speaking of there we have team coverage of the g twenty summit tonight in bonus r s d w's max hoffman is covering the european union angle for us and the w's business anchor how here our greatest is there as well and right here at the big table with me is our chief political correspondent melinda craned to all of you welcome x. let me start with you the world order is under threat now many say more than any other time since one thousand nine hundred five should we expect leaders gathering there to change that fact at this g twenty. well i assume you mean that the threat might go away or be diminished but if you look at who's here and what they stand for and what the future may hold the likelihood of that happening isn't very great who do you have here blood in your poutine who's playing his old games in the eastern european border you have donald trump who repeatedly has stated that he's not a real fan of multi-lateralism but he prefers to do things bilaterally and we haven't talked about brazil today yet if you look at what's coming there you have tropical trumbo so narrow has been e

twenty the g. twenty actually was created to bring international leaders to talk about trends that affect the global economy so certainly trade is amongst those trends that will be big on the agenda we've heard that there's still a lot of tough negotiation going on in regard to a final communique from this meeting and one of the issues one of the sticking points is international trade along with climate change so a lot on the table and a lot of uncomfortable encounters ahead also for these leaders let's talk about trade of the china u.s. trade dispute right there at the center of everything g. twenty is about our presence trump likely to make progress this weekend. it's hard to read at the moment especially on the american side we have signals from trump through has been completely ambivalent so it's complete it's likely we said maybe i'll do it but maybe i won't feel like it so we can't really trust that what the official u.s. trade representative lighthouses said though was more interesting he wa

twenty s. and g. eight for a very long time i've never seen one world leader walking in high five another but that's exactly what vladimir putin did meanwhile thousands of demonstrators have rallied and went as i was in protest at the g. twenty economic policy. crowds were blocked though from getting near the leaders' summit with police coast guard and border patrols cordoning off a twelve square kilometer area around the convention center. ukraine is banned russian men between the ages of sixteen and sixty from entering the country for a month president petro poroshenko says the ban will help stop a land invasion by private armies impose martial law in a number of provinces for thirty days after russia seized three ukrainian ships and twenty four sailors on sunday syrian state media say thirty people have been killed in the u.s. led coalition as strikes targeting i still need errors or most of the victims in the town of said to be women and children on thursday nearly twenty people and some i still f

will now set the tone at the g. twenty summit. and of course all eyes are on trump and xi jinping at the g. twenty summit so i asked our correspondent in singapore and they hey if she thinks argentina might just be the place they managed to iron out her trade dispute. well her looking back at what happened at the recent us here in singapore it didn't have a very out optimistic outlook as to whether china and the u.s. were going to settle of the street dispute but now in the days just ahead of this when us iris summit both sides seem to be willing to start talking so who knows this might signal the start of the me see the beginnings of a truce of course china and the united states will be there very much in the spotlight and not the only ones coming to the g. twenty table we should remember what are all of the asian countries attending hoping to get out of this meeting. definitely that i was in other directions at this summit as well for one to recent me is going to raise the issue of the killing with the saudi arabian ruler that's

twenty is made up of nineteen countries the european union is also a member collectively g twenty members account for eighty five percent of global economic output two thirds of the world's population and seventy five percent of international trade. joining me now from sydney is tim harcourt economist and author thanks very much for being with us so let me ask you first of all how much importance do you attach to the g twenty is an organization is it is it still an important forum for exchanging views or has it kind of lost its way since two thousand and eight well i think it was a very important organization in two thousand and eight during the global financial crisis and the finance ministers g. twenty was an invention of a strike year and south korea it's one of the few forums where you get the major powers together in a somewhat like this i think it's still got its relevance particularly at a time when we need good international economic institutions another big issue of course and a very contentious one at the moment is the whole issue of climate change and what to do about it two bi

the g. twenty summit is underway in argentina where the u.s. china trade dispute threatens to overshadow proceedings the saudi crown prince is in buenos aires where he may face some tough questions from leaders over the matter of journalist jamal khashoggi. back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha also ahead tensions with moscow over ukraine also in the spotlight of the g twenty as the ukrainian government brock's russian men of military age from entering the country and we look at why tourism is booming in the holy land and what it means for palestinian. thank you for joining us world leaders have gathered in argentina for the annual g twenty summit with a background of controversy and simmering disputes top of the agenda and when osiris will likely be the trade war between the two biggest economies the united states and china have imposed tariffs on each other's imports this year leading to concerns about a global ripple effects but there is some positive trade news the u.s. mexico and canada have signed a new trade

