks for joining us this midnight here in moscow you're watching international. pressure in china have reached an unprecedented level of friendship she chimping delivered those warm words shortly after talks in moscow with vladimir putin dozens of different agreements were also signed following the meeting as the story. well it has been overall a very warm meeting the sides have exchanged pleasantries well left and right i should say the russian leader vladimir putin calling this visit the events of the year when it comes to the relations between moscow and beijing and she jingping reminiscing kind of reminiscing to the long history of very warm and friendly personal relations that he's had with lattimer putin delegations seize the opportunity to tap into international crises like the situation in iran and venezuela in syria and so on and so forth the russian leader vladimir putin in the closing major conferences summed up what they agreed on. structure in china have common views on the situation in the korean peninsula and follow the joint road map resolution of

the chinese leader arrived in moscow with presents for his russian counterpart xi jinping handed moscow's 2 pandas. 2. international affairs commentator jonathan stale says russian chinese relations are down better than ever. friendship is hardly ever stronger than it is the moment there's almost never sure in which you can find disagreement to trade degrees $150000000000.00 roughly by natural trade which isn't sounds enormous and it comes at a time when russian american tensions are high in chinese american tensions even higher because there's a trade war that's been imposed by donald trump on china but i think it's kind of warning to the west. to say look russia. united states or can china. get together in the cold war there was this crushing china america triangle with america and china against russia russia has supplies united. russia and china. the u.s. military judge has removed the lead prosecutor in the case of a navy seal accused of committing war crimes one week before the trial. not guilty to the charges republican congressman himself a former soldier recently defended the accu

cheers is iran going to books out of police custody in moscow this after a huge public outcry and is the rest but critics alleging the drunk charges against him fabricated. and a new report says climate change is a fresh to world peace we talk to the organization that operates the server to find out more about the danger. of a warm welcome to you i'm under that she police in hong kong have fired tear gas at protesters trying to stop a controversial proposed law that would allow extradition to mainland china the city's legislative council has postponed a planned debate on the law after crowds blocked access to government buildings hong kong officials have ordered the demonstrators to disperse but this is a they're defending the territories freedom. they may not be super heroes but they are a force to be reckoned with tens of thousands of people have paralyzed hong kong once again today in protest against the controversial extradition bill. like mostly dressed in black their faces covered with surgical masks and wearing makeshift body armor the crowds today seem ready for a different k

reporting there for us in moscow bring us up to date thank you emily. let's get a round of now some other stories making news around the world ethiopia special envoy to sudan says protest leaders have agreed to resume talks with their country's military rulers the apparent breakthrough comes days after protesters launched a campaign of civil disobedience this was in response to a deadly crackdown on demonstrators demanding civilian rule. in uganda a 5 year old boy confirmed as the country's 1st case of ebola has died in the western town of. official said his mother is a congolese citizen married to a ugandan she traveled with the child back home to nurse her father who eventually died from ebola. and congo's government is a clear enough a demick of measles after more than $1500.00 people died of the disease since the year began more than even health officials say tens of thousands of cases have been reported across the vast country. now under frank as one of the most famous victims of the holocaust and her name is still widely recognized today thanks fo

i don't think there is going to be any big change in the way moscow would react. that is now considered normal. what president putin did you is right after zelinski was elected, he thought he would test a new president and announced that all residents in eastern ukraine could get russian passports. he thought that would readily president. he could say i think we will offer ukrainian passports. you can be arrested for giving demonstrations. we will one up here and give those suffering russians passports. i am told that really upset the kremlin. it does him well to have a good sense of humor and it seems to bode well for his presidency. president putin seems to be rattled. brent: thank you. after a short break, i will be back to take you through the day. for now, we want to leave you with a reminder of our top story. remembering the massacre on tiananmen square 30 years ago. although the crackdown has been erased from history in china, in hong kong, memories are being kept alive. we have images in hong kong's victorian -- >> [singing] twenty four france twenty four

