headline story is donald trump faces a torrent of criticism from leading european politicians and media over his decision to poll the u.s. . considers studying the link between immigration crime saying public demand for such a move is growing. goes to the polls but the problem in three elections gov washington worried as none of the major candidates back its policy of iraq. on the russian company charged as part of a trump russia collusion investigation. chords prosecutors efforts to.

around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know neil welcome to the program america's decision to drop. nuclear deal has been managed with a chorus of criticism in europe many leading media politicians have blasted what they see as a dangerous and destabilizing move germany's der spiegel even some donald trump chewed to washington's allies with an offensive gesture on germany's foreign minister who weighed in well i thought lining. to preserve the landmark nonproliferation agreement. i think it is not right to cancel a deal that was agreed upon. that diminishes

confidence in the international order systematically destroying. everything what do we want to be. america's withdrawal from the nuclear deal has made the situation even more if we always see that if we don't mind things and we can't achieve international order everyone will do what they feel like that's bad news for the world. three day. controversial move the chief inspector of the un's nuclear watchdog his resignation then the next day a nuclear expert on the u.s. state department also walked out neither gave an explanation for the third decision . sideways like the fallout from the president's latest it. was president risking chaos in the middle east and in case you missed it people are

surprised again. during the 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 don't jump previous that says it's time sprinkling. over the middle east and north stirring up storms of their own just a week or two ago was being put forward for the nobel peace prize for insulting north korea into. acting republican president once. so twelve years of torture is to play with powerful nations a level of complexity rarely seen in global government a man when but the negotiations prescott. comes. you have the learn monday you was new on the horrible moment last night you didn't say very very horrible which in

charmed well they're more or less a compliment saying that there is wiggle room on to roll the r. enjoins said while tearing up the iran deal that it didn't bring calm it didn't bring peace there and it never will he said but i want to read baseball cap when he runs for a second time because one of the messenger a u.s. president can sound standing with us i am egg on my face is europe's big three leaders micro. the and the hands and feet 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 less than candid and many takes as you like but the u.s. is going to do what it down while the europeans and russia and china say they are dedicated to keeping the middle east nuclear free apart from. you know. everyone techmeme use of trunks when drooling never come to me for many a way the europeans unleashed some stunning worded statement and iran burns an

american flag and it's on them and find israel bombed very unsafe perhaps it is reassuring that nothing really ever changes. well a former u.s. deputy coordinator for the iran nuclear deal has told r.t. the trumps decision shows a disregard for europe he tells some of these worlds apart how the president's been riding roughshod over his allies efforts after all the bone in 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 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 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. i want to move on to another of our headlines stories now swedish authorities could soon by public pressure on conduct a study into whether there's a connection between increasing migration and crime levels but leaders are still wary about publishing any data that could reveal links between the two citing the

current political climate it can now be noted that the demand in the so should be based on information on the relationship between crimes on the one hand and dissent and migration on the other hand is so strong he needs to consider the possibilities again in the previous study in sweden on migrants in crime was gone back in two thousand and five two years ago the police decided to admit criminals nationalities in official reports and the push for this latest study comes after sixty one areas in sweden were label no go zones where it's thought around five fires known criminals currently live.

need to make clear shift in direction we cannot continue in this direction ten more years society needs to need to do more we need to focus on the serious. one member all sweden stem across party told under a farmer that he thinks leaders aren't being honest enough about 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 aside sweden the media they need to stop you know protecting them or denying the problems we have with immigration with 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 it's you that means you know the 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 and sway didn't commit sex crimes but we don't make an issue of their origin. yes 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 the immigration affect your

country it's better not if a swede rapes someone. we don't need to import more rapes into the country. or story we're closely watching today it's the final hour of voting in iraq in the first parliamentary election there since the defeat of us law mixtape last year and there's a lot at stake not just for the iraqi people but for the other powers in the region to as well as the it looks and. 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 no this is all about friends. first of three leading candidates high the. current prime minister the best word to describe him is neutral syria stay out of it iran versus america stay out

of it yemen stay out he would be bowing 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 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 the american only have one strong ally which is that i love about the who is. 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 i will. miss that i'll 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 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 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's the room's military general kassim still in my. the look at the t.v. and the unhappy is a good day for security in the region i'm looking at. meetings in saudi arabia will make you very unhappy it all depends on who is side you are 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. almost a year after the opening of the united states special counsel investigation into donald trump's alleged links to russia by this president mike pence sais 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 that comes ahead of the first hearing in a criminal case brought by the special counsel against thirteen russian individuals and three entities they are 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 robert muller's team

wasn't quite prepared that's jacqueline virgo looks into. 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 muller investigation breaking today of thirteen russians special counsel robert most investigation or indicted the russians thirteen russians not only operating overseas but operating right here in the united states but given that those targeted are russian nationals with no worries about extradition to the u.s. 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 a moment as 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 had 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 had 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 we'll likely know

by then if everyone is ready to put all their chips on the table. washington's. appear to have become somewhat of a foreign policy tradition but the latest round of penalties are driving some officials run the bad. thanks. thanks. thanks.

