north korea cast doubt over kim jong un's upcoming meeting with donald trump after the u.s. carries out large scale military drills with the south. u.s. claims the relocation of its embassy in israel to jerusalem was not the cause of monday's deadly unrest on the israel gaza border. it does not under mind the prospects for peace in any way and yet. this is supposedly a cause for violence. european leaders speak out in defense of the iran nuclear deal saying it should not be changed despite the u.s. pulling out.

broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is our two international incheon thomas really glad to have you with us. now north korea has canceled wednesday's high level talks with the south in response to seoul's joint military drills with the united states as more. this definitely comes as a blow considering the storage developments we've seen recently but in addition to canceling tomorrow's summit north korea is reported to have threatened to cancel its highly anticipated meeting with trump that's scheduled for june twelfth in singapore now this is all due to washington's military drills with soul which is always been a topic of discussion but it seems that the d.p. r. k. has finally decided to put its foot down.

now the d.p. r. k. has made it clear that these joint drills there and it's security describing it as a rehearsal for invasion and many view these fears as legitimate given the history of countries that have willingly surrendered their w m d's but this was in fact one of the points agreed upon back in january when the north agreed to stop its nuclear tests in the south agreed to stop its drills with the us and it was considered a confirmed once again when kim and moon met last month pledging peace in korea so the question is will this hinder denuclearization efforts will just have to see what happens. human rights attorney erica soroka and told us so the military drills could undermine trust between the u.s. and north korea that washington i believe wants to send a message that things are as usual and that they are not going to give up their

rights to run exercises with their allies so it's kind of a pumping up it also is sending a message at a very shaky time as to whether we can trust these agreements and the agreements between. you know the united states and the international community have been. scuttled the paris accords the iran's deal you want to be able to trust the word of people that you enter these agreements in. and this scenario i think is it really says that issue to the north can we trust what you're saying and. i think it was they really thought this action. america's u.n. envoy has claimed a wave of deadly unrest on the israel gaza border is nothing to do with

washington's decision to move its embassy to jerusalem it has no bearing on jerusalem's holy sites it does not prejudge whatever the parties might negotiate in a peace agreement it does not under mind the prospects for peace in any way and yet for some this is supposedly a cause for violence speaking for the united states and nikki haley made clear that she was very supportive of israel and she one is far is to congratulate israel for its seventieth anniversary i want to take a moment to mark the seventieth anniversary of israel's independence in this united nations security council on behalf of the american people i congratulate our friends in israel on the remarkable achievement of seventy years of independence the palestinian people are hit by catastrophe israeli celebrate seventy years of independence this is just another example of the u.s.

totally ignoring our feelings and right moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is not up to the u.s. it's a question of international law trump administration refuses to listen to what the world say to what stated in the un resolutions in particular the security council resolutions and international law kuwait called the emergency meeting of the fifteen member body that leads the united nations and put forward a draft statement criticizing israel for its activities on the border we know that more than sixty protesters were killed on monday tens of thousands of mourners have been turning out in gaza for the funerals of those killed by israeli soldiers on monday. i. was up the water glorious remember this moment was.

this is this true. i don't know but it was whatever the word we extend a hand in friendship to israel the palestinians and to all of their neighbors may there be peace. in the world we pray for the peace of jerusalem. the to the. i was wrong. i'm having to tell in the amount that way ever since the day phase ended our lives have you know what i think to protest against these may be soldiers who are just a short distance behind me as you can see they've kind of demarcated this area by burning tires and from hid there hurling rocks and stones at the soldiers who are just a short distance in front of us the stuff of the soldiers with the stuff that holds

the end in them says has been ferrying wounded people if we so often the number of people who. see these scenes working the pieces across the way that this is comes off the not taking aim at a certain kind as to. how to keep. getting least bit of a cake these maybe it'll be the beginning of time to see if the deceptive and nothing more fires that have started all along the road this comes just a day off to the americans' new film embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and then to spot the will stay on when i've been since the last possible. in two thousand and fourteen it's a to. do good if you thought it was mostly what was for me we're running now because these two guys coming in our direction and as you can see the crowd is moving it's always difficult to tell where exactly it's coming from so we

just kind of make our way for the back and as you can see. the situation is extremely tense and it's just get out of prison drawing in a sky that everybody's pointing to so we think that it's close firing tear gas on the crowd here and so we can move all the way back so we're not trying to top up the soldiers and we see from here we're what's going on. to ration tesco from one moment to the next becoming incredibly tense policia off team ramallah the total of the death toll is increasing the total of the injuries are increasing and the hospitals are crowded a sense that morning as you see the power the israeli forces have been using that it to gastro and to disperse all these protesters we can also hear live ammunition just right now and as you see the palestinians are moving to the front running the israeli forces are randomly shooting these protesters of protestors or are running

