business to run this country business. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been to. germany warns all possible kuntar measures that the u.s. goes ahead with. russia vladimir putin's grants between moscow and washington are worsening also. it turns out that it is russia there are no good guys the russians are liars some strong anti russian sentiment in the u.s. congress hedge fund investor bill browder testifies as part of the investigation into team meeting with a russian lawyer last year. flock back to a holy site in. security measures are lifted by its really authorities. between

palestinian worshippers and the i.d.f. the temple mount. around the clock across the world this is our team international from the team and myself welcome to the program our top story germany's economy minister say there is a possibility you will use country measures against them. the proposed restrictions are aimed at punishing companies with ties to russia's energy sector. raised fears of the struction to a major russia e.u. joint project the nord stream 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 we've heard from the german minister of economy and energy there. 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 on acceptable 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 the 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 what they've described the sanctions as they're written right now as an acceptable the americans have in mind their own interests and it's written down that do want to export more of their g. . solve therefore it's not excluded that they also

follow that they also follow their economic interests. we don't complain about that unless it does not affect our own interests but right now it really affects our own interest negatively 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 in exxon mobil but also other big multinationals searches 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 as planned 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 well another aspect to all of this is that u.s. sanctions haven't always been effective stick north korea for instance last year the u.s. imposed its first standalone restrictions against pyongyang over that asian countries economy grew at the fastest pace in nearly two decades and that's according to estimates from sight korea's central bank north korea has also boosted its exports and continues to develop its nuclear capabilities well it's not just young that's seen a degree of economic success in spite of u.s. sanctions around has been forced to diversify its economy finding new trading partners as a way of coping with the measures we got reaction from international oil economist dr mom do selami he told us that u.s.

foreign policy is becoming muddled. piece in new section sanctions are illegal because they're out of based on. claims of russian meddling in the american elections in twenty sixteen zero pm the audience is the biggest economic bloc in the world and they have the economic bow out of behind them and they can it is it is impose sanctions on american companies and medicaid interests but i think the american. foreign policy is becoming muddled it is they make it as they go with it day after day we see changes which not thought deeply. love them or putin has given his reaction to the latest round of possible u.s. sanctions on russia so when the news of these sanctions are completely illegal they

go against international law and the rules of the world trade organization we're being very patient and very reserved but at some point we will have to respond we can't endlessly tolerate aggressive behavior towards our country these actions can be perceived as aggravation and i would even say exceptional cynicism is strong words there about a new round of anti russian sanctions comes in response to moscow's alleged meddling in the u.s. presidential election an issue that's long been making headlines in the west as well as possible relations between hundred trump and the kremlin over the sanctions bill still needs donald trump's approval as president putin o.c.s. ties between moscow and washington are falling victim to america's internal problems. which insurance through it's very disappointing that russia u.s. relations are sacrificed while solving internal american issues on your question whether we are sorry about it i can say we are because if we had acted together we

would so very pressing issues effectively and which concern both russian and american people. the hedge fund investor william browder who years ago lobbying for the first set of until you russian sanctions known as the magnitsky act has been testifying in u.s. congress it's part of the investigation into moscow's alleged meddling in the us election and he's given his version of the infamous meeting between team trump and russian lawyer and italian vessel needs guy ortiz killed martin takes up the story . and if we were to believe everything we heard from bill browder in his testimony before congress we would think that russia and vladimir putin in particular were almost the source of all evil in the world let's take a listen to what was said before the senate judiciary committee it turned out that in putin's russia there are no good guys no empathy and no morals to threaten me with death they threaten me with kidnapping in the face of evil i don't think there's any other way to characterize me or putin the russians will do anything

they can get away with but even stuff they can't get away with to arrest kidnap torture and kill to take people's properties away the russians are liars so who is bill browder and why is he being considered an expert on russia in testimony to the us congress well bill browder was a hedge fund investor doing lots of big business in russia in the early two thousand this point he's a wanted man charged with tax fraud in russia furthermore he was key in lobbying for the passing of sanctions against russia magnitsky act put forward in two thousand and thirteen so here's where russian lawyer and italia vessel need sky comes in she met with trump's team last year to discuss these anti russian sanctions the magnitsky act and there are many allegations about that meeting she came up throughout the hearing and was pretty much a central figure in the testimony of the russian lawyers tell you this and it's going to be so. this guy over there will need sky and time again tom

and tom he says so in that sky i just go to tell you i tried it over lindsey graham's pronunciation there now in his testimony bill browder described her as an agent of the russian government saying that she worked with the security services had all kinds of connections almost as if she were working directly for president vladimir putin himself now what did she say in response to mr browder while she never had a chance to respond she hasn't gotten to testify now speaking to r t she says she is perfect. really willing to go before the committee and present her side of the story she says she has no connection to russian authorities or the russian government security services or anything like that she is simply a lawyer doing her job this is what she had to say when speaking directly to us here at r.t. . as a person who talks about in his statements i'm also ready to testify and prove to anyone in the united states or any other country that mr browder is telling lies

i'm ready to defend my good name in any court but knowing the negative attitude towards russia and is prevalent among americans today knowing their hatred towards their own president i'm not sure the u.s. is ready to give me that chance if we follow the democratic process that they love so much we will need to have a public hearing and give every side a chance to present their case and actually every participant must be guaranteed safety now as you just heard she doesn't think she'll be given an opportunity to present her views to congress one looks at the recent hearings on russia they all seem to be presenting a specific narrative and her version of events doesn't exactly fit with what congress is trying to present to the public. moving on three people are being killed in fairness waylay during a national strike called by the country's opposition the protests comes in response to president mud duros attempts to redraw off the country's crisis it constitutional. my.

