hamas terrorists backed by iran have incited attacks against israeli security forces and infrastructure so israel is not responsible for shooting mostly peaceful palestinian protesters some of whom were just children shot down by their own soldiers but if your place israel with syria suddenly nikki haley's heart bleeds for the dead in far less clear cut situations. yesterday morning. we'll go to pictures to children being carried in the arms of desperate parents yes all the talk about human rights does not apply to palestinian protesters they do not get america's support because they're not protesting in the right country. big protests in iran the people are finally getting wise to how the money and wealth is being stolen and squandered on terrorism looks like they will not take it any longer the u.s. is watching very closely for human rights violations with israel all bets are off

on world press freedom day heather now it was all about championing the rights of journalists that is until somebody mentioned gaza we see all too often that journalists continue to take great risks to pursue this important work would you also condemn the recent deaths of journalists journalists in the gaza strip look there are unfortunately a lot of journalists who die all around the world i'm not going to be able to list every single death of a journalist and we understand that israel has a right to defend itself back in april yasser move taja 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. a rift between the e.u.

and the us is deepening over the iran nuclear deal russel's energy chief has reassured tehran that the block remains committed to the agreement the statement came during his first visit to iran since donald trump told washington out of the quote. the european union did we routed it. to states this impromptu we were all from the joint complacency of. all nuclear deal there was absolutely unanimity among us because of the government that the union. the disagreement will stick to the commitments made and the disagreement looking at the latest if. someone. like that. meanwhile the french finance minister bruno lemaire

a surge to europe to resist u.s. sanctions against firms that trade with iran is good news except to our we're going to the u.s. is the planet's economic policeman do we accept one way domination with no respect for international rules obviously europe's response must clearly be noted. but after america quit the iran nuclear deal in and out sanctions on tehran u.s. officials told allies to also fall in line iran deal had lifted restrictions on tehran in exchange for a halt to its nuclear program on friday the european commission launched a process to prevent e.u. firms from me hit by u.s. sanctions european firms would also be able to get compensation and loans if they were affected and his finance minister added companies working with iran should just keep going. 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

lawfully invested in iran and are doing business there and they must continue to have the right to do so. financial analyst shabbir razvi believes that the e.u. is unlikely cave in to pressure from the u.s. over iran. i don't think european union is in the mood for listening to washington dick tart had this moment yes mr mock ron had a wonderful meeting in a washington. 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 a huge distance between iran on the nuclear deal or. a bridge

linking mainland russia to crimea was officially opened on tuesday the longest bridge in europe will reduce the region's reliance on sea and transport and it will allow more tourists to visit for me has been a popular summer destination for russians for more than a century. well

the first pedestrian to use the new link was in fact a cat that lives in the area of the feline has its own social media accounts that's where this video was posted it now enjoys a hefty following. the russian president was since a follow in the cat's footsteps. so you believe that you were. he said let's go over that even in the driving across the nineteen kilometer bridge in a command truck passing from the mainland to the trauma in city of. construction workers

you see that joining him for the right. well quite everybody though is so pleased about the new bridge there is an article in the washington examiner that suggested kiev should blow it up there i'm sure even went into detail about just how that could be done through commentator john bolton it's believed that the article goes beyond acceptable free speech 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. president bush threatened to probe at the f.b.i. we'll explain why after the break. global warming you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles. that you socks for to tell you the gossip the tabloids are. telling you the whole and. all the hawks that we all. want.

welcome back the u.s. president has upped the ante in his standoff with the intelligence community with the threat to investigate the f.b.i. tweeted that he will make an official announcement on monday asking the justice

department to look into whether the agency snooped on his presidential campaign for political purposes to know whether so just game was directed by the obama administration earlier the f.b.i. confirmed it had an informant inside his campaign but refused to name the person citing security reasons. however the u.s. media has outed the informant as being seventy three year old professor at cambridge university in the u.k. now he's a u.s. citizen with a long standing links to u.s. and british intelligence of served in three republican administrations he was reportedly a part of a high profile spying operation that dated back to the one nine hundred eighty snooping on president jimmy carter's administration for ronald reagan's campaign let's go commentator steve malzberg believes that spying on a presidential campaign is a worrying sign for democracy. if the obama administration played a role in putting a spy you could call an informant all to spy inside the presidential campaign

