european leap will 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 interest 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 i also that i think a lot of it is is based on oil and 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 in 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 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 the most sense from anyone i've heard john thank you so much for joining thanks for having me pleasure 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 journalists. to celebrate the one year anniversary of robert mueller is investigation or a strong calls and some of us would agree america is great with. watching the hot.

across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to me to keep out the cells with simple song alone even cycle niggas from elsewhere they can find private companies to take over the utilities anybody tell us they're all. allowed to miss you guys you got. to go. this is us to quote them out. for you remember the lift bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right the access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than water it's about the hurt and the redistribution of all

there was to this. day downwards the one no. one else seemed wrong. we'll just don't. get to say proud these days comes to catechize and it. equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. twenty fourteen a bloody revolution. the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just no hiccup or if i mean your list put that you are really in the new bill

is that i mean you let me go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took you've invested over time billion dollars to assist ukraine in these another goal that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. today marks one year since special counsel robert muller took up the investigation into the so-called a russian interference into the twenty sixteen election and miller's team has recently concluded they cannot indict a sitting president that has been the case since nixon was in office and was a reaffirmed in the clinton administration it's unclear whether miller would challenge this in court if investigators were to find criminal evidence against the

president as for now president trump has continued to denounce this investigation calling it an illegal and unwarranted witch hunt tweeted earlier today congratulations america we are now into the second year of the greatest witch hunt in american history and there is still in no collusion and no obstruction this week the senate judiciary committee released eight hundred pages of transcripts from interviews with the numerous figures involved in the june ninth two thousand and sixteen meeting at trump tower the pages did not reveal any russia meddling from jr said quote the meeting was instead primarily focused on a russian adoptions which is exactly what i said over a. a year later and my statement of july twenty seventeen trumps critics say wheeler's team and its prosecutors are building a major case against him and his aides however we still have yet to see any evidence or russia did indeed meddle in the two thousand and sixteen election to

discuss where we stand a year into this unprecedented legal standoff we're joined today by investigative reporter lisa stranahan welcome aleve thank you so much for coming on to the show today you bet now if all of this team has acknowledged hugely on you that they lack the power to indict the president what exactly is the point of this entire exercise well i think the point has been pretty clearly blackmail and foreign policy what they've done is they've created a situation where donald trump if he does anything that seems remotely not mean towards russia like i mean literally that's where the bar is set he's going to be accused of oh look he's colluding with russia and everything else and the reason they did this and and i've been saying this for over a year as long as i've been watching this well over a year this is about. things that the united states government has done in places like syria that if the american people actually knew what was going on which is

very clearly the u.s. tax dollars have been used to murder christians murder shia muslims over in syria they go wait a minute with what we've been doing so what they've been able to do is by burying the facts under this sea of russia gate stuff they've put trump in a position where literally what what can he do if he says so for instance when he was and every time he's tried to do something like oh i'm going to get troops out of syria suddenly a gas attack happens remarkably every few days after that so this is part of a of a big wide campaign and the one of the ways you can see that by. the way is with this trump tower meeting the trump tower meeting they just released twenty five hundred pages of documents there's a i'm not a lawyer thank god but. there's a legal term which is burying people in paper right the the trump tower meetings

very simple an italian person it's guy a russian attorney who i've interviewed was in there about a guy named bill browder and the magnitsky act there you go i said and tete a quarter of a tweet right that everything else is hiding that simple reality that's what was going on it was a short fifteen minute interview an entire vessel misguide does not speak very much english at all so the meeting went i'm sure like kind of confusing for everybody which is why you're seeing all these different statements out of it because again i've interviewed her she speaks little tiny speaks a lot more english and i speak russian but she doesn't really speak english and so it makes the going the conversation much slower and more confusing on an already confusing topic and they've just taken advantage of that but what is there is confusion because it's from judah's comments and what is this russian adoptions issue that he's referred to ok so real briefly bill browder a american born he was the biggest hedge fund investor in russia and he

was charged and under investigation for tax fraud in russia he got kicked out in two thousand and five the raid his office in two thousand and seven and so he turns into a p.r. campaign where he's making himself out to be the victim he's already been tried in absentia and convicted in russia and it's very clear we i posted six hours of depositions of this guy and you tube anybody can watch his depositions and he tells a very different story there than he does to the senate so what the adoptions are about is the way browder turned himself victim we created the same called the magnitsky act and part of the retaliation for us passing this magnitsky act which is nuts on the face of it basically it says we're going to sanction people in russia who weren't charged with a crime. not much less convicted not even charged so it just it doesn't make sense one of the retaliatory things russia did was stop u.s.

