sanctions they. say everyone is interested in the lifting of sanctions in we are interested. you would get rid of sanctions. we realize that every he you country individually. and you might find it difficult to talk about it i don't want to give you the reasons for it but everything is that it's happening in india politics doesn't prevent us from developing our ties with austria and we will do whatever we can to continue this going forward into all the plans that are just mentioned. here and i thought that's. when you look at things a question you don't know where. you. mean you have.

got. with. us for now as i said we again trade does not only consist of gas we have other areas where we work on and recently and it out southeast. because some to own your own. father let's say you are. there are american politicians. you keep. would like to go in for. supplies or own natural gas to europe.

it's three when you're in d.c. . because the time is as expensive. doesn't make sense. and that's why we need to fundamentally you continue your are a cop ration in natural gas between russia and austria. yes. i have a question to both presidents. is sort of a crisis between the u.s. and russia and this and this will. probably last he had visited didn't matter do you think that ted koppel him so what can the president putin to do with it. and what could or should do to improve the situation. because

now you just said it's russia has an issue with. credibility i don't have that we have a question any issues with credibility it's an issue for them who would like to paint russia that way we are an open country we are open for carburation we. you know up until recently. we had a serious. communication with the e.u. . in terms of the economy we had dialogue twenty. currently has been almost completely shut down. did not initiate this nevertheless we are ready and open who are trying to work steadily we are seeing

the resumption of. joint efforts we have consultations with. the but i will representatives from brussels a number of tracks so far it's been very constructive. quite challenging but. again it's not just russia it's also the u. that's seeking to restore our full fledged ties. this is. sugata made up of this one. is though you don't think it's looking good. for you. because. you.

know my business as usual you see. if. you were talking about any serious crisis of trust with russia. i think it's common thank you the press conference is over. we're going to leave the palace there after the presidents of austria and russia concluded the talks and their joint news briefing talking about plans had in order to try and restore relations which is taken something of a battering in recent weeks and months with the why the e.u. of course austria's long been close partner of russians for many decades now not least of all some of the focus of what they were talking about which is the gas industry fifty years ago today those gas supplies started now more than

a third of europe's energy comes from russia so that's been the pivot point in which to start these discussions now president putin will i think head off to meet the chancellor the thirty one year old sebastien courts for talks of there and then after that we're due to have another news briefing to see the results of that discussion when of course bring it to you live here on r.t. international. more awful news out for you now the official death toll from the volcanic eruption in guatemala has reached sixty nine but authorities say that only seventeen of them have been identified so far the number of the dead could grow further as scores of people are still missing emergency workers are trying to retrieve bodies from layers of ash industry. over three thousand people have been moved to safety many are now staying in temporary shelters works being hampered by the lack of electricity in the most heavily affected areas on top of that five point two magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of guatemala on monday. living up to its name between the volcano of fire erupted on sunday

covering nearby villages coffee farms in layers of is considered to be the biggest eruption in guatemala in more than a century the video we're about to show you shows the moment that the eruption started. with. a little. bit of the. ending. germany's refugee agency is being investigated for corruption it's accused of offering asylum for bribes chancellor merkel's now also been dragged into the scandal with claims that she was aware of the problems but did nothing to reform the organization our europe correspondent peter all of the reports next from berlin. as the cash for asylum investigation into the german federal office for migration and refugees all. speed public

focus has turned to the german chancellor angela merkel and what she knew about the agency's problems its former head frank here good advice gave an interview to a leading german sunday tabloid which he said he held face to face meetings with the chancellor and made it explicitly clear that his agency couldn't cope with the pressures being put on it by a refugee policy. there was no structure or organized development in the form of specific tasks set of priorities or occult collation of personality acquirements since no instructions were available everyone could work as they saw feet in response to those claims a spokesperson for angle merkle had this to say it's not religion and of course there was an ongoing intense process of changing the work of the german federal office of migrations and refugees when the refugee crisis broke out i'm just trying to make clear that mr vice is repeated reported on these changes in the prove to

the how the federal states the blunder struck the cabinets he spoke at press conferences and again and again to the public and major league the chancellor was informed about the plan of the reforms and the measures taken in this agency. the investigation began after it was alleged that an employee at the un fought for us in a bremen wrongfully granted asylum to twelve hundred people on the list security services say were two islamic extremists one of whom they describe as an actual terror threat while forty four others belonged to islamist groups prosecutors allege that the female employee took both money and gifts to grant asylum wrongfully between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen as the investigation continues she did nice those charges against her politicians both from the opposition and from within and glimmer of course on coalition partners saying they want answers. it is not

about accusations it is not about vindication of a conspiracy theory but rather about a sober investigation. we have to investigate the accusations of negligence and corruption and you have to do it quickly and everyone who was involved should give testimony the former refugee card and the interior ministry there is a way to be done in this investigation last month the country's largest opposition party alternative for germany launched a loss. suit against anglo merkel's refugee policy they say that the chancellor's decision to welcome around one of the half a million refugees to the country should have gone through a vote in the start and the fact that it didn't is unconstitutional and so we put the legal course in front of the court to question whether there there is a legal. explanation or a legal reason to open our borders hopefully we'll have a special committee to go into that scandal well the point we're making is probably

