this hour's headlines the new anti russia sanctions passed by the u.s. house of representatives will damage europe's energy and. also the former islamic state fighters returning to europe and leaving the authorities struggling for a coordinated way to deal with the. reasons why they went if we can get them back. them put them on the extremist course is radicalized them but i think they have an opportunity should be no difference with a woman or child who got thousands of jihadists. pull out by the government why do we need more. than undercover operation exposes how the pentagon more than

a million dollars worth of military equipment to fake policeman. you wherever you're watching it's nine pm on wednesday. welcome to the program first for you this hour the e.u. has issued a stern warning to washington over the latest anti russia sanctions after they were passed by the u.s. house of representatives the european commission president thinks they could damage your obscenity sector the u.s. bill could have unintended unilateral effects that impact the energy security interests america first mean that europe's interests come last russia has given its reaction to the latest u.s. bill expressing disappointment in terms of the bilateral relations. in terms of russia u.s. relations and their development perspectives. sad and no less disappointing

regarding international and trade relations the new u.s. sanctions threaten to punish companies doing business with russia's energy sector and that's causing concern for the e.u. one major joint project with russia the north stream to pipeline it's aimed at bringing gas from russia to europe through the baltic sea firms from germany austria france and the netherlands agreed to pay half of the cost about pipeline and invest almost five billion euros in the project now the list of companies that fear being affected include some of the world's biggest players in the industry take a look at some of them including anglo dutch shell the french company own g. and the u.k.'s b. pay as well as germany's winter actually as the head of winter sure has declared that the sanctions should not be used to push someone's own economic interests referring to the us promoting its lack of liquid natural gas peter all of us got more on the e.u. reaction. all of the potential impact that these sanctions could have on both the

the business and energy sectors here in europe that has e.u. officials hot under the collar there are potentially huge fines for e.u. businesses that would enter into energy projects with russia many of those blue chip european companies of course are heavily involved there what we've heard from the german foreign ministry is them saying that it can't be accepted that the industrial policy of another nation be passed off as sanctions while the german government spokesperson also came out saying that e.u. industry can't be targeted and if there will be a response if the sanctions or when the sanctions go through we can hear more from them right now if you're trying to describe the reform the mentally cannot accept that the american government american politics and congress under the guise of sanctions conduct in the through politics in favor of american energy supplies this position has not changed and will keep saying that loud and clear to the u.s. if you really are in principle refuse and sanctions that in fact throw parties or

other states it's important that the united states and europe coordinate closely and their sanctions pull is it to what. it's not just the germans though the french foreign ministry issued a statement saying that well they believe that the sanctions impacted upon the rights of private individuals as well as corporate entities to an extent that they believe may go beyond international law but just who supported the sanctions in the united states in the house of representatives four hundred nineteen to three they went through the vote there but when we look particularly at the energy sector we have to look it who supported the sanctions in the house of representatives remember four hundred and nineteen to three this sailed through in the vote on it but don't use that voted for sanctions are also among those who want us gas on the . e.u. market something sanctions would make much easier we must continue to focus on how

we get our gas here in the united states our natural gas to europe to our allies so they're not so dependent on russia so what options remain for the european union when these sanctions or if these sanctions come into being the european union could decide to impose sanctions of their own on the united states now this could take the form of e.u. bank suspending u.s. companies ability to take out short term loans but let's be realistic this would be a nuclear option from the european union i expect a lot more strong words than those type of actions but the ball right now is very much in president donald trump's court and whether he signs that or not it could change what type of reaction we get from here in europe to these new sanctions from the united states on russia's energy sector. a sixteen year old german

girl captured by iraqi forces last week could be put on trial or expelled from iraq that's according to a statement from the german prosecutor's office linda ventile went missing a year ago and it's believed that she joined islamic state she now says she's regretful and wants to go home to her family here's what people in her hometown had to say. the speech in which the girl is sixteen and got into this mess at fourteen and fourteen and a half via the internet or whatever i think she should return everyone has the right to make a mistake and everyone should get their second chance. if you generalize the case of linda you have to admit that young people in our country are not capable of defending themselves against extremist ideology because of a lack of identity and education leading to a situation where a fifteen year old is ready to fight in a so-called holy war as well as you have yourselves locals are willing to give linda a second chance but other fighters have not been accepted back in the same way and one case a petition was launched in the u.k.

