palestinian photo journalist who was wearing a jacket clearly marked press was shot by israeli sniper now if this was intentional it could possibly constitute a war crime by israel but heather nauert thinks it was self-defense either way she doesn't have time to talk about every journalist who's been killed and apparently his death doesn't fit in with washington's agenda. r.t. new york. now the rift between the e.u. and the us is deepening over the iran nuclear deal brussels energy chief has reassured around the block remains committed to the green mint the statement came during his first visit to iran since donald trump pulled washington out of the court. european union. member states blish impromptu we were all from the joint complacency of. all. there was absolute unanimity among us because of the government but

due to. the firm disagreement we'll stick to the commitments of the disagreement. there went on to insist that he wants to grow trade with the rain in companies the e.u. is legislation to allow its firms to recover losses from any u.s. sanctions on iran brussels is also instructed the european investment bank to facilitate e.u. investment in iran well the new he u.s. sanctions on iran could result in huge financial losses for a number of major european companies which were quick to sign contracts with the rand after the nuclear deal was struck in twenty fifteen and the economic embargo on taran was then lifted so mohammed it ran three things america's withdrawal from the accord shows a lack of respect for its allies. the american factions are very broad expensive and very threatening and it is interesting that the united states has shown zero

respect for its own allies even european countries who have always stuck with the united states in the past correcting them with sanctions. slapped the europeans in the face after tearing up the nuclear agreement but now they are threatening these very same countries the british the french and the germans along with everyone else with punishment if they do not live by american demands i think this is a very important moment in international relations. now a bridge linking mainland russia to the crimean peninsula was officially open don't cheat the longest bridge in europe will richie's the region's reliance on sea and air transport and allow more tourists to visit crimea has been a popular some a destination for russians for more than a century. wow

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well the first to use this new link was in fact this cat which does live in the area has its own social media account see where this video was you see the ny enjoys a hefty following the russian president to follow that cat. are you really. drive across the nineteen kilometer bridge in a truck passing from the mainland to the crimea see see if it's in the construction workers also joined him for the right not everybody though pleased about this bridge an article in the washington examiner suggested that kiev should blow it up the writer even went into detail about how this could be done but commentator john bolton it believes the article does go beyond the acceptable free speach. it's par for the course the people who pose as journalists in washington are nothing more then weaponized lobbyists and so when

a lobbying firm attempts to get its bills or its or its funding through for new weapons systems or war systems they often call on one of their engaged journalists to do the dirty work of saying something publicly that they couldn't dare say and then using the law the right to freedom of speech in america the journalist can call for anything it wants murder execution bombing attacks on civilian bridges and so on so that's what this is and if we're talking about a new level yes we've hit a new low a new low outward call by a journalist so-called journalist for an attack on a civilian structure still to come on the weekend is a massive u.s. south korean military trail could dash the hopes of a thaw with p. only end we'll have that story just off the break.

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pressure. the way he now on wednesday north korea threatened to scott the highly anticipated talks between kim jong un and don't move trump pyongyang is furious about ongoing joint military war games conducted by washington and south korea. there are exercises that are legal there are planned well well in advance we will continue to go ahead and plan the meeting between president. while the drills do come at a time in pyongyang and so a enjoying improved relations but north korea is also angry about remarks by top

u.s. officials saying that it could suffer the same fate as libya. looks at how the last deal between pyongyang and washington works act. we all know what carrot and stick diplomacy is but these these goes beyond that way beyond their will get private capital that comes in north korea is desperately in need of energy support electricity for their people we can deliver that and as i said earlier this week we can create conditions for real economic prosperity for the north korean people that will rival that of the south talk about extremes not so long ago people were seriously talking about nuclear war those with a penchant for the dramatic really made the best of the opportunity north korea best not make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire fury. like the world has never seen well north koreans

must be sighing in relief instead of fire and fury they're now getting the carrot will they have to do is give up nukes nice let's just hope they have short memories so i think iran is on notice and they are going to have to make a choice are they willing to go down the path which i think ultimately will lead to greater prosperity and security for iran. giving up the acquisition of nuclear weapons or will they continue down a path that is going to lead to confrontation or quit the radians gave up on nukes dismantle their program complied absolutely with every requirement in the end it didn't matter they gave up nukes and then america took back the whole perspire ity thing we'll see how we do with the rare probably we want to very well with them

but that's ok too they've got to understand. life because i don't think they do understand life when life gives you lemons make lemonade so long as trump doesn't take the lemons to regardless perhaps this time things will be different iran was a one off right wrong i am pleased that the united states and north korea yesterday reached agreement this agreement is good for the united states good for our allies and good for the safety of the entire world in one nine hundred ninety four bill clinton made a deal with north korea north korea could tells its nuclear program and the u.s. builds two nuclear reactors for it to compensate energy loss gives it a half a million tons of fuel per year and normalize relations they never built the nuclear reactors they never sent any fuel and they never signed an official peace

agreement you're seeing a pattern here right for spare it seems to be the carrot except what no one seems the realizes it's for dangling not for tasting that just life they've got to understand. life because i don't think they do understand life. now africa has long promoted itself as i safari holiday destination catering to high end travelers through thirty mins like this one. but the reality on the ground can be less rosy safari parks have been looking to

expand their territory and that according to a new study led the government of the eastern african state of tanzania to evict indigenous communities on a huge scale began in the early to thousands but tensions rose after some twenty thousand people were reportedly left homeless last august and september alone with nearly six thousand homes deliberately damaged some of those affected have been telling their stories. on the we got to come out of the fire was. on the we got the model was got up like that across up because i want to get that equipment up it was when i met. about thirty. on the why that there are no we don't but i forgot that while you're. on the go with a come on he's in them and we got on a slug like you. you know so uniforms are. close and the idea was a sub. quarter why do i. need to know more cause i'm.

