What they. Did yeah. But that. Is. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. U. S. President ultram claims he canceled his state visit to denmark over the nasty remarks of the countrys Prime Minister he had offered to buy greenland which is a danish dependent territory but the offer was quickly rebuffed. Prime ministers statement that it was absurd that was that it was that absurd idea was dasti i thought it was inappropriate statement well she had to do is say no we wouldnt be address that youre not sure at this because. Its an absolute discussion and to Prime Minister of greenland has of course made it clear that greenland is not for sale and thats where the conversation and. Dont say what it absurd idea that is because hes not talking to me. Hes not to appear to me you dont get to the United States of america you dont go up to the United States that way at least under me. Denmarks queen who would have posted trump express shock at his abrupt cancellation greenland is the Worlds Largest island and has plenty of resources so trump idea to buy it is not entirely new as into trying to report the poor queen of denmark it just happened to be that way you know the way that part of her land is the Worlds Biggest Oil and greenland just to the northeast of america and that its donald trump whos in charge at the white house right now how about the u. S. Grain land all of it and i guess when it 1st was appealed like he was joking and said can we buy greenland and he was joking and then kept coming back to it the danish Prime Minister would not sell him greenland calling the idea absurd we must face the truth that our president is raving like a lunatic you can check out some of the trump greenland means if you havent seen them but now everyone who giggled at donald trump adding the island to his shopping wishlist have realized his being absolutely serious just so you know the president s idea is an old 1150 years old in fact. I have heretofore expressed the opinion that we should purchase iceland and greenland but especially the latter the reasons are political and commercial now the acquisition of greenland will flank british america for thousands of miles on the north and west and greatly increase her inducements peacefully and cheerfully to become a part of the American Union but the actual proposal didnt come until just after the end of world war 2 that was when the state Department Officials once again outlined the benefits. The committee indicates that money is principally now that greenland is completely worthless to denmark and the control of greenland is indispensable to the safety of the United States and so washington offered denmark 100000000. 00 in gold bullion for the island copenhagens answer was no well we have much to america i do not feel that we have been the whole island of greenland although the us shouldnt really have been disappointed because of what happened next in just a couple of years denmark joined nato plus not only gave up attempts to get rid of the us military on the island it allowed the pentagon to set up americas northernmost air base there here where the temperature has dropped to below 0 and winds rose to 150 miles an hour gave you were bright sun is abrupt blizzard created by dense fog or blinding snow American Ingenuity and daring have built a new post in this country to do them. Based on the top of the world that documentary was even nominated for the cademy awards by the way anyway since the pentagon can still pretty much treat greenland as its own backyard there isnt much for the u. S. Administration to worry about their radars are out there in a perfect position to track Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and satellites and low earth orbit before they reach the skies of mainland u. S. Or wait china is always something to worry about even if were talking arctic beijings already made an attempt to buy a former american base on the island and try to secure a contract to build a new airport there for now the chinese were shown the door but now what the white house man read the stirring things up around greenland we could be in force in very odd twists in the story. Poor queen of denmark. Meanwhile in nearby iceland the countrys leader said she will skip a visit of the u. S. Vice president mike pence next month saying she has park amendments to speak at a trade Union Conference in sweden. The fact is i was long ago i asked to give the keynote speech at the annual conference of nordic trade unions bassus visit which was organized by the minister of Foreign Affairs has been rescheduled many times so its been hard to organize oneself around it she made a point though of saying it had nothing to do with trumps cancellation of his state visit to denmark and that it was not about snubbing the white house mike pence is expected to discuss icelands strategic position in the arctic and increase nato operations in that region the u. S. Plans to invest 57000000. 