she doesn't have time to talk about every journalist has been killed and apparently his death doesn't fit in with washington's agenda. r.t. new york. the rift between the e.u. and the us is deepening over the iran nuclear deal brussels energy chief has reassured tehran that the bloc remains committed to the agreement the statement came during his first visit to iran since donald trump pulled washington out of the accord the european union did we rooted it in the united states listen prompt with it all from the joint comprehensive plan of action the socal all nuclear deal there was absolutely unanimity among us because of the government that the union will the firm disagreement will stick to the commitments made and the disagreement looking at the latest officials of presidents try to. see that the thing. with.

them is. meanwhile france's finance minister said sation allayed lashed out at the us for trying to be the world's economic quote policeman you know i'm as gibe comes as the top of ministration friends to sanction e.u. firms that are doing business with tehran is good news except are we going to accept the us is the planet's economic policeman do you accept one way domination with no respect for international rules obviously your response must clearly be noted. after america quit the iran nuclear deal and announced sanctions on tehran u.s. officials told allies they also needed to fall in line iran deal that lifted restrictions on tehran in exchange for a halt on its nuclear program on friday the european commission launched a process to prevent e.u. firms from being hit by u.s. sanctions european firms would also be able to get compensation unloads if they

were affected france's finance minister added that companies working with iran should keep going but. we're going to do everything to protect french companies in iran because it's in our economic interest there are dozens of french companies who have long fully invested in iran and doing business there and they must continue to have the right to do so it's cool that i rector of international finance solutions associates shabbir razvi believes that the e.u. is in no mood to obey the us i don't think european union is in the mood for listening to what dick tart had this moment yes mr macron had a wonderful a good washington a. few weeks ago where mr mark rod has probably decided to become washington's pimp in paris however the other european union countries particularly germany is in no mood to listen to washington on the business

relationship that they have developed with. iran over the years it's not in the interest of anyone to create huge distances between iran or the nuclear dean. a bridge linking mainland russia to the crimean peninsula was officially opened on tuesday the longest bridge in europe will reduce 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. the

first to use the new link was in fact this cat which lives in the area has its own social media account where this video was posted. following. following the cat's footsteps.

say let's go over cross the bridge in a truck passing from the mainland to the crimean city. a team of construction workers he said i joined him all the right everybody however is quite surprised about the new bridge there was an article in the washington examiner which suggested that kiev should blow it up the writer even went into detail about how it could be done this. believes that the article goes beyond 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 right of 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 around twenty thousand people have reportedly been evicted intends anea will have that story after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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like this. but it appears that the reality on the ground is somewhat less rosy safari parks have been looking to expand their territory and that according to a new study led the government of the east african state of tanzania to evict indigenous communities and on a huge scale the evictions began in the early two thousand but tensions rose after some twenty thousand people were reportedly left homeless just last august and september alone with nearly six thousand homes deliberately damaged some of those affected have told their stories. we got to come out of the fight. or not we got the model what's got up like that across up because i want to get that

a woman up that was when i met. about thirty. women are white that there are no we don't but i forgot that while you're. on the go with a come on he's even got on a. you know so uniforms are. close and yet here was a sub. quarter why do i. need to know marcus is. not in the focus of tonight's people. who are mom of. one visit to one is all good people and says come on in the legislation and land lawyers in the name of conservation the government 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 suppliers the 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 being carried out in the me most rewarded tourism or some other noise and in the absence of food it has led to widespread hunger managership and disease the kind of disposition that the report priest you shills that the again not just be forced out of their homes and lands with their messiah i mean forced under existing. well the head of one company probe thomson safari strongly denies being involved in the evictions its director rick thompson adds that they also work with local communities and the government to improve access to water activists on the ground though tell a different story if i look for example watch how it went back and then in six

governmental mixed it people from going sour and downs and yet the pastoralists i don't was their whole soul much of my relation and now we're where the houses were burned you know all well. there was no in the planning well. you know when you live in a place you wrong you have structure your house or social status and now you're whole day just to the forests so if you ask me well i must say how where. and where they out you where you've been asked their whole. venezuelans been heading to the polls on sunday deciding on who will get the top job in the south american country the incumbent socialist president nicolas maduro is running for reelection and is projected to leave his contenders trailing many opposition figures though have refused to take part they've been citing electoral fraud and claim that the whole thing is effectively