twenty you know me remember that a year ago at the g. twenty in germany there was no communique that all signed up to that was because a lot of it dealt with climate change and donald trump felt he didn't want to put his name to it also there been other recent international conferences where the americans have not signed on to the internet the final communique the biggest deal on saturday is going to be a meeting which really isn't involving the g. twenty but involves the two biggest economies of the g. twenty that's when the chinese president and donald trump will sit down to discuss tariffs and trade and then in the g twenty here are getting them to come to some sort of agreement some sort of solution because they think if there is a trade war between the two of them then that will impact the global economy i mean the other eighteen could be facing difficulties in the months to come all right alan fischer there live for us in buenos aires allan thank you let's cross over now to are lots america at a tennessee and human is also live for

twenty to a g. two between chia and trump and really in so many ways we can summarize this conflict is going on in the muslim world on the sideline of the world g twenty by a sort of a showdown a sort of a cold war between turkey and saudi arabia representing two visions two approaches to islamic world to greater middle east and toward affairs and here i think the saudis are going to the g. twenty not on a happy note to say the least but i think unlike many other observers i think it was indispensable for mohammedan sentiment to make it there because if he didn't make it there he would never make it and any time he had to meet the world face to face. and i think everyone here will the well deal with them the way well i do well when he does deal with them in the wake of my charges and if i were if i was there i would probably be looking into the mind of every of the nineteen leaders a brother in there everyone is probably trying to avoid him if they had the chance to if they were just pragmatic leade

i will raise the issue with the russian president at the g twenty summit we ask the queen inside to also be sensible because we know that we can only solve things through being reasonable and through dialogue there is no military solution to these disputes. would you be of the opinion that other european leaders are behind her statement or. well certainly they'll be reliant on russian energy i should say in the past few hours her plane was downed or that those were the initial news flash reports and and subsequently denied reports of a criminal investigation not since the bolivian president evo morales his plane was brought down by the obama administration in their attempt to hunt down edward snowden now of course in moscow and we've seen that headlines but actually that angle merkel's. will stop in cologne was just a serious malfunction of a plane but merkel certainly and the european union not taking the line of say britain where i'm speaking to you from which obviously is trying to get out of the european union completely how merkel manages perhaps to make trump over russia maybe that

the problem that they've got as they come into the g twenty here in argentina is that the g twenty which was set up by gordon brown to work together to combat the global financial crisis probably has never been as splintered and you're seeing that with different reactions to things like the jamal khashoggi case with the canadians arriving and is announcing that they're going to introduce sanctions against a number of named saudi officials with donald trump seeing that he stands by the chrome prince with president marcos saying that he wants to talk to the saudi crown prince because he wants to tell on the what happened should you was wrong wants to find out about the investigation we've got the saudi crown prince asking for a meeting with the president of turkey to discuss all this then add to that you've got the spark between russia and ukraine although it's a lot more than a spat and then you've got the world's two biggest economies at loggerheads over trade tariffs and you've got donald trump planning to sit down with president jiang the sidelines of the meeting to try and see if they

hello i'm terry have you with this g. twenty summit is getting underway today. it's the first time the meeting of the world's largest economies has been held in south america german chancellor angela merkel though is missing the start of the summit after the plane she was traveling in had to make an unscheduled. plane had only been in the air for an hour when an electronic system l. . the function forced it to turn around and land in the western german city of cologne michael told reporters quote it was a serious malfunction and quote and praised a very excellent crew on board the delay is likely to complicate medicals for schedule of meetings at the two day summit. well for more now let's bring in our political correspondent kate brady kate chancellor merkel's arrival at the g. twenty in buenos aires has been delayed a problem with her plane apparently what exactly happened. well as you mentioned terry the german government's conrad everson which michael was traveling had actually only been in the air for about an hour when it had to begin circling over the net

the g twenty gives them a chance to take their message to a wider audience. the city is under siege it seems like we're under curfew but we made it here and once again we call on world leaders to stop the policies that create hunger poverty and that hurt the working class. they were into thousands of people are promising to take over the streets of one side is on friday in spite of these protests this is a historic event for argentina and an opportunity to be at the center of world affairs even though there are several issues overshadowing the main objective which is to build consensus on crucial issues like climate change and inequality. among them the presence of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon and the request by human rights watch to investigate him over the murder of journalism i casually. skilling has changed relations between saudi and the western world. in one way mark on says he's ready to talk to the crown prince about what happened. sure i have always been very clear on the case of saudi arabia and i will inevitably have the opportunity to d

