other. headlines on aussie international washington blame russia for the current a escalating diplomatic crisis. blame. relations with moscow. the opposition in venezuela says it will refuse to vacate the country's newly elected constituent assembly prepares for its. rescue boat with migrants on board is seized by a. suspect crew had been in contact with the libyan people smugglers.

friday worldwide news live from. the news team here at r.t. international a very warm welcome to you. the u.s. state department has blamed russia for a new low in relations with moscow this following the latest sanctions bill the president signed on wednesday so you are you saying that russia is to blame for the low in relations right now. russia's been involved in a lot of activities a lot of activities that are very concerning i know to many of you and to many americans whether it is election related activities or their activities in ukraine they've also harassed u.s. diplomats there i mean there are a whole host of things president seems to have a rather different view on the issue he took to twitter to say that the recent low in u.s. russia relations was actually the fault. us congress more of more of

a he's cold the bill clearly unconstitutional the legislation that imposes new sanctions on russia received overwhelming support in both houses and that means that even if the president had vetoed the bill it's highly likely he would have been overruled by the lawmakers and the new law also gives congress the power to block donald trump from easing sanctions on moscow lou rockwell who's the founder of the american the think the mice institute thinks trump should have been more assertive in his opposition to the sanctions bill. you know the president i guess felt that he had to sign that horrendous sanctions bill and remember sanctions are acts of war under international law however what he should have done is exactly what george bush i hate to recommend anything george bush did you should have said as he signed the bill he should have said i don't intend to enforce this of course because i believe it's unconstitutional so what trump should have done is just

ignored it this is not unprecedented and there are plenty of times when congress felt the president was doing bad stuff and i must say i fear the most is trump feeling he now has to become another war president and making war against many more different kinds of countries talk to think of trump in that sense he seems like such a powerful guy maybe they've got him on the ropes maybe this is who knows what's ahead i fear it's not good for americans for russians for the chinese people for anybody in this whole world russia's alleged meddling of the us elections of course it's been over the headlines for ages now far less attention is given to the fact that american the think tanks which often influence u.s. policy generally funded by foreign players. and why this is not in the media and it's not regarded as foreign meddling. that's interesting in a certain stories around the idea of foreign powers influencing the american democratic process and in an effort to help battle the threat such meddling poses

without we don't like politicians as to where some of their favorite think tanks get their financial support institutions from which those very politicians so often get information to form policy opinions spoiler alert foreign powers are some of those washington based think tanks biggest donors let's start with an all time favorite the brookings institution this institution provided a forum for ideas for thoughts and i think the country. specifically the congress is better off or for the great work that you do you're so well known all over the world that there are a lot of longtime friends and colleagues who perch here at brookings all of those defenders of democracy clearly put a lot of faith into information that comes out of this building right behind me but perhaps they feel different if they knew how much foreign funding they get according to their own report in two thousand and sixteen the brookings institution received over two million dollars from the united arab emirates up to two million from the government of norway and between five hundred thousand and

a million dollars from the embassy of the state of qatar and with that in mind perhaps these sorts of headlines coming out of here must be taken with a grain of salt. and the brookings institution is not alone in the story the carnegie endowment for international peace is a truly international institution working with a cause of peace. and that. it's an honor to be here. carnegie but truth is that for generations. has been training the foreign policy leaders of the future the carnegie endowment brought in significant cash contributions from the u.k. department for international development the embassy of japan the federal foreign office of germany and the norwegian ministry of foreign affairs and that was just last year and just naming a few about how do you guarantee those bags of money don't come with any influence

whatsoever and these two aren't the exception they're the rule in this town the atlantic council the center for strategic and international studies the center for american progress all took a huge chunk of change offered by the u.a.e. and the list goes on and on so many think tanks so much international money perhaps a lot of us politicians will rethink how worry some foreign influence really is and where it's truly coming from. washington d.c. . venezuelan opposition says the country's parliament will refuse to do so even if ordered to by the newly voted constituent assembly which are set to hold in old girl session on friday the international community has also weighed in with its concerns the u.s. has been the most vocal branding last sunday's vote as a legitimate president my daughter's leadership as a dictatorship and as. reports being deemed a dictator is easy to come by these days. little the jew know there's

