it wasn't. bad. but it was bad it was. a russian company charged as part of a trunk russia investigation pleads not guilty in court amid prosecutors' efforts to delay the case. iraq goes to the polls in parliamentary elections but the vote has raised concern in washington as none of the candidates back its policy of countering iran. a top u.s. state department expert on nuclear proliferation resigns in the wake of trump's withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal rejecting the agreement has come under fire

in america and in europe. and sweden comes on the public pressure for a new study into the link between immigration and crime despite fears it could exacerbate tensions between locals and newcomers. a very warm welcome this is r.t. international with your saturday morning headlines and a carin our top story this hour nearly a year wrong since the start of the special counsel investigation into donald trump's alleged links to russia u.s. vice president mike pence says it's time to bring it to a close. our ministrations provided over a million documents we fully cooperated and in the interest of the country i think it's time to wrap it up it comes ahead of the first hearing into a criminal case brought by the special counsel against russian individuals and

three entities they're accused of conspiracy to interfere in the u.s. presidential race it was thought all of them were unlikely to ever appear in court but after one company decided to defend itself it turns out robert moses team wasn't quite ready for ballots as jacqueline zuko reports. february saw the first real result of mahler's investigation finally the russians were being called out directly three companies and thirteen individuals were named and shamed the massive indictment in the robert mueller investigation breaking today of thirteen russian special counsel robert most investigation or indicted the russians thirteen russians not only operating overseas for operation right here in the united states but given that those targeted are russian nationals with no worries about extradition to the us no one expected the matter to go any further than media headlines but one company named in the indictment concord management and consulting seemingly cold bluff by hiring d.c.

attorneys who showed up for the arraignment the plea of not guilty not you think muller's office would be happy to finally have their day in court but no they tried to put off the hearing on the grounds that the defendant hadn't been properly served which is amazing as being served is just a way of getting the opposing party to show up to court but given that lawyers for concord had done exactly that the judge ruled against that argument it seems borderline immoral to indict someone unless you can prove he's guilty of the crime they did it for one reason only mother needed some russian like dressing on a salad to make his investigation look good the defense attorneys also demanded massive amounts of documents related to the probe things that hadn't been made public and there's no way miller's doing that just think about it turning over classified information to the people representing a supposedly kremlin linked company court investigators from miller's office that they would have been thrilled to see all of the defendants show up like that was never going to happen and went on to ask if the attorneys represented

a catering company listed in the indictment as well the name of which was lost even on the judge. ok would you like me to do with now a status hearing on the case is scheduled for may sixteenth and will likely know by then if everyone is ready to put all their chips on the table. on america's on to russia sanctions appear to have become somewhat of a trend in foreign policy but the latest round of penalties are driving some officials around the bend.

a top u.s. state department expert on nuclear proliferation has resigned following donald trump's decisions of pull out of the nuclear deal with the wrong he didn't give a specific reason but made it clear that he still be accorded the success and thought it was working well many european leaders say they were taken aback by trump's decision though as polly boyko explains they might have seen it coming to us president risking chaos in the middle east and in case you missed it people are surprised again. don't discount campaign by saying that he'd pull out of the nuclear deal with iran but now that he's actually followed through with

an election promise he's caught everyone off guard for some reason the world is shocked and outraged as this don't jump reverse that says it's bed time sprinkling fairly dull all over the middle east and north stirring up storms of their own just a week or two ago joe johns was being put forward for the nobel peace prize for insulting north korea into books and new suspect in republican president wants that on his c.v. so twelve years as. torture is to play with even the world's worst powerful nations a level of complexity rarely seen in global affairs as government came in when but the negotiations press on relative terms of you have the alarm on deal was you are horrible on the plus side you didn't say very very horrible which in terms well they're more or less a compliment saying that there is wiggle room after all the orange one said while tearing up the iran deal that it didn't bring calm it didn't bring peace and it

never will he said but i want to read baseball cap what he wants for a second term because some of the message a u.s. president can sell standing with earth i am ever going to face is europe's big three leaders bankroll and make the end was and spent a lot of political capital trying to keep trump in the deal priced at least one of them kissed him in the end they learned a vital diplomatic lest the kid as many takes as you like but the u.s. is going to do what it down well the europeans and russia and china say they are dedicated to keeping the middle east nuclear free apart from. you know. everyone tech been use of trucks with troops in there in comfortably familiar way the europeans unleashed some sternly worded statement and iran burns an american flag and it's fallen and israel bombed syria so perhaps it is reassuring that nothing really ever changes. america's european allies

