i. will trump again lashes down to these french counterpart in the new micron he wants greater independence from washington. for me the ceasefire deal reached yesterday combined with the long term deal with the mass is a surrender to terrorism israeli defense minister resigned just a day after palestine militant groups announce a cease fire in an attempt to stop an escalating conflict that's claimed eight lives in twenty four hours. cancer patients in or around find it increasingly difficult to get their hands on life saving medication as washington's reimposed sanctioned by. footage comes to light of

a ukrainian summer camp where children are treated like young soldiers and trained by far right activists to fight russian threats. good evening and welcome this is r.t. and tonight. seems the burgeoning bromance between donald trump and emanuel micron these a thing of the past been a shock cooling in relations with the french president talking of putting distance between europe and washington while trump has taken his favorite platform twitter to lash out at his counterpart has the story. let's take a look at some of those international headlines now the bromance is over this hour in the bromance of the saying that the friendship is come to an end that's what's being discussed in the international paper here in france if you take a. look here this is le parisien it's basically saying that trump is making fun of

mark corn and that's something that's being discussed across the papers talking about those tweets which attacked french wine which attacked much popularity it's have a look at those tweets that trump made and say exactly what he said but it was germany and world wars one and two how did that work out for france they were starting to learn german in paris before the u.s. came along pay for nato not france makes it very hard for the u.s. to sell its wines into france and charges big tariffs not fair must change the problem is that emanuel suffers from a very low approval rating in france twenty six percent an unemployment rate of almost ten percent make france great again well for so long the two presidents had been known as having this beautiful romance that started here in paris just around a year and a half ago hugs and kisses but it's all gone sour as

a result of this interview that matt korn gave. the that can defend itself without depending only on the united states in the way that exhibits greater sovereignty much as you can say well it's not the first time that much corn has spoken out against trump's policies and being in stark disagreement with them remember when trump pulled out of the paris climate accord this is what mcconnell had to say back then. i considered a mistake for the u.s. and its people and a mistake for the future of our planet then of course who could forget the fact that trump pulled out of the uranium new clear accord something that really riled president might call on if it is a new one it was a proposals that after the americans rooftop of the agreement stop has been seen as a catastrophe oil. well for the most part it seems that trump has let all of. those

criticisms slide but not this one when it comes to the creation of an army well why is that will some experts are suggesting it comes down to one thing and one thing only money the idea that if a new european army was created that could mean less cash in the pockets of the usa and donald trump as a businessman the idea of losing money is a kin to a capital offense he may also be unhappy that might call could incite others to join this revolt already we know that the german chancellor angela merkel has said she is fully behind this idea so this idea of castigating michael and twitter could be just serving another purpose of trying to keep the troops in order geopolitical expert or to man believe that michael has been played by trump. boehner trent before to come to paris was. shocked and angry but he start of his

negotiating tactic him a strong statements in order to make the spark notes ticket different position on each works on the following day the storm just repeats what the americans once from europe money say we europeans sure are spending more we've been made to for our security sigs actually work for the united states once it's simply to you that french president who was not strong enough to keep his own position. france isn't the only you have the weight taken to task by washington the us ambassador to brussels is even threatening to quote stop russia's north stream to gas pipeline to germany. we have not deployed the full set of tools yet that could significantly undermine if not outright stop the project. gordon songlines warning to berlin comes as anglo american points out europe needs russian gas whether america likes it or not. whether the gas we consume comes through the north stream

or through grain or the turks stream the source is one and the same russia and europe will not be able to make itself independent from russian gas but what it can do is diversify its sources. we spoke to ike a harmer publisher of the virtue of back to business news letter he says there are economic reasons behind germany's push for russian gas. the american guests already a source with the l.a.p.d. liquid natural gas is far expensive and there is really little need any excuse given the need we met for it we have got of the natural gas transported here by our pipelines to germany or euro russia only i could do if they could postpone it but they could never stop it the americans are quite charming with this they say well you know of course of course so that all those who oppose this but

you saw the gas line but if you do it it's your whole you don't have to i mean it is natural then we don't want it and washington is ramping up the threat so in official visit to e.u. member hungry the u.s. energy secretary warned to europe of the dangers the fusing russian gas federation . has historically use energy. as a coercive weapon we should no longer allow the kremlin to use energy as a weapon. the solution is a diversity of suppliers but there must be a path for that supply. even with the dependency on russia it is not a problem because russia has never in history not for it so it's our relations it's correct so where should the theory come from if it is allowed it is about

