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russia proposes the u.s. destroyed tomahawk missile launchers grow. cold war era arms control treaty washington. leading medical aid group doctors without borders. poured which claims the charity is partly to blame for the. hospitals in yemen last year. also coming up on the program from moves to sink germany's nord stream project with reports suggesting a. joint pipeline with russia. one minute past eleven pm here in moscow this thursday a warm welcome to our team the international. i mean you know knowing all of your

company top story front is recalling it some buster to rome for consultations amid a worsening spot spurred by the actions of italy's deputy prime minister's short picks up the story. 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 demaio 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 propagations 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 of them and his coat deputy prime minister within the italian government has also been one to hit out france and particular president maccarone 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 and as. the minister of the 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 we don't 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 expanding on one of charlottes points

there french president mccrone was among a number of european leaders to recognize the venice will an opposition leader as the interim president however not everyone in france is on board with the decision socialist figurehead mellen sean compared the backing off. to allowing the yellow business leader take over the 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 would be president of this republic need to. work for its part to please interior ministry insists that it doesn't want conflict with friends it's not the only spot though about causing russians between fellow members we discuss the underlying issues between you countries with a tally in political scientist on journalist on the former deputy speaker of belgium's parliament. well there are many root causes too disgraceful and small

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's been a very clear. distrust between the government of the italy in the one the front is a probable foot showing that. a state cannot accept the world is 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 readout taking the step of recognizing one quite go

as in been president and then there are others who do take a stand like italy the european ambassadors have reportedly been discussing the future all venice will with opposition leader one. he sings he has their backing to continue the push for new elections in venezuela we met with different european ambassadors ratifying our route to achieve our a session the delivery of humanitarian aid and creating channels for delivering it to people who need it most they reiterated their support for us to achieve free fair and transparent elections . but there is still another issue to all this the foreign policy chief has spoken out so over the humanitarian blockade seeing a european contact office for aid will be opened up in caracas in the coming weeks

frederica margarita went on to stress the need to find a peaceful solution to the crisis but there's still support in the venezuelan capital for the embattled president nicolas maduro of course as well where people have been queuing up to sign a petition in support of him they're calling on the u.s. to stop interfering in their countries of hers the open letter will reportedly be circulated to ron dennis the with president hoping to get ten million signatures he then intends to send it to the white house in washington here's what some of the people who have gathered in caracas told us. we don't know if we're avoiding a war but they don't want to stop what we can do with the toilet although this is horrible they want to seize the reaches of the entire planet this is worldwide the only god he wants to see is the planet. want unity would not mourn fascism we do not want racism you think cameron don't. want to see that contrast.

to just us i'm not sure and while i will separately the venezuelan government claimed they had intercepted an arms shipment from the us on whedon's they the interior ministry says the whole included rifles ammunition and communications equipment they were flown in from miami the authorities stated the bust was part of a broader crackdown on organized crime well this all comes as u.s. national security advisor john bolton annoyance the possible lifting of sanctions for senior military personnel in venezuela who are willing to defect we spoke to a defense in the academic who warns that such a move has dangerous implications. i think it's a game of carrots and sticks with the wind when you know the trumpet ministration and all that spokesperson thought about all the offers on the table yet seem to point at this sort of military intervention so it's very very. complex and complicated way of of presenting options on the table and yes it has

very negative implications as you probably have seen in the last weeks. you know the call for five thousand troops on the ground and the repercussions that that has and the response from them a little redeemed to this sort of note from john bolton. you know complicates and leads to seeing these offers us negative incentives or bribery at the venezuelan military is also a killer bridge in the colombian border to block a delivery of humanitarian aid to shipping containers other tanker truck up in place that along the highway a convoy of aid donated by the u.s. is currently on its way from according to the colombian government then this will an opposition leader won by doe say this applies will test the military's loyalty to the government of president merger rejected be aided by saying the people of venezuela are not beggars and such shipments would be used to justify

a foreign military intervention the red cross is stepping up its own aid efforts in venezuela doubling its budget for the country but the humanitarian groups a policy of neutrality means they cannot take part in the u.s. aid deliveries viable and. according to the fundamental principles of impartiality neutrality and independence the i.c.r.c. cannot take part in the initiatives to hand over assistance for venezuela from colombia dr monroy son tunder again says there is one clear driving force behind the crisis. it's very. important economic interest that is pushing all the sides to you know have a say and two percent different options on venezuela the united states which owns you know the importance of venezuelan oil and is moving with the support of colombia and brazil to you know have more dominant be more of an influential player