say trump's latest decision risks undermining international order and the west's moral authours he does this list and i think it's not right to unilaterally cancel the deal that was agreed upon that was you know mostly approved in the young security council not to ministers come from international. image is never good for us to break the rules that we ourselves helped to create why because how can you. convince powers that occasionally use force or violence that don't respect international law to follow our example when we don't even follow that example ourselves it seems that to day screening and shouting insulting and bullying it systematically destroying and dismantling everything is already in place is the mode of our times. where the former deputy coordinator for the iran nuclear deals implementation believes that trumps decision shows disregard for

europe the full interview will be available this sunday on artie's world apart but here's a quick preview. after all the bonamy of the meeting after the supposedly improved atmosphere in the merkel meeting and then he actually treated his intention to make this announcement and sort of telegraphed where it was going while foreign secretary voice johnson was actually in washington trying to convince vice president pence and secretary of state to continue the negotiations that whether or not he was intending to be rude whether he was trying to send a message this clearly isn't the way allies behave towards one another i think you see the united states disregarding the needs and interests of its allies and europe and other allies are going to have to look at this and decide how to respond in order to protect their own concerns president trump is trying to tear down the accomplishments of his predecessors i think it's pretty clear from his public remarks that he does not understand what was in the g. c.p.u.

a or what is in the g c p a a it also does undermine the position of the united states in the world we are demonstrating that we cannot take yes for an answer and that makes it very very difficult to make a credible deals with the united states. and iran goes to the polls on saturday in the first parliamentary election since the defeat of islamic state in the country a friend and mark moment not only for iraqi people as one play outside the country hina concerned by who will hold power back my god they have takes a closer look. depending on whose side you're on these elections can make or break the middle east not because of oil nor riches though that helps neither is

it ideology or jihad ists this is all about friends. first of three leading candidates hider the. current prime minister the best word to describe him is neutral syria stay out of it iran vs america stay out of it yemen stay out he would be buying to iran but neither will he be a poor in america's efforts to isolate iran. candid number two nobody. former prime minister he makes no attempt to hide his affinity for iran imagine if he gave iran bases in iraq allowed troops and tanks to move from iran to syria the israelis the saudis they will

include like that one bit. candidates number three trumps nightmare. meeting this guy who's an iraqi himself fought on the side of iran during the iran iraq war enough said i believe the american administration could be the biggest loser from iraqi election we have three camps fighting to win this election i mean it can only have one strong ally which is that i love about the always i'm not there and he's trying to keep that alliance with the united states but whether he is going to win this election i have my own doubts i think the truth is that i live the group that i'll give you are very close to the end and gating

a lot of support by the here so i believe they have a hand now so you see the problem here one guy doesn't want to get involved in anything one guy is all buddy buddy with iran and the last is so poor raney and he'll fight you quite literally and even with the weight steeped in its favor america says iran is cheating. worrisome evidence that iran is trying to influence using money the iraqi elections that money is being used to sway candidates this way votes it's not an insignificant amount of money we believe and we think it's highly and how. it's bad so bad that western states are sending ambassadors to trying to empower and iraqi cleric who's supporters had been killing american troops back in the times of the us intervention he even warned two years ago that americans are a target all forgiven and forgotten you see he doesn't like iran

any day that see rooms military general kassim still in my. he looks at the t.v. and is unhappy is a good day for security in the region and looking at. those meetings in saudi arabia will make you very unhappy it all depends on who is side juran america lost thousands of men in iraq spent a trillion dollars on the war there and to watch it all go to iran that would hurt. sweden is bowing to public pressure for a study into the link between increasing migration and crime levels however stockholm is still uncertain about publishing data that could reveal links between the two due to the current political climate it cannot be noted that the demand in the debate on information on the relationship between crimes on the one hand and

dissent and migration on the other hand is so strong there's also needs to consider the possibilities again well the last study in sweden unlike when some crime was completed over a decade ago back in two thousand and five the country's police have also begun leaving out the nationality of criminals in official reports the purse for this latest study comes after around sixty one areas in sweden were dubbed no go zones due to the volume of criminal activity that.