business the u.s. . increasing or expanding their natural gas industry and therefore they want to. they have not been don't know where to where to exploit the gas. israel's defense minister has quit slamming his country's response to palestinian attacks as week monday israeli fighter jets struck palestinian targets that's after militants in gaza are those rockets and mortar shells at the door lieberman's resignation comes on reports of a defacto cease fire between palestinian armed groups and israel people ended the truce a surrender. for me the cease fire deal reached yesterday combined with the long term deal with a mass is a surrender to terrorism there's no other word no other meaning but surrender to terrorism. we all residents of an israeli town on the border with gaza strongly oppose a ceasefire with

a mass and claim that the government is caving in to militant violence heavy cross border fire has killed one literally and seven palestinians. the. i was the the. spinouts the palestinian political analyst nor odor good to have you all know we've heard about the resignation of the defense minister of israel what does lieberman's departure mean for palestine. well for palestine it doesn't really mean much except the fact that israeli political dynamics might change a little bit while the political actors decide or weigh in on whether there will be

elections are not the fact is that avigdor lieberman quit because he didn't think that enough palestinian blood was shed and that's the remember the latest round of escalation started because of a botched israeli undercover operation three kilometers deep inside gaza that's how the escalation started with the israeli forces killing seven palestinians even though how massed on all the other groups in gaza had. committed to a cease fire and had restored calm for a few days by that time so for palestinians one heart is gone another one will probably common and israeli politicians seem to be competing who can be the most brutal against them who can reach a peace deal of course have been cease fires in the past haven't really gone anywhere do you think this one is likely to be any different. i think this one will

has a chance of being different there are political calculations here that calculus is different how mass is interested in egypt fully supports the ceasefire it worked very hard to restore it the palestinian authority as well president mahmoud abbas is keen on making sure that this cease fire holds and that palestinians in gaza don't have to suffer any more than they already have suffered under twelve years of siege and three wars launched by israel but i think what's key here from the palestinian side at the very least is whether this truce will help contribute to achieving palestinian reconciliation which is really the best way for palestinians to protect it and to build on it something that is politically viable it doesn't seem like netanyahu is interested in an escalation for different reasons and those might change with elections we'll have to wait and see but for palestinians it is

definitely in their interest to maintain this calm and restore the minimum the bare minimum of normalcy to life in gaza if we can call it that don't choose there the u.n. security council hold an emergency meeting about this conflict the israeli and palestinian representatives the. log heads i think it's fair to say let's just listen to some of what was said. security council must only condemn hamas we condemn in the strongest possible terms this aggression by israel there is no such a thing both sides. but that's in the fires result of this blockade which is immoral and illegal and it is inhumane and we will continue to take any measure no measure necessary to protect our people that this round of violence was created as a result of a botched. israeli military operation in the gaza strip so when you listen to the

two representatives there is not the problem all along that both sides see it is very black and white that is the other side entirely to blame does not suggest any sustainable deals are really a long way off. well i mean this this israeli government is not interested in a political deal a political arrangement with the palestinian side they want to maintain the status quo of occupation expanding settlements in the west bank devouring jerusalem in the meantime while keeping gaza under siege and under lockdown and then crying wolf when when skirmishes or violent confrontations erupt in the gaza strip it's very interesting for me to hear the israeli ambassador speak about the gaza as collation all of the victims except one of this round of escalation where palestinian all of the victims were inside gaza and not outside of the

gaza strip israel bombed a t.v. station it bombed residential buildings it leveled them to the ground those are acts that are acts of terror because they did terrorize two million palestinians the political climate of paralysis in the security council will only help to embolden this attitude because israel feels protected in shield that it will not face accountability in new york and so it can continue to exercise this brute force when it sees fit against a population under lockdown but there is no political horizon on the agenda of this israeli government much less now that elections might be in the horizon the current right wing government wants to see. the status quo continued it wants to continue receiving unfettered. american protection and to dodge accountability it does

not want to talk about ending the occupation doesn't want to talk about palestinian statehood it sure doesn't want to talk about stopping settlements so for now the political horizon is all but nonexistent but at least. we can. assure that at least there are the few days that are in the horizon will be without bloodshed hopefully in gaza i was speaking to palestinian political analyst nor oday nor thank you. the president of the iranian academy of medical sciences center powerfully worded appeal to the u.n. secretary general over the reimposition of u.s. sanctions it describes how the lives of many patients in iran are in dangerous sanctions of put of drug firms from working in the country we visited cancer treatment center in tehran. my husband is a cancer patient and we are worried about his medication and their costs

medications used to be available before but after the sanctions they have become more expensive and rarer and we are worried about the future and what will happen. on my blog this is the second round of my chemotherapy off to sanctions before my chemotherapy used to cost two hundred eleven euro but now with each round i need to pay four hundred and twenty two year zero and drugs cannot be found easily like before we have to search them in different pharmacies with every single one of them not having a specific kind of drug. i. know when they impose sanctions on our banks the money cannot be transferred easily to a foreign country in order to buy medication.

