it's. in the news review of the week president trump signs the new russia sanctions bill angering america's e.u.r. allies moscow describes it as this during a clearing of full scale trade war. also in the headlines in the week the sanctions screws tight nor north korea to over its missile tests as a u.s. drafted resolution is unanimously by the u.n. security council. dictator dictator venezuelan presidents also targeted by u.s. strictures over his constitutional reform referendum it's infuriated the opposition

plus. it's only an aid groups argue over how to conduct a search and rescue operations a suspicion prose the humanitarian boats including people from. good morning from moscow has just turned eleven am here now my name is kevin i will bring you the weekly around of course the big stories of the last seven days over the next thirty minutes of first relation soured further between russia and the united states on wednesday as donald trump put his signature to a new sanctions bill it's a move that sang that america's allies in europe who say their economic interests are being ignored over it even president in trump himself was reluctant to sign the law saying it limits his power to shape foreign policy. well i favor tough measures to punish and deter aggressive and destabilizing behavior by north korea and russia

this legislation is significantly flawed and its haste to pass this legislation the congress included a number of clearly unconstitutional provisions those provisions purport to displace the president's exclusive constitutional authority and those comments live a lot of questions and the way the president states that even though he stands for legislation that's unconstitutional he signed off on it as president trump swore an oath to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states but he seems to be openly doing the opposite upon approving the thanks that this bill of course is it is a terrible bill. it benefits the people of no contrary not the united states not germany not all three or in a way not russia not syria not not any of the people is the constitutional crisis our government is set up to where there are three branches that constantly

struggle one against the other. so that in itself is not totally unexpected but i do believe that the east side shows are out of heaping with the traditions of the united states and how our government functions but what looks like a constitutional crisis brewing in the us that is not the only problem trump is facing sanctions that hit russia's energy and defense sector are in theory being america's partners in europe those who work with moscow and those areas. the sanctions passed by the u.s. congress and accepted by the u.s. president mean that we have abandoned the concept of units foreign policy issues are evidently connected to american economic interests to say we want to limit russian gas in the european market so that we can sell american gas there instead this is something that we cannot accept so these sanctions seem to be leaving her. anyone happy trumps being forced to go against his constitutional beliefs america's closest european allies go on the defensive to counter what they see as

a matter is potentially in violation of international law and gets worse revelations taken further head first there is no hope for any improvement of our relations with the new american administration second a total trade war has been declared on russia the trumpet ministration has demonstrated complete impotence of all executive power to congress in the most humiliating way when these statements from trump and it with the president claiming that he can make far better deals with foreign countries than congress but with measures such as these being passed can maybe prevent it from doing just that the deep state the need. and the media are very very powerful and they can put a lot of pressure on the president so they ganged up on him he went ahead and signed it i think it was more like a political thing but there are some those who koch qualified to be participants in the deep state they are determined they are determined almost obsessed with making

sure that there is no friendship between the united states and russia between putin and trump even when the russian the soviet union existed we actually were quite willing you know when necessary to talk and work out some problems but now we're moving in the other direction you tweet president trying to blame congress for the current state of u.s. russia relations describing them as an all time low but the u.s. state department pointed the finger at moscow over it all in a lengthy exchange with reporters over the russian prime minister's reaction. he announces the end of any hope for improvement is it. is that what the entrance is at the end of that we are two nuclear superpowers. an economic declaration of war against the russian federation is it is it an economic declaration of war. was it an economic declaration of war i blushing federation that if that is what russia is saying you know russia certainly entitled to say that the russians hate

these sanctions the president says yes i do know this president agrees with them that it's bad piece of legislation well every quarter but also hold on one second the president signed a bill after all this 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 whole host of things to pull host of things so why did the president say you can think congress and it would i would have to refer you to the president on that if you understand anything else yet on russia you know russia alone ok not you're right hold on everybody take it down a notch new sanctions little gives congress the power to block the president from easing sanctions on moscow as you mentioned that's angered donald trump who's branded the legislation comes to juvenile trying to break more of what's happening in washington right now. i guess no president would like to be donald trump's shoes right now times really are getting tough as they can get for the president you know