you need to make clear a shift in direction we cannot continue in this direction ten more years society needs to do more we need to do more we need to focus on the serious. and discuss the story with a member of sweden's democrats party who highlighted highlighted that his country hasn't been honest enough of the impact of immigration. immigrants from these countries create havoc all around europe and you know this needs you know you need to stop this inside sweden the media they need to stop your protecting them or denying the problems we have with immigration with the information received them from this how can it be used productively to solve the problem. well i think that once people realize and one once they dare to admit it's the other

causes of the problems from especially some kind of immigrant groups then it's much easier in any division arguments to stop immigration from these countries because in the end our responsibility is to our citizens and i'm quite sure that you know this survey will be yet another one that will show how the media and the left wing liberals have lied for thirty forty years and about immigration can also say that many people in sweden commit sex crimes but we don't make an issue of their origin. yeah there are of course swedish people who commit six riser crimes in general but. the thing is when you have an immigration you need to know how does that immigration affect your country it's better enough if a swede rapes someone that's bad enough we don't need to import more rapes into the country high profile whistleblower joined protesters in the u.s.

capitol against what she describes as a trend of activists facing tactics and detention we've got more on that story coming up after the break. the iran nuclear deal was once seen as a major achievement of american diplomacy but that's no longer the case donald trump's decision to pull out of the deal has reopened a major international problem and we have to analyze betrayed and bursaries confused should the world perceive. some officials do not. fully understand or do not fully accept the principle of football being beyond politics that's a fundamental principle of the world football. some people may have opinions but

it's their own opinions and doesn't influence opinions of many other football fans who are buying tickets every day in large volumes. welcome back now american whistleblower chelsea manning has been protesting in washington d.c. those facing trial next monday for demonstrating against president trumps immigration reform a soldier became a foot became famous for having a prison sentence refuted by barack obama after she makes confidential u.s. documents she also commented on the recent case of activist speccing abuse at the u.s. senate hearing last wednesday we're seeing protesters first placed all across the

country from california to new york to north carolina where they're facing charges they're facing felony counts off to be brutalized by police and this is not new but it's certainly becoming a recipe for certain we need to get stopped one of those violently arrested at the u.s. senate terry was seventy nine year old cia veteran it ray mcgovern who was there in protest against the nomination for the new cia chief gina hospital after his release on thursday mcgovern showed the bruises he claims he received from police officers. here was. the first resisting of the money raised roach in. the software system was he says it is job her job you know you don't just. always. always

spoke to the governor himself who described the senate's hearing is assured. this hearing started in a most unusual way with the chair saying this and pardon i can't wear my glasses very well because as you could see there twisted out of shape but what he said was this. this is an open hearing and as be a close section those people who want to say something extra do it fast oh oh. so i noted that i take copious notes wherever i go especially at hearings like this and i put it on the top that i said well now maybe going maybe this is an invitation to rick of make a remark all do it quickly and then i'll go the hearing was in many many respects a charade the people running the hearing especially chairman richard burr are known to be like this with the cia and senator wyden said now ms haskell were you in

charge of the interrogation the waterboarding of only shiri in thailand where you personally in charge and she said well senator i appreciate the question but we'll have to take that into closed session because it's secret now who made that secret . it was junior high school so the prospect of gina has full the nominee making incriminating evidence on gina has full secret so that the american people could see on t.v. that she was indeed the torture in chief of al no shiri in thailand make it go to the close session that was too much and that's why i got up and i said that i said senator wyden is entitle to a direct to an honest answer on that question. kind of his conservative house leader candy's back and wants to know what all of thora teeth are doing about any

sixty four ma i still find his hoof returns to canada it comes off to one of them confessed to carrying out executions in syria and in new york times podcast. this individual described how he executed individuals by shooting them in the back of the head he said that the people he was shooting deserved it and he said i know i won't be held accountable he said that at least twice before i saw a fighter who goes by the name of abu who can invest to taking part in execution style murders of sunny and muslim and he said he decided to leave syria after the second time he killed a person he left khaled in twenty fourteen to join the extremist group when he was seventy his life and now lives in toronto as canadian house members were told to their surprise. this guy is apparently in toronto canadians deserve more answers from this government absolute right to do is something that was. counted as public

