e.u. leaders reiterate their commitment to iran's nuclear deal and fostering business ties with the country that oprah some industry giants it's not enough also to come down artsy with numerous probes into alleged russian interference in the u.s. election senators concluded russia did help donald trump get elected despite an earlier how is providing that there was no collusion and east africa's tanzania as you can use of your victims of indigenous people and burning their homes all to make way for the luxury to. know that well can you watching r.t. international this afternoon where it's just gone two o'clock here in the russian

capital now our top story the european union has come up with an action plan to keep the iran nuclear deal alive after the us are in a go on the on the agreement it is reiterated their commitment to it as they arrived at the summit to introduce measures to counter u.s. sanctions however european business is working in iran to convince let's get more on this now from peter oliver he joins us live in is across the first place then just going through how is the you planning to respond to those u.s. threats to punish those who do want to do business with iran. well they've come together in severe for this is a usama that had been planned before but it is the first time that they've all met together since donald trump made that decision to pull the u.s. out of the iran deal now as they were heading into this this summit where we heard from e.u. leaders the real political big guns of the e.u. coming out and saying that they were fully committed to the deal as they signed it

. to be nice for the death of the twenty of them of them of getting we will work to maintain the framework of the twenty fifteen deal in spite of the american decision and we will do so in a concrete manner by maintaining our political engagements by ensuring that our companies can stay in iran and also by getting all parties to pursue negotiations for a larger indispensable deal the twenty fifteen agreement needs to be completed with the nuclear agreement after twenty twenty five and agreements on the ballistic activities and the regional presence of iran. the french president of money will crumb there have been similar noises have been coming out of burlington as well we understand i'm going to merkel the german chancellor also committed to the deal as it was signed booked to lot of big talk from the politicians the business leaders don't share that optimism of them being able to keep the iran deal alive without the united states now we've seen european business leaders casting these doubts

over just recently well germany's the insurance giant have said they're going to start winding down their operations in iran same for the danish tanker operator the shipping company saying the same thing they're going to start winding down their operations and the french petro chemicals giant total they've also said that they may well look to pull out of iran to stop them facing u.s. sanctions now to tal they proposed the one billion dollar investment in in a rainy in projects over the coming years that was back in twenty seventeen they've already spent forty six million dollars but we understand they're willing to to pull the plug on that project. total will not be in a position to continue the s.p. eleven project and will have to unwind all related operations before the fourth of november two thousand and eighteen unless total is granted a specific project waiver by the u.s. authorities with the support of the french in european authorities so there's a lot of talk from the politicians that they're going to be able to protect

a business that from u.s. sanctions however the business themselves not too sure they're going to be able to do that if we look at the relationship though between europe and the united states it is at a particular impasse right now i think it's best summed up listen to the e.u. commission president donald tusk he was speaking on wednesday and had this to say looking at the latest officials of president. one could even think. that. about frankly speaking. europe should be grateful for a president. that if you knew that hoping. you will find one of your. it is worth noting that just about everybody has also been talking up the importance of the transatlantic relationship but if we look at what angle or merkel said just this week she said this europe was at

a crossroads when it came to that relationship and it certainly does seem like it may be in for well taking on a different form in the future or at least in the immediate future ok thanks that was artie's peter all over there for a simple thank you. now amid 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 staff secretary of state mike pompei reportedly 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 like a real recrudescence of the view of the soviet union we are the vanguard of all progressive humanity peace progress is certain is a mark east 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 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 since nine hundred ninety one when the cold war ended through the bill clinton george bush and barack obama administration is. now a link between the to italian political parties that are expected to fall in the country's coalition government has been confirmed to me as authentic by one of the sides the five star movement told us though that the deal is only a proposal and still has to be discussed with potential coalition partners the late let's get more on this next month but it didn't skate across the story for

a second often. a lot of this caught a lot of attention hasn't it these proposals that have been leaked just from three main ones. well there's actually a lot of vexation since that document was leaked on wednesday evening many people saying that it shows the radical tendencies of these two parties the five star movement and also lega who are from opposite sides of the political spectrum but who are trying to get together to form a government in italy it's already course and jitters on the stock market with some investors trying to dump a tally in stocks and and changing fluctuating stock prices as a result of that well let's have a look at some of the details in that documentary which is dated on may fourteenth they include leaving the single currency so leaving the euro they also talk about asking the european central bank to drop

