there is an overriding russian sentiment in the u.s. congress view of russia's foreign minister and his american counterpart on the sidelines of a major security forum this weekend. also in the week's top stories president signs a new sanctions bill i'm getting several of america's key e.u. allies. declaration of a. trade war. the pressure is stepped up against north korea to the u.n. security council votes unanimously for tougher sanctions on pyongyang over its missile tests and. the dictator dictator the venezuelan

president is also targeted by u.s. restrictions over his formation of a controversial new legislative body will rewrite the constitution. with the review of the past seven days and news on right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international i'm you know neal hello and welcome our top story moscow's top diplomat say strong russian sentiment in the u.s. congress has led to the latest turn in relations between the two countries servia lover off made the comment of a meeting with his american counterpart rex tillerson earlier on sunday the euro cheater takes a closer look at the. story it was

a very lengthy meeting it seemed like a very friendly meeting the two gentlemen seem like they were getting on very well lots of laughing and joking and i also need to point out it was the first face to face meeting after new russia sanctions have been imposed so what did they talk about first well surprise surprise sanctions lover of explained why russia decided to take the action that it did following the imposing of those sanctions. he was interested in our response to the empty russia's sanctions bill that was passed in the u.s. congress we explained to him what was behind the actions that we took off the long expecting that the u.s. would not choose the path of confrontation but unfortunately the resupply about attitude of american lawmakers prevented that what's interesting about this is that prior to this meeting in manila to listen has been very vocal publicly about his discontent about the new russia sanctions let's take a listen to their action by the by the congress to put these charges employees from

the way they do i know the president nor i are very happy about that we were clear that we didn't think it was going to be helpful to our efforts but that's the decision that i made that made it a very overwhelming good. one of the areas that they talked about was syria they agreed that they would continue dialogue about how they can go forward with the peace process they also talked about north korea both sides opposed the missile testing and the military exercises and again they agreed to keep the dialogue open between the two countries now we can't ignore the fact that the u.s. russia relations are at an all time low as is seen by the international community at the moment so the question is will the actions come to fruition following this what seems to be a very positive meeting. earlier journalist martin summers told the talks between lover off until their sin or a good considering the tension between moscow and washington. the fact that

meetings taking place at all given the rhetoric that's been coming out of the united states over the past week or so is a positive development and there's many things about which obviously there is no agreement and your situation has become much more tense as a result of these votes in the congress in the senate on sanctions on russia that doesn't mean that some business can't be done and as we saw in the u.n. security council there was a unanimous position on north korea. which the american side wants that sort of cooperation to continue it's very disappointing that the political class in the u.s. seems have collectively lost its marbles in this way i mean they've tied the hands of their own negotiators which you know you don't usually do that if you've got any common sense so we're now stuck in a bit of a bit of a norm pass so as we've been hearing relations between russia and the united states took another head on whedon's fears donald trump and his signature to the new

sanctions bill the measures of anger number of america's allies in europe as well who say their economic interests are being ignored 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. 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 horribly unexpected but i do believe that the east side shows are out of he thing 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 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 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 and the good 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 could 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 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 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. poll well when you sunshine is law gives congress the power to block the president from easing sanctions on moscow don't trump has branded the legislation constitutional breaking down what happened in washington your shorties if you patrik. 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 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 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 supplies 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 although related theme sweeping new sanctions against north korea set out in a u.s. drafted resolution where unanimously agreed on by the u.n. security council later today. are the asian nations exports of coal metal seafood meaning its export revenue will be cut by around a third amounting to roughly a billion dollars per year foreign investment has also been blocked the move comes in response to pyongyang's continued missile tests. russia believes sanction should

be the starting point for a future dialogue with north korea other un members agree but there are signs that washington is still considering a more direct response every military expert says there is no good military option they are wrong there is an option to destroy north korea's program and 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 at some point although one expert told us the chances of that happening are diminishing. you're thinking in terms of dialogue no if anything from expire labib and less likely than before but if you're being a factor of authority imposing

a collective punishment on the tire north korean population and bring your boat the economic collapse of north korea then i may be a factor of course unfortunately if you want thanks to the thought draconian mates or both agree the only increase the likelihood of a conflict or increase of tensions at the very least. turning our attention to south america now where authorities in venice weightless say they have foiled a terror attack on a military base close to the capital it comes after a group of men in military uniforms released a video of themselves announcing an uprising against president in a row witnesses reported hearing gunshots during the night officials though report the situation is now fully under control and that several people have been arrested the incident follows the inauguration of a controversial new legislative body on friday its formation which critics say will strip the opposition of power has led the u.s. to play sanctions on the president as a result of today's sanctions all assets of