to keep an eye sore recruiter out of the country that you hold in for ports now on how europeans are reacting to just how these soldiers coming home. i saw is crumbling in syria and iraq rapidly losing territory strongholds and most importantly followers an estimated five thousand fighters traveled to the middle east from europe twenty to thirty percent are said to be returning now the specter of returning jihadi is wrecking havoc on european streets has haunted governments for a while but tackling this growing threat has proved problematic weeding out extremists who pose the biggest risk is the greatest challenge with many seemingly slipping through the net all willing to fight to european lauren justice on their own terms . when. i do no one to come back permanently my return will be purely for the lawsuit i know i have no future in the neverland's a big stamp has been printed on me your return you've joined the battle in syria

and i want to defend myself the netherlands respect the rule of law so which suspect must have the right to defend himself in a court i think the charge against me was in fear the biggest obstacle is the lack of a cohesive power and european policy on returning fighters some seem to show remorse about traveling to join the caliphate like this jihadi broad from kent the public though show little sympathy over seventeen thousand people signed a petition just to stop her returning the british government though has now started using so-called temporary exclusion orders to control the movements of terror suspects but even this policy lacks a fully united front in engaging with intelligence services and with the police and with border force we make sure that they have the tools to track them and keep them out where we can the british government's response has been to try to make it impossible for them to travel to restrict their ability to travel to take upon themselves the ability to remove passports and strangely to deny people the right

of return which is legally a very questionable decision by the british government. the picture is even more mixed across the channel countries such as germany the netherlands and then ma they offer rehabilitation programs even with counseling employment and education sweden takes things a step further in fact one suspected sweetest the hardest was arrest that heathrow airport now swedish authorities refused to fully cooperate with the investigation of the british security services which contributed to the ultimate collapse of the trial according to sources he is now back in scandinavia under a new identity assigned by the swedish government it's not also simple though the u.k. has taken a polar opposite take on citizens joining jihadi groups being one of the few countries to actively participate in actually hunting down and eliminating its own national suspected of being a threat to national security i know this is a common. issue these very much.

really also there are many countries that haven't really given any serious consideration yet so it's very much devoid of consensus as to what's actually could be done with these with european freedom of movement returning terror suspects always seem to be one step ahead of the security services and with such wildly differing approaches in tackling a growing threat it's no wonder corporation intelligence sharing and coordinated policies are still heavily lacking. and this is r.t. let's get back to our top story the e.u. issuing that stern warning to washington over the latest anti russia sanctions after they were passed by the u.s. house of representatives let's bring in max keiser the host of artes to report hi there max one of the things that was being highlighted the start of the program this isn't how you do it this isn't just to do with sanctions against russia but it might be america trying to steal a march on europe's energy market is there actually any market for the u.s.

to sell its liquid gas in europe. well you know the comments recently of jamie dimon the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan apologizing to the world for the stupidity of america the stupidity of politicians in washington and for once i agree with jamie diamond on this this is a very stupid policy it's like america committing economic suicide it's similar to bragg's it in a lot of ways breaks it is economic suicide for great britain this type of sanctions imposition is economic suicide for america because they're pushing germany into the arms of russia and germany is the centerpiece of nato and they will disintegrate and america's hope to control ukraine with genetically modified seeds which of course russia is vietnam lee against it is going to go up in smoke this is stupid it the policy of morons why because the deep state in america

wants to keep feathering their nests by warring all over the world killing innocent civilians dollars trump hopefully will stand up to this veto this ridiculous stupid initiative and we can talk about something a little bit more constructive and this is the last gasp of the neo cons in america hopefully they'll be squashed are otherwise i really feel that the american economy will suffer greatly and as jamie diamond says because of the stupidity in washington d.c. one of the running. europe's energy companies though i know they've got deep pockets but what if they do ignore any new restrictions that come in place with a b. and e. retaliatory measures. of course but your talents are measures the european energy companies germany against thirty percent of their energy from russia they want to continue with growing their economy exports