in the region but also the fact that venezuela has made a lot of promises and relationships economically and commercially with countries like russia and china so i think or oil becomes sort of a contest station between the two sides for you know the future transition of venezuela it is a key driver of many of the interests initially. investigations into alleged russian meddling in the united states aren't letting democrats have launched their fresh probe into donald trump's finances on their possible influence on his policy decisions the host intelligence committee chief adam schiff told reporters trump's actions towards russia both during his presidential campaign and afterwards have heightened fears of foreign financing and possible leverage issues well donald trump did not hold back giving his view on the new investigation indeed on shift as well. he has no basis to do that he's just

a political hack who's trying to build a name for himself and i think that's fine because there's what they do but there would be no reason to do that no other politician has to go through that it's called presidential harassment and it's unfortunate and it really does hurt our country allow them to shift then turn to twitter to stress that several of trump's close associates have been sentenced or are awaiting trial claimed that has put the fear all the u.s. president or russian interference investigations aren't exactly unchartered waters for the highest intelligence committee its last probe was shut down in the spring of twenty eight in june to a lock of evidence linking trump's team to the kremlin. well i'm happy to say we get some insight on all this from political analysts charles or tell us charles good to see you again well yet another russian collusion probe.

double trouble is favored to win the next election next year twenty twenty another five years of this do you firstly. well it's you know it's reached the point where one parameter of what people really think in this country anyway is what goes up on saturday night live the amusing sometimes amusing comedy show and it's really a tragic comedy at this stage i mean yes there have been issues over long periods of time with actors outside this country trying to interfere in the election results why i think back for example to the one thousand nine hundred five one thousand nine hundred six election cycle when there were strident claims even bipartisan assertions that perhaps the chinese had ratted money to the clintons various ways to try to get bill clinton reelected and that investigation was never really in my view taken to slavica conclusions. we've had a lot of talk about this as you rightly point out the house the bed of their

efforts in two thousand and eighteen and nearly led by republicans we just heard today from the senate republican chair of the elders committee saying they found no evidence of illegal collusion between the trump campaign and any form party let alone russia on the other hand when you look at the public record what you see is there is abundant evidence of the clintons. and the people around the clintons collaborating with many different foreign backed groups including possibly through the clinton foundation where they fail to discos all of their government grants as is required under the law so it's it's really adam schiff has become a caricature of himself and he sounds credible people think he's must know something because he was a former prosecutor and he's a lawyer but i mean he's be clowning himself well this is as you said the house intelligence committee probably a close in twenty eighteen after a lot of effort a lot of money spent and a lot of time spent on this that perhaps the public wanted it spent on other issues

and no the democrats are launching a new one why and is there an appetite. well i think you know among the american people you saw the poll results and i'm not a huge fan of polls generally speaking because they're easily manipulated but donald trump state of the union speech got a seventy two to seventy six percent favorable approval rating which is way above his personal approval rating i think the american public is sick and tired of watching a bloated bunch of government bureaucrats over pay themselves fail to solve problems that could be readily solved and are you that you know they only need more control to do a worse theory a better job in fact the worst job in the united states you're not going to believe this but it's true that we spend seven trillion dollars a year on government it's not like we lack for money and we don't get seven trillion dollars worth of results this is

a part why the american people understand this but the bubble in washington d.c. doesn't don't trump cold as you might have heard just earlier charles the investigation of quote presidential harassment is not overstating it he has got perhaps the the biggest job in the world he should be in the focus of he's going to be the firing line quite a lot is he not. yeah i mean it's he has been the subject of unrelenting aggressive pseudo reporting. all whipped up frenzy concern since the election in two thousand and sixteen it's not like he hasn't been the subject of a lot of attention but for all that attention more so far has yet to find anything or to publicly state anything because the actual criminal and i'm not sure collusion is a crime but criminal collusion involving the trump campaign and russia there's been

no sign of that yet but he's been that this almost two years. so you know i really think for many different reasons we've talked about it before the united states and russia could do a lot of good things together i think the democrats in particular schiff and others are doing all americans a disservice instead of continuing to this point was passed that's only likely to yield positive results let's reset our russians relations with russia and let's focus on real fraud let's focus on the court for the actual thoughts of charles or tell political analyst speaking to us live from new york city thanks charles. avoiding another arms race russia is proposing the us destroy military hardware in an attempt to revive the i n f weapons treaty both moscow and washington earlier suspended their obligations under the cold war deal accusing each other of failing to comply i spoke earlier to medina cotton of. well the russian defense ministry

said that the us had been violating the treaty creating conditions for the production of miss south a band by the agreement we're talking about an k forty one systems a designed a tool launch tomahawk cruise missiles were also talking about strike aerial drones as they fall under land based cruise missile category and target missiles as well. well the defense ministry said that it had summoned the u.s. military a task say and hand him a note containing moscow's demands and earlier rushes of affairs ministry delivery to know to the u.s. embassy where moscow denied all u.s. accusations that it was ever in breach of the ion after treating but also added that it was the u.s. hasn't fulfilled its own brigade sions within the agreement speaking to the press this thursday and russia's deputy foreign affairs minister said that the decision