my. my. my my. interview was going on to my. well r.t. spoke exclusively with the venice wailin president he told us the opposition there has been attempting to undermine this socialist government for years. and. 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 in direct 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 the owners 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. the u.s. or to the un nikki haley has said she made a promise to the people of venezuela to protect them and controversially added that

president maduro is destroying the mocker sea and washington sanction more than a dozen senior venezuelan officials on wednesday putting pressure and material is pushed to strengthen is power in a vote this coming weekend we discussed the issue with political activist christian muncher. it is very clear as we have seen in the past that the opposition won clear and save elections about two years ago where they won the majority in the parliament so there is no reason for him to write a new constitution when in fact there is a constitution there was written by hugo chavez the founder of this socialism over the twenty first century i think the majority of the people going to have a different opinion what's going on in the country the bending on what social sector they belong to most of the people who have no food who are standing in line to get whatever they need or whatever basic need. they have to get in the supermarket those people have a different mentality. the u.s.

led coalition has officially announced it's quitting its program to support one rebel organization in syria more on this development let's cross live now authorities alexy go to shift hi there let's see what do we know about this what exactly was the ninth regarding the decision here you know after a long months of basically zero cooperation between the united states and russia in syria things are moving at a very rapid pace in this respect following the g. twenty meeting between trump and putin a few weeks ago and now the pentagon through the operation here and resolve spokesperson colonel dillon announced that it seizing any assistance to one of the groups operating in south syria let's listen. the coalition supports only those forces committed to fighting isis the shahadah. have made it known that they may

want to pursue other objectives the coalition is making it clear to show how the leadership that if they choose to pursue other objectives the coalition will no longer support their operations so those other objectives mentioned in that statement would probably mean that the group may have been fighting against the assad government but not only that the pentagon also said that they will try to get all the weapons and equipment they have provided to that group back from the group because they thought they gave the equipment to fight isis and now the group apparently has different objectives and this comes just a week after trump decided to seize the cia training and arming the rebels program in syria which was again a major move which caused you know a lot of outrage here in the united states many media pundits have been saying that it's caving in to putin and all that but at the same time this program itself has been very controversial there have been times when cia backed rebels in syria

clashed with those supported and armed by the pentagon and also there have been cases when the weapons provided by the cia to those rebel groups were stolen and found themselves in the hands of the terrorists at the same time trump is refusing any suggestions he may be a fan of bashar al assad's government and this is what he said recently. i'm not a fan of his ok how you will tell you that because we hit we had fifty eight at a fifty eight or you could even say fifty nine out of fifty nine when we launched the tomahawk missiles now i'm not a fan of us. certainly think that what he's done. to that country and to humanity is horrible the hardline stance of washington on still stays but there's definitely more cooperation now than before and the big changes well that there is no more you know open calls from the white house

administration on regime change in syria but the main priority now is fighting isis and this is something from had also promised during his election campaign we'll see where there will be any more changes in the coming years ok so watch this space is near its artie's election or shift from the american capital thank you. let's go to your side of the world now dozens of palestinians have been wounded during clashes with us really police in jerusalem most of them worshippers return to pray at the temple mount a holy site after israel reversed the two week long security lockdown of the compound. i. i. hear the latest violence broke out as the i.d.f. tried to gain control of very large crowd of the al aqsa mosque it's really police said stones were thrown on its units at the western the jewish holy site near the mosque under phish shows are bracing for even bigger crowds during friday prayers

all this near is across the story. well clashes have broken out inside the temple mount compound this comes off to the most you have to loosen them announce that worship has could now go into the compound and put inside the al aqsa mosque this follows a two week stay away because of israel's additional security measures that introduced to the site seems to be in a dispute that broke out amongst worshipers when they arrived and realized that the israelis were still keeping some of the entrances to the al aqsa mosque closed now the israeli police say that the protesters some youngsters started throwing rocks and stones at them and they responded with riot control dispersal measures nonetheless they did use stun grenades next to the dome of the. to disperse the crowd now at this stage we understand that all interns as to the temple mount are closed there are also some entrances into the old city of jerusalem that have been closed and we know that youngsters also managed to climb onto the al aqsa mosque and wave palestinian flags from there there has also been some violence reported in

