looking at the latest officials of presidential. i want to see the thing. with friends like that who needs enemies the e.u. turns on donald trump accusing the u.s. leader of not being much of a friend for pulling out of the iran nuclear deal but israel is an occupier and it keeps terrorizing. the turkish president denounces the israeli military that in response to the palestinian protests is deep anger at israel and united states in mass protests across the arab world. and the tears from doctors in gaza meantime who say wards there are no overflowing after what's up the last couple of days medical supplies are running out. fast led lines to tonight a high level condemnation against ukraine over a crackdown on russian journalists for a bureau was rated big we have and it's directed to take home to have human rights

watch not to comment about. my forty's this huge queue here in moscow this wednesday night welcome to this latest half hour update with me kevin our first than the transatlantic friendships getting decidedly frosty it appears with the european council president saying donald trump is not exactly europe's best friend right now he added that brussels is under no illusions since trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal a long ford agreement guaranteed that iran would limit its nuclear activities in exchange for tough sanctions being lifted looking at the latest officials of presidents try. to see the thing. like that. about focus speaking. europe should be. great for

a person. that if you knew that and. you will find one of your. outs let's go live to our europe correspondent peter oliver were no words but images they're paid it looks like things really are on the slide right now the moat we know washington and its european allies well it's not just being donald tusk that's been well handing out the zing is towards donald trump and generally the whole relationship between the united states and those e.u. members out the moment we had angela merkel speaking in the poem the stock on wed and stay she was well it was part of her budgetary address where she sets out where she sees her government right now and where it stands and she took part of that speech to directly look at the transatlantic relationship and she said that you repeat right now finds itself in a crossroads and we didn't listen to them on multilateralism is

under great pressure at the moment and because it's under great pressure europe must take its fate in its own hands more than before therefore we need european answers. almost certainly the biggest strain on that relationship at the moment is donald trump's decision to pull the eight states out of the iran nuclear deal it's this whole well of not in consultation with allies policy when it comes to diplomacy that really isn't winning donald trump any friends in europe but then it's also the well extreme possibility of the likely possibility he doesn't care about winning friends in europe if we look back to his campaign he was incredibly dismissive of europe on his way to power he had to be dragged in cajoled and poked into getting on board with nato by to reason may we also saw well we could at best only be called awkward relations between donald trump and angle or merkel whatever they've met in public and then we've got to remember when it comes to our money

will mark or he come well he publicly supported marine le pen against him in the election there so all of this is led some people watching this relationship to suggest that should it continue this way then europe may well start looking in another direction we're expecting to work with china and russia to see it is important at this moment we look to moscow and beijing will act as responsible international players but it's watching that relationship suggesting that america first could well end up with america alone painter all over a europe correspondent in berlin and so interesting turn of events over the last year or so isn't it we'll continue to track it let's get some thoughts so from a british social commentator on the line of story in an author i say is history repeating itself or not mr darwish are you surprised at this turn of events the way relations are going at the moment between america and europe. it's going actually

much faster than i expected i thought at least president would question mark on with europe into aspects in my view was one is the europe's line to have a european army to undermine it on the second one is three and at this he would side with britain surprise it deteriorated over other aspects which is named east of cancelling their union your clear agreement without consultation i mean obviously iran has been naughty but at least you would have had. to do with europe and the why the second thing and to your question history repeating itself i remember president bush the did the son when he wanted to keep a way out of intervention and keep america out of intervention he ended up intervening up again to stand and iraq and then that is also that happened of that

do you think your correspondent was speculating just that maybe america doesn't particularly care i'm sure it would like to have good relations with europe exert rigs that are less of going really punkers but end of the day trump simply doing what he said he would do you want to put america first make america great again and that's exactly what he's doing and if everything else falls by the way so i will be if you think that really is the case. well. let's not forget that president is not a politician and one of the attractions of many people and their dislike of us is that for additional media he wasn't reading from the normal script he was from outside this stablish me. is nothing wrong with putting your country first is good if you have a prime minister of a president who put his country first but that is that as as your introduction said . if america first and being america alone will live in

a globalized world and three it is very very important and if he actually end up by still living america. it's not a good idea can he be elected for a second he's a question mark and of course it's not just trade it's not just question of innate . intimating there it's the world is a small place everyone needs to try and get on as best i can to solve world conflicts interesting the angle of merkel fail to name check the u.s. when listing partners in resolving the syrian conflict she ruling out america in the process knows you think. well syria is in an excellent example syria were president obama really feel very badly i mean this is the evidence are not material by circumstantial that either with holden wink from america the islamic is the established itself that. getting

