no weapons you know who used chemical weapons ok there is that duma thing you know where people who were shown on the veto by the bike helmets to be victims of a chemical attack later on these people healthy and alive address the press conference in the cake and told how these fake video was made that actually going to what you just said happened but it's not only r t in a few other outlets reported the backstory to this is of false flag operation all the others concentrated on the who paid for these people to come from damascus to the cape well these people are on the view that you showed to the whole world you said they were victims of a chemical attack why don't you want to listen to them and i really have to really get a really good alex you're going to go back to cyprus one more minute before we go to the break here so it looks like russian russian rushes is going to be continued all the way to the mid terms or in lieu of the mule the report go ahead alex. yeah

i think even when the mueller report is is finalized and i think we are coming to an end it's very apparent that the whole russia thing is just going to last until probably until trouble either wins reelection or that's going to go on for another four years or until they get rid of trouble because if the russia thing is not dying down you can see it in the white house press briefing they're going to scapegoat russia for everything but the most important point to all of this is that the american people don't care we've seen poll after poll alex shows that russia ranks very low just real quick do you think paul manifold will go to federal prison because he has good taste in clothes but. he definitely i think good taste in clothes and i think when everything wraps up he will get a part of it from trump i think that's in the cards for gentlemen to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on some real news stay with art.

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sanction warfare and we see the u.s. applying it in particularly what's maybe what's nuanced here in the trumpet ministration that it's again sporting quote allies we could talk a little bit about turkey. the problem basically is that the global financial system since basically thank you forty five has been very heavily dollar. and this was it was and it wasn't really a cup topic for discussion for a long time now more recently the americans have decided that it's easier to throw sanctions than to shoot weapons to the missiles so basically what they can do and they've done in the case of russia is cut off individuals from the control of their own assets some of these. were very close to the kremlin others were very distant from the kremlin major russian companies have certainly been become unable to do business on the global market they can do this and they can sort of like using snipers they can take out people on the streets of moscow from

a distance and it's relatively hard to fight against because you could say but also people will use the euro but the europeans. do the secondary sanctions so it's really quite hard to fight against and if you take countries like turkey they're doing the same thing they're not happy with turkish policy so they're sanctioning individuals in particular this is this is but this is all very unilateral here isn't it just an old not only people on the streets of moscow but awful day redlich. yes because the law says the draft law says that you know not only the russian businessmen who have any relations with the russian government will protect but also their relatives this is ready since they're coming back to the turkish thing you know it's the first president went. to a country is playing sanctions against another nico member country and it is doing that the united states is doing that in the framework of the so-called magnitsky at

least you know these two. minister sort in mind sort of the interior and double whammy good of the justice they are basically sanctions they are at that in the framework of that needs to be asked why because of that or that the parson from the united states who basically has been living in turkey for twenty or twenty three years who hasn't been doing anything in the united states but if you tell me if it's about freedom of religion i'm sore and i don't mean i've you know. absolutely agree with diem it has nothing to do about freedom of conscience and religion here it's really about changing the behavior of the ones regime this is a lot about iran and it's a lot about syria and then and russia in the interesting thing is that the european union they will they will buckle and they will take a knee the turks are not going to take a knee and we're going to find this out fast and hard in november because they're not going to respect the sanctions imposed upon them by the united states visa v.

iran go ahead alex. yeah i think i think that the united states and the e.u. are going to be very surprised to see a very strong air go on a very determined air they want to not buckle and what we saw in turkey last week and we discussed this peter what we saw in turkey was a turkey that is exploring its options we saw there going to the brics meeting we saw china and russia and all the brics members very happy to have turkey on board and we're seeing turkey now even examining even examining it considering its nato membership and this is huge is the geo political earthquake to see turkey it's like greggs it shifted it's like my friends it it's a brags that here it is flirting right now it's the in the bazaar right now because i don't see them leaving nato any time soon but it's planting the seed we have options we have friends that's already been excluded from the united states

weapons program i mean it's serious you know that rhetoric between turkey and the you was all fully in the last few months so basically all of this adventure in the me there was that mr obama stopped it you know when he basically support the insurgents against the syrian government it backfired terribly because what did the united states want to do from their point of view of the interests of the united states they wanted to take a small regime which was basically not anti-american but which had a broad history syrian regime what was their net result they lost a march more important ally turkey in the process and they failed to all of the syrian regime but i just want to return very quickly to this very important detail about the magnitsky act let us remind our listeners and all of us what it came from you know in two thousand and twelve the united states supported a rogue businessman bill browder. you know he's a lawyer

a dyed in the russian prison and brawled it turned it again. there's a even dole there is an excellent documentary. going out on the internet on you tube but you have to look for it because browder and his people having it taken down left in just a few words you know bro they came to russia in the nineteen ninety s. with four to six meters is money he left russia in two thousand and five with two billion you know he you know paid taxes on the well paul matter for what is now being investigated for known play in texas on that and wallace which out von thought wasn't all of them won't that bill brought about by bill browder shared his u.s. citizenship. so now we have. facing a possible sentence of three hundred years and broadly shared a lot more of them that. i'm not a careful here you know that it's stick with the turkish theme here because i think you know i brought up with alex here this is like

