had not actually been addressed what will that investigation into the chemical industries secrets revealed. in the week's top stories president trump signs the new russia sanctions bill angering america's allies describes it as declaring a full scale trade war and sanctions tied north korea over its missile tests the u.s. draft resolution is unanimously backed by the u.n. security council plus. a dictator dictator. the venezuelan president is also targeted by u.s. for strict sions over his constitutional reform referendum which is infuriated the opposition and italy and a greek argue over how to conduct migrant rescue operations this suspicion grows

that humanitarian boats are colluding with people traffickers. hello there the latest development in a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to me watching the weekly here in r.t. international. new sanctions on north korea were agreed late on saturday after u.s. drafted resolution was unanimously agreed to by the u.n. security council it bans north korean exports of coal metals and seafood reducing export revenue by about a third which is roughly a billion dollars a year foreign investments also been blocked it's in response to north korea's continued missile tests will russia believe sanctions should be the start point should be the starting point for future dialogue with north korea un members agree but there are signs that washington is still considering

a military option. every military expert says there is no good military option there all. there is an option to destroy north korea's program in north korea itself he's not president the ability of this madman to have a missile that hit america if there's going to be a war to stop it will be over there if thousands die 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 however america's top diplomat rex tillerson says his country would like dialogue with pyongyang points although one expert told us the chances of that happening are ready to treat. your thinking in terms of dialogue no if anything. less. than before but if you're being effective for the. collective punishment i'm going to tire a north korean population and bring about the economic collapse of north korea are

going to be a factor of unfortunately you're thanks to the thought draconian. the only increase the likelihood of a conflict or increase tensions at the very least. relations south further between russia and the united states on wednesday as donald trump put his signature to the new sanctions bill hits the move this and get america's allies in europe who say that are economic interests are being ignored even president trump himself was reluctant to sign the old 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 sees the

legislation as 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 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 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 hard. 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 fire 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 trouble 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 directions where the new sanctions rule gives congress the

power to block the president for me zing sanctions almost as we mentioned that sound good donald trump branded the legislation unconstitutional it breaks down and i what's been 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 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 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. well the top russian and u.s. diplomats have met at the sidelines of the association of southeast asian nations in the philippines at the moment it was their first face to face since new american

sanctions cause relations further to talk more about this we're joined now by our parties and in a cheater he's covering events for us. do we know what was talked about in that meeting that's just taken place. we've had a little bit of an outcome as to what was discussed now a whole raft of foreign ministers met in manila in the philippines from a number of different countries just the day after new sanctions were imposed on north korea and as predicted a number of key issues were discussed firstly they did discuss north korea they both agreed to listen and that the missile tests and military drills in the region they didn't agree with the tall they opposed it they talked about u.s. russia contacts on syria and they said that these contacts will not be interrupted despite the new sanctions being in place against russia lover off reminded to listen that they need to think about establishing cooperation on cyber security and

you know all eyes were certainly on the two of them as it's deemed that the relationships between u.s. and russia are at an all time low and interestingly tillotson has been very vocal about the discontent about the new russia relations because it's escalated the tensions between the two nations. but they're actually bothered by the congress to put these charges implosion the way they do i know the president more are very happy about that we were clear that we didn't think it was going to be helpful to our approach but that's the decision that i made a very overwhelming i would do. so you can imagine off the back of these meetings and the whole international community watching how the two of them wind interact they certainly recognize that. for these global problems to be solved of solutions that are to be found in the two key players the of the u.s. and russia certainly need to cooperate with each other so the recognition was there and it certainly looks that despite the fact that these new russian sanctions are

