and that's what i would hate for not doing. anything to get this whole fool. the i knew you had an unfair artsy time in serious sin. city she ought to give up somewhere else for the new mayor for the whole front around mr hates it for jim and then we're better for it are freddie macor. me the money. this hour's headlines story triggered by a meeting between the. poles it's envoy for talks. relations between.

president promises a complete victory over the next week but his secretary of state sees the u.s. troop. leading medical aid group doctors without borders the report which claims the charts he is partly to blame for the. hospitals in yemen last year. and from. germany snored stream. with reports suggesting a. directive. pipeline with russia. to the world this is your r t international revery are tuning in from this hour a warm welcome to the program our top story. is recalling it some buster to room

for consultations amid a worsening spot spurred by the actions of italy's deputy prime minister's charlotte brings us more. well this marks a new low in the already rocky relations between france and italy two countries that should be allies that 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 growing 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 by just too much this is the statement that they were an 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 the front and then 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 macron recently offering his support to also the yellow best movement you know i mean 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 and. the minister being european affairs here in france retorted with this france refrains from giving lessons to the telly salvina and to

milan should learn to sweep their own doorstep. well the two countries have been out to show this through for 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 meanwhile italy 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 those aspects charlotte was speaking french president mccrone was among

a number of european leaders to recognize the bonus wheel and opposition leader as the interim president whoever norm's everyone in fronts is on board with the decision socialist figurehead. compared the backing of one why go to allowing the yellow vests leader into the elisei palace. it's not a good thing to recognize an adventurer who proclaims himself to be the president of a republic as this gentleman has if we do that yellow vests lead to mr drew a will be president of this republic. well for its part italy's interior ministry insists that it doesn't want to argue with france it's not the only spot though that's causing ructions between fellow e.u. members we discuss the underlying issues between the u. countries with an italian political scientist and journalist the former deputy speaker of parliament. but there are many root causes to

disgraceful and city between the two capitals these root cause is going to be found . of at least since two thousand and eleven the libyan crisis and they have been. somehow quiet for some time to worry need to leave the government has changed. and with the current government there has been a very clear. distrust between the government of the italy and the one that france is a probable foot showing that. a state cannot accept so we're just going down and the other one is that claims that politically correct 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 where you go

as president and then there are others who do take a stand like italy. left out of pocket is the claim by the u.s. president on ice or fate in syria and iraq saying it's remaining territories will be recaptured by next week donald trump made the statement of a major counterterrorism conference in washington d.c. yesterday went and stay. it should be formally announced sometime 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 old discussing america's recent policy in syria a little bit earlier was our correspondent franco speaking to. 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 islam and state 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 defeat 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. two u.s. officials tell b c news the president reluctantly agreed to keep troops in syria. we are there until the isis territorial caliphate is removed. this conference that we have any further developments on what the us have decided to do you know what no one can still say for sure what's going on with this pullout conference didn't help

another important participant of the it was us 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 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 that is there anything else well just before the conference u.s. secretary of state mike was talking about the same old story risks from 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. or security and political analyst omar the shabby told us they possible reasons for america's mixed messages on syria are three things that i can say about that one that if the pentagon has such strong intelligence about isis and it can tell you exactly that in six months it can regroup and restart how come it didn't have that intelligence in the first place when i started in the first place if they had this they could have stopped it from the beginning so if they have such strong that they're supposed to sent this to the president and tell him that no it is not yet eradicated and it would take more than a week to eradicate and destroy isis i think that makes sense in a general reasonable way the second point is that this contradiction shows the. there is no plan there doesn't seem to be a strategy a clear strategy of the american administration and there are some people in the pentagon who are really annoyed by parent lead by the white house stepping in with

no experience no knowledge of what's going on in the field and the third thing and that is a very interesting thing that the fact that the americans and the pentagon keeps insisting that isis is there is because it justifies the american involvement in this part of the world the war against terror is a justification for the american presence and american involvement in the affairs of the countries of the region under the pretext that it's fighting terrorism. let's crack on with the no other headline story of the disputes over a major energy pipeline project is threatening to drive a wedge between europe's two powerhouses germany and france north stream two would see russian gas pumped into europe through the baltic sea but front partly making moves to block the project or europe correspondent peter over breaks down the story . france could be about to put the cattle on 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 two 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 on 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 and if you can on the earth you would believe this is a new. mikkel project where also for amaj of diversification we're also want ukraine to have continued transit gas traffic but we believe that north stream 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 his 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 are 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 too will do it for more than just russian gas russia's might an influence will spread all the way to europe but the votes on friday it could well prove to be a stumbling block in getting the north stream to project off the ground that well

certainly neither russia nor the german side thought they were going to be facing. well aside from the letter penned by the three american ambassadors mentioned in peter's report washington has been piling on the pressure to make germany u. turn on the nord stream to project with some very blunt comments coming from top officials over the past year. so we're protecting germany we're protecting france we're protecting all of these countries 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

from the other side of the senate in that case not russia. germany by the u.s. we have more u.s. troops in germany and then the russian troops of course could it be the u.s. uses the black mail to get the voting against it and those of europe and the energy independence of europe which would be if they're not free to become true if u.s. made it to make a wedge between those two countries it is it is very very sort of the iroquois the future of the europe the it would be the first be me break in the european union but only much much more to a break up from the end. they say is r.t. international live from moscow and much more after this short test of breaks.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic to follow only closely and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. you know if putin said suddenly that we recognize nancy pelosi as the president and i stay say we're not going to talk with donald trump the world of the you know our age but of course the u.s. has a stereo exceptionalism and no plans to them so they can do whatever they want but by essential banks find gold as they are they are now coming to the conclusion that