the rivalry between the two nations will now set the tone at the g twenty summit. and against the backdrop of international trade disputes g twenty host country argentina finds itself in a deep economic crisis itself inflation that raised around twenty percent in july more argentinians are living below the poverty line. these machines haven't produced anything for years but it's not because they're broken there's just no one left to set them in motion the industry is climb a woodturning company was founded over thirty years ago by a german couple in a suburb of buenos aires argentina in good times they had twelve employees but now there's only one. three years ago the company had a downturn but even before that we felt the crisis for example a lot of our kind of work is done in china these days so the services come from outside the country they can produce cheaper and better conditions than we do here it's hard to compete we have taps of all kinds and the currency the argentine peso gets devalued all the time. although the becks of paid into the pension fund for de

well i'm terry martin thanks for joining us the g. twenty summit is getting underway today. it's the first time the meeting of the world's largest economies has been held in south america by german chancellor angela merkel is missing the start of the summit after the plane she was traveling in had to make an unscheduled landing her plane had only been in the air for an hour when an electronic system malfunction forced it to turn around and land in the western german city of cologne told reporters it was a serious malfunction and praised a very excellent crew on board the way is likely to call. americal scheduled meetings at the two day summit. well for more let's bring in our political correspondent kate brady kate the church was plain the church was a rival of the g twenty in buenos aires has been delayed a problem with their plane apparently what exactly happened those you mentioned terry the german government's conrad was having fact only been in the air an hour when it began to circle over the netherlands before returning into the direction of germany and making that uns

twenty because. they are going to reporting from the g. twenty summit. thank you so much. far away from the g twenty another trade conference between two countries that are eye each other suspiciously in berlin the american chamber of commerce held its annual conference on friday and as yes for the dollar has had german carmakers and their u.s. exports in the crosshairs there was plenty of demand for discussed and were a meeting of religion. and perhaps a location was chosen to urge the participants to rise above the economic strife dominating trade with the u.s. at least that's what people here at the american chamber of commerce's annual conference are out to do. but how should business leaders react to the new free trade agreements or the america first policy. history shows the free trade and economic openness are in all of our best interest i don't know of any other policy or economic philosophy short of capitalism itself that is done more for more people than free trade trade you know broad ideas around the world that brought innovation that allowed cultures to flouri

counterpart donald trump just like last year's g twenty when russian meddling in u.s. elections overshadowed the agenda the president's haven't met one on one since their july summit in helsinki where trump's behavior toward putin was bizarrely submissive leaving huge questions looming over between a siders european leaders and his advisors back home all want to show a united front and that's really our objective it doesn't really matter so much what practical steps are as long as we can show united front because remember putin's objective is to sow discord and disunity in the western alliance europe's geography dooms it to being caught in the middle of moscow and washington politically when tensions flare in those capitals brussels feels the burn it will be difficult for the europeans to see their concerns on global trade addressed while navigating other diplomatic danger zones there are so many things going home could cause problems i mean. she jinping will be there so it's possible that if there is language on trades that trump. says something very negative about ch

the g twenty gives them a chance to take their message to a wider audience and. the city is under siege it seems like we're under curfew but we made it here and once again we call on world leaders to stop the policies that create hunger poverty and that hurt the working class. they were into low thousands of people are promising to take over the streets of one of the site is on friday in spite of these protests this is a historic event for argentina and an opportunity to be at the center of world affairs even though there are several issues overshadowing the main objective which is to build consensus on crucial issues like climate change and inequality. among them the presence of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon and the request by human rights watch to investigate him over the murder of journalism i casually. skilling has changed relations between saudi and the western world. in one way mark owen says he's ready to talk to the crown prince about what happened should usually take a sure i have always been very clear in the case of saudi arabia and i will in

twenty leaders or corresponding next often at the g twenty summit in bonus artists max as always thank you. that's one of the pressing issues at the summit is those rising tensions between russia and ukraine today ukraine announced a ban on all russian minified age from entering the country ukrainian president petro poroshenko has again presented what he says is evidence of russian tanks massing along his country's border.

at the top stories for you g. twenty summit is underway with tensions between the u.s. and china taking center stage and there are also questions about the president's. who's been linked to the killing of a saudi journalist. the leaders of canada mexico and the united states have signed a new north american trade deal at the g. twenty summit. spending more than a year pressuring canada and mexico into rewriting the original nafta after repeatedly calling it a job killer for u.s. workers. russia's actions against ukraine are also a major issue at the g. twenty russia has announced it's moving the ukrainian sailors it's captured to a prison hospital in moscow they were taken prisoner off the coast of crimea on sunday for a challenge from moscow. decision to ban all russian males between the ages of sixteen to sixty from entering ukraine is a big controversial step from the poroshenko administration they are saying that this is for national security reasons that what they're trying to prevent is the establishment of russian private armies inside ukraine but this is going t

