good luck in russian since you've. been listening then later during the press conferences both leaders kept saying how no political differences can stop them and their countries from being partners if not friends fifty one sorts of years we have strategic interests to maintain good relations with russia and maintaining dialogue is crucial i want to underline that if we want to overcome issues we need to conduct dialogue there are many topics where we're united. germany is one of our key trade partners we just started by german goods in higher volumes which supports jobs in germany cooperation common enterprises these are essential factors influencing the lives of germans and russians but the russian and german governments do have a whole lot of issues between them from the ukrainian crisis to even the script all cases and in one way or another all these issues were brought up during the talks or the press conference however since donald trump said good bye to the so-called

iranian nuclear deal berlin and moscow do genuinely see eye to eye at least on one issue no official your own 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 . a lot of our approaching and angola merkel promised to make an extra effort to make sure that the nuclear agreement stays in place now moving on to sanctions usually when you hear merkel talks the first thing that comes up on your mind is anti russian sanctions but so to say the season is different since economic sanctions and all other kinds of punishment you can think of. have become the

favorite toy or rather the political tool of the donald trump administration we've been hearing about all kinds of sanctions against iran against russia and even against european companies that deal with russia and those that deal with iran and in this case a joint russia german project called nord stream two for the direct russian natural gas deliveries to germany is now in jeopardy lot of our putin was asked about it his reaction was cause and he did point out that the issue of north stream to is one of the very few things if not the only thing where the obama administration and the donald trump administration share common ground. the u.s. position on the north stream project is well known in this case we see a rare situation of the white house actually agreeing with the legacy of the a bomb or administration there's no doubt that these kind of summits will continue in the

future and possibly next time with the leaders of france and ukraine to sort out the political crisis in that eastern european country the so-called normandy format . i was also in sochi eleven years ago where a meeting between phone generated headlines after the russian president thought along his pet labrador some western journalist suggested thirteen was deliberately trying to intimidate me playing on her fear of dogs which in later said he had no idea that might be a problem and apologized and as our reporter there mentioned the two leaders have a long history.

with. the dissidents the russian president likes to drink german beer and sometimes there is a possibility that we can exchange i've also got some very good smoked fish. here and angela from time to time sent me a couple of bottles of red a bag big. well the e.u. is fighting to protect its trade with iran despite the u.s. imposing sanctions the european commission is triggering a raft of legal measures to save the iranian nuclear deal after the u.s. pulled out the european union is committed to mitigating the impact of u.s. sanctions on european businesses and taking steps to maintain the growth of trade and economic relations between the e.u. and iran that began when sanctions were lifted the artes more aggressive takes

a closer look at the souring relations between the us and the you and the latest move by brussels. no arguing with it america and europe had something special a relationship unlike any other they did everything together condemned rogue regimes slapped naughty countries with sanctions even when they wanted to get we have a very strong relationship with our friends and partners our friends and us administration we have a really great relationship both rand's allies and this is this very special relationship this is this almost too good to be true and it seems it was money trumps all now that america has unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear deal with iran it could start sanctioning european states companies that haven't the to

do business with iran e.u. leaders merkel mckown others tried to change trump's mind with love. graduations and a great victory. i . think you. except love has nothing on money europeans and facing american sanctions that's not very nice is it not something friends would do looking at the latest officials of president. bush like that. europe has had enough they stand to lose cash because of america and they

