breaking news to tell you germany's economy minister says counter measures could be taken in response to a harsh new u.s. bill seeking to impose sanctions on the russian energy sector e.u. officials to have been raising concerns that european businesses could also be a lot more to come on this. time a number of high profile democrat is arrested on charges of committing financial fraud while trying to leave the country but that's only one of the many controversies surrounding this house staff we'll tell you more about that as well. an exclusive venezuela is gripped by a violent national strike called by the opposition we speak exclusively to the

country's president to try and get a handle on where it's going to go. high sort of big story of the germany's economy minister saying there's the possibility of the e.u. taking countermeasures to america's and see russia sanctions bill the restrictions are aimed at punishing companies with ties to russia's energy sector that's raised fears of disruption to a major e.u. joint project they pujas nord stream to gas pipeline. it is bad that the u.s. has left the common line it had was europe for sanctions against russia there is a possibility of counter sanctions against the guinness however the u.s. sanctions are not always very effective let's think about north korea for instance south korea's central bank estimates that last year. its neighbors economy grew by

almost four percent after bouncing back from a downturn in twenty fifteen also boosted its exports and it continues to develop its nuclear capabilities and it's not just north korea that's for that kind of person it suited to grieve economic success in spite of u.s. sanctions iran has been forced to diversify its economy as well and find new trading partners as a way of coping with the measures with more detail kellam open. sanctions targeting russia north korea and iran are not exactly a big here 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 effects the impact that you 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 us doesn't seem to want to take on reality they want to live in the past 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 you know in two 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 glop and r t new york or the us the bigger picture this

focus is back in zero two europe particularly germany the reaction from germany the economy minister saying that counter measures could be taken in response to this what's been termed a harsh new u.s. bill seeking to impose sanctions on the russian energy sector peter all of the unit correspondents across the view from germany then tell us more please. yes well we've heard from. the the minister for at the economy and energy now she issued a statement speaking out against the sanctions that look like they're going to be imposed by the united states on the russian energy sector and it's due to the effect that the knock on effect that this almost certainly will have on german businesses involved in the energy sector and elsewhere as well it do business we russia she said that the u.s. wasn't following the standard line really when it came to sanctions against russia that it wasn't in lockstep with the e.u.

on how they saw those going but there are real worries across europe about the potential impact that these u.s. sanctions or these new tranche of u.s. sanctions could have on european business and just fact that german companies would be affected as well the german committee on e.u. economic relations is called these sanctions simply unacceptable as they're written the unions of also being getting getting involved worried about their representatives that they have that work in the energy sector that would be affected a lot he spoke to the chairman of the russian german chamber of commerce now he said it all came down to one key project in reality and that project was opposition to the north stream to gas pipeline. do you think it's a very. good just to keep those from she's going to be reserves are going to be committed by. well it's not just in

europe it's big business has been unhappy about the sanctions and it's also emerged that major u.s. corporations and corporations that have a huge footprint within the u.s. like b p and exxon mobil lobbied hard against them understandably of course they work in the energy sector but it was also other organizations such as boeing and ford they were going to their representatives and saying don't vote for this well they did vote for it and we're now going to have to look and see if the european union well could respond in some way to these u.s. sanctions that has been floated around it is still a possibility we could see the e.u. place some form of economic sanctions on the u.s. but that of course would be well pretty much the nuclear option and i'm still waiting to hear of course what russia is going to do in response after it's taken is time to consider it months or come from now we'll let you go thanks but the

stories this is an i.t. consultant who work for congressional democrats has been arrested on bank fraud charges were trying to leave the country seems it was a staff of debbie wasserman schultz the former d.n.c. chairwoman guy's name him run our one he worked for house democrats for over a decade with dozens of officials he reportedly had access to some of the d.n.c. chairs personal devices to our to jacqueline vogel takes a closer look at this 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 in fleeing the country doesn't look good for him on the one his case gets more interesting the deeper you look i. i