the only thing that i didn't enjoy was my dancing on ice in moscow my dancing. on ice cream. made it. well thankfully we nailed it literally there we go. in october 27th team the german newspaper developed published an article claiming. the european union have lost 30000000000 euros as a result of its very anti russian sanctions. that particularly affected eastern europe many polish vamos went broke and he committed suicide. going to his own camp to come to the us i was of on the good. will put on the ground on the. on these if. you have to find out by the almost i'm going against the dolls and on to other kind of unknown. doesn't then let's see in the. song the smiths. and does dance with all the folks in the. guys are this is the kaiser report the show you stay up all night to watch and can't believe you're so for some of us to see such great t.v. programming stacey you know i want to follow up on that theme of the weaponization of trade because this is part of what i think is the imperial rot it's not unusual as we've mentioned before it goes on throughout history as an em

new center in moscow what you will is welcome to the program human rights organizations and the media in the saudi government not to execute a teenage boy for among other alleged crimes taking part in anti-government rallies some of the offenses go back to when he was just 10 years old and while activists sound the alarm of what they say is grossly unfair trial. take a look at whether washington may have turned a blind eye. this is not a job correia as he is now 18 years old and on trial in saudi arabia and this is him at the time of his alleged crime on a bike in his hometown and with other children cycling around as part of an anti-government rally he was 10 years old what john has spent the last 4 years in jail some of them and saw that she confinement the. say he's confessed but the teenager denies this claiming he was forced into an admission of guilt off to hours of torture riyadh's decision to sentence him to death is on surprisingly not going down well ridiculous exercise or brutality of starvation state authoritarianism and other human rights abuse case the prosecutor in quit

the first means moscow is susceptible to economic pressure. the second is putin must hide his casualties and keep them to a minute mum because the people don't want solars fighting in ukraine. ittics ma it possible to help ukraine, and at low cost. western sanctions impose a real cost on russia's economy, 1. to to 1.5% of gdp growth is lost because of the sanctions. western military support special advanced weapons nullify moscow's tank advantage. i salute president trump for his courage in sending the javelins to ukraine. this u.s. should send more and also sent counter-battery radar for missiles. these reduce casualties. the u.s. should provide shore radar, mark v speed boats and anti- -- harpoon missiles to deter attacks at sea which we have seen increasingly in the last 18 months. western support has been successful but not as agile as it could be. part of that is due to reluctance on some pems of the eu. chancellor merkel deserves credit but moscow is seeking ways to increase pressure on ukraine. starting in the spring of 2018 it began an

and let's go right to moscow w.'s emily show when is standing by at a demonstration in solidarity with calling up in the heart of the city so emily tell us more about this protest you've been talking to people what are they telling you why did they want to go ahead with this demonstration even though was released . people say that despite the fact that going off was released yesterday it's still important for civil society here to show their strength and they have come out they say for other political prisoners who are behind bars and who are arrested for political reasons people said you know look this might be a drop in the ocean but we want to come out and show that we are strong and today that is just what has happened people assembled on the square further off but now people are at the moment being arrested i've seen at least 10 people being arrested you might actually be able to see just just behind me people being taken off and put in police cars. and really what was behind the reason what were the reasons beh

year churning in from rights around the globe this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my name's union o'neill our top story. artie's video agency ruptly has obtained exclusive footage of the whistleblower julian assange in london's belmarsh prison now the video shows the wiki leaks founder chatting with fellow inmates in the high security facility where he is serving a 50 week sentence for skipping it is the 1st time images of us have appeared since his arrest removal from the ecuadorian embassy in london almost 2 months ago concerns have been mounting over his health in recent weeks after he failed to appear before court at the end of may via video link for a hearing on possible extradition to the u.s. the united nations special rapper to war on torture has condemned this on just treatment over the years saying the publisher has been abused persecuted new smelter has been speaking to r.t. america. what we've seen now during my visit was already alarming and what we have seen since then his state of health has dramatically the theory aerated predicted psy

with a red car the only thing that i didn't enjoy was my dancing on ice in moscow my dancing. on ice. well thankfully we nailed it literally a week ago. quantitative easing for q.e. 4 is now well under way can't taper a ponzi scheme no economics matters only money printing and stock manipulation. we are in a strange situation where everybody is making a lot of noise about military action against iran but nobody in the part of that alliance actually wants to do it there's no desire for it so do you hope that iran makes a mistake. somehow and then there's some kind of confrontation and then the iranians will be forced to come to the table you know begging for some kind of solution on american terms but you know i think that is dreaming that's a pipe dream. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. come back to all the parts that i like seem to need to add a change of they have a radio station. morning to the data published by the engine will russia behind bars over the p

