those who have to choose to go to school to snoop or come up with new clothes there's the girls who. are in this who pool just to be sure shouldn't feel you should could do for one who's doing. it in. germany and france reach a compromise on a joint russian german pipeline project challenge bipartisan and opposed by washington it comes this spike the u.s. ramping up the pressure in recent weeks. also coming up on the full drug chinese

telecom giants weiwei losses are up the west's calling espionage accusations against them senseless with the united states first in the firing line for lobbying e.u. governments to the for all to. blue march in great numbers to washington we will even go to the white house to deliver more than ten million signatures asking for respect for being israel stepping up their pressure washington rules on the possibility of talks with venice willis embattled socialist government. from moscow to the world this is euro r.t. international good to have your company. our top story germany and france have reached a compromise on the joint russian german gas pipeline. project nord stream to

commenting on the deal german chancellor angela merkel lauded franco german cooperation that's after it was previously suggested that was seeking to derail it charlotte goes through an amended e.u. directive on gas got the project back on track. the directive is now a compromise between frogs between germany which means the project or will be still going ahead though it looked like it was set to be derailed off to france announced on thursday that it was actually going to support an e.u. directive that could have complete east scuppered this entire pipeline this is a pipeline that would bring gas directly from russia roy the way you through germany even had gone to the point that suggested that there was a diplomatic tensions between the two countries over this project what had caused president might go on to pull out of the munich security conference where he was due to be holding

a joint press conference with anglo merkel frog's had raised concerns about the project saying that it would mean that europe would be thought she was dependent on russia when it comes to energy and it could also have a conflict of interest for other countries particularly in eastern europe to countries such as poland and slovakia but angle of merkel said this in response it wouldn't and i think it would become dependent on russia because of the second gas pipeline and i'd say no not if we diversify the same time germany will expand its guest terminals for liquefied gas this means that under no circumstances do we want to become dependent solely on russia but russia was already a source of gas in the cold war and will remain one with i'll toss for an end to one sided dependency. this isn't the first time that this multi-billion euro project has come under attack particularly from the united states with the united states saying at one point that german companies who continued with the

construction of this point by could actually face sanctions as a result of doing that and last year when president trump was at a nato conference he made this declaration we're protecting germany we're protecting french were very involved with these crises and numerous of the countries go out and make a play. it was. within. hours 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 part of the united states concern there about the money tree influence of germany paying russia for this energy when in fact the usa would like to be selling its. gas to europe and being one of the major supplies over energy to europe in the future not so with this project going ahead not only that but u.s. ambassador is germany to denmark and to the e.u. are said to be pushing pressure on nations to actually oppose this project but some

fault that hasn't wook as we know there's been a compromise and stream to project will be going ahead it seems like the pressure from the us has resulted in one thing only and that go well just last point or not see she's been discussing the all of pressure washington's been exerting its german partners over the nord stream project you can watch the interview in full on this channel or the r t v dot com web page in the latest episode of sophie and co throat friday here's a quick preview. mr mass recently said that questions of european energy policy must be decided and europe not in the united states i mean i can agree with him war but can really really stop washington imposing on whoever they choose. we have never been succeeding in this in the last years we had

a series of cases where v americans where we complain the extent. of american lives. for us it's a lot acceptable all or nothing very will come we really come to a point where we have to discuss for frankly with the americans. and other headline stories this hour chinese telecoms giant while away has had its critics in the west flatly dismissing claims that it's a pawn being used for beijing's spying purposes. recently who always been under constant attack by some countries and politicians were shocked or sometimes feel amused by those ungrounded and senseless allegations chinese telecom from slammed the united states after receiving another blow in the five g. race they feel shocked and amused of how the united states is lobbying here governments against the firms the united states envoy to the european union has

threatened its western allies that if the huge chinese equipment in their infrastructure projects they will face consequences and they will be in the disadvantage side when dealing with the united states the chinese firm has been receiving a lot of pressure from western regulators and law makers its involvement in the next generation network with officials blindly accusing the company of spying someone from the politburo in beijing picks up the phone and says i want to listen in on the following conversation i want to run a certain car off the road that's on the five g. network and kill the person who's in it there's nothing that the company legally can do today in china to prevent the chinese government from making that request successfully just last month the united states government filed criminal charges against quark we accusing them of stealing trade secrets from timor bille scored in the u.s. on sanctions on iran but i didn't know proof when they were actually asked directly

of where is the proof the us response was simply it's actually run party one state and it seems that the us cannot choose in a better time to actually do this european countries are actually looking and weighing in of new introductions of sanctions against companies and countries when it's coming to cyber espionage and gathering intellectual property theft but as all this is how printing there's a government officials in germany which are saying that girls government right now is ruling out the ban of the. using chinese equipment supplies for building its five g. network as germany is currently walking into the net and into building its five g. network europe is actually crossways second largest market has invested billions and billions and into digital sector they've been working closely with major telecom companies are on the continent such as the way to telecom orange and bt and