being america's top man in charge but at the same tommy think of it not being able to exercise his power and even worse being cornered into making the decisions he doesn't want to make just to keep order and as we've been hearing from the white house spokesperson who's been explaining that very signature under that sanctions bill the president signed that countering america's adversaries through sanctions act congress has encroached on the power of the presidency and he signed it in the interest of national unity as we have been seeing both the democrats will that is kind of obvious but also of course the republican party which is technically trumps party teaming up against the president and giving him quite a drubbing month after month we kept her week and the criticism and the pressure has been building up what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for i worry about the president's understanding of some of these issues and

a ludicrous pretend for his hate campaign this president does not care about the united states of america so in these kind of circumstances under so much pressure it is little surprise that donald trump is giving in to the congress and you might argue that this really puts america on the brink of a constitutional crisis. new sanctions on north korea were agreed late on saturday after a year after the u.s. drafted a resolution. was unanimously agreed by the u.n. security council north korean exports of coal metals and seafood producing export revenue by about a third which is roughly a billion dollars a year foreign investments also be blocked this in response to north korea's continued missile tests russia believes sanctions should be the starting point for a future with north korea the u.n. members agree but there are signs that washington still mulling a military option to. we do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the

thirty eighth parallel we're trying to convey to the north koreans we are not your enemy we're not your threat every military expert says there is no good military option they're wrong. to destroy north korea's program in north korea itself he's not going to president try the ability of this madman to have a missile that hit america if there's going to be a ward of stop and it will be over there thousands die they're going to die over there and they're not going to die here and he's told me that in my face that may be provocative but i really don't judge politicians by what they say judge them by what they do and by all appearances donald trump is ready for war he's seen the pentagon's plans for north korea and in all likelihood they've already selected a battle plan is are in motion and what senator lindsey graham has said only goes

to reinforce that if millions have to die then so be it are you saying it's ok to use a military option that immediately endangers the lives of millions of people in that region. north korea changes if you have any doubts that the u.s. is preparing for war take a look at what's happening on the ground on the korean peninsula u.s. troops ships jets forces are arriving there in a ceaseless stream and see miss l. shields a blanketing the airspace there are endless simulations war games exercises this isn't about scaring north korea no this is about putting all the pieces in place so when the final go order comes they're ready to move trump the rule promised to deal with north korea he just didn't say how. well handled a career we're going to be able to handle it will be it will be handled we handle

everything oh they aren't barbarians they won't rush into a war where potentially millions of people are going to die in the first few days alone ergo you have rex tillerson the secretary of state running around talking about diplomacy negotiations talks and sanctions a diplomatic effort to dissuade north korea and to stop its nuclear program of course unclear whether he himself believes that's possible breakthrough now when it hasn't happened in decades but donald trump is on a different path and the white house's much more blunt and they're happy to tell you nothing. seems some is definitely functions season this year with venezuela also joining the restrictions club in the week the u.s. treasuries imposing tough measures against president do row after his contrave

after his victory in a controversial referendum to create a new legislative body regarded by critics as a tool to weaken the opposition as a result of today's sanctions all assets of the door subject to u.s. jurisdiction are frozen and u.s. persons are prohibited from dealing with him and you assembly will be toast with rewriting the constitution and will have the power to dissolve the current parliament the opposition defied a ban on public protests though and denounce the election as a power grab by a president would do a police in the capital deployed tear gas and rubber bullets in clashes with serious opposition supporters. the u.s. state department branded last sunday's vote as illegitimate it also describes

