to manage. does anyone gain from this impending cataclysm. looking at the latest if so for the child. what would she go through with friends like that who needs the race the slams the u.s. decision to pull an upset at the iran nuclear deal. plus. ukraine cracks down on russian journalists raiding a news bureau in kiev and arresting the director. israel is an occupier and it keeps terrorizing. turkey's president erdogan condemns israel's use of lethal force against palestinian protesters amid mounting anger across the muslim world. and r.t. hears from doctors in gaza who say hospital wards are overflowing and medical

supplies are running out. there watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow on cape partridge thank you for joining us. the european union has launched an action plan to keep the iran nuclear deal alive after the u.s. pulled out of the agreement it includes counter measures to protect european firms who trade with iran from sanctions and the president of the european council donald tusk had some harsh words for the u.s. leader. looking at the latest decisions of for them to try someone could see them. that move. about focus speaking to europe should be grateful. for them. because. that if you knew the hoping.

you will find the d.n.a. of your. it's not just being donald tusk that's been well handing out the zing is towards donald trump we had angle of merkel speaking in the back of the stock on wednesday she would say well it was part of her budgetary address where she sets out what 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 sell for the crossroads then we didn't listen to them on the 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 united states out of the iran nuclear deal it's this whole well of non consultation with allies

policy when it comes to diplomacy that really isn't winning donald trump any friends in europe but then there'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 could jolt and poked into getting on board with nato by to resume a we also saw what could at best only be called all quit relations between donald trump and angular merkel whatever they met in public and then we've got to remember when it comes to a money will 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 look forward to working with russia and china to see to deal

that is important part right now we are hoping for both moscow and beijing to act as responsible international players but it's watching that relationship suggesting that america first could well end up with america alone with 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 term he's a question mark what we want americans new top diplomat is promising to bring a more direct approach to foreign policy during a close meeting the staff might pump aoe talk about bringing swagger back to the state department swagger is not arrogance it's not boastfulness it's not ego knows swagger is confidence in oneself in one's ideas in our case it's america's essential brightness and it is aggressiveness born of the righteous knowledge that our cause is just special and built upon america's core principles.

but to discuss some of those statements we can now cross live to full when u.s. diplomat james thank you for joining us well that's how i see how it might be unbias been saying that he's been secretary of state for less than a month replacing rex tillerson and judging by what we've just heard what can we expect from him that. i don't think at this point we're really sure look as a former foreign service officer i can tell you this is the bureaucracy in washington most impervious to outside control that's why you have structure as a state like say henry kissinger who just ignore what they call the building and then other people like colin powell really got absorbed by it and really were not much more than figureheads i think what mr pompei was trying to do here is rouse the troops to fill that with a sense of the sprit to core say i mean i'm your guy but he still intends to point them in the direction that he wants to go let's look at some of the was he used that but i have talked about america's a sensual rightness in close but if it is what you think he means by that oh i

don't think it is that's unique to mr pompei i think you have an attitude throughout the political class here in washington that's almost like a like a real recrudescence of the view of the silly union we're the vanguard of all progressive humanity peace progress is socialism archy's peace progress and human rights and that we are right and everybody else takes their cue from us i think that kind of arrogance unfortunately is pretty standard well let's have a look at this another thing that he said that where he talked about aggressiveness or aggression born of righteous knowledge i mean does that potentially send a worrying signal to the rest of the world. of course of course it does this goes beyond in my opinion just simple patriotism love of country and even a sense that our values are something that are dear to us this seems to set up a kind of amounted to a limp this attitude that we sit up on high and judge everybody else and unfortunately this has been all too familiar not certainly just thought of this

administration but i would say at least says nine hundred ninety one when the cold war and through the bill clinton george bush and barack obama administrations i mean is this a viewpoint the thing that most americans share or is this a one off is it part of the elite which you think it comes from i know i don't know that most americans share this i think most americans have the kind of patriotism you would find in most other countries which i think is essentially a lot of all sentiment i think this this this this attitude among our political class that they are right and everybody else is wrong and clued in by the way their disdain for a lot of ordinary american citizens i think i think is something that is very dangerous and is really kind of an ideological thank you so what happens from this in the fallout jim gatos former u.s. diplomats many thanks. thank you. well meanwhile russia has issued a diplomatic memo to ukraine raising concerns about the safety of russian journalists in the country this comes after security forces raided the kiev offices of

a russian media group and detained its director carol the shinseki who is in charge of ria novosti as ukraine bureau was detained on tuesday for alleged treason his relatives have no hope for him since his arrest. correspondent medina caution of a shed more details on the story with the union and nail. the security services 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 of the house the reaction to this of course the russian foreign ministry immediately can damage to this crackdown on during the list what we are outraged by the huge violation of russian