. i . mean 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. police are your staff and it is identified as that number members apartment it is supposed to be returned yes or no depends on the circumstances under my understanding the capitol police is not able to confiscate members equipment when the member is not under investigation i think you're violating the rules when you conduct your business that way. and should expect 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 nothing one very popular trend a finger pointing at the kremlin check on google r.t. washington d.c. john hey joe from the us middle east alliance told us the way stories like this are reported off the show mainstream media in the us is hit rock bottom he says mainstream media are in cahoots with the d.n.c. you know 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 did reach such a low as to be so you know unfair in their analysis to be so politically motivated in the way the cover of the 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 keep to the beat this drum so that it gets the coverage it deserves and that concert there are consequences for any illegal activities that may have taken place. a man was killed in venezuela on wednesday during the first day of a national strike over the country's opposition the protest comes in response to president duras decision to form a government which will redraw off the crisis ridden country's constitution.

ah. he spoke exclusively with the venezuelan president to try to get a handle on where this was going to go he told us the opposition that has been attempting to undermine the socialist government for years. i think the opposition has been doing this for eighteen years first against hugo chavez and for the past four years against me there's no other way to resolve conflicts in the country than through democracy and elections in may for three and a half weeks i tried to establish direct dialogue with the opposition i wanted to include them in parliament but they refused it's a period of political isolation they drifted into right wing radicalism they were imprisoned by a strategy of violence and ignoring those who voted for them. but i've been as waylays ready for any scenario i think is insane for the extreme right in the us to be talking of a blockade against venezuela in fact they've already started an indirect blockade

against our financial system this was the cause the crisis over the past three years but we have economic strength in venezuela always pays what it owes and fulfills its responsibilities in two thousand and seventeen two thousand and eighteen and two thousand and nineteen our country will continue to fulfill them. a new report has found the german media has taken a positive position on the influx of migrants into the country and paid little attention to people's concerns over the crisis up until late autumn twenty fifteen hardly any editorials dealt with the concerns fears and also resistance of a growing part of the population their report also reveals that on average news sources carry seventeen articles a day on the migrant crisis during the summer of twenty fifteen many promoting the success stories of those who came and settled it also states that dissenting voices were excluded from the discussion echoing the message from the authorities it's

called off and it's important for us not to follow those who are called ness or hatred in the heart sick to exclude others while claiming german their identity for themselves a considerable part of the population believes that journalism is apparently forced to manipulate information. more of a recent poll in germany showing that over half of germans feel that they're being lied to by the media and around a quarter say they believe the government works with the press to manipulate public opinion political scientists verna part still told us see believes biased reporting is a road in many germans faith in traditional news outlets 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 the germans that things are different

then both think but actually the media firms elsewhere are carrying their point too far and this came as a deception for many germans and we could measure in the polls of decline in trust to the media is a reaction on the side of the media journalists started to apologize for having not properly fulfilled their professional duty as during this migration crisis right ahead here the issue of police brutality in the u.s. has catapulted right back into the media spotlight after footage has been released showing officers shooting a man forty five times more on that ninety seconds away. well

the nine hundred eighty s. of course the crash of eighty seven. the program trading and the bailout meisters down there at the plant protection team and the government stepped in and started to have control of price discovery.

with this is thursday so you dash cam video footage has been released showing that a man killed by police in america's atlantic city twenty fourteen was shot forty five times the instant took place full in a car chase through four cities over the man refused to be searched by offices a warning you may find the images coming up. was. the police officer received firing as soon as the man who was armed got out of his vehicle we can't show you all the images but it seems the officers continued shooting long after the man stopped posing a threat we discussed what happened with a peace activist he told us that police can always find a way of justifying heavy handedness actually the 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. offices in the u.s. are regularly accused of employing brutal policing tactics and is a quick look back at some other high profile incidents from very recently is. all right. thanks for you. know you got to stay right here. we have this many police shootings nationally it is irrational that america calls itself a human rights leader when the very basis of this country has been this 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 just taking a second tip you off but a program coming up worlds apart is about the possible deployment of u.n. peacekeepers to syria exam the boy who sits down with the man in charge it has to be it be signalman before there can be deployment of peacekeepers and you know this pressure to present it there with the secretary general mr stuff i missed throughout keeps on trying to bring the parties together in collaboration of course . the permanent members of the security council. notably that i should transition in united states i was quite then couldn't personally or go i don't deal with this matter that it was personally encouraged to the limited cease fire agreement which

