too close to call israeli election exit polls put longtime premier benyamin netanyahu and challenger benny gantz in a dead heat as both declared victory. president putin dismisses them all or investigation into the alleged collusion between trump and russia in two thousand and sixteen calling it a total nonsense. and the trump administration fires up fresh salvo at its european allies pledging to hit goods with tariffs worth as much as eleven billion dollars and the u.s. says the move is in retaliation for subsidies given to boeing rival airbus.

or broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right now counting is under way in israel's general election but the exit polls indicate a neck and neck race between incumbent prime minister benyamin netanyahu and his political rival benny gantz with both now claiming an early victory looking over the exit polls in tel aviv here is our middle east correspondent policy. what we're hearing from the initial exit polls really confirms what we've heard from surveys and polls conducted in the run up to the elections and that is that the two leaders the incumbent israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main contender a political newcomer that the former army chief benny guns are running to make and make having said that depending which board cost to you look at it most of them are pushing guns in first position with some fifty seven seats and then in second

position again depending on who you look at is the term trading obviously the sixty . having said that both to dissipate the heat of the market which was quite difficult at the time yahoo so we could party headquarters is a somewhat some of the mood who want is more aimed and people seem a little bit along by comparison you had the blue and white party headquarters that he's going to sponsor there's a lot of celebration happening there because they really need to be as if they've won these elections but it's still too soon the final confirmation only be given on wayne state at a round in the day. but amir putin has brushed off the entire mall investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election as total nonsense and aimed at a domestic audience the russian president told the international arctic form in st petersburg that it was clear from the beginning there had been no collusion between

the kremlin and donald trump are too easily a patrol go comments. international arctic forum where first of all the journalists and the audience on the other hand at the main discussion event wanted to hear answers to questions that had nothing to do with the arctic the journalist that was leading the way of the discussion actually made it clear at one point that he wants to stay away from climate change melting ice is c o two emissions and talked of lot of more potent for some time about international relations and specifically how moscow is getting along with washington and indeed ever since the robert miller investigation was done and dusted and any kind of collusion between russia and donald trump was ruled out we never heard a word from vladimir putin on that specifically well that's up until today.

we were saying from the beginning this month a commission would not find anything russia did not interfere in the u.s. elections and there was none of the collusion that money was looking for between trump and russia we did not know when he came to moscow he came as a businessman this is complete nonsense designed exclusively for a domestic audience so he started with a mountain which in the end of a mouse there's nothing really to add here it was very clear what the russian president wanted to say here and the next turn in that conversation was rather predictable as well if the robert moeller probe is over and if no signs of collusion between washington and mr trump were filed what's next for the top between the u.s. and moscow what's next and terms of how specifically the two presidents get along

will lattimer putin accept donald trump's invitation. that's dated back to the house and to washington and could at least these ties between these two countries could they start getting back to normal the russian president said that he wasn't really expecting that to happen and then he went on to say that he believes there is some deep trouble in america internal politics he actually called it a real crisis that never happened in the history of the country. is part of a wider crisis in the us political groups attack villages a million elected president they don't accept the choice of the american people they want to send the result is a political crisis unlike anything we've seen in u.s. history so we'll leave it there with all the stuff that has to do with america there was something else very special about the specific international arctic for the participants in fact the leaders from two countries sweden and norway the

prime ministers who back in two thousand and fourteen decided to join the chorus of western nations who wanted to isolate russia as a result of the crisis in ukraine now i can remind you that ever since then pretty much all contacts on the highest level work cut well now they are in st petersburg and they are talking directly to president vladimir putin but they decided at least in that particular room to avoid the sharp angles everything they said sounded rather diplomatic and they chose to stake his things like carbon emissions climate change and those melting ice is in the arctic which are very important issues and deed as well this is actually the reason why everyone is gathered here but i can tell you that in the minds of journalists they want to hear

about that molar probe again and again. while many serious issues were discussed at the forum there were also some lighter moments. i was swedish friends of invested five billion in the russian economy. because of this that you are used. for to boost the economy. red. handed and are you expecting an invitation to the white house this year is that your sister we have a good book is called twelve chairs is a phrase in the coming visitors the old mother will be happy but she's not left the address you are many russian tourists come to finland and you said before that you hope they behave well i hope they finish tourist behavior though. they behave well they eat snacks while they're drinking. the u.s.

