look at the latest this is a president. thing. with friends like that who needs the rift between the e.u. and the us to deepen as bloc leaders questioning europe's partnership with washington. with numerous probes into alleged russian interference in the u.s. election senators concluded russia did help donald trump get elected despite an earlier house probe finding that there was no. east africa's tanzania is accused of violently evicting thousands of indigenous people and burning homes reportedly all to make way for luxury tourism.

well a very warm welcome to you to this hour start of this program here on r.t. international we have your latest top world had. the european union has now come up with an action plan to keep the iran nuclear deal alive after the u.s. read the agreement it includes counter measures to protect european trade with iran from sanctions the president of the european council donald tusk certainly had some pretty harsh words for the u.s. leader. looking at the latest. someone. like that who needs enemies. but frankly speaking. europe should be grateful. that if you knew that.

it's not just being donald tusk that's being well handing out the zingers towards donald trump we had angle of merkel speaking in the book at the start of whedon's there 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 rip 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 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 and cajoled and poked into getting on board with nato by to resume a we also saw what could at best only be called awkward relations between donald trump an angle or merkel whatever they met in public and then we've got to remember when it comes to emanuel macron 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 the relationship suggesting that america first could well end up with america alone

when live in a globalized. and three it is very very important and if he actually end up isolating and medica. snow a good idea can he be it is like that for a second he's a question mark at the rift with the e.u. washington's new top diplomat is promising a more direct approach to foreign policy during a closed meeting with stuff secretary of state mike pompei o reportedly talked about bringing. back to the state department 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 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 then we're 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 amount to limpness 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 since nine hundred ninety one when the cold war ended through the bill clinton george bush and barack obama administrations. the republican dominated u.s. senate intelligence committee has concluded donald trump was elected with the help of the russians comes after the house intelligence panel which also has a republican majority absolved the trouble of collusion the russian effort was extensive sophisticated and old by president putin himself for the purpose of

helping donald trump and hurting hillary clinton so we've heard this story countless times but at this time the bipartisan republican led committee found that there was collusion now 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 however just three weeks ago the house intel committee also a bipartisan republican led committee found that there was no collusion the committee found no evidence that meetings between trump associates and official representatives of the russian government reflected collusion coordination or conspiracy with the russian government 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 and homeland security other congressional committees and of course the infamous muller investigation all those who follow mnd . or something who ever 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 we could not tell you what it was that they found. both democrats and republicans on the senate intelligence committee have also with

the same time agreed to support trump's nominee to lead the cia and you know hospital has been accused of being linked to the torture of terror suspects with trump praising her for being tough on terror and also saying that torture works she reportedly ran a secret prison in thailand back in two thousand and two which so-called enhanced interrogation techniques were used the intelligence committee backed by a backhoe candidacy i should say with a vote of ten votes to five now during her confirmation hearing police twice forcibly remove people protesting her nomination of a possible involvement in torture one of those protesters was cia veteran ray mcgovern he shared his views on hospitals appointment with us the record is very clear that she supervised waterboarding of alanah shiri at that like say in thailand she pretty much admitted that but then she classified the information so that it would be killed to help from the public the senate committee that sent that

recommendation up to the full senate today is the same one that brought into this should read 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 me that is sort of joined at the hip that the intelligence people that is supposed to supervise most americans are abysmally ignorant with respect to what's going on and most of them have been led to believe that russia and feared here in our election in two thousand and sixteen for an idea she is very little i would say no significant evidence that has been reduced to show that that is the truth that is very sad. the government of the. east african state of tanzania is accused of evicting indigenous

must see i communicated according to a new study this began in the two thousands with the alleged aim of making way for safari tourism between august and september twenty seventh seen some twenty thousand people were left homeless after nearly six thousand homes were allegedly damaged or here are some of the affected locals telling their story. but we've got to come out of the fire you know what. we got that much was got up like that across that because i well i get that a woman i was when i knew. about that. you know we don't but i must go got that why you. wanted to go. to get one of the lucky lucky. you know so little bones of. those and yes there was a sub. who told why do. police will not cause. the fukui to not. do it. when the

