just this week europe was at a crossroads when it came to its relationship with the u.s. it certainly seems if it continues down this route it's a route that doesn't bring washington or brussels closer together donald trump is testing the patience of the european union and the u.s. needs to understand another part of the international community and they call just throw their weight around as they've been doing. and expect everybody to fall into line donald trump has as damaged relations is no doubt about that bought. clear that the e.u. are prepared to stand up to him now a new obviously have to reserve voices will have to reflect on where they go now hopefully it will be a wake up call for the whole trump and you know he will start to see sense if he doesn't there is a real danger the so i was still further. italy's here a skeptic parties have come up with a plan to quit the single currency and write off most of the country's national debt that's according to

a legal document from the five star movement and the league which are seeking to build a coalition government r.t. shall i do as the details. many people see these two parties who are from the left and the right side of the political spectrum as being quite radical parties they're anti establishment they're anti e.u. and already that leaked documents and it details of course some jitters on the stock market with many investors selling off their italian assets when those leaks were put online so what's in the document what's causing this vexation they want to leave the single currency that would mean quitting the euro they also want the european central bank to write off some of it in least debts with two hundred and fifty billion euros they also talk about russia and relations with the country between russia and the e.u. saying that they want to scrap the sanctions that are currently in place against russia and want to see russia as being a trading partner and not

a threat and also quite crucially they want to revise the e.u. migration rules that currently exist which mean that migrants have to apply for permission to stay in the first country that they set foot on well we have had confirmation from the five star movement that this document is authentic but we've been told that it isn't all document and there have been revisions since that was dated on may fourteenth however we are aware they've told r.t. that there is a final agreement that's already been put in the new agreement on russia but we don't know the wording of that yet but one certainly to watch out for given the tensions between the european union and russia so why is there anxiety about these two parties coming together is seen as being anti establishment and some fear that the suggestion that these two parties could form

a governing coalition in italy could actually threaten and destabilize the euro zone if you think about it italy is one of the three crew. members of the euro seen including france and germany and if you think of it as being a three legged stool if you take one of those legs away then it could just completely collapse all around and that's what many people fear will happen with these two parties if they come together but let's be clear they haven't yet released a final document they're still working on that they want to form this governing coalition so that italy doesn't face fresh elections that there still seems to be some sticking points before that government can be formed a political scientist lorenzo burley asco thinks if the deal is implemented it could cause a political shake up across europe i think the key thing here will be. the actual action of the government will be if a government is in place with this platform so rather than the words written in the

agreement i think we'll have to see whether this government. actually starts starts governing starts running the country and which policies it actually tries to put into action so this could have an impact on other countries both in terms of the rhetoric towards europe and in terms of specific actions. revelations emerge in germany's media about the script poisoning case and that after the break. our.

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former spy service crew pal and his daughter you hear in the english city of souls bury the u.k. blames russia for the attack claiming it was the only country possessing the substance ati's playboy co has more on the latest developments. letter headline grabbing revelation in this german media report is that the german intelligence agency the b n d has handed a sample of the novacek nerve agent since the early one nine hundred ninety s. it was apparently brought over by a former soviet scientist moreover according to these reports the sample was analyzed in sweden and then it was passed on to germany's nato partners including the u.s. and the u.k. the german media investigation also says that this goes to show that russia has been producing novacek which is something that moscow categorically denies but coming back to the formula itself it appears to have been a pretty badly kept secret earlier this month the czech president milan stehman

said that the czech republic had produced and stored albeit a slightly different strain of the nerve agent to the one used in souls brave but nevertheless that country shouldn't be hypocritical about this. small amounts of money were produced in the czech republic we know well and we know where it will be critical to britain should think never. however politically moscow has been cost very much as the unequivocal perpetrator of the soul's bre attack to reason may said that it was highly likely that russia was behind the attack on the script take a lesson. called salute about the identity of the culprit no other country has a combination of the capability the intent and the motive to carry out such an act . alternative explanation but. this is.