of the opposition party i mean you know this is this is huge they say bigger than watergate this is just wipes watergate pushes watergate right off the map can you imagine what this means for our democracy and reportedly steffen help were not only met with george papadopoulos lured him paid for a trip for him to come to london and then end up but that was didn't know who this guy was basically and then when he got there and he was meeting with them said so you know all about the hacking of the russian e-mails right but he also tried to get the cochairman of the truck campaign to enlist him hire him as a foreign policy adviser so he was trying to get inside the campaign right there for all to see never of course telling him he's investigating anything so to me that's a spy. africa has long promoted itself as being

a safari holiday destination catering to high end travelers through like this. but piers that the reality on the ground is often less rosy safari parks have been looking to expand their territories and that according to a new study led the government of the east african state of tanzania to evict indigenous communities and on a grand scale evictions began back in the early to thousands but tensions rose after some twenty thousand people were reportedly left homeless this was 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 forget that it was when i met a crowd of 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 in to get on a. unicycle the plans are. close and the idea was a sub. quarter why do i. need to know my cousin. that when the phone calls that when i. go to those. who are mom then the one visit to one is all good people he says come over and i'm a legislature 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 being carried out in the name of toward 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 the report previous to shows that the again not to be forced out of their homes and lands with their messiah been forced out of existence . the head of one company probed thompson safaris strongly denies being involved in the evictions its director rick thompson said 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 what happened back in london six governments have mixed it to people from going sour and private times and yet the cost at least but it was the whole sole lunch of my relation and there was where the houses were burned you know all so. excited to go. there was not in the planning where they could be you know when you live in that place you. you have structure you have well social services and now you hold to just to do the forests so if you ask me well i must say how black market place like i don't where they out you where you live in the ass hole and that brings you right up to date thanks for staying with r.t. to get updates with it say in just over half an hour.

across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies who feel they didn't this is the simple song alone even some company guess will elsewhere they can find private companies to take over the utilities many by the telescope. but you're well on the going to be cool. this is. for you bill if bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than water it's about to hurt and the redistribution of. this. date downwards.

there. are. none welcome to the part of the united states and the philippines have a curious history together once a colony down a staunch military is now trying to take steps to redefine and rebalance its

relationship with washington and by extension some of its france and both how is it going so far to discuss that i'm now joined by alan peter secretary of foreign affairs of the shell attends a secretary it's a great pleasure great honor. when you're in the studio thank you very much for coming up 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 intelligently i mean it's a it's a big mass 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 friends in need their friends indeed russia the russian federation president putin came today the philippines while we were fighting terrorism in them are we and we owe it to russia to also come and show our friendship whether there are world issues or

not being discussed our bilateral relationship is strong and we wanted to be stronger now let's discuss your relationship with the united states first because obviously it has a much longer history and then your relationship with russia 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 or her own path which means meeting with people that the parents do not necessarily approve of and do you yourself come from a very well placed family i'm sure you on earth your carrots 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 they 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 that times that we were taken advantage off but nothing all showed that the strong military ties and the aide and the hell. 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 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 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 lay verge we will pursue what this in our best interest when there are common interests we should pursue it but gone are the days when anything that the west or. american to say 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 color of their you know 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 multiple or 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 the tariff 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 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 no 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 are now discovering what the independent foreign policy is what it is to have mature friendship with the u.s. what delling 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 are some people who are quiet in

the u.s. but they know that the people to people relationship you know but still different from the international relationships of state to state now there isn't asking you because the philippines is definitely not alone in adopting this more versatile foreign policy what you say is very. 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 be pro chinese are doing be pro america or do without both of them were pro filipino 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 i've been 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 court. 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 us the americans are parents but we're saying we're off to college and allow us to pick our own friends the chinese our roommate you know they're 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 our 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 to 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 in 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 eight how far have moscow and many 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 there 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 go. and that's where making noise about alleged human rights violation you know when we need that the most of what's in 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 malawi 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 to you guys print in long distance relationships i think we here in russia and a bit more said that to me tend to develop stronger ties with those who are either close to us and when these dos we can reach to territorially through land what could possibly breach this eight more than eight thousand kilometer distance bits been moscow and manila will 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 will know we're also often misunderstood in our intentions right that this is one that one of the things me because again the cold war mentality i mean again it's always spot caged in some western media that this is correct this is so wrong you know so we have to judge countries actions and leave theirs directives case burke. you know you're going to everything the us that is correct or you can oppose or say 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. their worldview so this is where social media and direct communication comes in unfortunately it's sometimes called fake news it 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 transparent expertise to the edge of the philippines i.