to moscow where police have detained hundreds of protesters at a rally in support of the investigative journalist good enough this comes a day after prosecutors dropped a drug deal and charges against him for lack of evidence was the goal of supporters say he was framed. opposition activists and journalists being carted off by police. any hope that the release of journalist even goldeneye of signaled a softening of the kremlin stance on free speech dashed. the russian opposition leader aleksei navai was among those detained at the rally against corruption in law enforcement. because a regional government by news limited as clueless is fantastic that they've released got enough look that it's just a drop in the ocean and now it's the could kill the we want all of those still in jail to know that we haven't forgotten. the love she was mostly i can't just sit around and do nothing as if they would date or marry over here just not just loose your purchase coverage this isn't over because we want to see the people who set up this case brought to justice yes that was me it would be a joke if

straight to moscow to rejoin the d. w. correspondent emily sure would welcome an emily what's behind this surprise move. well on the one hand phil the evidence as you say was always kind of shaky and a bit contradictory from the beginning for example the police published 8 photos which apparently were from a search of going off the apartment where they say they found kind of drugs lab later they then said that actually. most of those photos apart from one were actually not from govan office apartment at all today the interior ministry has said that actually they have got back results of investigations and the d.n.a. of going off was actually not found on the drugs packages but instead the d.n.a. of several other people was found so there is that kind of shaky evidence based there's been a lot of reporting about that in the past few days and also this case has been really making huge waves in the media and politically as well today we heard from the speaker of the upper house of parliament might be a very important figure h

from moscow a petition that the norse to free russian journalist arrested on drug charges in moscow will have the latest on that after the break. as long as a sovereign player within the e.u. can stand up to brussels put its foot down when it comes to its own national interests but when it comes to dealing with the trumpet ministration is the orb and government just as ready to put hungary 1st. back russian investigative journalist for the online news website that has been charged in moscow with drugs possession and intent to supply but if case has taken a twist in a petition to supporters being launched quarter now reports. according to police arrested medusa correspondent eve on go north is now in the hospital after complaining that he wasn't feeling well reports say doctors examined him earlier this morning and suspected he had a rib fracture as well as a possible concussion and this is this examination came after golan also claimed he was beaten and denied a lawyer in custody which the police reject in both cases but his detention began on thursday after officers said they found drug

then just a few weeks later after he gets home from moscow, he signs up with the trump campaign. i mean, it's always been weird. and now as flynn's legal case seems to be coming to its end, as more stuff starts getting released by the judge in this case who apparently wants this stuff put out there in the public record, it's unsettling about flynn, but there seems to be something sort of hot about what flynn knew about the president and what he might tell prosecutors about the president. i mean, the president was trying to end the investigation of flynn when he fired the fbi director. that's what led to the firing of james comey. will you go easy on flynn? so comey had to be fired. firing comey because he wouldn't ease up on flynn, that's what gave rise to the appointment of the special counsel. why was it so important to shut down that investigation of flynn? now as flynn's case approaches its end, sentencing, michael flynn suddenly fired his lawyers who represented him all of this time. a week before his status update, we're expecting a sentencing date. boom, fired his lawyers.

travel which goes beyond moscow. and so we have some progress with that let's go to go to our correspondent. i. boast of ties and the 400 and just landed here we're listening to the direct line with russia's president trenker across the pond is also listening in the. us the uniqueness of this. a few moments ago we're talking about sharma is kept by president putin being invited to share one then we go on to russia ukraine relations have never quite know where the questions are going to go over the past 3 hours or so tell us about what really people were mainly speaking about what are all these questions millions of questions we know coming in what's the main things on the minds of people in russia. well you know and i just want to explain to our viewers that we had to interrupt to vladimir putin's previous thought about sanctions and the way he compared them to the u.s. trying to trade wars in the ways that tariffs are being implemented against china's goods because mr putin started talking about ukraine's newly elec

