the u.s. is urgently addressing leaks from the white house says transcripts of travelers calls with world leaders all released by the media raising fears over national security. washington blames russia for escalating the diplomatic crisis between the two countries while donald trump accuses congress of souring the time with new sanctions. and the opposition in venezuela says it will defy the newly elected constituent assembly and continue to work in the parliament.

thank you for watching r.t. international coming to you live from the russian capital with the global news i'm kate partridge. well the u.s. department of justice is just about to hold a briefing on the battle against leaks of classified information that's after the trumpet ministration was hit by yet another scandal over an also rise disclosure well our correspondent jacqueline very good now joins me live from washington with well no there jacki well the u.s. now seems quite determined to plug the leaks after such a high profile disclosure doesn't it. yes any minute now attorney general just sessions and other top administration officials are expected to begin briefing the public on their battle against these illegal leaks coming from the white house now that it's expected that they will outline details of their investigation to root

out those who are leaking this classified material this show force comes after the washington post published what is likely the most dangerous leak to have happened up to this point the transcripts of trump's phone calls with two foreign leaders from back in january of this year these documents getting out is seen as an explosive leak given that they involve the highly corrupt classified conversations with the mexican president and the australian prime minister the call records reveal that trump asked his mexican counterpart to stop publicly saying that his country would not pay for the border wall and they also show tensions between the president and the australian prime minister over refugees let's take a listen to some of the excerpts from those calls 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 let people into the country. now reports of already surfaced over the idea of using a lie detector test on a small number of people within the west wing who might have had access to the call and these leaks have provoked by part. with even trump's critics saying that this is crossing the line. a former u.s. ambassador argues that the leak of this magnitude actually puts national security at risk and the trumpet ministration has long been fighting to stop illegal acts and now we may find out how they plan to do just that it will also be very important to watch and see how other world leaders react knowing that their conversations with the president may not be private some day jeff and the guy who's in washington d.c. for r.t. thank you very much indeed. well earlier we discussed the latest leaks with former

u.s. diplomat jim joshua sewell side believes the leaks pose a major threats to national security what could be bored damaging it for the present the 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 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. while the u.s. state department has blamed russia for a new low in its relations with moscow itself the president donald trump signed his approval to the latest sanctions bill 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 well translators seems to have a different view on the issue he says on twitter the blame for the souring relations line is slowly up the doors of the. u.s. congress he also called the russia sanctions bill which received overwhelming support in both houses kaley unconstitutional well such overwhelming backing meant even if the president had vetoed the bill lawmakers would likely have overruled him the new law also gives congress the power to block trouble from easing any of the restrictions the rockwell the founder of an american think tank believes the president should be more assertive in his opposition to the sanctions bill. 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 probably feeling he now is to become another war president making war against many 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. 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 day of 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 maturity 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 duro to kim jong il and 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 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 so hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons to saudi arabia. is that for double standards u.s. 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. plans for a new synagogue in sydney australia and 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 the synagogue was to be built a few hundred metres from the iconic beach but all sorts has ruled it could pose

a threat to local residents extra security measures were added to the plans but these were deemed likely by the council when a spokesman for the jewish group that appealed against the decision believes the ruling is a victory for the terrorists. it basically implies the jewish organization should be allowed to exist in residential areas it stands to start a full jewish existence and activity in sydney and indeed by creating a precedent the whole of australia and by extension boarding time as. potential terror attacks have already been hitting the headlines this week in australia off to a plot to blow up an airliner was spoiled two men were charged with tara fences on thursday over an aborted attempt to place an explosive device i want to find out of sydney police called it one of the most sophisticated plots ever attempted in the country islamic state reportedly help organize it what despite this australian jewish activist abbie yemeni believes the terrorists are still winning when you

synagogues are being banned they're difficult to mike targeting the jewish community because they may become victim or these radical islamists is certainly not the way to go about it it's sending the wrong message that's a win for the islamists exactly what they want they are they are they are trying the way our society runs i'll be lady a demonstration the next sunday which you will have from across the border across a strange society who are outraged by this decision this is not a jewish issue this isn't a strain issue tomorrow it could be a stadium it could be a train station it could be anything but strength and will not care what terrorism and hunt they want to see our government or i think islamic terror they don't. well will the record gains on the u.s. stock markets last find out after the show break. it's.

