even for people. who give their name and i mean come on what the how do. they need the whole corn. and i think. this hour's headlines stories fronts recalled sooner from rome amid a rout for a meeting between italy's deputy prime minister on the french yellow vests protesters also coming up. time for dialogue with the girl has long passed the u.s.

special envoy for venezuela rules are compromised as world leaders try to find a solution to the country's political crisis. russia demands the u.s. destroyed tomahawk missile launchers and drones to help resurrect the heat cold war era arms control treaty both moscow and washington suspended. from moscow to the world this is r.t. international my names you know neal hello welcome our top story france is recalling at some buster to rome for consultations amid a furious spot spurred by the actions of a police deputy prime minister's bring us more on the story now is charlotte to ski . 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 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 they released the most recent interferences constitute an additional and an acceptable provocation they violate 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 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 since i condemn any acts of hooliganism and violence without exceptions and. the minister of the european affairs here in france retorted with this france refrains from giving lessons to the tele salvina and to milan 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 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 mccrum was among a number of european leaders to recognize the venice wheelan opposition leader as the interim president however not everyone in france is on board with the decision so still a figurehead for one. compared the backing of one why do to allowing the yellow

vests leader to 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 will be president of this republic. well for its part of italy's interior ministry insists that it doesn't want conflict with france however it's not the only spark that's causing ructions between fellow members we discuss the underlying issues between e.u. countries with an italian political scientist and the former deputy speaker of belgians party but there are many root causes to disgraceful and most are to 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 dili in the one front he's a probable foot showing that. a state cannot accept so what has been done in the other one instead claims that politically correct the you do even you still as a policy 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 credo as president and then there are others who do take a stand like italy. 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 era do you accusing each other a feeling to comply with the details between a question of well the russian defense ministry said that the us had been violating the treaty creating conditions for the production of a banned by the agreement we're talking about forty one systems designed to a 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 the defense ministry said that it had some of the u.s. military a task and hand him a note containing moscow's demands and earlier russia's foreign affairs ministry delivery to no two the u.s. embassy where moscow denied all u.s. accusations that it was ever in breach of the i and outreach team but also added

that it was the u.s. hasn't fulfilled its obligations with 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. the possibility of a new arms race is a serious topic u.s. documents show that as well as spending huge amounts of money on defense the u.s. aims to dominate all spheres related to the military we will not let the u.s. drug us into an arms race the american scene so they'll succeed in doing that but they haven't so far i think they'll fail this one too. he also said that russia is ready to fight to keep the agreement and tact now the treaty was signed back in

ninety eight seven between that and the world's nuclear powers the us and the savvy to any end and now meenie fear that the end of this treaty will lead to dramatic consequences. just an additional note on this the us tested a new inter continental ballistic missile on choose they it was launched from an earth force base in southern california sailing over the pacific ocean quite a distance as well london near enough toll almost seven thousand kilometers away. then just hours after the russian military tested its own ballistic missile of the launches have been described as routine become oz fears grow over the potential for a nuclear arms race following the suspension of that key missile agreement on

saturday reporting on the r.t.e. senior correspondent rob guest if. 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 short 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 more r. and d. more better short range missiles now the department of defense will be able to conduct these research and development activities banned under the ion of treaty so the department fans will start those taps i'm building to a systems they couldn't before you can forgive the order fish 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 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 in the killing me diplomats in ukraine in crimea 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 leonard cohen i'm guided by the beauty of our weapons and they are beautiful pictures of of fearsome armaments. ok moving on to another big story of the week the u.s. government has ruled out negotiations with the venice wheelin president nicolas maduro washington special envoy for venezuela elliott abrams urged world powers to

communicate only with the country's opposition leader won. r t s rachel blevins reports social envoy to venezuela elliott abrams is speaking out today and he's saying that he's actually calling for president maduro to prevent us we are all together and he's making a really strong statement on a day when a number of countries all came together in your way to talk about political solutions to the crisis and venezuela those countries were made up of both nations that support madeira and nations that support opposition leader one it was really interesting thing abrams speaking out specifically and calling for madeira to leave the country now he didn't say exactly where he expects to go but he did make a very bold statement and here is his comment about mr o. specifically instead of trying to accommodate would grow through contact groups or

dialogue we urge countries to recognize one going to always interim president and join us the time for dialogue with the girl has long passed don't fall into a trap that has said many times before where there's a fully dialogue rather than a strong message to him it's time to go so this comes after the european union's foreign policy chief called for nations to recognize venezuela's national assembly which also comes after the parliament voted to recognize one point zero in order for the country to overcome the current crisis it is crucial to restore full democracy in all its that mentions including rule of low separation of powers and respect for the constitutional. of the country's institutions notably the democratically elected to national assembly now why joe is claiming that he is in that with european officials and as we know the united states is very much on his

side the united states has said that all options are on the table regarding their support for and they push for ousting madero we've also seen countries like russia and china back to mentor and said that he should stay as the president and so on top of that now the united states is claiming that they are not able to get humanitarian aid into venice weyler and venezuela has also made the claim that they found some cargo that included weapons and ammunition that were made in the usa so there's a lot of different statements going on here but at the end of the day we really have to ask the question about what the people in caracas actually believe and are actually seeing and we've seen protests from both sides we've seen new media coverage of a lot of those protests thousands of people taking to the streets people that are very passionate about what side it is that they believe in whether it's that they