thanks. thanks. former islamic state fighters are back in canada and that's got em pains else can questions the details in ninety seconds. thanks. to. the iran nuclear deal was one 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 i have to analyze betrayed and adversaries confused how should the world perceive her. thanks to some officials do not. fully understand or don't 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. in large volumes. with r.t. a canadian opposition leader is the monday to know what's being done about dozens of former fighters who have returned to counter that it comes after one of them admitted carrying out executions in syria in a new york times podcast and you can do this you're not going to be held accountable and i just kept looking down at his feet i don't want to look at his

head and then. i kept thinking we killed them 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 find her who goes by the name of. confessed to taking part in execution style murders of sunni muslim men he said he decided to leave syria after his second killing who left town of it in twenty fourteen to join the extremist group when he was seventeen he now lives in toronto much to m.p.s. surprise. this guy is apparently in toronto canadians deserve more answers from this government absolute right to do is something that they did. well count of those public safety minister refused to provide details only former

fighters current status but he insists that canadians are safe and that security agencies are doing their job and listen to bruno who's a contributor to geo political monitor dot com thanks western governments policies to word syria have encouraged people into becoming extremists many western governments have taken a very ambiguous line at best at worst say france united states great britain have to read 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 at least sixty such side it 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 too will probably price i'll have to explain it for the next election. they did taunt between the u.s. and north korea appears to be holding steady young jiang has said it wants a journalists from iraq in the world to come and witness its dismantling of a nuclear test facility later this month the annoyance been comes after america's top diplomat promised the kim regime economic aid if it gives up its atomic arsenal . 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. the comments represent a dramatic u.s. policy shift on north korea in the past thirteen years washington has imposed

hundreds of trade penalties on the isolated country nearly half of those were implemented in the past twelve months and sanctions haven't been america's only tactic for exerting pressure on. only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy. you know if north korea continues its dangerous path we will continue with further pressure that's called the military option the choice is think we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea it will be devastating rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. and although relations now appear to be moving in the right direction human rights attorney eric cirrhotic and told us that the u.s. still needs to make good on its promises and that words won't enough. 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 the 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 continually the united states is sinking further and further from international customary legal norms in references to treaties and agreements and revoking them pulling out 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 and join me for more of global news updates i think topped off the hour but next ten years on from the financial crash of two thousand and eight i do things actually stand today since they think delve into downton the

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a minute. max you know where i am glad to see that you have a little whiteboard jurors 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're succeeding as politicians as the dow jones industrial average so 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 the fact that they wealth or income gap is spreading wildly toward third world status infant mortality up and health care bang. doing millions is not part of the equation they simply look at the dow jones index to divorce how yeah mortality rates are not only up for infants but also for working age adults so that is a shock that is something that has really happened in the u.s. or anywhere drugmakers or in the dow jones so that go there actually the biggest

opioid is a family owned private business the one in connecticut that makes oxy and all those things are actually not in the right and all the ancillary businesses that support the heroin for you know synthetic heroin distribution they distribute heroin instead of wealth yes the american economy i mean back in soviet days they were they ran on vodka in america today runs on synthetic heroin so we have two more charts here showing this inequality the wall street journal does show the two charts that establish that indeed there has been huge inequality and remember two thousand and eight was when obama came into office he exited in two thousand and sixteen so this these are mostly his ten years this is what happened under barack obama i remember a lot of resistance media says that this was a great great great time but as the actual data suggests when why the mortality rates increase so hugely that the you know world health organization sort of bodies

say this is only happens in sort of like civil war or in epidemics that we see increases in mortality of the the amount that has happened in the united states well let's look at these next two charge the first one median household income is only up five point three percent since two thousand and eight employment has risen but about a fifth of the u.s. jobs are in occupations where the median income is below the federal poverty line and median household income is barely above two thousand and eight level adjusting for inflation so as we said like most of the very wealthy receive most. income from dividends and interest in interest income and capital gains so they're still on the lower income their the stock market is up three four five fold since two thousand and eight that's where their income comes from people working for a living while twenty percent of people in a job are.