president widows' leadership as a dictatorship but when it comes to the sanctions that does seem to be one sphere that's off limits in stations against oil. that what i will say is we will monitor all of our options it seems we all knew about this toxic relationship. is a dictator who disregards the will of the venezuelan people not our because he says you're only telling me that they literally destroyed on a deal that lawyer out of their name. to put them into it probably did the government. is biology its own constitution. well into the equation and politics is brushed straight under the carpet his facts of how black gold unites them. protect american states being the third largest exporter of crude to the us and numbers are growing up seven percent to

around six hundred seventy thousand barrels a day when it stopped that absolutely no citgo petroleum corporation based in texas belongs to wait for its venezuela state owned oil company which means the country has access to these refineries the total capacity of about seven hundred forty nine thousand barrels per day so far the sanctions that have been a mention have been against refined venezuelan oil products and against individuals in the venezuelan government they have not been for the importation of crude the fact that they are not including crude speaks to that interdependence. and the fact that us all producers and export don't want to up the market and potentially that ten percent extraction of venezuelan oil could spike us gasoline prices as well so i think that that is the concern coming up at least trying to stop people traffickers in the mediterranean but migrant rescue charities are on board to help

we'll tell you why when we come. back a war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that don't. produce talks for the tell you that the because of the public but most important. i'm telling you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along the border with what. seemed wrong will just don't call. me. yet to say palin to stay active. and engaged because betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. syria has called on the un to end what it calls washington's massacres against civilians. as led international coalition continues to commit massacres against innocent syrian civilians but conducting systematic asterix those attacks contributed to the spread of chaos killing and destruction over six hundred people have been killed in the u.s. led coalition airstrikes in syria and iraq over the course of three years although more than four hundred reports of possible civilian casualties yet to be examined

but that's according to operation inherent results oh data however the u.k. based transparency group air was calculates that almost five thousand people have died in coalition air bombardments since the start of the operation in may the u.s. defense secretary said such losses were inevitable two billion casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation in syria thousands are still fleeing the ravages of war plus in neighboring iraq one british aid worker describes scenes of armageddon when she visited the liberated city of mosul but geo political analyst patrick henningsen says americans only see military successes on their t.v.'s. no surprise the coalition is going to want to under play any of the sort of casualty numbers for civilians from the operations in mosul and in iraq as well because it's political you know the whole operation against isis is political if

you're in the united states it's all about the theater of what the u.s. is achieving whether it's under president obama or whether it's under president tromping everything's kind of viewed through that weird kaleidoscopes in the in the united states and it has nothing to do with what's going on the ground. in lebanon hezbollah fighters managed to recapture. militants final stronghold in the country earlier this week the occasions in the arsal mountains east of lebanon right next to the syrian border both countries have conducted a joint offensive to drive illness are from that mountainous area. but not so ended just a few days ago and you can still see the remnants of that with bullets and shells all strewn across the floor and we've seen burnt out vehicles on the way up here

and got victory against hezbollah managed to capture this cave which was used by terrorists as a base so we can go inside and have a look around. inside the cave we make the shocking discovery what appear to be prison cells it's unclear why exactly elements were needed prison cells in this isolated area. of punishment. to prevent their own fighters fleeing in the middle of the night these are some of the weapons which was captured from japan and we've got these. rockets lots of tactical vests. and there are rocket launches anti tank guns and all sorts of artillery which were abandoned by now so when they were defeated and they left this cave there's even a room where battle plans are drawn up where fights is received instructions and

they take their seats and listen to the commanders ninety militants were killed in that battle and those who survived many of them fled to infighting continues between different rebel groups but some of them remained just a few kilometers away behind these mountains behind us pops more ominous lee many more of them decided to defect to the so-called islamic state and some of the hezbollah commander to tell me that they're only four kilometers away from where we are now a sally r.t. . he said lebanon. several a groups of. migrant rescue missions in the mediterranean are refusing to sign a so-called code of conduct has been drafted by italy first to the bludgers rescue missions to allow police officers on board they'd also prevents a boat from transferring refugees to other vessels insisting they take migrants to ports themselves and it bans phone calls or flares from n.g.o.s vessels in case

