the economy is great the fall because. washington blames russia for the escalating the diplomatic crisis between them while donald trump accuses congress of siring the ties with new sanctions. the u.s. is actually addressing leaks from the white house's transcript of trump's calls with world leaders are released by the media raising fears over national security and. the opposition in venezuela says it will defy the newly elected constituent assembly and continue to work in the cleveland. and german rescue boat rescuing migrants in the mediterranean is impounded by italian or storage is

few suspects the crew had been working with libyan people smugglers. thank you for joining us r.t. international broadcasting live from the global news from moscow partridge. the u.s. state department has blamed russia for a new low in its relations with moscow that's after president donald trump assigned his approval to the latest sunshines bell on wednesday so you are you saying that russia is to blame for the low in relations right now look 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 trying though seems to have a different view on the issue he says on twitter the blame for the souring relations life's only out the doors of the u.s. congress he also called the russia signed actions bill which received overwhelming support in both houses kaley on constitutional. well such overwhelming facking meant even if the president had vetoed the bill lawmakers would likely have to overrule to a new door also gives congress the power to block trump from easing any of the restrictions well the rockwell the founder of an american think tank believes the president should have been 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 and i must say i fear the most is probably feeling he now has to become another war president 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 in the u.s. elections has dominated recent headlines but little attention is given to the fact that americans think tanks which have a strong influence on u.s. policy are often generously funded by foreign players. looks at why this isn't regarded as foreign meddling. that's interesting in a certain stories around the idea of foreign powers influencing their merican democratic process and in an effort to help battle the threat such meddling poses

we thought we don't like in 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. 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 to advance the cause of peace mocker see . it's an honor to be here. and corny but truth is for generations. has been training for a global shoot 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 huge chunks 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 ordered to do so by the new constituent assembly the body is set to hold its first session on friday the international community has also expressed its concerns the u.s. is the most vocal branding last sunday's vote illegitimate it also calls president nicolas maduro as leadership a dictatorship and as more i guess dave reports being deemed a dictator these days is rather 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 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 controls everything. in saudi arabia

he has deprived his people of freedom democracy choice pulque about dancing with the devil. what does washington do sells hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons to saudi arabia. that double standards us foreign policy is entirely hypocritical i mean they only characterize government says dictatorial or author terry and 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. isn't it you can rule oppress and kill all

you want without repercussions but only if you bend to washington. you can do none of that and still wind up being called a dictator. 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 the british children's charity the p.c.c. . if the decisions being made if you've been told. where you marry who you marry forced marriage and. support is available to help you make you stop. all the charity says there's been a twelve percent increase in counselling sessions relating to arranged marriages compared with the previous year its web page dedicated to the issue has received

more than six thousand hits and there's also been an increase in the actual number of forced child marriages. when you 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 ghost 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 bend a single campaigns to protect children from forced marriages when she was sixteen she was locked in a room after she refused to marry a man chosen 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 was 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 but it's very important to know that forced marriage and honor of use is fundamentally against every religion islam seeks the hindu is fundamentally speaks out against it but victims are not taught so families would use these as just a few creations 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. plans for a new synagogue in sydney australia has been banned amid fears it could become the target of an iso inspired terror attack the decision by the local council was up held in court this week or synagogue was to be built

a few hundred metres from the iconic bondi beach but also it has ruled it could pose a threat to local residents extra security measures were added to the plans but these were deemed unsightly by the council spokesman for the jewish group that appealed against the decision and believes 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 or potential terror attacks have already been hitting the headlines this week in australia after a plot to blow up an airliner was foiled two men were charged with tara fences on thursday over an aborted attempt to place an explosive device yard wide out of sydney police called it one of the most sophisticated plots ever attempted in the country islamic state reportedly helped organize it despite this international

relations expert you know i can't mark believes banning the construction of a synagogue over tara fields is irrational. 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 astray 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. the u.s. justice department is about to make a large scale war against leaks as more of them appear in the media that story

after the short break. seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days to come to the ticket and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart if we choose to look for common ground.

the feeling of. every. period. that you get it out of the your. world according to josh. come along for the. welcome back with the u.s. justice department expected to officially declare a war on leaks in about an hour's time the trumpet ministration has been hit by yet another scandal over and also rise disclosure the washington post published two transcripts of the president's phone calls with foreign leaders which took place in january when according to the call records trump asked his mexican counterpart in the cape benyamin at though to stop publicly saying his country whether to pay for the proposed war on the u.s. mexican border well the report also reveals trumps disagreements with the

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 lead people into the country. a lot of the white house hasn't commented on the latest leaks former u.s. diplomats jim jatra spinny's disclosures 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 remain we have here in washington that nothing is too bad to do to 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 i made as the current turmoil in the white house donald trump was delighted with one positive development the record gains on the american stock market but the president's joy might be short lived 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 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 a 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 buy 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 but the average american doesn't really share their enthusiasm a big a lot of people are suffering out there you 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. the jobs you know housing and everything is the last of everything is going downhill 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 like people these do for twenty years and they are losing their jobs and these are going to go out this is

a big i. think actually i did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of you know fat cat 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 gone 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 present. 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 now not everyone agrees with the president on that a recent report from the public advocacy group called public citizen had this to say 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 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 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 mop and r.t. new york or journalist brenton l'engle fears another market crash is looming if too much power is given to the banks. 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 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. now a major rescue operation is underway at a diamond mine in the far east of russia or after it was flooded earlier on friday ron paul joins me with more details. hi there ron so what's the latest that we know or rescue efforts is ongoing just like you said and we're getting updates every minute here this is that seventeen miners at least seventeen miners are still unaccounted for there in the meanwhile one hundred thirty three people have been evacuated all but all of those people have refused. medical help

according to local health care officials now russia's emergency service officials say that. flooding and exhaust near the pumping station off the. diamond it with some three hundred thousand cubic meters of water breaking through now the diamond mine belongs to all rolls kompany whose shares fell by two and a half percent right after the news of the incident broke however. most of those losses have been recovered up to this point after all rolls the company said that the incident did not affect production in any way whatsoever like i said again the risk for it is ongoing and we'll have more updates for you a little later on. in dave as art is renowned thank you very much indeed. meanwhile authorities in italy have impounded a boat belonging to a german group reportedly rescuing migrants in the mediterranean well this is

footage released by the italian coast guard showing the authorities seizing 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 boats were working with people smugglers. in the in several cases these interventions see by the boat with carried out not to save people who find themselves in imminent danger but simply to pick up people a schoolteacher by libyan traffickers. and it comes after italy presented a controversial code of conduct to aid groups it demands a police presence on n.g.i. vessels and bombs the transfer of refugees two of the ships phone calls all flags from n.g.o.s boats are also for baden as they could be used to communicate to people smugglers 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 macho four and german politician martin. zero 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 alone to countries like italy like spain like politics 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 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 see very clearly that this is not tell you money tell you and 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 a huge sums to human traffic us this is immoral and i would say that it is true that. the destruction of libya was a mistake of historical me see but i don't see why 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 acute this we want an activist who is on board the impounded ship describe what happened. 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 each of the crew nor the ngo has been formally accused of anything. i'll be back at the top of the revenue sidelines

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