Youre watching R T International bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. A lot of reporting has spoken at the Economic Forum a russia is calling the global and National Economy sanctions and International Relations where the focus across life now to r. T. Is more if not for all of the details what has been said there. Well hijacked plane yes for almost 2 hours widely reported has been answering questions from participants of 11th annual russia call an Investment Forum they see or at the event gathered guests from 80 countries it was a very interesting conversation about what talking to call on me can hardly avoid discussing see the economic sanctions the u. S. Keeps imposing on russia and its effect on Global Economy is there any hope it can be lifted any time soon was a question from an american businessman. Is that. If we talk about sanctions in the perspectives of lifting them this is not our juicy he but it was the u. S. Administration
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Hello youre watching r. T. International im Rosana Lockwood welcome to the program. The current state of the russian economy has been pictured over at a key forum in Russia Vladimir Putin gave the cesspits at the event which also touched on the Global Economy and international with relations with more details of his. Widely reported has been uncertain questions from participants all the 11th annual russia calling investment for a hand mosco they say are the event gathered gas from 80 countries for almost 2 hours and i have to tell you not all of them were purely about money but a lot about politics i can say sions of russia medlin into well basically everybody is that fairies and what is known commonly as russian rat on topics brought up the until now the us has been saying that it is an umbrella giving protection to europe from the soviet menace but you have to pay for this however nowadays it doesnt work despite all the problems in ukraine speculations around crimea and everyone clea
This hour which is that lebanons Prime Minister saad hariri the says that these recent dead end and intends to submit his resignation to president michel aoun and that of his government. Bring in. Another guest 9 saddam we have with us also via skype. Joining us right now in beirut from not Saddam University good to have you with us. Your reaction 1st of all to to to how it is announcement what just 30 minutes ago now. When it was expected after some point days opie but im demonstration is spreading all over the country and a Strong Demand is that are mostly short and by the majority of the public are going ot so people who want to get through a court of opinion governments a massive corruption which help us escalate that im aggravated from 1992 that there is a presence so a combination of factors so corruption. In official government have led all of these people to go into a street and force of beslan against so sort of these i know what that under a Prime Minister how do you need or
A successful outcome. James jeffrey welcome thank you the sake of context can we go back to last year the announcements by President Trump. He had won basically over isis in syria and little u. S. Troops would be coming home from syria was costly and misleading wasnt it was misunderstood by everybody it was misunderstood the president made it clear at the time to us and to other leaders that he wasnt losing the bubble as we say on the fight against isis which he recognized could really. Constitute itself nor was he. Losing interest in. He said at the time a that the United States would maintain its air cover over the not be that u. S. Special operations personnel he made this point very clear publicly and all the other side air base in telling the president and secretary of defense are you going to meet with an issue so. That we continue to deploy special forces troops into north east syria to go after isis if they started showing signs of a threat it did cost him the resignation of hi