a russian company charged as part of a trump russia collusion investigation pleads not guilty in court amid prosecutors efforts to delay. iraq goes to the polls but the parliamentary elections have raised concern in washington as none of the main candidates bucket's policy of conquering around. also ahead a top u.s. state department expert on nuclear proliferation resigns in the wake of donald trump's withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal rejection of the agreement has been criticized in america in europe. and sweden who considers studying the link between immigration crime despite fears it could exacerbate tensions between locals you from or.

wherever you're tuning in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international i mean you know neal. almost a year after the opening of the special counsel investigation into donald trump's alleged links to russia u.s. vice president mike pence say's 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. well this comes ahead of the first hearing in a criminal case in the special counsel against thirteen russian individuals and three entities they're accused of conspiracy to interfere in the u.s. presidential race it was told all of them were unlikely to ever appear in court but after one company decided to defend itself it turns out robert miller's team wasn't

quite prepared jacqueline good report. 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 muller 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 dollars 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 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 muller 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. washington's anti russia sanctions appear to become somewhat of a trend in its foreign policy but the latest round of pedal things are driving some officials run the band.

the arabian government is accusing the united states of several nuclear deal violations which it claims were made before donald trump pulled out on choose day in a statement to run ses trumps latest actions are not a new development they simply put an end to america's obstructionist participation in the deal well the iranian foreign ministers currently on a mission to save the agreement job ads are if plans to hold talks with the remaining parties to the deal fronts china russia on the all of condemned trumps the session but is probably boyko explains they shouldn't really have been too surprised. 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 god for some reason the world is shocked and outraged as if don't jump read assesses it's bed time sprinkling barely 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 was that one of his c.v. so twelve years of torture is to play received in the world's worst powerful nations a level of complexity rarely seen in global government came in when but the negotiations pressed on relentless trumps view of the alarm on the deal was you are horrible on the plus side he didn't say very very horrible only which in trump well they're more or less a compliment saying that there is wiggle room on parole the orange one said while tearing up the iran deal that it didn't bring calm it didn't bring peace to and it

never will he did not want to read baseball got what he wants for a second time because one of the message a u.s. president can sell standing when i am to egg on my face is europe's big three leaders bankrolled me to and i was and spent a lot of political capital trying to keep trump in the deal christ at least one of them kissed him in the end they learned a vital diplomatic unless the kid as many sheets as you like but the u.s. is going to do what it down with the europeans and russia and china say they are dedicated to keeping the middle east nuclear free apart from. you know. everyone tent menus or friends with drool in their income. to me for many a way the europeans. sternly worded statement to iran an american flag and that. israel lobby area so perhaps it is reassuring that nothing really

ever changes. america's european allies say trump's latest decision rests on mining international consensus on the west's moral or authority does this mean i think it's not right to you know a lot only to cancel a deal that was agreed upon that was not you know not only approved in the security council diminishes confident international order. in it 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 that don't respect international rules to follow our example when we don't even follow that example selves it seems that today screening and shouting insulting and bullying systematically destroying dismantling everything is already in place is the mode of our times. with a former deputy coordinator for the iran nuclear deal is implementation believes

trumps decision shows disregard for europe the forward for you will be shown this sunday on artie's at worlds apart but just for no 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 boyce 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 way or what is in the g c p a way that 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 open in iraq in the first parliamentary elections there since the defeats of islamic state in the country it's a landmark moment not only for the iraqi people but for other countries as well over who will hold power there murat gatti if now takes a closer. 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 will 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 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 when this election i mean it 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 that i will give you are very close to the end and gating a lot of support but i'm not here so i believe they have a hand 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 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 mom the iraqi elections that money is being used to sway candidates to sway votes it's not an insignificant amount of money would 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 iran's military general kasim silliman 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 stucco mistal uncertain about publishing data that could reveal links between the two june to the 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 descent and migration on the other hand is so strong there's also already needs

to consider the possibilities again. well 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 in official reports the push for this latest study comes after around sixty one places in sweden were no go zones juta the volume of criminal activity it's believed around five thousand known criminals live in those areas.

need to make clear shift in direction we cannot continue in this direction ten more years society needs to lead to do more we need to focus on the serious. country farmer earlier discussed the story with a member of sweden's democratic party who thinks his country house and been honest enough over the impact of immigration immigrants from these countries create havoc all around europe and you know it's needs you know you need to start this inside sweden the media they need to stop you know protecting them or denying the problems we have with immigration what the information received them from the survey how can it be used productively to solve the problem well i think that once people realize once they dare to that means you know the causes of the problems

from especially some kind of immigrant groups then it's much easier in any gives an argument 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 take but we don't make an issue of their origin. yeah there are of course swedish people who commit six razor 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 saturday afternoon three it in here in moscow more news outlets.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confronting let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. to 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.

