the u.s. national security advisor. the british prime minister attempts to.

come into the news. in the past thirty minutes the us national security advisor john bolton has announced that america is leaving the optional protocol on dispute resolution to the vienna convention. palestinians washington at the hague. expecting more international agreements as well. we will commence a review of all international agreements that may still expose the united states to purported binding jurisdiction dispute resolution in the international court of justice the united states will not sit idly by as baseless politicized claims are

brought against is not the only withdrawal either today the us secretary of state has announced that the country is pulling out of the so-called friendship treaty with iran which was struck back in one thousand nine hundred five it's off to the un's highest court awarded washington to lift some of its sanctions on tehran a move which my pompei it says is a result of iranian propaganda. iran seeks to challenge the united states' decision to cease participation in the iran nuclear deal and to reimpose the sanctions that were lifted as a part of that deal or as attempt to interfere with the sovereign rights of the united states to take a lawful actions necessary to protect our national security. and iran is abusing that i suggest for political and propaganda purposes well that came after the ruling by the i.c.j. the international court of justice which ruled that the usa must lift some of the sanctions that are imposed on iran this year when it announced its withdrawal from

the iranian nuclear accord they include allowing items such as medicines and medical aid as well as equipment needed for the safety of the civil aviation authority in iran that judgment also ruled that that treaty that was formed by the u.s. and iran back in one thousand nine hundred eighty five had been violated something iran had pressed the i.c.j. to rule on now this is not the first time that the usa has dismissed an international court or an international body and not abided by its ruling back in june of this year we know that the u.s. withdrew from the human rights council calling it a cesspool of political bias it was also an attack by donald trump in september so last month on the international criminal courts over a possible action that could be taken against americans who are alleged to have committed war crimes in afghanistan as far as america is concerned the i.c.c.

has no jurisdiction no legitimacy and no authority. the i.c.c. playing near universal jurisdiction over the citizens of every country. violating all principles of justice fairness and due process whether ron had welcomed that ruling today saying that that ruling showed that the u.s. sanctions were cruel and illegal against the people and the citizens of iran but it doesn't seem like the ruling is going to change the opinion of the united states we know that they have been planning to announce new sanctions next summer. it's against iran and it seems like that those new sanctions will go ahead despite that ruling by the i.c.j. the question now many people are asking is who will keep the u.s. in check it seems that the i.c.j. simply cannot. video agency has been asking people in tehran what they think about

the international court ruling on lifting some of the iran sanctions. doing on the world knows that the u.s. says while it did the war they don't have an all of their own words they signed the nuclear deal and now they've changed their mind even those problems with our country accepted that this act is a legal donald trump it's crazy really crazy what is the same when he doesn't understand what he's saying. officials and even civilians say we should stand up against america's excessive. this ruling will not please mr trump and his friends and we will see their reaction but it will be futile that in the us against human rights the he grew and is completely sound food medicine old go towards people slowly hoods they should never have to leave them. but let's return to what we open the program where them that's the national security adviser's notice that the u.s. is pulling out of the convention the balance of the vienna convention which could

see the united states soon at the hague what it boils down to is the palestinians raising a complaint about the united states moving its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem going to talk about that now with daniel mcadams the rumpel peace institute either . the u.s. withdrawing from this element of the convention what do you make of john bolton's announcement on this they doing the right thing is it time that organization was shook up. well you know you this is the another example of the united states talking about the rules based democratic order and expecting everyone else to follow it but when it comes time for the united states to follow what you know they just simply change the rules and this is the case with the pulling out of this and also with the this your second story with iran international court of justice ruling it's really at the very least it looks very bad for the united states to be unilaterally pulling out of institutions such as this but it doesn't seem like it's going to be the only one either there's also. any kind of agreement that the united

states has previously signed up to will thinks its policy in the international arena if it doesn't go america's way not just rip it up and start again. indeed it looks very bad enough i'm certainly not a fan of the united states being governed by world bodies unaccountable world bodies but the issue with the with the palestine issue and also with the iran issue is that the iran specifically you know we signed this agreement in one hundred fifty five agreed to be adjudicated by the international court of justice and then when they rule against the united states we say ok we're going to take our toys and go home it doesn't look good it sets a bad precedent in it also makes the united states to look look look like someone you can't do business with overseas the idea of these particular mechanisms being in place was so that countries that aren't as big powerful and rich as the united states among others do have some kind of recourse to justice what are the ramifications for those countries. well i think in the case of iran you know this this this decision was a it was sets a precedent in it also is just