president has pledged to place a tariff worth eleven billion dollars on goods in response to the block subsidies for the european aerospace giant airbus. discussed the move and of the reaction from europe with our correspondents. eleven billion dollars so it's not pay you know it's at all that is billion with a b. donald trump has said he wants to place entire goods coming from the european union into the united states of course when it comes to this presidential administration how was it announced through twitter. the world trade organization finds that the european union subsidies to air bus has adversely impacted the united states which will now put cherished on eleven billion dollars of products the u.s. taking advantage of the u.s. on trade for many years it will soon stop so what type of things are going to be affected by these tariffs if it gets approved by the world trade organization and eventually goes through we're looking at different types of cheeses we're looking

at lemons all. of oil kashmir's sweaters not electrical wall clocks but the thing is this has nothing to do with cheese and almost certainly has absolutely nothing to do with not electrical wall clocks this is all down to an ongoing dispute between the european airspace giant airbus and of course boeing the major u.s. air space giant boeing is the largest producer or and export of aerospace technology united states it's a huge colazal to him when it comes not only to commercial aerospace technology but also to military technology as well and of course playing donald trump flies around in air force one that's also a boeing jet as well there are big problems for boeing right now they've been involved in two fatal air crashes in the last five months resulting in three

hundred and forty six deaths that's the crashes involving lie in air and ethiopian airways both of those planes that went down were the boeing seven three seven max and not well apart from the obvious tragedy that comes with it has tanked their share price donald trump says despite the problems that boeing has been going through he stands behind the company grounding was a big thing and it's a great company it's a truly great company and hopefully they'll figure it out very quickly it was a bigger it's a big decision or one of our largest actually orders. one of our you know truly one of the truly great companies of the world they have to figure it out for stay know that they're under great pressure but this just seems like it's donald trump doing business as donald trump those business we have seen it throughout his career but in his presidential korea we saw just last year how he launched into china turkey and the european not promising tariffs on. steel imports. into the united states

he has said he wouldn't shy away from a trade war it certainly doesn't seem like he's willing to right now peter thank you for those details as paid to all of us speaking to his life from berlin let's cross over to paris now and our correspondent shiela do penske as solid what has been the reaction from europe the e.u. and china were actually meeting in brussels today to talk about the future of their own trade agreements they talked about reform all of that in the future which china has said for the first time that it will cooperate in many were expecting them to touch on those trade wars which of both books have with the u.s. but nothing was said perhaps saying nothing about trump and trade rules with them perhaps speaks more volumes indeed but we did hear from the european commission in regards to this new element this eleven billion dollars of tariffs that trump is

talking about slapping on european products it said it remains open to discussions with the u.s. but says it will hold those discussions as long as there are no preconditions to the e.u. the european commission has also said it will be speaking to the arbitrator to get them involved in this the commission is starting preparations so the you can probably take action based on the arbitrator's decision on retaliation rights in this case the european union remains open for discussions with the united states providing these without preconditions and a mf'er outcome we've also heard from the e.u. in regards to that figure that eleven billion dollar figure same for them that that is a grossly exaggerated figure and that's echoing what we've also heard from airbus which is course at the eye of the storm in regards to this. also he sees

no legal. this all these u.s. proposals these tariffs on european products adding that it's also had taken all the measures that it was asked to comply with according to a w t o a report that came out in two thousand and eighteen this is what tells us what to say we don't see no legal basis for this all this is leading to a necessary trade tensions and shows that the only reasonable solution in this long tree dispute is a settlement which is something we have said since the beginning meanwhile here in france we've been hearing from front finance economy misapplying the america he's been talking about the fact that they needs to be a friendly solution to these trade wars between the e.u. and the u.s. it doesn't look like that is something that's going to go down well. we asked economist and author stephen keim how he expects the e.u. to react and which u.s.