at least one east jerusalem arab neighborhood the neighborhood of baba huta all of this coming ahead of tomorrow's so-called day of rage that has been called for by both the mass and the fatah palestinian rival faction now the israeli police are not taking any chances they have been erecting concrete fame says concrete road blocks mounds of dirt not only in jerusalem but also in the west bank afraid that the violence from jerusalem will spread else ways certainly while both sides at least in the leadership level seem to be trying to make efforts to calm the situation on the ground the tensions of course still run the risk of blowing up come friday or temple mount or. far as it's known to muslims is one of the most tested religious sites in the world for jews it's believed to have been the site of two biblical temples on the oxe a mosque which is also located there islams third holiest place security was

increased the site in the past week or so violent scenes took place between police and worshippers. was was. not was was was was a were was was. was all about to leave it there was it because it was. not made up of. a

suspected mastermind behind illegal operations involving the virtual currency bitcoin has been arrested in greece on a us warrant hawkins breaks down the story. well this really is a very serious set of allegations vinick a thirty year old russian national has been charged with lording over four billion dollars over the course of around half a decade has been charged with twenty one different counts by the u.s. attorney in california for which if he's of course put on trial and found guilty or could face up to twenty years in prison very lengthy term indeed no one expected to list them all daniel but in a nutshell what's he charged with well the accusation is that he's been the mastermind the criminal brain behind a whole host of money laundering operation laundering money for various groups involved in hacking trafficking identity theft fraud a whole range of issues and he has been the as we said the brains behind the whole operation here how is he supposed to do this amount of money well very simply using

. corners of course a crypto currency it's all traded on lines it's not really controlled by any sort of government it's very hard to track now there's a number of online exchanges where people can buy and sell this crypto currency and vinick is accused of being involved in one of the largest changes called b t c e now this particular exchange actually been banned in russia since last year very little is known about it structure what we do know though is that it released a statement just a couple of days back on its twitter page basically saying that the site is currently down for maintenance it's not accessible but they will be back in five to ten days now whether that's anything to do with the next arrest we can't confirm other. actually comment on this case but it may well be the case now we understand from greek police that they're beginning to go she is with the u.s. about make sure to vinick to face those charges they have described him as an internationally sought mastermind of

a crime organization now of course the money itself four billion is going to be little harder to track down because it virtually quite literally can be anywhere so . complex investigation to take place here. a report from a human rights group says u.s. led coalition air strikes have killed twenty nine civilians in syria's rock. defacto capital the report from the syrian observatory for human rights has not been confirmed but it's believed that eight children could be among the did this comes as the syrian democratic forces which is backed by u.s. strikes are waging an offensive against the terrorists there tens of thousands of people fled the violence in recent months and according to unicef about half of them are children earlier we discussed the situation with. a representative for unicef and syria. i myself will visit one of the camps in an ethos and i cannot

imagine a harsher environment than that especially in the summer months where the heat wave that is really really. suffering on this children who has been traveling for weeks the stories that they share were very hard i mean most of them traveled for weeks four weeks six weeks and then they are arriving every week and hydrated in the camps and some of them are returning. areas because they don't want to be far away from their homes so that they can go back quickly when the area. so they are in they out of needs and we also know that in the coming weeks more people could be displaced because they're fighting the fighting intensified by a day the u.s. backed forces have managed to retake half of the city but months into the rock offensive the situation there remains grave for civilians.

i came from russia nothing is left in iraq except for destruction because of the coalition and i still say but the strength of the coalition will worsen some villages were wiped out some neighborhoods were demolished houses families children women were held by the random strikes. i left my neighbors at home in the evening and went to sleep outside i came back in the morning just to find twelve of the date the children the mother and the man i buried them they died because the senator and i can cut the dust suffer i studied it was great but kalish walkley still lessons they carried out in their strike on my school and killed a lot of people as they were refugees from a lack obviously it was time. to get out of there to coalition targeted everyone just the same it kills one person from ourself and everyone else around.

the massacres in iraq are committed by isis and the coalition warplanes together what can i say the streets are full of the bodies. in new delhi cam video footage has been released showing police shooting in forty five times in america's atlantic city back in twenty fourteen the killing took place following a car chase through four cities after a man refused to be searched by officers a warning you may find the images we're about to show disturbing. was. the police officer is seen firing a stern as the man who was armed and high on the drug p.c.p. out of his vehicle we can show you all of the images of the officers continue

shooting long after the man stopped using a thread we discuss 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 officers in the us are regularly accused of employing brutal tactics here's a look back at some other high profile incidents from recent years. oh right. no 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. there is a complex untechnical boardgame on the market that simulates although at war between europe and russia well it's not exactly flying off the shelves and those who have bought it have been left more than the full confused polly boyko she had to go herself. hi gary pauly i'm going to be reviewing

a new game that's coming to our attention here in strong wind robust 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 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 see it all of wall the mall because of nuclear strikes i am recruited in our office engineer ben i'm going to be an external conference room in order to give putin strikes its first sortie.