that we're not allowed to bring in many devices and some of them like components it's obvious that without these parts the devices simply won't work. we're going to do everything we can describe is iran hard as the british say to make to squeeze them until the pips squeak i. want to hear we have nine beds which are full every day in this health clinics with a sanctions just not able to respond to half a million patients. i can. associate professor of political science calling cavell believes that washington's ultimate goal is to bring down the iranian government at any price the. i would say it's going to. iraq . to all of its glory will it fall out of course people will be

harmed will the economic blockade the whole by the members of the no lose version the trouble. is that this will cause the really people to rise up and overthrow the government in iran so even though. the regime change is with us is seeking there is simply a euphemism because what he really wants to do is to bring there on the curve. with economic pressure and economic sanctions. the e.u. parliament has approved tougher rules on arms exports to or thora tarion regimes that's after releasing a report that cites a large number of european made weaponry ended up in arms of islamic state militants in syria and iraq i'm very glad that our report has been adopted it is

a strong signal for stricter e.u. arms export control we need to putin and both the e.u.'s military madness as well advanced scrupulous in the critique business of deaths by european weapons or the document penned by german and the peace have been alerting expresses shock over the volume of e.u. weaponry going to die and it is far more needed to be done to stop export licenses that might be used to supply terrorists adding that more effective methods must be found to stop the transfers ok let's bring in mike rather he's the coeditor of the online website b s news could speak to you as always mike. large amounts of you made weaponry going into the hands of terrorists is unbelievable to you and i suppose the obvious question is how is it happening. it's silly not unbelievable to us we've been hearing reports about this for years in fact a couple years ago we interviewed pharisee harvey the m.p. independent at p. and b.

for aleppo and he was shown as evidence of huge weapons caches that had been recovered by the syrian arab army that had originated in germany and other parts of europe in great britain and israel as well as the us of course. so although i welcome this report and any kind of restriction i think it comes to it's there is too little and way too late really because the damage has already been done we see the casualty figures in syria from the likes of isis and al qaeda affiliate groups who of be beneficiaries of these weapons transfers it actually all stems from the al you man a arms deal with between the u.k. and saudi arabia back in. in the eighty's this was done with actually regime time in london in power and one of the cabbie outs of that deal was that there would be no arms export and use a stick to get so there been no reason or no way to police where the weapons ended up so we were selling weapons and ammunition to to saudi arabia knowing full well

that they might end up in the in the arms of terrorists or in the hands of other repressive regimes and there was no way to police that anymore so the foreign office effectively green light green lit the fact that we were going to be arming. terrorist groups and killed including isis now carter even back then and that policy has continued to this day and obviously the the cat is the sort of get out of jail for the british government is that we were lawfully selling weapons to saudi arabia and what they'll say is unbeknownst to us they were then shipping those to various terrorist groups in the region so yeah it's not a surprise to me i've seen the evidence of of how many weapons have been recovered by the syrian arab army and this is being reported for years even r.t. of reports done this in the last few years so it shouldn't have been a surprise to any of the european parliament members but it seems to have been called the mall budvar of to. when there actually this will actually stop where the weapons flowing into his hands and al qaeda and i don't know but at least

acknowledge an answer for the first time in a long time i think the draft text of this report says that transfers to third parties including the united states should be refused if they continue to talk about end user to certificates perhaps the surprising thing for some people the mention of the u.s. specifically that's a pricey. no because once again the us has its own export regime an export license agreements there are probably far more lax the nose of the u.k. so if you want to circumvent european legislation in terms of arming isis then send the arms to the us they could send them to bulgaria and eventually they'll get. isis and other groups ostensibly responsibly fighting in this war on terror so yeah did this get lots of ways to circumvent this and so i think that the inclusion of the us in this restriction is probably a good idea do you think that the e.u. would have named the us if relations between the tell me so prickly at the moment. yeah possibly not obviously there is this lot's going on with that with it in that