close even keel just to give. the global explosion that's what the politicians have said but the head of the government here in the u.k. that was analyzing and identifying the sample of the nerve agent used in the attack porton down the head of that government lab hasn't been able to confirm the origin of the nerve agent itself used in soulsby and now some news outlets are saying that these revelations show that a whole wrong of countries have had a sample of this nerve agent for nearly two decades now and as one of the newspapers that published this investigation has said this british theory that the poison could only come from russia shares unjustified confidence former german intelligence officer right now rob believes the german notables are

all plausible. lee reports as far as i been reading it then there should be a go and some other reports sunspots of it say it's in particular this research group ok present some mysis that were prepared to talk about it who participated in this operation so it sounds plausible to me. all the more because germany had already had the best german government you cretinous knew tried to acquire. chemical weapons for the poor. and as the ingredients for this horrific stuff can be bored really almost everywhere if you have the formula all you need is a secure billboard trishul basically it could be done anywhere.

facebook has launched a scheme to prevent election related propaganda and misinformation it's a joint project with the atlantic council a washington based think tank this will help increase the number of eyes and ears we have working to spot potential abuse in our service in they've been asked to more effectively identify gaps in our systems preempt obstacles and ensure that facebook placed a positive for old human elections all around the world when the atlantic council calls itself a nonpartisan institution but is being criticized for giving corporate donors privileged access to u.s. and foreign government officials some of its biggest contributors are arms manufacturers and oil giants and critics describe it as a platform for neoconservatives. well for more on this i'm joined by alvin verifies chair of the neighbors hereon national committee on intent indeed for joining us and let's have a look at it then countering online is right and that might seem like

a good idea but what do you make of facebook's choice of partner in this project. this is a clear response to the fact that americans are growing increasingly disenfranchise with the nonsensical military propaganda we lost faith through the actions of the n.s.a. more and more americans want to bring the troops home shut down all foreign military bases and really stop acting as the world's policemen as the world's interfere or as the world's bully we don't believe this military nonsense any more and more and more americans want to get out of nato entirely and so you have now the atlantic council whose entire mission is to maintain and grow organizations like nato and obviously including nato and now they're getting access to our social media security i mean this is exactly the reason that so many people are growing disenfranchised with organizations like facebook because they're playing right into the hands of those that support u.s.

military overreach so this is a completely it's the worst possible partner it's a nonsensical idea and honestly if the u.s. wasn't involved in so many other countries other countries wouldn't care who we elected well let's also look in in more detail at the line to council i'll give you one example in twenty sixteen the atlantic council released a document saying poland should launch a cyber offensive against russia was targets including the moscow metro what does that sound like what they call themselves a nonpartisan think tank. well they're there they're nonpartisan the sense that they have democrats and republicans that they support or who support them but they are not really intellectually neutral they're not politically neutral they risk clearly have an agenda of expansion of military aggression of encouraging other countries to do proxy military aggression so they're certainly not unbiased they are certainly not nonpartisan at most third democrat and republican bipartisan organizations like the libertarian party that

oppose all government intervention in foreign countries do not support the ideologies or actions of the atlantic council so they are not in any way a neutral or unbiased source to be involved in something this important but it's also an acoa facebook says about how they'll use the atlantic council to students they say they will monitor sensitive content during elections i mean is there a danger though this backfiring and actually reducing free speech. in that i think there's a guarantee that this is going to reduce open for speech and free speech and facebook now facebook as a private company has a right to restrict its free speech but american individuals as free agents also are right to find alternatives like me we mines and all these alternative sites that are pulling people away from facebook people who are tired of the incursions on privacy who are tired of the big militaristic political propagate propaganda that facebook seems in insisting on forcing down our throats so i think this is

going to backfire against facebook this is not what the american people want we don't want more propaganda telling us that we need military overreach we want less military overreach and so as i look at the practical implications as well i mean how do you think this anti propaganda project could affect facebook. i think it's going to greatly in tagon eyes a lot of facebook users because many facebook users are that i'm not talking about russians i'm talking about just regular american facebook users are tired of military propaganda we want to shut down military bases we want to bring the troops home and now when you have this highly militaristic organization who opposes our goals like shutting down nato who want to keep nato expanding who want to keep being militarily involved in foreign countries when people say that that organization is helping facebook manage election information i mean that is absurd that is preposterous that something like that could even be considered and so i think it's going to vary greatly antagonize

a large number of people on the left on the right libertarians greens everyone who does not support military overreach and in the gress of foreign policy is going to be angered by this and so i think it's going to hurt facebook in the long run which i see the reaction on social media as well what we have been very vice chair at the libertarian national committee many thanks thank you. well for more on all of these stories. of the last on the back of this opening hour with the latest headlines. because there's survival states if you want to start. there are you going to get them. back to. earth. good susan repatriations take a look at the rest in seven years. philippa said president gore. you're

