i was. looking at the latest official so for the. show the world could see them fitting. with friends like that who leave the race the e.u. slams the u.s. decision to pull out of the iranian you clear deal. ukraine cranks out on the 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 out across the muslim world. and r.t. hears from doctors in gaza who say hospital wards are overflowing and medical supplies are running out.

thank you for watching the news headlines he retired he international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge. 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 countermeasures 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. one could see them think. that the news. about frankly speaking to europe should be great for a perfect storm because. if you knew the hoping. you will

find one 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 bundestag on wednesday 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 ripped right now sell for the crossroads then 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 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 into jolt and poked into getting on board with nato by to reason may we also saw what could at best only be called all quit relations between donald trump and angle or 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 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 we live in a globalized world and the read 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. america's new top diplomat is promising to bring a more direct approach to foreign policy during a closed meeting with staff secretary of state might pompei i've talked about bringing swagger back to the state department. in our case it's america's essential brightness and it is aggressiveness born of the righteous knowledge that all cause is just special and built upon america's core principles 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 soviet union we are 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 very standard 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 all by and judge everybody else and unfortunately this has been all too familiar not certainly just a lot of this administration but i would say at least says nine hundred ninety one when the cold war ended through the bill clinton george bush and barack obama administration. 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 wish it. who's in charge of ria

novosti she crying biro was detained on tuesday for alleged treason his relatives have not heard from him since his arrest well any r.t. correspondent dina caution of shed more details with you and i knew. the security service if you crane has a raided several offices for import no fresh news agency to 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 so journalists working for the agency documents means of communications were confiscated during these raids and some of them lasted for several hours much in the house the reaction to this of course the russian foreign ministry immediately condemn to this a crackdown on during the list but 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 and its russian affiliate are you demand the 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 kiev office of the russian state news agency ria novosti and detention of the office direct security missions

but 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 true unless in ukraine back in. 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 issue 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 were denied and treat to the country just a week ago there was another what we can call it a scandal that broke in the country and that scandal involved 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 are a violation 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 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 better continue to come forward with what it is that causing the grounds for this charge because working for ria novosti or having a russian passport are not grounds for treason charge we and other organizations have been expressing i think more frequently concerns about media freedoms in ukraine and judge him based on the fact that their world view the website down of last year and journalists 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 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 unresolved unsolved so i think we're probably quite were what concerned we were say last year. but while some are alarmed about the treatment of russian journalists in

ukraine one american magazine has something more destructive in mind and also call in the washington examiner suggests kiev should blow up the newly built crimea bridge the writer even describes how it could be done political commentator john bosnich thinks 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 it 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 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. samir khan 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 rushes 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 investigate or even see when in plain sight evidence of collusion between the trim 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 smaller 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 of the need multiple homeless 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 there's

a zire and the ones that said yes we found something could not tell you what it was that they found. rallies have been held across the muslim world against israel and the united states on monday sixty palestinians were killed during riots on the israel gaza border triggered by the relocation of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem in iran protesters burned u.s. and israeli flags some held up posters of israel's prime minister with the message go to hell while in turkey demonstrators trampled an effigy of donald trump and the turkish president 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 as much with regards to the steps they made israel is an occupier and it keeps terrorizing when we won on wednesday

the israeli ambassador was expelled from turkey you can see him being searched at istanbul airport as he left the country and earlier turkey recalled its own ambassadors from israel and the united states middle east analyst akhmed our border says donald trump is creating a volatile situation. this move donald trump and israel are themselves from the whole world not only the muslim world if you decide that this particular moment the 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 and there's no way that you're going to have a two state solution on the table and that's what. disregarding the no

killer deal with iran and now you are completely provoking the sentiments of the whole muslim work 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 occasion that can't be accepted by a big country like turkey well 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 theaters are packed. we are facing many brooklyn life. short of 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 campus the twenty beds here and then a marriage is about when you can imagine how do you deal with it when the five more than our capacity it's voted the situation overclouded all of the hospital.