a door subject to u.s. jurisdiction are frozen and u.s. persons are prohibited from dealing with him in the new assembly will be tasked with rewriting the constitution and will have the power to dissolve the current parliament the opposition has to find a bomb in public protests on denying to the election as a power grab by men to police in the capital deployed tear gas and rubber bullets in clashes with furious opposition activists during the week and people are now gathering to rally against the government outside the gates of the compound which was attacked over night. the u.s. state department branded last weekend's vote illegitimate and it also describes

president nicolas maduro his leadership as a dictatorship however when it comes to the sanctions there does seem to be one spear that's off limits. but sanctions against oil are i'm not going to comment on 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 i think at least a few to me that there are literally destroyed on a lot of theater that lawyer over him feel good to put them into it probably did the government but there are a violating its own constitution. to live in the head of. oil into the equation and politics is brushed straight under the carpet his facts of how black gold unites them. to take

a discount 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 but will it stop that absolutely no the citgo petroleum corporation based in texas belongs to wait for it venezuela's 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 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. it's lee is trying to stop people traffickers

in the mediterranean but can't get migrant rescue chara to use all the board to help we delve deeper into that when we continue. the following is a flood watch announcement from the national weather service flash flood watch in effect from monday afternoon through monday evening the national weather service mount holly has issued a flash flood watch for portions of delaware northeast maryland new jersey and southeast pennsylvania including the following areas in delaware delaware beaches inland sussex kent and newcastle in northeast maryland caroline cecil kidd marilyn

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a mediterranean mission to monitor the work of the n.g.o.s because we are against mass immigration to europe we beat wants to stop this madness this n.g. all madness in the military and because everybody's just walking in the what is acting feeling you're stepping in what you're doing 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 recent people joining ends up making a fortune for this human trafficking rings in libya destabilizing the country i think the future for africa can't like europe the future for europe cannot be to become a second africa. a monument commemorating a russian army servicemen who sacrificed himself in a battle against islamic state in syria last year has been unveiled in the tuscany region of italy alexander procope rinko died while coordinating strikes on ice on

militants near the city of palmira the statue was put up at the initiative of the italian time in a park of heroes this is what the mirror have to say we decided to pay tribute to the hero who sacrificed his life in the fight against the evil which is islamic states and see more towards his memory. while helping the russian earth force head to extremist targets the twenty five year old soldier funded so surrounded by i saw fighters realizing escape was impossible he ordered an earth strike on his own position alexander died along with the islamist militants as a result he was posthumously awarded the title of hero of the russian federation. french police have opened the terror investigation after an incident at the eiffel tower or a mom attempted to force his way past security armed with

a knife the suspect reportedly shouted gold is greatest in order because he looked . into the landmark in paris and saw the evening well no one was injured the eiffel tower was a vacuum waited initially the incident wasn't being treated as terrorism but now a french prosecutors have begun an investigation due to the suspects reported links to radical groups france has been in a state of emergency for more than a year and a half following the nov twenty fifth terror attacks in the capital. a us democratic congresswoman has gone on t.v. calling her party to pursue the impeachment of russia's president also not what it seems though she actually got floated near putin confused with her own country's number two. they had somebody better than chop if he were i don't like when we finish with drop we have to go and get putin that's next putin i pads. that's california representative maxine waters who's known for her straight down to

russia's stance you may also remember that she made a similar blunder involving president putin back in february to. continue went to advance into korea korea. they spied maxine waters words russia is not advancing in either north or south korea. the taliban has been stepping up its attacks in afghanistan this week things swathes of the country are currently under its control. of. the united states special inspector general for afghanistan admitted on monday that the defense department program costing taxpayers almost half

a billion dollars has failed to achieve its goals u.s. officials say they're not winning the scribed the situation is a stalemate we are not winning in afghanistan right now we want an illusion. mr chairman i believe we're in a stalemate a president trump is not keen to get to the bottom of what the u.s. has been doing enough gonna stand for the past seventeen years threatening this week to his top commander in afghanistan over the ongoing losses former pentagon official michael maloof sees the u.s. has no strategy and won't have one if it continues only to 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 it's not going to have one if they're going to rely solely on a military solution. well the u.s. government is allegedly prioritizing diplomacy with afghanistan's leadership by partly turning a blind eye to a now illegal afghan custom in which boys are abused. but . the truth is see. this is six this is the new chisels to the. food.

it's something that's there is that. a former cia officer jack rice a knowledge of abuses are being kept from the u.s. public certain point i think the american people just turned away and as they have turned away what we are saying is various abuses various things sometimes just even the lack of success that the united states has inside of afghanistan is something that the american people don't see don't watch 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. the stories from owen r.t. international.

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