today announcing that we will no longer grant any exemption we're going to zero washington says it will no longer exempt any countries from its sanctions on the rainy and oil imports suggesting its own crude and that produced by gulf allies of the alternative also. officials believe the deadly easter sunday bomb attacks which left almost three hundred dead were carried out with the help of an international network. and french

police are accused of cracking down on press freedoms after arresting reporters during the weekend yellow bus protests. you're watching are to international bringing you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. oil prices shot to a six month high and head of the u.s. announcement that it will scrap exemptions on the rand crude imports secretary of state my compare confirmed that washington will not extend waivers it had granted to eight countries. today i'm announcing that we will no longer grant any exemptions we're going to zero going to zero across the board. because live now to our to scale up and kaleb markets are jittery on the news that my pump give any assurances that could relieve the tension well we heard from mike

pompei o and it seems like washington d.c. is looking to escalate its campaign against iran to isolate iran now in his announcement pompei zero bragged that iran has already lost about ten billion dollars and he said and his remarks the emphasized basically that nobody should be doing any business with iran this is my pump ale. any nation or entity interacting with iran should use its diligence and err on the side of caution the risks are simply not going to be worth the benefits if you don't abide by this they'll be sanctions now it's been about a year since the trumpet ministration unilaterally losing unilaterally withdrew from the j c p o o a the p five plus one nuclear conclusion that basically pulled the united states out of the nuclear deal that had been made with iran and now we see that there have been eight countries in the world that were were granted

waivers and allowed to continue buying iranian oil in exchange for the fact they were reducing it they were granted waivers from the u.s. sanctions those countries were china india japan south korea taiwan turkey italy and greece and at this point those waivers are now being taken away the united states is announcing there will be no exceptions there will be no iranian oil they are saying no one should do business with iran and the countries who want to make up the difference should either buy crude from the united states or they should buy it from saudi arabia or the united arab emirates this is what we heard from pompei o making the announcement. both the kingdom of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have assured us they will ensure an appropriate supply for the markets and of course the united states is now a significant producer as well i can confirm that each of those suppliers are working directly with the runs for more customers to make the transition away from iranian crude less disruptive now the people's republic of china which imports

quite a bit of oil from iran was certainly not happy to hear this announcement this is the reaction we heard from chinese officials. china always opposes unilateral sanctions and low u.s. jurisdiction china's cooperation with iran is open transparent and legitimate and should be respected. now turkey has also voiced opposition to this announcement saying it rejects this unilateral move from the united states we're waiting to hear from the european union which has long been an advocate of the nuclear deal and a critic of the way trump you know laterally withdrew the united states from it so we're waiting to see further reactions that we've seen the reaction on the international oil markets this is a dramatic move from the united states are to scale up often reporting live from new york thank you. easter sunday bomb attacks that left two

hundred and ninety people dead and hundreds more injured in sri lanka were carried out with the help of an international network according to government officials we do not believe these attacks were carried out by a group of people who are confined to this country there was an international network without which these attacks could not have succeeded special forces also blew up a van near one of the targeted churches witnesses reported that it had been parked there since the explosion on sunday. we heard a loud bang and we fainted that solar and. we heard

a loud explosion and everything collapsed would manage to protect the children but when i came here i found out that my son in law and my son had died. i wish to express my heartfelt salute our sins to christian communities affected one that was oppressed and with all the symptoms of such cruel farther. for more we go live now to kumar malim our teaching at sri lankan high commissioner to stop africa you're very welcome to the program now we've heard reports that an international group was involved in the attacks what's your reaction to that. even though. those you know.

so much against so he is fair to the extent. of their ways and. so. now the government reportedly had prior information that attacks might occur what do you make of that. even if the government has something for me. i think we do want to see any sort of media. one of these little is. there do we make the. people in the really see there's a good decision. to. be. the one that has been circulated so i immediately don't know where the media identified

with their. ordinary people in the country and we wouldn't have a speck something like this to happen in a church. like the whole they're impossible to think and you'd never think there'd be people. killed while playing inside the church on easter sunday the government is set to declare a nationwide emergency from midnight does that suggest that they're still a threat i think it is impossible to stop has said i'm listening i didn't. get in before you didn't need to bomb so i think when you're dealing with the. security checks minimize the time. if you also. said. i think people are behind this move.