actually support the opposition leader or that they support the united states staying out of their country altogether so here are some comments specifically from the people in caracas. we are avoiding they don't want to stop it what we going to do. this is horrible they want to seize the reach of suburban time planet this is world wide the oligarchs he wants to seize the planet we want peace we want unity would not fascism we do not want racism. want peace and we want to see rights and interests because some external forces are attempting to seize on national wealth. well let's delve a little deeper into this story i'm happy to say political analyst drew king joins us live on the program under thanks for your company this hour washington special envoy for venezuela elliott abrams is ruling talks with president material will

this make it harder to resolve the crisis. absolutely what we're seeing from abrams is just shameless deplorable on behalf of us interventionism you wear thin period isn't it i mean there's really no debate here it's immoral it's illegal and you know of that as a venezuelans have said they're not going to have their arm twisted by this sort of our naked aggression there's another aspect to this so i want to get your thoughts on under secretary of state mike pompei oh he went as far to claim i think it was worth fox news and then to hear that iran is interfering in venezuela and hezbollah has active selves in the country any truth to that do you think. that sounds a lot like accusations of. saddam hussein having w m d's as we

know there are a plethora of trojan horses near the us government in the trump administration is using including humanitarianism humanitarian intervention in spreading democracy. but you don't have to be a left socialist to understand what you know what us empire is doing here we saw how we thought they spread democracy forty five years ago to chile to iraq to afghanistan to panama to grenada the list goes on foreign ministers of european and scythe american countries they have started talks in europe why and finding a way out of the venezuela crisis do you expect them to come up any constructive solution there. it was solution is not meet with lead with the key principles right of true solidarity with the venezuelan people with anti interventionism in self-determination right then we will not

see any sort of a just or or virtuous or productive solution you know again the venezuelan people have the right to determine their own path their lives be they have the right to make their own mistakes but you know if we say we believe in democracy and this leadership was democratically elected. the united states is no as has no moral high ground whatsoever especially when we are detaining children in right in india poor taste and priscilla's who are dying and the trumpet ministration has launched a war on the poor with which with which men as well as we're trying to counter with sit goal the venezuelan subsidy or oil company giving advice into heating oil to millions of poor families in the u.s. another entity the u.s. is trying to freeze and take away just on those talks and montevideo we did hear from the e.u. foreign policy chief federica maharani who warned that the venice will

a crisis could destabilize the entire region is there a real danger of that occurring. yes but i think again it's primarily due to to to us the route through aggression which is. as you know for twenty years right with one new law it was issued in groups one funneling funds and in training to work in a unity democratic subversive activities to undermine the venezuelan government. live from boston this our political analyst under a king under thanks for coming on the program. so you. know a dispute over a major energy pipeline project is threatening to drive a wedge between europe two powerhouses germany and france north stream to would see russian gas pumped into europe through the baltic sea but france is apparently making moves to block the project our europe correspondent peter oliver hitchens'

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. guster. ective 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 and go to merkel the german chancellor has said in the past that this is not the intention of north stream at all and if you go on the earth you would believe this is an economical project where also for amaj of diversification 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 were against north stream to. the hughes dependence on russian gas 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 smites him 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 nod stream to project off the ground that well certainly neither russia nor the german side thought they were going to be facing less side from the letter penned by the three american ambassadors mentioned by peter their 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 french 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 big is a feller's 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 that president trump has about north stream to why your would voluntarily itself even more to russian energy

supplies in the other side of work they're not trying to set the pace not russia a very slow crawly germany by the us we have more u.s. troops in germany and then the russian troops of course couldn't be the us uses blackmail to get a 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 severe for the future of the year or the it would be the first be brave in the european union but only much much more to a breakup from the end. doctors without borders has

responded angrily to a saudi reports park blaming the humanitarian group 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 our strike according to the report m.s.f. and the group is no failed to inform the saudi coalition that its cholera treatment center was a medical facility and there for claims that the billing was considered out 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 how it's emblem the splayed on the roof riyadh has since called the bombing on intended or.

m.s.f. is now demanding a new investigation the allegations against it be dropped rights activists sarra flounders told us that our strikes on hospitals are totally unlawful. under international humanitarian law medical facilities are protected and may not be targeted under any circumstances and it is irresponsible any 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 in medicine from tear facility being bombed and three years time

so on every front in is an outrageous outrageous crime against international humanitarian law. and against the people of yemen against the people the whole world. investigations into alleged russian meddling in the united states well they're not letting up the democrats have launched a fresh probe into donald trump's finances or possible influence on his policy decisions the house intelligence committee chief adam schiff told reporters that donald trump's actions towards russia both during his presidential campaign and afterwards of heightened fears of foreign financing and possible leverage issues mr trump didn't hold back giving his view on the new investigation and on shift himself there's 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 as 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 well i'm shifting to twitter to stress that several of trump's close associates have been sentenced to or are we. trialed claiming the naacp has put the fear of the u.s. president russian interference investigations aren't exactly unchartered waters for the highest intelligence committee its last probe was shut down in the spring of twenty eighteen due to a lack of evidence linking trump's team to the kremlin we asked political analyst charles or tell what's behind a long running probe into trump russia. well it's you know it's reached the point where our one barometer 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 of the house the bad of their efforts in two thousand and.