International laws and norms that his threats to obliterate his country. And the un special rapporteur on torture pens an impassioned defense of whistleblower Julian Assange he says has been the victim of a relentless smear campaign. 11 oclock here in moscow youre watching on the International Live fine Daniel Hawkins you are very welcome with us on the program. Are the leaders of the major World Economic powers have gathered in japan for the g. 20 summit which gets underway on friday facing a raft of challenges at this years forum including the United States china trade disputes as well as the deteriorating security situation in the persian gulf president putin will be among the heads of state in attendance hes expected to meet with donald trump on the sidelines reporting from osaka here. Let me just give you a feeling of downtown austin could just before the main events of the summit the roads are almost deserted and it is very quiet. Well theres something that explains it easily this area is filled with some very important people who say they want to get together to sort out whats troubling the world nowadays because im very happy to be here for the g. 20 where the challenges are great but let me be honest with you for several previous g 20 gatherings in a row journalists were really hungry for formal round Table Discussions for how the president and the Prime Ministers were reading out their vision for Global Development what mattered most back then and what matters most right now are so called by last when to the leaders sit right next to each other and deal with what piled up between their 2 countries by the way the japanese Prime Minister shinzo abhi will be welcoming some of his guests because medieval summarize. So what are these sort of say golden by lots of this year the american president and the chinese leader Everyone Wants to know whats going to happen with the trade wars next especially after what happened to chinese tech giant huawei another highlight well thats easy to guess donald trump together with the russian president Vladimir Putin by the way i was told that we are approaching a hotel where one of them is staying the roll hotel. Yes indeed this is the home of law. And also go. To me lets see if we can try and get in a few hours before the president was. Obvious the special type of i. D. Was required to get in there. Face to face was also meant to be one of the highlights but let me remind you what happened just before mr trump got on his plane ill have a very good conversation whether what i said is none of your business obviously everything could change at the very last moment here too but compared to what mr trump said before he had to also. Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to ukraine from russia i have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting in argentina with president Vladimir Putin so the protesters that were just really gather in the whole cities for these kind of events might want to change their agenda a little bit the g. 20 summit is it any longer that much about the group of 20 itself or globalization right now it has a different twist to it. In other headlines now Vladimir Putin has the clear that liberalism has outlived its purpose the russian president made the comment during an interview with the Financial Times on wednesday in which he gave his thoughts on the rise of populism around the world among other Political Trends as well within the studios our Senior Correspondent gets the quite unusual mr giving interviews to major question charles it was interesting to hear what hes got to say particular of course would you 20 putting speculation on is they going to be meeting with whats going to be said. What food for thought that he gave us well this interview was particularly extensive and he touched on almost every major topic i mean g. 20 summit coming up putin donald trump said to meet of course the question was about putins relations with american president s and he said hes met many during his years as president as Prime Minister from bill clinton all the way to donald trump and he said usually he has a good solid working relationship with the United States leaders he also added that donald trump is not one that hes not a career paul politician hes a hes a maverick hes someone from the sideline sidelines not a politician at all and he said he doesnt agree with many if not most of Donald Trumps decisions his problem solving but at least he gets stuff done he will soon ridiculed again allegations that russia interfered in the u. S. Election he said donald trump didnt win because of any collusion which was disproven donald trump won because he felt what the American People wanted. Was no one can criticize trump his intention to build a wall between mexico and the u. S. He could be going too far im not arguing about this point but he had to do something about the huge inflow of migrants and narcotics hes at least looking for a solution what my driving out those who are concerned about this ordinary americans they look at this and say well done man at least hes doing something suggesting ideas looking for a solution. The other thing he talked about is the square piles poisoning in the u. K. He said here that look we can spend an eternity blaming each other compiling lists of what the other side has done without any sort of proof just just talk he said this group owl poisoning should be. Gated solved and resolved by intelligence agencies by. Agents and spies and they should look into what happened they should the professionals they should establish what to do about it he said that politics has