kamar moderate teaching history long going to high commissioner to south africa thank you for joining us on the program today. thank you. journalist organizations have condemned the french police after reporters were detained on saturday during the twenty third consecutive weekend of yellow vests protests are to charlotte devinsky looks into the story. well the two independent journalists were among the more than two hundred individuals who were detained by police arrested in act twenty three the names are gassed by the glance and also legs this car learned we know that the paris prosecutor has said that they were arrested for participation in a group to commit violence or degradation now the interior ministry has been talking about the arrests of these journalists said that the police c.r.'s these officers are out every week they're out to try and and make sure that there is safety for the demonstrators and the journalist carry out these protests and also to cover

these protests that have been happening there since november every week since november here in france but that statement from the interior ministry then goes on to say that if journalists again troops committed an offense then they are likely to also be detained and arrested by the officers on the ground now the national union of journalists in france sees that as being just right and it has gone even further saying it believes that some journalists are being specifically targeted. there is the question the merging is their determination to intimidate journalists we have an impression some of them are being targeted since the other vast movement a pit the number of incidents targeting john that's when they're filming photographing how has the walk the press and nimitz the coverage of events which represent crucial public interest it's now five months since this protest movement began twenty three consecutive weeks of protests and every week sounds elizabeth

says the right streets to trying to control those protests last saturday got twenty three there were some sixty thousand offices deployed across frank's trying thanks for all those protests and we've also seen the protest is turning on the police in recent weeks pacifically on saturday where there were protesters that filmed screaming at the police go kill yourselves let's take a look at the violence lot yet and not that jill age will protest. least so what can that puts out the fire of these protests that have been going on for so long in france the president might go in hopes that the speech he's due to make owns stake to outline his response to the big debate this is the debate

that they started to ask people what their issues were in france that will actually call the protests will it well i'm not so sure because so far nothing has been able to stop these protests. still to come bahrain reinstate citizenship for hundreds of people after an international outcry the details on that story and more after this short break. trump said many times that you know we got the. advantages you know with moving the embassy to jerusalem there with the mission of jerusalem as their capital. he said that there would be some things that israel will not like either so this is why i think the palestinians should come with opening the minds to the to the

negotiations. the housing crisis was the result of securitizing mortgages that were resold to dozens of times and then like goldman sachs was betting as their own clients and they were engaged in massive fraud again bailed out by timothy geithner and his friends and now they can't go of that controlled demolition of the housing market is that all the housing is concentrated in a few hands like blackstone as a gift from their friends of the central banks and the result is medieval let's. welcome back to the program a political outsider known for playing a president on a t.v. show will swap acting for the real thing after winning ukraine's presidential election

is almost all books now counted a lot of mirrors that once he has secured a landslide win over the incumbent petro poroshenko we got reaction in the capital kiev. to you because you zilinskas. the same crude but of a lesser status but if your rule is known as the guy to let him try but it will be very hard i do not turn to him. which there it's unusual when suddenly a person who works in a completely different field becomes a president of a country it is unusual but at the same time it's natural selenski rightly said that he was created by partially that's an example of everyone's discontent with the policies which were carried out people are willing to change especially the youth. the king of bahrain has reinstated the citizenship of more than five hundred people and falls away for condemnation from global human rights groups

almost a thousand nationals have had their citizenship revoked sent an uprising in the country back in two thousand and eleven and many opposition figures were in prison at the time or fled abroad. breaks down the situation. this really is evolution look here if someone's being a nuisance like activists or the opposition a normal dictator would get rid of them but it's messy and everyone complains in bahrain they've come up with a novel way of getting around that it's simple and genius new citizenship new voice the un high commissioner for human rights is deeply concerned that one hundred thirty nine people in bahrain were convicted of terrorism after a mosque trial which reportedly did not meet with international fair trial standards one hundred thirty eight of these people so all but one had their

nationalities revoked standards man did it works since two thousand and twelve according to the americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain authorities have revoked the citizenships of nine hundred and ninety nationals the third of them just last year among them the move the undesirables the human rights defenders the political activists journalists and so on everyone who can't seem to shut up this verdict demonstrates no through source of weaponized the rb drew the case of citizenship to punish normal average bahrainis. and guess what happens if you complain about it yeah he lose your citizenship or get jailed or exiled this is win win for the king anyway. so much for everyone outs. they need the glamour of the formula one there is the former senator side to

bahrain revealing the country is a deeply repressive state where anyone critical of the government can be jailed merely for posting a tweet yes but the king is also merciful he takes with one hand but gives with the other his highness's issued orders to reinstate the citizenships of more than five hundred people citizenships so if you were sentenced to life in jail you still and die in prison but as a citizen how much more mercy do you want understand also this is been a stressful time for the king he and his family really didn't like the arab spring all that commotion and protesting and cools for democracy and coleman is he really didn't like it go violent clampdown.

bahrain was different from the other arab countries oh sure they bashed protests the heads in like every word out the difference is no one really cool for the king to step down france and friends didn't bomb it like they did libya the u.s. didn't fund rebels in the islamists like they did in syria europeans didn't call for regime change like they did in egypt you know why because bahrain is a friend home to the largest u.s. and u.k. naval bases in the region holding the pre stages title of major non nato ally. these gulf partnerships are critical to achieving shared regional objectives

defeating isis countering radical islamic terrorism protecting global energy supplies and rolling back iranian aggression with friends like these who needs human rights bahrain can get away with murder and the west will turn a blind eye and i mean a blind eye they know full well what the king is up to what his henchmen commit what suffering they heap on the people human rights issues included allegations of torture arbitrary detention political prisoners arbitrary or removal interference with privacy restrictions on freedom of expression the press and the internet substantial interference with the rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of association remarkable well bomb syria over mere rulers tweets sanction iran just out the habit at this point threatening then he's aware or interfere meddle in its politics trample its sovereignty because well