a preliminary injunction so there may be further rulings that guinn's the u.s. regardless of the fact that the u.s. has taken its tours and gone home so what i think it will do is in bold in countries that are on the fence specifically on the iran issue will embolden them to start challenging the sanctions that will cohen to place in november because i think they feel that they have the international community on their side. now tearing up agreements or memberships or previous deals is pretty much the modus operandi of the trump administration what do you think that that government's goal particularly about these international mechanisms is it because there's a fear that they'll actually there's a lot coming its way there are a lot of complaints coming its way that it can defend. well in the case of iran in turning up the nuclear deal it's simply the fact that president trump has surrounded themselves with neo cons who have it in for iran and they don't dare. they can't imagine seeing a situation where iran comes out with

a peaceful agreement and starts doing things that normal nations do like trading with others they can't stand that so that the premise upon which the united states pulled out from the iran nuclear deal is so flimsy it's laughable it's ridiculous so it's it's the neo cons who have it in for iran they want a war no matter what president trump seems incapable of understanding or perhaps he doesn't care or perhaps he's with them we don't know but they certainly are ruling the roost right now the united states is only one country but where does this leave bodies like the u.n. and its various agencies if the u.s. just up sticks and disappears doesn't it new to them. well the u.s. wants to have it both ways the u.s. of course loves the rulings when they go the u.s. way they love for nikki haley to be able to to raise her hand in object to any ruling that goes against america's allies or america's friends particularly places like israel that find themselves voted down quite often for their behavior toward palestinians the u.s. loves these organizations when they go the u.s.

this way and when they don't go the u.s. this way they get up and walk out of the room so it again it's just not a good look for the u.s. we've got our washington correspondent on this a bit later she's checking out reaction there for now though from the rumpole peace institute done in mcadam's really appreciate your time this evening. now experts ruling conservative parties wrapped up its annual conference and despite speeches of unity the prime minister's positions on the further scrutiny from party members just moments before theresa may was due to give her keynote speech she was dealt yet another blow with a letter of no confidence not that it seems to have dampened her spirit. to reason it was busting some moves to dancing. we complain about this when we change the music so i'm sure she was in time anyway that was probably. her critics

who mocked her dolls moves while she was on call in africa in august you probably remember these things on a situation reports on the conservative party conference. certainly curious political times here in the u.k. as we speak and this annual conservative party conference has wrapped up to quite a bit of drama despite british prime minister theresa may putting up a show of keeping up appearances including with that quirky dance to dancing queen despite a speech that was really seen as make or break for her because of course so much of the speech was dedicated to theresa may trying to show that she has things under control especially when it comes to brag that having essentially now standing at a point of a potential no deal brags that having so no lots of division inside the u.k. and of course essentially having created basically a civil war inside her own country may was trying to show that she can still fix

things however before her speech she was dealt quite a shock blow when a letter of no confidence has been sent by a tory m.p. going public with him essentially calling for her to go let's see what that letter said. the comes a point the loyalty is not the right way forward we need a strong leader someone who believes and brags that and someone to deliver what will the electorate voted for the prime minister seems incapable of doing this well at fifteen percent of tory m.p.'s or forty people would have to send in similar letters for any such thing to be considered however this still of course added fuel to the fire especially given that the earlier we saw to reserve may's our former defiant foreign secretary boris johnson takes to the stage as well and essentially trashing her approach to bracks said amidst standing ovations and earlier in september a leaked tory party memo had suggested that theresa may would be forced to step

down as soon as may twenty ninth and even provided a list of possible contenders so what with all of this discontent going on inside her own party at these quite uncertain times about how things will move forward there's a big question of whether or not it's really the time for humorous down says well in her speech to conference prime minister may insisted that she will see out her so-called checkers plan on bracks it rebuffed the idea of a second referendum she also outlined a new strategy for battling cancer and said that a fuel jeanty freeze will be part of the government's next budget euro m.p. gerard batten from the u.k. independence party though things to reason may's words won't mean action. i listened to the speech today. and it's what she does best really which is a lot of rhetoric foreign words which don't really amount to anything certainly don't translate into actions i think she's going to carry on on the same course which is to in effect completely ineffectually negotiate with the she was

a reminder up until the day of the referendum and then after the referendum she gets intrusted with the most important job in british politics you know for the last two generations which is to get us out of the use the word why would you believe anything she says you can only judge your own results and so far there haven't been any result she talks about seeking respect from the e.u. that's the other thing well why would they respect you if you're not actually telling them what it is that you intend to do and you keep on asking how do we leave can we have these come have a little bit respect somebody like that. donald trump has claimed that the saudi monarch wouldn't last two weeks if it wasn't for the u.s. military the u.s. president's fiery assessment came in a campaign rally in the state of mississippi but he didn't give any specifics about the conversation that he'd had with the saudi king which he was referencing. we project saudi arabia would you say the rich. and i love the king salmon but is it

