i think. that we will no longer grant any exemptions we're going to zero. washington says they will no longer exempt any countries from its sanctions on a rain in oil imports suggesting its own crude and that produced by gulf allies as the alternative. police are accused of cracking down on press freedoms after arresting reporters during the weekends yellow vests protests also to come. through officials believe that the deadly easter sunday bomb attacks which left almost three hundred dead carried out with the help of an international network.

joining us this hour this is r.t. international. well prices shot to six month highs ahead of the u.s. announcement that it will scrap. crude imports secretary of state julie confirmed that washington will not extend waivers it is 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 seems like washington d.c. is looking to escalate its campaign against iran to isolate iran now in his announcement pompei all bragged that iran has already lost about ten billion dollars and he said and his remarks that he emphasized basically that nobody should be doing any business with iran that 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 withdrew from the j c p 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 they were granted waivers from the u.s. sanctions and allowed to continue buying iranian oil in exchange for the fact they were reducing it those countries were china india japan south korea taiwan turkey italy and greece 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 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 united states is now a significant producer as well. i can confirm that each of those suppliers are working directly with the runs former 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. 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 unilaterally 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. the easter sunday bomb attacks that left two hundred ninety people dead and hundreds more injured in sri lanka who 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 it had been since think splosion on sunday if.

that wasn't any we heard a loud bang and we fainted and that's all i remember we heard a loud explosion and everything collapsed we managed 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 solidarity with the christian community affected one it was a prayer and with all the victims of such cruel violence. i didn't hear any conflicts conflicts in this peaceful island however there was

a warning issued by the national chief police. ten days ago and this negligence show that this wouldn't if it was taken into account and taken seriously all those casualties would have been avoided this is a national disaster because this scale i mean if you look at the map and the locations of the hotels and. the church shoes. eight places eight places. and today the police declared seventy. visit bombs were found this is a law school this is a national catastrophe. journalist organizations have condemned french police after reporters were detained on saturday during the twenty third

consecutive weekend of your live us protest to do this he takes a closer look. well the two independent journalists were among the more than two hundred individuals who were detained by police arrested in act twenty three their names are gassed by the colonials and also alexis corral and 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 it said that the police c.r.s. these officers are out every week they're out to try 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 cheery 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 offices 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 appeared the number of incidents targeting journalists when they're filming or 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 protests and every week sounds easy but it says right it seems to like it's like the protests last saturday twenty three sixty was it says to the weak force right trying to fix all those protests and we've also seen the protesters make the police the police weeks this

if you kill saturday where there were protesters that filmed screaming at the police go kill yourself let's take a look at the violence that marred yet another protest. leak so what can put out the fire of these protests that have been going on for so long in france president michael 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.

a little trump is suing a democratic led congressional committee for trying to obtain his financial records for the past decade claiming the demand is politically motivated that's up to the democrats requested and redacted version of the moon report be passed to congress on may first the party is now considering whether to start impeachment proceedings against trump. it may be that we undertaken a piece but nonetheless i think what we are going to have to decide is a caucus is what is the best thing for the country waters wholly and castro have said we should begin proceedings to impeach the president are you there yet i can foresee that possibly coming that there is another information there not only on obstruction of justice but also on collusion or conspiracy whatever you want to call it to move forward with impeachment on this president the miller report says that there was no trump russian collusion during the twenty sixteen election

campaign but couldn't determine whether there was substraction of justice by the president and he cameron has been assessing how the lengthy investigation saga and it with calls to evict him from the oval office. for the past two years robert muller and his special reports have been the darling of news fodder miller's celeb status skyrocketed after he was tasked with answering one simple question have donald trump cheated his way into the white house with a little help from his friends in the kremlin what followed was two years of soap opera sized scandal and intrigue with bizarre rumors salacious gossip plot twists and an enviable cast list the anticipation for the premiere of the final report was like waiting for the latest tarantino whatever grisly tallit was about to divulge it was going to be all kinds of golden globe style good the thing is what dropped

was a box office flop the people wanted scandal and humiliation they wanted shock and horror they wanted house of cards they got was mr bean the first official trailer of the much anticipated report was released by the general prosecutor william barr in march and it was savaged instead of the explosive finale promised what they got was the equivalent of they woke up and it was all a dream in one thousand nine hundred nine a.g. barr refused to release the department of justice legal opinion choosing to release a summary report and it was later revealed the characterized parts of the union in the summary and pay as they like wait we paid thirty million dollars for that on a quest to seek out the scandal the democrats for an uncensored version of the report if there is juice in that report the dems are going to squeeze it out imagine what kind of sauce could be concealed under all those redacted pages but is it possible

