the german committee on eastern european relations says the new u.s. sanctions bill threatens the joint nord stream to pipeline project we use will really love basketball into the concerns that european business will also be. coming up to in this hour of news a long time aide to a number of high profile u.s. house democrats he is arrested on charges of committing financial fraud while trying to leave the country at the same time but that's only one of the many controversies surrounding the house stuff we'll tell you more. as venezuela's gripped by a violent national strike called by the opposition we speak exclusively to the country's president.

good morning from me kevin no it is just out of the morning here in moscow this is r.t. international and first from us this hour the german committee on eastern european relations has just said that the proposed new u.s. sanctions threaten now the construction of the north stream to gas pipeline a huge project the restrictions are aimed at punishing companies with ties to russia's energy sector major businesses have been lobbying against these new measures in congress and it's not only multinationals in the energy sector like b.p. like exxon mobil but also boeing and ford this new bill could also complicate european energy ties with russia that's big in the news there are fears that it could disrupt the major joint project the north stream to pipeline is designed to pump gas from russia to europe part of the baltic sea companies from germany austria

france or the netherlands are paying half of it's cost a huge amount investing almost five billion euro in the project cullom open next looks at the reaction to these new anti russian measures. the new sanctions targeting russia north korea and iran are not exactly a big hit in europe the head of the e.u. commission decided to give the world a piece of his mind the u.s. bill could have unintended unilateral affect the impact the e.u. use energy security interests america first kind of mean that europe's interests come last yes everybody has their own agenda and right now the usa is having a hard time getting everyone else to play ball take a look at north korea right now their economy is booming the best it's been in seventeen years at least that's according to estimates from the south korean central bank right now their g.d.p. their imports and their exports are rising despite international sanctions now donald trump decided a long time ago who he thinks is to blame for that. treaty between china and north

korea grew almost forty percent in the first quarter so much for china working with us but we had to give it a try and iran is a similar story even before the nuclear related sanctions were lifted under the iran deal india and china were buying their oil in your imports one hundred ten million tons of crude per year we would not decrease imports from iran iran is an important country for india despite u.s. and european sanctions on iran. china will import crude oil from iran based on demand and will not be influenced by the edicts of any country can america impose sanctions on other countries outside of the us the answer can always be no because the post world war two author of a us dollar germany right out of washington d.c. the so-called washington consensus is disintegrating it's falling apart and that

the u.s. doesn't seem to want to take on reality they want to live in the past or they want to believe that they're the policeman of the world and they're going to impose sanctions they're just pushing germany into the arms of russia and then you've got an enormous axis of power too and germany russia and china and they're going to get out of the u.s. dollar how's that going to help the american economy if the u.s. dollar loses its position as world reserve currency us leaders love capitalism in economic freedom but in the twenty first century global economy just because u.s. leaders don't want to trade with somebody doesn't mean that everybody else has to follow their lead cable mop and r t new york. and i t consultant who work for congressional democrats has been arrested on bank fraud charges were trying to leave the country he was a star for of debbie wasserman schultz the former d.n.c. chairwoman those names in rahm and he worked for house democrats for

a decade with dozens of officials he reportedly had access to some of the d.n.c. chairs personal devices to nixon artie's jacqueline berger takes a closer look at the case. a former congress i-t. aide was arrested by the f.b.i. on monday when trying to board a flight abroad that was for alleged bank fraud and well possible bank fraud and fleeing the country doesn't look good for him on the one his case gets more interesting the deeper you look i. i i