a charade some nations including the u.s. also claim that the presidential election in venezuela is not legitimate on friday washington impose sanctions on some of the top brass in the country's ruling socialist party accusing them among other things of drug trafficking the government in caracas fired back saying that washington's effectively trying to sabotage the vote is part of what a statement calls imperialist aggression. i don't there has been a fist campaign on the part of the trumpet ministration to try and paint the venezuelan elections and they haven't succeeded they tried to stop the elections in venezuela but their attempts proved a few times and like i said come rain or shine on sunday may the twentieth there will be elections and here we are costing all fruits. we will put is a political analyst who specializes in venezuela joins us on the line now good to have you on gregory the situation is it's chaotic isn't it there's been political

turmoil for quite a while in the country large amounts of the opposition in venezuela refusing to even take part in this election how do you see this playing out post-election for the next few months ahead yes it's going to be pretty difficult no matter who wins i don't think it's guaranteed that maduro win when i think it might be a close vote but no matter who wins it's going to be very difficult. to win so the u.s. is guaranteed pretty much to impose even harsher sanctions when it's well it depends to a very large extent or oil exports to the united states and if those were to be halted the economic situation in venezuela would go definitely from very bad to you worse however is. the main opposition candidate wins it is very uncertain how he's going to be able to continue how he's going to be able to assume the presidency given the fact that so many governments in the region have refused to recognize the result

and that many of the other institutions are still of course in the hands of his supporters. as that is and so he's going to be facing a very difficult situation as well what do you make of the american role in this election and the sanctions that they've been using to exert pressure are they helping or are they having a less positive impact. well they certainly have a very negative impact not only in terms of the vote but also in terms of the economic situation i mean it's in a way it's kind of reminiscent of the situation it got our going in one thousand nine hundred when the u.s. was supporting a civil war against the sunday new star government at the time right now and then this winter there's no civil war however as these sanctions and the economic kind of almost and specifically there's an economic or financial blockade against venezuela and that's creating a situation where many venezuelans are saying to themselves well do i want to vote

from a doodle because i like his politics and social programs or should i vote for the u.s. backed candidate well it's not really us back but for the opposition in order to get these sanctions and this economic distress that they're going through in order for that to stop so it's not at all a fair vote because of that you can go across the opposition is constantly saying you have to do it or has too many advantages but of course the opposition candidate has enormous advantage in the sense that everybody knows that if the opposition were to remain going to sort out that he cannot make situation would improve not just because of different policies but primarily because of the. sanctions against us with. sanctions aside if it was to be reelected let's talk a bit more about the economic situation as i understand the rampant inflation but also interestingly with the material it's trying to launch this cryptocurrency that that he's linked to oil do you see any positives to come out of this can he fix

this very broken it seems economic situation in the country. well i definitely think that he can fix that the question is a bit whether the policies that have been instituted sauce are will lead to that fixing that is one of the main problems that many economists have pointed to is this huge gap between the black market exchange rate and the social exchange rate which is provided to quite a bit of incentive for corruption and so that's something that the government has attempted to correct by cracking down on the black market but by itself i think the incentives for making money is to large that simple crackdown on black markets is not going to fix the situation so other measures need to be taken i think that petrol is certainly a step in the right direction because it's a process of introducing a new currency that is not tainted the way the current one is by hyperinflation but it hasn't really caught on yet and it really depends on what the government does

and to promote a new currency and to make it and much more. tried to play a much larger role in the economy and that we don't know yet and just briefly if you could greg one more question what kind of impact do you think if it wasn't a do or reelection what would that impact be on the rest of the region. well and it would be a big star thing because of course right now are you have campaigns presidential campaigns going on in colombia and mexico or are of course the conservative or the right wing forces in those countries are cuts that pointing out that this we're not saying if you vote for the left we can do that we're going to end up like that a spoiler and so it's been a situation that was very lousy that's that's been a boost to the conservatives in those countries are so but it depends of course it's venezuela manages to recover that and might not have such