to breathe new life into a dead well maybe it is the director's cut of the mother report would include deleted scenes along with mothers and bars comments and under the sexed up new title and obstruction of justice. it's the same report same investigation just with some expert editing thoughtful repackaging and worrying for at least a couple of sequels before the twenty twenty alexion takeover i have called on the house to initiate impeachment proceedings this is an invitation to congress to say you can do it using the impeachment power we want to remove him from office by gaining back our democracy and electing a democrat president you know i wouldn't support it. no i don't think with the elections coming up we'll have an opportunity to voice what we want to happen the next four years would not mind him to be impeached because it would destroy the

people. and it wouldn't do any good i don't think it would necessarily be good keeping the country more unified there's a big partisan divide meanwhile larry king host of the politicking show here on r.t. spoke with the former foreign policy adviser to trump's presidential campaign last george papadopoulos he was the first person charged under the mother investigation and he pleaded guilty in october of two thousand and seventeen for the full version of this interview. dot com for now here's a preview. did you have a russian connection that's the that's the million dollar question that my answer is i've never been to russia i've never met a russian official in my entire life and actually all of my work leading up to my work my time on the campaign was very hostile to russia because i was in the energy business and the last thing you're doing as an american person is promoting russian interests why did you believe well look at the time i pled guilty i had been

violently arrested at an airport ok i was under sealed i go i will go well i had seven f.b.i. agents essentially rushed me off of a shuttle bus at an airport after i hadn't slept in thirty hours i'm thrown into the back seat of a tinted black s.u.v. thrown in a prison cell without understanding why i was being arrested and i basically plead guilty without understanding exactly what the real case was against me what do you make of the whole mole investigation in my couple sentences i believe the investigation was designed for one reason the one reason only and that was to cover up surveillance abuse by the obama administration on people like myself mike flynn manna ford and carter page but unfortunately that's not going to happen because the president just a couple days ago or maybe last week was on hannity and hannity asked him a couple questions are you going to pardon papadopoulos and flynn he demurred and he said look it's a sad situation

a look we'll get back to that later but right now the most important thing is declassifying all this fight material the three zero two and figuring out how this entire investigation started. ok after a short break we'll have a live guest in to discuss whether ukraine's new president will make the changes that the voters want.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be cross it's like the four three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the why. should. a political outsider known for playing a president in a t.v. show or swap acting for the real thing after winning ukraine's presidential

election with almost all of the votes counted let him is alinsky has secured a landslide win over the incumbent petro poroshenko we got reaction in the capital kiev. you because you are still in school is the same crew a bit of a less a status but if your real is known as the guy then let him try his but it will be very hard i do not envy him your bitch the same usual 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 its natural well known selenski rightly said that he was created. by. that's an example of everyone's discontent with the policies which were carried out with people who were willing to change especially the youth. many voters said they hoped zelinsky would offer a radical solution to ukraine's economic woes it must pay fifteen billion dollars to domestic and foreign lenders this year alone the international monetary fund

warning it is now the poorest country in all of europe. journalist brian mcdonald joyce me on the line are very good even often that's where voters make their decision with their pockets seems ukraine is no different. to keep working with the international monetary fund is that going to help repay ukraine substantial debts. instead of them taking only recourse ukraine has the funds required loans to the i am math mean the only other way they could find the cash to be to do a deal with russia which is basically impossible or to do a deal in china for example which probably would mean something to me interested in some of the momentum and the new president in the news of n.c. and. the i.m.f. i mean at least in the short term your name in the home i mean there's a big part of the nine hundred ninety s. by the way of being russia was callahan's of the i.m.f. back in months ninety eight i'm sure most of the decade in. reading us of the answer you mean he the difference being that when you know that the previous

incomes in russia yes and i'm going to come on paul people. he was replace by somebody that he he chose himself who came from the security services kind of background in the. ukrainians and always gone for something outside of politics comedian house and political or security system that probably suggests there could see by war going possibly bresson's whole from the previous three cents or go conceit with the economic situation i'm just tired of the entire. and in some ways you could say that this is kind of it's innate reaction as well as the my movements here five years ago five years ago people in sign of the genuine protesters they were marching to change their view the change will come instead we got a president. in parliament two three years ago when somebody in a covert agent under you know you're reaching and maybe now is the moment when something radical will happen he. is. capable of giving ukrainians what

they want. nobody knows i'm kidding himself i mean look at the end say he's part of the great heartless wave as we enter the world this is barry grillo interest in america you don't really know until he gets into power what are you going to do i mean i think you know he's completely unknown quantity he could think it could be disaster who knows one thing is of the political elites in ukraine warning if you. get it just have a quick listen to something that was said by one of the presidential candidates in the early stages more than seventy percent voted not just for a change of president this score is not specifically for the name selenski this is a number of ukrainians who are against the war high taxes the destruction of the economy against external control. so those. could lose one of the candidates in the early stages of the presidential race but one of the points i was making

