if we have to choose to go to school to snoop or come up with you of those the girls who were just to whom she shouldn't feel you should cook do for the one who's doing. it. triggered by a meeting between the telly and the deputy pm and yellow vests protesters at the fronts recalls its envoy to italy for talks on but deteriorating relations between paris and. it's a country that promises a complete victory over on his own by next week and his secretary of state sees the

u.s. troop pullout from syria doesn't mean an end to the fight. leading medical aid group doctors without borders slams a saudi report which claims the charity is partly to blame for the bombing of one of its hospitals in yemen last year. come from moves to sing germany's nord stream to project with reports suggesting that money will not call will buy a directive could block the joint pipeline with russia. just on the eleven am in dallas so levin pam and duck in the evening right here in moscow this thursday february the seventh welcome to r.t. international and our top story france is recalling its some buster to rome for

consultations amid a worsening spot spurred by the actions of italy's deputy prime minister's charlotte dubin ski reports. well this marks a new low in the already rocky relations between france and italy two countries that should be allies the members of the european union and some have described this latest move by france has being unprecedented i believe it's the first time that france has recalled its ambassador from rome since the second world war when the two countries who are actually at war with each other well this move comes after one of italy's deputy prime ministers luigi dimaio was seen photographed with yellow vests protest is he in france describing the movement on twitter as saying that the winds of change were coming across the alps where the french foreign ministry has hit out at that describing the verbal attacks from italy and

saying that those provocations are just too much this is the statement that they were in east the most recent interferences constituted additional and an acceptable provocation they violated the respect that is owed to democratic choices made by nation which is a friend and an ally they violate the respect the democratically and freely elected governments each other and his coat deputy prime minister within the italian government has also been one to hit out france and particular president macrorie recently offering his support to also the yellow best movement. i side with the millions of frenchmen who are complaining about a president who is harming the french people i condemn any acts of hooliganism and violence without exceptions. the minister of the european affairs here in france retorted with this france refrains from giving lessons to the tele salvina and to

my own should learn to sweep their own doorstep. well the two countries have been out to show this through. some time more recently finding themselves on opposing sides of an international crisis that's happening in venezuela with france amongst a number of e.u. countries deciding that they will full through their full weight behind the national assembly has declared himself into a president that's what we do meanwhile it's really decided it would reject that and has remained supporting the democratically elected president maduro for the moment it seems that these relations between france and italy two countries who are neighbors two countries who are part of the european union and two countries who should be strong allies is getting worse and worse. just one of the aspects charlotte was speaking aboard french president was among

a number of european leaders to recognize the venice with an opposition leader as the interim president however not everyone in paris is on board with the decision socialist figurehead. compared the backing of one to allowing the yellow vests leader into the presidential hot seat in front. it's not a good thing to recognize an adventurer who proclaims himself to be the president of the republic as this gentleman has if we do that yellow vests lead to mr drew a would be president of this republic. well for its part to italy's interior ministry insists that it does not want to argue with france it's not the only spot though that's causing ructions between fellow e.u. members the ongoing developments in venice we have divided nations into two camps according to former belgian parliamentary deputy speaker load a boost. do you do even you still as a policy that does not lead but follow and basically it follows the lead of the

united states even to a number of your e.u. states who more or less agree without taking the step recognizing one cradle as president and then there are others who do take a stand like italy now the divide within the you've been union on foreign policy you suit is not exactly new so this is as such not aggressive them but the fact is that what is happening now is that the strong. countries. they decide on the united states. they disputes over a major energy pipeline project is threatening to drive a wedge between europe's two powerhouses germany and france nord stream two would

see russian gas pumped into europe through the baltic sea but france as a partly making moves to block the project or europe correspondent peter over bricks one story. france could be about to put the cats among the pigeons when it comes to the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany it's understood they may be about to vote in favor of changes to the e.u. gas directive now this is according to a story that ran in the german newspaper sooted torches zeitung the paper specifically says that this is a move to target nord stream to they quote unnamed sources in the french government saying we don't want to increase dependency on russia while damaging the interests of e.u. nations like poland and slovakia now there is a vote set for friday on these amendments to the e.u. gas directive these moves would give. brussels a lot more sway over projects