all the arms and establishing in the america agreed or not. but we thought at least trump could have rebalanced of that and. this sort of irrational and most city towards russia and getting into another second cold war ended in am actually doing a mess in syria would at least we know whether we like oh no the russians have a plan for syria what is the american plan these no planned except actually throwing sand in the gears and that is could be very very very serious situation for all of all about thirty seconds this around the real hornet's nest at the moment isn't it for europe they could end up being sanctioned by america that is going to come to the i mean europe's a little help companies if they are is this

a blip or are they going to get worse judging by what you've read the history books before and you good knowledge. well if the conflict inside and their case for you have a deep state in one end up on the hour i'm not very optimistic because war hurting everybody i don't always produce social commentators story and author always so welcome on this program i see you sir thank you very much. thank you. all right track he was happening there in the middle east the been a mass demonstrations in several arab countries against israel and the united states itself to more than sixty palestinians were killed and at least three thousand injured in clashes with the israeli military over the past two days those tensions flared when washington moved its embassy to jerusalem on monday in a rare and protesters torched u.s. and israeli flags they stamp the ashes into the ground some help posters of the israeli prime minister with the words go to hell in turkey demonstrators destroyed an effigy of donald trump the prime minister there called for the arab world to cut

ties with israel while the president labeled a country not. israel took the steps in the region motivated by i am strong before i am right it's not possible for us to accept israel's right as much with regards to the steps they made israel is an occupier and it keeps terrorizing meantime more pictures for you seen here is the israeli ambassador to turkey as he left the country news crews watched as he underwent strict security screening on his departure turkey had recalled earlier it's ambassadors from israel and the united states now on the ground inside gaza that's the dates of their hospitals they say are struggling to cope with an influx of wounded patients over the last couple of days r.t. visited one major hospital in the strip doctors there said they are critically short of medical supplies and operating theaters they say are packed. we are facing many bridges. short of the c.v. a shortage of medical some of them. as you shortage will. mean

more than sixty percent and we did with a huge number. more than i want to visit the our deepest it won t. be here in many marriages about why do thirty million how do you deal with it when the five more than our capacity it's voted situation overclouded all over the hospital. is. we need extension and i tend. to see about five hundred cases. two hundred of them are admitted to hospital and. i.c.u. is full and we get to extension for i.c.u. are all sorts fall. as far to money based on treating four. and. by. that it's what about the situation and we have shortages too many things stuff disposable on the other side of this as far as this very consistent curity force is

a concern they say they've given their reaction on how to handle the instead they insist they acted in self-defense against palestinian protesters as the violence intensified on the borders of disputed territories when relocating that u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem was always wanted on terms election campaign pledges he was always going to do it and it's not the only controversial promise he's kept as artie's done a quarter explain. promises politicians make them and break them trump has something of a reputation for at least making good on some of his president trump's decision tonight is yet another example of donald trump keeping promises to you the american people the president. has in john keeping his name to any american week starting today so let's give the guy credit where credit is due but here five times trump should have perhaps parked those pledges first up valley to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital we will move the american embassy

to the eternal of the jewish people through. while the israeli pm proclaim to the day of peace deadly protests raged elsewhere dozens dead and over two thousand injured including children. next up bailing on the iran nuclear deal trumps always been pretty clear about what he'd do when he got the keys to the white house my number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with. yeah scrapping the deal and a slew of new sanctions trump expected others to follow but what he got was a multinational shaking of heads leaders who voiced regret said they were deeply concerned and called it an unfortunate step the new deal is not a bilateral agreement and it is not in the hands of any single country to take me

nate it you know not that europe's not happy and americans probably won't be so happy about the next thing on trump's checklist either valid to boost the military budget as soon as i take office i will ask congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military the commander in chief has already secured a sixty one. billion dollar increase for twenty eighteen taxpayers also might like to know how that will send the two thousand and twenty deficit to about i don't know a trillion dollars but that won't stand in the way of trump's promise to storm off from the paris climate accord we're going to research all that job destroying obama executive actions. including the time of action plan share he kept his word but this time the rest of the world just struggled shoulders gave a collective mess and is carrying on without him finally let's not forget that