away from the facts this is an injury that was taken not right now from near the fence and as you see it the palestinian was injured in his chest just right now with a lot of ammunition. crime attacks are trying to negotiate with those rights numbers to take their injuries but there is already snipers are complete refusing to give the permission for the pad the palestinian paramedics to take these injuries there are principally strapped over there and the paramedics are trying their best to take these injuries to the hospital the palestinian paramedics have been witnessing a lot of injuries in different parts of the of the body and they stated. this was one of the bloodiest yesterday was one of the. two thousand and fourteen war in the gaza strip are now back going to. protests and demonstrations and there are news of new cards would buy like

a mission into your. very elizabeth in grants from the medical trinity m.s.f. told us of the situation in gaza is dire. there was more than one thousand one hundred injuries orgasm and never self was presenting. in support of the least of paris and to give you an example early next i was pretty sure. there was a moment free under the injured people is not only one day it's a since the prophecy of mass but there are some of the most ration each friday we are speaking about mobile and fritos people. and her system since many months since many years we have already owns a version of collapse there is only four was a very. people have a passionate paid there is a shortage of drugs of disposable so the medical staff are struggling since many

months in order to to go to give a quality of care for patients so today is a humanitarian act or else we do what we can we try to scan as we try to some medical doctor or surgeon. but it's of course not enough and today again and again he's not as a humanitarian act as we solve the situation we need a pretty coarse solution to what i guess at. a day after the turmoil the us president sent his best wishes to muslims around the world as they began observing the holy month of ramadan trumps called it a time for reflection and spiritual growth and praised the richness that muslims bring to american life not greetings were posted on the white house website but believed analyst. believes those words are insincere. we think it sent us a message of horrible words means nothing more and when we see the look runs

actions so we see it as really hollow understanding them if you like if you try a goodly stance that look at this muslims in the us arabs and palestinians in particular and they're not states of america is. blindly supporting those arenas the no matter what put it all not at most a security council resolutions against israel and nothing is done because of them and russia nothing not so. even really trusted to look at stories we ask a good of course russia or israel so that we cannot buy and buy in the market mission resolution to missional low we need leads not words least of all in. the e.u. is insisting that the iran nuclear deal remain unchanged the blocks of foreign policy chief made that announcement after talks in brussels between u.k. france germany and iran that is a spy donald trump polling in the u.s.

how the agreement. you know very well complex enough long enough to take enough doesn't need to be changed to modify it or have any addition everything is already written and i hope to be able to make it do with a good deal a fair deal a good deal for them better for them better for them but we cannot allow them to have nuclear weapons in a press statement following the hours of negotiations the new foreign policy chief of the party is relevant to these talks have decided that they're going to keep working on the full implementation of the iran nuclear deal that she called a diplomatic breakthrough in fact she compared the parties at the big ocean table having joked that this deal is relative that they all have in intensive care that they want to get out of the hospital and of course this comes in somewhat of

a contradiction from the signs we have seen from the west that have on one side that they might be implementing sanctions against european countries if they continue to work with iran is the u.s. prepared to go after companies in our allies like britain france and germany if they try to continue to do business the sanctions regime that is now in place is very clear about what the requirements are europeans are going to face the effect of u.s. sanctions already are really why would any business why would the shareholders of any business want to do business with the world's central banker of international terrorism all of this comes with the united states having said that they're no longer seeing this deal as a good one and trump announcing on me that the u.s. does not want to be part of this deal anymore and the concern here in brussels and in europe has been the way with which this could potentially affect the negotiator could make trade relationships between e.u.

countries and of course iran it's been moved clear that china. grounds germany and great britain are committed to sticking to this deal that worked for some time back in lancaster two men came into force of the twenty fifth fleet and was seen as an engine given how many years it took to work out with the goal of course of lifting the punishing sanctions against iran and in return getting the halting of its nuclear program that had been a concern for the western world for so many years so now the plan here in brussels is to continue working to ensure that this deal continues to function reporting from brussels an assessor churkin for r.t. . all european powers agreed to protect firms who suffer as a result of those sanctions but despite defending iran the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson earlier gave a very different message in the british parliament might conceivably achieve regime change at some stage in the in the near future but i can't i can't eat with

any confidence that that would be a change for the better what the american seem to want to do is of what i said done in previous times in iraq for instance is you sanctions to try to weaken the regime in order to bring about an agenda of regime change the americans are really for no policing the europeans using the threat of sanctions to say no you're not going to do this you're not going to help iran we're going to beg you to read economy and hopefully bring down there's one republic. in french a government plan to protect children from abuse has drawn criticism details after a break this is our the international. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

the politics in washington up and driven by the fossil fuel energy lobbyist they could've gone into renewables ten twenty years earlier and those jobs would be in place generating good paying jobs in america would be part of a growing world beating industry because they kowtow to those lobbyist they got stuck in the coal business which it up liberated by the gas business which is a trillion dodgy and turn a lot of reasons and now it's going to be obliterated by the chinese led revolution in seoul. is the middle east stumbling towards a region wide war it sure looks like it trumps decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and set into play a cascade of events difficult to manage and control does anyone gain from this impending cataclysm.