not in the full cause of it when i. can do to those. who are mom the only one visit to one is all good people would assess come over and i'm a religious lay ssion and landlubbers in the name of conservation the government or tanzania has been dispossessed in the indigenous kluges these legislations have been used to be sickly deny them aside their access to grazing lands their access to water holes but not just that it has allowed some of the safari companies that are operating in the area to conclude that the local officials who have been intimidated who have arrested and beaten the villagers because they have tried to use their ancestral lands we also find that they have been violent addictions and these are all been carried out in the me most rewarding the tourism or some of the noise and in the absence of food it has led to widespread hunger managership and

disease the kind of disposition that they report priest you shills are going to not just be forced out of their homes and lands with their messiah being forced out of existence while the head of one company probed thomson safaris strongly denies being involved in these evictions its director rick thompson adds that they also work with local communities and the government to improve access to water or the activists on the ground to tell a different story. if i look for example what happened back in two thousand and six the government and mixed it to people from going sour and private times and yet the pastoralist but it was close their whole soul much of my relation and that was where the houses were burned you know so. excited to see those who were in the planning when to being you know it when you live in that place you trump it you have structure you have a social services and now you hold to just to do the hardest so if you ask me

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welcome to worlds apart the united states and the philippines have a curious history together once a colony down a staunch military ally many leas now trying to take steps to redefine and rebalance its relationship with washington and by extension some of its friends and foes how is it going so far well to discuss that i'm now joined by alan peter secretary of foreign affairs of the philippines secretary it's a great pleasure great honor i'm welcoming here in the studio thank you very much for coming on for the honors mine thank you very much for having me now your visit

to moscow comes at a time when. you can't even describe the relationship between russia and the united states intelligence i mean it's a it's a big mess and i don't think we can even put some label on it i wonder if you believe this trip of yours will be noticed in washington whether friends in need their friends even the russia the russian federation president putin came today the philippines while we were fighting terrorists and now mara we and we owe it to russia to also come and show our friendship where there are world issues are not being discussed our bilateral relationship is strong and we want it to be stronger now let's discuss your relationship with the united states first because obviously it has a much longer history than your relationship with a. i heard you compare your relationship with a washington to that of

a family with a kid who came of age and wants to try and he's a her own path which means meeting with people that do not necessarily approve of and do you yourself come from a very well placed family i'm sure you're on earth you have katherine's requests and everybody else's is that how the philippines relates to the united states the well my father a filipino from the smallest town in metro manila and my mother is an american and my mother and my father loves my mother very much but always said that the americans cannot dictate to the filipinos what to do and it's up to the filipinos to chart their own destiny a president that there comes from this generation of appreciating the history noting that there were no points in the history times that we were taken advantage off but nothing also that the strong military ties and the aide and the help and the people to people relationship there's three point five million filipino

americans or filipinos in the in the u.s. having said that you know it's like you love your parents but they can't dictate your life to you know so little about the secretary i think in every functioning family the parents remain the authority figures even after the children leave the house this is what i'm trying to get from you how much of of an authority you have vast in the preferences in it in the opinions of the united states at this point of time well that's precisely what we want to change you know. we we will not swallow hook line and sinker that we have called one or the same interest when our interests they verge we will pursue what this in our best interest when their common interests we should pursue it but gone are the days when anything that the west or. america is good for us you know we're not in the cold war i came from

well some people say we are in in an even worse period than the koehler they told their students today students for international relations from the cold war mentality we should have the coldplay mentality you know and it's all about fixing ourselves about you know seeing the light and being honest with each other we live in a motor polar world and the u.s. and other great powers have to find its place in the new world order now this new policy of independence is associated first and foremost with president reagan to tear it there who judging from polls remains quite popular among your country man but as you yourself never tire of saying the philippines is a democracy and therefore can elect somebody with a totally different vision help us understand here how much of the current poster is tied directly to the president his personality and how much of it is institutionally driven that bill outlast him. well in the sense that

president that that made no gave no illusions and during the campaign said this is how i'll treat china this is how i will treat the u.s. i don't want any one dictating upon the filipino people i'm accountable only to the philippine people so in that sense it's very institutional in the sense that it's very personal it's really the president under our constitution that dictates foreign policy but our constitution says independent foreign policy meaning a foreign policy for us but in the past we've always said whatever the u.s. or the west that's right for what is your sense of your own people's desires do you think that kind of irene taishan is going to stand for longer than four years that he has it now my godfather was always telling me in the time that we had walkmans if you ask anyone do you want an i pod no one will say i want the night but because