many others and as the u.s. is now trying to impose our blanket ban on chinese firms are when it comes to the five g. market europe is actually on the horns of a dilemma. another big story of the week the united states is continuing to dial up the pressure on venice willis crisis stricken government calling on the international community to deal with the leader of the opposition instead the embattled president however nicolas maduro is continuing to resist america's calls to resign. instead of trying to accommodate woodrow through country groups or dialogue we urge countries to recognize one why go is interim president and join us the time for dialogue with majority has long past don't fall into a trap that the girl has said many times before where there's a phony dialogue rather than

a strong message to him it's time to go by you know not will march in great numbers to washington we will even go to the white house to deliver more than ten million signatures asking prospective unusually and demanding peace i just signed it it says hands off when israel when israel is should be respected it's quite simple all the countries that do not recognize the door as the the democratically elected rightful president of venezuela because he won the elections he won the elections fair and square all the question all the countries that do not recognize him including the united states are supporters of imperialism in some shape form or fashion so even though they may not be you know. conducting imperialism the same way the united states is they are they are supporters of imperialism so that countries like italy and so many other countries that have made a stance to recognize my door because new door won the election they are standing

on the on the side of peace they are saying on the on the side of justice. you know the same way that they would want free and fair elections to be recognized in their country and the elections in venezuela by all accounts were free. of washington's now also revoke the visas of numerous officials working for president maduro his administration we discuss the u.s. backing of the opposition figure along why do what host of artie's worlds apart oksana bucko. presumably the united states always knows what's best for people in other countries and you know what's astounding in this whole debacle for me is that is not only the every successive american administration of falls for the same regime change operation irrespective of its ideological persuasions but also that it always does it in exactly the same way by pushing a very stark and very misguided choice on the people it supposedly wants to benefit

because. it is a very legitimate conversation of whether president has been good or bad in handling or mishandling the economy in his country there are many critics of his economic policies within israel and outside the country but this very vocal and very unapologetic backing by the americans really frames the conversation from the substance of his economic policies into who has the right of appointing a leader in venezuela and when you still has a very very proud population they're very proud of their independence and this backing of why i adore i think. a major disservice to gordo himself because he's now a see is seen not as a legitimate grassroots figure out position figure but as a figurehead for them eric ministration they're always third and fourth and fifth options and you know just today for my program i interviewed raphael remarries who

is who used to be who. he is also sometimes referred to as the new sellers former oil czar because he ran the oil industry for many many years and he's extremely extremely critical of maduro he believes that betrayed the legacy of. and did pretty much all the chairman's of his government but he is just as harshly critical of the door because he sees him as the representative of the american interest well let's see exactly what he had. to say against. three gains of this. completely illegal we we have to go to that but ensure the would mother with them have any chance to recover to the book and neither though because.

it is the. war from the us that man has very strong connections within the venezuelan military as well as among venezuelan international partners such as russia and china and he's now trying to portray himself as the third option a consensus candidate he hopes to run for president if the elections are indeed called and you can watch this interview in fall on worlds apart this coming sunday there are many many interesting moments and it's a very interesting look at the country outside the either or framing that the united states is trying to push on the venezuela. the u.s. secretary of state has been explaining in all mix protected risk arising from venice when in crisis but it's nowhere near caracas.

he conducted a sham election then to clear himself president of. the cubans invaded this way like russia is there today as well as active cells the iranians are impacting the people of venezuela. duly elected interim president mr morsi though.

the evidence of the presumably very easy to get because of his ball were to come to venezuela they would have to fly from beirut to damascus and have to take ship from beirut or not of course and of course that area is under constant surveillance by the americans and others they would immediately notice this by the idea of his ball which is a it's not a government of sort of state would be sending large numbers of trained fighters to venezuela is preposterous i mean if they knew it they would have been at this would be the headline news if you had any evidence of this hasn't got a history of intervention outside its borders particular despite how it's painted and again any flight from tehran which arrived in in caracas full of soldiers or deliver a nuclear missile was wearing white that the americans if they have the evidence would be pumping that out left right and center so i take all this with an immense spencer. sault. there has been a fresh development in the script poisoning case reports that britain security

services have identified five suspects in the nerve agent attack on a former russian double agent and his daughter in march last year here. churkin up with what we know. according to several reports circulating in the u.k. press this morning u.k. authorities are now looking at five possible suspects in the script poisoning saga we are waiting for more details on that to be revealed that is yet to come we have contacted scotland yard who have told us that they don't really have any news to share and that they are continuing to pursue several lines of inquiry now at the same time we're seeing u.k. based opensource investigative team belling cat announcing that they have according to them conclusively identified the third suspect in this poisoning case if you remember previously they said that according to them the names of the first two suspects are. in their identity those two men. are you officers now they're