because but bahrain with its torture abuses classical courts of making drunk on power. that is where they draw the line. it's just going too far in our strategic approach it is important to acknowledge with a degree of humility that there are some things that are beyond our power to change . authorities claim a serious security threat remains and that their actions are aimed at achieving stability bahrain's interior minister claims terrorists coordinated with iran iraq and the hezbollah group in lebanon undermine peace in the region. we now go back to our story out of ukraine to get library action to vladimir linsky a former actor winning the presidential election and a landslide live now to load former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament now

ukraine's sick and tired of foreign influence that's according to a former presidential candidate let's take a listen to exactly what he had to say. child he's not a group. i'm sorry one of the former candidates he said that the country is sick and tired of foreign influence do you think he has a point and will zelinsky be less dependent on the west. well actually dad that ukraine is too deep around that i mean to abandon on for an improviser is there is a mother or fact and now whether whether zelinsky will that this does no president will indeed make a lot of change there i hardly doubt it at first of all i mean i'm not going against him. i mean forty years ago or the united states elected him actor just to see now the thing is as a president what is your political program what are his or your views on these issues we every have no idea the fact that he was

a comedian on the major ukrainian natural that is owned by one of the oligarchs don't give should be reason to really really be a very sceptical about his chances to make a real change for ukraine. now when it comes to his background do you think being an ex actor will actually help him that well he'll be able to use his charisma to run the country. i mean i mean i understand i mean the whole idea of charisma and competence for a person who becomes head of state is hardly relevant as long as you do not know what he stands for one can be very competent to do will have to organize i mean public health care for people one can be very quiet and to organize a police state so the mother of conflict dams you cannot answer that before you know what he stands for now the fact that in a term that he's an actor you know as a principled democrat i always say that every citizen in a country is invited to become head of state to those with democracies about but

you have to be practical as well i don't want one i want to know what eman the person thought to be out of state or what he stands for so i have absolutely no idea what his man stands for so to say that this isn't a fact that these an actor is hardly relevant to me i mean what he does show it. is that a man who wished to italy unknown as a politician that is not as an as an actor had been elected in itself shows how old and rotten the whole political system in ukraine is i mean that they did that they cannot even produce a competent candidate for presidency one one positive and then of course his bit he asked the president president president obama shankar who was a man who was a totally i mean he was a member of the oligarchy he was never going to be to make real changes as far as

the social welfare of the people are your ground is concerned so that in his so his are ok but whether he is going to make it better for ukraine and that remains to be seen and as far as i can and very very skeptical do you think that this was more a prose a lengthy or an anti pressuring of. well that is something that actually as an outsider i cannot to really judge my street when i say it's a feeling is that he was in the first place him and he establishment and he. was not that guy. for this actor because i mean if you really ask people why do you feel it really is a guy and when i heard from. russia. from people who said i will torture you basically with this it was giving arguments why did you not want to vote for the other ones so what does that mean where does it bring for the future no one can go. to

a venue with former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament thank you so much for joining us on the program by. vietnam is demanding justice from the agro chemical giant month sento after a series of u.s. court rulings awarded millions of dollars in damages to the american victims of herbicides dioxin a highly toxic element of the so-called agent orange herbicide was used widely against vietnam during the war it's been linked to birth defects cancers and other major health problems.

and in an open letter the vietnam association of victims of agent orange asked a u.s. court to reopen a previously dismissed lawsuit against month sent to the association believes the recent us court rulings have set a precedent on santa itself which now is a part of the pharmaceutical giant bayer admits responsibility for creating agent orange but not for the damage associated with it vietnam is hoping historical case will add weight to its claims in one nine hundred eighty four a class action lawsuit was settled out of court to compensate u.s. soldiers who suffered from agent orange over ten years a total of almost two hundred million dollars in cash payments were distributed and working out at around three thousand eight hundred dollars per veteran investigative reporter dave lindorff leaves for court courts rule in favor of american soldiers but not for actual victims and vietnam's smacks of double standards. the u.s. what for i think over a decade. vietnam veterans who were getting the same kinds of illnesses that the

vietnamese people are getting because they handled it and because it was sprayed on them and finally they won and the government now accepts that fourteen diseases and auto immune ailments and cancers are presumptively caused by exposure to agent orange so you know for us to do that for its own soldiers and then not do it for the people who are actually the targets of this massive spreading of a fully in us is simply the most incredibly double standard behavior imagine and there's a lot more vietnamese are suffering from agent orange and then there are american veterans that's one has dropped out for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest.

after the previous the edge of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i want to the new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and us old why not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you think i was going to go. by the way what is that that's like here. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark so. they are constructing

a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very first character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results diced on what they think you should be seeing if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more growth we give them the sooner we are all.

i. follow in welcome to crossfire all things considered peter lavelle what is the definition of insanity doubling down on the conspiracy theory and why russia may be the key to peace on the korean peninsula.