safety minister refused to provide details on the status of the x. i saw fighter however he insists that canadians are safe and that security agencies are doing their job and a standard bruno contributor to geo political monitor dot com thinks western governments policy toward syria has encouraged people to join extremist groups there many western governments have taken a very ambiguous line at best. so you france united states great britain of doing a great line in time denies ing the syrian regime making it seem like it was ok to go and fight for isis given that you were fighting the evil regime of assad so definitely there should not be surprised of blowback but at least sixty such fighters will come back from fighting in syria rather than putting fighters in jail and the sort of debriefed after this story and has come out in parliament

particularly people conservatives at particular in certain provinces don't like trudeau will definitely make. this into a bigger story and i'm sure that to a dog we'll probably hear a price on how to explain before the next election. u.s. congressman as i asked the trump administration to resume its funding of the controversial syrian activist group the white helmet reports of washington cutting money to they quickly merged a week ago though no confirmation has been issued so far more pain has the story what ed royce from the foreign affairs committee of the u.s. congress he has met with the white helmets on many occasions with other politicians he's been photographed with them he's a big supporter of the white helmets. and now he's calling for their funding to be immediately restored we can know at the bend in the region we must work with news and use over to the diplomacy including financial pressure and u.s.

assistance to change conditions on the ground the administration should start by immediately reviewing stability thing including through the white house. now already the united states has provided the white house with over thirty two million dollars from the u.s. a id now they also receive funding from various european governments as well as governments throughout the middle east and when it was announced that their funding would be cut there were offers from the united kingdom to fill the gap for the u.k. to provide funding of their own to actually fill up that gap and make up for the loss of funding from the united states they've actually had a close tie with the united kingdom for a long time in fact the white house that's were organized by a former member of m i six they have faced for a long time accusations of having ties with extremist groups as well as the fact that they only operated rebel held territories that they did neither the accusation that they cooperate with the extremist groups now the white helmet have always claimed they're an impartial organization we've actually heard some very strong

criticism cism of them coming from russia and syria and the governments of russia and syria have gone as far as to point out that it appears that a number of their videos have actually been staged in order to effectively serve kind of talking points against the syrian government. the white house mets have lost their luster they've been widely discredited in the eyes of the whole world as a frog as a propaganda arm of the western military intervention illegal military intervention in syria mr royce will carry late with the white house he is a republican and he has the support unfortunately the rest of the congress is behind the illegal war and i have to say that this is a good time for us taxpayers to pick up the phone and call their am their congress person and the congressperson island or their senator and say i don't want my tax dollars to be used to meddle in the internal affairs of

a sovereign country. well i think that you can have your sound all stories by following us on social media on the back at the top of the hour with the latest i'll see that. some time in history during a crisis like in two thousand and eight where the creditors bailed out the state of the debtors and going back even to bill before times as to debtors they get bailed out not the creditors but because of the fascism the neo fascism the listed lead like neal fascism between the bankers on wall street and the federal government cheese together of course. tragic daisy chain of incest and by all financial shenanigans the creditors were bailed out and the what do they do with all the money they inflated the bubble even higher so now i've got s. and p. hitting the all time highs but the more ality and the ethics of the country and the

wealth i think i'm gonna have nose dive. bar. room character does not like the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. are i'm not going to tell you about one of the largest most send sure on reported overdog stories in the world it's tough to overstate the temp and impact of this story it has connections to corruption in media and war in the environment the almighty dollar and what sort of brain eating fungus kanye west has come down with it's all in there it's all in there the pentagon is being audited right now for the first time ever. it's taking

two thousand four hundred auditors to do the job and while that is big news i have something much bigger for you much bigger a couple of years ago professor mark skidmore heard catherine austin fitts former assistant secretary in the department of housing and urban development say that the department of defense inspector general had found six point five trillion dollars worth of unaccounted for spending in twenty fifteen and skidmore. and skidmore being an economics professor thought she mean six point five billion dollars not really good because trillion would mean the pentagon misplaced more money than the gross domestic product of the whole of the united kingdom. but still still six point five billion dollars of.