adoptions of russian babies so it relates but did you hear that part right just explain to me like a minute after explain it now imagine we don't speak the same language and you're paul man a ford or eric you know donald trump soon you're busy you want to get on to the next thing everything i just said would have been like. gobbledygook because they were looking for dirt i mean that's the only thing i get out of is that trump jr want to dirt obviously on p.b.s. which can't and the speculation campaign doesn't want to side exactly right but he didn't get there so now now the issue doesn't become well the russians provided dirt it becomes well you see trump jr wanted dirt so that must be criminal and implicate that and the champaign is quoted like you say it's clearly not to who who doesn't want bad information about the other person but it's also important no question it's guy does not work for russia she's an independent attorney this was not a meeting an official meeting and everybody has buried the fact that the facts are

really simple about this in all of the. security of the the point being very simple yet there was nothing revealed from this fifteen minute meeting despite thousands of pages right why is that the judiciary committee can then turn around and say that they agree with the intelligence committee's committee's assessment that russia did meddle in the election well they had the intelligence the senate committee had two very credible sources talk to them that was john brennan the former head of the cia and former indiana clapper remember him he's the guy who lied obviously painfully lied was caught in a lie and then the statue of limitations that was their sources so was also the source on c.n.n. by the way that was anderson cooper all the time and that's exactly the right source that but well that's what we're hearing here is what here's what you use. usually do write usually if you're trying to get to the truth you'd say we're going to bring in one person who thinks this and another person who thinks that we'll get

two different sides instead they've got two liars these are both people who've lied under oath right who said yes the intelligence report that we gave you that was right that's what they said and they haven't there's a guy geoffrey carr geoffrey carr not a trump supporter at all a technical guy who's looked into this cyber security guy guy from word fence c.e.o. word france these are all independent technical people who've looked at this and said this story of russian hacking makes no sense a car like i say he is not a truck supporter at all but he's like look technical facts are facts and this is bogus but they don't want that they want to political. you know this is this is about politics and so brought pressure it's about propaganda see because the ongoing the ongoing investigation creates headlines every day and creates if we start an investigation of you just suddenly people go will you there must be

something to it a good percentage of people would just go you know they don't just do that right exactly and speaking of headlines lee would you say that the u.s. government and mainstream media are up fast with this narrative of russian meddling in the elections and would you say this this investigation at the sensually a waste of time or some sort of destruction well it's not a waste of time for them it's been massively successful as evidenced by the fact that donald trump who ran on a policy of nonintervention pulling troops out of afghanistan. pulling troops out of syria has now shot missiles two times into syria i would say that's a very successful what they call a psych up right of john kiriakou isn't he he can tell you more about that because he was in the cia this is a psychological operation that's what they're trying to do and it's a it's been a remarkably effective at affecting the target which is trump absolutely so then on a related note the part of justice inspector general horowitz he announced that his

report of the department's handling of the twenty sixteen hillary clinton case is complete do we expect any bombshells come into that one. well i'll put it like this and maybe that's a pretty big you know explosive like dynamite stick you can throw around but if you throw it in the atlantic ocean it doesn't really quite have the impact right and what i'm getting at is there could be a big bombshell in there now will the media cover it will the media coverage fairly know so anything that comes out from this report is being thrown into an ocean of stormy daniels shall we say where it is these completely meaningless b.s. stories that the media is absolutely obsessed with they have spent more time in stormy daniels and they have even tried to explain to people what the magnitsky act is or what the difference between sunni and shia is or any substantive issues and so what we're going to find out is what we've known which is there was squarely

conduct about around the investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server what we won't find out i guarantee you is why there is still no prosecution and that this is such an obvious case where there should have been some charges at least for lying to the authorities for hillary clinton said there were no that we know already for sure that material has come out when she in whom aberdeen both assured people we had no classified material we know that's not true right so. so do you think that trump is to be able to use anything consider this his in you know it's his part of justice. to be able to push anything forward or what kind of obstruct obstruction will he face if he wants to use this report any capacity well i mean he's look jeff sessions is to trump supporter jeff sessions has been employed the way to trump as well jeff sessions has been the single biggest

disappointment you know there is people at a high hopes a lot of people are trying to supporters sessions was the first guy to come out and supported trump ok jeff sessions new sheriff in town and the new sheriff who's been hiding in the in the deputy's office the whole time there's nothing on sessions on this so the fact that there hasn't been an indictment yet what they say at least on charges of lying to. federal officials and the people investigating the system very clear but john kiriakou who you had on he was sergeant yesterday if you're applying that standard who are admitting absolutely is guilty of violating the espionage will you see me hit the essence of the essence of hypocrisy like a you know at its finest for the torture issue being kerry aku and reva governor being arrested as elites you guys use it for torture when our own government was involved in torture many many times we thank you so much for joining us yeah thanks for having me appreciate it thank you. big tech and social media have been on the rise especially ever since the arrival of i phones and androids but are they