very vibrant economy in germany they don't want to be dictated to by the u.s. you know america's got fifty thousand troops in germany germany should kick those troops out you know get it america out we don't need your troops there we're fine the new alliance i've been saying this for a while colum is that look you've got russia and china coming together in a close way building the socorro the new silk road and of course america considers out to be a challenge and they're with the be a nato pushing east and trying to incursion into russian space this swing vote in all of this is germany and this is just giving germany the perfect excuse that they need to abandon the u.s. kind of weasel out of nato and get aligned with with russia and china that's the new world order going forward the u.s. dollar is at risk in this the role of the u.s. dollar as the world reserve currency is at risk with the stupidity in washington so

this is more on a policy squared because of america's addiction to warring all over the world to feed the easy money that comes from just dropping bombs on the victims you know and collecting the fees to do so so america's just kind of becoming absent in the world affairs that the g. twenty is becoming the g nineteen america's getting out america's wants to be isolated and so this is absolutely the worst possible thing america can do or i max good to get your thoughts on this thanks very much for that looking forward to next culture report of the week and thanks very much. u.s. agents posing as a policeman have received the military gear worth one point two million dollars from the pentagon the undercover operation by the government accountability office was to test weaknesses in a giveaway program and jacqueline berger reports it's not the first time the military equipment gone astray. the pentagon is the home of america's department of

defense the body that has a budget of over five hundred billion dollars a year and is tasked with protecting the national security of the united states and yet they were duped by a completely phony outfit into selling one point two million dollars of weapons the government accountability office whose job it is to audit other federal agencies set up an undercover operation to determine whether the d.o.d. would sell military grade weapons to an unauthorized buyer and they did the g.a.o. created a fake law enforcement agency put up a bogus website use an address that led to an empty parking lot and put it in order for some potentially deadly kit less than a week later the sham agency was the proud owner of one point two million dollars worth of night vision goggles simulated m. sixteen a two rifles and pipe bomb a quip meant they never d. and e. verification like a cation most of it was by email it was like getting stuff of eve and that's one of

the most recent example of the pentagon's faulty bureaucracy earlier this year it was revealed that the us army failed to properly track over a billion dollars worth of weapons and equipment and iraq and kuwait lax controls and record keeping such as this has reportedly resulted in u.s. manufactured arms and then up in the hands of terrorist groups such as i sold this means the u.s. is shipping out weapons without being sure where they end up and just this week the pentagon was criticized for wasting as much as twenty eight million dollars by selecting forest camouflage pattern uniforms for afghan national army soldiers for a sprint in afghanistan only two point one percent of the country is covered by forest the u.s. defense secretary slammed the pentagon for the waste of taxpayer dollars and called for reform rather than minimize this report or excuse wasteful decisions and expect all department of defense organizations to use this area as a counselor to bring to light wasteful practices and take aggressive steps to end

waste which is all. well and good but this is not a new problem two years ago were port service that the pentagon buried an internal study that exposed one hundred twenty five billion dollars worth of administrative waste that was allegedly hidden amid fears that congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget and maybe that's exactly what should happen perhaps if the department wasn't blindly awarded hundreds of billions of dollars every year it wouldn't be quite so comfortable throwing it into the wind r.t. washington d.c. . broke out in jerusalem again on tuesday as a standoff continues between muslim worshipers and israeli police the unrest started over a decision by israeli authorities to install metal detectors at temple mount which is known to muslims as if they were put up after gunman killed two israeli guards earlier this month at the holy site the metal detectors have since been removed but security cameras remain in place.

bringing us up to speed on middle east correspondent paula has the latest on the unrest in jerusalem. the situation here at lion's gate one of the entrances to al aqsa mosque is tense as you can see a strong police presence behind me now this is the furthest they letting us go it follows overnight again heavy clashes between israeli security officers throwing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who were hurling rocks and stones at them this is nearly two weeks of violence that has left some six people killed in the latest measures to try and calm the situation israel says it will remove metal detectors that will put up after two security guards were killed two five days ago but the palestinian president mahmoud abbas says this is not enough and he insists

it is well returns to the way the status quo was before that incident there have so far been two meetings by the united nations security council where both israelis and palestinians have been trading barbs and accusing each other of the latest flare up in violence well if they know their radical are with and encouraged to kill innocent israelis in cold blood is a buying power or presses forth with its the reckless and destructive agenda they teach hate they invest in terror is a openly and shamelessly pursues discriminatory plans stop abusing international. drug using foreign funds to promote their all peaceful demonstrations are being met with violent repression the palestinians stop oil. to ignite violence the palestinian people in the city face discrimination and violence israel's also say to introduce some kind of security cameras this will unfold over the next few months but in the meantime palestinian protesters say they'll continue to go to the

