rescue workers to. deal with iran which in his own words will be. but for now washington is ordering european companies to stop working with tehran. u.s. politicians want to. investigate how much of the blame lies with the way licenses. are distributed. who was aggressively. speaking out against the confirmation of the new cia director

during a senate hearing. this is international thanks for joining in for the program. at least six people have been killed in a reporter strike near the yemeni capital that's according to local officials are warning you may find the following distressing. video agency. rescue operations. many of those trapped in the collapsed building were children. a yemeni journalist hussain described to us the rescue efforts.

they were one family which was good advice. they've been on that of the. because the saudi has been offended scooter from reaching the site and we have seen in some of this video that one of the again called this a old witch was crying and she was asking for some water just imagine she has been waited for one thousand four hours. and she was thursday she couldn't feel how the body and she thought that she was not injured and you can see two thirty in the footage. that was like a bullet caused by many local t.v. channels that she was really really badly injured by this so-called so would be. to the saudi coalition and you haven't a comment on reports of the recent strike so far no comment a spokesperson for the saudi coalition earlier said that goal is to restore yemen's legitimacy and to make the country safe and secure the saudi incursion in yemen is

aimed at who the opposition fighters who control territories in the north and human rights groups continue to call on riyadh to stop bombing yemen saudi arabia has repeatedly insisted it does not target civilians but hussein. says he has evidence to the contrary those bombs would have brought to me by children in that area just imagine i mean this yellow but i think a lot of just what i'll do to home in the villages i mean i want to ask the u.s. ambassador to the united nation who is supplying this bomb to the soviet coalition the only country that actually is losing this bombs only among the only company that i mean to have a blockade in yemen the only fight that is. on the sky in yemen they are so do you fight that you get that out of fuel by u.s. jets and the only thing that they like is they've skated of both is what type of missile that the yemenis or the whole you have. thousands of people are taking part in a rally in tehran the crying u.s.

president donald trump's decision to tear up the iran nuclear deal apparently. it was was the protesters can be seen trampling on some american flags people were also shouting anti american slogans as they marched through the city meanwhile iranian politicians are saying that iran intends to stick to the terms of the nuclear deal that least for now despite washington's unilateral action. i know the american president's decision to scupper the agreement has come in for more harsh words not just in iran but also at home as donald trump announces he wants to strike a new agreement with tyrone adding that it would actually be better for that country i hope to be able to make a deal with them a good deal a fair deal a good deal for them better for them better for them but we cannot allow them to

have nuclear weapons present a chance dangerous action makes iran's nuclear program now more likely to be resumed president trump has strengthened the hardliners in iran and iran may go back to pursuit of highly enriched uranium and ultimately a nuclear weapon and now we're off to an arms race in the most volatile part of the world on tuesday donald trump officially announced washington was dumping the iran nuclear deal struck by the obama administration has long been describing the agreement as one of the worst deals ever made america says it didn't cover iran's ballistic missile program nor its perceived malign activities in the region so now washington is putting the screws on companies doing business with tehran as daniel bushell reports the sanctions back iran probably doesn't care much it's had them in one shape or roebuck for four decades washington shooting itself and our allies in the foot surely know it's. the e.u.

thing way over ten billion euro of stuff to iran last year relationship in full bloom corporate giants now licking wounds include the biggest hitters on the continent from volkswagen to british airways air bus may be worst hit it signed a nineteen billion dollars deal with tehran just two years ago three billion more with as a man airlines why should europe care if trump quits the iran deal because he can make it your problem to write off the trumps announcement on his very first day on the job new u.s. ambassador to burley and tweeted the following or minus threat as donald trump said u.s. sanctions will target critical sectors of iran's economy german companies doing business in iran should wind down operations immediately issuing national threats via twitter seems trump picks people in his own image but this time he's crossed a diplomatic red line my advice after

a long ambassadorial career explain your country's policies and lobby the host country but never tell the host country what to do if you want to stay out of trouble germans are eager to listen but they will resent instructions welcome to our country sir i'm looking forward to a good cooperation by the way this excludes threatening german companies for a policy announced by your president ignoring core security interests of europe here we have the entire nature of the transatlantic alliance of the order for the show is because this is not and i and equal partners and friends successive european governments have actually claimed it is indeed their relationship between i hate you morning behave math washington and its utopian satellites and sure this has all kinds of ramifications certainly more than economic ramifications for those companies so long as it helps the u.s.