or headline stories this hour the russian president touches down in argentina for the g twenty summit with current political flashpoints on trade routes thrust into the spotlight particularly so after donald trump called off his much anticipated talks with a lot of reports. also ahead edward snowden's former lawyer tells us the whistleblower was forced to flee hong kong in twenty thirteen after pressure from chinese authorities. this is this was not an ordinary situation i literally had minutes. you know once i was instructed by mr snowden to make decisions that would affect his liberty in this life. the racism in middle earth and or third planes the beast like works from the lord of the rings maybe victims of the school. hello and welcome to our to international on this the last day of november a chilly friday i think in moscow but the sun is well and truly out in argentina's capital buenos aires where leaders of the world's most industrialized economies are meeting. the. proceedings officially get on the way for the g. twenty summit in what a little over an hour from now at the new

world leaders convene in argentina for the g. twenty summit u.s. president is due to hold talks with the leaders of china and germany over. the global economy. making themselves heard. also coming up ukraine's army steps up its combat readiness following russia's seizure of three ukrainian ships. of military age from entering the country and what's wrong with german football. every week that passes result this weekend could be the end of the season. it's good to have you with us we begin in south america world leaders have opened the g twenty summit in two days of talks with a host of thorny issues. topping them the ongoing trade dispute between the united states and china other topics include the killing of salty journalists. in turkey and heightened tensions between russia and ukraine a potential mediator in that conflict. has still not arrived at the solvent plane had to make an emergency landing due to a technical people last night. are going to take you now to one is our answer corresponded ophelia harmes is standing by good evening to you a f

here putin attends the g twenty summit. also. through the streets of the belgian capital as the so-called yellow vests movement spreads to brussels in a mimic protest following similar scenes. of. racism in middle earth and claims that peace like works from the father of the rings may be victims of discrimination. alone welcome to our two international just gone seven pm here in moscow this friday means it's well known in the afternoon in argentina's couple of buenos aires where leaders of the world's most industrialized economies are getting together. the proceedings are officially underway for the annual g. twenty summit the event is expected to be clouded with differences over many issues as the year has seen new alliances formed on longstanding one strained the day started with a meeting of the brics nations on the sidelines with president putin taking the stage. and you can go on to. the increasingly replace the international dialogue raised on honesty inequality this vicious practice of using little you no matter sanctions

president trump at the g. twenty but other world leaders begin arriving and when decide it's on thursday for the summit of the globe's largest economies but the focus is likely to be on issues not on the agenda a trade war between the united states and china troubled relations between member states and the presence of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan man who's been accused by human rights watch of war crimes in yemen and the murder of newspaper columnist jamal khashoggi here to help us preview what's coming up from buenos itis can really how cat is out there was white house correspondent and managing director in the credits strategy and research group bad moody's investor service welcome to both of you i want to start on my laptop from a member of our community alix who writes in notice the just before leaving the white house president trump said it was a good time to meet russia's putin and change his mind one hour later kimberly we know that there was a meeting scheduled with russian president vlad

the g twenty gives them a chance to take their message to a wider audience. the city is under siege it seems like we're under curfew but we made it here and once again we call on world leaders to stop the policies that create hunger poverty and that hurt the working class. they were into thousands of people are promising to take over the streets of one side is on friday in spite of these protests this is a historic event for argentina and an opportunity to be at the center of world affairs even though there are several issues overshadowing the main objective which is to build consensus on crucial issues like climate change and inequality. among them the presence of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon and the request by human rights watch to investigate him over the murder of journalism i. skilling has changed relations between saudi and the western world. says he's ready to talk to the crown prince about what happened. to egypt sure i have always been very clear on the case of saudi arabia and i will inevitably have the opportunity to discuss it with the

twenty the first g. twenty summit was in response to the global financial crisis this this huge event that everyone rushed to coordinate to combat and now there isn't well not everyone agrees that there is that same kind of crisis it's much more fractious there are many more bilateral tensions particularly those instigated by president on the trunk of america i think there you know mentioned people turning away from multilateralism so and that was surely referring to trump and i'm glad you brought that up because i do want to ask obviously one of the one of the things that is looming over this is the trade war that hit for tat trade war between the u.s. and china is there any potential for that to truly be addressed here or at least the beginnings of it being addressed. i think there is but there's also a huge amount of uncertainty i think particularly in the u.s. a lot of people are focused on this meeting for what could happen with with this dinner that's happening on saturday night between donald trum