journalists rights and once again calling ukraine to stop illegal abuses against journalists under the farfetched pretext of an anti propaganda fight not only rushing needed to the condemn to these particular searches but also other international organizations as well criticized this particular incident in ukraine representative on the freedom of the media raised concern over this raid his concern was also supported by other international organizations and its russian affiliates. demand the immediate release of to rule the shins 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 oath or disliking the committee to protect journalists today expressed concern over the ukraine security services search of the kiev office of the russian

state news agency ria novosti and detention of the office direct security missions just in terms of history to this meeting this is the first time listening to russian journalists in ukraine or house there being something of this occurring before in general it is quite dangerous to be a journalist in ukraine back. twenty fourteen for example ukraine ring a third among the world's deadliest locations for a media professions and the same year the country actually reigned as the world leader and journalists kidnappings now of course this intuition 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 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 were denied 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 where a blocked in order to prevent this concert from being broadcast and the ukrainian radicals even issued against this channel so these are just some latest examples that i can give you. from human rights watch says ukraine's actions revile ation of free speech. 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 obligations

to protect media freedoms there's a there's an obligation to provide some kind of transparency about what exactly is grounding treason charges that's an extremely serious serious charge that carries a hefty prison sentence so they get a cut they need to come forward with what it is that causing the grounds for this charge because working for you know working for ria novosti or having a russian passport are not grounds for for a treason charge we and other organizations have have been expressing i think more frequently concerns about media freedoms in ukraine and judge him based on the fact that there were of these websites bans last year and journalists who were who were either banned or were expelled because of the views 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 they you know based on things that people have said or written and so and also their you know cases of killings of journalists that have

that remain unsolved so i think we're probably quite were what concerned we were saying last year. but some are alarmed about the treatment of russian journalists in ukraine one american magazine has something more destructive in mind and an article in the washington examiner suggests kiev should blow up the newly built crimea bridge right to even describes how it can be done there's a call commentator john bosnich things that proposal goes far beyond the boundaries of free speech. it's par for the course the people who pose as journalists in washington are nothing more then weaponized lobbyists and so when a lobbying firm attempts to get its bills or its or its funding through for new weapons systems or war systems they often call on one of their in gauged journalists to do

the dirty work of saying something publicly that they couldn't dare say and then using the right of freedom of speech in america the journalist can call for anything he wants murder execution bombing attacks on civilian bridges and so on so that's what this is and if we're talking about a new level yes we've hit a new low a new low outward call by a journalist so-called journalist for an attack on a civilian structure. a panel of u.s. senators has endorsed a government intelligence report accusing russia of meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election republicans and democrats on the intelligence committee released a joint statement on wednesday the russian if it was extensive sophisticated and altered by president putin himself for the purpose of helping donald trump and hurting hillary clinton well keeping up with all the u.s. probes into alleged russian meddling is becoming increasingly difficult as r.t.c.

may become on explains. so we've heard this story countless times but of this time the bipartisan republican led committee found that there was collusion no how is this different from every other story well republicans on the committee actually agreed with fellow democrats that not only did russia interfere in the election but the influence campaign was apparently directed by president putin himself to elect donald trump and that all supposedly qualifies as russian collusion however just three weeks ago the house intel committee also a bipartisan republican led committee found that there was no collusion pushes active measures campaign achieved its primary goal of inciting division and discord among americans for more than a year us politics have been consumed by bits and recriminations charges and countercharges about the attacks now the democrats completely dismissed the committee's assessment saying that it was incredible that republicans couldn't see

collusion. throughout the investigation committee republicans chose not to seriously investigates or even see when in plain sight evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia and guess what democrats have pledged that they'll continue to investigate this collusion so now there's three separate investigations all contradicting each other and we're not even taking into account investigations conducted by the department of justice homeland security other congressional committees and of course the infamous muller investigation so this russian collusion drama has been going on for a couple of years now so we'll definitely keep you updated that is if you can keep up all of the new multiple homeland security the house and senate judiciary. i'm sure there's some other agency there all of those who found collusion or something whoever found there to be something could not explain what

it was so you have to give you an idea of the ludicrous nature of this a number of organizations or tribunals that found no evidence of wrongdoing some that found at camps desires and the ones that said yes we found something could not tell you what it was that they found muslim nations of voicing their anger about the israeli military crackdown on protests on the us after the break. so. what politicians do something that. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something i want to be honest. that's why the press this is what the four three in the morning

can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my call. if. you have spirits is not only another part they cannot be a part of their mother broke they have taken the seeds of many out there dictating the solution this wrong this region thought of the listeners extremists in this region have been strengthened and bravado their mission by these american is a decisions and actions before moderates in the arab world people like me have been destroyed but it was such actions such fascism such apartheid being exercised by israel and israel getting away with it i think this is opening the gates of hell in this region.