like north stream to would cause north stream to is funded by a third party russia's gazprom and under these changes to the gas directive that would allow the e.u. commission a lot more access to them it had been thought that germany would vote along with france the netherlands belgium austria greece and cyprus to say no to these changes however if the french do decide to side with changing the e.u. gas directive well the fact of germany getting its way becomes a lot more shaky the north stream to put gas project is intended to send fifty five billion cubic meters of gas per day from russia into germany germany is set to make a lot of money out of this both german companies and the german state however poland and the baltic states they've been against this since the beginning they say it gives too much power to russia over the e.u.'s energy infrastructure and also that it cuts ukraine out of its important transit role now i'm going to merkel the

german chancellor has said in the past that this is not the intention of north stream at all if you can on the earth do you believe this is an economical project where also for amaj of diversification we're also want ukraine to have continued transit gas traffic but we believe that north street is no danger to diversification the united states also hates nord stream to washington wants the e.u. to buy liquid natural gas from the united states which incidentally comes in a lot more expensive than piping it directly from russia to the itself in fact the u.s. ambassador to richard grinnell has want german companies about getting involved with north stream saying if they do they could face sanctions and ambassador grinnell put his name to a letter along with the u.s. ambassadors to denmark and the european union saying why they were against north stream to. the use dependent on russian gas harbors risks for europe and the west

as a whole and puts a soul in the precarious position nordstrom two will deliver more than just russian gas russia's might and influence will spread all the way to europe the votes on friday it could well prove to be a stumbling block in getting the notes dream to project off the ground that well certainly neither russia nor the german side thought they were going to be facing. well to discuss this let's bring in political commentator i care hammer welcome him to the program to share his views hi i care why such the i don't stance right now from paris on the nordstrom to project do you think. well i think in this is that the fear is there that he met or the u.s. wants to on the one hit one hand as it was that already set out our german supply or your piece of live from russia make it at least more difficult secondly

they want to have their property in between but they can switch off the energy supply for europe and then they have to go to the european union who takes it as a chance to get more power on the projects were normally just national. and in any case it disclose sure this is only good for europe because to have it in for florida it's always good you don't have to use it only to have it was already a huge and. it was not due to accept that anybody europe votes against that ok poland maybe yes he got us but only when they assume that all of us wants to blackmail europe and this is not a good partnership within the european union over the past year the american president top officials in washington as well they've been a tad. big us really

a by the pipeline project let's take a listen together to some of the comments. so we're protecting germany we're protecting france we're protecting all of these questions and numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of russia germany is totally controlled by russia because they were getting from sixty to seventy percent of their energy from russia and a new pipeline that's one of the concerns the president has about north stream to why your would voluntarily itself even more to russian energy supplies there is considerable pressure i could there from washington do you think you're a power as the the control to withstand it or will they cave in. well i'm not sure about this of course of the possibilities from the us to so

politicians or blackmail many countries but the europe is huge and in the office a lot of work that are not set is the case not russia. germany by the us we have more troops in germany the us troops in germany russian troops of course but he is . he's a businessman and he wants to sell his part to stand up look we are you know we don't need to learn to accept our but i think this is a matter where we have more in east in europe germany has more enemies in europe then people who supply the german the even though every oil is is living on german and german money in the euro so this is just insane what was happening now if there are really votes against germany it would be the first big break in the european union but only much much more equal to

a breakup from the end and of course of the violation of the just signed. thank you so much live from hanover germany this hour political commentator. nato is expanding in europe's balkan region after members agreed to let the small former yugoslav republic know known as north macedonia joining the military alliance nato chief stoltenberg welcomed a soon to be thirtieth member. today it is a story for your country and a proud day for us all nathan busses have just signed a session protocol for the future project of north i'm us with mustard on their oil . i want to congratulate both the school. for showing commitment and courage in reaching an agreement on the name issue just some background to this story the country has been held back from joining nato until now by neighboring greece over

