a leaked memo suggests brussels is preparing retaliation if washington pushes ahead with new anti russia sanctions that could hurt european businesses as an e.u. delegation holds talks with u.s. lawmakers. the president says that baghdad needs russian political and military presence in the country to restore balance to the region. and u.k. straight secretary accuses the b.b.c. of biased coverage of the breaks of ignoring positive stories about leaving the european union. i cannot. recall a single time in recent times when i have seen good economic news that the b.b.c. didn't describe despite rick's it i.

was neil harvey you're watching international. and he delegations currently holding crunch talks with u.s. lawmakers this comes as a leaked memo suggests that brussels is preparing retaliation if washington pushes ahead with new anti russia sanctions that could hurt european businesses details. this is all about an internal note which was which has been leaked from the european commission which indicates just how unhappy the brussels is over the prospect of new sanctions against russia because of the implications that they have for the u. and what the nie says is that the european commission is prepared to and i quote is hit back at the u.s. within days if this agreement goes through and also if it leaves european energy and other companies' bondable to u.s. interference and let's look at the range of what the sanctions will affect we're

looking at a g. which is the big one really but beyond that there's also the financial industry there's also railways the shipping there's metals as mining but the big beef here is all about energy oil and gas but in particular gas and the way that russia supplies lots of energy gas to central europe and in particular to germany and we've heard before from europeans about they they're not happy about the prospect that these sanctions could go through because they control effectively how europe does business and also with whom as we can hear you cannot accept the u.s. through to impose sanctions that violate international law and afflicted european companies involved in the expansion of europe's energy supply europe so the g. supply is a matter for europe and not the united states of america it's up to us to decide who supplies us with energy and how according to rules of openness a market competition that must not happen we generally reject sanctions with extraterritorial fact meaning and impact on third countries if heard from the kremlin spokesman to meet your best offer also concur to that point of view that

says that these sanctions her third parties so we're talking about countries other than russia we consider that continuing sanctions rhetoric counterproductive it is damaging the interests of our two countries and also potentially damaging the interests of other states with which russia has trade and economic relations developing despite all the negative tendencies well in the meantime we've heard from european commission your highness holland who says that there's a european commission delegation in washington right now talking with the house of representatives because they'll be voting on this issue on choose day so that just shows you how seriously how worried europe is over this new set of sanctions. where's nathan gill who's a member of the european parliament from the u.k. independence party what kind of measures brussels could apply to retaliate and defend its business deals with russia well i think it's time for the e.u. to decide whether or not they want to defend europeans and european business interests and. the americans are trying to do and if they truly want to

stand up and defend europe of internationalism then they will do that and they will say no we're not playing the games of washington any longer what can they what can they do if. it's not much really over then to decide that they're going to drop these sanctions because ultimately it's really only mean. and european business interests not american. iraqi vice president has said that baghdad has needs russia to broaden its involvement in iraq let's cross to artie's done the whole thing he's been covering this story for us dan what do you think the iraqi vice president meant exactly by that well neal russia has of course had close political economic ties to iraq since way back into the soviet era but what maliki was talking about here was more than just a close diplomatic presence he meant specifically an economic and a military presence as well something unprecedented really at least in the modern

history of russia iraq relations take a listen. iraq has historic ties with russia and now we need russia's political as well as military presence to restore balance in the region in the interests of the countries and nations living there. now the big issue here has of course been the presence of u.s. military more specifically u.s. military bases they've been there since the invasion of two thousand and three for a decade and a half now and many in the iraqi government have grown increasingly uncomfortable with this maliki has recently been of course where the most vocal critics of this saying that the bases are necessary and indeed were not beneficial to either iraq or the united states he expressed in a very recent interview to russian media. so i told the americans it's not in your interest to return to iraq and build your bases you will get burnt again you will come as invaders and leave as invaders. and maliki seems

to think that the closer bringing a closer ties to russia will bring much needed balance to the region or to the country indeed as a whole instead of having a uni polar sort of alliance with a superpower multi-polar sets of alliances will be more beneficial if maliki has been very appraising of russia's role in the middle east of course russia is closely involved with the syrian government tackling isolette other terrorist groups just across the northern border in syria and maliki himself said that if it wasn't for russia's syria campaign the map of the whole region may well have been withdrawn may well have been redrawn rather with the assad government collapsing eisel very much gaining a foothold which of course now it's losing in in syria itself so very much an interesting interview from maliki it'll be interesting to see how that development goes after his visit to moscow and holkins reporting for us there thank you. it went to other stories now the u.k.'s international trade secretary liam fox has

accused the b.b.c. of willfully ignoring positive news on the briggs it process and that claim came in a letter to the broadcasters director general however he has already voiced such concerns before. in the newspaper or listen to the radio t.v. the story is done very negatively it almost is going to be impossible for us to do these trade deals if you look we spoke of rome demands the work he's doing. well mr speaker it does appear that some elements of our media would rather see britain feel than seabrooke to succeed and i cannot say. recent times i have seen good economic news the b.b.c. didn't describe despite rick's. well he says that the b.b.c. is putting a damper on things that economically he says that when his press team calls up the b.b.c. news desks offering positive stories about drugs that they choose not to cover them