good. well protecting you you might not be there for two weeks without you have to pay for your village well it seems like he's implicitly calling on saudi arabia to pay its own defense expenses and this isn't even the first time he's done this he's asked the same of japan and south korea both of which are nato allies but between the arms deals and pulling out of the iran deal it's clear that the u.s. considers saudi arabia a major ally and if you remember trumps a first foreign trip was to saudi arabia about a year ago but now trump's latest comments show that there could be some growing contention between the two on top of that trump's been trying to get saudi arabia one of the leading opec countries and the rest of opec to lower gas prices and terms no fan of opec and he made that pretty clear at the u.n. let's quickly check out what he had to say opec. and opec nations are as usual ripping off the rest of the world we defended many of these nations

for nothing. and then they take advantage of us by giving us high oil prices not good but some have said that this is trump's way of securing his party's control in congress rather than out of genuine concern over gas prices now his intentions have not been yet made clear but i wouldn't hold my breath. donald trump's arm twisting it is possible influence on oil prices it's a topic president vladimir putin's been addressing this wednesday speaking at a major energy forum in moscow he suggested in no uncertain terms that the american president's got no one but himself to blame for the recent spike in oil prices. but it was a good we had a very nice meeting with the american president in helsinki if we had touched on the subject of oil price and influence that i would have told him if you want to find the main culprit for the oil price hike don't you just have to take a look in the mirror which it's true geopolitics do play a role in oil price hikes that's a fact well you just heard some direct comments that the president made earlier

today but the global energy market or who is to blame for the current high oil prices or not beyond the president was asked to comment on he also gave quite a strong a remark on the script all case the president lambasted the former double agent as trader and also added that the whole case has been blown out of proportion i was saying that the sooner the media noise around the screwball case and the better systems regarding the script our case this spy scandal is being off sufficiently kindled i've seen some media outlets go as far as calling mr script probably human rights activist in france he's just a spy a traitor. he's scum that's what really is and the whole information campaign has been launched surrounding this case i think it will come to an end one day and i hope so and the sooner the better while the russian president has been on the move

this wednesday after attending an international forum in moscow he is expected here in st petersburg to hold talks with the austrian chance to love it's going to be there a horse a meeting in a year both leaders are expected to try to point out pressing international issues including again the our global energy market the situation in syria so we'll see what comes out of this meeting. in a historic move north and south korean soldiers have begun removing landmines from that the militarized zone which is separate to the two nations for more than half a century the buffer zone runs for two hundred forty eight can i. emitters and was created at the end of the korean conflict in one nine hundred fifty three it's believed these were about to show you now are some of the first pictures of the operation in action around two million mines are thought to be scattered there between the border fences which are guarded by hundreds of thousands of troops the agreement to clear the mines and destroy guard posts was agreed last month after the two leaders met in pyongyang during that summit north korea agreed to demolish

its nuclear facilities and test sites and accepted international inspections both nations agreed to eliminate so-called war dangers and set up a peace shared border the leaders pledge to connect railways and roads between the two countries and help families divided by the korean war to meet once again they also vowed to make a joint bid for the twenty thirty two summer olympics. first it was the presidential election and that alleged assault on american democracy now russian trolls are up to something even more sinister they've had a galaxy not so far far away apparently targeting hollywood in the star wars franchise he's in you for trying to put the details. hey america they stole your election hey britain they stole your dream of a united europe democracy will never be the same because of russian memes thralls boughts well surely there is something still sacred in western culture are

off limits to the russians. oh no the kremlin folks even got their hands on star wars russian trolls weaponized star wars criticism as an instrument for information warfare with the purpose of pushing for political change this was from a real study by a brave jet i call or i mean who claims there's been a force that was fighting to make the last jet i fail wow thirty seven pages remember how the movie got booed at when those need fairness couldn't forgive the director for spoiler alert killing luke skywalker and forgive him for going against all the tropes so dearly cherished by the fandom remember how the

star wars lovers army even campaign to fund a remake well now you know who did it the sits sorry the russians have a great disturbance in the force as is millions of voices suddenly cried out into the sun his sons to prove it the guy behind the research analyzed almost a thousand online messages for the director and his result was more than half of the hate tweets came from trolls some of them were russian. the director didn't just pay attention he shared the link to the study with his twitter followers looking forward to reading it but what the top line describes is consistent with my experience online well some vans got even more disgruntled when they said they found their own tweets in the research it was a bad movie highly unlikely that it was

a dry run for bots to practice we hated this film too loved rolled one but were totally underwhelmed by the last. so much so that my oldest questioned if it is worth going to the cinema to see any more disney star was solid did nothing to make me change my mind. it wasn't disney not even the director it was the damn rusedski's. next fighting fake news that's what we've heard from web search giant google right from the moment the first false report sneaks in they have to take the news problem very very seriously we have to think about what we can do there we have very clear policies in place with the just that some of our policies were moving really really fast with what we can control but now the spotlight is turned on to google the allegedly over a blunder of its own making an investigation by britain's times newspapers uncovered the search giant allowed fake websites to buy advertising space under

