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Russia. And featuring a lead role like youve never seen before. Because im here for that america which did the ends justify the means. Of putins witnesses starts december 13th on w. And ends to the trade war seems within reach sources say the United States and china have reached a deal in principle the agreement could stop an increasingly harmful spiral of tariffs and commentaries which have become a drag on world trade also on the Program Germany pushes back on a u. S. Bill to sanction companies building the north stream to pipeline which will transport natural gas from russia plus neither gave policy hard more in davos but a self declared i. The easy these new hit Christine Legarde on the rails a broad review of the institutions tools and goals that are 1st policy and gone out relies on imports to feed the countrys vast appetite for rice but now it wants to satisfy all domestic demand itself will be 3 years with a little help from some friends. Im going scoble welcome to the program
Say that this investigation is carrying on meanwhile the British Ministry of defense has decided that it is going to fast track the deployment of another war ship the h. M. S. Duncan which has been on drills in the black sea it is now heading straight to the gulf where you may remember there was an incident over the last few days where a british warship there the h. M. S. Montrose had to intervene so the british say between 3 iranian vessels that they thought were threatening a British Oil Tanker now this boosts the British Military presence or will do when the action is duncan gets there and is a direct response of whats happened in the rising tensions in the gulf the british feel that there is a direct threats to their shipping in the gulf and they have raised security levels to level 3 for Merchant Shipping there which is the highest possible level. Still have foiled the program Syrian Government forces are on the defensive off to rebel fighters launched a furious onslaught in hama
Industry we find out if it could be game over for the likes of sony and microsoft. So as the soviet union imploded it turned its back on the african continent in the 1990 s. But now under president putin russia is making a push to engage the reason is simple western sanctions the pivot to china hasnt been a huge success and hopes of billions of dollars in investment from the middle east havent arrived in the quantities expected plus african votes count in the United Nations. Russias trade with africa rose 26 percent to 17400000000. 00 in 2017 moscow doesnt have the financial power of beijing just in 2017 trade with africa amounted to 170000000000 dollars the u. S. Is of course worried its trade with Subsaharan Africa was 39000000000. 00 in 2017 and this is what russia is doing in africa it has oil and gas deals with algeria egypt ghana nigeria and mozambique it has Nuclear Deals in place with rwanda zambia and south africa although that is in limbo while it is a big supplier of arms to