interleaved you. moved to. ordering the state oil company. q. to move to moscow amid concerns shared by russia over u.s. led attempts to the country. it is very clear was going on seeking to arm terrorist groups in order to destabilize and your mind creates tension some situations that might trigger the u.s. wants an explosion and bloodbath in venezuela to justify military interference. in indian pilot pakistan has been handed over to india in what the pakistani prime

minister cooled the gesture of peace after the escalating tension over recent weeks . and. saudi arabia. here in moscow watching r.t. international live with me daniel hawkins you are actually joining us this hour. the president of crisis stricken as waiter has ordered the european headquarters of the country's state oil company to relocate to moscow the concern is over securing national assets off the key figures in europe sided with the united states backing self-proclaimed interim leader who they want to run a major oil exporter at a news briefing with the russian foreign minister the venezuelan vice president said her country doesn't trust the u.s. allies in europe. under the relocation of p.d.

from europe i'll see that it's been a part of our plans in terms of deepening relations with russian companies like gross math and gas prom europe has not given us enough for sure and says that he will respect our assets look at the bank of england which is we holding venezuelan gold there has been an armed robbery on his watch and we want to ensure our relationship with russia. over as well as the largest oil reserves in the world u.s. sanctions have blocked seven billion dollars worth of a state owned companies assets russia says its shares venezuela's concerns over u.s. led attempts to destabilize the country is artes with more details. friday's visit as well as vice president to moscow has become yet another one in a series of meetings between high ranking officials from russia and this like an american country here in the russian capital meetings to show solidarity and ensure

support of course russia is among the countries totally and fully back in venezuela defending its sovereignty and protecting its future and maids as foreign minister lavrov has said today cynical complain aimed at overthrow the illegitimate authorities of venezuela using open threats including one of a military intervention. knowing the approach of the current us administration i wouldn't be surprised if it takes action that violates any reasonable standards of international law especially when the u.s. special envoy in venezuela at the u.n. elliot abrams makes no secret that his functions don't include looking for a peaceful settlement he only creates tensions and situations that might trigger as the u.s. wants an explosion and bloodbath in venezuela to justify military interference needless to say a lot has been said about the possibility of military intervention of course that's especially after america's president trumps claiming that all the options are on

the table meaning including military operation armed operation in venice is well worth it thorough when i'm on your way to there is a concerted effort there is seeking to justify an international intervention in venezuela being headed by do you and their regime change doctrine this is nothing new we've seen these tactics and here and now the country the person in charge of action against venice well is known for their a subversive activities and attacked in foreign states and i asked mr abrams it is very clear was going on u.s. is seeking to arm terrorist groups and rebels in order to destabilize in undermine our peace. which it's no coincidence that we heard venezuela is not. only goals cuba nicaragua rome horizon and if the u.s. doesn't like someone else tomorrow if they say the election results in any country don't meet democratic standards now answering r.t. question venezuela's vice president has added that she believes

venezuela will not become second syria because the people of venezuela and the country's army are as united as never before in fighting for their future and peace u.s. special envoy to venezuela was asked about the russian foreign minister is warning that washington is planning a military intervention. foreign minister lavrov for. fifteen years. known him for quite a while i don't. think he actually believes that we're attempting to to do that and i think it's you know you're not it to you that we continue to say and we always will but all options are on the table because they always or but i think anyone who actually looks at american policy in venezuela would not reach that conclusion abrams announced new u.s. sanctions on six individuals from venezuela and security forces for not allowing

u.s. aid convoys into the country last week president. over there because back in the eighty's defended the smuggling weapons to nicaraguan rebels described as eight while he was assistant secretary of state after announcing the new restrictions sabers was pressed by an a.p. reporter about what the quota was running out of steam and also the effect of american officials threatening language towards. i'm wondering are you guys in the meeting the administration at all concerned that end of the initial. for lack of a better word excitement over when the recognition is that is losing some momentum and in giving given the majority of those seem to be going anywhere he certainly not taking the national security adviser's advice to those on the beach outside of venezuela i wish him a long quiet retirement on a pretty beach charge from venezuela and the sooner he takes advantage of that the

