Travel hundreds of miles to get here from one of the doctors affected. Them each way. Its not just the general public. And u. S. President trump confirms he did put a target on the back of syrian president Bashar Al Assad but the assassination didnt go ahead to because of his former defense secretary. Live from moscow thanks for joining us today on r. T. International welcome to the program. Moscows top diplomat has urged berlin to stop politicizing the alleged poisoning about it saying the valley or minister Sergei Lavrov was speaking with his german counterparts is cool certainly wasnt heated in the European Parliament know where any piece pointed the finger at russia. Picks up the story. Well at least a phone conversation between the 2 ministers is better than nothing because at one point the talks got canceled altogether when. Chose not to fly to berlin after the russian side realize that decided to cut down the planned time for their conversation to one and a half hours an update
m j asked me welcome to conflict zone hello to long term a lot of people doug like your north stream to deal in part because it puts a lot of money into the kremlin s hands at a time when russia shows sharply declining respect for human rights isn t it time to admit that your government is always willing to sacrifice those human rights for the sake of business. i don t think this is a fair description of the north so too is a long term project that has been critically viewed by some in germany for many years i think there s always been differences of opinion between foreign policy and economic policy people also in my own party. but when i think we have to see where we stand with this project it is briefly before completion i think if it were to be stopped unilaterally at this stage this would probably trigger billions of dollars in damages to be paid. to some of the project companies including a gas brum i m not sure that is the adequate strategy to deal with it at the momen
senior german or businessmen what i m saying is that taking this to extremes and say that simply decouple the relationship is not working for anybody in the world may remind you that it was the former prime minister of singapore who you go in foreign affairs made the point don t make a choose between a relationship with china or with the united states we need to be able i think to about 2. choices between respecting human rights or not caring about it it turns out the german firms are supplying the technical backbone for the huge textile industry also engine jank where hundreds of thousands of forced to work in the cotton fields do you like the optics of that particular scenario. i think we have we have just in acted alone or in the german parliament which requires. significant compliance of german companies also in the supply chain so throughout the world in securing human rights and labor standards and environmental standards not necessarily to the delight of everyone in bu
and drastic welcomes a conflict zone allowed to long term a lot of people drug like your north stream to deal in part because it puts a lot of money into the kremlin s hands at a time when russia shows sharply declining respect for human rights isn t it time to admit that your government is always willing to sacrifice those human rights for the sake of business. i don t think this is a fair description i think not so too is a long term project that has been critically viewed by some in germany for many years i think there s always been differences of opinion between foreign policy and economic policy people also in my own party. but when i think we have to see where we stand with this project at least briefly before completion i think if it were to be stopped unilaterally at this stage this would probably trigger billions of dollars in damages to be paid. to some of the project companies including a gasp from i m not sure that is the adequate strategy to deal with it at the m
Communication and baseline setting for local community impact has been a key challenge despite almost two years of engagements, said project developer.