Novacek as the e. U. Demands answers days of heavy rain and flooding plunged pakistans Financial Capital into chaos and fuelled new anger at the government. Hello welcome to the program nato has announced that turkey and greece are to hold talks with the aim of the fuse in tension in the Eastern Mediterranean there are local heads over the ownership rights of offshore oil and gas reserves near cyprus and crete the neighbors have been carrying out competing military exercises in the region both countries have accused the other of stoking tensions with threats of military action well secretarygeneral you install to beg says the 2 nato allies will enter technical talks to establish a plan to avoid any such action. For this shows the exclusive Economic Zones of greece turkey and cyprus as the find the by the un now it accords greece 71 percent of the a g. And c. And turkey 8. 8 percent but this is how turkey redraws the same map claiming much of greeces waters as its own and this is the ar
Broadcasting live direct this is R T International certainly glad to have you with us lets get right into our breaking news story right here in our 2 International Germany has claimed that russian opposition figure election a volley was poisoned with a nerve agent from the nova chuck group a volley is currently in a medically induced coma in a berlin hospital now after being airlifted from siberia about 2 weeks ago Russian Foreign Ministry Says requests to berlin for information on the case have so far gone on answered earlier my colleague you know neil was joined by our correspondents but ive got to have and peter oliver. Well german chancellor Angela Merkel said that there was clear and unambiguous evidence that Alexei Novelli the russian opposition figure had been poisoned using a novacek agent she said that this volley at the bundeswehr institute a german military. Tree this is credited certified by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the o. P. C. W. Going on t
If she becomes president mornings with maria beginsing right now. All right weve got a big show this morning joining the conversation Mitch Rochelle is here and president and pat centers the author of persuasion lee carter is here and entrepreneur great to see you thanks so much for joining us. Good to have you back. Kevin we want to talk about growth stories this morning but we have to kib this hour office on violence overnight police clashing with protesters at the Hong Kong Polytechnical University authority have tried to storm the campus. But were stopped by firessed a entrance. Police surrounded disool firing tears gas arresting those trying to leave. This is Hong Kong Court rules mask ban is unconstitutional. Joining me right now is found or of next digital and the advocate of democracy, jimmy advocate thanks very much for joining me this morning had. Good morning. Can you tell what you say went with on overnight a sense of what the scene look like today and whats happening in ho
1. 00 and there south africa at just under half a trillion now in host country brazil the leader once described china as a predator a year on with a sluggish economy in mind he softening his tone as the president welcomes his chinese counterpart xi jinping the billboards however arent as welcoming freedom for hong kong china. And china brazil it would seem chinas growing influence on the continent isnt the easiest to sell to the public. And were joined by Carlos Dsouza hes the lead emerging market economist at Oxford Economics he focuses on latin america while carlos now give us a sense of the stakes here how important is china for latin america. So simon singh is growing more than for latin america but i think we need to understand the kind of relationship is very good and china have is very different from the kind of relationship in china with stan economies are in very different from relationships of china has advanced economies like here in the United States so what were looking at
Performance. The first hearings under way. The act the u. S. Embassador to the country William Taylor revealed new information in his testimony about the president s focus on investigating joe and hunter biden. Following the call with President Trump a member of my staff asked about what President Trump thought about ukraine. President trump cares more about the investigations of biden which Rudy Giuliani was pressing for. Information coming from an overhead call between the u. S. Embassador and the eu. At issue, the democrats believe the president used his office to extort ukraine to dig up dirt on the bidens including withholding nearly 400 million in military aid. It was not just the white house meeting that was dependent on the investigations. He said it was now everything. It included the security assistance. You werent on l call were you. Republican Committee Members pressing taylor on really how close they were to this information. Republicans say the president did nothing wrong