no place in the script. In the whole affair. Also added that while traitors should be punished this isnt the way to go about it. If he were to sort of listen all this fuss about spies and counterspies is not worth serious industry relations the spy story as we say is not worth 5 complex or even 5 pounds for a matter in issues concerning industry relations they are measured in billions and the fate of millions of people how can we compare one with the other. Thing like me putin talked about is the death the liberal idea he said the liberal idea which has been dictated to the world for the past 10 years liberals progressives dictating what to do how to do about various cultural policies immigration about multiculturalism he said look whats happening in europe look whats happening all over the world the right wing parties are rising because people have spoken out against the liberal idea it is now obsolete he mentioned angle of merkel letting in a 1000000 Syrian Refugees as one of the mistakes that the liberals have made and theyve made plenty says. With regards to russia. There is no there is no problem with the. Community said let people live as they want but it will never be a replacement for traditional family. But the there is also the socalled liberal idea which is outlived its purpose our western partners have admitted that some elements of the liberal ideas such as multiculturalism and no longer tenable various ideas in various opinions should have a chance to exist manifest themselves but at the same time the interests of the general public should never be forgotten also spoke about building budding arms race that i would say is already begun a Nuclear Arms Race he. He he blamed the United States he says it was the United States that pulled out of the antiballistic missile treaty it was the United States that pulled out of the. Treaty and theyre building their arsenals modernizing their asses now the situation now is worse than it was during the cold war because journalists cold war there were rules there were things that neither side would do now apparently there are no rules which makes the situation so much more dangerous said russia for its part is ready to Work Together with with the west with chinese said were ready for another treaty arms limitation together with childless a trilateral but he says that the United States must also show a willingness to get involved. Nevertheless this is this is you know this is a huge interview a lot of lot of stuff covered obviously we cant go through it all now but the big meeting between Vladimir Putin and trump is imminent hell be meeting with theresa may as well which is a pretty big step forward considering how awful russian british relations are so i expect much more interesting interesting stuff to come out tomorrow indeed good stuff on how interesting it would be to be a fly on the wall in that meeting thats going to take place hopefully over the next couple of days in japan thanks so much. Well before jetting off to japan donald trump threatened to hit all remaining imports of chinese goods to the u. S. With tariffs that if a trade deal isnt struck in a saga so they want to make you feel they want to make it more than i do let me put it back now ok they want to make a deal ive only done one series one is 25 percent 250000000000 i havent dont raise to you now phase 2 does it have to be 25 percent it could be 10 percent which people can absolutely end up the United States has so far impose tariffs on 250000000000. 00 worth of chinese imports over what it sees as unfair trade practices among washingtons concerns of beijing subsidies to chinese firms its restrictions on competition and its alleged intellectual property theft and china for its part has placed import taxes on 100 10000000000. 00 worth of American Goods thats hit the United StatesAgricultural Sector particularly hard as china is its largest export market accounting for almost 20 percent of overseas sales and 2017. Caleb orpen has more on the story. One section of the u. S. Economy is certainly on edge and that is the Agricultural Sector farmers have long been upheld as almost sacred in americana from the writings of Thomas Jefferson idealizing the yeoman to the iconic speech of paul harvey delivered in 1978 and on the age they looked down on as planned paradise and said i need a caretaker so god made a farmer god sent i need somebody willing to get up before dawn milk cows work all day and the fields no cows again eat supper then go to town and stay past midnight at the meeting of the school board so god made a farmer now you would think that farmers would be a central focus of drums promise to make America Great again after all it was the agricultural states like iowa wisconsin and minnesota where trump won big however at this point as the trade war with china continues farmers arent winning theyre hurting bad. Farmer. Trade war i think they are one of the casualties they are the trade disruption yes but trump says the farmers should just take it after all its for their own good in the long term we were going to help out a farmers we will ensure that our farmers get the relief they need and very very quickly. Its a good time to be a farmer this claim doesnt match the actual numbers look at soybeans corn and Wheat Production at this point the midwestern heartland of the United States is already suffering from d. M. Dust realisation and now its seeing its agricultural base plummet the income of American Farmers has dropped to half of what it was in 2013 and the rate of debt of farmers has reached 427000000000. 