the g twenty summit is getting underway and when all scientists canada the u.s. and mexico have signed a trade pact to replace the north american free trade agreement the summit comes amidst the u.s. is trade dispute with china and a recent flare up of tensions between russia and ukraine. ukraine's president petro poroshenko says all military aged russian men are banned from entering the country and in an interview with a british broadcaster he has again showed evidence of what he claims are russian military tanks amassing along his country's border this comes as the long simmering conflict between the two nations escalated in the black sea on sunday. the world health organization has warned of a resurgence of measles worldwide the number of infections jumped more than thirty percent last year compared to twenty sixteen the w.h.o. recorded increases in almost every part of the world including wealthy countries such as germany where vaccination coverage has been historically high. marriott the world's largest hotel group says the personal data of up to half a bill

twenty and demonstrates is that not happy about the g. twenty economic policies and how would you describe the mood. you know they are not to marry a mob let me just show you what's behind me here you have a lot of anti trump paraphernalia there are posters slogans out with trump out. the i.m.f. which one of the main complaints here in argentina as you probably remember the i.m.f. has lent this country something like fifty six billion dollars as a bailout but in exchange for major belt tightening measures by the current government so they say that this is just simply going to improve the lives of the rich at the cost of the poor then there is a long list of complaints here the mood is that i would call it come back if they know that there are their chance and that their posters are not being heard or seen by the g twenty leaders but they say they want their voice to be heard they want the world to know that there are people who hold what is taking place in the list as i say of complaints is very long we have everything from the i.m.f. to

the g twenty gives them a chance to take their message to a wider audience and. the city is under siege it seems like we're under curfew but we made it here and once again we call on world leaders to stop the policies that create hunger poverty and that hurt the working class. they were into thousands of people are promising to take over the streets of one of site is on friday in spite of these protests this is a historic event for argentina and an opportunity to be at the center of world affairs even though there are several issues overshadowing the main objective which is to build consensus on crucial issues like climate change and inequality. among them the presence of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon and the request by human rights watch to investigate him over the murder of journalism i casually. skilling has changed relations between saudi and the western world. says he's ready to talk to the crown prince about what happened. sure i have always been very clear on the case of saudi arabia and i will inevitably have the opportunity to discuss it with t

could find common ground at the g. twenty. i think in the mirror both leaders will probably want to sell this as a successful talk they don't to be seen to be wasting each of the time both have an interest in cooperation whether this actually leads to anything more significant though is where i become more skeptical i'm not convinced that this stage for example that will even. increase in salary if the end of the year on the two hundred billion dollars which are currently standing at ten percent let alone the own winding of previously impose tariffs i think there's still a lot of discussions to be hot i don't think china is yet willing to cede to the demands of the us which is becoming increasingly hawkish on the trumpet ministrations to the contrary that very dispute aside is there anything or anyone else to watch this g. twenty meeting economically speaking. well that's the interesting thing the g twenty meetings were effectively set up to try and improve cooperation and increase global growth and globalization really is now

at the g. twenty summit in argentina also ahead this hour. through the streets. of the so-called yellow vests movement spreads to brussels then to mimic protests folding similar scenes. coming up on the program racism in middle earth. or from the. lord of the rings maybe. the script. hello and a warm welcome to our to international just six pm here in moscow this friday on midday in argentina. where leaders of the world's most industrialized economies are getting together. well proceedings are officially about to get under way any moment now for the annual g. twenty summit the meeting is expected to be clouded with differences over many issues as the year has seen new alliances formed on longstanding one strained the day started with a meeting of the brics nations on the sidelines of believe a trade reports from buenos aires some of the meetings on the sidelines of g twenty are already in full swing in particular between the brics leaders the leaders of russia shina brazil india and south america and we've already heard from the russian president vladimir putin w

g twenty leaders over the next couple of days . the plane that usually travels on this government plane the con love nor is the name of it it is maintained by germany's military what does that say about the state of readiness of germany's military when they can't be relied upon to transport the head of government to a major international a bit because this is a really hefty embarrassment for germany and it's no secret that the german defense has huge saw shortcomings as being several reports in recent years about lack of reports of equipment and also faulty equipment and as you mentioned this as they called odds and i'll add was itself is part of the look for the german air force but one of the issues as well is there has been a debate for some time that the these aircraft the government protégé in particular are simply too old but of course the german government is always wary of entering into parliament and suggesting that they should get a new act of course wherry of a backlash and claims that they want or necessary look serio