won't let that happen to complete the work of as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies. 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 europe is 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 sectors of ron's 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 instruction prompts bully boy tactics haven't gone down well in europe the block is finally showing its teeth so the new different to what we defend on this subject as all others is the trading sovereignty of purity or what we demand is to be exempted without any conditions and limits of yours that you can't do it what do we want to be what a baby 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 its just that some bumps and in divorce we should not overestimate the importance of trade with iran on the whole which 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 i'm going to choose. 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 that 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. two of italy is leading us skeptic parties have drawn up a plan for a coalition government this follows months of political deadlock since the general election in march artie's europe correspondent peter oliver has the details. 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 league and north 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 it's really 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 criticized in the media as being either anti e.u. or 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 of the you are worth of debt to be written off but there will be a reason your go ca should 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 that would immediately was in there it's worth noting that isn't in the official final version that published on friday and there's also talk of any universal basic income that would be seven hundred eighty year old 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 easy you head office r.t. spoke with two members of the possible coalition government for an inside view into the negotiations and what the outcome could mean for the e.u. and russia. this last two weeks were very profitable i would say seventy percent of the points were already in common so it was easier for something and not not very easy for the other points but at the end there we have a good result entirely year after year the us kept. growing every year because people are desperate we have a we have a really number of people under the level of forty so this contract is made on

the needs of the italian people so we respect our alliances we want to be part of the e.u. . being stronger as italy i don't know it for we will ask there are three but we know surely better we use every year you know you're much more ornate then how much we get becker from the european you thought it will be and we get back problems maybe we do today we will work country was pretty stupid but we are not the only one in europe that will see euro sanctions to russia use because how long is it that we are having we are apply sanctions to russia what was the result nothing dissensions are useless and even wars because of our economy troubles. a passenger plane has

crashed in cuba shortly after takeoff from havana killing more than one hundred people the boeing seven three seven came down in a field near jose marti international airport with one hundred four passengers and nine crew on board these are the latest pictures of the crash site video agency ruptly at least three people have survived and are in a critical condition local reporter one. as. our plane that was. on our local flight from have an it will begin on the north eastern side of cuba. tourist resort where lots of cubans live we've been told that the families. of those who lived in olguin of the victims are being ferried are being brought to have vanished the night they'll be in iran are helping in the identification of the victims the three survivors are women and are in hospital one of them was being operated on the others are being studied their case is being

studied we don't know yet but we will know soon. they have promised a full investigation top cuban authorities were on the side on the scene of this tragedy the president himself president. was just been sworn into office he was there the minister of transportation was there everybody was there trying to help and figure out what happened it's a tragedy by all means it's a local flight a passenger flight that airlines had list from a mexican air company global air i understand is the name and on the crew was a mexican crew also. but a very very sad situation indeed a buoying seven three seven with more than one hundred people on board. the u.s. is refusing to support an international probe into the deaths of protesters on the israel gaza border washington voted against the plan at the u.n.

human rights council and u.s. ambassador nikki haley gave a statement suggesting the u.n. has more important problems to do with. at a time when we need to a low lurches to word dictatorship iran in prisons thousands of political opponents and ethnic cleansing has taken place in burma the un so-called human rights council has decided to launch an investigation into democratic countries legitimate defense of its own border against terrorist attacks it is another shameful day for human rights well this week dozens of palestinians have been killed by israeli gunfire during border riots after the opening of the new us embassy in jerusalem and the rallies continued on friday with thousands gathering at the border fence local journalist in who three was there palestinians are here protesting again it's the second day of ramadan and it's very obvious that the israeli forces are still using tear gas canisters to disperse all these protesters oh my. god you

hear god but in the place they have been fighting do you guys sense the beginning of the protests. well we also heard a lot of live ammunition since the beginning of the protests and we can hear that i mean it is we're starting to get affected by the tear gas. i'll be here now is live ammunition and it's very obvious that the israeli snipers are trying to shoot one of the protesters that are very close to the. palestinians came here today to come great all of the victims killed and injured in the past past seven weeks where at least one hundred five palestinians have been killed in the quick march of return and at least eight thousand palestinian protesters have been injured by live in munition tear gas canisters rubber bullets and other weapons there's already forces have been using the palestinian protesters. swedish