in place the two men in question to listen and lover of at least want to make those positive steps forward so we're just going to wait and see if their discussions will come to fruition. certainly will ok thanks certainly there was a it era cheeta there will can get to the thoughts now too with gilbert doctorow he's the european coordinator for the educational body the american committee for east west accord and he's with us now good afternoon to you gilbert i don't know if you heard much of that report what material there but it seems at least listening to what was said between lavrov of rex tillerson that they are still trying to cooperate on certain issues there was a fear going into this meeting perhaps that row over sanctions could blemish what was going to be talked about but you encourage from what you've heard. i mean the courage of they meet this is all symbolic content his close to irrelevant because the credibility of tillerson his gravely in question i'd call him

a lame duck secretary of state the talk about his likely resignation before the end of this year has been in the wall street journal has been discussed in the press and you could almost treat him as a man on his way out and moreover anything that he would say has very light weight that cannot be have greater weight than his bosses words and his bosses words don't carry much weight these days so the russians are being very accommodating they're making every effort to appear to be in serious discussion and negotiation with the american administration but we all know that american administration isn't travail that it mr administration cannot implement what it says. war sort of things you'd expect them to come back to this meeting in the philippines because you know no awful lot of the world's representatives there that are talking about he's from north korea to syria to ukraine would you expect anything concrete to come out of

the. if nothing bad comes out of it that's already good the situation is one of the jaw jaw being a lot better than war war and the meeting to listen and love rauf fits into that context and only into the context nonetheless if the if this dialogue between russia and the united states can hold back the dogs of war kind of hold back the pentagon of the deep state from from perpetrating yet another false flag operation in syria or elsewhere then we're doing very well to hope for more i think is unrealistic. well i mean how you sound extremely said a pessimistic here about what's taking place over the weekend but i mean surely we should take something positive from the fact that the diplomats are talking to one another and they are doing the best considering the circumstances though i'm not

being person mistook i think i'm being realistic the two hope for more than you can with a lame duck secretary of state and with a russian. minister of foreign affairs who is on a short lease and who was instructed to be accommodating. there would be as i say realistic and out of out of the game we are doing well i'm very happy that they meet but i don't think we should overestimate its importance. with regard to north korea how do you see things developing there because we know that the north korean foreign minister is also on the sidelines of these talks too and i think perhaps close by to labral them to listen when they would still king do you expect any progress. well i think the fact that the u.n. security council voted unanimously in favor of the sanctions was

a important nod by both china and russia to the united states that they have not yet decided to go to break off cooperation but they are trying very hard to stay on the same page with the united states issues that are important to it states even if both countries do not agree with the overall approach of the united states to the issue at hand to dealing with north korea ninety percent of chinese foreign of that is of north korean foreign trade is with china the sanctions are really are going to hit the chinese trade with with north korea for the russians the impact of this new sanctions with north korea is minimal but i'm going to have to interrupt you there because you've got a live press conference that are probably going to get an abba thank you very much that was. from brussels that political analyst well let's go to that press conference now from the signal avar. circus colleague who were discussed

dementation of the agreements for the astronaut. discussed the preparations for the next meeting of the representatives of russia and the runners will take place in which iran on the ninth and eighth of august there will continue the conversation regarding further improving of the deescalation zones as you know there are already three such zones in songs in syria to the north of homs and now we are currently creating the submission the third zones in the province of . absence for our chinese counterpart we have discussed the agreements that we have reached during the visit of mrs june being to the russian federation on the fourth of july so we can see during but work. just

a word debate is our leading the mechanism that will. promote for the conversations we have discussed the next brics forum in china and we have discussed our work in the within the as c.e.o. we have given special attention to the situation on the korean peninsula especially in the context of the u.n. security council resolution that was passed last night. which regards to the new measures a new sanctions against north korea so that it. implements that that so that it follows the u.n. security council resolution. we the u.n. security council also believe that it is necessary to renew the six party talks russia position is well known. that on the view all the ships that i looked at your

. was so once again stated during our last meeting. we are moving towards a political process we support the chinese sub zero three supposal that would halt all north korean nuclear missile tests and would hold all the u.s. south korea military exercises. it. is in korean. and so she's. got to see support to the development of the road map in order to restore trust and create conditions to renew the six party talks the good is pretty good we have agreed to promote the idea of further including within the un i was for meeting with the rocks to the sun with had a long meeting so he was interested first of all.

