ism 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 finally gets unwise 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 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 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 terror on the block remains committed to the agreement the statement came during his first visit to iran since donald trump pulled out of the accord. european union did we regret the announcement of the united states place impromptu with it all from the joint comprehensive plan of action the socal or all nuclear deal there was absolutely unanimity amongst the of the government that the union will defend disagreement will stick to the commitments make and the disagreement looking at the latest decisions of president. someone. with friends like that.

well meanwhile french finance minister bruno lemaire has urged europe to resist u.s. sanctions against firms that trade with iran is good news except we're going to accept the u.s. 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. well 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 had been partially suspended since twenty fifteen but on friday the european commission launched a process to preventing you firms from being hit by u.s. sanctions european companies will be able to claim compensation and loans if they are affected france's finance minister added that firms working with iran should continue to do so. 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 the e.u. is unlikely to cave in to pressure from the us regarding iran. i don't think the european union is in the mood for listening to washington dick tart at this moment yes mr macron had a wonderful thing in a washington a. few weeks ago where a list of our crowd 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. the longest bridge in europe linking mainland russia to crimea was officially opened on tuesday it took only two years to build and will reduce the region's reliance on sea and air transport and allow more tourists to visit.

the first pedestrian to use the view link was four forty eight this cat which lives in the area of feline has its own social media account where this video was posted on how enjoys a strong following. well russian president was soon to follow in the cat's footsteps making the journey from the krasnodar region in southern russia to kurdish on the crimean peninsula. so you believe that you would.

like to be uprooted and drove across the one thousand kilometer bridge in a camera truck at even construction workers joined him at the wrong. however not everyone is so pleased about the new bridge an article in the washington examiner suggested kiev should blow itself right to even went into detail about how it could be done political commentator john both mitch believes the article goes beyond 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 in gauged 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 he 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 our civilian structure. that has waited so went to the polls on sunday in a presidential election the incumbent nicolas maduro is widely expected to win most opposition parties boycotted the vote over allegations of ballot rigging foreign powers including the u.s. have called the election in a just a mess that the venezuelan leadership has hit back accusing washington of trying to sabotage the election and urging voters to defend their democracy against imperialist aggression but a row said attempts to derail the vote wouldn't succeed. so you don't want to come by yeah they 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 going to cost you hundreds. well the u.s. is threatening to impose new sanctions on venezuela and political analysts gregory will put says that could deepen the country's economic crisis i don't think it's guaranteed that maduro would when i think it might be a close vote but if maduro wins that the u.s. is guaranteed pretty much to impose even harsher sanctions venezuela depends to a very large extent on 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 that's creating a situation where many venezuelans are saying to themselves well do i want to vote from a do it or because i like his politics and the social programs or should i vote for

the u.s. backed candidate well it's not really us backed 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 the opposition candidate has an enormous advantage in the sense that everybody knows that if the opposition or to renege on this without that economic situation would improve not just because of different policies but primarily because of the halting of sanctions against. russia has raised concerns about the safety of its journalists in ukraine that's after security forces raided the kiev offices of a russian radio and detained its director kiddo vission skee who's in charge of re another state ukraine bureau was detained on cheers day on allegations of treason. the security service raid lasted more than eight hours the homes of jenice working for the agency were also searched many organizations are accusing the ukrainian

government of an attack on media freedom and developing nations is release. from human rights watch says complaints about media freedom in ukraine are on the rise under no circumstances should a 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's a there's an obligation to provide some kind of transparency about what exactly is grounding treason charges at an extremely sure 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 and other organizations have have been expressing i think more frequently concerns about media freedoms in

ukraine. africa has long promoted itself as a destination for safari holidays catering to one off travelers who adverts such as this. but it appears the reality is often less rosy safari parks have been looking to expand their territory and a nice study claims this has led the government of tanzania in east africa to evict indigenous communities on a wide scale they have actions began over fifteen years ago where tensions rose last year after twenty thousand people were reportedly left homeless in august and september alone were six thousand homes deliberately damaged some of those affected

have been telling their stories. on the we got to come out of the fight. or not we got the model was got up like that across up because i want to get that equipment of him was when i met a crowd of about thirty. women are what that there are no we don't but i forgot that while you're. on the go with a come on he's human i'm not to get on a. unicycle the plans are. close and yet here was a. quarter why do. we tell 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 out in the legislation and land lawyers in the name of conservation the government or tanzania has been

dispossessed in the indigenous kluges these legislations have been used to be simply denying them aside their access to grazing lands that access to water holes but not just that it has allowed some of the safari companies that are operating in the area to collude with that local officials who have ingenuity and 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 most rewarding terrorism arsenal dinars and in the absence of food it has led to widespread hunger managership and disease the kind of disposition of the record priest you shills are going to not just be forced out of their homes and lands with their messiah been forced out of existence. thompson safaris one of the firms mentioned in the report called the allegations simply

untrue but local activists tell a different story. if i look for example what happened back in logan and six government of mixed it people from this our empire times and yet the customer lists but it was the whole solange of my religion and there was where the house is well guarded you know all so. excited to go. there was not in the planning let it be you know when you live in a place you are wrong you have structure you have lost social services and now you hold to just to do the hardest so if you will ask me well i must say however. like i don't wear it out you wear it when the ass hole. on wednesday north korea threatened to counsel highly anticipated talks between kim jong un and donald trump kyung is pyrrhus about one going joint military exercises

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 trumping kim jong un well the latest to speak comes despite a recent surratt relations between the two koreas in april they held their first summit in more than a decade but seeing no afterwards a top u.s. official suggested north korea could suffer the same fate as libya artie's what i guess the of looks at the mixed signals coming from washington. 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 all 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 could the arabians 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 rand 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 too regardless perhaps this time things will be different in 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 tale's its nuclear program and the us 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 perspire it seems to be the carrots except what no one seems the realizes it's dangling not for tasting that just life they've got to understand. life because i don't think they do understand life.

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a staunch military ally when he leaves now trying to take steps to redefine and rebalance its relationship with washington and by extension some of its friends and boast how is it going so far well to discuss that i'm now joined by alan peter cayetano secretary of foreign affairs of the philippines secretary it's a great pleasure great on are welcoming here in the studio thank you very much for coming on from the owners mind 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 in the russia the russian federation president putin came today the philippines while we were fighting terrorists and i'm are 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 wanted to be stronger now let's discuss your relationship with the united states first because obviously it has a much longer history 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 a her own. 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 you have carrots requests and everybody else's is that how the philippines relates to the united states they say well my father a filipino from the smallest town in metro manila and my mother is an american and my mother 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 precedent 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 no thing 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 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 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. 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 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 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 terror 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 precedent that there may be. 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 are now discovering what independent foreign policy is what it is to have mature friendship with the us what telling 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 or 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 relationships 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. 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 call murs 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 really 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 town 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 call. 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 oh well you know so i said in 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 our 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 be cautious have been pursuing a relationship with the philippines 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.