was decided in the meeting between conflicts and to prevent rather new put them and presumed drowned and i think there are some groups and i say we hope for the best over the last few years we have been changing to what we call in program critically the assessment so at every point of time the security of being us. inst moment by you very stark should leave but by what could be should be for there to be. to be present and produce what approach. seems a complex and technical board game that simulates all out war between europe and russia has failed to solve many copies and it's left those who bought it more or less confused bully boy who went out to buy his self one to try to see what it was all about hi gary paulie i'm going to be reviewing a new game that's come to our attention here it's in strong right sorry very bust

box it could be bullet proof 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 fear of war the mark has nuclear strikes i have recruited our office engineer i'm going to be an exciting all conference in order to give putin strikes its first sortie. there we go you found a boardgames. 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. you put your nato ones are using the nato one's going to get a. great . so you planning on on taking crimea back so what's what's going on here now unlike most war games the movement of the units all depend on me 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 this with russian battalions do we have any. truce is the any option ok thank you very very much ben.

ok guys there that was a little taste of pretend strikes for you mr putin's pretty special it's probably the only one you're going to see of this game because the man in the specialist store where 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 what order this is a very good place to start seems not many people but it did but this is going to be popular but really. russia this coming sunday the northern cities and produce both will be host and some of the most impressive joy of the city.

it's not exactly twenty five minutes past midnight here in moscow this is the thanks of watching my name's kevin though in the main story this germany's economy minister is saying counter measures could be taken in response to a new u.s. bill seeking to post sanctions on the russian energy sector is going to be a lot more throughout the day on the coasts. don't call twenty four seven want to check it out. i. think.

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happened and there may have been even not. don't let me go back up. you know i don't want. to see it but a body in the children is ready to participate in the good. old who need good wouldn't. you don't think about this if this old goes on no you got three teams played and you know another patient. welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser this is a continuation of our summer solutions series and in a moment we'll be talking with j.p.s. the telly of the news vandal dot com but first stacy you know tromp one twenty

sixty election and the slogan was make america great again we've kind of adapted this to make america a nomics again kind of a play on this he won in places like the rust belt of michigan and pennsylvania wisconsin. one can assume these voters were hoping for jobs yes on the campaign trail he promised jobs and plants enough to enter a deal as the reason they have no jobs he's calling it maggie nomics he's actually come out one of his economic advisers and i'm calling maggie nomics and a.g. a make america great again we've kind of picked it up for this whole theme this year is that twenty seventeen summer solutions and make bitcoin great again and make this great again make that it great again and so the real issue how trump won with that massive not only did he have a better message make america great again hillary of we keep on forgetting what it is that something like on with her or she's with me or something like that but she

had a message that did not resonate and he won wisconsin michigan pennsylvania those rust belt states and it was huge shock because people just want to jobs so we're going to look at the solutions to this with our gas j. piece are telling we're going to look at the various headlines across the past twenty thirty years the trade deals that were blames like nafta and did they really lose all their jobs because of those trade deals like nafta or was it china and. and then going forward or even bric is bringing jobs back even a remote possibility in this day of artificial intelligence of of robots. automation in a lot of people we've last year on the summer solutions we cover the concept of a basic income or universal basic income and i see this year mark zuckerberg all the tech silicon tech guys are saying yes we need a basic income so we're going to go over some of these sort of possible solutions to jobs and it's.