economy right trumps the businessman after all he must know how to all the wheels of trade apparently not. gas prices of top the psychological benchmark of two dollars eighty a gallon almost a painful fifty cents up in just a year and u.s. employers are hurting too just weeks after trump's election boeing toasted a seventeen billion dollars deal for eighty u.s. built jetliners to iran but when bragged about it in line with trump's favorite mantra i will take jobs back. to jobs or jobs good jobs and even great jobs jobs jobs today's agreement will support tens of thousands of u.s. jobs directly and nearly one hundred thousand new jobs in the u.s. airspace value stream for the food course of deliveries jobs jobs jobs no more

future deals go on existing contracts scrapped u.s. workers on your bike so who take their place iran's already struck billion dollar deals with russian playmakers sewer oil china's all over iran like a rash huge energy deals you railroads and in cold hard cash iran has a strategy. of alliance with the russians and the chinese if. the europeans leave if. american companies leave what happens is that iran is going to substitute the u.s. with russia and china. taking on the opioid epidemic has become one of the top priorities of the current u.s. administration as overdose deaths have seen a sharp increase in recent years part of the plan is to cut back on opioid prescriptions and potentially those who. so american investigates.

i cry. this in the us has reached the point where the drug enforcement administration itself says it should be doing a better job the united states continues to be affected by a national opioid epidemic which has been spurred in part by the rise of opioid prescribing and misuse the da can and must do better let's quickly break it down in a span of seventeen years two hundred thousand people have died as a result of overdose deaths involving opioids increased four times from ninety nine to twenty sixteen and every day more than six hundred fifty thousand opioid prescriptions are issued in the us. and the da blames doctors indiscriminate prescribing can endanger patients' lives doctors take an oath to do no harm and provide the best care for their patients first do no harm this is the

basic principle to practice medicine but is it fair to pin the blame on doctors when it could be a it felt that registers individuals and companies to sell controlled substances and guess what their funding is dependent on the da must set face at a level that ensures the recovery of the full costs of operating the various aspects of the diversion control program. in two thousand and seventeen the da claimed that it issued one point seven million licenses around five hundred thousand more since two thousand and eight a pharmacist who prescribed drugs to almost all of us clients is now serving jail time for ground zero was west virginia where doctors write hundred and thirty eight prescriptions for every one hundred people did you write three hundred twenty five prescriptions the first week of january for more than nineteen thousand oxy code on pills. possibly you don't know how many prescriptions you wrote

i don't i don't i think it may well be he's still behind bars but his license was never revoked it just expired well indeed a report showed that criminals are often allowed to continue practicing medicine even after doing their time in one instance a doctor who was selling prescriptions for controlled substances to undercover police with sentenced to five years supervised probation but never lost his license if that's not shady enough the agency issued licenses to individuals that have a history of drug abuse and trafficking here's one example a doctor was granted a medical license after two drug related arrests the first time he was arrested for cocaine distribution and the second for cocaine use only to be issued a license eight years later. even well intentioned compassionate physicians have gotten caught up in the problem of overprescribing i think the da does bear responsibility primarily in that their job was really to police whether or not

opioids were being indiscriminately prescribed dispensed and even transported to these very small towns and they didn't do their job in that regard but why is it that licenses are rarely revoked while the acting head of the d.a. believes the system is to blame we have done a lot of civil fines but when you look at major businesses civil fines seem to have little impact and i think that's part of the frustration i think the key to it is as we're states either don't have the ability to connect with each other or the system that actually aren't being used as is highly problematic and the way the system works means we're only seeing the tiniest fraction of licenses proposed for talking to your zero point zero one four percent out of one point seven million licenses so one of the things that we are now recommending is that before the v.a. grants a license to a. there should be required education that that physician should have in order to

get the da license in the first place what would be much more important is training physicians in how to safely prescribe opioids in the first place and once they have prescribed opioids how to monitor patients so that they can see whether or not that patient is becoming addicted misusing the opioid or diverting it to other sources. a man who was violently escorted out of a senate hearing and detained on wednesday has been released and walking out of the court facility seventy nine year old cia veteran ray mcgovern showed bruises he blamed on security he was one of the protesters who interrupted the session denouncing the controversial cia chief nominee juno hospital. cause you harm the right guy resisting man in many respects and. there are some resisting how he says it is stop hurting our young child this isn't