the scandal is not something about the so one. office environment and has to do with political responsibility and we have to look who is responsible for everything what has happened there before now the big question remains if the chancellor knew that the migration refugee agency was struggling why was nothing done to relieve the pressure. r.t. early. next with outrage continuing to grow over israel's use of lethal force against protesters and the u.s. remains of wavering in its support for its middle eastern ally most recently washington's ambassador in jerusalem dished out some less than diplomatic advice to journalists covering the rallies in which since march at least one hundred twenty palestinians have been killed.

the. well the american ambassador to israel david friedman has attacked the media for what he says is failing to fairly cover the recent protests along the israel gaza border he said that when you have a situation of some forty thousand protesters storming the israel border and the cover of burning tires and with pistols a molotov cocktails that situation is unprecedented and he says that israel did the best it could and yet despite this ninety percent of media coverage. it was biased and critical against the israeli defense forces the american ambassador did however concede that some criticism against israel is legitimate now israel's position has always been to blame him us for the protests and the ensuing violence and this is a position that american officials have echoed hamas terrorist backed by iran have incited attacks against israeli security forces and infrastructure and we understand that israel has

a right to defend itself urged the members of the security council to exercise at least as much scrutiny of the actions of the hamas terrorist group as it does to israel's legitimate right of self-defense now despite the fact that american officials have come out in support of how the israeli army behaved in dealing with those gaza protests there has been unprecedented criticism in the international community particularly by human rights groups you have for example human rights watch saying that the i.d.f. the hevia was a bloodbath you have the united nations saying that it was outrageous you have amnesty international saying to quote that there was a horrifying use of live ammunition against unarmed protesters now the latest figures we have from the gaza health ministry are that one hundred and nineteen people were killed in nine weeks of violence the situation on the ground is still tense and unfortunately we are bracing ourselves for those figures to climb. to

internationals also deeply concerned about what's been happening in this syria in the past eight months it's accusing the u.s. led coalition of committing potential war crimes during last year's operation to liberate the city of raka from islamic state the rights group says the strong evidence that america and its partners use indiscriminate and disproportionate force on the big impact was catastrophic or got more details earlier from our correspondent and us to see if you're going to. this amnesty international report a dubbed war of and they had nation devastating tolls and civilians in iraq a syria is a very highly critical analysis of the airstrikes that were carried out by the u.s. led coalition that involved britain and france on the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as

a result of the these strikes the report finds that hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties. you know when you're finding it and it me. uses noncombat as collateral damage you know it's very difficult when you when you fight it we like to completely avoid. any casualties of war like that but i can tell you we have a process that we go through. to minimize you know civilian casualties the cost. the coalition's claims that its precision air complains allowed it to bomb islamic state out of iraq while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny on the ground in iraq we witnessed a level of destruction comparable to any seen we've seen in decades of covering the impact of wars well amnesty international interviewed one hundred twelve civilians

in as many as forty two locations of airstrikes for this report and some of their focus was specifically on four families who had lost a very big numbers of family members in these airstrikes they look at one family that lost as many as eight members and one airstrike another lost sixteen another family lost eighteen and a fourth family that lost as many as thirty nine people in those airstrikes and of course while we know the coalition says that in this case as others they did all they can to minimize casualties and in these kinds of scenarios according to them this is inevitable according to amnesty international that is just not good enough and they have called for investigations and justice for the victims of those strikes on a situation in a reporting that's if you're off the news hour from now on call in bright moscow back with the headlines stories in just under four minutes.

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headlining right now on our table of vienna on his first official foreign trip since beginning his fourth as president and is looking for ways to improve relations with the e.u. we'll live with our correspondent in less than one minute. and other news america's ambassador to israel gives some less than diplomatic feedback to journalists covering the i.d.f. use of extreme force against palestinian protesters in gaza. a war of annihilation a damning new report from a leading human rights group accuses the u.s. led coalition of potentially breaking international law as it battled to liberate

the syrian city of rocket from last year. called embraer welcome from me in the team here in moscow what i see international fuel world news is now six pm here it's five pm in vienna which is where we start to see russia's developing ties with the e.u. won't be damaged by sanctions that's the message reaffirmed in the past thirty minutes by president putin at a media conference in vienna he's there on his first international trip since starting his fourth term auntie's more i guess the can bring us the latest from vienna and putin's meeting with his austrian counterpart. we were listening cross for the past half an hour or so plenty of optimism during that meeting it seems any positive messages from the e.u. side of things. a lot has been