00 in a military naval base there next year bergmann who is a professor of politics before Us University and iceland things the Prime Minister isnt too upset about missing the meeting. Current Prime Minister of iceland to stop opposite of the political spectrum to trump some ministration might feel not unhappy. With their comment to class but seems to be occurring theres clearly a difference of opinion between the park your car to get up so to get an irishmans old propose to friends military operations. Preserve in the arctic. What its an administration so clearly there are there are a right you have to persist between that took our troops. Antiwar activists have revealed the extent of british arms contracts with a Saudi Led Coalition operating in yemen artist paul fleer the details. Well the latest figures from the campaign against arms trade reveal that the u. K. Government granted export licenses to the tune of some 6200000000 pounds over a period of 4 years since the Saudi Led Coalition began its strikes in yemen back in march 2015 theres no public data however over whether or not the license holders exported the goods in their entirety or hofner all or none but essentially what it does show is the same as the amount that they were entitled to export the government doesnt really want to know how those weapons are being used as weapons are being used in a way that violates International Humanitarian law and of course it would have to act and there would have to stop was cereals or every do know from a huge body of evidence from United Nations that. International order most respectable n. G. O. S in the world people in the ground in yemen they have all it used to say they Led Coalition or routine violations going to merge with humanitarian law and that means destruction of schools means destruction of hospitals use the destruction of all this is a terrible humanitarian crisis thats only possible because of the complicity in support of arms exports and governments such as the campaign against arms trade says that the total amount is likely to be higher because many of the weapons and ammunitions that were used by members of the Saudi Led Coalition in fact were licensed by a separate body for which there is no public datta now back in june of this year the court of appeal ruled that the u. K. Government had acted unlawfully when ed granted licenses of the u. K. Made weapons to members of the Saudi Led Coalition without 1st checking if they use it in the past had led to britches of International Law the government was ordered not to approve new licenses and offer to review those that it had already given and it was agreed that the government would not allow new sales of weapons to the 5 participating members. Of the Saudi Led Coalition in yemen now the British Government denies this and it has rejected these allegations outright the u. K. Operates one of the most robust export control regimes in the world licensing decisions are based on the most up to date information and analysis available at the time including advice from those with diplomatic and military expertise and reports from our overseas network and n. G. O. S the saudi bombing in yemen began back in 2015 and has resulted in what the United Nations cause the worst humanitarian disaster ever. And the campaign against arms trade is highly critical of the role that the u. K. Has played and once a to review its future participation. Restaurants shops and other businesses are closing their doors to the french resort town berets ahead of the g. 7 summit more than 13000 Police Officers have been deployed to the area although organizers say this years event will be run on a much tighter budget than previous ones without a mother to you know of up to 20 subject parliament voted for a budget of 36400000. 00 a year for the organization of the g. 7 summit and this figure is much lower than we have seen for previous summits whether in canada or italy. Meanwhile g 7 countries have been blamed for aggravating inequality around the world by oxfam earlier i spoke to john date hes the head of Government Relations for the International Aid organization. Was the oxfam report on the g. 7 summits based on. So g 7 leaders including my new mccrone whos hosting the summit decided to make inequality a key focus of this years g 7 and we think this is really important because the world bank and about and others have recognized that tackling inequality is absolutely essential in order to beat extreme poverty oxfams report looked at the record of g 7 countries in tackling inequality and we found that actually in a number of areas countries are fueling rather than reducing inequality for instance by not implementing progressive tax systems by fueling the Climate Crisis and also by promoting a shareholder 1st Business Model with that doesnt suit the needs of workers and many people in developing countries on a low income. They report highlights wealth inequality across g 7 countries and the us for example the poorest half of the population and just one percent of the countrys wealth john date again once the g 7 to take action. Why do you think the g 7 dont work properly what are the main problems more widespread as well. So we think one of the kind of Major Barriers is how wealth is distributed between people across the world and in g 7 countries so that the 7 biggest economies in the g 7 hold nearly half the worlds wealth and actually if g 7 leaders implemented a new tax a new wealth tax where they to tax the top one percent of richest people in g 7 countries an additional not point 5 percent on their wealth then it could raise over 200000000000. 00 pounds a year now thats a huge sum of money thats enough to educate the 262000000. 