a left oh my. god. my governor was charged with resisting arrest and disrupting congress i was actually stunned that he was taken into custody. i was in shock. you know. this may be hard to believe but i took the chairman at his word he said if you have something to say and he was so it is so that if it is about it you know this it will say it. briefly and then leave well i said it but i guess that's what you're asking me what happened i remember that well you know there's this seventy. democrats losing support ahead of november's midterm starts according to a recent poll a correspondent came to office some analysis watchdogs of american politics of observed that the democrats are losing their supposed upper hand when it comes to the upcoming congressional midterm elections now there are many different factors

that play into this but one that stands out is that trump has doubled down on good old fashioned american warmongering he's appointed notorious war hawks pompei oh and bolton he's ripped up the iran deal and he's even unleashed a torrent of missiles against the syrian arab republic more recently he's appointed gina has a.k.a. bloody gina to be the head of the cia she was allegedly involved in the agency's torture program of the past now we get a lot of democrats speaking up against gina haskell but as long as she gets two of them to go along in her favor she's clear to be confirmed already we've got joe manchin from west virginia democratic senator speaking in her favor. i have found gina hospital to be a person of great character she has worked in some of the most dangerous. as the world and i have the utmost respect for the secretary says she is made for our country i look forward to working with gina hospital now joe manchin is from west virginia that's a state full of conservative minded appellations while opposing war and torture

might when the democrats friends up in new england in red states among conservative minded americans these hardline pentagon policies are crowd pleasers not scandals now remember the resistance the folks protesting donald trump at every turn and taking the leadership from hillary clinton well those folks agree with donald trump on very few things but among them is bombing syria i really believe that we should have and still should. take out his air fields and prevent him from being able to use them to innocent people and froch sharing gas on them even c.n.n. the network down in trump is accused of fake news is with him when he's on the warpath remember when missiles were flying into syria voices that usually opposed donald trump simply on donald trump ordered a missile strike against the assad regime in syria i support president use of american military power this week they even talked up the military equipment we are

refueling the saudi bombers that are dropping the bombs it is said that thousands of civilians have died in yemen because of this you know there's a lot of jobs at stake certainly if a lot of these defense contractors stop selling or warplanes other sophisticated equipment to saudi arabia they're going to there's going to be a significant loss of jobs or revenue here in the united states when the media and politicians are telling americans that war is good for business don't be too surprised if you see us public support for war let's recall how the media pushed the americans to support the invasion of iraq and most of them went along with it we expect every american to support our military and if they can't do that to shut up our duty as loyal americans to shut off. once the fighting begins trump campaign with anti-war talking points but the polls show that his hawkish turn hasn't really hurt him among the public there seems to be a lot of americans who are tired of war but there's a pretty solid core of folks who believe the cruise missiles keep them safe and

that america first should refer to military strength. r.t.e. new york it is friday may the eleventh we are grateful to have you with us here on r.t. international today still plenty more to come on this program just for a moment i hope you can stay with.

donald trump claims he's the master of the deal but when it comes to iran it is the art of no deal claims he has made america safer a dubious claim closer to the truth is probably attempt to force regime change in iraq. could you join us today u.s. democrat well because of released thousands of social media ads with alleged links to russia in a bid to explain how the kremlin was supposedly seeking to sow discord in america during the twenty sixteen presidential election here's what i guess the. here it is the panacea to all your doubts russian meddling exposed three thousand five

hundred and nineteen ads on facebook posted by russia allegedly say us democrats the russian social media campaign was designed to further the broader criminal ject of sowing discord in the u.s. by inflaming passions on a range of divisive issues the point a visa as they say was to divide americans but you take a closer look and the real takeaway is russia really really sucks meddling take this ad for the african-american civil rights movement zero clicks zero impressions meaning no one ever saw it real poor interfering right there but next now here is a surprise a blue lives matter post black versus blue sea by a grand total of no one all right. so far but how about this one an ad for

muslims it says we believe in individual liberty in the free market take heart liberty will prevail the catch is it appears as if posted by a group defending the second amendment the right to bear arms and there are literally hundreds of such groups and facebook alone ok ok let's think something truly divisive to meek across a black doctor felt humiliated when don't the airlines flight attendants refused to believe that she was a qualified physician now that's allegedly intended to stir tensions to tear americans apart except that's exactly how it was reported in the us media is responding to a viral facebook post from an african-american doctor who says she was discriminated against a fight she. says when the flight attendant yelled for a physician on board she raised her hand but it was rejected you know how much the