the u.s. decision to pull out of the treaty may lead to some grave consequences and i had a chance to ask of the official whether he thinks this current situation may lead to a new arms race and this is what he sat. motionless to the possibility of a new arms race is a serious topic u.s. documents show as well as spending huge amounts of money on defense the u.s. aims to dominate all spheres related to the military because we would not let the u.s. drug us into gnome's race says the american seem to believe they'll succeed in doing that but they haven't so far and i think they'll fail listen to this year he also said that russia is ready to fight to keep their agreement and tact now the treaty was signed back in ninety eight seven between than the world's nuclear powers the us and the savita union and now many fear that the end of the treaty will lead to

dramatic consequences. for the u.s. tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile on choose they was launched from an air force base in southern california sailing over the pacific ocean landing near not toll almost seven thousand kilometers away. just hours after the op the russian military tested its own ballistic missile although the launches have been described as routine they come fears grow for the potential for a nuclear arms race following the suspension of the key missile agreement on sunday r.t. senior correspondent steve brings us more. the i.n.f. treaty was a pillar of global security not only because it resulted in the removal of missiles

and launchers from europe but also because of what was removed sure range nuclear missiles highly mobile incredibly quick both to launch and speed much cheaper than huge strategic nukes everyone was always on the edge with short range nuclear missiles around they could strike in an instant barely any warning for more than thirty years they were gone but now those missiles are coming back unless we get a new deal i hope that we're able to get everybody in a very big and beautiful room and do a new treaty that would be much better not everyone wants a new deal some see this treaty collapses an opportunity more funding and d. more bad short range missiles. now the department of defense will be able to conduct

these research and development activities banned under the i.n.f. treaty so the department fans will start those steps on building they systems they couldn't before you can forgive the order fischel with more ambition than sense but the military industrial complex those guys that make and sell missiles oh they're ecstatic raytheon and lockheed martin wasted no time and soon going to be testing their prototypes precision strike missiles with ranges greater than five hundred kilometers. withdrawing from the i.n.f. treaty is a good start now this action must be backed by american firepower the united states must regain the strategic advantage by expediting the development and deployment of a new generation of ground launched missiles it's incredible they seemingly want an arms race a nuclear arms race and that's what they're getting russia which the u.s.

accused of violating the treaty promises to respond develop new weapons and is all to say everyone's gone nuts there are still people that sense people that realize a nuclear arms race isn't going to lead to anything good people who realize that arms treaties where the world removes a lot adds nukes is good for humanity you know i think it's stupid for the democrats to be attacking putin on all issues and not holding open the channel of nuclear dialogue yes to deal with the issues in syria and the killing diplomats in ukraine. but that doesn't warrant a nuclear blunder it kills billions of people or millions so yes with the democrat or republican or somewhere in between we need to have dialogue and. something that

might help is a bit of humility i don't even know what's crazy and nowadays people cheering a nuclear arms race or people calling for dialogue some many want an arms race and you know why because nukes a pretty we see these beautiful pictures at night i am tempted to quote the great letter cohen i'm guided by the beauty of our weapons and they are beautiful pictures of of fearsome armaments. all acceptable contradictory doctors without borders once described the findings of a new saudi report which claims the humanitarian group was partly to blame for the bombing of all of its own hospitals in yemen last june the organization says the saudi led coalition is attempting to avoid taking full responsibility for the euro strike according to that disputed report m.s.f.

groupism had failed to inform the coalition that its color a treatment center was a medical facility it there for claims that the building was considered out the time to be a legitimate military target and s.f. however say it's had notified the saudi led coalition about the newly built hospital at least a dozen times and have its emblem displayed on the roof riyadh since call the bombing an intended are. well m.s.f. is now demanding a new investigation the allegations against it be dropped rights activists sarraf launders 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 responsibility of those carrying out the attack and not to the facility itself so even that argument is a heroine's you want to argue it's a complete fraud of course the bombing was carried out by saudi arabia and the the quadrants had been given again and again as mentioned sinn fein explains and this is the time. of such a medical facility in medicine in front where the saudi being bombed in 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. ok just to update you on all our story this news or of

the disputes over a major energy pipeline project is threatening to drive a wedge between europe two powerhouses germany and france nord stream two would see russian gas pumped into europe through the baltic sea but france's apparently making moves to block the project our europe correspondent peter all over he's been following developments for us. 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 suited 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 north string 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 burn in richard grinnell his.