ethics violations fraud and gross mishandling of sensitive government docs just what none of this is being blamed on russia. washington blames russia for the escalating diplomatic crisis while donald trump blames congress for de writing relations with moscow over sanctions. another leak from the white house transcripts of the u.s. president's calls with world leaders all released by the media raising fears over u.s. national security. the opposition in venezuela says it will refuse to leave parliament as the country's newly elected constituent assembly prepares for its first session. and a german rescue boat with migrants on board is seized by italian also refused to

suspect the crew had been in contact with libyan people smugglers. who are watching the global news on r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. the u.s. state department has blamed russia for a new low in relations with moscow this follows the latest sign actions bill that president donald trump signed on wednesday so you are you saying that russia is to blame for the low in relations right now. russia has 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. well president trump there seems to have a different view on the issue he took to twitter to say that the recent low in u.s. russian relations was the fault of the u.s. congress he also called the bill plainly unconstitutional the legislation that imposes new sanctions on russia received overwhelming support in both houses well that means that even if the president had vetoed the bill it's highly likely he would have been overruled by the lawmakers then you know also gives congress the power to block from easing sanctions on the moscow new rockwell the founder of an american singing sang says the president shouldn't be more assertive in his opposition to the sanctions bill mr schumer you know the president i guess felt that he had signed 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 the recommending 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. here the most is feeling now is to become another war president making war against any more different product 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. all russia's alleged meddling in the u.s. elections has dominated recent headlines but follows attention is given to the fact that americans think tanks which can influence u.s. policy are often generously funded by foreign players jaclyn to look at why this isn't regarded as foreign meddling. it's interesting in a certain stories around the idea of foreign powers influencing their merican

democratic process and an effort to help battle the threats. meddling poses we thought 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 has provided a forum for ideas for thoughts and i think the country and 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 of the carnegie endowment for international peace is a truly international institution working to advance the cause of peace democracy and the. it's an honor to be here. carnegie but truth is that for generations. has been training for global she 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 worrisome foreign influence really is and where it's truly coming from. washington d.c. . the opposition in venezuela says the country's parliament will refuse to dissolve itself even if it's ordered to find a new constituent assembly this is set to hold its first session on friday the international community has also expressed its concerns the u.s. has been the most vocal branding last sunday's vote in a just a minute he also calls president nicolas maduro his leadership a dictatorship and as word goes to have reports being deed to dictator these days

he's easy. little the jew know there is actually two ways to become a dictator there is 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 material 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. it's already begun their equating 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 mugabe. 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 controls 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. is 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 u.s. interests u.s. 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. isn't it you can rule 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. in italy have seized a boat belonging to a german group reportedly rescuing migrants in the mediterranean this is footage released by the italian coast guard showing the or thora to his impounding the ship the vessel was intercepted on wednesday as part of a government initiative it's designed to counter the surge in migrants mostly africans trying to reach italy from libya officials claim crew members from the boat were working with people smugglers. the in several cases these interventions see the boat carried out not to save people who find themselves in imminent danger but simply to pick up people or school to buy libyan trafficker.

well this comes after italy presented a controversial code of conduct to aid groups the cow dumond's a police presence on ngo vessels and bans the transfer of refugees to other ships phone calls all flows from n.g.o.s vessels are all safe a bit in those 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 a document well earlier i discussed the issue with italian journalist much elo father and martin told a german politician oh 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 shouldn't leave her alone to countries like italy like spain like portugal with a problem but all european countries should take responsibility and so the people who are. members on this ship and on other refugee had boats as well they just want

to save lives because of the last ten years there was more than forty thousand people dying in the mediterranean sea and they just don't want to see the people die i see very clearly that this is not the you money tell you and help is not the money to an s.o.s. but it's helping those people arriving in italy and the refugees that are coming in are paying huge sums to human traffickers this is immoral and i would say that it is true that. the destruction of libya was a mistake of historical mistake but i don't see why a contra single country like italy 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 fatalities that activist who is on board the impounded refugee rescue ship told us what happened. i would need to know 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 our known persons leader the crew nor the n.-g. o. has been formally accused of anything. recent figures in the u.k. show a marked increase in the number of children 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 forced marriage and legal. support and advice is available to help you make a stop. all the charges says there's been

a twelve percent increase in counseling sessions related to arranged marriage compared with the previous year their web page dedicated to the issue has received over six thousand hits and there's also been an increase in the actual number of forced child marriages. the new figures show a seventeen percent increase in the u.k. in just a year the majority of the children are from countries where child marriages are part of the culture is 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 normal teenage life but they will let me. we spoke to jasmine decide who campaigns to protect children from forced marriages when she was sixteen she was locked in a room after she refused to marry a man picked by her parents she ran away with her secret boyfriend and stopped

talking to her family later she found out that one of her sisters who got married at fifteen had committed suicide here's what she told us 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 of use is fundamentally against every religion islam seeks the more hindu is a fundamentalist speaks out against it but 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've 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. another scandal has hit the white house more on that

