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for me r.t. headquarters in moscow with a full sixty minutes of news for you this hour first germany's economy minister says there's a possibility that the new countermeasures against america's anti russia sanctions bill the proposed restrictions are aimed at punishing companies with ties to russia's energy sector that's raised fears of disruption to a major russian joint project the nord stream two gas pipeline. yes it is bad that the u.s. has left the common line it's had with europe for sanctions against russia there is a possibility of counter sanctions against the guinness we've heard from the german minister of economy and energy there zipless but she's not alone in those that have been critical of this latest round of sanctions that's been proposed by the united states we've also heard from the austrian chancellor christine care he posted

online saying that these were unacceptable he said that politics and a business should not be mixing when it comes to making decisions like this such as putting sanctions in place on another country we've also heard from unions as well who are concerned about potential impact on their members that work within the energy sector there's been a meeting a conference taking place from the german committee of e.u. economic relations there and they've described the sanctions as they're written right now as unacceptable and fact the managing director of that organization which represents german and business interests throughout eastern europe spoke to r.t. he had this to say implicate of do you plan sanctions notice a very negative form. especially for the energy sector because of the sanctions under the threat of sanctions especially energy pipeline exports from russia over

in the united states we understand that serious players serious big multinational corporations were lobbying representatives before they went into vote to try and convince them not to support this bill that didn't work but the names on the list include of course energy giant such as be an exxon mobil but also other big multinational search is ford and boeing as well so i think it stands we're still going to have to wait to see what the ultimate reaction will be from the european union if the sanctions go ahead planned as. and could the nuclear option be triggered which would be the e.u. placing economic sanctions on the u.s. business it's certainly an option it's still on the table if you take what the german economy minister an energy minister had to say earlier on on thursday we're keeping an eye on this of course and of course for the more the u.s. sanctions haven't always proven to be effective let's take north korea for instance last year the u.s.

imposed its first stand alone restrictions against pyongyang however that asian countries economy grew at the fastest pace for nearly two decades and certainly according to south korea's central bank north korea's also boosted its exports and of course it continues to develop its nuclear capabilities and it's not just p.r. yang that seen a degree of economic success in spite of the u.s. sanctions iran has been forced to diversify its economy as well finding new trading partners as a way of coping with the various restrictions and measures that been placed along the way kalam open explains more on that. 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 us bill could have unintended unilateral effects that 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 police one 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 in 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 and 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. by some industry insight that with me is international oil economist octomom to sodomy from the research center for energy management dr solomon welcome to r.t. as we've been hearing the past twenty four forty eight hours the repercussions are lining up even before any sanctions are even signed off in washington you've got europe's political and business leaders foreign off warnings but other any actual grounds to their fears. let me point out furthest that d.c. new section sanctions are illegal because they're out of based on. claims of russian meddling in the american elections in twenty sixteen so they are in league and the second important point is that they are over very. my and our impact on the action economy the russian economy has that event to see fied quite

a lot and the guidance of gosh i'm president putin during the last three years to the extent that agriculture is moving to become a major exporter and further about a more the russian economy is able now to live with a price of oil forty dollars or less instead of eighty or ninety dollars three years ago so from that point i think these sanctions are of no great importance they might impact on the other hand on an outer g. and do your opinion in terms of in boise sanctions on the financing of the nord stream gaz by applying to jet of money but then do. has threatened of directing appropriate action against the united states

politically it will in the war of sin really already sell a lot of relations between most school and washington and who knows it might impact adversely on sierra and other places and ukraine where russia is involved if europe being caught in the middle of all this and counter sanctions they say they might take apparently will just be as a last resort but do you think but just by having the nature of this threat the washington might listen. i think if they have a sound mind they have to listen because the european union is the biggest economic bloc in the world and they have the economic bow out of behind them and they can is it important impose sanctions on american companies and medicaid interests but i think the american. foreign policy is

becoming muddled it is it they make it as they go with it day after day we see changes which are not thought deeply of. the u.s. bill itself there's a lot of maneuvering in this is not just about the sanctions because it also wants to limit the president's efforts to try and lift any sanctions against russia as well why are lawmakers seeking not even why do they want to need to the white house . they wanted to preempt any chance of president donald trump trying to reduce or. lessen the sanctions on russia so they want it to preempt this possibility in the future because he knows that he will not have either way with president putin without making good when sign like reducing the sanctions even

ex-in morgan the biggest american oil company has asked for a waiver from the sanctions and it was rejected i mean these sanctions don't benefit politically the relations between the united states and russia and they don't bode well for the situation in the middle east and the green and i do think the president will talk to secretary of state about x. when would you give a new used to run the company the development today that we had germany's economy minister farrakhan warning shot also seems frustrated that any potential sanctions haven't been discussed with the e.u. how else do you think europe might circumvent any potential downsides for its energy business since. well germany and the european union are adamant that these sanctions don't serve that of purposes and inaudible times