center is likely to have a nice quiet retirement on a pretty beach rather than being in some other beach area like guantanamo so are you concerned that you're losing momentum and then set and related to that if there is one member of congress in particular has a senator who has you know suggested that madeira might meet the same fate as cut off the libya and i does that help or hurt you or your cause or your efforts to build momentum. i'm not actually going to get into that commenting on what particular senators over then forget it. forget it forget the line about any senator to do comparisons between with duro and suggesting that he might. help you. i'm not going to get into that other than to say that i think that. dictatorships come to an end some last for a very long time. others

a much shorter time this one in venezuela will also come to an end we hope that it comes to an end quickly and peacefully these some for the set about it said but not only by the united states. should to emergency meeting when is it in middle east it would it was defeated it's to try to get the these are going to shoot through the nose why don't they and then later the mandate in the united nations security council quite being defeated on that caucasians and then to push on that point consider the lowden push to try to remain through i mean closed form whether you call to really go to needing to call alliance also failed miserably and now one way to go is i was a country and many of the people here is a. massive the socially economically looking nice because they would have been not to leave in a sort of completely i think even comment. an indian fighter pilot who was

captured by pakistan after his jet was shot down has been handed over to india the transfer held at the border between the two states was televised live like a stars prime minister described the pilots as a peace gesture tension between the two nuclear countries has escalated in recent weeks start also released a video recording made of the indian pilot while he was in their custody. my god we're going to get we're just i was trying to look for the target when i was shot down by the pakistani air force. as soon as i injected my parachute opened and i came down i had a pistol with me i tried to run and people chased me their emotions were running high then two pakistani army officials came in save me pakistani army captain save me from the people and did not let any harm come to me they took me to their unit when i was given first aid. reporting from pakistan his local journalist had run up . that class decided to hand him over to india because the law to let

that be put in india and elsewhere in the world know that pakistan believes in showing the regular enemy gathered by the. underdog. the rest of the better off their laws nor the result which was i doubt is what everybody else you don't focus on to tell you that there was a little bit inside. this thing in the pilot or the whole fire service not decided to endorse for nonetheless the signatures and invited. that progress though does not formally positive i wish to assure the nation that we are fully prepared and in a heightened state of readiness to this point to any group looking by pakistan could you envision this all out war between india and pakistan. i hope not. that would be mutual suicide and that these are. where this incident all.

on forty one million more going for. india. here i mean while india pakistan tensions continue to escalate according to local media at least seven people were killed by an exchange of fire in india controlled kashmir on friday security forces have launched search operations as there are reports of rebel presence in the area the status of kashmir has been an insurmountable obstacle between india and pakistan for many years.

this is a very dangerous situation because both these countries have nuclear weapons right up against each other over all the troops and suspicion and so if we think back so to the cuban missile crisis in one nine hundred sixty two whatever with tensions between moscow and washington american and soviet soldiers didn't shoot at each other in more recent times in korea huge tension between north korea and the americans but there's been no shooting here we've actually had casualties and so the risk of things spiralling out of control because somebody is trigger happy or somebody makes a miscalculation is really a very serious one and that's why of course china russia and america and other countries around the world are very worried because of imran khan so it would be carnage and test for it given the huge numbers of people who live within range of

these missiles as public anger in the u.k. after pictures of an isolated bride are used as a target practice at a shooting range or these cells on that and more after this short break. this is this you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice so the biggest read in. this is just the right questions and the right answer.

question. welcome back to the program and there's a split in germany's governing coalition with the two main parties at all so whether to prolong the freeze of arms sales to saudi arabia they were initially halted in response to the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi for which several saudi officials were blamed now the freeze was initially introduced as

a temporary measure to be evaluated in a few days' time the social democratic party has expressed its concern over saudi arabia's involvement in the war in yemen where there are new most reports of civilian casualties while the conservatives argue that by holding saudi sales germany risks losing the trust of its international partners. if germany pretty in a european or supernational project then partner should find common rules otherwise such projects could take place without germany in the future of britain and france have already years germany to exempt big defense projects from the moratorium or risk damaging its commercial credibility partially because top british defense for systems could suffer as a result of that german arms sales suspension saudi arabia has been involved in the german conflict for around three years now the country has become one of the largest arms importer in the world most of the weapons the country purchases come