industries it might target. dealing with trump is a totally different experience of dealing with any any president previously those would bluster but then that would be negotiated by the diplomats this would have been almost decided by choice so they know the only way to pot is to fight back directly and i'm pretty certain i will slap tariffs on american products and i might well go for the so the areas where america has a obvious advantage which is in computing design of computing maybe even intellectual property i mean i'm not trying to claim to live in billion worth of subsidy i'm sure that's been vastly exaggerated but if you take a look at the us all of contracts that boeing got over the last couple of years is getting about twenty billion in contracts to you from the pentagon now we know anybody who produces the pentagon massively over process so fundamentally this is a subsidy for boeing coming in through the military wing of america which is like us than anything european union is strong it is about. the u.k.

is preparing to put in place what has been described as the world's toughest internet laws that story much more after a short break stay with us. if you can prove that you don't. interest rates above zero you don't need capital you don't need savings you don't need. you don't need inflation right so people like united states are saying like well why can't we just be like you. when trying to american foreign policy at its core is it really about furthering national interest is there an ideological foundation that is the driver we're told it's all about democracy or is it really all about power and the purposeful denial of agency and others on the international stage.

they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president and you. want to be. too great for us this is what. three of the people. interested in the war. about this is an international now britain is lining up the toughest internet laws in the world so says a government plan called online harms which suggests penalizing or even blocking websites that fail to take down potentially harmful content covering everything from child abuse to do some from asia but his arteries paula boyko explains that

there are fears that where there is regulation there's also censorship. too much freedom can be dangerous that's the message from the u.k. government which has unveiled ambitious new plans to avis see the safest corner of the internet the country that's famous for bringing in mary poppins is aiming to be the well best online we're pushing a legal duty of care on these companies to keep uses safe and if they fail to do so tough punishments will be imposed. the era of social media firms regulating themselves is over it's time to do things differently it's time to keep our children safe so how is the british government going to make the u.k. the safest place to enjoy the net well for starters there are going to be some strict new rules any company that allows online interaction will be responsible for their users safety as well as the content that appears on their services in the

most obvious examples that will mean purging illegal material related to terrorist and child sexual exploitation and abuse and if companies fail to clean up their act the likes of facebook and twitter will be put on the naughty step by a new independent regulator for the internet companies will face substantial fines for failing to pull down dangerous or extremist materials if the fines don't work bosses of the offending firms could be liable to criminal prosecution and if that fails to websites could be blocked entirely for u.k. internet users and that regulator should have teeth so we're going to consult not just on remedial notices on fines and that can be up to four percent of global turnover at the moment none of this is law yet they'll be twelve weeks of public consultation only after that draft legislation will be drawn op but there are

already concerns over the prospect of tough new regulations there's so much come to know that you can just influence. the really anybody but specially they the younger generation kids i would disagree i think the internet is something which is open and it was a good thing that it was always open and not regulus by any any form of government or whatever i think it's probably a good idea i think this is enough regulate that i think it's. pretty good i. i think it's a good idea to have some protection in there but its plans how stringent and how close they are to every day stuff internet needs better regulation most definitely why. two three four. and then the government says it wants to remove what it calls harmful content but who will be the arbiter of what stays out up and what goes down so those social media companies will have to do two things

first is to set out filters. to see just to show that they are doing whatever they can you know to to prevent material that could potentially cause serious harm to young children in a lot of people in a second they will have to act in a speedy manner to any request to remove such material at the moment the government is still deciding whether the job of regulating should fall on the shoulders of a new independent body or an existing one like broadcast regulator off kong and when it comes to the big social media fans well like students craving more stringent discipline facebook has tentatively welcomed the plan for greater and government oversight with a caveat or to. these are complex issues to get right and we look forward to working with the government and parliament to ensure the new regulations are