welcome back rallies have been held across the muslim world against israel and the united states that's after sixty palestinians were killed on monday during riots on the israel gaza border triggered by the relocation of the us embassy to jerusalem and iran protesters burned u.s. and israeli flags some held up posters of israel's prime minister with the message go to hell and in turkey demonstrators trampled in effigy of donald trump while the turkish president tayyip erdogan accused israel of terrorizing the palestinian people. israel took the steps in the region motivated by i am strong therefore i am right it's not possible for us to accept israel's right just as with regards to the steps they made israel is an occupier and it keeps terrorizing. on wednesday the israeli ambassador was expelled from turkey you can see him being searched in istanbul airport as he left the country and earlier turkey recalled his own ambassadors from israel and united states middle east analyst ahmed al gore says

donald trump is creating a volatile situation. with this move donald trump and israel are themselves from the whole world not only the muslim world if you decide at this particular moment that jerusalem is the capital of the jewish people and it's the capital of israel then by this you just destroying the whole peace process of twenty five million there were just nonsense and you were buying you were selling promoting pipe dreams to the palestinians in the region then there is no way that you're going to have a two state solution on the table and that's what. disregarding the no kill deal with iran and now you're completely provoking the sentiments of the whole muslim world where turkey is trying to show a kind of understanding to what's going on in the region you're completely trying

to push them out of this and this is bravo creation that cannot be accepted by a big country like turkey. inside gaza hospitals are struggling to cope with an influx of wounded patients r.t. visited one hospital where doctors say medical supplies are running critically low and operating theatres apart. we are facing many blame like. short the severe shortage of medical supply all of them had to be sent to the shortage of oratory equipment more than sixty percent and we deal with a huge number. more that i want to visit the our goal is the twenty beds here in many marriages about what you can imagine how do you deal with it when the five more than our capacity it's voted situation overclouded all over the hospital. is falling and we need extension and i tend to it's also follow we have received

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. and also it's fall. as far to money based on treating forty. four abrasion and. by. that it's about about this situation and we have shortages to many things stuff disposable. we israeli defense forces have defended the use of live fire on the gaza border the i.d.f. said soldiers followed standard operating procedure for moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem was one of donald trump's election campaign pledges and it's not the only controversial promise he's kept as artie's don't know quarter explains. 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 enjoyed shaping his native 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 made it you know not 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 receive all that job destroying obama executive actions. was included in that climate action plan sure 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 won eighty one trump took over from barack obama and vowed to keep america's notorious terror suspect to prison open for business i watch president obama talking about. dhanam obey which by the way which by the way we are keeping open and we're going to load it up was a bit dude's 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 linked 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. . well for more on all of these and plenty of other stories think. otherwise i'll be back at the top of the year with more. of our free trade country it's not a capitalist country. believing in competition it's a monopolist country that believes in monopolization and they like to use the dollar as their bludgeon to beat people into submission and if you try to get out of the dollar whether it's syria iraq libya or iran that just actually said they're

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welcome to watching the hawks. let us recall in twenty fourteen the senate intelligence committee issued a report on the enhanced interrogation techniques of the george w. bush era war on terror the report recounted the two thousand and two interrogation of abu zubaida captured in pakistan and held in black sites from poland to diego garcia but it was in thailand that his torture became so intense that some cia officers present choked up with tears and requested transfers from the facility according to one cia cable abu zubaida was waterboard to the point that he became

completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open full mouth. and the two videos of his interrogation were destroyed by cia officer gina haskell now that the hospital who oversaw the torture of divide and island has received the support of the senate intelligence committee ten to five setting up a floor vote on her nomination as director of central intelligence the house will claim she would not follow president tribe's orders to revive such enhanced interrogation techniques call it what is torture if you were to reintroduce them even hawks like senator john mccain are not convinced that you know hospital is best suited for the job but how much should other cia officers be held accountable for a fundamentally flawed cult of intelligence that was empowered by the president and his department of justice to conduct such torture or they're just doing their jobs in an effort to prevent further terrorism or perhaps the cia as an institution

needs to be scrutinized as much as the officials who sanctify their abuses in a dangerous cycle abusing power in the name of national security that abuse was on full display at former cia officer ray mcgovern was arrested and dragged from the senate intelligence committee hearing for daring to protest possibles nomination here was a seventy eight year old veteran of intelligence forcibly detained by capitol police for speaking his truth how far we've come from the principles of our founding. his attorney. there he didn't hilliard noted there are only two people who have been jailed for the torture program not the cia agents that conducted them but cia whistleblower john kiriakou and now former cia officer ray mcgovern can our country really expect the rest of the world to follow our example with such blatant hypocrisy we're not watching the hawks here looking in the mirror at our patriotic .