white house one eighty one trump took over from barack obama and vowed to keep america's notorious terrorist suspect prison open for business i watch president obama talking about get right. which by the way which by the way we are keeping open and we're going to load it up was do just believe me we're going to load it up no surprises there what's more trump is a bit of a fan of the waterboarding interrogation technique even if the u.n. says it's torture in fact he's so sold on it he's lined up a cia pick infamously late to torture methods but gina haskell is so controversial that police have twice had to remove protesters from her senate hearing for the job so the dons being good on his word fair enough but perhaps the world might be a calmer place if he just occasionally let a few promises slide you know like the others do donald quarter r.t. . russia stressing his concern over the safety of journalists in

ukraine in a diplomatic memo to the country it comes in response to security forces raiding the kiev offices of a group in the russian media attending as director of. the ski who's in charge of ria novosti as ukraine bureau was detained old shoes day for alleged treason his relatives say they've heard nothing from him since his arrest but did the coach never really gave us the details and reaction. the security service of crane has a raided several offices for import no fresh news agency. raid started tuesday morning and lasted for eight hours not only the had office of this agency was raided but also other locations including the apartments of journalists working for the agency documents means of communications were confiscated during these raids and some of them lasted for several hours playing much in the house the reaction to

this of course the russian foreign ministry immediately condemn to this a crackdown on during the list we are outraged by the huge violation of russian journalist rights and once again calling ukraine to stop illegal abuses against journalists under the farfetched pretext of an anti propaganda fight not only russia immediately condemn to these particular searches but also other international organizations as well criticized this particular incident in ukraine representative on freedom of the media raised concern over this raid his concern was also supported by other international organizations i have and it's russian affiliate are you demanding immediate release of to rule i reiterate my call on the authorities to refrain from imposing unnecessary limitations on the work of foreign journalists which affects the free flow of information and freedom of the media it looks like a large scale excuse for a government to attack journalists for the distribution of information that is not

to the authorities like the committee to protect journalists today expressed concern over the ukraine security services search of the key of office of the russian state news agency ria novosti and detention of the office direct security. just in terms of history to this meeting this is the first time listening to russian journalists in ukraine or house or being something of this occurring before in general it is quite dangerous to be a tour unless in ukraine back in. twenty fourteen for example ukraine reigned a third among the world's deadliest locations for a media professions in the same year the country actually reigned as the world leader and journalists kidnappings now of course the situation has changed since then but still it is quite a volatile place for journalists to work now in the past three years several journalists who criticized quite openly the new government in the country were killed and among them were russian journalists as well now ukrainian authorities on

a regular basis six ballo russian journalists from the country now last week two journalists were expelled earlier in me three journalists from italy from russia and czech republic war deny and treat to the country just a week ago there was another well we can call it a scandal that broke in the country and that scandal involves ukrainian channel t.v. channel and it revolved around a scheduled concert program dedicated to the victory day now the channel offices in kiev for a block in order to prevent this concert from being broadcast and the ukrainian radicals even issued a threat as against this channel so these are just some latest examples that i can give you. those with the pretty direct for human rights watch in europe and asia thanks ever so much make of the time to be with us and know you fully across the what your media. well we actually echo the thoughts of the committee to protect

journalists and are so. busy a works truly concerned by what's happened i think under under no circumstances should the government be criminalizing speech and media activities that groundlessly and ukraine i think this is out of line with ukraine's these raids and the detentions are out of line with ukraine's up with nations to protect media freedoms having ukrainian authorities they say he's committed some car the trays and then that's a serious claim. from what you say the but how this is been handled so far is going to be handled within all legal frameworks. well that's what the ukrainian authorities are obligated to do they're obligated to handle it through legal frameworks and i think i think in particular in this case there's a there's an obligation to provide some kind of transparency about what exactly is grounding treason charge as you said that's an extremely serious serious charge

that carries a hefty prison sentence so they better continue to come forward with what it is that causing the grounds for this charge because working for you know working for you know the state or having a russian passport or not grounds for or for a treason charge i don't know what is it i mean while they should while obviously they should you know they should. release him from remand pending you know pending an investigation if there are grounds for investigation i mean there's one thing you mentioned obligated the difference when somebody's been obligated to do something. somebody actually doing it what are your hopes that it that it will be carried out in or in official or orderly way. well many through human rights organizations i have to hope that that carried out an official or a way and i and i also have to hope that there will be. adequate and commensurate. pressure by ukraine's allies including the. european union g seven countries

