looking at the latest of the for the trial show well she will fit in. with friends like that at least the e.u. slams the u.s. decision to pull out of the iranian nuclear deal. 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 over and 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.

and kate partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international 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 countermeasures to protect european firms who trade with iran from sanctions and the president of the european council donald tusk i had some harsh words for the u.s. leader. looking at the latest decisions of for them to try someone could see them fitting. with that when you move. but frankly speaking. europe should be grateful for a pertinent. that 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

zingers towards donald trump we had angle of merkel speaking in the back of the stock on wednesday she was 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 ripped right now sell for the crossroads and 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 to 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 reason may we also saw what could at best only be called awkward 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 the globalized world through 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. 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 bump aoe 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 cool principles i don't think it is that's unique to mr pompei i think you have an ad to 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 set up on high and judge everybody else and unfortunately this has been all too familiar not surely just under 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 generalists in the country this comes off to security forces raided the kiev offices of a russian media group and detained its director kettle the shinseki who is in

charge of ria novosti is ukraine bureau was detained on tuesday for alleged treason his relatives have not heard from him since his arrest. correspondent made it a question of a shed more details on the story with you tonight. the security service of hugh 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 rays 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 what we are outraged by the huge violation of russian journalists rights and once again calling ukraine to stop illegal abuses

against journalists and to the far fetched 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 freedom of the media raised concern over this raid his concern was also supported by other international organizations and its russian affiliate are you demanding immediate release of to rule the shin ski 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 key of 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 journalist 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 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 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 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 a threat 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's causing the grounds for this charge because working for ria novosti or having a russian passport are not grounds for or for a treason charge 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 these website down as 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 there are you know cases of killings of journalists that have that remain unsolved so i think we're probably more concerned than we were say last year. but while some are alarmed about the treatment of russian journalists in ukraine

one american magazine has something more to strut to than mind an article in the washington examiner suggest kiev should blow up the newly built crimea bridge the writer even describes how it could be done in a school commentator john balls knaves 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 the russian in food 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. survey work 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 bi partisan 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 busy 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 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 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 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 desires and the ones that said yes we

found something could not tell you what it was that they found when we while the u.s. senate intelligence committee has thrown its support behind donald trump's nominee to lead the cia to haskell is a controversial figure known for her role in the torture of terror suspects to ran a secret prison in thailand back in two thousand and two which so-called enhanced interrogation techniques we asked the intelligence committee banter can do the same with ten votes to five and her appointment is expected to be approved by the senate within the next week. plus discuss this issue further i'm now joined by former cia officer that ray mcgovern right thank you very much indeed for joining us well let's have a look then a jaina has fortunes been at cia for thirty three years and has allegedly what on setting up that those black sites and detain and torture terror suspects going to think she's the right person to lead the agency of course not. the record is very

clear that she supervised waterboarding of al machinery at that like say in thailand she pretty much admitted that but then she classified the information so that it would be held they held from the public the senate committee that sent that recommendation up to the full senate today there's a same one that brought into this charade about russian interference in our election this is a committee that defends the intelligence community defends the torturers defends the people who eavesdrop on all americans this is a committee that is sort of joined at the hip but the intel issue is people that is supposed to supervise and it's a very sad day for the united states to have so many senators do these two very bad things on the same day what becomes of the russian aspects that you touched

upon there in a moment but as let's have a look at those numbers are you related to them most of the support for gina housefull is coming from republicans but she also has the backing of six democrats in the senate i mean does that make her appointment obits that rainy. most of the smart people are saying yes it's all a certain i hold out some degree of hope that out of my faith in the basic decency of american people most of them who know in their heart that torture is wrong and that they will go to their senators and say you know it's wrong you know she did it and she's the worst possible person to head the cia. well she's also said that if she gets to be the head of the cia that torture is a thing of the past but mean could have a say in terms of perhaps an attitude here at perhaps more aggressive approach to counterterrorism issues confirms the cia cheney. well she'll do it she's told to do that sarah she got to where she is so president trump nominated her president trump

says you're only a silly torture works and will toward aborting and worse now it doesn't really make any sense to pick somebody who won't do that to be the head of the cia so the concepts here really has to be very clear he picked or he once or to be confirmed it looks like sadly she will be confirmed and showed so whatever he tells her to do that again is how she bubbled up to the top of the iraq receive in though where she was sold to do was torture pure and simple was also rahm issue and needed to area this so happened on the day that the same intelligence committee endorsed the intelligence report on the trunk russia collision i mean what do you think of the significance of the announcement. well you know the house committee came out with a very sound judgment and the whole premise of this these investigations