00 the highest its been since the farm crisis of the 1980 s. Farmers are also defaulting on their loans left and right the highest rate that it has been in 7 years and 3 months a lot of us were forced to take loans to keep our businesses afloat but yet some businesses were so far and the banks wouldnt give them their operating loans for the your the prices for greens and stuff have gone balance and if we cant leave that were unable to pay more of our bills and get the banks paid off to get our loans back in check with the banks that they dont threaten to shut us down the moods a nigger Culture Community are very stressful its theirs angers Everything Else are part of the window of this years been so long from the wet spring that weve had half the farmers dont even have all their crops they need to feed their animals to make the livelihood this year in the growing its very stressful and very irritating now farmers received a 16000000000. 00 subsidy in the hopes of making up for what they cannot sell to china but it was only a drop in the bucket the bread basket at the center of the American Economy seems to now be on the chopping block as trump plays his art of the deal game with the 2nd largest economy on earth a lot of voices have to be asking how much longer they will mop and r. T. New york the g 20 will be overshadowed at least partly by the crisis in the persian gulf the risk of conflict wednesday runs foreign minister. Should be criticised Donald Trumps bullish behavior on those whose threats to annihilate the public. President trump should remember that we dont live in the 18th century the United Nations charter and threat of force. And when asked most recently about the possibility of conflict with iran trump boasts that it wouldnt be a long affair but also said he doesnt seek a war something should happen were a very strong position it wouldnt last very long i can tell you that it would not last very long and im not talking boots on the ground im not talking were going to send millions or use it but im just saying if something would happen wouldnt last very long despite trumps numerous warnings that iran could be heading for a blood to ration the u. S. Secretary of state says he believes to iran is wholly responsible for the current tensions. Americas done everything it can to deescalate if there is conflict if there is war if there is a communique activity all because the iranians made their choice of the trumpet ministration for the past year has been waging what it calls a maximum Pressure Campaign against the run and attempting to financially strangle the country while deploying additional troops as well as a Carrier Strike group to the middle east the mounting tensions between washington and tehran in recent weeks have been of particular concern to iraq which is allied to both sides as president sali has warned he will not allow america to use his country to launch any military action against iran the american troops the Coalition Troops in iraq again at the invitation of the Iraqi Government for the specific exclusive mission of fighting isis we do not want turkey to be a staging post for it any hostile action against any of our neighbors including iran or tensions 1st escalated between tehran and washington when the us abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal just last year heres the take of an iranian journalist on relations between the 2 states. The pressure or the approach that the americans or their allies have had toward iran has impact that this behavior iran now we are in this collection more than the region as a result of the United States withdrawal from the nuclear deal and then followed by maximum pressure against tehran on the one side were seeing the americans talking about negotiation on the other hand they are using military threats as well as economic war against the country this shows inconsistency as well as i think ambiguity in their policies because i think donald trump is enjoying advisors who have conflict viewpoints towards iran and other International Issues and this has caused this broad chaos to the white house in relation and is of iran the solution in the region needs cooperation and talks and diplomacy between different sides in the region this is the argument of iran. The un special rapporteur on torture has once again highlighted its concerns over the case of we can expand or julian assigns is now accusing the media of ignoring the alleged Inhumane Treatment of the whistleblower outlets the guardian the Washington Post and reuters to have reportedly declined to publish the u. N. Officials latest report mills told us the reasons he was given for the refusal some of them said it wasnt high enough on their news agenda some of them said that it was not within their core area of interest but you know there have been reporting all of them on the case of Julian Assange when it was about his character and his skin and board and kind of the allegations that he smeared excrements on the walls but when you have very serious piece that actually tries to do you might ask this public narrative and to actually show the facts below it then theyre not interested. The special rapporteur earlier highlighted a songes prison conditions as a major concern the whistleblower is currently serving a 50 week sentence in the u. K. For skipping bail mr meltzer also brought up other issues last month saying lawyer visits have been limited and too short as well as access to case files and documents being insufficient hears. I think its very important to point out i knew that i was going to get into a very politicized environment when i visited during a sound i didnt know