terms like fake credit card the works of google offer the service for approximately one pound a click or reportedly even came up with further suggestions offering to buy similar search terms to boost views many see it as a breach of the company's core values. we value honesty and fairness so we don't allow the promotion of products or services that are designed to enable dishonest behavior google's been quick to respond claiming that more than three billion so-called bad ads were blocked last year alone technology consultant bill muse says the greatest effort is focused on the most profitable areas though and the fact checking isn't top of the list i think it's notable that. we're looking at areas where they generate the most money for their own services and that is in the targeting of they have put a lot of resources into making the algorithms far more sophisticated where they have lacked sophistication such as in the identification of insight for materials

inappropriate materials and sort of some of the fraudulent activity that we're looking at today those are areas which aren't actually front and center in terms of their ad business and therefore there's been less resource put into these areas in terms of making the algorithms more sophisticated what we need to see is google and facebook and others stepping up and actually improving those algorithms otherwise they're going to face some fairly draconian regulation. china is playing a more important role in the world today than the united states and that's what's come from a recent poll conducted by the washington based think tank the pew research center it also shows that the chinese leader is more trusted to globally than as american counterpart. what gets in donald trump obsessive his image sure but what else diana has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight.

election i've done a lot of this is where china china's market distortions china china china sea route china talking about china for and he has good reason to be fixated the rise of china is showing no signs of stopping with a nation poised to overtake america as the next world superpower polls conducted across twenty five countries show widespread recognition that china is the emerging power with the might to more than rival uncle sam to china or to take the us so. we should be the lone one i think china will overtake the us china's go a good chance of doing that they were above everybody else people underestimate him and we actually mean the most powerful country now it's certainly the united states but i think china will definitely surpass that in the future but here's the thing china may well become the most powerful in economic terms the people not so keen on beijing taking the reins as the globe's moral compass i think the u.s.

is still the best option is the world voice of reason but if you use us would you be in the heart of those scary. i lean more towards the usa for their democratic system and human rights so i don't think we're going to cut into that story to bring you a live event austria's chanceless about you could see is in some petersburg for a meeting with the two leaders earlier opened an exhibition of the iconic homotopic museum and then sat down for talks that are now giving a media conference on the result of those let's go there live so we can listen in to what the two leaders have to say that's. what i was. pretty funny guy. well the moment before the two leaders sit down this is what's pretty much par for the course when you get these kind of leaders' meetings so any deals that may have been discussed i don't know what they are yet and what they might cover but what

we'll have there is the delegate from the two nations signing the documents and then swapping them over don't know how many of these there are going to be and once they're done we'll hear from the two leaders themselves about the results of their talks this is the fourth time that the austrian chancellor as met with the proof in the to get on very well and what is often described as austria being the bridge between russia and also the sometimes not so friendly sounding brussels when they've had sharp words against russia is often seen as the go between in order to be able to make more smooth progress of business between the two both the e.u. and russia so now the signings have been done the two leaders are sitting down and hopefully we'll hear from them as they talk to a sample delegates and maybe reporters in some petersburg. was the right word to visit it about their own. blood.

when you. federal chancellor ladies and gentlemen we're happy to have the support unit to see you mr kurtz here in st petersburg. this is his second visit. and our fourth meeting this year. we have intensive contacts on the highest political level which creates the atmosphere of friendship either a business like atmosphere or for the development of all areas of our cooperation together with most accords we have just had bilateral talks. that were very constructive and useful. before that. as you may have seen we took part in the opening ceremony of the exhibition in st petersburg titled

imperial capitals st petersburg and vienna masterpieces of museum collections our contacts and the humanitarian sphere are one of the bases of our cooperation. including just as important as our war context in other areas we have focused on the economic cooperation during our talks also and russia are reliable partners despite difficult conditions in the global economy and russian austrian trade and investment ties are on the rise last year trade increased by forty percent it increased up to four point two one billion dollars and over january to july this year it increased almost two fold austria is now the highers growing country to receive russian expos within the e.u. and russia takes the second place as investors into austria and the total

of. russia's investment into the austrian economy is over thirty one billion dollars and the reverse and mental as a best friend is about six million dollars. we are implementing joint projects in various areas. the russian officer and business council has been very productive we have a joint commission on the konami corporation which took place recently session of which took place recently in may the austrian zelig ation was one of the largest delegations on the forum. i'd like to know the many year cooperation between russia and austria in the energy area. in the energy is fear we have been providing energy resources to as through a reliably and we have had transit over austria and.