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of crimea. one of the. more. greetings and mubarak. has officially begun in the islamic world a month of fasting prayer and charity to commemorate the first revelation given to prophet muhammad in writing the koran. commemorated the event by saying. muslims add to the american life in the u.s. we are all blessed to live under a constitution that fosters religious liberty and respects religious practices indeed we are and what of the president's travel ban on people from iran libya somalia syria and yemen i really believe that those citizens hate us so much they

will all be stopped from coming to our great land or perhaps he wrongly believes these are the only countries where terrorists could originate from. three versions of his travel ban of already been blocked by federal judges but now it's left to the supreme court to determine whether the president has the power to issue an executive order banning people merely because they are born in the country our government may not like unfortunately history is not the side of liberty we have previously issued quotas on immigrants from certain countries including jews during the holocaust and banned chinese laborers anarchists communists hiv positive persons and iranians from coming here. as the world grows more connected we may insist on raising the walls higher but i assure you the hawks will still fly over. the fence. with. the bottom.

like you that i got. up there ready to watch in the hot sun johnstone i'm sleeping john thank you so much for joining us now to her senate report on convicted terrorists in the u.s. from nine eleven to twenty fourteen most terrorism came from u.s. born people and pakistanis by a wide margin then lebanese somalis and colombians before we get to our yemeni born terrorist iranians have been convicted of terrorism as much as el salvadorian so what are the politics behind this travel ban i hate to say it but this is something

i think we ought to all be talking about this is really the politics of racism i think is what it comes down to you're right there there were something like fifty nine deaths of americans last year from so-called jihadist terrorists but the deaths of hundreds of americans from right wing terrorists we really don't read about that in the mainstream media but it's the truth so are you going to ban people from utah for example from going elsewhere around the country of course you can't do that are you going to ban colombians or el salvadorian says he said a moment ago they're not going to do that but it's easy to ban them the yemenis and the somalis and the pakistanis because who's going to stand up for them there really isn't anybody to stand up for them. but why i mean why why select these countries is that you know what is the motivation and obviously it's been doing the trying to fight this for two years this huge huge issue i think they're very easy targets and it's because there's no there's no let's all of a muslim lobby in washington you know you hear so much about j.

street in apac and and the greek lobby in the turkish lobby you don't really hear about a muslim lobby certainly there are muslim countries that spend a lot of money on lobbying the saudis the qataris the m.r.i.'s but not people from countries that are subject to the ban now if we were going to be serious about banning people from countries that promote terrorism really saudi arabia ought to be at the top of that list well you're getting through our next questions including the next one really is about this us recently blocking the u.n. security council sanctions committee from listening room our colleague the leader of the outfit. as a terrorist because he's based in afghanistan where we still have troops and we have certain relationships ongoing so pakistan is upset because the j u a terrorist group is targeting their countries right so it's a huge double standard because the question of why afghanis aren't on. right it is because afghan afghanistan right now for all intents and purposes is

a client state really when we talk about afghanistan and the afghan government we're really only talking about kabul and so we control kabul and so you know we want to foster good relations with the people that we've installed essentially into power there and so we play these political games here in washington at the same time you know you this is ministration has has not been shy let's say that way about offending the pakistani government and i think that the national security council the administration's leadership thinks that insulting pakistan is a way to to force them to fall into line. to apply pressure on them i think that that that's misguided and it shows a lack of understanding of pakistani culture and pakistani politics but who is going to talk sense to to this administration. you mentioned earlier the saudis so

that really big begs the question because iran is a major target for this travel ban because presumably they sponsor terror groups like hamas. hezbollah operates most of these operate against israel not really as much as the u.s. so saudi arabia meanwhile exports about zero estimate one hundred billion dollars worth of money into mosques schools refugee camps you name it over the past decades to indoctrinate muslims around the world and the interpretations of islam that includes failing in isolating women beheading dissenters suicide bombings all the ugly elements of islam that people associate with us really originates in saudi arabia why is it i mean saudis they say it's because of the oil iran has oil we could at any moment switch if. the saudis want to just kick the saudis out in turn to you know iran or russia or any number of countries that are oil countries why is saudi arabia so it's why we saw in bed with the saudis before i answered i want to