. the one family has a few skeletons in their closets back in february they were accused of charging congress workers double the actual cost for i.t. equipment and pocketing the profits and other reports suggest that they have been stealing and exposing sensitive data to outside sources and some people on the hill fear that the group may have been blackmailing house members i don't know what they have but they have something on someone something is wrong then mark interestingly enough they remain on washington's payroll and despite the accusations the ones enjoyed an unusual amount of loyalty from congressman one even saying the claims were based on this law a phobia i wanted to be sure individuals not being singled out because the nationalities of the religion they provided great service for me and there were certain times in which they had permission by me to access some of my dates among the family patrons with debbie wassermann schultz including when she was still democratic national committee chair she gave them wrong

a one direct access to her i pad which contain e-mails which infamously appeared in the d.n.c. leak schultz also reacted badly when capitol police attempted to search one of her laptops is a member loses the equipment is free and it is found. by the capitol police or your staff and it is identified as that number members apartment it is supposed to be returned yes or no depends on this for. under my understanding the capitol police is not able to confiscate members' equipment when the member is not under investigation i think you are violating the rules when you when you conduct your business. interests there that there would be consequences surely that warrants a bit of attention however the story never made it to the headlines of any major outlets in theory this story should be huge it's got all the right ingredients politics hacks sensitive data leaks and even blackmailing but of course it's missing one very popular trend a finger pointing at the kremlin. r.t. washington d.c. john hodges from the us middle east

a lawyer and see told us the way stories like this are reported show that the mainstream media in the us is. mainstream media are in cahoots with the d.n.c. you know they they have just turned a blind eye it just seems that the mainstream media is intent on doing the bidding of the democratic national committee i'd never thought that that journalism in this country it did reach such a low as to be so you know unfair in their analysis and to be so politically motivated in the way they they cover they could they cover cases there's so many questions so i hope it doesn't go away and i think it's important for the non mainstream media to kid to new to beat this drum so that it gets the the the coverage it deserves and that consequently there are consequences for any illegal activities that they may have taken place. a man was killed in

venezuela when the stage or in the first day of a national strike called by the country's opposition the protest came in response to president maduro as decision to form a body that would read draft the country's constitution. more tough times for venezuela we spoke exclusively than with the country's president he told us the opposition's been attempting to undermine that socialist government there for years. i think the

opposition has been doing this for eighteen years you know what they're first against hugo chavez and for the past four years against me i mean there's no other way to resolve conflicts in the country than through democracy and elections in may for three and a hard weeks i tried to establish direct dialogue with the organizations but i wanted to include them in parliament but they refused that this is a period of political isolation they drifted into right we were not as good as in what are their imprisoned by a strategy of violence and ignoring those who voted. so i thought i was waylaid ready for any scenario that i think is insane for the extreme right us to be talking of a blockade against venezuela the fact that they've already started in direct blockade against our financial systems that this was because the crisis over the past three years but we have economic strength in venezuela always pays what they own and fulfills its responsibilities in two thousand and seven to two thousand eight hundred and two thousand and nineteen our country will continue. after this

thursday morning the report found that german media have taken a positive position on the influx of migrants into the country and paid little attention to people's concerns over the crisis europe correspondent peter all of us go. back in twenty fifteen i crowds of germans flocked to welcome refugees to their towns and cities. i wasn't the whole story according to the results of an investigation into the german media's coverage of the migrant crisis they also brought a foundation claims that german media was more keen to present the image of the commons call door than to give any time to those who were critical of government policy and refugees driving a wedge between right and left in society. up until late autumn twenty fifteen hardly any editorials dealt with the concerns

fears and resistance of a growing parts of the population coming in two hundred pages long research is trawl through newspapers online reports and broadcast media and they found that on average new sources were carrying seventeen articles daily in the migrant crisis during the summer of twenty fifteen on german television viewers were bombarded with refugee success stories. decide to go first to create does figure in mind share holder and i like. so. that how. the report claims dissenting voices were excluded from the conversation that anyone who asked questions who refugees were or why they came to germany were shouted down as populists all racists and the message came right from the top it's