your pockets are to international counted as conservative leader candice bergen wants to know what authorities are doing about dozens of former fighters who have returned to canada it comes after one of them confessed to carving out executions in syria in a new york times podcast this individual described how he executed individuals by shooting them in the back they had 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 former i still find her who goes by the name of. confessed to ticking part in execution style murders of sunni muslim men who have opposed this

law mixtape he said he decided to leave syria after the second killing he left canada in twenty fourteen to join the extremist group when he was seventeen who lives in toronto needy and heists members were told to their surprise. this guy is apparently in toronto canadians deserve more answers from this government of so why am i doing something i don't know. what callan is public safety minister refused to provide details on the status of the excise will find her however he insists that canadians are safe and that security agencies are doing their job. contributor to geopolitical monitor dot com is all the belief that western governments policy toward syria will encourage people to join extremist groups there. many western governments have taken a very ambiguous lie at best and at worst say france united states great britain

have to get the red line in antagonizing the syrian regime making it seem like it was ok to go and fight for isis given that you were fighting evil regime of assad so definitely they 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 or 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 trudeau will probably price i'll have to explain it for the next election. the us is changing course in relations with north korea with america's top diplomat suddenly extending an offer of economic help to pyongyang it is part of a deal which would see the korean regime give up its nuclear ambitions north korea

takes bold 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 well the move marks a drastic turn in dealing with north korea washington has implemented hundreds of train penalties against the country since two thousand and five with nearly half of those coming in the past year on sanctions aren't the only tactic the us has used to apply pressure on. 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 that we will have no choice but to carnally destroy north korea it will be devastating rocket and should have been handled a long time ago. yes so with comments like those they leave us the offer of

financial help does signal a significant change but human rights attorney believes it's unlikely washington will come good on the deal with north korea 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 iran nuclear deal what message are we sending to north korea about the durability of an agreement that we enter with them under such circumstances and so you leave 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 let go she aided by multitude of countries so trust has to be rebuilt by experience it's not built by the words

it's not built by sheets of paper. a u.s. congressman has asked the trump administration to resume its funding of the controversial syrian activist group the white helmets reports of washington cutting money to the group emerged a week ago though no confirmation has been issued today. well 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 note the bend in the region we must work with the 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 refusing to believe one 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 helmets 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 operate in rebel held territories that they didn't know why the accusation that they cooperate with the extremist groups now the white helmets of always claim that 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 they're worried how mets have

lost their luster they've been widely discredited in the eyes of the whole world as a crime as a propaganda arm western military intervention illegal military intervention in syria mr ruiz will carry weight with the way home. he has a republican and he has the support on fortunately 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 their 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 that's one of the stories you can look more in-depth on on our t.v. dot com but next we're getting behind the business headlines that's been bust.

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moments ago archies ashley banks takes a closer look plus we take a look at the economies of the euro zone and the u.s. with the founder of money strong and healthy marc you know who joined us from dallas and kanye west and dion so they are in business news but not for good reasons we'll explain lots to get to but first let's get some financial interests the world's biggest second best fund got even bigger this week three japanese mega banks have decided to join the vision fund led by the soft bank group mizuho bank reportedly will ante up on the level of tens of billions of years in wall m.-u. f.g. bank and sue my tomo which is a bank also in japan will join with the automaker dime or chrysler oracle co-founder larry ellison and by her reign sovereign wealth fund to invest in the vision fund and the new capital infusion will get the fun to its one hundred billion dollars goal the fun launch with seed money from saudi arabia state

investment fund is a project of soft bank founder maybe shaye osan who is now looking ahead to a vision fun to. tech giant apple has abandoned plans to build an eight hundred fifty million euro data center that was planned for western ireland this is the dead end of a long and winding road for the project which was first challenged in court in twenty fifteen but recently won what seemed to many to be a decisive court victory before the challenge was accepted for a hearing in the irish supreme court apple reportedly feared that a court decision could result in elements of the case being referred to be european court of justice creating more challenges and delays so apple pulled the plug despite solid support for the project from the irish government but said the setback will not dampen their enthusiasm for future projects in ireland opponents of the project said that the environmental impact would have been severe in that it .