goes down off 71 as proscar the morning here in moscow still to come this thursday from r.t. international russian president vladimir putin said in a few hours to answer a whole lot of questions for the nation is on your q. and a call the direct line to the president one of the big stories that they will be covered it and tell you what to expect when we come back. from. democracies do not deport human rights defenders over their peaceful expression democracies do not rule over millions of people for another people you know for decades on there is a larger context here in that context starts with the fact that israel has been occupying palestinians for 50 years and that occupation itself has deteriorated the most basic ideas of what a legitimate democratic government looks like inside of israel. the accounting fraud at deutsche bank is only now just being revealed. at the tip of the iceberg this they're sitting on a. half a quadrillion worth of worth close to rivet of that if you mark to market would would be greater than 5 times global g.d.p. this isn't in fact the beginning

sure when reporting there for us in moscow bring us up to date thank you emily. now to some other stories making headlines around the world former u.k. foreign minister boris johnson says britain can trust him to be prime minister and that he will continue to voice his opinions directly johnson launched his conservative party leadership campaign in london today he is the front runner to replace teresa mayes britain's next prime minister. ethiopia special envoy to sudan says protest leaders have agreed to resume talks with their country's military rulers the apparent breakthrough comes days after protesters launched a campaign of civil disobedience that was in response to a deadly crackdown on demonstrators demanding civilian rule. japan's shinzo abi has arrived in tehran on a mission to ease tensions between iran and the u.s. obvious the 1st japanese prime minister to visit iran since the 1979 islamic revolution she will meet with president hassan rouhani later today and with supreme leader ayatollah khamenei tomorrow. and frank is one of the most famous victims

let's get more on that with emily share when who is joining us from moscow and who has followed the t.v. show for us so emily this round of televised questions it takes place every year it's the 17th time now why is it so important for the people of russia. well 1st of all as you say it is a tradition and a tradition always provide some sort of sense of stability but this show is also an important safety valve for people it's an opportunity for people to ask actually quite critical questions sometimes in a controlled environment of course on state t.v. we've seen this year as in past years as well that questions flashed up on screen that people have texted in and for example this year i think twice we saw the question when are you putting your putin finally going to leave office so an opportunity for critical questions in a controlled environment and there is a lot to ask when it comes to critical questions especially on the domestic front at the moment there was of course the unpopular pensions reform last year this year there was a v. a t. hike people's wages are falling prices are ri

moscow has shown it has no interest in meeting the chancellor's conditions. multiple times over the past several months, russian officials have told eastern european governments that the gas flow will end on december 31 this year. so the point is zero progress. and i would say regression on this issue. and we see no reaction from germany. senator: anything you would like to agree on that? >> germany has recognized in some ways that its pursuit of northwardstream 2 puts them in a difficult position. it has tried negotiating with russia a guaranteed amount of gas transit. russia has no interest in this. and germany wants to pursue the project for their own reasons and they know the consequences of it. it is appropriate we put pressure on it because it is not just us but many countries are concerned about this development especially those in central and eastern europe if it goes forward. mr. norcross: we need to put and re in the escape act the president does have concerns. the escape act directs the u.s. permanent representative to encourage nato member states

yeah i think because it's in moscow and he was quite a well known investigative journalist who still is has uncovered stories that are basically heard your stories here in moscow pretty much corruption stories so basically it came very close to a lot of people who are working here and this is also the 1st time that it's a prominent journalist who is basically trapped in this kind of legal case it happened a lot in chechnya and in human rights cases before but this was very close to home and that's why i think a lot of people felt like if this could happen to him it could happen to me it could happen to everyone so that's why this whole out for of for protest and and questions also on social media even on the state media there were questions raised about this case up to the highest levels step person with the latest on that story from moscow step thank you. still ahead in this half hour u.s. president donald trump alles of good relationship with north korea after receiving what he called a beautiful letter came john and political strife in hong kong continues as a fresh wave of protes

for talks with russia's vladimir putin as both regime and moscow move to deepen economic ties to counter pressure from the u.s. . also on the show austrians police under fire for their heavy handed treatment of kleiner protesters video emerges of officers violently detaining demonstrators at a vienna climate rally leaving police facing a storm of criticism. while iraq a very warm welcome to all of you world. leaders have come together on the southern coast of england to mark the 75th anniversary of d.-day the day in 1904 when allied forces landed in normandy the beginning of europe's liberation from nazi germany warplanes staged a spectacular fly past over the city and naval base of portsmouth thousands of troops set sail from there for normandy on june 5th 1944 representatives of 16 nations joined britain's queen elizabeth at the ceremony among them french president and minimum mccall and german chancellor angela merkel of u.s. resident donald trump who wrote a prayer originally delivered by franklin roosevelt but the real stars of the day were the veterans of the campaign some $300.00