actually two ways to become a dictator there's the obvious way brutally oppressed your people crush dissent and rule with an iron fist method to annoy america yesterday's illegitimate elections confirm that madeira is a dictator who disregards the will of the venezuelan people that's going to hurt when the us brands you a dictator all bets are off even if you really aren't one and he claim of your crimes is taken as fact international law stops working or your enemies suddenly get a lot of money and in many cases shiny new guns to see of uncle sam in syria we have ramped up on military assistance to the syrian opposition. remember what happened to saddam will assad blame them foot anything and it will

stick the name of the game was regime change exporting democracy and that's a heck of a lot easier when you put trade the other guy as the cartoon villain syrian dictator bashar. assad is a war criminal thugs and a murderer like bashar al assad it's already begun their equating duro to kim jong un that's crazy talk you might think there are no concentration camps there are elections with dora himself he joins a very exclusive club including mr mcgarvie. and and and kim jong un in terms of the real repression of his people what about this guy the king of saudi arabia his opponents a tortured and executed in public his family controlled everything in saudi arabia

he has deprived his people of freedom democracy choice talk about dancing with the devil. what does washington do sells hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons to saudi arabia. how's that for double standards us foreign policy is entirely hypocritical i mean they only characterize government says dictatorial or authoritarian when they're not favorable to us interests us maintains close ties and supports the monarchy in saudi arabia that's one of the biggest abusers of human rights in the world when it comes to putting labels on governments and other nations it all depends on who's a friend or a foe of the united states sad isn't it you can rule oppress and kill all

you want without repetitions but only if you bend the knee to washington. you can do none of that and still wind up being called a dictator. italian authorities have seized a boat belonging to a german group reportedly rescuing migrants we can show you footage released by the italian coast guard showing off pounding the ship the vessel was intercepted on wednesday as part of a government initiative designed to counter the surge of migrants mostly africans trying to reach italy from libya officials claim crew members from the boat while working with people smugglers. the in several cases these interventions see. were carried out not to save people who find themselves in imminent danger but simply to pick up people a schoolteacher by libyan traffickers. and comes off to italy presented

a controversial code of conduct to aid groups the code demands a police presence on n.g.o.s vessels and bans the transfer of refugees to other ships of phone calls or flares from n.g.o.s vessels are also forbidden if they could be used to signal when it's safe for people smugglers to send a boat to sea but six out of nine n.g.o.s operating in the mediterranean have refused to sign this document. i called the k. project discussed the issue with italian journalist mark channel four and martin a german politician. in the moment europe is responsible for the destructions in africa a lot and look at that it's necessary to open legal ways for refugees but europe children people to countries like italy like spain like the problem but all european countries should take responsibility and so will the people who are.

members on this ship and refugee head bolts as well they just want to save lifes because of the last ten years several small than forty thousand people dying in the mediterranean sea and they just don't want to see the people see very clearly that this is not a you money to. help is not the money that an s.o.s. but it's helping those people arriving in italy and the refugees that are coming they are paying huge sums to human traffic us this is immoral and i would say that is true that. the destruction of libya was a mistake of historical mistake but i don't see why contra single country like he thought he should pay the price for it so it's a huge problem neatly and finally the government decided to take some action to stop these kind of fatigue this one activist who was on board the empowered refugee rescue ship told us what he saw. this interrogation started

spontaneously without the presence of a lawyer only witnesses we discovered that the boat was being searched at that stage we decided to go to the boat and not to declare our intentions in front of the police after a long and meticulous search we were let go but i want to stress that we were free to leave at any time and at this stage the investigation into aiding illegal migrants remains ongoing towards unknown persons leader the crew nor the ngo has been formally accused of anything. recent figures that show a marked increase in the number of children in the u.k. calling for help out of fear of being forced into arranged marriages the data was collected by a leading british children's charity the n s p c c if the decisions being made they feel being told when you marry where you marry who you marry that's. supporting advice is available to help you make