in the details of the decisions that were that we had to take. stock in order to. make a response towards the expansion of sanctions towards russia and do. interview we have expressed all of our views through an interview that mr putin gave to the russia channel. with all the reasoning behind our decisions were explained at length and. in particular we believed that the u.s. would not go towards this path of confrontation with russia but unfortunately the u.s. congress. create a blockage towards that. we have also talked and discussed a number of other issues and we discussed what have been discussed on the meeting

in hamburg and we have discussed the issue of cyber security in the fight against cyber crime and preventing cyber crime we have also addressed issues relating to our contacts there's a little on a number of international issues. of. north korea and its nuclear problem was also one of the issues that we have discussed. we believe that the contacts between the state department and our ministry would be very beneficial towards resolving this issue and we are open to such contacts we believe that. this will be this will be met with the resupply from the u.s. we have discussed afghanistan this iteration in the persian gulf and we have also address of the syrian peace process. just as there are contacts between our representatives regards. in terms of russia us turgeon agreements and creating

the discoloration zone the third discolorations in the syrian arab republic. and we hope that in all other aspects of our. contacts with the. u.s. will continue we have also address the middle east peace process and we have talked about ukraine we're reminded the u.s. the the u.s. president and state secretary promised a special representative of. you on the ukraine mr walker would come and mr bush said that. this contact with our representative mr sort of course is planned and will take place very soon. ok that was speaking just a few moments ago giving a few more details about his meeting earlier today with rex tillerson his u.s.

counterpart covering a wide range of issues as you heard there he said it was a very lengthy meeting with rex tillerson the she's covered stem. a range of issues from north korea afghanistan the persian gulf middle east peace issues and also as we say ukraine so that was him talking in the philippines just a few moments ago. we're going to. resume our weekly program in a couple of. local blogs selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to buy the battle. that you start to try to tell you that every gossip and public report. i think you are calling out by. the hawks that

we. were watching. big getting the reject. so when you want to be for us. to be for us this is what. you get. interested in the water. they should. welcome back to the week several aid groups who are carrying out migrant rescue

missions in the mediterranean are refusing to sign a so-called code of conduct which has been drafted by italy first to the bludgers rescue missions to allow police officers on board it also prevents boats from transferring refugees to of the vessels insisting they take migrants to ports themselves and it bans phone calls or flares from n.g.a. vessels in case they are being used to warn people smugglers when it is safe to send another boat when they flee insist the migrant rescue code is mandatory and anyone refusing to sign it will face consequences the medical charity doctors without borders believes it could put people in peril. so goes against our mission which is to save lives and it goes against this really goes against the hearts of what we are as a medical and humanitarian organization and it's not something that. well the code is partially been drawn up after some n.g.o.s who are accused of acting as

a taxi service 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 a mediterranean mission to monitor the work of the ngos because we are gainst mess immigration to europe wants to stop this madness this n.g. all madness in the motor and you know 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 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 are the reason for this mess migration the other reason people drowning and the are making a fortune for this human trafficking rings in libya destabilizing the country i think the future for africa and like europe the future of europe cannot be to become second africa. where us democratic congresswoman has gone on network

t.v. calling on her party to pursue the impeachment of president putin also not what it seems though she actually got the russian leader confused with her own country's number to. this handsomely better than trump if he were oh and when we finish where trump we have to go and get booked that he's next putting up heads up it when it's california representative maxine waters who is known for her strict anti russia's stance you might also remember that she made a similar blunder involving president putin back in february. ms contin you went to a dance and two korea korea. well despite my say mortars that would say russia of course is not advancing and even north korea or south korea will leave it to you to decide what she might have been insinuating you be watching the weekly here on r.t. i'll be back with more news in haifa.

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