said today this beat a lot of news it's been very busy here in vienna even the tourists seemingly have joined did you look around to the police cordons through the barricades tourists the snapping away trying to get a picture of. leaders as well as to me of putin it's really no surprise he came to austria of all places on his first official visit to the european union russia and austria have historically had very good relations despite you know misunderstandings the differences with europe just go into specifics but just last year two thousand and seventy trade between the two countries grew by fifty percent in just one year so obviously you know they're both very interested in keeping those relations. and talked about the various aspects of you know. themes such as iraq such as iran what's happening in syria what's happening in

ukraine the austrian president said that russia and austria have a lot to talk about the european union and russia must. keep up their relations on a solid devil and must talk about the various problems that they can resolve in the world they also talked about energy of course it's fifty years now the fiftieth anniversary of russian gas exports to austria and. said that it is enjoyed russian energy for many years which has been russia's been a reliable partner and they talked about the united states and the liquefied natural gas that it has been pushing on europe as an alternative to russian gas and the austrians president in fact said that it makes no sense to switch to american gas because it's much more an order of magnitude more expensive you have to liquefied which is very energy into. to bring it to europe and then. to give to

consumers where this russian gas is available in its natural form pipeline so it makes no financial sense the austrian leader said to switch to they also talked about sanctions and the russian president said that sanctions end up. everyone involved the side that pushes sanctions on the side on the receiving end so. that he looks forward to a future where those sanctions are lifted where russia and the european union can cooperate can trade without restrictions but. there is also a sort of atmosphere in europe where these sanctions are being brought up time and time again and more and more people are criticizing them. that we will support opening up to russia which has consolidated. which has consolidated its international role in various political crises in recent

years we will push for review of the sanctions system starting with those that risk punishing the russian civil society. we shouldn't of course expect sanctions to be lifted in the foreseeable future but there is there is a change brewing in europe as i reported earlier. there is a wind of change blowing through europe or perhaps just the breeze but on the eve of glad we have putin's visit here to vienna the austrian vice chancellor comes out and calls for and then the sanctions the sanctions have damaged our austrian economy above all else and i've always warned against pushing russia into the arms of china is high time to end these painful sanctions and normalize political and economic relations with russia not exactly shocking not these days not after the

austrian chancellor himself came out and called the us reliable in that regard making up with russia might counterbalance things such as friends allies washington imposing tariffs on european goods a move that essentially began a trade war. so now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically stupid process the fact that we have to do this but we have to do it we will now impose tariffs on harley davidson motorcycles on levis blue jeans and borgen we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid the logic here is that by normalize. relations with russia europe would be better able to deal with washington the idea is that the united states would behave itself properly we also need russia to solve

problems i mean with skloot russia from the g eight now the problem is that the u.s. is following a policy the other six do not want perhaps russia's return to the g. eight would be a counterbalance and allow for counter policy but politician say whatever suits them doesn't always translate into action it seldom does if anything then it's difficult to imagine that gargantuan and ponderous european machine changing tracks overnight or it used to be difficult to imagine we have to reconnect before i'm not very happy about the state of our relations. look at our differences on this but does. russia. has to be brought to him and. next tonight with outrage continuing to grow over israel's use of lethal force against protesters in gaza the u.s. remains unwavering in its support for its middle eastern ally most recently

washington's ambassador in jerusalem dished out some less than diplomatic advice to journalists covering the rallies in which since march at least one hundred twenty palestinians have been killed. the. well the american ambassador to israel david friedman has attacked the media for what he says is failing to fairly cover the recent protests along the israel gaza border he said that when you have a situation of some forty thousand protesters storming the israel border and the cover of burning tires and with pistols a molotov cocktails that situation is unprecedented and he says that israel did the best it could and yet despite this ninety percent of media coverage was biased and critical against the israeli defense forces the american ambassador did however concede that some criticism against israel is legitimate now israel's position has

always been to blame him us for the protests and the ensuing violence and this is a position that american officials have echoed a mosque terrorist backed by iran have incited attacks against israeli security forces and infrastructure and we understand that israel has a right to defend itself urged the members of the security council to exercise at least as much scrutiny of the actions of the hamas terrorist group as it does to israel's legitimate right of self-defense now despite the fact that american officials have come out in support of how the israeli army behaved in dealing with those gaza protests there has been unprecedented criticism in the international community particularly by human rights groups you have for example human rights watch saying that the i.d.f. the hevia was a bloodbath you have the united nations saying that it was outrageous you have amnesty international saying to quote if there was

a horrifying use of live ammunition against protesters now the latest figures we have from the gaza health ministry are that one hundred and nineteen people were. killed in nine weeks of violence the situation on the ground is still tense and unfortunately we're bracing ourselves for those figures to climb. the middle east correspondent there also in tel aviv waiting to talk to us journalist and filmmaker david she david welcome to the program just been reading up about you i know that you've been promoting for a freshly immersed in what's going on there for years now from human rights through to the religious underlying causes of this and you know how complex it is in gaza right now so what do you make of the u.s. ambassador's comments have a lot of journalists to show a lack of willingness to understand those complexities. well is actual quote was keep your mouth shut until you figure it out so essentially he's saying you can't report on any massacre doesn't matter the death

toll.