politicians are calling for a crackdown on female genital mutilation a member of the social democrats one checks to be introduced to the country's airports to prevent migrant firmly is taking girls out of the country to have the illegal procedure done abroad according to unicef around two hundred million girls and women alive today have been subjected to genital mutilation it is widespread in thirty countries most of them in africa and the middle east back in twenty sixteen unicef launched a video campaign featuring mannequins to show just how horrific the procedure is. well in sweden the survey last year found that one hundred fifty thousand women and girls from migrant families are victims of f g m we asked political activists kates

mers waits and tony bugel founder of mothers against radical islam for their views on how the country should tackle the problem. compulsory medical examination is a violation of your human rights you know smear tests save lives but i don't expect to be forced to have one if i choose not to i absolutely think there is a lot more we can be doing i think we should be very very clear and educating people that this is a crime we should be doing more to act when we see evidence of it we should be doing more to make sure that prosecutions happen and that prosecutions are then widely publicized to make sure that other people thinking about this are aware that they will be tracked down and that they will be stopped and that the punishments will be severe but for me it seems obvious that we can't solve one human rights violation by bringing in another actually think that we need compulsory checks and i also think that if we're talking about children i mean you have to remember sometimes this is a newborn babies are taken on holidays and they'll be mutilated whilst in another

country we're going to look at the terms of human rights in the protection and i think protection comes first above and beyond people being offended or people saying it goes against my human rights i do think these children have a right to human rights and therefore we have a duty to make it compulsory and i think that maybe not in the airport i mean maybe you have to compulsory book a doctor's appointment with your doctor is to check that that child is intact before leaving the country and again chait when she comes back that should be compulsory if we want to protect human rights we have to protect the children who don't have a voice those children don't get their human rights protected the first thing that needs to happen is education the first thing that needs to happen is we need to be talking about it and we need to be talking about it to young people and yes you know it's a serious subject to talk to young people about but obviously it's much much better to be talking to somebody about it than it is to be forcing them to undergo a medical examination that they don't want talking to them about explaining what it

is and i think actually it's important to talk to all young people so what about the six month old baby that gets taken abroad and well in that integration iterated in that situation. tony then we need to be talking to the parents don't we need to be making it clear to the parents that their children will not be subjected to this we also know that there are lots of young women in our society who have undergone a g.m. who are angry about it and we're not doing enough to prosecute their parents i think it's quite obvious that if we start taking those prosecutions forward and we start seeing convictions and we start seeing that happening we're going to see other people you know who perhaps previously thought it was a good idea deciding hold on a minute if we go ahead with this in the long run we are going to be tracked down we are going to end up in court and i think it's clear to me that that's the best way to go about it and when you see young people educating young people the female genital mutilation is not acceptable i agree education is key but we're talking

babies who don't have that so for those babies do you not think for those babies who do not have a voice that a compulsory cheik is not such a bad idea. the top of the hour. backs geysers financial survival. housing bubble. oh you mean there's a downside to artificial mortgage truth don't get carried away that's cause report . summit or no summit that's the question north korea's threat of a no show in singapore on june twelfth is a reminder to washington that north korea will not merely cave to american demands if there's going to be an agreement it's going to take time and patience.

welcome to sophie shevardnadze the u.s. military is relying more and more on drone warfare look at this modern what's been be doing more harm than good brendan right into forward clone operator in the u.s. military is with me today to share his experience. modern warfare can be fought in mountain passes down near urban streets but aircraft firing missiles over afghanistan can be guided remotely from a base in nevada you know darkroom by computer screens though by a pilot not to get in the skies what plays in the mind of a drug or a printer before he hits the button is it easier to fly to the enemy thousands of miles away instead of face to face and should those who engage in war be distanced from its dangers and consequences. brendan brian who served in the u.s.