the name macedonia it's also use those you may know for a large region of northern greece which feared that it might lead to territorial claims but after twenty seven years of wrangling the former yugoslav republic settled on north macedonia for the country's leaders it's another milestone reached macedonia has been waiting twenty seven years to become a member of nato today macedonia has the hope of having open doors for leaders push through north muster the only is name change which saw greece drop its objections to joining nato and the european union in a referendum last september just where ninety four percent of macedonians came out in favor of but calls for a boycott men turnout was just thirty seven percent lots of well below the fifty percent threshold to make it constitutionally valid russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman says macedonia will have to pay a price for its this is something that happened just macedonia will have to pay not

only with higher military spending and operations which are far from macedonia and interest they will also lose the ability to conduct their own genuine sovereign foreign policy. while trying to discuss so let's cross live now roughly a geo political unless the un consulted friend of the program i may good to have you with us what does joining nato mean for must do and why you have sculpey of being so came to join do you think. well i think for macedonia it's a first step also into the extraction process to what you will also be accelerated by this step and it's a clear sign that macedonia within the dispute competition between the west and the east has chosen the side of the west and yeah this doesn't necessarily mean that this is bad for europe nor from macedonia it means keeley

that this competition's truckle often a tool against russia and its influence is here is going on. we have of course to see this with a certain amount of preoccupation when we see it in the light of the i.n.f. treaty which has also been canceled so it means that tensions are rising geo politically big statements if not big promises being made here nato chief u.n. stilton burke has said that muster dhoni is membership in the alliance will bring more security and prosperity to the whole region how do you think nato will make that happen. yeah this is my own question because nato has shown little capability to step in allies regions neighboring also.

countries like for example turkey and iraq syria. where one of the major routes of refugees streaming into the european union so i don't see this argument that's really step allies in the region but rather that allies seeing the cheap political position of nato or in southeast europe which is too politically spoken of course very important because it's also a potential and it's actually already a pipeline route for different. plan sent yet what will we see in the future when nato takes more influence in the region we don't know we just see that nazri to for example it's heavily opposed by united states and now even across holt's and what will be the future of southeast europe if the influence of nato increases there it's been

a vengeful twelve months for the country hasn't it last year when asked whether they would like to join nato musset dhoni and the public themselves boycotted the referendum however the decision has now been welcomed by greek macedonian politicians to like what do you think has changed since then has public opinion changed that significantly. i don't think that public opinion has changed i just see that another country's being used to her truer strength position instead of allowing those countries that could have. a position like a bridge between east and west to display this potential just like ukraine could like the baltic countries true and also mexico and yet could be a like a bridge between the different rivals russia is the main power of eastern europe and of the west but as they have chosen their side attentional is

lost and i don't think the population is really happy with that decision live from germany this hour run a rough political analyst thank you for your time on your thoughts thanks we're back in moments with more news here on arctic. i'm max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is. a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these are not accountable and will just. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for.

the. political system. respect for human dignity and so on but if you look at what is going on in egypt. most of the people have the feeling. was even better. situation. twenty one minutes into the program welcome back left of pocket that's the claim by the u.s. president on fate in syria and iraq saying its remaining territories will be recaptured by next week donald trump made the statement on

a major kuntar terrorism conference in washington d.c. on wednesday it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate. but i want to wait for the official word and i want to say too early. the scuffing america's recent policy in syria earlier is a crosspost and with richard. the main question now to the conference was whether the american president will say something new whether the seventy nine members of the u.s. led. coalition would hear something special perhaps ground breaking from donald trump well his main message was that islamic state now holds a tiny percentage of all the land it used to call their caliphate nothing groundbreaking here because previously we heard pretty much identical stuff from

him become another syria like very soon we have just absolutely decimated isis just absolutely obliterated isis in iraq we have one good study says we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly very optimistic mr trump very proud mr trump proud of how he's dealt with make state however things may no longer be going as smooth earlier this week in fact just a couple of days ago a new pentagon report came out and guess what it says in that report. could be in the process of regrouping and the main conclusion of the report is that in just six months the militants could regain the strength that they used to have there in terms of the u.s. in syria and we've seen a lot of to ing and fro ing and you know saying that they're going to withdraw and not gonna throw in less of a quick listen to what was said before i'm going to. now we've won it's time to