come down off and it's important for us not to follow those who would cordon us a hatred in the heart sick to exclude others while claiming german their identity for themselves and. what is of concern is the reports claim that the coverage of the migrant crisis has damaged the reputation of journalism in germany. a considerable part of the population believes that journalism is apparently forced to manipulate information the report cites a recent poll by the university of mines in which over half of those surveyed said they felt like to by the press with around a quarter same day believe that the government and the media were counting glove prompting the chants of lucan pious sell lying press it to government and migrant gatherings peter all over r.t. berlin. political scientist for the perps told us that biased reporting is indeed

eroding many germans face in the media these days germans usually trust the media and fear for it was quite an exception that they felt that there was a split between what they were observing and what the read in the newspaper during his month or so great influx of immigrants the media said well we have an educational function we really have to show germans that things are different than both think but actually the media from south were carrying their point too far and this came as a deception for many germans and we could measure in the part of the clyde in trust to the media as a reaction on the side of the media churlish started to apologize for having not properly fulfilled their professional duty is during this migration crisis so much more to come here look at the spike in alleged police brutality in the us is it just the way it is or can certainly be done so after the break.

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with us this thursday morning where if you watch around the world now next new video footage is of. showing the man killed by police in america's atlantic city and twenty fourteen was shot forty five times the incident took place following a ten mile chase off the man refused to be searched by the offices a warning you may find the images you're about to show you. ah. ok more info here the police officer is seen as far as soon as the man who was

armed got out of his vehicle well looks of it we can't show you all the images here but the officers do continue shooting long after the man continued to pose a threat we discussed what happen with a peace activist he told us that the police could always find a way of justifying heavy handedness. actually that police in america are trained to shoot at the body mass to shoot at the to shoot for the vital organs and not to shoot in the legs there's always an excuse for using deadly force but let's be honest these kinds of excesses will continue to happen as long as we have persons who are teaching the police to be brutal and violent instead of training to treat american citizens as if we are people not combatants because officers in the us are regularly accused of employing brutal policing tactics is a look back at some other high profile incidents from very recent years.

thank you all right. thank you. note you can see right here. we have this many show police shootings nationally it is the rational that america calls itself a human rights leader when the very basis of this country has been a systematic violation of human rights but it seems as if there's a conspiracy by the police to not shoot and if necessary kill violent dangerous. people criminals in our society and they kill people who are not dangerous. ok way from that no complete change of tone and pace of the bit ridiculous and complex and technical board game that simulates all out war

between europe and russia has failed to so many companies and it's left those who bought it a bit confused as you're proud to see could go hold of one lucky kill to see what it was all about. hi gary pauly i'm going to be reviewing a new game that's coming to our attention here who didn't strike very robust box it could be bulletproof but i'm going to be on boxing it and telling you all you need to know about it in order to find out what this game is all about. very hard to unlock oh there we go face of the man himself very complicated instruction manual here you can't have a board game without a board the theatre of war the markers of nuclear strikes i am recruited in our office engineer bed i'm going to be an external conference room in

order to give putin strikes its first sortie. where we go are you a fan of board games school this is the instruction manual. there are these markers the russian forces the nato forces it's one joint game of solitaire yeah i'll be russia obviously. i'm going to put the russian ones where i think the russian ones should go but everywhere you put your nato ones are using the nato ones going to get a. great . so you planning on taking crimea back so what's what's going on here now unlike most war games the movement factors of the units all depended on coming to.

i think you actually have to be a nato general or a russian in general to understand how this works you know this this game doesn't have to reflect reality it's going to pepper the. with russian battalion do we have any left it uses the any option ok thank you very very much ben. ok guys say that was a little taste of pretend strikes for you mr you just pretty special it's probably the only one you're going to see of this game because the man in the specialist store when we bought this said that we were the last people to ever practice putin strikes if you don't like it change to restore justice to the world order this is a pretty good place to start. if you pour a professor actually a bit more of a problem kind of the moment to see this instead maybe dave rusher on sunday in the northern port city of st petersburg going to be hosting some of the most impressive joints of the sea over the which.