a two hundred and fifty billion euro debt that italy owes there's also talk of scrapping sanctions against russia and there is issues relating to the e.u. migrant policy with the suggestion that they want to change that currently the policy many people in italy including these two party feels is unfair to italy because migrants have to register in the first e.u. country they arrive in and given the waves of migration we've seen from across africa across the mediterranean many people have landed in countries like italy and greece and they feel that they disadvantaged as a result of that doubling a court and there's also suggestions that they want to create a universal basic income for citizens which will come with a costly price tag however before the alarm bells ring it is important to say that the parties have said that this is an all document they've been talking since then it was dated from may fourteenth just

a few days ago and they say that some of the proposals have radically shifted from that however they have confirmed r.t. that this document was authentic and they've confirmed that the final document which. they're currently working on we'll include a section on russia we don't know if that will mean that they will continue to call for those sanctions against russia to be released well these two parties are trying to come together to form an election it's been months of deadlock now since those elections in italy in march and if they don't form a government then there will be fresh elections in italy so these two parties are motivated to try and find a form that they can join together to form a government however this coalition is seen as being probably the most destructive thing in italian politics for some time by many leaders within the euro zone ruffle feathers and thanks charlotte the charlotte been ski for us. now the republican

dominated u.s. senate intelligence committee has concluded that donald trump was selected with the help of the russians comes after the house intelligence panel though which also has a republican majority absolve the 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 reflect a 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 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 muller investigation all of those who phoned 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 bounce 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. so africa has long promoted itself as a safari holiday destination catering in particular to well off travelers with advertisement like this one. however the reality on the ground is often less glossy safari parks need to constantly expand their territory and that according to a new study has led the government of the east african state of tanzania to evict indigenous myside communities on maps the evidence began in the two thousands and

so even actions began to thousands in between august and september twenty seventh in the loan some twenty thousand people were allegedly left homeless after nearly six thousand homes were deliberately damaged here are some of the affected villages telling their story. we got to come out of a fight a war. on up with that model was kind of like that across up because i want to forget that it was when i met. about that. on the whatever are you know we don't but i forgot that while you're. on the go with a come on he's in to get on a film like lucky. you know so far as a. poser yes there was a sub. caught on why do. we need to know more cause of. that when the phone calls were to not. go to those. who are mom

then the one visit to one is what would be good assess come out in the legislation and landlubbers in the name of conservation the government or tanzania has been dispossessed in the indigenous. these legislations have been used to be sickly do not i them aside their access to grazing lands their access to water holes but not just that it has allowed some of the safari companies that are operating in the area to conclude that the local officials who have intimidated who have arrested and beaten the villagers because they have tried to use their ancestral lands we also find that they have been violent addictions and these are all been carried out in the name of toward you tourism or some of the noise and in the absence of food it has led to widespread hunger managership and disease the kind of disposition that the report priest you shills are going to not just be forced out of their

homes and lands with their messiah been forced out of existence or to safari companies were looked into very closely the head of one of them thompson safari strongly denies though being involved in the evictions spread thompson says that his company works with local communities and government improving access to water but activists on the ground do tell a different story. i have to look at the government reading your twenty percent is coming the tourism and therefore the bottom line of all this is because you know the trolls actually know the social economy well income so if the faster a list of rights i were at the end of all their lives but they don't have access to resources and will look up on present look about access to water. is it is a tragedy if i look for example what happened back in two thousand and six the

government and mixed it to people from this our own private times and yet the pastoralist but of was their whole soul much of my relation and ours where the houses were burned you know all so. retaliated against those who were in the planning when to being you know it when you live in that place you pronged it you have structure you have a social services and now you hold the just in to the forest so if you ask me well i must say how black market place to live like i don't where they out is where me live in the us their home has come up to court boston here in moscow you have atiba going to be back to stuff right. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic.

very critical. in. free trade countries. most countries believing in competition it's a monopolist country that believes in monopolization and their 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 iran libya or iran but just actually so they're getting out of the dollar to go to europe you get the ball bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb why because of dollars by once.

