two percent area how is washington going to make everyone pay for i can tell you there's a strong majority of germans and in my view a strong majority of europeans every bia is against the new one. does not see didn't meet for. higher defense spending and. soon the g.'s in the european union by. in defense meant this we have started to do that but. i would stick the oppose the idea that if you have to spend two percent g.d.p. . put the common defense and it's in my view an even higher percentage is. not debate to build so trombones so says that those underpaying to the nato budget will be dealt with

whatever that means that's almost whatever that's almost at the same time as he's threatening sanctions on europe over it on i mean why does europe and germany in particular allow united states to play quell them here and there because that's what it looks like from the outside. yes i. do you. get to it. be. american what is he was always a mixture. of megalomania and strict obedience so we never we never found the. middle here so we need to need to discuss. people into half and need to tell the. american friends that until now.

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so we're back with sahagun former vice president of the european commission discussing the i'm an easy german russian partnership right so the new german foreign minister mr maass started his tenure by taking a tough stance on russia but just a little while later we see germany and russia standing together in support of the iran deal against american attempts to dismantle it can one of the facts of the iran deal affair be to actually bring germany and russia closer together. yes i think i think it does we have a busy strong common interest here and perhaps it shows that many many other us have common interests as far as the new foreign minister in germany is concerned. and should give him a little bit of time i was slightly surprised when he made that

announcement because this is. not to put his. us. into coalition agreement and it's clearly not the policy. democratic party to which to which he belongs my my feeling is that a strong strong majority not only of social democrats since many but of the or german population once good and plenty leave the least since with russia and strongly dislikes the complication of policy that we have seen during the last time in his first interview as german foreign minister mr masse was using words like villager and hostile was speaking about russia something no acting german foreign minister was heard saying before should be seen as berlin's mouthpiece here i mean at the same time chancellor merkel is meeting with putin and saying that relations with russia are strategic priority countries need to talk and

there's a german government have a united line on russia at the moment or not. good good good good question. i'm not a member of this government so i do not know but i noticed the discrepancy beach to a bit you have mentioned and. i would not have used the terms which mr moss used perhaps it is not he will not repeat it my understanding is that chancellor merkel is very much interested. in constructive solutions building and building confidence and she is the one who defines the guidelines of germany's for a put is c. so give gifts to the present coalition in the debate time to adjust my understanding is the police finally the policy line bill be to try to

corporally as much as possible like you have mentioned that the attitude that mr moggs has taken towards russia has brought sharp criticism from his own party members and other german politicians it seems that while the german chorus on russia is in line with the e.u. there is an internal political divide in the german establishment when it comes to relations with moscow how deep is this divide and how does it affect policy. yes. it concerns me busybody much what i what i can see since a couple of years but getting stronger and stronger. between . the normal population and the so called intellectual elites people in the people in the media people in think tanks people in political

positions they have a much much tougher position than the german citizen. we have they have similar similar situation as well that did the elites in our country . losing contact with the interests and the views of the people so this is today isn't it in a democracy. if people. have completely completely different views and if you ask me who should change. i think that. those people. and even. increasing tensions. think what they are doing so i agree with what you're saying because i have

statistics here that sets from their spiegel it says that sixty eight percent of germans don't want to tell the stance on russia and overwhelming ninety four percent of germans think that good relations with russia are important will pay made of voters pressure the german leaders to find a softer approach to the german russian relations in the end. it depends it depends on what happens in the reality is. to see is not is not a metal butch's for input is seen as a matter of dietz so so we have to see whether we can find common ground in. years we have common interests like middle east like. perhaps even even ukraine in my view we. have common interests and of course of course economy. partnership it put

a leash and ship needs substance we need b.b. need to do something and here we should not forget that. between between germany and russia despite all the disturbing disturbing words and voices i still be a good to have strong touch the relations we have visitors strong economic relations be have extremely strong between people and organisations from the civil society be shouldn't be shouldn't be shouldn't underestimate that and yes i believe that finally. understand that we. have a particular this bun's ability to. make to make sure that russia is three to it as an equal in europe so even if there is a political decision in berlin to for example i don't know the sanctions on russia

there are approach by all in all member states so our chairman is hands tied on the issue regardless of whether the government wants to lift sanctions or not. yeah. dissensions to say. you are a peon decision and. single country like so many cannot cannot change it need we need to need a common decision here but i believe if if if conditions which would allow the german government on as a government to say we do not need to sing along they would like to do that the sooner the sooner than later nobody really likes to sing it's not the french not. know what nobody really likes it and. i would hope i would hope context beautiful full enough atmosphere