one visit to one is what would be good assess come over here look. a ledge and there is not a lens with any distance and leave the room sometimes it is not the company's supply museum says in a bunny not the homes usually the owner is in these regions and carried out by government officials and park employees and last year the statement was that this was happening to protect the environment and to promote tourism the head of the thomson safaris group strongly denies being involved in any of actions rick thompson says that his company works with local communities and government improving access to water here is on the other again. true legislation and landlubbers in the name of conservation the government or tanzania has been dispossessing the indigenous groups these legislations have been used basically

denying them aside their access to greeting lands the access to water holes but not just that it has allowed some of the supporting companies that are operating in the area to conclude that the local officials who have intimated who have been arrested and beaten the villagers because they have tried to use their ancestral lands more specifically we have looked at two companies and going to you know one is turns it you know conservation ltd which is operated by boston be. owned by the boston based company one constant supply really the other is u.a.e. babies or here in business going to ration which. basically operates hunting excursions for the royal family a few weeks. the president of the french national union of students has been condemned for appearing on television wearing a hit job she was slammed on social media with people tweeting that it was

impossible to stand up for rights while wearing the head covering chalo do what you have to tells. the debate over women wearing a huge job in france is getting fired up once again why well student union president miriam push to you was in the news recently talking about the ongoing student protests here but instead of lighting a fire in support of course she became a target just for wearing a hijab. meant a field day on social media questioning how a woman wearing a hijab could possibly be the president of the left wing progressive student association and that it was a sign that the movement had been hijacked by religious zealots. decades ago in the middle of the twentieth century was left wing and secular and did not allow itself to be polluted we were far from imagining that this would

happen at the beginning of a twenty first month of. sad decline for the student union today forced to choose its leader in the shadows of islam isn't. even a response to support mariam hash tag has appeared with a lot of people highlighting how france is a multicultural country and that wearing a head judge is an acceptable form of a toy as it doesn't cover the face which is of course banned in france. tonight all my supported ghost activists marian from and who fights daily to defend the rights of students and who suffer racist and islam phobic insults to hide behind the music guided vision of secularism to mask lead in tracey's is unbelievably low you will remain progressive i want to express support from you and you. should have no place in society organisations. marion's

student union is also backing each individual's right whether or not they way head stuff and that as a woman she has a right to choose was strongly condemned the wave of racist sexist and the slammer for b.k. threat of which mariam is a victim off you any f. support mary i'm against this attacks but that isn't stopping the run for reaching the edge of the french government the gender equality minister is now wading in condemning the own line trolls for targeting marian but at the same time questioning whether a woman in that role is setting the right example by wearing a hit job. never supposed to be a feminist progressive student union whereas to bally's. proof of the grip of the promotion of politicos and his sons instead of just using the rile the minister's

contribution is yet another layer to this decades long debate can you be a feminist a progressive on it's a good job wearing muslim. ski aussie paris more news in just a moment. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be pressured. into going to be pressed the slightly before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the lines about how. best to.

apply for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman he just killed you know loneliness and spend the trip to the twenty million one playa. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful guy great so what will chance with. the face it's going to. this is r t thanks for joining us us national security advisor john bolton has told reporters that he is certain that the summit between north korea's kim jong un and president trump will happen as after pyongyang said it may reconsider their meeting if washington offers nothing in return for north korea totally ridding itself of

all nuclear weapons and technology. donald quarter takes a look. as washington pats itself on the back for pushing north korea to hit the brakes on its nuclear program america itself is going in the opposite direction in fact on the very same day that donald trump proudly announced he plans to meet kim jong un in june as officials at the pentagon rolled out their nuclear expansion plan. an evolving and uncertain job political landscape calls for the united states to recapitalize is to fast plutonium capabilities this is the savannah river site and south carolina nuclear refinery built at the start of the cold war which the pentagon now wants to bring back from the dead it was intended to produce materials for nuclear weapons but was left half built and riddled with structural problems after the cold war though the plan was to flip it from being a bomb resource center to a peaceful energy producer. the savannah river easy

a key department of energy industrial complex responsible for disposition of nuclear materials we still management environmental cleanup and environmental stewardship so the pentagon wants to weaponize a facility which was intended to be a nuclear arms burial ground but what exactly do they plan to produce pates bombs that when armed with nuclear warheads can create a blast to one thousand times stronger than that of hiroshima it's expected to produce fifty each year and the u.s. has been crystal clear as to why they need to pay it so badly back in two thousand and ten the obama administration's. with misplaced hope that quote russia is not an enemy it is increasingly a partner close quote anyone who watches the news today knows that this is not the case if it ever was president putin announced that russia is developing and building for new and horrific nuclear weapons nuclear deterrence is our number one priority defense mission force's warheads in c three people and infrastructure it's