00 children across the world who are currently not in school and also you to have enough money left over to put money into health care and to fund. Enough health care to save the lives of 2000000 people. Oxfam accuses the g 7 of having tax systems that favor the rich and says the wealthy wealthy drive government policy that charity as they do so in care more about shareholders than workers and mourns the group of nations is worsening the Climate Crisis that you 7 has existed for quite a long time are these problems that the report has highlighted something new or were they there from the beginning we know that inequality has existed for for a number of years but actually under a lot of measures inequality is increasing. So oxfams own research found. That inequality hard to reach increased over the last year and actually the wealth of the richest billionaires was growing while the wealth of the poorest half of society had fallen do you think that this oxfam report will have any impact on this upcoming g. 7 summit we hope that the g 7 leaders will take it seriously as you know it was a menu mccrone himself and g 7 leaders who decided to make inequality a focus of the g 7 so what were doing is providing some ideas to how they might clinic quality and help reduce poverty through testing inequality. A major air show gets underway near moscow next week marks 2019 how about though our team has done the quarter got the chance to take to the skies with one of the aerobatic teams. The russian team is preparing for an International Aviation and space this is a major air show thats going to take place at the end of august and theres going to be there tech and pilots from countries all over the globe the pilots are going to be showing off their bets and thats a bad and we were lucky enough to get invited to a plane to join one of those pilots so i hope youre not afraid of. That but. After we returned in one piece our pilot constantine told us all about the International Aviation and space so long you know i have been training for more than 10 years and ive been in the pilot for 4 years the air show include the mock featuring aerobatics performances and the standard maneuvers the championships rolls and loops etc the International Tournament features competitors from. Many European Countries and known European Countries including the us the year show is not a contest the contest happens at the championship with the aerobatics and other events so when the air show each group shows his skills and this big daters decide for themselves what they like of course we will show what we do best and whats new. More news after this short break. What politicians do something. They put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. So when you want to express an injury. Or something want to be upset. That you do like to be close the survival of the 3 in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the logs about how. Things should. Seem wrong. Just. To get to see. This day. And in. The trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. Welcome back in germany a syrian Asylum Seeker has been found guilty of manslaughter in a killing that sparked race riots in the city of candidates last year the man was sentenced to 9 and a half years in jail or europe our european correspondent peter all of our reports. A 23 year old syrian asylum applicant has been sentenced to 9 and a half years by a court in dresden for the month slaughter of the 35 year old man daniel hilik who was stabbed to death in chemists last year now its understood that the main suspect in the killing a 22 year old Iraqi National has not been found by police yet its on the study may well have fled the country after initial shock there was violent and at times ugly scenes in the city which drew the attention of the worlds media we saw some footage of refugees and migrants being chased by purported members of far right groups there was also marches through the city by the police video nazi organizations we thought the members of the far right in the immigration. Of anti immigration political parties. Turned very violent at times the police really not in control as these marches clashed with the fascist marches throughout the city of cabinets over a number of days following the violence what that was finally got under control there was an attempt to try and bring communities back together the hash tag we are more behind a number of rock concerts including one really large one in chemists and demonstrations including a colossal march here in the german capital berlin however its when we look at the political impact there we can really see the effect that the killing of this man really had if we look at the local city elections in came its from earlier this year we saw alternative for germany the Immigration Party they came in 2nd thats not really surprising in the east of germany but whats more surprising about the city elections is the fact that the well party. Proclaim its which has some links to prominent neo nazi groups took 8 percent of the vote giving them 60 seats on the city council of kim thats but also when we look at this on a National Level if we compare how peoples voting intentions looked in 2017 compared to 2018 after this killing there was a marked support for those who will represent seeing on t. Immigration parties and i was certainly being represented almost across the country certainly though in the east of germany so we do have a sentence of verdicts slaughter is the verdict busy 9 and a half years for a man who stabbed or took part in the stabbing death of a 35 year old and chemists which sparked such ugly violent scenes last year. One of the reasons donald trump is waging his trade war with china is his promise to voters to revive American Industries like the steel factor but despite flapping heavy tariffs on imports some companies are still struggling artist come up and report on the swing state of michigan. Michigan the Traditional Home of the Auto Industry is a big chunk of whats referred to as the rust belt of the american heartland recently the industrial state has been economically declining as many u. S. Factories have closed their doors hundreds of workers at the great lakes facility will be getting a temporary layoff according to what has just been filed by the u. S. Steel corporation it is anticipated tha