a big role in the market and of course it helps the four other last the last ones in colombia or in mexico which is you know where that where they actually have a real chance right now are them having another ally in venice where i would be a tremendous boost of course for for those governments so it's going to going to be a mix that's going to be bad for their campaigns but it's going to be good i think for now if they do end up winning could speak to you greg appreciate your your views and your time gregory we'll put my guest political analyst specializing in venezuela. moving on moscow has issued a diplomatic memo to ukraine raising concerns about the safety of russian journalists in the country it comes after security forces raided the kiev offices of a russian media group and detained its director killed in charge of rhian overseas ukraine bureau was detained tuesday for alleged treason on thursday a court in the ukrainian city of cares and ruled to detain him for sixty days the security service raid on the offices of rhian obvious to ukraine lasted more than

eight hours the homes of journalists working for the agency were searched and there's been high level condemnation of kiev's actions many organizations accuse the ukrainian government of an attack on media freedom they demanded the release to discuss this is rachel den the deputy director at the european central asia division of human rights watch she says complaints over media freedom in ukraine are on the rise. under no circumstances should the government be criminalizing speech and media activities that groundlessly and ukraine i think this is out of line with ukraine's these raids and the detentions are out of line with ukraine's obligations to protect media freedoms it is an obligation to provide some kind of transparency about what exactly is the grounding treason charges that's an extremely serious serious charge that carries a hefty prison sentence so they better continue to come forward with what it is that's causing the grounds for this charge because working for you know working for

ria novosti or having a russian passport are not grounds for treason charge we and other organizations have have been expressing i think more frequently concerns about media freedoms in ukraine. i've really only got time to take a boy by. what holds and to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to present. something i want. to go. to what. are you. interested

in the war. 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 that acute. it was so close. as up and as long as with story when you know it's not a new day. for you when you go to use some of those artful but it gets on this list is going to go. slow to this which is when you know only three units of the storing important that is over. funded it was debunked. and slow really. the hero status of step on bond was short lived in two thousand and ten victoriano 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 coverture repealed the hero title of bond era. almost four years into his presidency though another revolution shook ukraine unfortunately this one was anything but peaceful. and 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. for the media. probably i'm would be pleased to to put in nots them but them will not. drop out of kyoto because there's a shit truly in numbers no hold of a loosely formed. new form. but it is really a new. goddam way villepin how would it. numb but it knew pretty human we had then asked what he wanted to share in the snatch it in there by the. very full blown the silly in your lives you see one night and there on the sea chilly in the house who is or was literate in your last quarter of this in it but it also the whole bit but he isn't here when they are the only partially bliss really drew here very on here

. but also. i think customers not all of know well 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 a storm we had always wanted aboard it but if you want to use it which national interests it there will be government will train the ratio. so there's no risk of you doing the economy socialist saloon you can only afford when you can get the ship or india or a c.b. a bullish committed no since you don't operate them. getting you to separate them which is almost always going to. take you a bit of them. to possess a user seems to me that what i mean the national t.v. tourists mistake it to go where. you got them when the tradition died but once we.

saw. the tone and you would open a little. economy i scored zero campaign so that's the party it your little park and insert thing you put a blood group close to you. in play at them blow. struck a shelter in a particular well scully can usually use the current issue as opposed to be good to you will but move into the. norm when you don't need to back up let you. know stripping her water as you would open a new in shelley's to spear home. but there are more. but it was really. violent clashes erupted in the ukrainian capital kiev fast rules and one hundred thousand people protested against a government decision to delay an association deal with. the tele 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 or. in the. whole duties to ship it lets them go to law school is all of. them. and putting it. right but decide. so you want to be as consumers are semi azza new leader of the opposition party fatherland. leader of the opposition nationalist far right political parties 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 for a. 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 the rennie 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 so someone let's. find the money at the worst with the mute in the uk see. more snow. yet at the mobil have.

to go to. but if you want me a pretty much. as we took appropriate for the will move on you gotta walk. up just in the company feel and see what you see is little bizarre i don't like the interest of the least a little to shift my ground. robert perry is a longtime 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. that that point 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 web of 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. they're 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 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 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 cause and support was generated was the plan 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 don't get to know.