international now plans to change french laws to give stricter punishments for child sex abusers have fallen foul of experts who say it will make the problem worse he has more. in march france announced that it was going to legislate curb sexual violence to cut down on sexism i mean q did in that legislation was due to be in egypt consent for sexual activity here in frogs not age of consent was said to be at fifteen now the reason that element of the law was put it because there was outrage often choose cases emerged of an eleven year old girls who were deemed not to have been raped by adult men because they don't think of hers they don't been threatened there had been no violence or surprise when that incident had taken place well now the law is being debated in the national assembly on tuesday

and that element the age of consent to fifteen has now been taken out of this nor critics say that that mean it's been watered down that it was less protection for children and actually creates new legal loopholes for child rapists this is what they've set advocates according to are to go to child abuse could be considered an advance not a crime because they don't mr president there are two hundred fifty people who demand the wall be repealed well they've now launched a petition against that revision of the age of consent and it's gone to more than four hundred thousand people supporting that to not be changed well those who'd all good for the change say they needed to take out that age of consent because they said it would infringe on the defendant's presumption of innocence that's led to some heated debate in the national assembly already in one session on monday. when

they still don't have one when you read and read this law from one point in another when you are sure that you have read and understood it all was going to nothing happen at all as if there was no me to movement as if all these chalking and appalling testimonies did not provoke any reaction from the government cooper who could. i refute the in total both who've been senior on the largest of the tax reform or those we are proposing. well critics say if the law is passed without the age of consent it will mean that france will be one of the only countries in europe which does not have a legal defined age of consent and they've also said that it means it could pose a real danger if rapists are actually convicted and the lesson meaning that they will be seen as weight. in the protections necessary to make sure that they don't commit such acts again won't be in place. a bridge linking at

mainland russia to the crimean peninsula has been officially unveiled six months ahead of schedule it will reduce the region's reliance on sea and air transport and allows more tourists to visit the area which is a popular summer destination for many russians.

the russian president was at the opening ceremony for the new bridge. very different when you. write a report and drove across the one thousand kilometer bridge in an orange truck passing from the mainland to the crimean city of curch a team of construction workers joined to the president for the ride and hawkins has more on the new structure. this quite a feat of engineering forced lloyd to make comics along four lanes of traffic at a railway due to open next year as well to track the way this bridge the crimea

bridge not only the longest in russia but the longest in europe construction began a couple of years back it's been built in record time for this size six months in fact ahead of shows a little old seems to be going to plan it now to put it into perspective just what a fear of engineering this is often is rough conditions on the sea all the cut straight here the only line link that they link rather to crimea previously was by air or by ferry which was not always available due to the rough weather now there is a link all the time forty forty thousand cause thirty million passengers will be able to be carried through this bridge at its peak hours it required a huge amount of supporting structures as well to be precise more than thirty two hour equivalents of steel was used for the supporting pillars many of which extend nearly one hundred meters below the sea that's the equivalent of a thirty thirty five story building so quite

a big structure here now this will have a big impact on the crimean peninsula not only because of the increased tourists from across the region from russia also because of goods that can now be imported for the bridge and not by the sea all by. this project has been with planning for a long time from saugus times to the start of the save union era it's only been carried out now off to hundreds of years of planning so. very much a great achievement here. and that does it for me i'll be back at the top the hour with more news to watch martin fashion. was i.

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hello and welcome to across all things are considered i'm peter all about is the middle east stumbling towards a region wide war it sure looks like it trying to decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal has set into play a cascade of events difficult to manage and control does anyone game from this impending cataclysm. crosstalk in the middle east i'm joined by my guest joe joe laurie in washington he's the editor in chief of consortium news dot com and author of how i lost my hillary clinton with the forward by julian assange also in washington we have joe he is a fellow at the arab center washington d.c. and in london we have jonathan steele he's an international affairs commentator originally cross-talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate joe lauria let me go to you first in washington i'm titling this program stumbling into war you know the more i think about that the events

that are unfolding in front of us are so many different angles to look at how a possible conflict could come about what worries you the most in the wake of the drums decision to walk away from the nuclear deal with iran go ahead joe lauria in washington what worries me most true words john and bolton yes john bolton the national security adviser has been has been making speeches and writing articles for years about regime change in iran he backs this group which was on the terrorism list state department's terrorism list he now is in the passenger seat with a very unsteady driver and netanyahu has one hand on the wheel netanyahu has been able to manipulate trump very easily i think like taking candy from a baby with that ridiculous stage performance where he claimed iran was restarting their nuclear weapons program they all know except maybe trump that that's all rubbish that the i.a.e.a. has certified that they were they were complying with the deal that's why there's

been so much hysteria in europe and they tried mike carona came to washington they all failed he pulled out why they pulled out one could only imagine it's because they are planning a regime change in iran and i think we're seeing all the signs of that you know one hour after trump made that speech in which he said he was getting out of the deal the israelis massively bombed iranian targets inside syria according to time magazine one hour. later that's the message that was sent so while the attacks may against iran may be just in syria now there's no question in my mind that when the military directive that trump also gave to the defense department to prepare against any threat by iran they were going down a very very dangerous road here ok it's go to their second joe and why he didn't how do you assess what joe lauria just said right there because it all of the hallmarks of you know i feel like.