a start. now the charities there's been a twelve percent increase in counseling sessions relating to arranged marriage compared with the previous year their web page dedicated to the issue has received over six thousand hits there's also been an increase in the actual number of forced child marriages new figures show a seventeen percent increase just in the u.k. in just a year the majority of the children were from countries where such as early marriages are a part of the culture though here's one girl's story. my parents are talking about taking me back to my home country to get married but i don't want to they get violent when i don't do what they want i want to leave home by they'd never agree to it i just want to leave in the life but they will let me. another girl just vendor saying get i was locked in a room when she was sixteen after she refused to marry a man picked by her parents and she ran away with her boyfriend and stopped talking to a family and later she found out that one of our sisters who got married

a fifteen year later committed suicide and we spoke with president. people believe because we are democracy because we have the rule of law that these things couldn't possibly be happening in england clearly they are and it's very important to know that forced marriage and honor abuse is fundamentally against every religion islam seeks the more hindu is the fundamental he speaks out against it but the victims are not taught that so families will use these as just if occasions but we need to send out very strong messages that in britain it is a criminal offense to force india to marry and this is not acceptable in any religion tradition or culture but i'm victims need to know that they haven't been taught that because it's not in the interest of their family to tell them that because it would empower them. so. we're back to number.

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a party american. parents better than. to see a herd of. jack to the. president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. with us today for the program with the u.s. justice department expected to declare war on the leaks later on friday the trumpet administration has been hit by yet another scandal over an authorized disclosure the washington post published to the transcripts of the american president's phone calls with foreign leaders which took place back in january according to the cole records that is mexican counterpart and. stopped publicly saying that his country will not pay for the proposed war only u.s. mexican border report also revealed disagreements with australian prime minister

malcolm turnbull over a refugee we settled the deal. my position has been and will continue to be very firm saying that mexico cannot pay for that wall but you cannot say that to the press the press is going to go with that and i cannot live with that you cannot say that to the press because i can not negotiate under those circumstances this is a big deal it is really really important to us that we maintain it it doesn't oblige you to take one person that you do not want this is going to kill me i am the world's greatest person that does not want to let people into the country we talked to a former u.s. diplomat who believes that leaks like these undermine u.s. national security. what could be more damaging if that the president united states cannot talk to a foreign leader frankly without fear of his public comments going public or those of the person he's talking to how do you conduct diplomatic business which should

be the top priority of the president and i think the leaking of this information just just simply shows this kind of roumania like we have here in washington you know if that nothing is too bad to do this president he's such an illegitimate such a bad president that all the rules can be broken and this criminal activity this criminal leaking is sure why not it's actually patriotic to the. middle of the current mall in the white house donald trump is delighting in one positive development the wreck old gains on the american stock market the president's choice might be short lived and reports the u.s. stock market is riding high and there's no one more happy about it than the man in the oval office the stock market hit an all time record high today over twenty two thousand and we've picked up substantially now more than four trillion dollars in net worth in terms of our country our stocks our companies found that sounds great right well that depends on who you ask first let's quiz the movers and shakers here

on wall street what do you think of the spike in the markets the donald trump's been talking about look it's obviously great news that the economy is doing well i think that's generally a good vibe for everyone you know on the other hand i think it's not unusual for a new administration to sometimes won't take credit for a trend that might have surfaced in the previous one this is are looking to see that there's going to be no more regulation and they're happy to see that. the market is following some schooling outstanding it's setting records so it's doing very well yes but the average american doesn't really share their enthusiasm i think a lot of people are suffering i think it started to go union jobs like you know i mean everybody everybody is inside of me and but from what i've seen like. we're all struggling a lot of people don't have jobs. you know how everything is. so now over some he comes in office the stock market is booming sky high. but then everything else is going low why a people minimum wage is about seven fifty maybe the working classes have