they're being used to war people smugglers when it's safer not to send another boat now italy insists the migrant rescue code is mandatory and anyone refusing to sign it will face consequences the medical charity doctors without borders though believes it could put people in peril. goes against our mission which is to save lives and it goes against this really goes against our hearts what we are as a medical and humanitarian organisation and it's not something that. this code has been partially drawn up after some n.g.o.s were accused of acting as a taxi service basically working alongside people traffickers to get migrants into europe it's a concern that's been repeatedly voiced by a group known as defend europe the anti migrant movement even crowd funded the mediterranean mission to monitor the work of the ngos. against mass immigration to europe wants to stop this madness this n.g. all madness in the military and because everybody's just talking in the what is

acting feeling you're stepping in what you're doing you're going to do is you're going to all watch t.v. and you also and i think what they're doing there is it's nothing to it because they're actually a support factor and basically they had a reason for this mess migration yet the recent people drowning and the up making a fortune for this human trafficking rings in libya destabilizing the country i think the future for africa and europe the future for europe cannot be to become second africa. also this week it's the seized german group's migrant rescue boat which was suspected of helping smugglers it's the first time at least sees a humanitarian boat and is part of a government initiative agreed this week to send military vessels to libyan shows to stop people traffickers this year's long migrant crisis is still far in promotions across europe. and the moment europe is responsible for the destructions in africa a lot and when you look at that it's necessary to open legal ways for refugees but

europe shouldn't lead to countries like italy like spain like portugal with the problem but all european countries should take responsibility and so the people who are. members on this ship and refugee headboards 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 joy i see very clearly that this is not a humanitarian help it is not a military 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 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 country 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. the pentagon this denying claims that it knew about torture and killings carried out by elite forces in the central african state of cameroon the group known as the rapid intervention battalion obey are reportedly carried out a legal acts at a military base where u.s. troops were conducting training as reports. according to amnesty international it's pretty clear that the african nation of cameroon is not a human rights paradise reports published in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen highlighted how cameroon's authours ease and security forces often fail to respect obligations committing human rights violations including with arbitrary arrests incommunicado detention torture and deaths in custody these atrocities are taking place even at a military base that's being used by u.s. troops i saw white men inside many times and i heard them talking in english i

think they were americans everyone said they were americans and we knew american soldiers stuck material in psylocke usa has over three hundred military personnel in the country to help in the fight against the bulk of around terrorist group but it's what's going on at the military base where some of them are present that's raising alarm bells b.o.r. agents are asked me to confess that i was noms smuggler but i denied it while still tied up my head was forced into a barrel of water while i was in this position they beat the soles of my feet one after the other they would hit me we were tortured like this for a week and we ended up understanding that we had to tell them that we were arm smugglers in order not to die so that's what we did the guards came with be our soldiers to ask me questions about whether i knew book or arms members i said i didn't that beat me for five days tied up like a goat my arms and features trained behind my back but the u.s. african command says it's never heard any such reports to date u.s. africa command has not received any reports of human rights abuses by cameroonian

forces at either of these locations. perhaps she needs to have a chat with the certain state department. security forces committed numerous unlawful killings that engaged in torture beatings and of abuses particularly of detainees and prisoners. maybe the us african command just doesn't trust the big wigs back home when we're saying that we're talking specifically about a u.s. service member reporting up their chain of command not about external reports. if there is a vital interests for the u.s. military in a particular country there's a tendency not to. human rights violations in those particular states cameroon does have or oil and it is willing to work with the u.s. for various joint military operations so in that regard the us does have a interests in developments and. when information is inconvenient it often gets

ignored so is it any surprise that when there are reports of u.s. allies who are violating human rights washington seems to look the other way but r.t. new york the news or the week continues in half an hour of you watching this sunday thanks for watching on. this manufacture consent of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the fine. be the one percent. making the middle of the room sick. to leave the. room.

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