counterpart donald trump just like last year's g twenty when russian meddling in u.s. elections overshadowed the agenda the president's haven't met one on one since their july summit in helsinki where trump's behavior toward putin was bizarrely submissive leaving huge questions looming over between asides european leaders and his advisors back home all want to show a united front and that's really our objective it doesn't really matter so much what's the practical steps are as long as we can show united front because remember putin's objective is to sow discord in disunity in the western alliance europe's geography dooms it to being caught in the middle of moscow and washington politically when tensions flare in those capitals brussels feels the burn it will be difficult for the europeans to see their concerns on global trade addressed while navigating other diplomatic danger zones there are so many things going home could. cause problems i mean. she jinping will be there so it's possible that if there is language on trades that. says something very negative about chin

back to the g. twenty itself and think o.c.a. sions on where the world heads next to not expected to be easy over the next two days with nations divided on the solutions to the many critical problems facing the world. is when i say it is for us with more on what's ahead. right now there are two cities a boy and a scientist one behind these fences for the g. twenty leaders and one on this side for everyone else and it does make sense because those who are attending are the most powerful people in this world these are really the ones that are making our planet spin. gold the folks from that point aside us have recently made us realize that we are and be living in a multi-polar world where everyone's holding on to their national interests and that ahead of the summit has led to a whole lot of problems between those who've been saying my country first. donald trump lately after china all the time he has blamed beijing for stealing to call jeep unfair trade and even meddling in the us mid terms china has been attempting to interfere i

a bit be agenda of the g twenty summit he's staying at the saudi residence here and one aside as he arrived on wednesday very early in the morning and just as that was happening is when human rights watch that asked argentine judiciary to open up on this investigation into a war crimes and torture but also the killing of jamal khashoggi the latest information we have from argentina is that a judge requested information from the foreign office here and foreign office said that mohamed bin had money has diplomatic immunity. and that in any way to be able to touch him it has to go all the way to the supreme court but the other question that remains is who is going to meet with mohammed let me tell my let me tell you about two weeks ago the argentinean government was saying that a meeting was likely going to happen between him and for the president now he still might be one now the government saying that it's subject to timing whether there is enough time for both of them to meet donald trump recently said that he's ok with a meeting with the saudi crown prince but it's also a subject t

for this year's g. twenty summit but a growing number of side issues are overshadowing the main events from rising tensions between russia and ukraine to the fallout from the murder of saudi arabian journalist in office. for saudi arabia's crown prince when assad is a centerpiece of this first overseas visit since the charge be murder.

two leaders not meeting at the g. twenty summit or the u.s. president. vladimir putin trying counseled their talks. worsening standoff with ukraine russia opened fire on three ukrainian ships detaining their crew and prompting kids to ban adults russian men from entering the country meanwhile president trump's former lawyer has admitted he lied to congress during the investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election michael cohen told a federal court he made a false statements about a trump organization plan to build a tower in moscow trump is accusing cohen of flying to get a reduced sentence. the ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is now the second largest on record behind twenty fourteen's epidemic that killed thousands in west africa the world health organization delivered the assessment after congo's health ministry announced there have been almost four hundred thirty cases since the start of august two hundred fifty people have died it's spreading in the country's north east where attacks by

with a g. twenty summit with political flashpoints trade. particularly so. called off his much anticipated switch. also coming up on the program this hour edward snowden's former lawyer tells us the whistleblower was forced to flee hong kong in twenty thirteen after pressure from chinese authorities. this is this was not an ordinary situation i literally minutes. you know once i was instructed by mr snowden to make decisions that would affect his liberty like. racism in middle earth and claims that works from the front to see lord of the rings maybe victims of the nation. in a warm welcome to our international just four pm here in moscow this friday ten am in argentina's capital. where leaders of the world's most industrialized economies are getting together. proceedings officially get underway for they g twenty summit in two hours time the annual meeting is expected to be clouded with differences over many issues as the year has seen new alliances formed a longstanding one strained well that's not across to the girl who is in buenos ariz forest looks like a

or well bar and let's look at the key players and tearing into the g twenty which of course are the u.s. and russia and saudi arabia now these are are of course the top three or oil producers in the world and they provide about a third of the world's oil i do that exactly and they're all going to be there so they're going to be using the g twenty as a way to come up with a strategy for the upcoming meeting in which is going to be for the opec meeting but as we all know there is a lot of geopolitical leverage the u.s. currently has over saudi arabia so that all eyes are are going to be on saudi arabia and the us is expecting saudi arabia to maintain these low oil prices that we currently have about about fifty four dollars a barrel dollar barrel and president trump even recently sent out a twitter and thanked saudi arabia for the fifty four dollar mark and thanking them because that way it went from eighty four dollars and october but what's really interesting about president trump's tweet is that would a lot of fuel join realize is that the u.s. currently imports about ten point four mi