that was that you know ukrainians a sick of outside. western influence do we have any idea how likely to lean in terms of influence. on the maybe secret all of us i mean that make up not just once or in the end of the day isn't a very serious situation and this isn't going to you know if we go back twenty years ago it was pretty much equal you'd love to be as russia for example or poland i don't know who are times who are in doubt is an indictment some way ukraine ukraine needs to run their country in the last you know three decades and here we are now a situation where i mean of those right i mean i. mean there is if it's even as that interference there is a feeling that suppose most ukrainians that maybe because of the mining ways it's not very popular western so maybe it's you know that you have a coach before and it was acting in over eastern interests that perhaps russia's interests against ukraine you want to believe that there is

a case to be made you know something i would argue for years that this example ukraine is probably going to supplant you that has managed to use a great western institutions without making an enemy of russia that perhaps this is the path you look to follow i do mostly excuse considering something like that but if i was advised and that's what i'd be suggesting. thoughts journalists mcdonnell joining me at this hour. provocation that's how a tweet by the u.s. ambassador to poland has been described after she wished happy person a traditional jewish holiday decoration came from a lawmaker in poland ruling law and justice party. this is probably a fake profile of the u.s. ambassador poland and madam ambassador most backa someone wants to provoke us and prove that u.s. bases in poland should not appear and that president trump should not come to poland in the autumn madam ambassador christ is risen hallelujah. we have asked the

polish lord justice party for comment under explanation why the tweet is deemed provocative you know if we receive a response. let's begin to get small shulman is a columnist for newsweek magazine and the editor of history central dot com welcome mark what do you make of this criticism of the ambassador can be seen as a provocation. and certainly can be a me look as part of two two questions one a way of anti-semitism that seems to be developing in poland and the fact that he said something positive to jews of poland was taken as a. as a another attack on polish christianity or nationalism whatever it might be and on the other hand like it was mentioned it could have been a question of trying to put a greater. a greater gulf between poland in the idea of having american bases and having president trump there so you could look at it either way i tend to think it

was much more of a question and more this wave of anti-semitism that seems to be developing in poland from the right at this point where anti-semitism seems to become suddenly acceptable again in poland after all these years. not something you feel quite clearly strongly about is it denies that that's the case but critics other critics are saying ninety seven ism is on the rise in poland. clearly years i mean i have a friend in login one jewish friend and large and every third or fourth day he sends me something and says how embarrassed he is to be polish and it's really become a real problem and look there's always been anti-semitism in poland obviously there's been anti-semitism in all of europe i mean it's not a question of that but it's come back from many many years in poland there was an attempt to completely say it was not acceptable in any which way but now we've had members of this government to have been toying with anti-semitism let's put it that way it's become much more acceptable to be anti-semitic and so we're seeing

a rise of anti-semitism and you know we've seen that. also with. both cases what we have right wing governments and where once again the jews are a scapegoat for internationalism front attempts to undermine polish nationalism undermine poland has very much a identity of being a catholic country and so someone who's not catholic is not part of the polish people according to some of those people and so that's part of the problem as well i'm guessing that you saw this video that emerged of an effigy that was described as stereotypically jewish hanged and burned in a polish town as part of an easter ritual. is that if you have indeed seen that what was your reaction to seeing. you. again it's a return to some of the roots of polish anti-semitism you know the really was a great deal of an time in poland before world war two jews lived and one hand lived peacefully there for hundreds of years on one hand but always dealing with

anti-semitism an awful lot of it came from the catholic church and from some of the right wing elements of the catholic church and here you have you know the catholic church has banned ceremonies like this but here we have it coming back in a small village and where it's pulling back some of those roots of anti-semitism and again one of the biggest groups of anti-semitism has always been that jews killed jesus and the catholic church has taken that back and changed and changed their view on that but a lot of polish catholics and others refuse to accept it while in the last twenty years they've sort of muted their criticism and muted their anti-semitism we're seeing it coming back this time and look at that all the polish people it's not even most of the polish people but it's a large enough fringe that it's become frightening and like going up to my polish friend who was embarrassed by it and you know that it's part of this nationalistic wave that we've seen any sort of ultra nationalism brings back

a certain level. i seventy isn't because the whole concept of ultra nationalism is i am better than whoever it is and whether i'm better than me i'm on the other country or the other people and so the jews have always been outside of that nationalist the group and that's why jews have always done poorly when is that ultra nationalism in any sort of country. my guest this hour newsweek columnist mark. things up i'll be back with updates for you in half. 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 go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i want to the new challenge and the fresh

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