latest of president. bush that. europe has had enough they stand to lose cash because of america and they won't let that happen. as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies so we now need to act and this is why we're launching the process of activating the blocking statute from one thousand nine hundred six. what you're a business doing is using a statute initially developed to circumvent washington's trade embargo on cuba the law basically protects european states from laws or sanctions implemented outside of europe you can see a political resolution look at america's new ambassador to germany hours after being confirmed he threatens german companies as donald trump said u.s.

sanctions will target critical sects is a bronze economy german companies doing business in iran should wind down operations immediately my advice after a long ambassadorial career explain your country's policies and lobby the host country but never tell the host country what to do if you want to stay out of trouble germans are eager to listen but they will resent instructions from us bully boy tactics haven't gone down well in europe the block is finally showing its teeth so. we defend on this subject as all others is the trading sovereignty of europe and what we demand is to be exempted without any conditions and limits it with new ones that you can't do it what do we want to be able to buy blindly to what americans tell you or do we want us europeans to say about how the economic interests move want to have economic relations with russia what can you say every relationship has its bumps. it's just that some bumps and in divorce we should not

overestimate the importance of treated with iran as of all we're in europe this is a matter that may be very crucial to specific smaller companies that for example have a large part of their trade with iran i mean the big companies of gold are going to choose to look for the better and they're going to see our interests lie more with the u.s. now with iran and they're going to not to risk these kind of sanctions where the real impact is going to be remains to be seen we should not forget that the e.u. on politically on foreign policy issues it has always been strong on words on symbols but not much on real implementation. of the german chancellor angela merkel is in the russian black sea resort of sochi at the moment where she's been meeting flat in a peyton in the last hour or so the thing leaders held a press conference today and answered questions from journalists what was said well

in a prank of that press conference and he joins us now live from sochi good afternoon she said just run through them what we're set. andrew good afternoon to you from the city of saatchi i can tell you that so many things were discussed and brought up in this short period of time it was really amazing and you wonder how that was actually possible from the usual ukraine syria adjourned to the script keynes and donald trump saying goodbye to the so-called iranian nuclear deal well in this case we heard from the leaders of russia and germany that both countries will make an effort to keep the agreement afloat and also this is the case when really a lot of our putin and agger merkel do see eye to eye. germany great britain france and all our colleagues in the e.u.

support the iran young nuclear deal and we are sticking to it we from the european side are discussing the situation with iran the agreement isn't perfect but it's better than none we should continue negotiating with iran and on that we are united . well this is the case when sanctions have been brought up but not all the anti russian sanctions this time around it seems that for the donald trump administration their favorite tool or favorite toy some even may say are sanctions all kinds of them the u.s. has hit russia with sanctions they've hit iran with economic measures and even threatening european companies with sanctions for different reasons for example for dealing with iran and also for dealing with russia and this particular threatens a very important project for both russia and germany that it's called the north

stream it's a gas pipeline that is meant to deliver russian natural gas directly from the from russia to europe and in this case vladimir putin was asked about what may be done and whether he understands the take of donald trump on this and why america is aggressively pushing against this one and a lot of our putin said that this is ironically one of the cases when the takes of the obama administration and the trumpet ministration are completely alike he compared donald trump to a businessman in fact we all understand that donald trump has a background of being a successful businessman that he's just trying to protect the economic interests of american companies moving on to ukraine many things were said about that but i have to tell you that of course vladimir putin are one of the leaders of these so-called normandy for the taste so to say and it's been

a long time when the meetings in that format were held previously so i actually asked both leaders whether they were looking to meet again the presidents of russia france germany and ukraine and whether they were discussing the next time they can actually do that right. now they're saying that they are discussing ways to do this and a possible agenda but for now the exact date is not known but the main goal for the countries right now is to sort out the issue of the possibility of sending you and peacekeepers to ukraine so again many things that were discussed there and political differences that are bothering both countries but important message that came from the leaders is that nothing will threaten the partnership and i'll have to tell you that the chancellor even used the word friendship in this case. to maintain good relations with russia. i want to underline that if we want.

also there are many topics where you know. well i'll be back with more details from this meeting of bangalore merkel and vladimir putin and saatchi and also whatever else they said at that press conference about forty five minutes ok thanks. well on a lighter note it was also in sochi where a meeting between eleven year generate a lot of headlines and that was because the russian president brought along his pet bill many western journalists. playing psychological games considering this is has a much publicized. in the later interview. he's never known that and had apologized for the incident as soon as he found out well as our correspondent mentioned both leaders do have a long history of coming face face to