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come along for the. welcome back amid the current turmoil in the white house donald trump is delighted with one positive development the record gains on the american stock markets but the president's joy might be short lived as a level of pain 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 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 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 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 imperium but from what i've seen like. we're all struggling a lot of people don't have jobs. by the jobs you know housing and everything is a semester of everything is going downhill maybe the working classes have a reason to be skeptical. on the floor. because of the crisis on wall street who. cares and there. has been these. disease but i. think. 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 black or turned a blind eye to what was actually gone it was a lack of regulation and 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 a regulation that's been so bad. so out of line that it's really hurt our country and 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 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 sighed 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 four. r.t. new york. journalist brendan 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 suicides 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. 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 n s p c c if the decisions being made to feel being told when where you marry who you marry that's forced marriage. support is available to help you make it stop. all the charity says there's been a twelve percent increase in counseling sessions relating to arranged marriages compared to 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 marriage is a part of the culture 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 a normal teenage life but they will let me we spoke to jasmine decided gira 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 chosen 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 was married at fifteen had committed suicide here's what she told us. people believe because we are a democracy because we have the rule of law that these things couldn't possibly be how mean in england clearly they are and it's very important to know forced

marriage and honor of use is fundamentally against every religion be islam sikhism or hindu is a fundamental he speaks out against it but victims are not cool so families we've used 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 and to marriage and this is not acceptable in any religion tradition or culture but i'm victims need to know that they haven't been tool because it's not in the interest of the family to tell because it would empower them. and major rescue operations underway at a diamond mine in the far east of russia or after it was flooded earlier on friday one hundred forty two people have been brought to the surface so far with nine still missing from on cancer it has more on the incident russia's emergency service officials say that the incident took place due to flooding and exhausted my near

the pumping station of the. diamond mine with some three hundred thousand cubic metres of water breaking through now the diamond mine belongs to all rolls company 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 to this point after all roads are kompany said that the incident did not affect production in any way whatsoever the rescue effort is ongoing and we'll have more updates for you a little later on. also it is in italy have impounded a boat belonging to a german group reportedly rescuing migrants in the mediterranean this is footage released by the italian coast guard showing the old. surratt is 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. the in several cases these interventions see by the boat carried out not to save people who find themselves in imminent danger but simply to pick up people in school to buy libyan traffickers. well this comes after italy presented a controversial code of conduct to aid groups it demands a police presence on ngo vessels and bounds the transfer of refugees to other ships phone calls or flares from n.g.o.s boats are also forbidden 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 the document well earlier i discussed the issue with italian journalist marcelo four and german politician martin dogs. 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 known to countries like italy like spain like portugal with a problem but all european countries should take responsibility and so will the people who are. members on this ship and on other refugee had boats as well they just want to save lives because in 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 die see very clearly that this is not the 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 it 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 is on board be 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 either the crew nor the ngo has been formally accused of anything. i'll be back with more news in just over half of the.

social environment. chemical discoveries over the last century made every day life easier but at what cost this is serial is exceptionally. well under it's confidential. this is just three years old industrial giants reaps the benefit ignoring the harm caused by chemical production. you know as if these people aren't people just experimental animals decades later the toxic environment continues to poison lives and we found these astronomically high levels of backs and levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels ever in the united states for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed what will that investigation into the chemical industry secrets revealed. this respect.

live live. live . you know dollars are you filling in for lindy france this is broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. coming up fares where it's a solid bull market is down twenty two thousand for the first time ever also reaching new heights the u.s. debt the government crashes toward the limit with congress yet to vote on raising

the ceiling will it get done before money runs dry and up for grabs amazon is looking for fifty thousand new employees holding job fairs around the country and hiring on the spot the big three report from one warehouse in baltimore that time starts right now. u.s. investors disenchanted with the dollar are falling in love with european stocks but like any affair it comes with risk to star we've seen europe outperform in a number of areas which actually has some has a tenth the market will correct itself and then there's the case of e.u. banks they're still nearly one trillion euros worth of bad loans in the european banking system that's more than five percent of all e.u.

loans while as a whole banks could probably still make the average ratio there's a huge difference from country to country ranging from bad loans making up one percent to nearly fifty percent of all loans the countries with the highest bad loan ratios are greece cyprus portugal italy slovenia and ireland this month the you officials have proposed coming up with one cohesive strategy to deal with possible bank runs when the concern about a bank's future leads to its customers running to the a.t.m. to withdraw their funds. that proposal includes freezing withdrawals though the rules would allow customers to take out a little money in case of emergency talks on the proposal are expected to pick back up in september but already the critics are coming out saying this type of moratorium never works chaos ensues and the move essential makes the bank dead on arrival.

the ball breaks through the dow jones industrial average hit a new high wednesday topping twenty two thousand for the first time ever the record is just one in a series of highs since the election of president donald trump the question is are the market moves a direct result of the new president either his policy proposals or efforts to reduce financial regulation our next guest is ever most qualified to talk about this former u.s. trade commissioner bart chilton bar you have to admit since the election since it was known that president trump was going to be president the markets have been on a tear does he deserve some credit for that i think he does i mean you're absolutely right it they've been up since the inaugural samone twenty one new records and thirteen of those those thirteen of those since the inaugural twenty one cents since the election so yeah he deserves some credit but you know it depends upon what's going to happen in the future about whether or not.