add one thing to this important list that you just gave us and that is and this is something that almost no americans know and that is that the saudi government provides all of the korans in the u.s. prison systems all of them and their english translations which means that aren't real korans because the qur'an a muslim believes that the koran can only be read in arabic because arabic is the language that god spoke so this is a translation but it's a wahhabi translation it's a radicalized translation and it's those qur'an that are in american prisons and you know a lot of people convert to islam in prison but the islam that they are converting to without them even realising it is a fundamentalists. well harvey strain of islam so why are we friends with the saudis. we've been in bed with the saudis since the roosevelt administration and we have what we like to call a special relationship i've never believed in the special relationship i think what

it comes down to is the saudis sell us oil and we sell them weapons well the iranians don't buy our weapons and we're at policy odds with the iranians in a couple of different places around the world the saudis when push comes to shove at least on foreign policy will do what we tell them to do and that keeps the relationship in check so that it really is just based on oil for weapons and you know we can we can extrapolate that elsewhere around the gulf to kuwait bahrain cutter the u.a.e. perhaps even oman and we really don't need the iranians in that respect we can isolate them politically. and i want to get to the iran nuclear deal john so it's headed south pretty quickly as we can see and one thing we have to wonder aside from appeasing netanyahu is opposition to peace with iran is the playing of the oil card here european companies that were preparing natural gas projects they're now

being pressured to discontinue the operation by the u.s. sanctions regime you know i've always maintained that the people who are going to pay the highest price for pulling out of the iran deal are the employees of boeing right because that's where iranian money was going as part of this disagreement boeing was getting more of this money than any other company in the country and it was employing american citizens so what's boeing going to tell these people in south carolina where they built this enormous factory in anticipation of trade relations opening with iran they're going to tell them sorry but here's your pink slip i always believed also that the europeans would stand up to us. that trade relations would be so ingrained by the time donald trump made a decision to pull out that the that the europeans would say look you can pull out if you want and you can even try to impose sanctions on us if you want but we're

going to stand united against you and we're going to continue to trade with the iranians and that hasn't happened i think the europeans blinked a week ago and so i think as bad as it is for overall u.s. policy i think donald trump is going to get his way on this. now there's been talk over in europe about reviving a decades old e.u. statute it was designed in one thousand nine hundred six to protect european companies from u.s. sanctions on cuba iran and libya so do you think this issue is likely to force a long term. i do actually i think the europeans are tired of us flip flopping on these issues you know we get a progressive administration and we ease sanctions we get a conservative administration and we tighten sanctions again we're never consistent this is another problem with americans and i course i can say this because i'm an american we think we're the smartest people in the room and frequently we're not oftentimes we don't know better than the europeans do and i think we ought to

listen to advice every once in a while our policies especially on trade especially on these sanctions issues are far more short are short sighted than the europeans views on them and we had to take the european lead yeah and we'll certainly we've seen that even over the russia sanctions there's been a divergence when it comes to. banks and financing corp and corporations that have interests best interests but they can go back to the question of how much of these sanctions regimes that we're seeing imposed on countries like iran and russia could be tied to u.s. oil interests that's what the iranians are alleging is that trump is promoting u.s. oil interests domestically and other sources as opposed to allowing iran and russia to provide natural gas and oil to the i think a lot of it is is based on oil. not just oil but even downstream industries as well you know if you look at the iranian oil industry part of the problem in iran is that they don't have the facilities to export the oil they haven't used their their ports and their export facilities in so many years that harbors need to be dredged

spare parts need to be ordered and because of sanctions they haven't been able to do any of that well at the same time we have a fracking industry here in the united states that cannot be profitable unless or oil is sixty dollars a barrel so the goal is you work with the saudis to tighten supply you keep oil above sixty dollars a barrel that way the saudis make money we can continue to sell weapons and american fracking companies make money and you put the iranians out of business at the same time that's used make the most sense from anyone i've heard john thank you so much for joining thanks for having me. thank you. and as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter for shows are. coming up we have journalists trying to get into the hawks in the celebration the one year anniversary of robert mueller is investigation or is trump calls and some of us would agree america's great time to watch in the hot.