certainly not any criticism of any of israel's extreme use of force by anyone in the trumpet ministration 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 as 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 mention 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 caleb artsy new york. a rift between the e.u. and the us is deepening over the iran nuclear deal brussels energy chief committee has reassured tariff on that the bloc remains committed to the agreement the statement came during his first visit to iran since double trunk pulled out of the cold. european union did we regret the announcement of the united states place impromptu with it all from the joint complacency of lack of action on this local all nuclear deal there was absolutely unanimity amongst of the government that the union will defend disagreement will stick to the commitments make and the disagreement looking at the latest so for them to try so well see the thing. with friends like

that. meanwhile french of finance minister bruno mel has urged europe to resist u.s. sanctions against firms that trade with iran is good news except 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. after america quit the deal u.s. officials told their allies to fall into line and stop doing business with terror on under the agreement sanctions have been partially suspended since twenty fifteen but on friday the european commission launched a process to prevent you phones from being hit by u.s. sanctions european companies will be able to claim compensation and loans if they're affected france's finance minister added that working with iran should continue to do so. 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 are doing business there and they must continue to have the right to do so. financial analyst shabbir razvi believes the e.u. is unlikely to cave in to pressure from the us regarding iran. i don't think european union is in the mood for listening to washington dick tart at this moment yes mr macron had a wonderful meeting in washington a. few weeks ago where mr buck broad 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 deal or. the longest bridge in europe linking mainland russia to crimea was officially opened on tuesday it took only two years to build bridges the region's reliance on sea and their transport and allow more tourists to visit.

well the first pedestrian to use the new link was this cat which lives in the area the feline has its own social media accounts where this video was posted. a strong following. nicolas maduro is widely expected to win a new term as venezuela's president live on this all of that after the break.

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welcome back venezuelans went to the polls on sunday in a presidential election the incumbent nicolas maduro is widely expected to win most opposition parties boycotts of the votes over allegations of ballot raking foreign powers including the u.s. have called the election in the just a mess but the venezuelan leadership has hit back accusing washington of trying to sabotage the election and urging photos to defend their democracy against imperialist aggression but do i said attempts to derail the vote wouldn't succeed. however you don't want to come back yeah i don't there has been a fierce campaign on the part of the trumpet ministration to try and the venezuelan

elections and they haven't succeeded they tried to stop the elections in venezuela but their attempts proved few time and like i said come rain or shine on sunday may the twentieth there will be elections and here we are costing our fruits. more on this post let's cross live that a latin american specialist william robinson william thank you very much indeed for going on for us i mean let's look at some of the votes then to materialize main rivals were barred from running in the election i mean was this a real contest. absolutely it was it was a real con contest the principal opposition figure found colm is is has actually was ahead in the polls up until yesterday and there has been no obstruction of his campaign whatsoever it's absolutely a fair contest in that in that sense i think the big story here is that the venezuelan voters are caught between a terrible economic crisis on the one hand including in part provoked by by

governments mistakes and mismanagement of the con and the then the other hand an all out destabilization campaign by the united states which is that it's eighteenth year at right now you know that just a few months ago this report if your viewers can see it this is a report that was. label top secret plan to overthrow the venezuelan dictatorship united states southern command stated february of two thousand and eighteen and it basically lays out what we've already been analyzing for the last eighteen years an all out destabilization campaign against the venezuelan government along the lines of the chukchi lay and model this is a chilean model type of intervention some of your old listeners might remember that the campaign against the democratically elected socialist president inch to late again day that was in one nine hundred seventy he was overthrown by the military coup d'etat backed by the central intelligence agency one nine hundred seventy three by the way for the pinochet dictatorship and famously nixon said in the secret documents that were leaked our strategy is to make the economy scream and so