and the charge that. president putin and so if you read in the election was based on the thought that president putin wanted done trying to win. no i have been evaluating and analyzing russian and soviet leaders who are fifty five years. i cannot conceive of mr putin looking at donald trump during that campaign a simple oh wow he's unpredictable he lashes out at the slightest slate this is just the kind of person that i want to have if inkers on the nuclear codes this is going to be great fun helping to win tests or make any sense at all predictability as what a soviet leader a russian leader looks toward i mean after all we're hair trigger away from

destroying the world. i can't conceive of a situation where mr putin would say he's my preference help him when he knew another factor here that everybody knew that hillary clinton was going to win so what's the percentage in mr putin say i know she's going to win but i'll hack into the democratic national committee anyway just for fun and yeah i will make her i clean man a new email but let's see what happens it doesn't parse those are the two premises of published booklets all these legends of based they don't hold water and when you look at the particulars no one hacked into the democratic national committee on the fifth of july for which we had met a data that was not a hack it was a download onto a little thumb drive how do we know that physics the principle of liquid they nam explored dynamics you can't. get more capacity out of

a pipe or an internet system then take it then we know that it contains so much the thing was downloaded onto a thumb drive and then it was made to look by this suspicious fellow who suffered two point zero like a russian hacked now you want to ask me who i think lucifer two point zero is. well let me give you a hint i used to work at the central intelligence agency they have wonderful cyber warfare capability so now and what is called marble and that allows the cia to hack into other e-mail systems are other computer systems disguise who hacked in and leave telltale signs like who will cyrillic or the name phoenix and when the village for jersey escape that kolo this is so transparent

it seems to me and more important to my colleagues of more technical bent to former technical directors of the national security agency that if you look for somebody interfering in the us election that russian it's that people who want hillary to win so if you think i mean looking around we haven't yet seen any evidence of collusion what it is that's keeping that this story still going that right. well it's a great thing to keep going before the election coming up mid of ember you see that's what they're all kind of aiming toward if they keep the investigations open so that there's some prospect they might find something then in the pre-election period the democrats expect to win a lot more than they would otherwise do it's a very crass you know it's a very very dangerous situation because by blackening russia we are foreclosing the opportunity for the one sensible idea that president trump head in that is why

not have a decent relationship with russia there are people who make a lot of money at a tension between the u.s. and russia the arms makers the arms dealers there's too much at stake they thrive on friction and that's one big reason why russia's can continually back battled against and demeaned in the public media public media is part of the corporations that profiteer on war so it all kind of falls together but americans don't realize that because unlike soviet or russia systems they don't really citizens they don't really have the kind of experience that is necessary to know that you have to read between the lines when you read the new york times and sometimes there's nothing even between that between the lines have there lot of this information out there. got them will lead to that thank you very much and if you thought it's

a saving that's right mcgovern former cia officer thank you once welcome. now rallies have been held across the muslim world against israel and the united states on monday sixty palestinians were killed during riots on the israeli 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 tire birdo in 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 as an occupier and it keeps terrorizing well 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 analysts achmet al bordeaux says donald trump is creating a volatile situation. will this move donald trump and israel. themselves from the whole world not only the muslim world if you decide that this particular moment that jerusalem is the capital of the jewish people and it's the capital of israel then by this you do just destroying the whole peace process of twenty five negotiations they were just nonsense and you were buying you were selling and 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 killer deal with iran and now you are 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 provocation that cannot 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 theatre is a problem as you can and we are facing many brooklyn like. sure to c.v. a shortage of medical supply all of them have been sent to be shortage of oratory equipment more than sixty percent and we deal with a huge number. more than i want to visit the hour give us the twenty beds here and then a marriage is about what you can imagine how do you deal with it would be five more than our capacity it's voted the situation overclouded all over the hospital. is. we need extension and i tend to 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. are also it's fall. to many based on treating forty. four abrasion and all the additional remark. by. smart about this situation and we have shortages to many things stuff disposable. the israeli defense forces have defended the use of life on the gaza border the i.d.f. said soldiers followed standard operating procedure. when 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 donald kurta 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. president john shaving 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 . to jewish people during. while the israeli pm proclaimed 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 trump's 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 receive all of the job destroying obama executive actions. going to include climate action plan share 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 done i'm obey which by the way which by the way we are keeping open and we're going to load it up was a big doods 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.