twenty was a sort of a widening of the g. seven both of them created essentially to underpin the international economy to get international leaders talking about crucial economic issues and the actual topic of this summit was supposed to be fair and sustainable development that's one of the reasons it's taking place in latin america so no these these. news items that have come up in the past week are search. it's deflecting attention from crucial long term structural issues that absolutely need to be addressed if we think about the state of the argentinean economy that's a very good example of how necessary it is to talk about those kinds of issues as you as you know forty percent inflation in argentina people really unable to afford food it's been one of the concerns that there could be major demonstrations there by their eat troubled argentinian citizens who don't know what the future looks like all of those are the kind of issues that are supposed to be talked about at a meeting like this but as you say we're probably goin

will come into the g twenty meeting in just a few moments some of maybe on line close to what is keys and game here. the u.s. president has made it clear as far as he's concerned that the crown prince had nothing to do with the show actually is this something personal between the one and mohamed bin solomon or is it more to do with regional influence. i think there's every possibility that there is a personal dimension to it but i don't think there needs to be a personal dimension i think if you are if you're studying the middle east you're studying middle eastern politics one of the first books that you read is called dialogues in arab politics by michael barnett and what bar it does is he tells the story of how a certain point certain incidents the actors involved have the opportunity to rework reconceptualized order international relations and i think that's exactly what this moment is what turkey is doing what president the un is doing is sensing that the affair has given him the opportunity to redefine a relationship between un qatar washington and illiad that has had turkey is t

prince is the first to arrive for the g. twenty again but earlier than expected to me. well most definitely his arrival came as a surprise and we're standing right outside the side. of here about one hour ago he was surrounded by our military but very very tight security initially we know. made several reservation in several hotels. ended up paying for them but they brought him here because of security concerns i'm not sure if you can see right behind me but the windows of the residence. just recently. this happened just a few days ago so this was most recent and as you just said he arrived here. one rights watch asking the argentine judiciary to initiate an investigation into human rights abuses torture war crimes in yemen but also on the killing. right now a prosecutor here in this is evaluating whether or not to begin an investigation and we will know when that happens this wednesday it's not clear yet what mohammed bin feldman will be doing in the next few days here in argentina but what's certain is that makes many many people uncomfortable especially the argentine

twenty s. and g. sevens in ga over the years this was the russian president showing his support. but for mohammed bin someone he hasn't said anything at all about what is going on over the last few weeks hasn't made any criticism of the saudi king and so the prince and so this was him showing his support ideally as well of course he would benefit i'm sure he sees the potential of benefiting from any fracture in the u.s. relationship and then there was the what's called the family photo the gathering all the leaders it was interesting to see who would be next to mohammed bin sound and where would he be in that picture and we got that answer when he was placed to the far right as you looked on to the stage who was the world lead that was set aside while no one what we got was the head of a development bank who was placed right next to him they shook hands as they would but over in the far left corner was president of the one of turkey that wasn't just something that happened these positions are planned there is a protocol involved and clearly it was decided that these two men shoul

to attend the meeting of g. twenty leaders in argentina is bound to make headlines. he cancelled his last trip to south america april the u.s. was preparing to strike syria this time embroiled in trade disputes with europe canada and china. a border fight with mexico and a climate policy that is muddled at best troubled just like the previous g. twenty be surrounded by leaders who have serious disagreements with him. he has several meetings planned but his dinner with chinese president xi jinping will be closely watched. we can have trade that's meant for stupid people trump has railed against what he calls unfair trade practices by the chinese and has slapped import tariffs on hundreds of billions of goods he's threatened to significantly increase those tariffs next year his me was she will be an attempt to cool tensions. he was supposed to meet with russian president vladimir putin but abruptly announced on thursday he's canceling it over concerns about the recent russian incursion in crimea which is heighten the possibility of war with ukraine it will also be the

president trump at the g. twenty but other world leaders begin arriving and when a fight is on thursday for the summit of the globe's largest economies but the focus is likely to be on issues not on the agenda a trade war between the united states and china troubled relations between member states and the presence of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sandman he's been accused by human rights watch of war crimes in yemen and the murder of newspaper columnist jamal khashoggi here to help us preview what's coming up from buenos ictus kempley housecat is al jazeera white house correspondent and i appreciate it managing director in the credit strategy and research group bad moody's investor service welcome to both of you i want to start on my laptop from a member of our community alex who writes in notice that just before leaving the white house president trump said it was a good time to meet russia's putin and change his mind one hour later kimberly we know that there was that meeting scheduled with russian pres

