this serious serious problem had not actually been addressed what will that investigation into the chemical industry secrets revealed. this was. the worst of. this week's top stories president trump signs the new russia sanctions bill angry america's e.u. allies moscow describing it is declaring a full scale war. the south. korea to over its missile tests as the u.s. drafted resolutions unanimously backed by the u.n. security council. that dictator dictator. venezuelan president is also targeted by u.s. restrictions of his constitutional reform referendum which is infuriating the opposition. italy and aid groups argue over how to conduct migrant search and

rescue operations a suspicion grows that humanitarian boats that colluding with people trafficked. to do for me kevin knowing just told me today here in moscow brigadier the weekly all round up of the big news stories of the last seven days over the next thirty minutes or be can stay with me for at least some more if not all of it we start with this 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 it's angered america's allies in europe who say they're economic interests of being ignored by it even president trump himself was reluctant to sign the law saying it limits his power to shape foreign policy. while 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 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 these 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 us president mean that we have abandoned the concept of units foreign policy issues or other deadly 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 its 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 he may be prevented 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 coca-cola fied to be per 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. do sanctions low gives congress the power to block the president from easing sanctions and as we mentioned that's donald trump who did the legislation comes to change trying to break what's happening in washington. i guess no president would like to be. 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 president signed that countering america's adversaries 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 true party teaming up against the president and giving him quite a drubbing month after month we kept her weak 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. meantime parallel to all this new sanctions on north korea

were agreed late on saturday after a u.s. drafted resolution was unanimously agreed by the un security council it bans north korean exports of coal metals and seafood reducing export revenue by about a third that equates to about a billion dollars a year foreign investments also being blocked is in response to north korea's continued missile tests russia believes sanctions should be the starting point for future dialogue with north korea other un members agree but there are signs that washington is still mulling a military option. every military expert says there is no good military option they are wrong there is an option to destroy north korea's program in north korea itself he's not going to president the ability of this madman to have a missile that hit america if there's going to be a war to stop and it will be over there. they're going to die over there and

they're not going to die here and he's told me that to my face that may be provocative but not really china north korea to stop actions which might escalate the situation in the region but it's also calling for a halt to the deployment of u.s. anti missile system in south korea known as one expert told us north korea is only reacting to the potential threat from the u.s. and south korea well i think it's very unfortunate actually u.n. security council has passed this resolution and i think it misplaces the blame for the tension on the korean peninsula. nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. talks about reckless actions but every year hundreds of thousands of south korean towns of thousands of u.s. troops participate in military maneuvers in korea that are openly aimed at regime change in north korea they're rehearsing for regime change. some are definitely seems to be sanctions season this year with venezuela also

joining the restrictions club the u.s. treasuries imposing tough measures against president madeira there after his victory in a controversial referendum to create a new legislative body regarded by critics is a tool to weaken the opposition. as a result of today's sanctions all assets of subject to u.s. jurisdiction are frozen and u.s. persons are prohibited from dealing with him so now a new assembly is going to be tasked with rewriting the constitution and it will have the power to dissolve the parliament the opposition defied about the public protests and denounce the election as a power grab by president maduro police in the capital deployed to gas and rubber bullets in clashes with furious opposition supporters. of. the us state department for its part branded last

sunday's vote as illegitimate it also describes president but there is leadership as a dictatorship however when it comes to sanctions there 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 relationship. is it dictator who disregards the will of the venezuelan people not about. to me. there are literally destroying our. lawyer. to come into it the government. is biology it's all prostitution. oil into the equation and politics is brushed straight under the carpet his. black

gold unites. protect a discount american states being the third largest exporter of crude to the u.s. and number six growing seven percent to around six hundred seventy thousand barrels a day when it's. then absolutely no the citgo petroleum corporation based in texas belongs to wait for it but it's wait states are doing 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're not including crude speaks to that interdependence and the fact that us all producers and export are don't want to up in the market and potentially that ten percent extraction of venice on oil could spike us gasoline prices as well

so i think that that is the concern. but more come and go to italy trying to stop people traffickers in the mediterranean and get in the week but to didn't get migrant rescue charities on board to help we'll tell you why in the week and continues on the seconds away. when i was still seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to stamp out this thing become active. and engaged because betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

again thanks for chatting to us this weekend several aid groups are carrying out migrant rescue missions in the mediterranean are refusing to sign a so-called code of conduct that is being drafted by italy first it applies bludgers rescue missions to allow police officers on board it also prevents

a boats from transferring refugees to where the vessels insisting they take the migrants to ports themselves and it also bans phone calls or flares from n.g.o.s vessels in case they're being used to warn people smugglers when it's safe to send another boat and italy insists the migrant rescue code is mandatory and says 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 it goes against this really goes against our hearts we are as medical and humanitarian work and it's not something that. the code's been partially drawn up after some n.g.o.s who were accused of acting as a taxi service basically working alongside people traffickers to get migrants into europe it's been a concern that's been repeatedly voiced by a group known as defend europe into my good movement even crowdfunding the mediterranean mission to monitor the work of those n.g.o.s. because we are against