you make an economy so unbearable that the population rises up whether it's through for voting a government out of office or whether it's through supporting a military dictatorship and this is the strategy that's been that's being practiced against venezuela just just a couple days ago the u.s. government announced new sanctions against venezuela. and yes he is related to that venezuela has planted these problems let's have a look at that in temps of what i saw for hyperinflation food shortages and soaring crime rate is that really all america's fault as material claims. no absolutely not it's a combination of mis it's a combination of several things one is one is u.s. intervention and that cannot be underestimated and they've moved her to that in just a moment once again the specific economic dimensions of that intervention but that has combined absolutely with the venezuelan government's mismanagement of the economy its over reliance on oil and then the subjective factors that have to do with the global market the incredible drop in the price of oil in just since two

thousand and fourteen until now it's just it's just picking up but i want to go back not downplaying the mismanagement of the economy by them adore government by the venezuelan government but i want to point out that the u.s. has imposed a financial blockade and economic strangulation on the country so that includes that venezuela cannot renegotiate its debt venezuela cannot get credit to invest in the oil sector or earn anything else than a sauna cannot import its medicines and other and other goods and then there's internal hoarding and we have all of the documentation and this is not new that the united states has encouraged the opposition business community to in turn to do economics avatars to hoard in the cell in the black market so all of these different factors are coming together so again i think that the u.s. strategy is to strangulate economically the country and that combines with the governments mismanagement of over reliance on oil there's also been a tolerance of corruption absolutely corruption should be cracked down on it there's also a bureaucracy so all of these factors come together but again i want to highlight the u.s. role because for me that's the big biggest story here in these elections and if you

allow me to to mention one other thing the unite and this is not been covered by the western media dr alfred sayas is the united nations rapid tour for the promotion of the democratic an equitable international order he was sent by the united nations in late two thousand and seventeen on the spot to venezuela as the u.n. wrapper tore represented united nations nations to conduct a study on venice oil and this is a just two paragraphs i'll read you are his report back because it's a total black. in the western media he writes again this is the un representative united nations regardless of what interventionist politicians the media and some non-governmental organizations affirm the situation of then it so it does not reach the limit level of the humanitarian crisis true enough there is a scarcity of certain foods medicines and personal hygiene items there are delays in distribution there are a lot more inspirations foods there was galloping inflation there is anger there are institutional and constitutional irregularities like in so many countries of

our suffering world but by her but hyperboles do not help us or the venezuelan people who need international solidarity and a good faith humanitarian is the end he concludes is just one line to the extent that sanctions u.s. sanctions that directly or indirectly course sort of is it necessary medicines such as insulin anti-malaria drugs to the extent that sanctions have caused delays and distribution and that's contributed to many deaths sanctions must be condemned as an right against humanity and that again if you the united nations read the tour and on that point we should leave it there william robinson thank you very much indeed thank you my pleasure now the first serious injury has been reported in hawaii in an ongoing volcanic eruption a man was injured by fragments of molten rock when flowing lava reached his home the summit of the killer way a volcano exploded on thursday sending fast moving lava across roads and blocking off residential areas twenty six homes have been destroyed prompting rescue services to airlift residents to safety.

now russia has raised concerns over the safety of its genesis in ukraine that's after security forces raided the kiev offices of a russian media group and detained its director kittle vision skee who's in charge of ria novosti ukraine bureau was detained on tuesday on allegations of treason. well the security service raid last did more than eight hours the homes of journalists working for the agency were also searched many organizations are accusing the ukrainian government of an attack on media freedom and demanding question schemes release rachel denver from human rights watch says complaints about 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 there is. an obligation to provide some kind of transparency about what exactly is grounding treason charges that an extremely serious serious charge that carries a hefty prison sentence so they better continue to come forward with what it is that causing the grounds for this charge because working for you know working for ria novosti or having a russian passport or not grounds for treason charge we and other organizations have have been expressing i think more frequently concerns about media freedoms in ukraine. more headlines stories at the top of the hour.

united states can always had a tool to use in its tax on other countries. economic sanctions are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries a talking about. and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country.

