donald trump faces a torrent of criticism from leading european politicians and media over his decision to pull the us out of the iran nuclear deal. and i'd like to this saturday sweden consider studying the link between immigration and cry saying the public demand for such a move is growing that. goes to the polls with the parliamentary elections go to washington worried as none of the main candidates back its policy of countering iran. the russian company charged as part of a trump russian collusion investigation pleads not guilty in court amid prosecutors efforts to delay the case.

i welcome this is r.t. at the weekend with me kevin zero eight pm here now and first in this thirty minute news update from moscow donald trump's decision to pull the u.s. out of the landmark iran's nuclear deal has led to a sustained barrage of criticism from europe germany's to spiegel magazine has been the latest now to join the fray summing up the american president's attitude to his washington's allies with an offensive hand gesture no less europe's leaders meantime of committed to fighting for their country's interests and they're still scrambling to save the pact. and i think it is not right you know let's really cancel a deal that was agreed upon screening and shouting insulting. that diminishes confidence in the international order systematically destroying dismantling everything what do we want to be able to be blinded to what americans tell them because you could america's withdrawal from the nuclear deal has made the situation even more towns

so we continue to do business but if we always say that if we don't like things and we can't achieve any new international border everyone will do what they feel like that's bad news for the world. three days then after america made a controversial move the chief inspector of the un's nuclear watchdog says his resignation then the day after a top nuclear expert at the u.s. state department also walked out neither gave an explanation for the decision. to take sideways look than at the fallout from the president's latest. 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 previous that says it's bed time sprint

pinkberry dull school 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 tools and a new start respecting republican president was that one of his c.v. so twelve years of torture is diplomacy from the walls which powerful nations a level of complexity rarely seen in global affairs as government came in when but the negotiations pressed on relentless trumps view of the alarm on the deal was new on the horrible hundred plus side he didn't say very very horrible which in trump well there's more or less a compliment saying that there is wiggle room on parole the our new one said while tearing up the iran deal that it didn't bring calm it didn't bring peace there and it never will he did not want to read baseball cap when he runs for a second term because one of the message a u.s. president can sell you standing with us i am to egg on my face is europe's big

greed is. the end of hands and spent a lot of political capital trying to keep the deal priced at least one of them kissed him in the end they learned a vital diplomatic less than kids as many gz as you like but the u.s. is going to do what it down won't please the europeans and russia and china say they are dedicated to keeping the middle east nuclear free apart from. everyone techmeme use of terms with drool in their words. come to me for me away the european. sternly worded statement and to iran by an american. israel perhaps it is reassuring that nothing really ever changes. the former u.s. deputy coordinator for the run nuclear deal has told r.t.

the trumps decision shows a disregard for europe he tells sunday's worlds apart show how the president's riding roughshod over his are lies. after all the bonhomie 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 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 j 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. as for the news tonight swedish authorities could soon bow to public pressure and conduct a study into whether or not there's a connection between increasing migration and crime levels that leads a still wary about publishing a data that could reveal any links between the two sides in 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 dissent and migration on the other hand is so strong there's all sorts of needs to consider the possibilities again. the last study in sweden or migrants in crime was done in two

thousand and five two years ago the police decided to admit criminals nationalities in official reports the push for this latest study though comes after sixty one areas in sweden have now been labeled no go zones where it's thought around five thousand known criminals currently live. in need to make clear 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 side of. the golden.

egg remember sweden's democratic party told under a farmer that he thinks leaders are paying almost enough about the impact of migration 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 problem with immigration with the information received them from this how can it be used productively to solve the problem. well i think 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. 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 yet there are of course swedish people who commit six razer 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. the focus of what was happening in iraq this weekend voting is just wrapped up there in the first parliamentary election since the defeat of islamic state last year and there's not a lot at stake so there is a host not just for the iraqi people but for the other powers in the region more as the of takes you through the implications. 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 high 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 dying 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 domenech an only have one strong ally which is. always a moderate 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'll have the group 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. 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 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 end trying to empower and the rocky cleric who is 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 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 eight 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 vice president my pence says it's time to bring it now to a close our administration has provided over a million documents we fully cooperated in it 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 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 knows decided to defend itself it turns out robert willis team wasn't quite prepared for that as jacqueline booker explains. 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 russian 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 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 called 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 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 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 to russia's sanctions appeared to become somewhat of a foreign policy tradition but the latest round of penalties are driving some officials literally.