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important as they. tell me you are not cool enough to please. we all. walk. welcome back with the u.s. justice department expected to declare war on leaks this friday the trump administration has been hit by yet another scandal over an on also rise disclosure the washington post published two transcripts of the american presidents phone calls with foreign leaders which took place in january according to the court records trump asked his mexican counterpart and wreak a penny and the other to stop a publicly saying his country won't pay for the proposed war on the us mexico border there port also revealed trump's disagreements with australian prime

minister malcolm turnbull over a refugee resettlement 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 and the world's greatest person that does not want to lead people into the country. we talked to jim jack a former u.s. diplomats who believes leaks like this undermine u.s. national security what could be more damaging if 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 which we have here in washington 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 do that. well amid the current turmoil in the white house donald trump was delighted with one positive developments the record gains on the american stock market but the president's joy might be short lived his kind of bullpen 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 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 suit stewing outstanding it's setting records so it's doing very well yes but the average american doesn't really share their enthusiasm a big a lot of people are suffering i think it started to go union jobs like you know i mean everybody everybody out. but from what i've seen like. a. lot of people have jobs. jobs no housing everything is. going down so now all of us some he comes in office the stock market is zooming 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 very busy that's the thing 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 chris and bank industry lawyers now controlling costs and regulation trump has become dismantling the guardrails they're meant to protect the public from wall street the trumpet ministrations changes would make americans more vulnerable to the sort of reckless bets that up end of the economy in two thousand and eight and two scams men 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. bill 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 says giving too much power to the banks could

result in 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 get occupy wall street compass 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. now 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 across the u.s. relocate to texas a state known for its traditional values it's already being flooded with inquiries most of them from californians found paul szabo says the golden state isn't what it used to be. california's completely different it's a mess they have some of the worst schools in the country with their 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 because 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 own a living the democrats twenty years ago in america they don't exist in america anymore when we also got reaction from locals in bias california texas. as a bringing their. skills or bringing their. hard work and dedication here i mean they can make in california they can definitely make it here. in the pioneer. group but. being a conservative or republican or being

a liberal probably can go 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 and they're happy then that's where they're happy. about it more news at the top of the. welcome to max kaiser financial survival guide. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. you watch kaiser report. you can see the border from here was a. steel fence on this side goes all the way down.

like i said this is this is all. and this is all. i have every right to be here have a right to call collect my food be a part of my family on both sides of the border. play started an organization called the arizona border recall that we or the state a little bit into. that is doing. with these to be done in the five years it's getting worse the violence is escalating because it's building. bridges really good are great when somebody calls you know they believe that their ranch is there are areas and they don't believe. that is taking responsibility for their security which we would for anywhere else.

greetings i'm sorry you terry. all right hawk watchers i want you to think about what you were doing on august second it was it was just a day or so ago on wednesday some i'm sure you can all remember did you wash your car or grind away at your job debate president trump's latest tweet and whether or not that late afternoon c.n.n. anchor did indeed have a little work. another words probably felt like any other day of the week but it wasn't not by a long shot you see wednesday august second two thousand and seventeen representative earth overshoot and out what exactly is earth overshoe day you ask well that's the day every year that human beings have officially consumed more natural resources

than the earth can annually provide so according to environmental groups like the world wildlife fund and the global footprint network from now till december thirty first we humans will be with having a nature's credit and a joint statement the two environmental groups stated in seven months we emitted more carbon than the oceans and forests can absorb in a year we caught more fish more trees harvested more and consumed more water than the earth was able to produce in the same period. earth overshoe day as been marked annually since one thousand nine hundred three and to give you an idea of just how bad we've been over bennett overconsuming our natural resources budget in one thousand nine hundred the overshoot bell on december seventh we've been climbing backwards up the calendar ever since leda mickelson policy adviser for food and agriculture at the german development network in kota told.