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a program for italy's new coalition government between the euro skeptic five star movement and the far right party northern league has been unveiled and it does come after more than two months of political deadlock following march the fourth election which resulted in a hung parliament our europe correspondent peter oliver has more to tell us it's been called the contract for the government of change it certainly puts out plenty of change in both proposals now this was published by the five star movement it's part of their coalition agreement deal with the far right leader 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 have been leaked over the last few days while they were criticised in the media as being either you or pro russian we can now have a look at exactly what was in what is in the book proposal so it 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 shit that will be attempted and 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 the word immediately was in there it's worth noting that isn't in the official final version the team published on friday and there's also talk of any universal basic income that would be seven hundred eighty euro per person living in italy that's going to see seventeen billion euros worth of public spending but also and ask for cash from the european union have to keep an eye on that but this is certainly going to be if it gets the green light a government that goes head to head with brussels there's going to be collisions here particularly when you look at the ideas that are being put ahead to scrap austerity and to get back spending public money that is not going to go down well in either frankfurt with the european central bank or in brussels it head office. it's all over there now vladimir putin has expressed indignation over the detention

of a russian journalist killed by the ukrainian security services the head of the bureau of the russian news agency ria novosti was arrested in ukraine in capital on tuesday and allegations of treason. the upshot this particular police this is unprecedented he's being charged with treason for simply doing his job remember anything like this in a lot of war despite heavy rain today people have gathered in front of the crane ukrainian embassy in moscow to voice their support for the detained journalist within a quarter of a was that. right here at the ukrainian embassy in moscow where people have gathered to protest over the arrest but the journalists a key deal vission skeet now he was in church i'll be clearing russia's news agency region always working in kiev and he was a detained on tuesday people who came here and there are a lot of journalists here other people who are connected to different media

professions well they told us that there are here to express their support for the real now he was arrested in kiev and then he was transported to another city in the south in ukraine where the a local court placed him under arrest for two months at the moment he is facing charges of treason any found guilty he faces up to fifteen years in prison during the court hearing he had a chance to speak. i think that the keys initiated by the security service of ukraine against me use direct and in disguise pressure and freedom of speech in ukraine the efforts of his relatives to say that they have heard and nothing since his arrest we also managed to speak to his wife who we know to get more information on the case. i learned about his arrest from the internet i then contacted his driver and he told me that it happened in the car park five people in civilian clothes came up to him grabbed him and bundled him into a car and left no one contacted me no one from the ukrainian services from official

informed me about their arrests his wife also told us that he really has a medical condition and that he needs medication moreover officer shelf the news agency will waited. ukrainian special services and some greats lasted for several hours documents means of communications were confiscated during these searches several apartments of journalists working for the news agency were raided as well coming back to this place here in moscow at the ukrainian embassy people have gathered to protest over the arrests of the journalists. dana courts and other reporting so that's how the news is looking so fos today here not a we're back with more on the headlines at the top of the next.

united states concern is head of. news and it's tax on other countries. economic sanctions or are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the country music you're talking about. and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country to. believe it's a responsibility for the whole. weekend to make moves through most of. those without us there will be.

same wrong but old rules just don't hold. any new goals that you get to shape out these days it comes to attitude and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. in some american cities the police have built themselves cling to refutation of people who walk on the streets of the united states who are at risk from the very people who are supposed to protect that poor people are no more afraid of the police than of us in the us. you can see something happening and this is like i don't want to call the cops have been a resident call the cops and those young black men lose their lives chasing the

with their fingers on the trigger you never know better safe than sorry i don't know that someone else is going to gun so yes unfortunately around and around here we end up killing our guns are stolen from such preclusion this place to. make us manufacture consent to stick to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round to be the one percent. doing the whole middle of the room sick. killing many more real news is really.

how i. feel. but let me. in other words you know which schools out there but the issue of chicago is really one that can speak for through what you. it was a cute. bit posole cause. is up in islam as to who would steal you when you know it's no need. for you when you go to use some of those awful but it gets on this list look there's going to be so. slow to this which is when you know only three in the destroying important it is over. funded it step on the.

slow play. the hero status of step on bond was short lived in two thousand and ten victoria on a covert each was elected president this time the international community had no doubts about the legitimacy of the elections. in january two thousand and eleven victoriana covert troops killed the hero title of bond era. almost four years into his presidency though another revolution shook ukraine unfortunately this one was anything but peaceful. not. mr yanukovych which i'm an american i'm an outsider to the situation and it's very complicated but i would like as a as