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r.t. international our top story this hour the former russian spies who was poisoned by a nerve agent in the u.k. has been discharged from hospital he and his daughter were admitted on the fourth of march after exposure to a substance known as not the chalk in the city of seoul spree let's get the latest now from this from our london studios good afternoon again polly so it's finally out of hospital but what else do we know. yeah after two months and initially very pessimistic medical prognoses surrogate scriptural has been discharged from hospital the hospitals released a statement saying that he and his daughter had been acutely unwell but that the next important stage in his recovery will continue outside of the cells very hospital we can assume that he's been whisked off to a safe house much like his daughter yulia was when she was discharged from hospital

last month when she left hospital she put out a statement appealing for privacy and despite the fact that she's a russian citizen she refused all russian consular assistance and she's been. kept well away from the public eye in the media glare ever since and i think we can expect something very similar in the case of her father's day as well going forward artie's requested interviews and statements from both sergey annually a script out while they were in hospital and all those requests were denied and in a way i don't think we can expect much to be said on this story anymore from the british authorities at least and that in itself is very interesting given the massive scandal that this attempted murder of the script precipitated all that it sparked take a look at how the poisoning of the former russian double agent unfolded over the past two months.

the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the to go into the script. that can be no suggestion of business as usual in relation to our interaction with russia mr speaker this action has happened against a backdrop of a well established pattern of russian state aggression. and accusations like that continue in fact it's kind of been established as the narrative in regards to this story here in the u.k. just a few days ago the head of m i five andrew parker said the russian was recklessly

poised had recklessly poisoned the script files so politically diplomatically this is a case where russia has been named as the culprit even though there are facts such as the head scientist of the government lab that identified the nerve agent used there has said that the scientists haven't been able to ascertain the origin of the nor the chalk used in the attack so major development in this story. has been discharged from hospital he's continuing his recovery and i think it's safe to assume that police are going to continue talking to him as well scotland yard has released a statement saying that the counterterrorism investigation into the attack continues but we're going to be keeping the progress of that under wraps as well as the procedure of the extensive security arrangements surrounding. powell now that is

all confidential as well despite this huge scandal and the political fallout that since huge with all the diplomatic expulsions it appears that investigators are still none the wiser as to who the assassin was that smeared the door handle with that deadly nerve agent. a lot of questions things part of it was are to. well meanwhile according to a german media report the country's intelligence service had possession of navi choke the nerve agent that was used on the script as far back as the early one nine hundred ninety s. a sample was analyzed in sweden and passed on to germany's nato partners including the u.s. and the u.k. former german intelligence officer brain a rube believes the german media article only she is credible. reports as far as i been reading it going there should be go into some other reports

sunspot most of it's. in particular this research group ok some big misses 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 previously tried to acquire. chemical weapons. and has the ingredients for this horrific stuff can be bored with almost everywhere if you have the formula all you need is secure the border so basically it could be done anywhere. ok let's go back to london now where the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander you have anchor is speaking after discharge from hospital to show that

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the script our case now let's go to you breaking news from italy. where a possible coalition government deal has been officially released for the first time since the election in march straight to our correspondent now page all of us for more. it's been called the contract for the government of change it certainly puts out plenty of change in those proposals now this was published by the five star movement it's part of their coalition agreement deal with the far right league and nord party should they agree then world those two sides get to put forward a prime minister and it's up to the italian president then to decide whether he gets his vote or her or she gets his vote and they become the next prime minister if that makes sense that's where we are at seventy days on since italy had an election it's this is the attempt to try and get some kind of consensus government now the preliminary versions of this agreement that had been leaked over the last

few days while they were criticized in the media as being either you all pro russian we can now have a look at exactly what was in what is in the proposal so they will be no unilateral exit from the euro zone or the e.u. there won't be any referendum taking place on italy leaving either of those two they won't ask for two hundred fifty billions that you are worth of debt to be written off but there will be a review of go see a sion that will be attempted we're also looking at potentially a huge overhaul of immigration policy within the e.u. particularly the dublin treaty italy wants to see big changes there the both five star and league ignored wanting to push that through should they get it ok in the go ahead on this government they also want to see the scrapping of sanctions against russia and russia to be viewed as a trade partner not as a threat now if we look at the the versions that were leaked previously there would

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