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and i don't want to privatisation officially it's not the commission's policy in mississippi state however it's true if you don't look at the troika us and if you look at the memorandum of understanding between for example the troika and portugal the commission as part of the troika is asking to further privatized across the book to go so in the troika the commission is still pushing for privatization so if it is really a human right and if you really are serious to the citizens at today's initiative we should start acting on policies instead of celebration. thank you. thank. senior but it is all now i wish was sitting. mostly with. your.

sympathies. for us as you watch fundamental me. but i compose. each could have. told us but if it is a song you. concerned about the pressure being put on southern countries european water movement activists ropes to already read. the highlights of the european commission as part of the troika so to force southern european countries mainly greece and portugal to privatized that was. the services they say that is unacceptable and must stop. a few months later the commission's reply leaves everyone speechless. the

commission believes that the privatization of public utilities including water supply firms. can deliver benefits to society when carefully made. today after. this one is obvious be church and brunch was blessed as they counted a duffer to cosign. such a nice best son i can stone of i accepted going to see best fit it was something that. looks really. good some enormous economic every nothing yet if it's out of the depth of a thought if i thought that id goes a little botany see me but i should have to do all those no gosh but it could be open and not by deed just be sure. to disguise your. nose it. is a week's pay minimum opinion to center six pm device you can you could feel secret

or take the heat let me be the last i did. not look at dog and see yourself these dual result was that he's gone then a very serious one of the. when the troika came to ireland they wanted to privatized the water utility. but there was no water utility. the water was sprayed in twenty seven local authorities so they were told or government by the troika to build will the irish government at. a company called irish water. which began installing meters. side to people's homes. on the first protests took place.

in sketch of the city of clock loreal woman went out in the morning and said you are not putting up be the outside my house. i told him there were meant to be a station where we didn't want the water meters and that was asked. what he and i were to there was a mass of supportive people here to stop them. and this was the first time that the irish people had taken a stand on any issue since austerity had begun says the troika right to toes in the not. because. i thought i thought it was my fault. i think for some people it probably was the straw that broke the camel's back. and no one of a sudden mood in the street together. and people who are joining the docks and you

know what has the water meters got to do with the fact that you can't see a doctor should go to a hospital what the water meters got to do with the banks coming in taking people so this. you know this is sewer phone a little bit of power you can cool and fun to cheika but you can stand to thank your folks. and there's your polar and and it like it might be true years and we're still not finished but people are still resisting this because it is the one thing that they have ponies and they're never going to get them. and we knew that this is big something different is not. it's about water forced to foremost but it's also about much more than war it's about to hurt to be trailed the surrender of sovereignty and the redistribution

of our west operatives and their debt downwards. there is a problem with the leaks and we couldn't find them until we have brought in some measures so if i see my solution suddenly it says it's a million liters a month for a couple of days in my house i go back home to trade so that's the reason for the missiles. and islands there were no meters because they had a completely different system of water charges. the irish paid through general taxation. over one billion euro was intended for the maintenance and operation of the water system. some people think those paper water through taxation is a little bit crazy we really only country in the o.e.c.d.

. it has zero war poverty and we're the only one with the a lot of poverty because we're the only one that pays for a trip to the us a general taxation that's the one thing we've got right and we'll keep it and the rest you should look at for follow us listen to us because the dumb irish got this one right. we really need to modernize our russia structure so now we really have to invest. so we need a structure to invest we need to wage borrowed money and then we need a way to pay for it paying out a general type stations people who work would probably end up paying more taxes. we are losing forty seven percent of our trees and walk into the ground in leaks before it gets to the top. no billion new up to spent do i choose to spend it on reduce or do i choose to stand up billion euro in fixing the leaks and building

a new or structure. despite the water having been paid through general taxation. no tax exemptions with plans to offset the new charges. and forcing more than me against able is worse is. the threat of paying for water twice led most citizens to regard the introduction of meat as an challenges as another austerity measure and the establishment of irish water is the first step towards privatisation. mr ferguson down with the minister tusk by the government with setting up the new company. clearly didn't work out quite as we expected. it was never on the agenda from my perspective that it could would or should ever be sold

or privatized and i was discussing this matter with my officials at the time i insisted that the legislation would have to include three point one the legislation was handed to me before it went into the parliament it wasn't in it. was real. central office and i have it says of course we all know privatisation is ultimately envisaged. and then there was a letter from those interested just example say in your start you can say that would you please take these words out of the report. so then the report came back four years out towards.