relationship at the moment we have mack on. and and angela merkel calling for an e.u. military unit unification and actually calling it that but this is the call of an e.u. army that seems to have upset trump. i don't think that that is that part of the relationship will be affected because the e.u. military so unification that's been on the cards for twenty or thirty years now so i think that's going ahead despite bricks and gauche oceans on going whether that is becomes a threat tonight so or even means a night or will it will be unfit for purpose who knows but that seems to be going on proceeding ahead so yeah i think that. although it does appear that relations are beginning to sort of praise between europe and the u.s. i suspect that deep down in terms of arms trade and the global trade in weapons nothing will change really because it's such

a big money spinner for the business is not be a systems and you know raytheon and old companies in the u.s. so no no one in the u.k. government or the u.s. government is going to actually restrict that trade because it's such a big money spinner and obviously the the governments of those countries are responsible and do aid and facilitate weapons transfers across around the world so it's unlikely that will actually make much difference but at least it's been acknowledged a little bit like the at the pentagon acknowledging that their funds from usaid and all the ngo funding was ending up in the hands of al qaida which was really last week and again people have been talking about that for years better again it's nice to see it's officially acknowledged for once you've been in the throes of might rather elevator best news market to to speak. ukraine's far right freedom parties organized a summer camp for children which that's a bit more like a boot camp journalist from the associated press visited the site where children

live under strict rules and learn how to be soldiers but is it has more. now that's what i call a legit summer camp. oh you know the early morning wakeup calls. oh yes right by our. chance that kids will remember for the rest of their lives. was catching march. welcome to the temper of will summer camp and western ukraine it's pretty much a boot camp hidden in the forest the people who set it up are from the national socialist svoboda or freedom party so who can get enrolled officially it's for teens but a.p. journalists who went there say they saw children as young as eight here they're

being taught how to kill did just what is good you know they can still live that seems limitless nicole then that insists it but it used to know what i was doing he should post people fun things when one of them and that's who it is mostly. but not only do they get to learn how to take down those who adults are calling russian invaders the kids are also taught to stand up to what the instructors see as degrading trends in the west. of us this. should make you. see all the welcome you will feel. secure she will have but. what may seem as an ugly display of far right shaw the brainwashing appears to get

full support from the local administration well earlier this year kiev splashed some of its bug. on youth projects the goal is to prop up what they call a national patriotic education some of these projects are run by the stream far right. even the nato backed atlantic council think tank tried to raise international wariness with this article and indeed we didn't write that amnesty international's pointing out the issues more than just critical ukraine is sinking into a kill sort of uncontrolled violence posed by radical groups and the total impunity practically no one in the country can feel safe under these conditions and if you're wondering if any of this could actually spill beyond ukraine well just lately and f.b.i.

agents criminal complaint said ukrainian neo nazis were believed to have trained white supremacists in america just wait till some of these youngsters grow up. in january ukraine passed a law recognizing russia as an aggressor the state last week the vice prime minister said the country is trying to build a strong democracy where is the kremlin supposed populist nationalist movements journalist primadonna has been covering the ukraine conflict since it erupted four years ago believes that we may have reached a turning point i'm just shocked that it's finally been reported in the west the main associated press have gone in there obviously a syndication agency so obviously that you know their copy then has to be reported in other mediums i'm pleasantly surprised that you know outfits like the washington post notably have covered it although some of the usual suspects you know the guardian and outlets i doubt if ignored the story once again but that's not

surprising but it's good that for the first time you know many readers in western countries are finally learning something about what's. the going on in western ukraine particular with these nationalist groups the way things work in the west is that you need pressure groups you know think tanks to kind of get on these bandwagons and kind of you know almost force the agenda and what's very interesting is here we've got children you know schoolchildren minors being trained to hate being trained to kill being trained to fight and where is amnesty international where is human rights watch i mean they're not interested i mean where is the american embassy what it's supposed moral leadership you know lashing out against this where the british embassy i mean they find time to. you know complain about other subjects. of updates for you at the top of the hour see them.

time after time say we're going on the ground ahead of tomorrow's apec forum bringing together russian american and chinese leaders in papua new guinea prone to catastrophic impact from climate change according to the asian development bank coming over the show the end of tourism is brics it plans we investigate whether it is legal to precipitate food and medicine stockpiling with britain's former attorney general bill morris and we also announced palestinian journalist abdel bari atwan about what's next up to this week's serious military confrontations and israel by britain and others killed or wounded thirteen thousand in gaza in the twenty fourteen plus i have left probably scruffy looking cold and right back at home this week so it's just me and that chain going through all the top stories for you can you know visible coming up in today's going underground but first what is it with nato nations in journalism these days now.