russians spent in this one hundred thousand dollars a huge sum right it's roughly zero point zero zero one percent of what trump spent on his campaign so what's the takeaway russia is really bad at meddling some of those ads were never seen by anyone from others but copy pasted from mainstream media and that's if you believe that these were russian ads the only thing these ads prove is russia will never ever be as good as us media a dividing america. hundreds of kittens are being euthanized every year after being used in experiments on food borne illnesses scientists use them to investigate diseases such as talk so please most of us after the experiments even healthy cats were allegedly put down a trusting goodman the vice president of the white coat waste project claims this

has actually been going on but it's been doing it for nearly sixty years straight year over one hundred year comes directly from the approved application for the very project never criticized it says and there are numerous times that they plan to use one hundred kittens a year and that this number is based on the number of kids they've used in previous years so it's not only that they're killing up to one hundred kids now it's that they've been doing it for decades and name it out of their documents now after all of this is come out the u.s. department of agriculture finds itself under fire it says it didn't consider the option of adoption if the animals could have posed a threat to people by actually spreading the disease however the world health organization explained that cats are not the main way the disease is transmitted and justin goodman again says the cats posed no danger. it is absolutely false and untrue what the u.s.d.a. is saying about these cats possibly posing a risk to people the u.s.

centers for disease control one of our top health agencies the american center a medical association and the association for every medical colleges as well as lots of other authorities also say that cats who have this parasite are perfectly safe to have in your house the government agency say that these cats are healthy and to be people's pets they could be adopted out but instead the u.s. department of agriculture is killing one hundred kids a year for no reason that just about wraps up the program for this hour here on r.t. international but many more of your headlines and world stories at the top of the next hour. when the whole make this manufacturer can be sentenced into the public will. when

the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round if certainly the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. i mean the real need. for a world cup twenty eighteen coverage and we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you on the us is a huge thirty months and the huge amount of pressure you have to go i mean eight percent of the shuttle we're with you and you go the great the great get your. or the rock at the back nobody gets past you we needed to get down going let's go.

a low as doesn't work and i'm really happy to join the team for the two thousand and three and world cup in russia meet the special one come on both appreciate. the radio. latest edition to make up a bigger. look the. president keeps a campaign promise and polls out of the iran nuclear deal now what we'll get perspective from katrina vanden who will editor and publisher of the nation on this edition of politic. politicking on larry king we're here in new york during his presidential campaign donald trump criticize the iran's nuclear deal which is officially known as the joint comprehensive plan of action and promises that he would pull out of the deal

as president on tuesday he kept that campaign promise and ended america's participation and it claiming iran is funding terrorist groups targeting the u.s. military and the homeland so what happens now to the deal what's plan b. and to the relationship between the united states and other signatories of the agreement let's talk about that with a frequent guest of the tree then he's the editor and publisher of the nation and a washington post columnist were on her territory here in new york well you weren't surprised that he pulled away and deal you know and he made some strong points what do you counter what i you know it was a campaign promise and a lot of his presidency is pitched against president obama's legacy but i did think there was a possibility as his new best friend i crawled ahead of france came and tried to. and merkel of germany and even theresa may that there would be some pressure that

might find a way of compromise but this is a full withdrawal as he's withdrawing from the climate agreement and from trade agreements i think it's reckless i think it's dangerous larry because all of what you talk about which by the way with all due respect i think benjamin netanyahu and the prince or the current of saudi arabia have played a role in a countervailing way and their arguments persuaded tromp but this is a nuclear agreement this contains and has according to the international atomic energy agency worked according to trump's own defense secretary and director of national intelligence according to israel's i believe defense secretary i mean this is a working agreement so what now as you said plan b. don't see a plan b. i think the allies the europeans russia and china will try to find a way to contain iran but if you think about the world we're living in there is an irony because trump is now trying to work out a deal with north korea which is vital for global security regional security what

kind of message does it send to north korea. they look out and say you can't trust the united states and finally a bust open nuclear proliferation and it's so dangerous you think of one thing all these countries there are nine israel has a nuclear program not much money available for security of these programs that's very scary in a world larded with nuclear weapons it used to be just u.s. and russian nuclear weapons so i think this is a potentially war risking step larry on the equivalent of what we confronted in two thousand and three with iraq obama said it's working it's in america's interests it's a model of what diplomacy can accomplish and obama called the with role misguided well that you know that is not this was the diplomatic lodestar. extraordinary diplomatic moment of the obama administration on a smaller.