begins a state visit to moscow. a republican congressman defends a u.s. navy seal accused of war crimes saying killing civilians is part of the job. and we fired hundreds of rounds in a palooza probably hundreds of civilians probably killed women and children if they were left in the city when we invaded so do i get george 2. and we'll speak to 2 human rights lawyers who have compiled a case against the e.u. intending to block the deaths of thousands of migrants in the mediterranean. population of the most responsible. international. be with us now russia and china have reached an unprecedented level of friendship and delivered those warm words shortly after talks in moscow with. dozens of different agreements were also signed following the meeting. well it has been overall a very warm meeting the sides have exchanged pleasantries well left and right i should say the russian leader vladimir putin calling this visit the events of the year when it comes to the relations between moscow and beijing and she jingping reminiscing kind of reminiscing to the long

to moscow 2. well a state visit comes of growing tensions between china and the u.s. as mentioned just now in the trade war we're going to take a close look at that later in the program i can tell you. next this morning concerns over press freedom have been raised in australia after police raids a prominent journalist and then australia's national broadcaster the a.b.c. now the cases are not linked to police say the searches are based on the disclosing of classified information. the criminalisation and crackdown on national security journalism is spreading like a virus the essential is already having in fact journalists must unite and remember that courage is also contagious this police raid against our partners at a.b.c. is an attack on press freedom which we b.b.c. find deeply troubling the australian federal police rate race serious concerns about freedom of the press they could have a chilling in fact on the right of journalists to carry out their jobs the scene might be expected in an authori

saturday evening at 7 here in moscow more name calling very welcome news from r.t. international 1st. video agency ruptly has obtained exclusive footage of whistleblower julian assange in london's belmarsh prison the video shows the wiki leaks founder chatting with fellow inmates the high security facility serving a 15 week sentence for skipping bail it's the 1st time images of a song of appeared since his arrest and removal from the ecuadorian embassy in london almost 2 months ago concerns have been mounting over his health in recent weeks after he failed to appear before a court at the end of may by a video link for a hearing on possible extradition to the united states the un special rapporteur on torture has condemned the treatment saying the publisher has been abused persecuted meltzer has been talking to america the full interview as later this saturday. what we've seen now during my visit was already alarming and what we have seen since then is. health has dramatically deteriorated as predicted by a psychiatrist the company my visit what would can happen obvi

look i did talk that according to the chief moscow police general but you know i asked him could you please explain to me of that i arrived in moscow on the night train and i met with him the next morning i asked him could you please explain this situation to me and maybe i don't know something maybe i don't understand the out so i started talking to him and it was you know i realized that he didn't have answers to my questions so when he started calling his subordinates phone we had to clarify one thing after another so the moscow police she got was not food aware of this situation based on my conversation with general and everybody so i told him could i please talk as you. know when you're working on this case i don't want to meddle but i have to understand what's going on is that i want to show the words lately holes are. that's my work as a journalist and i did talk to some of the detectives and i didn't talk a log because that's when they moved to a hospital and i went there and you know and what was there. i think well detectives told me it was all right they told me we're figh

cheers today after moscow police released journalist evolve. drug charges have been dropped against him following huge public outcry and the deadly heat wave scorching india temperatures soaring up to 50 degrees celsius as people hope for relief from the monsoon seasons. it's good to have you with us it is a major win for gays and lesbians on the continent where they rarely have reason to celebrate botswana's high court today overturned a colonial era law criminalizing gay sex it is a landmark case for africa accord said that the wall should not regulate private acts between consenting adults and that penalizing people for who they are is disrespectful the court unanimously rejected laws which had previously carry dissent. of up to 7 years in prison it makes the country a pioneer in sub-saharan africa where most countries still enforce laws against homosexuality and it comes less than a month after kenya's high court upheld a wall there making homosexuality a crime. well to talk about today's decision i'm joined now from the capital in botswana