come back. because we remain on the ground after the physical to feet of the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that the defeat is under. the knock of the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon. to u.s. officials tend to be seen as the president reluctantly agreed to keep troops in syria. are there until the ice is territorial caliphate is removed. this conference when we have any further developments on what the u.s. have decided to do you know what no one can still say for sure what's going on with this pullout the conference didn't help another important participant of the event was u.s. secretary of state mike and we thought that he could have shed some light on the american plans in this case instead he made a rather vague comments he reassured his coalition partners that america will quote unquote continue to wage alongside them and also he said that the u.s.

army was only in the middle of some sort of tactical change besides that the problem is you was generals have said the mission is not over and that they need to keep going let's not forget that iran is still being quite active in syria so this could be the reason why washington is has it apart from anything else well just before the conference u.s. secretary of state mike was talking about the same old story risks islamic state and russia these two are being named together and if the americans are perceiving moscow as a threat in the region perhaps again that explains why they are having second thoughts about pulling out. on acceptable contradictory doctors without borders has described the findings of a new sunday reports which claims the humanitarian group was partly to blame for

the bombing of one of its own hospitals in yemen in june the organization says the saudi led coalition is attempting to avoid taking full responsibility for the euro strike according to the spitted report m.s.f. as the group is known had failed to inform the coalition that its called a treatment center it was a medical facility it's there for claims that the building was considered at the time to be a legitimate military target and however seize it had notified the saudi led coalition about the newly built hospital at least a dozen times and how its emblem displayed on the roof riyadh has since called the bombing on the intended.

well m.s.f. is noted among a new investigation that the allegations against it be dropped rights activists sarra flounders told us that airstrikes on hospitals are totally a lawful under international humanitarian law medical facilities are protected may not be targeted under any circumstances and it is your responsibility of those carrying out the attack and not to the facility itself so even that argument is a harrowing tale and argue it's a complete fraud of course the bombing was carried out by saudi arabia and the quadrants had been given again and again as mentioned sinn fein terror explains and this is a time. such a medical facility of medicine stemmed from tear facility being bombed and three years time so on every front it is an outrageous outrageous crime

against international humanitarian law. and against the people of the on against the people the whole world that's your lot for this hour to news hour but do not fret another great program is on the way in moment see you after that for all the headline stories this thursday. greetings and salutation yes with the government shutdown finally in the past and the internal revenue service finally back to work many of us here in the united states are nervously gritting their teeth he faced the cold harsh reality of taxis and once again well let all of us see because according to matthew gardiner a senior fellow at the institute on taxation and economic policy our good buddies

at netflix have themselves a pretty successful tax season than two thousand and eighteen he writes that the popular video streaming service netflix posted its largest ever u.s. profit in two thousand and eighteen a whopping eight hundred forty five million dollars on which netflix didn't pay a dime in federal or state income taxes not a dime. gardner goes on to point out that netflix had such an epic year that they actually reported a twenty two million federal income tax rebate instead that means my friends that we paid more for our netflix subscriptions the netflix paid in taxes all of last year. what hits even harder than a jessica jones kick to the gut is that netflix didn't even have to cheat or break the law to do this because in all of the us because in all of the us congress and

president trumps hayes to reform the tax code last year and lower corporate taxes from thirty five percent to twenty one percent they accidently purpose left in place the legal loopholes and special tax breaks that allow a corporate giant lead that like netflix to pay no taxes and get a rebate but it wasn't just hip streaming services getting in on the game noon. according to bloomberg news major u.s. banks shaved about twenty one billion from their tax bills last year almost double the i.r.s. annual budget and while the brakes set up a gusher of payouts to shareholders the firms cut thousands of jobs and saw their lending growth slowed down so today my friends i think it's time we net flix and chill america's corporate tax system as we start watching the hawks.