mess immigration to europe we beat wants to stop this madness this n.g. all madness. and because everybody's just walking 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 the and you also and i think what they're doing there is nothing good because they're actually a support factor and basically they are the 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 that a future for africa can't lie in europe the future for europe cannot be to become a second africa. trumpet ministration and those to crack down on friday on federal government leaks which of the white house in turmoil of late the culprits are being warned to stop or face legal consequences. leaks are incredibly damaging to our intelligence mission and capabilities simply put these leaks hurt our country

if you improperly disclose classified information we will find you we will investigate you we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law and you will not be happy with the result of the move followed yet another scandal over an authorized disclosure now after transcripts of donald trump's phone calls with foreign leaders lead to the media they show that he asked his mexican counterpart to stop publicly saying is country won't pay for the proposed wall on a shared border and revealed some for lupton's to accept a refugee resettlement deal with the strain which he said would make him look terrible but the league's even provoked outrage amongst the president's critics who say it's crossed the line. this is not fair this president. in terms of the leaks or the like prison term or not no president can do business with their phone calls from legally the washington post terribly damaging to our country not just to donald trump politically who i don't support but to our country that it does is it

crimps conversations with foreign leaders all the way down the chain if you cannot have a sensible conversation with the between world leaders then that is a significant problem i mean i can actually understand how on the transcripts from a private phone call between two allies the united states i know strata has managed to get out but clearly there is a subversive falls within the american government the leaks in the american government be damaging the extremely dangerous to a wide variety of people both abroad clearly the press leaks only what they want to leak because i refuse to believe these are the only times that they've ever had some do gooder hand them something that they think should be published so in the sense that the press is selective i think that they have risen to the level of you being able to demonstrate malice being that they produce some and not others and if they can show malice they should be held responsible absolutely. in severe trust

issues in the white come amid major shake ups in trump's top team as well this last week with the president increasing be turning to family members for support and bringing in a kind of military style management. could use some more loyal to. the hard truth almost everyone. serving the president has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. he was doing a spectacular job i have no doubt i think we were in pretty good shape the.

president has got to select the right people. to carry out his vision strategy. elsewhere the taliban's been stepping up its attacks in afghanistan in the last seven days as things stand swathes of the country currently under its control. of the. united states special inspector general for afghanistan admitted monday that the defense

department program costing taxpayers almost a billion dollars had failed to achieve its goals u.s. officials say they're not winning and they describe the situation in fact as a stalemate. we are not winning in afghanistan right now but we won an illusion mr chairman i believe we're in a stalemate president trumps no cane then to get to the bottom of what the u.s. has been doing in afghanistan for the past seventeen years threatening this week to sack is top commander in afghanistan over the ongoing losses former pentagon official michael maloof told us that the u.s. has got no strategy a won't have won if it continues only use military force president trump is voicing that their frustration in trying to come to some kind of resolution on this now i know the russians have an afghan working group i was told by some officials recently that they had actually invited the united states to participate in discussions to discuss a resolution for afghanistan but the united states refused. unbelievable the

u.s. needs a strategy it doesn't have one and the it's not going to have one if they're going to rely solely on a military solution. and other stories from the week seems the u.s. government's allegedly prioritizing diplomacy with afghanistan's leadership by apparently turning an eye to a now illegal afghan custom which boys are abused. if you. see. this. little bit what this is six was the next year.

that was. something unless there is. a former cia officer jack rice says knowledge of abuses are being kept from the american public. at a certain point i think the american people just turned away and as they have turned away what we're saying is various abuses various things sometimes just even the lack of success the united states has inside of afghanistan is something they did american people don't see. and don't even understand so the idea that sexual abuse may be going on it doesn't surprise me that the american people are just missing it and they are you don't uncover it if you don't address those issues it's simply expands the potential for more crimes to be conducted against people. finally in this newsgroup this calls for independence a growing in southern germany where a poll suggests that one in three people in the state of the very are in favor of

breaking free from berlin supporters one of biggest say the say over the future away from the use influence is your correspondent peter all of every country i came to ask a video come from and out of a set of area michael is a that generation might make but when it comes to the month of june many he'd rather have it redrawn. variate is too important to be a nation in its own right and a recent poll shows that one in three bavarians share his view. holes in vice. all strong images of germany but they're actually very in bavaria is a brand for me it's a better brand than come from germany. tastes bad the smell spat. while most of the german states are simply called the states all right lol you're right learn a lot mate the theory of good speech three states very it makes absolutely no

difference but it's a name it's a little different over the last couple of years but various political focus has shifted because of the ongoing refugee crisis hundreds of thousands of migrants crossed into germany through the state leading to politicians here to challenge chancellor merkel's open door policies it's called tour highest for a limb in our culture everyone needs to learn german it's vital to ending a living and maintaining law and order and it should be our own law and order not that of the arab world but i think a little bit close ally is a very the first such you already against explicit the fact there's only one party with an independent variable in their manifesto the find part time and we are ruled by balloon we are ruled from berlin or brussels on the other hand and these people decide a will of the people of the area we have no influence the so called in the european

parliament we have only thirteen members and for very little for example greece which has less inhabitants has about twenty five something well there maybe some support for a breakaway varia the supreme court here in germany ruled earlier this year that any kind of referendum on the subject would be against the german constitution so for the time being at least the. will continue to rule over the bavarian life things are all over. with that image of models i go by for now or online any time an anti dot com kevin oh i'm with you next week lee and half an hour from now. when lawmakers manufacture consent to step into public wells. when the

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