we've got a. little. bit of the threat of. a russian company charged as part of a trump and russia collusion investigation pleads not guilty in court and made prosecutors an effort to delay the case. iraq goes to the polls and parliamentary elections but the photos raise concern in washington as none of the candidates are back its policy of countering iran. a top u.s. state department takes those on nuclear proliferation to resigns in the wake of trans withdrawal from the overall nuclear deal rejecting the agreement has come under fire in america and in europe. and sweden comes under public

pressure for a new study into the link between immigration and crime despite this is a good example of a tensions between locals and newcomers it's. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me becky erin now our top story this hour nearly a year 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. 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 in a criminal case brought by the special counsel against thirteen russian individuals and three entities and they're accused of conspiracy to interfere in the us

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 what it meant as team wasn't quite prepared for it as jacqueline vuguru reports. february saw the first real result of miller'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 lower 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 dollars bluff by hiring d.c. attorneys who showed up for the arraignment the plea of not guilty or 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 have 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 aim 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. americans and the russians thank sions appeared to have become somewhat of a trend in its foreign policy but the latest round of penalties are driving some officials around the bend. thanks. thanks

thanks. thanks . a top u.s. state department expert on nuclear proliferation has resigned to follow in donald trump's decision to pull out of the nuclear deal with the wrong and he didn't give any specific reason but made it clear that he's still the accord as a success and thought it was working well many european leaders say they were taken aback by chunks decision though it was partly boyko explains they might have seen it coming. our u.s. president risking chaos in the middle east and in case you missed it people are surprised again. don't you 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 but some reason the world is shocked and outraged is this don't come to read us that says it's bed time sprinkling very dull stool over the middle east and north stirring up storms of their own just a week or two ago donald trump was being put forward for the nobel peace prize for insulting north korea into fuel and new self respecting republican president wants that on his c.v. so twelve years of torture is to play with even the world's worst how a full nation a level of complexity rarely seen in global affairs as governments came in when but the negotiations press go on relentless trumps of you have the alarm on the deal was you are horrible on the plus side he didn't say very very horrible which in trump well that more or less a compliment saying that there is wiggle room on parole the orange one said while tearing off the iran deal that it didn't bring calm it didn't bring peace there and

it never will he does not want to read baseball cap when he runs for a second term because one of the message a u.s. president can sell standing with the us i am to egg on my face is europe's big three leaders grown michael made the and i was and spent a lot of political capital trying to keep in the deal christ at least one of them kissed him in the end they learned a vital diplomatic less than his many gts as you like but the u.s. is going to do what it down will please the europeans and russia and china say they are dedicated to keeping the middle east nuclear free apart from. you know. everyone take the news of trucks with drool in their words. comfortably familiar way the europeans are least sternly worded statement and iran burns an american flag in it. and israel bombs syria so perhaps it is reassuring that nothing really ever changes. america's european allies they translators

decision risk then demining international order and the west's moral or parity. this least i think it's not right to unilaterally cancel a deal that was agreed upon that was no more likely approved in the u.n. security council that diminishes come from international. elite is never good for us to break the laws that we ourselves helped to create why because how can you convince powers that occasionally use force or violence don't respect international law to follow our example when we don't even follow that example ourselves it seems that today screaming and shouting insulting bullying systematically destroying and dismantling everything is already in place is the mode of our times the former deputy coordinator for the iran nuclear deals implementation believes decision shows disregard for europe the full interview will

be available this sunday on artie's worlds apart but for now here's a quick preview. after all the bone to me 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 boris 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 toward 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 predecessor 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.o. 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 credible deals with the united states. polls are now open to me in iraq for the first parliamentary elections that since the defeat of his line extent in the country is a long long moment not only for the iraqi people but other countries to iraq concerned by who will hold the power of their mind county have takes a close and. depending on whose side you are on these elections can make or break the middle east not because of oil nor riches who that helps neither is it ideology or jihad ists these is all about friends.

first of three leading candidates hi 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 food 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 that many can only have one strong ally which is that i love about the always. and he is 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 that it's that i will have the group. if they are very close to the end and gating a lot of support by the here so i believe they have. until 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 lust 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 to sway votes it's not an insignificant amount of money we believe and we think it's highly and helpful it's bad so bad that western states are sending ambassadors to end trying to empower an 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 you could 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 your on 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 so uncertain about publishing data they could reveal links between the two due to current political climate it can now be noted that the demand in the social debate on obviated information on the relationship between crimes on the one hand and dissent and migration on the other hand is so strong that the also needs to consider the possibilities again the last study in sweden on migrants and 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 that official reports the push for this latest study comes after around sixty one places in sweden were dubbed no go zones due to the volume of criminal activity it's believed around five thousand known criminals live in those areas. you need to make as clear a shift in direction we cannot continue in this direction. more years society needs

to do more we need to do more we need to focus on the serious rather. than overwhelmed. underfund earlier discussed the story with a member of sweden's democrats' party has highlighted that his country hasn't been honest enough over the impact of immigration immigrants from these countries to create havoc all around europe and you know it's needs you know you need to start this is sweden the media they need to stop you're 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 once they dare to admit it's you know the causes and the problems from especially some kind of immigrant groups then it's much easier on any given