air force as a drone operator welcome to our show it's really great to have you with us brenda hi. hey thank you for having me fred out both obama and trump have a race drone warfare with strikes in somalia and yemen tripling in trump's first year in office but this is ration in this country as a garrison a prime example never seems to improve can drones really change the course of a contain. no drones definitely cannot change the course of anything especially if they're being misused as a tool and that's simply all that they are and if we take away our ability to interact as human beings with one another we're never going to solve this crisis now during your time in the hear us air force strongs were tested as a new form of warfare now even islamic state have been using them in iraq in syria

to devastating effect to drones have the potential to be asked commonplace as war planes and helicopters and will everyone embrace them at some point. as this technology gets easier to manufacture you're going to see a lot more people utilizing it you can go to best buy in america and buy a quad copter drone for less than a thousand dollars and you can watch you tube videos of people putting stuff on these drones to make them even deadlier so you know it really just takes a more moral and righteous and virtuous person to utilize this technology technology properly but obviously what we've been seeing is that none of these people who are using these things in warfare understand what virtues or morals actually are are we going to have like a drone on. combat from now on this is how we're going to look like in the future.

well if you look at what's happening with japan and china there are to utilize in this technology to fight over resources in the ocean so it's not unheard of that we're going to have cowards fighting cowards behind a computer screens now the biggest plus for using drones is that it saves american lives now what is firing line so how can the technology be bad i mean your side suffers no losses. that's actually the thing about warfare that people need to understand is that there is a price to pay we're going to war and if we take the human component out of it then there's no actual price and then we just continue to have. the cycle it's an endless endless cycle and there needs to be men and women who train with honor and integrity who are willing to go on to the battlefield and interact with humans because that's actually how battles are prevented usually we had people

posturing when another back in world war two people didn't fire to kill one another only twenty percent people did today in today's conflict we have a ninety five percent fire and kill rate and we wonder why we have people with psychological the mental problems that are coming back from home or from war to home and killing themselves so this is just going to make it even worse but here i have described the use of drones as a cowardly action i kept of you just in warfare rest as honorable you can hardly describe homemade to i tax or children being recruited to carry them out on or a wall right when she backed drones knowing your enemy what resorts to anything to inflict damage or kill your soldiers. just because our enemy does something dishonorable doesn't mean that we need to continue being dishonorable ourselves this is actually why codes of conduct and codes of honor were required for warriors

back in ancient days it wasn't so our enemies could know what exactly what we were doing but so that we had a structure and boundaries in what we were going to do his wars aren't fought against one another they're fought for the people and if you can set an example for the people as being the better and noble or and more honorable person people are going to side with you and then the enemy will lose their power and that's really what it comes down to it take away their ability to recruit give the people who are suffering under these conflicts the ability to recover to feel safe that's the way to win this war say not korea and other weapons to kill one another yet but the point is there always been wars and there will be wars and there's nothing we can do about it really so as wening a war less important than that saddam you know that is a that is a poor poor excuse that is a poor poor poor excuse look at our look at the leadership that we have today trump

is a idiot and every single person of his administration idiots and all they ever do is just sit there and posture and saying that we need to go to war and we need to go to war obama did the same. and we need people who are actual decent human beings saying anough is enough we have the ability to stop this we are conscious living human beings we're not animals we need to stop acting like animals and actually be human with one another i salute you on that statement and i wish you ran for president one day. i want to go back to how you become a drone operator i'm just interested in a whole process what's the process for becoming one what kind of people just us for all attract or our soldier. just told they're being transferred. well when i was in the service i was just transferred because of my aptitude scores. then our days there well let's just take

a look at the people that i i worked with many of them were the lowest common denominator. when the u.s. military needed people to fill these positions they just asked a bunch of different careers to send us people and so the other careers sent us the kremlin mediocrity if you will the worst of the worst people who were rejected from other career fields because they couldn't function in leadership positions pilots were moved into drones because they were medically unfit to fly their aircraft they either couldn't fail they couldn't be aircraft commanders or squadron leaders so they were shoved into the program there were very few people that actually volunteered to be in this program that were of any actual worth as human beings so this type of society i guess within the military culture is sick and degraded and. you know.