better at the climate and then the next step. in decision to lift the sanctions step by step. in one step it depends on the situation so meanwhile as germany goes along with you sanctions still manages to be lots of business with russia for instance building the north stream two giant pipeline natural gas into germany directly from russia so how does my lame balance. principle diplomacy approach with pragmatic pipeline projects. yeah. not seem not to in. as far as i understand it was not involved in the decision making as far as i understand it the position was german government is that is in the interest not only of germany but those interests of neighboring

countries and to use in particular poland and to bug the countries and i think that mrs merkel made it made it clear that not does not does not mean necessarily a dead. it's losing its importance as a transit country for god. i think the best solution would be to to find a b. that is phys the needs of ukraine and poland by guaranteeing that the certain amount of energy bill be transported to buy these gun please. let's leave notes to. be neat. to meet the demand. because the demand is not it's not a must that it month is increasing as everybody knows so they're killed made it clear where every cent leave that nor stray into project shouldn't go forward until

all the issues of ukraine's transit row are settled she said that there are political casa durations involved how does this go along with german government officials numerous statements that north stream to. commercial projects yeah it does not go along with that it does it does not and do not know what the german government. legally instrument to stop that and i don't think so so this was a political pull to do political statement in my view it would be wise to do as i have said to find a balance aleutian which also takes into account the interests of ukraine and of ukraine and poland but to is as you have said for economic economically absolutely important for germany and to the us to fuel up so why is no what stream to so dangerous in brussels i mean the germans are pragmatic people

they wouldn't sign up for something if it were really strategically dangerous is it more infrastructure always a good thing. you know or what. and position. position. most most of. the. complaining complaining a lot and some other countries as well. have to sim situation to feel. that he. made. a mistake one should have to try to have to have to pull out but that is spilt milk no again the best the best solution would be taken into account. the month for gust from russia.

to save between two sets additional. of all right thank you very much for this interesting talk we were talking to. her again former vice president also european commission discussing european efforts to rescue the deal and germany's relations with russia that's it for this edition of. next time. i don't think that is i will not be that. much as you see it on the whole.

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the u.s. secretary of state issues twelve demands to go wrong threatening unprecedented financial pressure if iran doesn't comply. end up being the strongest link into history and we will complete. another headlines italy is on course to become the euro zone's only country you're a skeptic to populist parties come together to present the president with their radical program. trump accuses the f.b.i. of spying on his electoral campaign back in twenty sixteen feet justice department opens an investigation into whether inappropriate surveillance did really take place.

thanks for joining us here live and. today you're very welcome on the program this hour now washington has promised to impose unprecedented financial pressure on iran u.s. secretary of state has made twelve demands of to iran and threatened it with the worst sanctions ever if they are not met. iran must declare to the i.a.e.a. a full account of the prior military dimensions of its nuclear program stop enrichment provide the i.a.e.a. with unqualified access to all sites and its proliferation of ballistic missile releases all us citizens of the us and support the middle east terrorist groups iran must respect the sovereignty of the iraqi government brown must also end its military support for the coup the militia withdraw all forces under a new command throughout the entirety of syria and support for the taliban and other terrorists in afghanistan in the region and i or g. could force a support for terrorists and militant partners around the world and to iran must

end its threatening behavior against its neighbors many of whom are u.s. allies well he started off a speech trying to convince his audience of how bad obama's deal was claiming that its flaws put the whole world at brisk and arguing that the chase c.p.o. away only postpone iran's development of nuclear weapons and now pump a also promised unprecedented financial pressure on iran ordering that think sions will not change until iran changes and threatening that iran will have to fight to keep its economy alive we will apply unprecedented financial pressure on the iranian regime the leaders in tehran will have no doubt about our seriousness these will indeed end up being the strongest sanctions in history when we are complete it's also worth mentioning that this economic pressure can only succeed if the e.u. also complies however the ego has already stated that it's satisfied with the existing deal saying that more sanctions are unnecessary as it seeks to protect its

companies that are doing business in iran and the european union and will remain committed to the continued food and effective implementation of the g.c. as long as iran abides by all its nuclear related commitments as it is doing so far so let's quickly break down some of his demands you know some of them have at least something to do with the previous iran deal for example pompei it demanded that iran stop enriching uranium and never preprocessed plutonium and asked for access to all. all of iran's nuclear sites but these remains were not only part of the g c p a way they were met by iran which was certified by the i.a.e.a. other demands pompei a maid had nothing to do with preventing iran from acquiring new these for random foreign policy demands which included ask iran to stop supporting who these in yemen demanding that iran pull out of syria but one highlight of the speech was when pompei accused shia iran of supporting sunni extremist groups in afghanistan and apparently pressure will continue until iranians change of government so now