the european union and the united states have been enacted there positivism sanctions if sanctions. pose a threat to the interests of the european yoder and jet of many as i said indicates of the north of the stream gaz by pliant they're out of bond to take action and i think the americans might just might listen however out of the house of representatives has taken the decision of sanctions it we have to are we have to see with that of the senate we're also approve it and then we would see what the action the european union with a it but in general sanctions usually don't work they did not bring it on and they will not break north korea so to that extent i think they mostly feed. indeed as we know and if you join solve my foot is rolling over

to political will and i really appreciate your insights into member solavei international economist thanks for joining us on r.t. . next an i.t. consultant and aide to some of the most high profile congressional democrats in the u.s. has been arrested on bank fraud charges while trying to leave the country and run work for the house democrats for over a decade and with dozens of officials he reportedly had access to some of the d.n.c. chairs personal at a chronic devices ati's jacqueline booga takes a closer look at the case. of 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. 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 oil to hear from congressman one even saying the claims were based on this law 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 emraan 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 with a member this is the quote ministry and it is found by the capitol police for your state and it is identified as that number members of that name 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 and when you conduct your business that way. interesting 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 up 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. we talked about this with john how joe is from the u.s. middle east alliance and he says stories like this are reported on with political bias. 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 the they cover because 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 that may have taken place. a poll has prevailed the germans feel that being lied to by that country's made that story and plenty more and the altie news hour after this break. all the feelings of. every the world experience. and you get it on the old the old. the old according to jess.

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man was killed in venezuela on wednesday during the first day of a national strike called by the country's opposition the protest comes in response to president maduro to thames to redraft the country's crisis had constitution. been speaking exclusively with the venezuelan president he told us that 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 that we have economic strength in venezuela always pays what it knows 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 study claims that many german media outlets are failing to pay attention to the public's concerns over the ongoing migrant crisis while consistently putting a positive spin on the influx it found that coverage has overwhelmingly ignored many of the problems caused by such a high number arriving in a relatively short space of time up until late autumn twenty fifteen hardly any editorials dealt with the concerns fears and also resistance of a growing part of the population. the report also reveals that on average news sources carried seventeen articles a day on the migrant crisis during the summer of twenty fifty 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 separately a recent poll has shown that more than half of germany feels 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 scientist told us he believes biased reporting is a road in the country's 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 themselves were carrying their point too far

and this came as a deception for many germans and we could measure in the poll to 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 is during this migration crisis. i stay suspected mastermind behind illegal operations with the virtual currency bitcoin alexander vinick has been arrested in greece on a u.s. war and with me now correspondent daniel hawkins is across this particular financial scandal down there what are the specifics we know about this arrest or some pretty serious allegations here colony's been accused of laundering over four billion dollars of the course of around six years he's been charged with twenty one counts of this by the u.s. attorney's office in california is a russian national in his thirty's if found guilty he could face up to twenty years in jail ok guilty of one of the charges well again this is almost like out of an ocean's eleven film really he's been accused of

a series of of criminals that laundering money for groups linked with computer hacking drug trafficking fraud identity theft corruption very serious allegations indeed here and he's accused of being the brains the mastermind behind what's really been an international world conspiracy here really but that's quite a list quite a lot of money how is he supposed to have done all this well a great question allegedly he used because of course because it's become increasingly popular among many users worldwide increasing in demand just today in fact it's risen by. seventy five dollars so it's very much going up since its introduction now. online it's very hard to trace and regulate it's not controlled by any government which makes it favored by people involved in that racketeering and fraud now there's a number of online exchanges where people can buy and sell big corn and speculate on it's fairly the biggest one and one of the biggest ones is called b t c e e vinick is suspected of being involved in it now as we said it's one of the biggest

ones it's actually been banned in russia since last year but it's accounts for a large amount of bitcoin trading globally very little is known about its structure what we do know is that earlier today they released the statement on their twitter page we can get that up b d c e said that the site is currently down for maintenance but they will be back up in the next five to ten days whether that's linked or not to this case we don't know but certainly it could very much be the case now local media are reporting that greece is already in the go with the united states to extradite vinick over there to face the charges and greek police describe him as an internationally sought master wide of a crime organization of course the money itself we've pretty hard to track down as it could well virtually literally anywhere. thanks very much for updating us on that. you're with r.t. international for sixty minutes of news for you we'll be speaking to the president of the international red cross live his take on the conflict in yemen and there are

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