a reason to be skeptical of stocks all around the world are taking because of the crisis on wall street over the past few weeks many americans have felt anxiety about their finances and their future good people for twenty years and they're losing their jobs and these are going to cause disease that's the thing i think i did not run for office to be helping a bunch of. bankers on wall street on and on and on regulator after regulator they either chose not to act or turned a blind eye to what was actually going it was a lack of regulation that many people blame for the chaos that took place back in two thousand and eight but fast forward to today president trump says that too much regulation is the problem we have had regulation that's been so bad. so out of line that it's really hurt our country and as you see on a daily basis we're getting rid of regulation now not everyone agrees with the

president on that a recent report from the public advocacy group called public citizen had this to say to thank his and bank industry lawyers now controlling policy and regulation trump has begun dismantling the guardrails they're meant to protect the public from wall street the trump administration's changes would make americans more vulnerable to the sort of reckless bets that appended the economy in two thousand and eight and to scams man scrupulous bankers but trump says that this is just the beginning what we're going to be doing over the next six months will be incredible we've signed more bills and i'm talking about through the legislature than any president ever yes everybody agrees that. two thousand and eight was a big mess but the question on people's minds now is is the current spike in the market held by trump just a rise getting ready for a big fall. r.t. new york journalist brenton l'engle who was heavily involved in the occupy wall

street movement says that giving too much power to the banks could easily result in yet another market crash it's the same attitude that led to two thousand and eight . the banking sector is notoriously bad at judging its own risk it's one of the reasons why you need strong regulations on banks and the trumpet ministration doesn't seem interested in you know really paying any attention to the financial sector beyond like just let them do what they want to do and we've seen what happens when they do what they want to do they crash the economy they put a bunch of people out of work suicide to go up and you know you've got occupy wall street trump is crowing a lot about how the stock market is doing very well under him but the fact is he has nothing to do with it the only thing that trump has been able to do mostly is to scare the market. with various regulations. if

you are a conservative living in california and tired of the liberal ways in your home state you might have a way out a company called conservative move launched in may aims to help families from all over america relocate to texas a state known for its traditional values it's already been flooded with inquiries most of them from california and found a poll says the golden state just isn't what it used to be. it a california is completely different it's a mess they have some of the worst schools in the country there roadways are falling apart and property crime and violent crime is on the rise and good paying jobs are hard to find so we've only been around now for a little over a month and the business has just exploded over two thousand five hundred families have signed up over one thousand five hundred of those are from california alone the demand is very high the problem in america is that the liberal elite these

these coastal democrats these limousine liberals if you will live along the coastal region of new york to san francisco to l.a. and they control now the democrat party in america and the democrat party is no longer made up of moderates they are made up of very radical extremists who are pushing a dangerous agenda in america and they harm our communities to increase crime and they make it more difficult for families to earn a living the democrats twenty years ago in america they don't exist in america anymore we also got reaction from locals in both california and texas as well they had to say about the idea of conservative migration. as a bringing their. skills are bringing their. hard work and dedication here i mean if they can make in california they can definitely make it here maybe. the pioneer

for just. being conservative or republican or being a liberal republican to far as a person i think people are different regardless so i would accept that it's just california and you know either accept it or don't accept it and move on with your life forever they're happy then that's where they're happy. unique waltz involving vehicles has been performed at the opening of the international competition games twenty seventeen teams demonstrated a variety of driving skills involving complex maneuvers and twenty different vehicles especially difficult oaky ping the cars at close distance from one another when they get to high speed so today is the last day of the games. are more of your world news in about half an hour.

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there is there is they don't believe. it is. responsible. for their security. for. allowing welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle welcome to the twilight zone it would seem this is the place where debbie wasserman schultz resides works and even conspires she's at the center of a growing scandal that includes ethics violations fraud embezzle mint theft lies

misrepresentations pakistan and gross mishandling of sensitive government documents and guess what none of this is being blamed on russia. talking debbie wassermann schultz i'm joined by my guess philip giraldi in washington he is a former cia counterterrorism specialist who is now executive director of the counsel for the national interest and writes for the american conservative in los angeles we have ha goodman he is a columnist and journalist published in the huffington post so long the hill and other publications and in orlando we have alex newman he is an international journalist for various conservative publications all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate philip let me go to you first in washington you came out with the excellent article in the american conservative the strange case of one. this is a huge.