RT News - February 18, 2020 (12:00 MSK)

Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau calls an emergency meeting as activists shut down major rail lines throughout the country over a planned gas pipeline on indigenous land.  A court orders Tesla to stop clearing forest land for its first European car and battery plant, with critics warning that modern, supposedly green companies are nothing of the kind. The US secretary of state takes a rare trip to Africa in a bid to dislodge China's economic dominance, but his warm words stand in marked contrast to Washington's actions on the continent.