the us and cetera to to ensure that the international organizations like the u.s. the e.u. and various u.n. agencies to ensure that whatever investigation is being carried out is carried out you know within you know within international norms the but a number of cases of germ this being expelled from ukraine over the last year or so generally what you think the picture is like there at the moment for a journalist working there and from another country. ok journalists are you working for another country and that country is either russia who or if you're from another country and you cover events in crimea or events in eastern ukraine in ways that are. you know in ways that very openly. defied or are ukrainian views if ukraine policies are. on. the separatists and russian backed separatist areas and also on crimea if you are seriously at odds with those if you say things that the government really

doesn't like and you're being you are i mean then you are at risk of being barred from the country or or expelled back to andrea and they're going in number and there's been a number of explosions as you know as your as your report tell us just just now interested and back to this guy now here tonight his wife says. he's got an illness need some medication and she's worried they've not heard from him except for except for the think the car know where it is but it's quite a long way away from where he was arrested is there any pressure he was organization can put on the people holding him tonight to get access get him legal representation get some access maybe for his wife get the medication she says he needs. well we can do is we can we can call in ukrainian government if i you know to directly to ensure that he has access to legal representation of his choice to ensure that he has access to any kind of medication he needs to ensure that he is

unable to communicate with his family within you know within the. procedure code of ukraine and i mean that's that's what ukraine needs to do and we and we also you know can call on ukraine's partners to ensure that this happens there's been so colorful us on this the u.s. state department asked about what they thought about what's happening in ukraine here with this journalist and how the know it spoke about it this is what she had to say let's listen. we understand that ukraine like a lot of other countries has been concerned about intense propaganda. when we talk with a lot of our allies and partners overseas they certainly have fallen victim and understand the influence and the reach of russian propaganda so we do understand ukraine's concerns about that. yeah but does that justify reading someone's home taking them into custody without much information what you think about the american response there. i think actually you cut her off i think that their continued with your

general phrase about how they need to respect media freedoms ok i don't read the reader i think i read i think i read the readout and she you know she did can continue with a sort of general phrase about the you know ukraine's obligations but look you know she's not. she's not the first person to observe that ukraine is you know it's fighting. you know it's fighting a propaganda war and i mean our view was you know you the best way to win a propaganda war is by facilitating our views and by ensuring true free journalism and if you want to persuade people if you want to persuade people the way to persuade them is not by kicking people kicking people out who don't you know project your views that and by arresting arresting journalists groundlessly final four how would you describe the current level of press freedom in ukraine appears to get a little better business but your pardon of just

a final thought about your general thoughts about the freedom of the press in ukraine the rankings things be getting a tad better there isn't it. that well i. i haven't read the latest rankings but we've expressed and we and other organizations have have been expressing i think more frequently concerns about media freedoms in ukraine and i would judge him based on the fact that their world website downs last year and journalists who were who were either banned or were expelled because of the abuse that they project a couple of criminal cases that are ongoing on. you for example against one of its key and others based on what you know based on things that people have said or written and so on i and also there are you know cases of killings of journalists that have that remain unsolved so i think the problem we're quite we're more concerned than we were say last year right ok you know if we're going to reporters

without borders into the eighteen. ukraine hundred one things are moving up a little bit every year but you say long way to go by the sounds of it. but thanks ever so much make of the time for us really appreciate it deputy director for human rights watch in europe and central asia a good night. you typify. thank you for watching us to twenty seven minutes often on a call could leave the moscow time that so it needs looking from us so far always much more color on have. for now said than i'll say again in just over thirty minutes i'm kevin now and good evening. is the middle east stumbling towards a region wide war it sure looks like it trumps decision to withdraw from the iran

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i'm after a town where we're going underground as nato has military committee convenes a chiefs of defense session in brussels today the head of tomorrow's meeting between nato boss again stoltenberg and donald trump coming up on the show how biased is the media being when more people have been killed in the gaza war in six

weeks than the burning wall in twenty eight years and former a b c w ambassador marc valvo on allegations that donald trump's national security advisor john bolton once threatened the o.p.c. w. bosses children all the support coming up a days going underground but first the boss of britain's controversial domestic spying agency has been talking in berlin this week the first time ever the serving of my five d. g. has spoken publicly outside the u.k. but he wasn't like his nine hundred forty s. predecessors talking about zionist terrorism he was talking about existential threats to the u.k. i mean the deliberate targeted activity intended to undermine free open and democratic societies that's free and open democratic societies that cia whistleblower edward snowden revealed to be under full spectrum surveillance and what is this activity for to de stabilize the.