a looming briggs it i mean everyone is a very difficult person to work with the ladies but he's certainly sending very strong signals that he's not happy with the status quo most he has. ever ok to be part of the european union he's beginning to see as up he almost got into a shooting war with russia we should forget about eighteen months ago they patched this one over very nicely mr putin forgave him for god. but the problem is if you look at russian policy russian economic policy russia has been able to defy the empire because they have been had they've had a very careful and very conservative domestic policy turkey has not the leader is forming like a rock. turkish business is very heavily indebted they have to refinance huge amount but there are sharp sions aren't there not well i mean i would be a good guys and i would be

a good reason to join briggs when it you would have access to international. it is not provide the kind of finance that turkey needs right now fires trying to provide state state finance they do not provide much private finance we member the r. and b. it's still not convertible the banks are scared to death of the american so they will not provide any support to any sanction the entity chinese banks they can't because they don't have a convertible currency yet but they have a whole lot of dollars go ahead but i don't think they want the chinese girl and the problem china is not very happy with the united states know that not only turkey is not a process yes you know why samoa process has just been paused import tariffs on two hundred billion dollars of all sorts of chinese imports to the states china responded by a much smaller strike and tell me now who is hampering creek trade here let me hold

c g m p and you know the dollar was for just one year ago he said this we must promote trade and investment lieberman is asian and precipitation through open up and say no to protectionism and of course this is exactly the rhetoric that the united states has been using against other countries for fifty years at least right now in the region where the reason we're waiting for the development of an alternative global financial system and because we want it we see it right around the corner the problem is this is a decade long process on this lawmakers a lot of time and i mean global combiner these are priced in dollars most of global capital flows from dollars so china can begin to replace leaders but they've got to do it in their own they're not in the now excuse me and we've been we've already gotten a lot of examples here how the sanction warfare works but you know when the primary hedge i'm on with the mighty dollar you started tag and i seen too many people at

the same time yes then you know our politics is always about odd bedfellows ok you're going to have these odd bedfellows beginning to work together and this is going to be at the exclusion of the united states alex go ahead. yeah especially when you attack nice leaders like you're the one and we can't forget that after the coup the failed coup aired a lot made sure that he purged the military of all its power and he solidified his power and much like trump in the u.s. air to want it has has a base in the middle of turkey incites turkey that's very very loyal to him and no matter how bad the situation can get in turkey or don't want can always turn to his base and he can make sure that he's going to stay in power and that's the problem that the u.s. sent taconite leaders that are very powerful that have a very strong base that will support them through thick and through thin well i

think it's very important that magnitsky act was used against turkey because what so what is it about the makings kick it is against western values people are included in that blacklist without them even knowing how many times yeah without a trial if you know it's just an hour of that then you work time for the washington post write some to back up all the spirit right and until now these were russian started by this this now these are turks to morrow maybe chinese this will have you have a coalition against these kind of policy from the united states which is basically defending western where we all support it i think we can all agree is that the united states is going to eventually create a coalition of countries which are simply too uncomfortable with the system which has been shown to be very very dangerous to them and at some point the are going to begin to coalesce around china which is the elephant in the elevator now this is something that trump understood and trump was very much desirous of

pulling china pulling russia away from china when we discussed this so many times i think of worst i think the first test here general we're almost out of time the first test is going to be in november what country. we're going to have a war on washington when it comes to iran's oil experts we are exports we already know that turkey is not going to honor it that's going to be is not in the is not going to do it china certainly is not so that you know this is going to be a very interesting litmus test at the same time we have a lot of hot and cold rhetoric coming out of. the white house when it comes to around so that will be a developing story right gentlemen to jump in here that's all the time we have for this part of our program many thanks to our guests in moscow and in cyprus this is the end of our broadcast segments stay with us for the extended version on our you tube channel see you next time and remember crosstalk.

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was. as the deadline for the first round of u.s. sanctions against iran approaches the european union triggers measures to protect business is working with. also to come this hour an hour to revisit orphans reunited with their family she is after the children were taken from russia to iraq by their radicalized parents who went to join islamic state we speak to their relatives i remember when the film crew arrived and they showed me the footage i could not believe it i could not believe that it was possible that my girls could come back home she doesn't let me go anywhere also to donald trump again outlines plans to create a military force in space so the pentagon appears less than enthusiastic about a possible star wars program or indeed about some of his other plans for the

military and warned of deadly chemicals one year later cases and seize the u.s. army overexposure to a toxic substance while working at an american military base in germany. but i welcome you watching us international now our top story this afternoon the european union is fighting against u.s. sanctions that target iran. being imposed after president donald trump scrapped the nuclear deal with iran as the deadline for the first round of peanut of measures does approach the u.s. and forcing special legislation in a bid to protect its business is working with iran's let's get more details now from averting correspondent peter all of a good afternoon again pater but we do know don't we that the u.s. and the you are longstanding allies so many people are asking why are they so out