effective the u.k. government says it wants to be a trailblazer but the question is how to implement strictest safety measures as without restricting freedom of the internet. or the u.k. it could be set for a lengthy bragg's a delay diplomats have been locked in talks ahead of wednesday's emergency summit in brussels and have signaled that they do not believe a short extension to the withdrawal period will help break the current deadlock earlier on tuesday the british prime minister met with german chancellor angela merkel in berlin to try and secure support for a short delay until the thirtieth of june theresa may then jetted off to paris where she met the french president the diplomatic dash comes after m.p.'s in westminster passed a bill requiring the pm to seek yet another extension to the deadline to leave the european union. it's almost three years since the brags that referendum and many in the u.k. have changed their mind on whether they should leave the union after all the town

of boston which is about one hundred kilometers north of london is home to thousands of migrants from eastern european countries and back then it voted overwhelmingly to leave the e.u. we went to see where the pendulum is now. the people. we have to vote we do so much and they stick to it. and let's get out. of this price. menus today they want he has this take it the job is now we have no tradition based we're not even set up right still from case to pay paul. respect this town you know to drink on the. time if you integrate in the community it's worth paying taxes so you try to no good. along with the others i think there shouldn't be any problems because we have people of the world if we all thought we belonged to each other we should help each

other instead of like to each other's back. the foreign minister of venezuela has announced to that the country will leave the organization of american states the government of the blue varian republic of venezuela reaffirms its revokable decision to leave the organization of american states on april twenty seventh twenty nine hundred given that venezuela cannot remain in an organization that means before the imperial interests of the us administration. came in response to the oas deciding to award venezuela's seat to a representative of opposition leader while according to the organization's twitter the vote was eighteen to nine in favor of seating gustavo tara at a meeting in washington on tuesday tare had been named by venezuela's opposition dominated national assembly which said he would represent venezuela until democratic elections are held. to discuss this further we can cross live to

anti-war activist richard becker richard thanks for being with us here as always. so with president duros representative being replaced at the oas how much of a blow is this to venezuela's diplomatic. well i actually think it's much more of you know yes the thin veneer that it somehow represents latin america people have to square what a reality you know yes it just went and got to why it is banned for many many decades going back to the formation of the. lands most notable the central office three minutes in washington. and yet washington has been working very hard not just into the trumpet ministration either ten years ago and then president shortly after he came in office and i paraphrase but this is very sad that the bush

administration that preceded this had neglected let him. that the boy had not been thrilled by. the practice checkbook. and really set out on a course to turn that but in america which i've been writing very much greater much of paper. and socialist governments so this is meant as a decade long process that's going to happen and no one to be cool thinking otherwise is a bendy richard let america the rich and powerful in america whatever ation with the obama administration and now even more intensely with the chocolate ministration and seeking to bring all that is not back to us some grow so how much more weight does this give shadow government could it help in forcing the door from power. i don't think so and so many more credit. everyone with the game it is and we've seen this process it's going to. live you

know. brazil can control it part of the straight into the thick of the judiciary in various countries so that. these kind they're super reactionary undemocratic. so i think that i really think the term should know is. this side is trying to effect regime change in venezuela that's going to decide if something is. right now how would you evaluate the role played by the oas in the venezuelan crisis thus far i mean is it a surprise that they voted the way they did no it is not a surprise and all i mean they they've been going right that it's they're working with washington i mean it's disgraceful that shamed you could say all the things it but we in the interest i find this in the interest first and foremost at the

interest of wall street. and we have to keep in mind. that the ira is a group. in the world and admit that somehow there's some terrible government there at the present and people look where that's been shown to be completely false and the united states in fact stands behind the most reactionary. like saudi arabia or that's all. right and we're activist richard becker always a pleasure to have you here on arch international it'll be interesting to see how this whole venezuela in place. then. all right watch out international bags more news let's say thirty two and a half minutes. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field

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