a meeting in moscow, president xijinping said he and president putin were unified in their opposition to us sanctions against iran. and the d—day commemorations from france. this is a photograph taken 75 years ago in normandy of some of the ten of thousands of soldiers who were part of the campaign to liberate nazi occupied north—west europe. the man who led a military coup in thailand has been elected as the country's first civilian prime minister in five years. retired general, prayuth chan—ocha was chosen in a vote of members —— prayut chan—o—cha. of both houses of parliament following a debate lasting 12 hours. let's go live to bangkok and speak to our correspondent, jonathan head. was there an alternative to the new prime minister? there was. in fact, the opposition all agreed on the dynamic young billionaire thanathorn juangroongruangkit his party had done exceptionally well to come from nothing to the third—largest. the pheu thai opposition withdrew all its candidates so they could have one unified candidate around which they could unite but, in the end, they co

decision to declare the treaty debt on august 2nd unless moscow announces it will destroy its program before then a unanimous nato stance that once and impossible to achieve. all right return now in brussels by our correspondent terry initials who was reporting there from nato h.q. very good to see you terry let's pick up where that report left off looming in the backdrop of this meeting is of course that the end of that landmark arms control pact between the u.s. and russia whatever ministers there where you are advocating that needs to be done beefing up defense or trying to get russia back into the fold and convince moscow to comply with the terms. well until august 2nd the official line is that moscow has a few more weeks to come into compliance to decide it's going to destroy this missile system that violates the i.n.f. ranges and that's very much what nato wants to put out from this meeting moscow you've got a little bit of time left to don't blow it save the treaty on the other hand nobody really thinks that's going to happen so as the secretary general puts it we need to start

how can we help citizens become healthier and happier moscow for a full of the 7th of july as our european business program interactive exhibition open health congress know the festival details don't i'm also been forum dot com 16 plus. this hour's headlines stories a glimpse into wiki leaks founder julian assange has life in a high security prison in london our video agency ruptly has obtained exclusive footage. of the international monetary fund admits mistakes were made when trying to resuscitate argentina's economy saying it feel to tackle the country's key. troubles are he goes deep into the decades of errors made by the i.m.f. . and the new york times backtracks on its reporting of the script poisoning case in the u.k. for almost 2 months the paper failed to correct an article of a disturbing picture showing to president trump supposedly capturing the aftermath of the nerve agent. 247 news live from the russian capital this is your r.t. international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome to our top story. artie's video agency ruptly has obtained exclusive footage o

of that i arrived in moscow on the night train and i met with him the next morning i asked him could you please explain the situation to me maybe i don't know something maybe i don't understand so i started talking to him and it was you know i realize that you didn't have answers.

in moscow thank you very much for that. mexico is if you promise washington that it will take tough legal action against central american migrants heading for the u.s. border president donald trump in in and furtively reveal details of a new deal when he had documents that a force of by report has under the deal mexico must demonstrate within 45 days that it has reduced the number of migrants crossing into the u.s. meanwhile in the u.s. state of new mexico on militia taking matters into their own hands trying to stop people at the border civil liberties marches accuse them of detaining migrants illegally and impersonating office says. spent 3 days with the members of the militia he sent us this report from the neighboring state of texas. militia. is beginning his shift its mission to find and stop illegal migrants. every night he and his friends of the guardian patriots gather in the new mexican. there they have been described as right wing extremists but insists they are just trying to help the. me when he's coming in ok o

how can we help citizens become healthier and happier moscow urban core of all of the 7th of july as arianna business program interactive exhibition open health congress open festival the no details don't also been forum dot com 16 plus. parties video agency teams exclusive video footage offering an eye opening insights into wiki leaks editor julian time and a security prison in london. on the program. called busy america and other nations for not practicing what they preach and not only when it comes to trade wars the russian president's assessment came at the cent petersburg international economic forum speaking alongside all the world leaders. british prime minister treason may officially step in as leader of the conservative party the race to replace her is all with. the job. just 11 pm here in moscow a very warm welcome wherever you may be tuning in from this hour my name's union o'neill and our top story a glimpse into julian his life behind bars artie's video agency ruptly has obtained exclusive video footage showing him inside london's belmarsh prison the video features the w