america is blatantly telling the iranian people what to do check out what he said at the end of the day the iranian people will decide the timeline at the end of the day be ready people will get to make a choice about their leadership if they make the decision quickly that would be wonderful if they choose not to do so we will stay hard at this until we achieve the outcomes that i set forward today so that could be interpreted as a call for regime change which unlike pompei is nuclear demands wasn't part of the original deal but all in all it's unclear what the administration is looking to come out of this but what does have to wait for reactions from the rest of the world where iran has already responded to washington's salue of dumond's president rouhani has said america has no right to tell to iran what to do i think that the world will no longer cave into washington's bullying and commenting on from poe's insistence that iran withdrawal from syria they rein in the president said their own forces will stay that to continue fighting terrorism is what people on the

streets of tehran have to say about the situation. so americans keep saying they have nothing against us ordinary iranians saying they only target the government but in actual fact just think she was a fake general public in iran but just as much as if we're going to larry. summers like you know. let's not do that over again. the united states has closed the door to negotiations we cannot hold talks about a number of analysts told us washington is belligerence could cause chaos across the middle east and leave the u.s. increasingly isolated. this is not the first time actually american administrations in the past have tried to actually destabilize the from the inside but the problem with that is that this turbulence in governments in this part of the world there from libya in in. various parts in egypt. in tunisia these disruptions for the for the stability of these countries created more damage

and more harms for the rule of law for human rights for human dignity all over the region seeing that the wrong will not trust the united states for years and the allies of the united states on the other hand even the europeans they cannot count on what the united states say. the champ administration regardless of what their allies in europe are saying they restore fund the deal that the europeans were supporting i think it will be very hard for the united states to bring europeans are they serious on board in order to support that pressure that they are talking or the historic sanctions they're talking about i think at the moment here are these two we are going by trying to isolate the united states internationally really foreign ministry have been trying to read. the european partners russia. china because they. know these extreme you

know with the serious international consensus and agreement and alliance the united states can not goo back to the regime of sanctions that existed against iran from two thousand and ten to two thousand and fifteen. now with the trump presidential campaign already being investigated from so many angles one more aspect now in the crosshairs that the u.s. department of justice they've announced that they will probe whether the campaign was an appropriate infiltrated by the federal bureau of investigation. anyone. who puts discipline in a presidential campaign inappropriate purposes we need to know about suits and to approve action the stakes are getting higher in the ongoing spat between donald trump and the intelligence community this probe has opened up in response to a request donald trump made on twitter is favorite media called on the department

of justice to investigate this and furthermore to find out if the obama administration are the ones that actually ordered the f.b.i. to infiltrate the trump campaign before trump's tweet we did see media reports indicating that it was likely that the trump campaign had been infiltrated and let's remember that when trump came out and said that he had been wiretapped a similar claim he made about a year ago the media responded rather harshly where to get these ideas where is he getting his information anyone here disagree he wasn't going to hold anybody radionic where is the proof what the president charged president obama with wiretapping him it's not true now this time the american mainstream media has outed the mole people are pointing to stephen hall per he's a seventy three year old professor at cambridge university in the u.k. he's american born there he's got longstanding ties to both american and british

intelligence agencies and apparently infiltrated the administration of u.s. president jimmy carter on behalf of the ronald reagan campaign the department of justice and the f.b.i. will not deny they there was somebody in the campaign however they have quibbled about the wording they've said this was not a spy this was rather an informant they refused to name whether or not it was steven halper but the question is if it was steven help or this is somebody with a well known reputation links to the cia british intelligence so revealing his identity wouldn't exactly put people's lives in danger or be some kind of huge threat to national security or if it is it's not exactly clear why that would be they have a communique. that this is just the latest episode in the ongoing spat between the trumpet ministration and the intelligence agencies showing that there is a high level of division and insecurity in washington d.c. . a former u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton has attended a graduation ceremony university tradition by wearing an unconventional bit of

headway. a russian. i mean if you can't beat him today i know. i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim call me sweater on october twenty eighth and russian wiki leaks i inherited nothing from the democratic party . i mean it was bankrupt it was on the verge of in there is still a very large proportion of the population that is uneasy with women in positions of leadership. this just shows how frail hillary is i think she gave a speech to the.