you didn't know what it is' you didn't know what i tunes to us so you know we're now discovering what the independent foreign policy is what it is to have mature friendship with the us what the hell in them that we want a mature relationship with russia we have a dispute with china but still we want the relationship with china and the rest of the world so it's too early to tell but i can say there's a lot of excitement there'll be a lot of benefits for the chinese people the filipino people the russian people we have a lot of chinese filipinos but when the former president went again to china they were just quiet so now there are some noise there some people are quiet in the u.s. but they know that the people to people relationship you know but still different from the international level relationship of state to state now there is an asking you because the philippines is definitely not alone in adopting this more versatile

foreign policy what you say is very. it's you how for example the pakistanis. describe their relationship with the united states and other actors it doesn't look like a broader trend the question is and it is often asked by our american colleagues is whether it is likely to make asia more or less stable i mansour question by a direct example so you talk to the americans and they saying they're increasing their presence in the south china sea and in a sea because. the chinese are also getting more aggressive and building some defensive posture and putting military assets on some features in the south china sea and according to the americans the sea lanes there are too important for world com worse you talk to the chinese they'll tell you that seventy percent of their economy passes through that channel and commerce is too important to that so both are saying the same thing but from an opposite point of view so what do we do if filipinos will be pro chinese are doing be pro america or do without both of them

were pro filipina and you guys have to talk and work out this region. so that the us in a sea and the philippines will be caught in between so i think it's not just a trend it's the right thing it's really difficult not to be caught in between especially as time just but it's not the cold war anymore there's no left and right through right than wrong or evil and good you know it's a multi-polar world you have bilateral relationships you have multilateral relationships you have transnational crimes you have to resume so you know we have to get we have to find a way not only to live with each other but to find the world order where all of us have an opportunity for great and i ask you though we just discussed a little bit the complexity of your relationship with the united states how you try to rebalance it while retaining the positives i'm sure your relationship with china i mean it follows a different trajectory but you would agree perhaps that the cause. that is just as

complex and challenging on a personal level on professional level who do you find more challenging the americans or the chinese when you negotiate. say said in the think back in the u.s. the americans are veterans but we're saying we're off to college and allow us to pick our own friends the chinese are roommate you know their close neighbors so regardless what we do with each other and how we treat each other it's going to affect our economy our people are security. you know so. the complexity comes in not in the bilateral relationship but in the overall. regional and world grieve agrees and in the world order so it's equally. challenging but we are speaking this frankly to our american counterparts and to the members of the u.s. congress who care about the philippines and we think through

a frank discussion you know we'll get somewhere now you just mentioned your talk at the council on foreign relations last year and in that talk you also suggested that the russians i beat cautious have been pursuing a relationship they philippians because of the says deeply ingrained called war perception of your country as a very very close american associate not even an ally it would say i think more like an associate more and ate how far have moscow and manila gotten. have in practical terms my perception is that both in moscow and manila there were policy makers who say you know take it a step at a time be cautious this just might be a connection between press and then put in and press have been there or very good talks between prime minister medvedev and president you know but from that time on you know we have had for example we were buying arms from the u.s.

and because certain members of. and that's were making noise about alleged human rights violation you know when we need that the most it wasn't there but here comes china and here comes russia despite policymakers in beijing and moscow saying let's be careful let's see what's happening you know took a leap of faith and came to manila and don't get me wrong the u.s. also helped us in we and the australians the japanese you know and we appreciate this but what we're saying is that we want that much your real friendship we may be a smaller country well that that friendship also has a material benefit. is all it said not only friendship but also not that far away i mean russia or not and i have a perfect question for you on that subject because i think you have some very funny amazing metaphors i heard you say that with ten million filipinos living abroad you guys x. print in long distance relationships i think we here in russia and

a bit more said that to me time to develop stronger ties with those who are either close to these doses we can reach to territorially through land what could possibly breach the eight more than eight thousand kilometer distance bits been moscow and manila discovery i think the more we discovered russia and the more russian discovers the filipinos will find out that we have a lot of things in common. we both have a strong sense of identity and are finding our place not only in society in the world but both of us just you know want to get along with the rest of the world have enough food that they know we're also often misunderstood in our intentions to write that this is one that one of the things me because of again the cold war mentality i mean again it's always spock aged in some western media that this is correct this is so wrong you know so we have to judge countries actions and leave

their said the rector gives case burke. case you know you're going to everything the us the us is correct or you can oppose us everything the us is wrong so we need more objective but the reality is. you know media tries to give the facts but also leans towards their world view so this is where social media and direct communication comes in unfortunately it's sometimes called fake news is sometimes is but it's sometimes actually a different world view packaged as fake news by powerful people now i know that russian particularly is interested in marketing its nuclear power and transferring expertise to the and to the philippines i wonder is that something that may be of interest to you particularly the nuclear energy issue from what i understand it's quite a contentious subject in your country we are interested in everything that they saw russian and we hope that we can interest russia.