from britain and the united states german arms sales to the country i've also been steadily growing until they were frozen just at the end of last year all the while the saudi led campaign in yemen has led it to being branded the worst humanitarian crisis since the second world war saudi officials insist they investigate all reports of civilian casualties. and we heard earlier from martin doul so who's an m.p. and how state parliament he suspects elements of the coalition are inflating reasons just to secure weapons exports. drew this the international cooperation crime colonel at the consular tips they want to go around the restraint to if

german exports regulations in this novel because we have some kind of restrictive regulations which do not forbid arms sales or weapon exports but if it's regulations which limit and now the argument that international cooperation should be saved through no more limiting the next falls or arms sales to saudi arabia is just some kind of a or a trick of course there will be consequences for example of weapons for its rich are literally true. or not to be conducted that easy like before with the restrictions from germany but i think it will out of the corporations and between the. companies and work an industry because the common interests as well so it will affect a little bit but not that much. afghan forces have

repelled the deadly taliban assault on a military base in the south it's been reported locally that twenty attackers including several suicide bombers were killed and at least twenty three personnel from the security forces also died journalist so one fires he has more details from kabul. the heard early in the morning that a target to camp bastion three am local time and then ministry of defense declared that all the assailants have been killed after a sixteen hour fight and as a result twenty three in a forces have been killed and twenty eight suicide bombers of the taliban also have been killed some sources are saying that you know one of the suicide assailants managed to get into the camp and lot his explosive inside a dining room that resulted the majority of the casualties but they are in helmand

a local official said that they couldn't breach security walls but what we have to actually to you know to harm the existing two hundred us forces within the camp we still do not know the detailed. information about the whole attack because the camp bastion used to be a british force. field in the past back in twenty six two thousand and six and and it was well equipped and you know how to type very tight security with surveillance cameras and very thick warts. of the attack happened against the background of negotiations between the u.s. and the taliban present the daves of both parties met in qatar on monday to discuss ending the war in afghanistan and iraq the western writer david swanson thinks obstacles to an agreement are coming from more than one side. it looks better to the weapons companies and the militarists back home to escalate

a war prior to ending it or even talking about ending it sort of course the the united states and its allies have been escalating the war as well this past year has seen the heights of u.s. bombings and of civilian deaths in afghanistan so the escalation is not just one way here and there's no better solution than ending the occupation it's foreign occupations that generate this kind of violence and talk of it mean it over the coming five years withdrawing u.s. troops that's not a withdrawal at all that's an extension of a war beyond the leaks that most wars in human history have lasted from beginning to end and this one is a eighteen years already if this were a war in the name of democracy and trump having campaigned on ending it it would need to be ended but i don't see any signs of that happening they do not want to end wars. shooting reigns in the u.k. has been branded distasteful for allowing pictures of i still bribe me i'm

a big i'm to be used as target practice the teenager notoriety after interview what she showed no remorse or regret about fleeing to join a terrorist group in syria what if it was use use that the range covered but it holds has been widely shared online reactions have been mixed in a society where hate and violence against muslims particularly muslim women is most prevalent on the rides it's deeply concerned that people requested an image of a real person as a shooting target it's clearly wrong to use photos of people as targets in a shooting game they should stop why you're so worried about a traitor or just plain again with her poster her i says friends tossed three real human hands of beheaded victims like a football and she wasn't crazed remember that. some of the groom was born in britain but took her sister's passport and fled to syria to join eisel when she was fifteen she's now saying she'd like to return to the u.k.

but britain has moved to revoke her citizenship and here's why the shooting range according to them at least shows to add to their roster the targets provide some fantastic reactions and conversations and allow people to have some light hearted fun and bring out the in a child in us all the targets we provide do not necessarily always reflect our personal opinions after watching footage of big i'm being interviewed and the lack of remorse and empathy she shows we chose to go ahead and run the targets and we are some guests if such an act is appropriate. issue is how it's going to actually impacts on muslims in this country and muslim women in particular and the fact that we need to recognize that she whether we like it or not because she is a muslim woman she is going to inevitably represent something that the people who are going to range people are saying this is something that is going to be targeting muslim women in the second what is more what is more offensive to