america has lost its mind and then when they run out of gold to buy i guarantee you they're going to start fishing around the clock markets. welcome back to the program nato has fired a warning shot at the e.u. with the military alliance saying the bloc should not compete when it comes to security general secretary in stilton bird gave his assessment after a number of european countries being targeting a new defense fund. i welcome all european defense efforts but it's important that they complement nato and don't compete with it i believe in the e.u. but not as an alternative to nato european security is dependent on transatlantic

relations whatever the circumstances are the e.u. should not deliver the message that it can act alone well in contrast the german chancellor and french president had been pushing for the formation of an e.u. army stressing it's time to move on from school security dependence on washington. united states of america is a historic ally and it will continue to be so but to be an ally is not to be vastly we should not be dependent. let's get some insight now on this security differences and we're joined i'm happy to say but under a hunk of from the german left party under a welcome back what's your take on all this then do you believe europe should leave security to nato and focus solely on building relations for instance. across all of the european defense the proposal. in the budget proposal or the recall mission let's do a. billion euro all. those. things

for fostering the european armament industry. as far as i see it it's not a competition for nato it's. it's a there are a lot of. european tritos to sought transatlantic. or you wouldn't thought so. it's it's part of the whole of the whole picture also. of armament of. giving more money to to the military sector two percent of nato it's a european defense strong core which is a european structure so it's i see it more as a part of the whole. growing armament industry or i don't think it's. how to say it will be an independent different

tool for us it's just my point. next because yen stone broke he's almost warning the e.u. not to compete with nato but does the alliance chief i suppose not see being dependent on nato any different to being dependent on washington you know european security is still being channeled somewhere else. well i would be very much in favor of even more independence from us i don't see oversee all the plants together and the european defense. i don't see it as a competition tool to all of us i see it as part of the need to. armaments of and if you look at the budget where that is your new york your big defense is part of their you have as of our six point five billion you are all over for

building infrastructures infrastructure measures against russia to build to build the bridges and earth region streets to make it more easy to bring the tanks from western europe to puerto rico so it so for me it's part of the of the broader armaments and not the issue or directed against the u.s. if chancellor merkel gets her way sure whoever takes over from her chancellor to form an e.u. security force could it work alongside nato. i think those would be integrated in a tour i don't want to see. them and you talk to all of the disputed france and germany and austria to and you see so many so many splits between the european states. i don't see that we will get. this

kind of a u r e. and from our point of view it would be no progress because. we will have to let go of democracy quote for all which we have now and the as the german parliament so i am very critical of all but all these. and i think it would be much better to have a common security. with russia as are a proposal instead of a new arms race i'm very thanks for your time this hour always good to have you on the program under a hunk oh from the german left party if you are much. on acceptable and contradictory that's why doctors without borders has the scribe the findings of a new study report which claims the humanitarian group was partly to blame for the bombing of one of its own hospitals in yemen back in june the organization say the

saudi led coalition is attempting to avoid taking full responsibility for the earth strike according to the disputed report m.s.f. as the group is no failed to inform the coalition that its cholera treatment center was a medical facility if there are claims that the building was considered at the time to be a legitimate military target m.s.f. however ses it had notified the saudi led coalition about the newly built hospital at least a dozen times and had its emblem displayed on the roof riyadh has since call the bombing an unintended error.

so m.s.f. is now demanding a new investigation of the allegations against it be dropped rights activists or a flood just told us that airstrikes all hospitals are totally a lawful under international humanitarian law medical facilities are protected may not be targeted under any circumstances and it is 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. of 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 un against the people the whole world more programs are to international stardom. welcome to the alex salmond show from wonderful wonderful copenhagen the capital city of deadlock over the last few years this fiercely independent kingdom has won and lost to empires in the middle ages they conquered big good in the early modern period daily stellar to compass sweden norway the fate of while and iceland and greenland now the danes engage them more peaceful pursuits as

a small nation in the very heart of europe and i train for our final program on day mike that fascinating independent minded country how tennyson is the c.e.o. of an english speaking newspaper the copenhagen post a former creative communications of the danish red cross says he's been fighting for human rights for years on some of your chief executive officer of the copenhagen post a very unusual paper in the sense that publishes in english really to the ex-pat cleared population of denmark how did that come about. well it started twenty years ago when some. students came to denmark to study and they found out there was nothing in english here so they said they would release an english newspaper and they did that for about one year spend on the own money spent their parents' money and they were bankrupt and then they need to consult

a lawyer to make them bankrupt this lawyer he had been the c.e.o. of one of the biggest paper in copenhagen for ten years so he thought this was a brilliant idea and he poured the paper for one krone and hired them again as directors and then he run it until two years ago when i together with some colleagues to go and the idea is danish news in english because it's very important when people live in denmark they hear three four years maybe they don't have a chance to learn danish that short time and they know they go to other places. and then they can see what's going on them and what's more in pope important is they take this newspaper home where they have a family who's very isolated and they can see kindergarten where is a school a good school what's going on is a something something in english so it's a whole family who can use this paper and get that informations and we can feed

other newspapers is going town some also english newspaper the they don't even give a printed edition anymore we're going up because they're coming more and more international people to denmark so you are an english language newspaper but yes very much a danish paper in terms of your political social commentary on the state of denmark how would you assess the state of denmark at the present moment still in the way life is very prosperous society a highly contented society according to surveys as a rare thing in the undergrowth that data should be worried about if you see what should we be worried about you can take the whole word has chains as i told you i've been working for the red cross and a few months after i started into it cause in the ninety's the wall for fell in germany and then we think now we have peace on earth and everybody was happy but i

have never seen the world more full of a bourse and.