streets and we are expecting friday to be a major day of clashes certainly the mood on the ground extremely tense and the police behind me bracing for further conflict policy r.t. jerusalem. tensions are still high and the protesters have an innovative tactic you may call it. they refused to go into the mosque compound around the mosque and they're praying outside and by d'oeuvre very refusal they are keeping the matter alive even though israel has relented and has taken down do you metal detectors so it's up for israel to come up with some proposal that will appease the religious authorities friday morning is now d. day we will see where there will be more demonstrations because thousands upon

thousands are coming to pray on fridays the holiest day of the week for muslims of course and detest will be whether some formula can be found before that. for arab countries have added new individuals and organizations linked to that terror list further escalating the already sour relations between the different u.s. allies in the gulf region now last month they cut ties with qatar which is a major global gas supply and those to the biggest u.s. military base in the middle east here's michael france is something argo. the saudis keep poking at qatar with claims that harbors and sponsors terrorists al-qaeda to be precise the riyadh has now added eighteen more groups and individuals to the list of terrorists allegedly sponsored by qatar but these claims are based on all documents which begs the question why weren't they released earlier let's go back

a bit the could tars sponsors terror attack line was intended to make doha given to the saudi demands some of which included closing down the al jazeera news network cutting ties with iran shutting down a turkish base making it next to impossible for qatar to comply but the saudis aren't backing down just yet a couple of days ago n.b.c. four in washington d.c. began airing commercials that claim qatar is sponsoring terror and destabilizing u.s. allies in the region and guess what the thirty second ads were paid for by none other than the saudi american public relation of ferrous committee the biggest saudi lobbying firm in the united states now all of this is happening despite the fact that the saudis main ally the u.s. has been singing quite a different tune about qatar even signing new deals with doha u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson visited the shake them twice in forty eight hours just over a week ago he even said he could have cleaned up their act coterie. or

rather were. ever put forth and so was told it was or it was or. living this way which is really where the post i think it was for took over for there will be a good news for. both. the americans don't know what to do because trump wants to go on about terrorism and putting down to qatar as being a supporter of terrorism. yet at the same time they have this huge air base in qatar that will go. disappear like this you know if there is a war against qatar saudi arabia must have felt on top of the world when their king held a glowing crystal ball with donald trump but if they thought that crystal ball could tell them the future they were mistaken francis and thiago r.t.

. residents of a town in the south of france of built a wall around an abandoned hotel to protest against plans to house migrants that the disused facility is just one of dozens of similar buildings around fronts bought by the state to house refugees. just. this wall was built because people are scared of a massive influx of foreigners who do not have the same culture as us we don't know if his temporary our schools don't have a capacity to receive them to school canteens and sports facilities are not big enough this is being imposed on us and it's shocking this war will force them to listen to was before our wars were in being heard but now that we have put up the war they're listening to us meanwhile

a belgian lawyer has defended the rights of the residents of the town arguing that they just want to voice their concerns over the e.u.'s migrant policies. there is a nice and even anger from the cities and icing that these kind of events that we've seen in sydney act will just multiply in the future it's a total failure to the level of policy those who decide politics be the e.u. level or. the american or mr michael are not the one day ordinary people. are confronted realities and that's a major major problem. i finally for now russia's northern city of st petersburg will play host to a navy parade on sunday with some giants of the water on show from the country's military.

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going underground but first hundreds of palestinians have been wounded since the u.k. backed israeli government restricted muslim access to the al aqsa mosque predictably maybe rupert murdoch's sky news didn't even label the holy site in jerusalem let alone are referring to it in on screen titles as only the jewish temple mount but while bias by sky in the state mandated b.b.c. and others may be predictable because they routinely privileged major foreign policy around the world what about violence here in britain even violence in britain's capital london because on sunday morning this was the b.b.c.'s andrew marr programme introducing the top headline on the state mandated british broadcaster first the news was. good morning and princes william and harry have given a candidate insight into their relationship with their mother princess diana and the news continued from taxpayer funded royal stories to alleged.