a filmmaker just to jump into the action and go to those moments in november two thousand and thirteen you're president of the ukraine you've been president for three years at this point the country is in bad economic shape very bad you have a trade agreement with russia and now you are seeking to make a better agreement with the e.u. with the european union and you are negotiating can you bring me to that moment and what you're thinking just sitting at the bill which institutionally p.t.o. put him in the local uni. but i believe him would be pleased to treat that in knots them but them will not. drop out of cuba because there's a shit too early in numbers no one who we fought. nepotism and you would got them we really put a hoarder. numb but it lol knew pretty human we had then the first variant that is

showing the snatch it in there but not yet. very full blown the silliness clears you see we're now in there on the sea chilly in the house or was the treat in your last quote of mr lynn but also the whole bit but he isn't here when they are the only partially. really drew here ready on the irish india but also chile i think customers not all of norway you know when the when they are but here deities to cheer to not some of us the world us at this year. but i see it now because of. always so i've never bought it but if you want to use to which national interests it there will be gone when it will rain erase you. so there is no risk of the economy closely so little you can only afford when you can get machine or india bullish who are committed you know since you don't about it i'm not going to

separate them which is almost just going to. take you a bit of them a year or so is good because if the user seems to me that what i mean the national t.v. tourists mistake it to go where. it got them when that tradition died but once we. put that all in the you would open. economy but us who are those companies so that's the point year your little park and insert thing you put a brick toaster you see securely in play at them blow. struck a shelter in a particular well because you can usually use to carry a nationalist that was to be good to you will but move to the. north when you don't need it to back up let you. know stripping her water so you would open a new eventually to spear home. but there are more than a at the. polls. violent

clashes erupted in the ukrainian capital kiev fast rules on one hundred thousand people protesting against a government decision to delay an association deal with the e.u. . vitale you are minister of interior affairs for the ukraine during this period when you were chief of police essentially of the country can you tell me your version of what happened from november protests through february protests in four months with. the. law. will mean you still. putting your lives. but this on your. c.v. to be as consumers are semi azza new leader of the opposition party fatherland block leader of the opposition nationalist far right political party vitali

klitschko leader of the opposition party. both e.u. and ukrainian officials said on thursday the suspension of talks on closer ties could be revived after the two day meeting but officials said the deal was off the table for now. thank. you. pro e.u. protests on the streets of kiev and to their second day the crowd of around a thousand protesters were joined by the leader of the opposition or any well boxing champion vitaly klitschko he called on the demonstrators to maintain pressure on the government after it decided not to sign a major trade deal with the e.u. you go back to kiev the next day after the meeting with merkel. and protests are up my right can you take me through that period.

by the minute the worst with the mute in the uk see. more snow. yet at the mo bill had. to go to. me a pretty much as i think she thought it was we took appropriate for dylan move on your little group. up just in the company is also. what you see is little bizarre i don't like the interest of the lease they were able to shift my ground. robert perry is a long time investigative journalist based in washington d.c. best known for his major disclosures about the iran contra scandal in the one nine hundred eighty s. he is the founder of consortium news where he has reported extensively on the crisis in ukraine and the forces behind the unrest and in geo is a non-governmental organization how many n.g.o.s are quite legitimate they

represent good causes that maybe they help people in a country the door deal with water problems or deal with various kinds of social problems but there are some n.g.o.s that have become funded by government entities and serve more the purpose of that government rather than trying to serve the people that they are sensibly working for one thing we saw in the one nine hundred eighty s. the depth of the central intelligence agency had been largely discredited because of the scandals that had been exposed in the one nine hundred seventy s. but that being years the cia has secretly financed its overseas activities of the national student association but then there came to light a fantastic way about cia penetration so when the reagan administration came in there was this concept that instead of having the cia which traditionally would go into these different target countries funding. there are media funding n.g.o.s funding different political operations that was essentially farmed out to

a new organization called the national endowment for democracy which was created in one thousand nine hundred three and it would do pretty much what the agency used to do it would go into one of these countries and it would support various political groups train activists deal with journalists business groups and try to advance u.s. foreign policy interests sometimes against the interests of the host government the target government and beyond that they receive financial and other logistical help from the national endowment for democracy and other u.s. agencies that help them training activists working with journalists to get to get their side presented more favorably they work on things like how do you get traction how do you get things to go viral how do you then use that to generate support for your costs and support was generated was the. stuff and i had a founder of one of ukraine's new media outlets. t.v.

knew very well how to make something go viral. it was his notorious facebook post on november twenty first two thousand and thirteen that brought the first crowds to my down yes in the south of which the chance to get to put the political world with this is. if you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed if you read the newspaper you are misinformed. to deliver your message efficiently enough in the modern world with so many different technologies and means of communications you must embrace them all as the disturbing events of your own my don started on november twenty first two thousand and thirteen three new t.v. channels went on the air and suddenly became stunningly popular in ukraine spill no t.v. november twenty first. it's. easy to.