muslim women the fact that should be pagans picture was at the shooting range almost nobody is going to go to all the fact that somebody is appearing on international television to say that should mean the begum is a vet present state of muslim women in britain that is not what i said that is a caricature of precisely what i've actually precisely what you said that night if you have knowledge i need to actually think about why do you allow me to finish why don't you allow me to finish what i'm talking about plane that is being made is that a racist environment this is a racist environment which you are a part of which is encouraging the targeting of muslim women she is a terrorist and they're law abiding citizens and frankly you should take that back you should apologize to muslim women in this country for suggesting that she is like them this is a process of desensitization of children from a very early age and this is problematic because it is saying that it's ok to shoot and kill women in her job because that's exactly what is being suggested in this to

call it harmless fun i think it's important that we recover the child advocates on the t.v. channels that we should take military action to get the child by its u.k. who after all is an innocent victim she can take a hike i don't care about. the release idea if she also says it's not true and b. so a fed was there to result in that the moral thing if a small island person is a terrorist there's an irish group he'll be taken away that would be taken away but for a white person that would not be an option. they citizenship would be taken away he said oh no other than that alone i recognize that there is a structural outfly all racism that exists through everything that you are actually a sense of what you would define i think should be why would i say you have to use all bring her back to defend the great never lived and try her and that's the issue there is an environment of hate that exists i think what we have to think first of all who all the real victims here should be to be jim he's a terrorist she supported

a brutal terrorist regime that disgraceful idea in the media that we should be seeing her as the fake said i think it's sad and pathetic it would not be the role of the british state to tell british people what they can call they just one or two people are offended by it if we lived our lives bombing everything that the one person found offensive nothing would exist in the world thank god i live in a country where we're never going to do that come out to one thirty am here in moscow thanks for staying here not international join us again next hour for the latest global news headlines. you know we're number one the capital the united states we also number one. i mean my you shall before. the most. evil

you selling crack rock you've got to we can jump shot in order to escape. the law in a month's other one. of these so this is somebody evil it is at the root for. donald trump and dictator kim jong un meet again while the president's former attorney over's bombshell testimony on capitol hill all the any closer to a nuke free north korea and is michael cohen's testimony a game changer for the trump white house. political experts weigh in on this

edition. of larry king donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un put their friendship on display in vietnam as they meet for round two of denuclearization talks libya round three and back home the president's former attorney and thinks that man michael cohen provides multi-day testimony on capitol hill months for a deeply divided electorate has cohen's testimony moved the political legal in any direction let's thought there is too political experts and form of ebers of congress joining me in washington bob livingston former republican representative from louisiana author of the book the windmill chasers triumphs and less in american politics and in miami patrick murphy former democratic member of congress

from florida one of the first millennia old selected to congress now kim one of the political nonprofit group few to forum foundation. all right bob we'll start with you president trump's former personal attorney michael cohen has been testifying what's been your reaction. well i think it'll probably quickly forgotten i don't think there's any bombshells in anything that heard but. time will only tell mr claude's go to prison he's been charged with lying before congress in the past and i gotta believe that anybody puts a lot of credibility in what he said to say this time. is probably going to be believing in the tooth fairy but that said larry the timing of the call in testimony is really really suspect i mean the president. isn't the second

meeting with the head of north korea. kim jong noon and we don't know whether the not those talks will be successful but he's accomplished already more than any of his predecessors republican or democrat in the white house and i think that frankly decency on the part of the democrat majority in the in the house of representatives would have led them to just defer the colon testimony for a few days until after this vietnam experience had when the mob the convictions occurred in there were many in the seventy's in the eighty's it always required people inside the mafia to testify against those. who were not in trouble and in dromo bloom people in jail it's not uncommon for an insider like michael cohen to testify against those in the inner circle right absolutely not and

we should keep this in perspective if it was just michael cohen and you wanted to discredit him that would be one thing but there's now what twelve thirteen fourteen senior members of the trump campaign that are and dieted going to jail in jail already so this is a series of events at a certain point you've got to start to wonder what's really going on and i got to push back a little bit on this comment about the timing of this investigation as if that's what we should be focused on when we have all of this happening you know let's not forget this is in the large part inspired by the senate who called for these hearings to happen with michael cohen which of course is controlled by republicans the house is now following on the heels of those. questions with michael cohen but to try to divert the attention to the timing as if that's the conspiracy when we have so many bombshell allegations against this president many of which are being verified.