and he says that's happened praying his ability to strike international trade deals with he's taken stock with a particular phrase. b.b.c. headlines often feature in these two words despite bragg's it suggesting an element of surprise from the b.b.c. team that the country hasn't been crippled economically by its decision to leave the e.u. we've done a bit of research ourselves hare and we've counted dozens of b.b.c. had lines online featuring this phrase of course liam fox he's one of the chief briggs it is here in the british government so perhaps unsurprisingly this letter to the b.b.c. has really riled up the pro e.u. camp one liberal democrat politician here has accused him of acting like a tinpot dictator they've accused him of trying to blame the b.b.c. for his own failures as international trade secretary and trying to strike those deals in folks isn't the first big politician here in the u.k.

to express his dissatisfaction with the b.b.c.'s coverage of bragg's it issues andrei led some of the leader of the house of commons she recently said that broadcasters need to be a bit more patriotic. in the way that they approach brags that the b.b.c. has of course dismissed all of these allegations of bias they said that they don't recognize the characterization of the coverage outlined in this letter and perhaps explaining some of the gravitas with which they approach these bragg's the headlines they have said that no organization takes coverage of the economy more seriously. risk on songs was released today something that the film's hero though is apparently happy about the risks producers say that the songs. in the bid to stop the release from going ahead with. the use and distribution of the name participants that you desist from this

or any other infringement of the rights of the participants in the future of the documentary took six years to make it is a quick look at it. you have. i'm calling from the office actually in the sunshine. we discussed the issue with one of julian assange his lawyers melinda taylor who says that the filmmakers violated copyright on content rights putting at risk those who appeared in the movie but also they failed to include a major recent development. well the content was selectively edited and taken out of context and it shows presents we never agreed to be an appeal for example and

it's not just weak stuff but it risk it's also sources and present the way twitter for example you know about speaking to people in tunisia about certain could she is she's really showing it as a documentary about what we believe she should be talking about it was protection she took you might government surveillance which was a real purpose of the film or what they were led to believe the film would be about and will events have not being captured in a scale for example the u.n. decision and august of last year is not really shown in the film and it doesn't really do justice to the decision about which mostly i want you to stop the investigation against him because of the lack of any evidence concerning who does a lot and it's showing with the stars which says that french president about your micro has been accused of having our all for a tear in leadership style by members of his own party will look at that story and more after the break.

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that you get out of the old old. old according to josh. come back the scandal over team trumps alleged collusion with russia is not running out of suspects the latest in the firing line is jared cushion of the president's son in law and senior advisor he was called to testify in front of the senate intelligence committee over his contacts with the russians during the presidential campaign auntie's jacqueline verger picks up the story. it's questioning is being conducted behind closed doors but he did put out an eleven page statement before him and in that document he outright denies all accusations of colluding with the russians or of having any knowledge of others in team trump having done so along with denying having any improper contact with foreign officials jared cushion or

decided it was so important for him and other trump transition team officials to have secret communications directly with the kremlin not just the russian ambassador in washington but with the kremlin bush outlined each interaction he had with russians including the now infamous meeting with the russian attorney that the media has painted as no less than a kremlin agent cushion or was being invited to meet with a russian attorney and it had been promised she would deliver dirt on hillary clinton every now kirshner himself explained how insignificant that encounter was i arrived at the meeting a little late when i got there the person who has since been identified as a russian attorney was talking about the issue of a ban on u.s. adoptions of russian children i had no idea why that topic was being raise and quickly determines that my time was not well spent at this meeting that statement goes on to describe any and every interaction he had with a russian or someone who could possibly have

a russian connection at the same time christian or also drew attention to the fact that his job during the campaign was to be the point of contact with foreign countries and therefore the four times he did encounter russians was well within his scope realistically not having any to report would have been more concerning given the amount of foreign contacts he had during the campaign which he outlined as well let's take a listen i had incoming contacts with people from approximately fifteen countries to put these requests in context i must have received thousands of kools let's isn't emails from people looking to talk a meet on a variety of issues and topics including hundreds from outside the united states when i could not be responsive to everyone i try to be respectful of any foreign government so question or stress the fact that he had only limited contact with russian representatives but it is likely that the hunt for wrongdoing will continue work artless. emanuel micron's being accused of or for

a tarion rule with some party members now demanding legal action claiming that there's a lack of democracy within the party and more on that is r.t. charlotte didn't ski. but this is another headache the president back on as these grassroot members of the party say that the ruling top the elite the hierarchy of his party la republica almost are actually acting democratically and the gossett members say they fear that they will have no power and no say in that party in future the proposed for members to the role of a supporter and exclude them from government from both the local and national level well this is all over the new step two of the party and the members say that they were involved in creating that statue is too hastily too quickly they're not clear what it means and they feel that it's being imposed on them yet again on high comes off to an unprecedented spat between president matt gone and his now former head of