of sync with each other on this issue well this particular issue all over the u.s. is decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal has been the thorniest of issues between brussels and washington we heard an almost tearful federica mockery need when she was describing her well how much she didn't agree with what donald trump had to do when the decision was made earlier this year she said it had been the result of years and years of diplomatic work to get to this point and donald trump as well dismissed it all away so what we are going to see is on tuesday the first round of u.s. sanctions against iran will start to come back into play now these will revolve around. restrictions on dealing with the u.s. dollar also restrictions on dealings on the metals markets the global's metals markets including precious metals well this is resulted in a statement from the high representative for european foreign affairs federica mockery backed up by the foreign ministers of the united kingdom germany and france

and they've given a resounding no to the u.s. decision we are determined to protect european economic our preterist engaged in legitimate business with iran this is why european union's updated blocking statute enters into force under seven of august to protect e.u. companies doing legitimate business but he ran from the mpact of u.s. extraterritorial sanctions. so what is the blocking statute well it's a piece of legislation it was first drawn up back in one thousand nine hundred six it was originally designed to get around a blockade of cuba it was significantly really written earlier this year though it does specifically to deal with u.s. sanctions against iran ultimately what it means is the european companies can disregard sanctions by foreign nations namely the united states in this case and also the rulings of courts in foreign countries will have no bearing on e.u.

companies but how that's put into practice we still don't know how that will will take any form what we do know though is that this news is being welcomed in tehran . to the entire world has shown it disagrees with the u.s. policies against iran talk to anyone anywhere in the world and they will tell you that netanyahu trump and been summoned are isolated not iran but that decision by donald trump to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal it's proving to be a real tough issue between washington and brussels and it's one that doesn't show any sign of going away because all those these sanctions are set to come in on tuesday we're expecting more perhaps even much harsher sanctions to come in by the end of twenty eighteen yes seventy going to rumble on as in that piece that was all over there for us in berkeley. it. has been one year since we first

reported on russian speaking children found in an orphanage in iraq following the brutal military operation there against islamic state after the reporter said we launched a campaign to to find relatives of those children and several people did reach out to us saying that they recognized some of them this allowed those orphans to reunite with their families years after their parents left with them to join i saw our correspondent medina courtin never spoke to those families to find out whether they've managed to move on after the tragic experience. so.

a year ago two small sisters high g.'s and five t.-mo were brought back to their grandparents who at the time lost all hope of africa seeing them again they say they feel safe here and this house the sister salue can behave like any other child of their age despite their traumatic experience their playground is now the two rooms upstairs that were once home for their parents their grandfather on of our hasn't changed a thing since they left and now the girls play surrounded by things that once belonged to that if a black couple were while the oldest sister is open and active fight scene is quite close to often seeking the confort of her grandfather. she doesn't let me go anywhere she says her dad also left in the morning and never came back in the evening she tells me how the gas station where he worked was. tells me how the plane has arrived and then let. anybody to. unbar

often speaks about the day in august twenty seventeen when they discovered their beloved granddaughter source in my life more than what i thought. in may twenty fifteen both of fund our son secretly left russia to join i so his al distraught took his wife and two young daughters and never revealed his true intentions. that it's actually is what about a week off today. i received a message from my son saying they are in turkey i replied what do you mean in turkey instantly i understood everything and felt terrible this sort of thing happened a lot of the time a lot of young people left some went to join militant groups others went to iraq or syria it's not. often called his father but the last time he got in touch was when

the fierce fighting began in moscow a short time after he and his wife were killed in a drone strike leaving her and all alone weeks later they turned up in an orphanage in baghdad spirit and traumatized they were among the group of children who could speak russian args he reported from that orphanage the stories and the children were recognized. yes i remember when the film crew arrived and they showed me the footage i could not believe it i could not believe that it was possible that my girls could come back home. despite the joyous the long awaited reunion this past year has been difficult for the family of our sas it's only now that some of the girls fear is being left behind i do you just keep their visa remembers how difficult and dangerous it was to go to get water so when they arrive it's a they were always thirsty thank drank like five liters of water

a day only in these past two weeks has not stopped and they no longer wake up at night wanting to drink there are hundreds of families across russia's north caucuses just like and ours searching for grandchildren mainly fear they will never see them again. if there is anything one message one sign that they are alive you have to grab it run around fake ask for help there are good people in the world. i do not question artie reporting from russia's republic of dagestan and that fact was the first in a series of reports of the fate of the russian citizens who fled with their families to join i so because throughout the wait will bring more stories to on how the return of these are adapting to life back at home.

and it isn't just iraq where families of foreign fighters have ended up stranded either in syria there are still refugee camps hosing versions of wives and children whose fight remains ok. i was so afraid of islamic state because they could have executed me if i try to skate so i had no other option but to stank.