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. you know there are of course swedish people who commit six rise of crimes in general but. 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 seem to be country high profile whistleblower joined protesters in the u.s. capitol against describes as a trend of activists facing rough toxics and attention but the details on that

story after this short 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 they have to analyze betrayed and adversities confused how 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. for granted 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. for a trial. plays on monday in which demonstrators against president trump's inauguration will be facing charges the former soldier became famous for having a prison sentence refuted by barack obama after she leaked confidential u.s. documents she also commented on the recent case of activists facing abuse at the u.s. senate tearing last wednesday for seeing protesters first place all across the country from california to new york to north carolina where they're facing charges they're

facing felony counts off. the plies by police and this is not new but it's certainly becoming more aggressive more certain and we need to stop well one of those violently arrested at the u.s. senate hearing was seventy nine year old cia veteran ray mcgovern after his release on thursday mcgovern showed the bruises he claims he received from police officers . resisting mcgovern came to the hearing in protest against the nomination for the new cia chief in jena hospital the video shows police were moving him from the room last weekend to stop resisting well we spoke to a macguffin himself who described the senate hearing as a sharod this hearing started in a most unusual way with each ear saying this. i can't wear

my glasses very well because as you could chew there to a shoot out of shape but what he said was that. this is an open hearing in the be a close election those people who want to say something extra. do it fast. do it quickly and then leave maybe this is an invitation to rick of make a remark although it quickly and then i'll go well as you can see from the footage i did it as quick as he could but then i was not permitted to go the hearing was in many many respects a charade senator wyden said no mishaps will 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 it secret. it was

junior high school 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 or should that was too much and that's where it got up and i said that even though she says torture was legal it wasn't legal and the reason torture is wrong is not because the law as it gets did please understand there are laws against that because it's just plain wrong ok human beings don't do those kinds of things to other human beings. canada's conservative house leader candies bergen wants to know what all farty they're doing about at least sixty four months i still find says who have returned to canada it comes off to one of them confessed to carrying out executions in syria in a 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 a least twice the form i so find to who goes by the name of abu whose i was i have confessed to taking part in execution style murders of sunny muslim men he said he decided to leave syria after the second time he killed a person he left canada in twenty fourteen to join the extremist group when he was seventeen his life and now lives in toronto as canadian house members were told to their surprise. this guy is apparently in trying to tell canadians deserve more answers from this government up so why aren't they doing something about this dispute over. canada's public safety minister refused to provide details on the status of the x i still fighter however he insists that canadians are safe and that security agencies are doing their job and listen joe bruno contributor to geo political monitor dot com thinks western governments policy

toward syria has encouraged people to join the extremist groups that many western governments have taken a very ambiguous line at best. friends united states great britain of doing it you broke lying in one 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 deep breached after this story and has come out in parliament particularly people conservatives it has to do in certain provinces don't like trudeau will definitely make. this into a bigger story and i'm sure that true door will probably hear a price on how to explain before the next election. the u.s.

is changing course on relations with north korea as america's top diplomat has suddenly extended an offer of economic help to pyongyang and this is part of a deal which would see the korean regime give up its nuclear ambitions north korea takes board action to quickly denuclearize the united states is prepared to work with north korea to achieve prosperity on the par with our south korean friends then we've marks a drastic change in dealing with north korea washington has implemented around four hundred fifty trade penalties against the country since two thousand and five with nearly half of those having come in the last year and sanctions on the only tactic the us has used to apply pressure on playing young. only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy. if north korea continues its dangerous path we will continue with further pressure that's called

the military option the choice to say we will have no choice but to kodaly destroy north korea it will be devastating rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. human rights attorney eric sea world can say is america won't stump up money. there's a lot of problems that we face with the credibility of the united states under those circumstances can we make deals whether it's the paris climate deal whether it's the around nuclear deal what's the message are we sending to north korea about the durability of an agreement that we enter with them under such circumstances and so continually the united states is sinking further and further from international customary legal norms in references to treaties and agreements and. knowledge of them despite the fact that they've been negotiated by multitude of

countries so trust has to be rebuilt by experience it's not built by words it's not built by sheets of paper. thanks for chasing off the international we'll be back at the top of the app with the latest headlines. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all judges but there was one more question by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star a month and a huge amount of pressure come after you have to buy me an eight percent of the beach but how would you and you know all the great the great if you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get the ball going let's go. alone. and i'm really happy to join the team for the two thousand and thirteen

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as or this is the kaiser report oh my god i just a matter of elation probing the deepest recesses of my own conscious light about it but i see a max you know where i am glad to see that you have a little white board juror who might need it because this whole episode is going to be well the first half of this episode is going to be charts because the wall street journal did a great basically assembly of charts to show where we are ten years after the financial crisis hit remember the financial crisis of two thousand and eight well ten years later twenty eighteen these are some where we've come from since then and

first they start with good times are back in the market the government pumps trillions of dollars into the economy to stabilize the banking system bank stocks lagged behind the market but got a boost after november twenty sixth seen when donald trump was elected president and promised to tear up crisis air regulations so this is the dow jones industrial average up there on the way and these are the banking stocks which kind of lagged for a while because everybody thought well you know frank was supposedly going to do something and all these sort of regulations that were brought in to keep them from defrauding the american people but john came in and the republicans are promising to tear up everything well the number that they look at to determine whether or not they are succeeding as politicians as the dow jones industrial average that's going up they consider themselves to be succeeding the underlying fault of this mechanism to distribute the wealth generated by the country is never consider.