the french armed forces general de ville is general de villiers had criticized him for proposing military cuts in two thousand and seventeen responded to that by completely demolishing the chief of staff over the french armed forces saying i'm the boss you just give it a shot if you're near for the gun business didn't place you made it a new government day many people in front saying that they now unhappy with the leadership style of the president describing it as being all right terry and a recent poll shows that he his humble down in the approval ratings here in france losing ten points since he was elected in may that is the second largest decline so soon often being elected in france but of course much was elected on this and he was going to be a different kind of politician but he was going to change politics in france and people now here are saying that yes he is different but he's different in the sense

that he's channeling the style of the form of french imperial past and not france's democratic president. italian prime minister is hit back at neighboring countries for their handling of europe's growing migrant crisis paolo gentil loney and his italy won't be intimidated by criticism from other member states for its decision to take in more refugees we will not accept lectures and still less threats such as those we have heard from our neighbors in recent days we are doing our duty and expect the whole of europe to do the same alongside italy on the warning comes after austria threatened to impose border controls and to deploy troops to cut the number of immigrants who were crossing over from italy austria as defense minister stood by the me saying that the country must be prepared to contain the influx well italy has been the focal point of europe's migrant crisis for months now the country's taken almost one hundred thousand immigrants already

this year and that is over eighty percent of all migrant arrivals to europe and with little prospect of the number of newcomers decreasing anytime soon italian cities and towns are deeply divided over the crisis our crew visited one such place . i've been traveling across rural parts of sicily for almost a week now speaking to locals various officials and refugees and i'll tell you what some people may not be willing to admit it but italy has really been divided by the refugee crisis there are locals war ready to welcome migrants and refugees without any preconditions but there are of course others who are willing to put their livelihoods and their concerns first their lives have been hit hard by the economic crisis and they are the ones who now end up having to accommodate the refugees the most vivid example is the mayor of a small community. he told me how he started a protest in

a place that has been quiet for decades when dozens of refugees and migrants were moved into an abandoned hotel the mayor along with the locals blocked the way for an alec generator that was being delivered into the hotel in an exclusive interview he explained to me why they did that. when there's no room there's no room we followed he got huge difficulties here like unemployment issues with infrastructure and health care the community does not understand how we can accept more people when we have all these problems but mr chief. disappointed with his own government just like pretty much everyone in italy that's the impression that i've been getting all the people are critical with the european approach in dealing with the refugee crisis the mayor told me that he believes the countries like germany and france are trying to keep up with the status quo whereas it is italy that is

getting the first impact of the refugee crisis and it is being left alone in dealing with this. the e.u. betrayed italy with a problem that's not a tally in paris say actually it's totally european. we are at the forefront italy is where they arrive first but the european community doesn't seem to care some countries even closed their borders more of that exclusive interview with the mayor and also my trip to the abandoned hotel that's now been turned into a refugee shelter. and the full report that will be aired on r.t. international throughout tuesday. the final day of the max international show wrapped up outside of moscow crowds with aerobatics twenty five display showcase for a huge variety of new act after the show run a week and over four hundred fifty thousand people attended the annual event despite being and then a show there's also plenty of action on the ground as well as seen untested by

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but only i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker.

welcome to sophie and call me sophie shevardnadze a muslim woman iran the world are involved in a struggle against male authority in islam questioning what they call out. family values that guide their everyday lives activists are demanding gender equality and basic rights. will they be able to change the centuries long traditions to co-founder of the libyan woman platform for peace who fought for the libyan less than woman's rights after the revolution how long he is with me today. after the spring revolutions in libya tunisia and elsewhere hopes for democratic. women only to be shattered by five years of instability war and the lies of extreme religious fundamentalists and the work of feminist. supposed revolutionary chaos what will it take for middle eastern women to shift the oppression of asian customs and how can

i add to this fine balance between the lives of women and respect to their faith. the co-founder of libyan women's platform for peace an advocate for women's rights in islam's a how long do you welcome to the show it's really good to have you with us today so you're after the reformation the transformation of muslim minds you want muslims to embrace the idea of equality and that's despite centuries of scholars work on the koran and rejecting equality putting man woman so what do you hope to achieve. we've had throughout the centuries patriarchal and massaging mystic interpretations of islam and it's about time that we. own back our faith and our religion and present more enlightened or what we call moderate or walsall to the interpretations of islam

that are. more for egalitarian views regarding women in their societies i want to talk a bit about libya because this is a topic that's very close to you libya's topple leader moammar qaddafi did a lot for emancipation in libya whatever you like him or not but he rolled women and universities and the army gave them rights to divorce and so on so is the new libyan state going to keep this legacy or anything related to him is subject to destruction well first i would like to make a point. whatever women have been women have it cheve it has nothing to do with get that percy we need to this tangle this presumption that these rights have been given by giveth and we've seen this argument and discourse going on in many of the arab spring.