thanks. thanks. thanks. thanks. thanks for it with us this saturday coming up relations between the u.s. north korea might be on the up but question is no. big promise is about to be made that among the stories a. thank . 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 they have to analyze betrayed and bursaries

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again the canadian opposition leaders demanding to know what's being done about dozens of former eisel fighters who've returned now back to canada it comes after one of them admitted carrying out executions in syria in a new york times podcast. and you can do this you know can we hold a candle 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 we executed individuals by shooting them in the back of the hand 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 while this caused some amount of controversy the former eisel fighter who goes by the name of who has confessed to taking part in execution style murders of sunni muslim men he said he decided to leave syria after his second killing for originally left canada in two thousand and fourteen to join the extremist group he was only seventeen there now he's back in toronto much to canadian employees

surprise this guy is apparently in toronto canadians deserve more answers from this government absolute right to doing something about the. kind of his public safety minister refused to provide details on the former i still fighters current status but he insists that canadians are safe and that security agencies are doing their job or sundra bruno's contributed to two political monitor dot com things western governments policies towards syria of encourage people into becoming extremists many western governments have taken a very ambiguous line at best. france united states great britain wrecked lying 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 so so definitely should not be surprised. at least sixty such fighting it will come back from

fighting in syria rather than putting. all of the sort of deep grief this story has come out in parliament particularly important service lives particularly certain provinces don't lie. will definitely make. this into a bigger story and i'm sure that trudeau will probably hear price on how to explain it for the next election. the current detente between the u.s. and north korea appears to be holding steady pyongyang has said it wants journalists now from around the world to come a witness at dismantling its nuclear test facility later this month the announcement comes after america's top diplomat promised the kim regime economic aid if it does give up its atomic arsenal north korea to export 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 what

a change this has been of late and the comments represent a dramatic u.s. policy shift on north korea in the past thirteen years washington's imposed hundreds of trade penalties on that isolated country nearly half of those really limited in the last twelve months and sanctions haven't been america's only tactic for exerting pressure on either of the past only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy. even if north korea continues its dangerous path we will continue with further pressure that's called the military option the choice is we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea it will be devastating rocket and should have been handled a long time ago. but it's all change will relations now appear to be moving in the right direction human rights attorney erik's rock n told us the u.s. still needs to make good on its promises and that words alone aren'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 chile 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 a 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. it was congressman is calling on the trump administration to resume its funding of the controversial syrian activist group the white helmet reports emerged

a week ago that washington was planning to cut the cash although they're still been a confirmation of that with the latest twists and turns in this story than caleb maupin tonight. 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 cannot the bund in the region we must work with the news and use through the diplomacy including financial pressure and u.s. assistance to help change conditions on the ground the administration should start by immediately reviewing stability including through the white house. now already the united states has provided the white house that's 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 operate in rebel held territories that they didn't know why the accusation that they cooperate with the extremist groups now the real 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 the way to how meds 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 will carry weight with the way home. he has 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 u.s. taxpayers to pick up the phone and call their am their congress person at a 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. seven thousand paper up testing in the capital of the south coaxes country of georgia following overnight anti drugs raids on two clubs that. that was joe's interior ministry says eight suspected dealers were arrested but the demonstrators say officers used excessive force doing what they were doing that

their operation was a quote deliberate provocation they claim to ministry fabricate that with this that the venue to be used as a major drug trafficking point the protesters are now calling for the resignation of the prime minister and the interior minister as well rates come following a string of drug related deaths among party goes to police in recent weeks. it's a twenty seven leave the moscow times take the latest with us this weekend the r t don't call my name is kevin owen thanks as ever for watching for me the rest of the same the saturday evening all great programs two lined up for you in your part of the world right after this quick break. geysers financial survival guide. when customers go by you reduce the price. then now well reduce some of our. best undercutting but what's good for food market back into the global economy. join me every thursday on the alex salmond

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a look at the economies of the eurozone and the u.s. with the founder of money strolls danielle de martino who will join us from dallas and kanye west and beyond so they are in business news but not for good reasons we'll explain lots to to get. first let's get some financial as. the world's biggest second vestment 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 on 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.