but there already yes it will be at the top of that they got a call i think with your comment that my dad allowed to go to. washington blames russia for the escalating diplomatic crisis while donald trump blames congress for d. waiting relations with moscow the sanctions. meanwhile another leak from the white house transcripts of the u.s. president's calls with world leaders are released by the media raising fears of a u.s. national security. the opposition in venezuela says it will refuse to leave collins as the country's newly elected constituent assembly prepares its first session. and a german rescue boat with migrants on board the seas by italian authorities who suspects the true had been in contact with libyan people smugglers.

this is r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow thank you for watching. the u.s. state department has blamed russia for a new low in relations with moscow this follows the latest sign sions bill that president donald trump signed on wednesday. 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 alexion related activities or their activities in ukraine they've also harassed u.s. diplomats there i mean there are a whole host of things the president trying though. seems to have

a different view on the issue he took to twitter to say that the recent low in u.s. russia relations was the fault of the u.s. congress he also cool to the bill it clearly unconstitutional legislation that imposes new sanctions on russia received overwhelming support it. well that means that even if the president had vetoed the bill it's highly likely he would have been overruled by the law and make his new law also gives congress the power to blunt trauma from easing sanctions on must pay new rockwell the founder of an american sink says the president should have been more sensitive in his opposition to the sanctions bill mr hugh 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 to recommend and then 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 probably feeling he now has to become another war president making war against any more different projects 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. well rushes and edged meddling in the u.s. elections has dominated recent headlines but father less attention is given to the fact that americans think tanks which can influence u.s. policy are often generously funded by foreign players and into their looks at why this isn't regarded as foreign meddling. this year has seen 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 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 provided a forum for ideas for thought 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 in the 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 isn't alone in the story the carnegie endowment for international peace is a truly international institution working for grabs a cause of peace democracy and the. truth is that for generations guarded. 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 though 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. . the opposition in venezuela says the country's parliament will refuse to dissolve itself even if it's altered to do so by the new constituent assembly this is set to hold its first session on friday while the international community has also expressed its concerns the u.s. has been the most vocal branding last sunday's vote illegitimate it also calls president nicolas maduro his leadership a dictatorship and owes more i guess to have reports being deemed a dictator these days is 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 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 portray 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 repression of his people what about this guy the king of saudi arabia his opponents 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 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. or sorties 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 author of 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 and officials claim crew members from the boat were working with people smugglers. the in several cases these interventions see the boats were carried out not to save people who find themselves in imminent danger but simply to pick up people or school to buy libyan traffickers . but it comes after italy presented a controversial code of conduct to aid groups the demands

a police presence on n.g.o.s vessels and bounds the transfer of refugees to other ships phone calls off list from n.g.o.s vessels are all safe a bit in the us 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 marcelo for law and not in 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 children people to countries like italy like spain like the problem but all european countries should take responsibility and so the people who are. members on this ship and refugee had bought as well they just want to save lives because in 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 that 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 this kind of fatigue this. activist who was on board the impounded refugee rescue ship told us what happened. i would need to get all 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.s been formally accused of anything. recent figures in the u.k. are marching 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. the decisions being made they feel being told when you marry where you marry who you marry that's forced marriage and a legal. support vice is available to help you make a stop. on the charity says 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 and there's also been an act increase in the actual number of forced child marriages where 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 marriage is a part of the culture here 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 a normal teenage life but they will let me. we spoke to just vendor sanghera 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 stop 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 have been 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 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 have victims need to know that they have 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 after the break.

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that. come along for the ride. 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 on also rise disclosure the washington post published two transcripts of the american president's phone calls with foreign leaders which took place in january when according to the call records trump asked his mexican counterpart enrique pena nieto to stop publicly saying he's country won't pay for the post war on the us mexican border the report 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 i am the world's greatest person that does not want to let people into the country. and we see former u.s. diplomats jim job trance who believes leaks like this undermine u.s. national security but could be more damaging if for 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 remain religion we have here in washington you know 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 term or in the white house donald trump is delighted with one positive developments the record gains on the american stock market but 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 well 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. talking about bush it's obviously great news that the economy is doing well i think that's generally a good buy for everyone you know on the other hand i think it's not unusual for a new administration to sometimes want to 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 just going 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 the china to go union jobs like you know i mean everybody everybody is inside of the opinion but from what i've seen like. we're all struggling a lot of people don't have jobs. i buy a little bit john you know housing and everything is a celeste of everything is going downhill so now i have a cell he comes in an office the stock market is zooming sky high. but then everything else is going low why a people minimum wage so that some fifty maybe the working classes have a reason to be skeptical 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 very busy i still think. i did not run for office to be helping out 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 bankers 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 two scams by unscrupulous 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 with 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. art see new york one generous pension langan says giving too much power to the banks could result in another market crash 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 compas 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 aren't tired of the liberal ways in your home state you might have a way out a company called conservative move launched in may to help families from across the u.s. relocate to texas a state named for its traditional values it's already been flooded with inquiries most of them from californians found

a push up or says the golden state isn't what it used to be today california is 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 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. coastal democrats these limousine liberals if you will live along the coastal region of new york san francisco and 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 are communities to increase cause 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 and we also got reaction to the migration plan from locals in both california and texas. 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 to do so. in the pioneer. group but. being a conservative republican or being a liberal probably can go far as a person i think people are different regardless so i would accept that just california you know either accept it or don't accept it and move on with your life forever in their happy then that's where they're happy. the construction of

a synagogue in the australian city of sydney has been bound over fears it could become the target of an isolated spied terror attack the decision was made by the local council and upheld by a coach this week the synagogue was to be built a few hundred metres from the country's iconic beach but it was considered to pose a threat to local residents extra security systems had been included in the blueprints but these were deemed on slightly five north or eighty's spokesman for the jewish groups that appealed against the decision says the ruling is a victory for the terrorists. it basically implies that no jewish organization should be allowed to exist in residential areas it stands to start a full jewish existence and activity in sydney and then the by creating a precedent the whole of australia and by extension rewarding terrorism well the route over the planned synagogue comes after australia averted a terror attack on

a passenger plane two men were charged with tara fences on thursday over an aborted attempt to place an explosive device on a flight out of sydney trains call it one of the most sophisticated plots ever attempted in the country islamic state reported they helped organize it international relations expert i think i can't mark thinks the synagogue construction ban is irrational actually the problem is that it for awards anybody who is against the construction of houses of worship in this environment where the risk of attack is deemed probable and where you've got headlines in the israeli and press talking about a certain number of terrorist attacks that have been foiled and you've got a prime minister who is insisting in a broader sense that the security service is the best in the world he supposedly tells us and you've got a classic storm as it were to make. you know irrational assessments of this sort of thing at a particular juncture it's irrelevant it doesn't matter any more about construction

or anything like that it's just the insecurity of decision making. that could more news at the top of the hour. you can see the border from the. steel fence on this side. like i said this is this is. and this is. you have every right to be here have a right to collect my food be a part of my family on both sides of the border. good organization called the

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