i will look at ahead world apart later on today his about the possible deployment of u.n. peacekeepers to syria. there has to be a peace agreement before there can be deployment of peacekeepers and you know this pressure to present it with the secretary general has to stop from mr keeps on trying to bring the parties together in collaboration of course. the permanent members of the security council. notably the russian federation and united states i

was quite encouraged personally i'll go i don't deal with this matter directory but i was personally encouraged to read the limited cease fire agreement which was decided in the meeting between complexity and supervision by the new put them and present. and i think there are some good sites we hope for the best over the last few years we have been changing to what we call it in program critical of the assessment so at every point of time the security is being assessed not by event the u.n. staff should leave but by what i read men should be made for them to be better to be present and to deliver their program. and if you from seeing what's not in full in just about out of time here on out to international for now though but live from moscow for so much more check out c don't call i'm kevin owen stay with us if you can't see more of the programs

continue right after this week with breaking rules. was.

if we take for instance the size large enough to destroy a city say forty meters or so of the million or so asteroids out there oh we have discovered perhaps a percent or so of that ten thousand of them perhaps so in other words i means that ninety nine percent of them are undiscovered so you should expect that the great majority of asteroids are very close to the earth to come as a surprise. i'm cmon dollars ario this is a boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. coming up tonight cold data for the third straight day the precious metal is on a roll downhill as traders phrase for an interest rate freeze and waiting in the balance is not just traders americans are also waiting for the federal reserve's next move and the health care debacle american lawmakers continue to debate on the

floor with little success stand by it all starts on boom bust right now. it's all about signaling strong economies today first in the czech republic where the central bank is hinting at hiking interest rates for the first time in more than nine years. as you can see here the last time rates went up was at the beginning of two thousand and eight and rates have been near zero at point zero five percent since two thousand and twelve the czech economy is on pace to grow about three percent this year unemployment rates are among the lowest in europe and wages are going up houses in prague are flying off the market in

a matter of weeks often times with multiple bidders which means housing prices are also rising check national bank is pointing to the third quarter of this year is being a prime time to hike rates but not everyone is convinced it would be the first rate hike in europe in about five years and some investors are worried about the timing and what it will do to the global markets if the u.s. and check raise rates around the same time. well. speaking of raising rates the federal reserve just announced it will not raise rates right now in a statement wednesday we learned the fed is leaving its benchmark interest rate between one and one point two five percent the announcement does not come as a surprise inflation has been weaker than originally expected though the fed believes it will rebound in the near future what investors were looking for in this statement was a more precise timeline on when the fed wants to start downsizing its bond

portfolio which will apparently happen relatively soon the fed currently has a four point five trillion dollars balance sheet in treasuries and bonds it bought up after the financial crisis the dollar dropped on the announcement while gold rebounded after sliding most of wednesday waiting for news from the fed well to dig deeper into this announcement and what it will mean for growth i'm joined now by peter schiff c.e.o. of euro pacific capital peter thanks for joining us today look the fed just released its plan for the next few months and of course some things that many people are predicting one of them is that the interest rates were not going to rise not. to change what kind of impact do you think we can expect from this sort of announcement. well no impact i mean pretty much everybody knew the fed was not going to surprise the markets and hike rates this meeting although they did indicate that they would begin to shrink their balance sheet relatively soon but by

relatively soon they may mean they may mean never because you know shrinking the balance sheet is a lot harder than expanding it you know quantitative easing was the fun part quantitative tightening is not only the hard part it's really the impossible part but it is possible that janet yellen may in fact begin the process but it's never going to be completed long before that day comes we're going to have to go back to zero percent interest rates the fed's going to relaunch quantitative easing q e four maybe it won't be janet yellen that does it maybe it'll be whoever donald trump appoints to replace her why do you say that we're going to go backwards now was pointing toward that happening. well look the u.s. economy is long overdue for recession anyway i mean this is one of the longest expansions in history it's certainly the weakest expansion in history and it's required the most amount of artificial stimulus in history but.