all part of the deter it is time to buckle down and get after all of that nuclear weapon. are popping up on both sides of the fence the u.s. and russia both saying they're responding to threats from each other although trump card in their first months before putin unveiled russia's new weapons we must modernize and rebuild our nuclear arsenal hopefully never having to use it but making it so strong and so powerful that it will be pure any acts of aggression by any other nation or anyone else the whole world has just signed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons they were one hundred twenty two countries except that the nuclear powers and that's where we are and russia actually ratified the comprehensive test ban treaty we never did. congress never. made his nuclear power list in march he talked about the anti-ballistic missile treaty

that back in. russia was categorically against our withdrawing from me what it is that when you stand in the national security system and so here we you know. that was into. now the race is on so we don't get along then certainly in the other countries. we got a sceptic there so even though the u.s. has been pushing hard for iran and north korea to ditch their nukes it's hard to imagine who's going to a bay if the u.s. can't lead by example donald corder r.t. . u.s. activist fighting against police brutality who was relieved stuff of five months in prison claims to be the very first victim of a secret f.b.i. surveillance program. took part in several anti brutality protests advocated for the rights of african american gun owners he claims he's been secretly monitored by

the f.b.i. since twenty fifteen over his answer you police statements and the f.b.i. reportedly alleges that made facebook posts in support of about who killed a police officer however prosecutors failed to a stop that he posed a threat. if you look into the state of being part of different coalitions in campaigning it's. b.o.r. you know for out the way to go i have to. charge it to. my street as well as you know bear shockey require a life changing you know what i mean i go from just over a little work in clair's the barber lives to look down there is. a lot. but logan's lawyers believe he was prosecuted under a new f.b.i.

program according to released documents the bureau is carrying out a special investigation into those deemed to be domestic threats and focuses on so-called black identity extremists in the case of below gun police confiscated several weapons from his house the activist himself claims his protest was never violent. but. this is a way for. me disagree with. my case this is the truth the word terrorist is. loose. with you know. we sent a letter to the f.b.i. asking them to clarify the links between the case of logan and the alleged black identity extremists program and the agency did reply saying it doesn't have any

comment on the matter. so now with less than a month to go until football's biggest tournament kicks off here in russia the u.k. has given advice to fans on how to behave during the world cup england fans have been instructed to avoid displaying the country's flag which of course shows the st george's cross at the head of british football policing suggests it could be seen as well as hostile and imperialist tick by russians. trying to put that view to some russian football fans. some english fans who have issues with their behavior can be a headache for the whole broad and also for the belief that a home to. come up with a guideline just borders on the straight and narrow those coming through russia have already been warned. why fight to keep away from whole again

all the scary well. the. british police it's about this. well known symbol the british police are absolutely serious about this but will russian fans believe this is no joke. thank you i would think and. maybe they're probably too nationalistic option b. . imperialistic imperialistic. you. know that's ridiculous. most of the stuff like whether the fans want to show

their flags or not they will be safe and welcome in russia. perhaps some kind of inappropriate behavior drinking too much and losing control but. they shouldn't drink too much and start fights if if they behave themselves they won't be any trouble. are so potentially explosive development the u.s. air force has lost an entire case of grenades its own search for them has proved futile so now it's putting up a rope. this is the kind of container that fell off a humvee are still the belt of grenade round the grenades fell out of the back half while traveling on a gravel road ok something's wrong. if

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providing security for israel is that likely to prompt any international response beyond this condemnations well to discuss that i'm now joined by say barricade secretary general of the palestine liberation organization mr erekat it's good to talk to you at this critical moment thank you very much for your time and a pleasure now first of all let me express our deep felt condolences just as deeply felt rage a mass killing on the gaza border is there anything at this point that you can do to stop it first of all i appreciate your kindness and. your understanding of the situation and your condolences to the palestinian people we have witnessed the. massacre sixty four people work and thought only on armed in their land none of them cross their israel and there's really are many sixty four and one to two thousand five hundred and the west bank.