is fully extension and i tend it's also all fall out and we have 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. and also it's fall what are some traumas for too many bass amp waiting for. four abrasion. by. that's at its what about this direction and we have sort of just too many things stuff disposable. well the israeli defense forces have defended the use of life fire on the gaza border the i.d.f. says soldiers have followed standard operating procedure when leaving 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 doubled 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 decision tonight is yet another example of donald trump keeping promises to you the american people the president. has ensured she'd be 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 to roussillon 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 disasters 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 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 dissent 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. was looting that climate action plan sure he kept his word but this time the rest of the world just shrugged its 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 it right donna mobile which by the way which by the way we are keeping open and we're going to load it up with 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 don's 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. . a self-confessed islamic state executioner is now living freely in canada often lying to immigration services he revealed this i probably in a new york times poll cost called caliphate. the former i saw a fighter who went by the name of abu who saif left canada four years ago when he was just seventeen he spent five months fighting for the terrorist group in syria

before returning home in the podcast he gave detailed accounts of executing people but that may not be enough to charge him according to documents obtained by canadian news network canada's prime minister justin trudeau has been fending off criticism of the case in parliament and is the prime minister going to store going these bloodthirsty terrorist to walk on our streets but three women generally step back. to speak there once again we see the conservatives trying to drum up fear so we call the call attack when the prime minister finally imprison isis terrorists are going to use canada right. this approach in the last election by the previous government it doesn't work to try and scare and if i could. canadian intelligence estimates around sixty people have returned after joining extremist groups in syria and iraq but the government seems to be surprisingly unconcerned as

artie's well i'd guess the of explains. turns out you can't build a caliphate on the foundations of killing rape plunder and more killing they tried tried with bloody abandon but no luck so that was isis jihad ists went home to perhaps start a new life while they may have engaged in terrorism abroad and broken the law not all return he's continued to post a threat that may now be disillusioned with the cause the canadian government even has directives on how to deal with them all right they may have decapitation a prisoner to war a dozen may have repeatedly raped young girls they considered infidels but that's all in the past what they need now is apparently help the intervention team can engage with the return the and the rich and his family to open up dialogue with the

individual and to help support the return of these disengagement from their radical ideology and past behavior before you go thinking that canadians are crazy no most people never knew how lenient their government was being with murder as terrorists but what really riled the public up is an interview with a former jihad just who was left free. you know you have to you know to bring yourself to do it ok fine finally killing someone. you kind of have to close your eyes and do you kill you for a reason this is justified you can do this and i can be held accountable now imagine you live in the same city as this guy your kids walk by his house on the way to school that's how many canadians feel this guy is apparently trying to kid is just serve this government absolute doing something.

it's amazing people in canada get you. he is in jail for possession of marijuana but a guy who may have cut off people's heads is leadfree because he had the change of hot now that people are outraged his story changed he says he doesn't deny saying them but he's insistent that he didn't actually do those things no charges against him have yet been filed if they will be but you must understand what he is not a monster no i says fight is different to any other immigrants they will brings something new to canada those on my words that's the prime minister talking and the i need to know how you're going to protect your canadians like my young daughter and you know ten to fifteen twenty years from now when you're letting people in with an ideology that just doesn't conform to what we're doing here one of the reasons canada is

successful as a country is because we have been open to people fleeing persecution fleeing war zones whether it was people fleeing the devastation of the second world war from southern europe in the fifty's and sixty's italian communities to create communities that the portuguese communities and others just belonging to or tourists organization it is it is enough to convict someone as a serious crime so unless you cannot prove it all the fellow was in isis territory here and you loose there to me. help isis unless you cannot prove that at all you know we. just says well i made up the story then if you can prove that he was actually there you can make a case against a person who prosecuted the person for terrorism and sent to jail if the government were serious i think that's where do you review but i don't think they're serious

about pushing multi-culturalism to the limits is not certainly not a good thing. well we'll be back in just over half an hour with the latest news but for more in the meantime. twenty four to you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just the lawyer who. put in the. split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen.

those who took. invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see that. after attention 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 berlin wall in twenty eight years and former a b c w ambassador marc valvo on allegations that donald trump financial security advisor john bolton once threatened the o.p.c. w. boss of children all this of all 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. pre-decided as talking about zionist terrorism he was talking about existential threats to the u.k. i mean the deliberate targeted malign activity intended to undermine our free open and democratic societies that's free and open democratic societies that cia whistleblower edward snowden revealed to be under full specter.