as the country's president prepared to join other world leaders for the g. twenty you know. i'm a little but i think. we're buddies. they . should have been there so. i don't want them or i can't that's i mean yes i knew she needed that community yeah i am kind of whom you could feel that he had a ticket. a he made a move a photo of the man that you know enough to vote for i don't know. the fate of julian assange is unclear washington is determined that he sent to the u.s. to face criminal charges most likely under the one thousand seven hundred espionage the british government is more than happy to make this stop and even the ecuadorians are in the army and we are watching unfold in front of our eyes is the criminalization of journalists. is finally being this hour the need. but all right. is going to. ignore. the mother of. the. let's stick. to the country's. decision making. politics washington's choices abroad. left right divide lead the most powerful country in the world. so great to have you with us again with mysterious been a while thank you very much things have cha

twenty summit for us so we're expecting this new deal committee to be signed any moment now of the g. twenty. yeah that's right this is a significant moment but we should point out it's largely symbolic right now when the three leaders from canada the united states and mexico signed what is known as the u.s. m.c.a. replacing nafta it still has to be ratified in the u.s. congress it'll be a pretty straightforward process when it comes to mexico and canada but it could be a challenge given the fact that there has been a midterm election in the united states and there is now a democratic house that will be controlled in january and there may be some issues when it comes to democrats with some of the language so well this is a symbolic signing it's certainly somewhat a victory for donald trump who promised to come in and renegotiate these trade deals there are a couple of things that are great about it for canada they say they object to some of the language the tariffs on canadian steel still remain in place so this is certainly going to be noteworthy in terms of an update of the nafta ag

so saudi crown prince finding at least one i lie at the g. twenty summit. let's take you live to wayne as areason speak to al-jazeera is alan fischer i mean in the lead up to this summit out and there's been a lot of speculation about how world leaders would indeed trees have been sound man when he arrived in argentina. exactly right the talk was there going to be a meeting between him and donald trump donald trump being one of the crown prince's biggest international supporters we were told that that was off the table that don't trump certainly didn't have time when they said joe let's be honest don't trump wants to meet the saudi crown prince donald trump will meet the saudi crown prince there will be a gap in the shadow created tello that to happen so the fact that donald trump isn't meeting him here is significant there were those who said that they were going to meet him and then canceled those plans among them but president did go ahead with the diplomatic niceties of greeting mohammed bin salman is the arrived at the g twenty as you would expect him

the rivalry between the two nations will now set the tone at the g twenty summit. germany's biggest lender is in trouble again after allegations of money laundering to the tune of three hundred million euros emerged on the banks share price dropped more than three percent off the news broke that police have conducted raids on its offices some one hundred seventy offices searched for evidence supporting our kids ations the bank help clients set up offshore fund support money linked prime locations were late for mission contained in the huge data only known as the number of papers in this sense focusing on the period beginning in twenty thirteen and current c.e.o. christiane's even added the group's order to depart. german chemicals and pharmaceuticals make a buyer said thursday it would slash twelve thousand jobs in a major restructuring following the takeover of monsanto enabling it to save two point six billion euros per year from twenty twenty two onwards it says a significant number of those cuts will be in germany. buyer one of germany's oldest jacks companies

the g twenty gives them a chance to take their message to a wider audience. the city is under siege it seems like we're under curfew but we made it here and once again we call on world leaders to stop the policies that create hunger poverty and that hurt the working class. they were into thousands of people are promising to take over the streets of one side is on friday in spite of these protests this is a historic event for argentina and an opportunity to be at the center of world affairs even though there are several issues overshadowing the main objective which is to build consensus on crucial issues like climate change and inequality. among them the presence of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon and the request by human rights watch to investigate him over the murder of journalism i go. skilling has changed relations between saudi and the western world. gone says he's ready to talk to the crown prince about what happened. to egypt's a clear sure i have always been very clear on the case of saudi arabia and i will inevitably have the opportunity to di

yet the g twenty summit kicks off a little bit later today with a lot at stake but two leaders have already made headlines even before the official opening with a double trump canceling his much awaited meeting with vladimir putin. and talks just for. bated breath the world waited for another announced meeting between the presidents of russia and the united states but then lo and behold the twitter sphere lights up with news that the meeting is off the issue was the maritime incident between russia and ukraine but one trump was leaving for argentina it seemed to everyone that the meeting was still on probably were. but we. think it's a very good. that was despite the media beating the drums of war why does this present seems so simple when it comes to vladimir putin a lot of demands on the president right now to get tough on russia we've got to be tough with them it's the only thing putin understands he just seems incapable of criticizing putin i don't want him to do that again stand next to putin and said well that was a provocation by the ukrainians that would not be in america's national