saying that this third suspect is a forty five year old sergei fit daughter of who according to belling cat is a senior g.r.u. officer of the link that are saying that all of these three men had their covers created at the same in the same year back in twenty ten and according to them this is a third suspect is linked to a case in twenty fifteen and bowl garia where a businessman fell sick and was taken to hospital or with a son and his executive and the story very never led to nor the chalk and the substance use on him was not really identified but belling cat is now linking those together and we have heard from the kremlin spokesperson say that it's not really clear where this connection comes from and what this revelation is based off of

there is only one question how could the use of some chemical warfare agent in europe go unnoticed in twenty fifteen why did they find this out only now we don't know how true it is whether it's true it's true we don't know the origins of this information we don't know how competent it is who they are again if this is all true. time now for the shortest breaks here are to international and john me right after that for more news this friday. because there's survival guide books they say there's a wall to start simply read all this or that. you should go there you don't get it back. oh it's no good says a repatriation scheme will get the rest in seven years. bill of the separate kaiser

report. when you look back truth. it's clear about this treaty is coming to an end. because of the interest of both sides. in washington. donald trump's second state of the union address was conspicuously light when it came to foreign policy why is this was his aim to avoid disappointing his base while at the same time wishing not to spar with the deep state what are these mixed signals all about is an elaborate strategy for an indication of indecisive.

hello again r.t. has spoken exclusively to the leading lawyer in the case of a russian national charged in the us with acting as a foreign agent he told us maria boots and who a sensation he accused of being a spy was in the end essentially convicted on a technicality and could soon be heading home robert driscoll also gave us updates on the latest developments in the case and some of the misconceptions surrounding it although this case was kind of presented as a red sparrow type of espionage case the u.s. government never had any evidence that maria was a spy was a member of the f.s.b. or this p.r. or any russian intelligence service she pled guilty to a very obscure u.s. statute for especially acting as a as an agent of a foreign official. but the agent was not was not

a spying case at all it was simply her completing tasks at the behest of foreign official that had nothing to do with covert operations or with undermining america even accepting the government's theory is true which we did for purposes of taking the police to resolve the case she was a censor looking for better relations between two countries under took some activities in that regard and should have registered with the attorney general prior to doing that she's been telling the government what little she knows and we're hoping to have a sentencing set in the next month and hoping that she'll be home fairly soon after that i'm hopeful that she'll be home you know within within a month or six weeks. let's cross go through the box round here in july twenty eighth and i was arrested in washington and charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government she had allegedly been trying to influence u.s. policy towards russia having spent months behind bars she reached a deal with the u.s.

justice department pleading guilty to the claim in moscow denies any connection with bits and and say she was pressured into making that confession with boots and his family previously claiming she was being kept in solitary confinement not driscoll i can say things have improved in regard to the last several weeks she's been in the general population at alexander detention center that's certainly not a bargain that the average citizen would want to have but it's better than the isolation that she faced for about four months of her incarceration overall she's better than she was i mean i think she's for those that probably know her i think she's probably thin. i think jail food is not great but i think mentally having some contact with people is much better for her time has been able to talk to her father and sometimes her mother and sister you know once a week or twice a week on occasion from the jail you know those are calls you have to pay for

they're very expensive but she has friends and family that deposit money into her phone account and she's able to call home once in a while and update them on her status which is good. a former executive editor at the new york times has been accused of plagiarizing material for her new book merchants of truth which itself focuses on the evolution of news during this century it's been pulled apart by journalists who say it's strewn with factual errors on stolen passages.

three chapters on with mistakes lots of them the truth promised in merchants of truth was often not true while trying to corroborate certain claims. contained plagiarized passages. group the basa trauma nonstick lie rodent two thousand and rode in the new book. by have been taking issue with the same now and why is that i think they don't like the portrayal of bias saw though i think it's a very balanced voice. but

. it's hard for me to sympathize for the new york times today saying that they are some journalistic you know icon and i don't view them that way and here is just another example of it where one of their key people engaged in very blatant plagiarism just listed passages from others. people's work without giving it credit and now they pretend that somehow that was an accident when in fact it was very clearly intentional i think it's very hard to attack the new york times directly. even though the new york times is a very tough institution and if you run afoul of it you know your journalistic integrity is called into question and so i think that's probably why vice has

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on board with those welcome coming up tensions continue to simmer between european neighbors as they as france and italy have a public diplomatic spat arche correspondent charlotte dubinsky brings us up to speed from paris and we look south of the border to analyze how latin america keep the engines running and what their fuel future looks like with the least the p.c.b. the dinner americans are a lot plus there's a large legal battle brewing between fox as netflix and it's coming to the boiling point why know of why no media and host of the big picture here are here america hollingsworth joins us to sort it all out and look at what it may mean and later candidates could sit or if it's huawei or the my way or the chinese tech giant archy's alex mahela bitches on the ground the drano says it's just how they could be booted out of the great white north all that in our side put first we had right to some headlines let's go. a die.