again you with let's return to one of our top stories because a leaked draft deal between the two italian political parties that are expected to form the country's coalition government has been confirmed to r.t. as authentic by one of the sides the details of the deal still do need to be finalized but both sides have agreed to lift sanctions against russia immediately the overall tone of the proposals in the deal have been and. let's bring in italian journalist. looking at this story for you good afternoon firstly some of these proposals are pretty controversial how realistic is it that they could be. implemented for example removing these anti russian sanctions well nobody knows really but what is important is that for the first time a lesson the government will try at least to remove those sanctions and the message

that it comes out is very strong and clear early wants to be a friend of russia wants to be a country of peace and cooperation and even the draft of the agreement sais that italy will remain of course in the nato and the united states will remain the main ally ally but that they want to have better relations with moscow and this is something that is still really surprising but if you were following the campaign not totally unexpected because especially not only the northern league leader much yourself vd always repeated that he wanted to have good relations and he would have tried to lift all the sections against russia if he was in power so very well having these proposals but it means he does need brussels agreement doesn't it to a large extent i mean i can strong arm it's recount painting essentially what being

you would like or is that not the case. no i mean the sanctions are the result of an agreement with united states and we see you but. i guess that there is a least part of the sanctions that can believe that by a single government so there is a good chance that. the new government will lift the sanctions of course you you must understand that for the italian economy sanctions have been very bad i mean they're losing billions of euros every year and nobody really understands why they should keeping my money instead of doing good business with moscow. another proposal that much alleyways perhaps leaving the euro right here in east looking at the possibility of that the market reaction was pretty negative saying that something this economy have much to worry about is the european economy have much to worry about with suggestions like that well there was

a sentence in the draft that has been cast on the in the final version of the draft so what basically the new government will say to european union is that the european economy the european. society is facing the problems that the lot of international agreements especially with the you. know not i wouldn't say close provoked but. has been very damaging for the italian society so what they say is that we should tackle those problems seriously and if it's a necessary we should also revise the treaties including the maastricht treaty so everybody knows that to revise the treaty is not an easy task but what is really important joe political terms is that for the first time one of the four big counters in now in europe and we ask with. the two to revise.

these treaties and to have a better policy in your european union is a major breakthrough that i guess is scaring very much brussels and also believe i suppose and i suppose finding a challenge there will be other countries in the looking on with interest because they've got concerns about their own economy whether it's french farmers or perhaps german carmakers with sanctions do you think people will be looking at italy just to see how they get on and potentially they could put forward similar proposals themselves yes oh yes of course this is a water brussels really fear i mean this is really successful other countries will be ready to ask for the same kind of attitudes from other countries look at what's happening in hungary in austria in poland. and also in germany or where the result was not. good for the establishment so there is

a mood in europe where. we ask for what want to have. better conditions and a more attitude from europe and i guess italy can be the case. to do to at least force brussels to consider those those new measures new attitudes and of course other countries so i guess we'll be ready to follow really nice to tell you we have to leave it there there was so much only for italian journalists like. us activists fighting against police brutality he was released after five months in prison claims to be the first victim of the secret f.b.i. surveillance program. balogun took part in several anti brutality protests now vacated for the rights of african american gun owners he claims that he's been secretly monitored by the f.b.i. since twenty fifteen over his anti police statements the f.b.i.

reportedly pledges that all again made facebook posts in support of a man who killed police officers however prosecutors failed to establish he posed a threat. you know teachers afraid of being part of different coalitions and campaigning. protesting we turned out. to be our you know for out the way to go out to be under legal charges tomorrow. marks the truth as well as you know barry sharkey require a large change and you know what i mean i go to produce already a little work and querist the rest to borrow. to look down bryza. a lot. republicans who is believed that he was prosecuted under a new f.b.i. program according to several released documents the bureau is carrying out

a special investigation into those things to be domestic threats and it focuses on so-called black identity extremists in the case of bolivian police confiscated several weapons from his hands the activist himself claims his protest was never violent but black history or is this a way for the label are to simply. he. may disagree with neither state's social or economic or policies the way of life my case he says and the crew how the word terrorist is very loose. with the united states of america. what we did send a letter to the f.b.i. asking them to clarify the links between the case of rock and roll again on the alleged black identity extremist program levy agencies replied it doesn't have any comment on the matter. without

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abu zubaydah 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 provider 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 gina haskell who oversaw the torture of divide in thailand 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 hospital claims she would not follow president tribe's orders to revive such enhanced interrogation techniques call it what it 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

a hospital and 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 fathers his attorney mara there he didn't he noted there are only two people who have been jailed for the torture program not the cia agents that conducted them.