i. think that we will no longer grant any exemption going to zero. says that it will no longer exempt any countries from its sanctions on the iranian oil imports suggesting its own crude produced by gulf allies as the alternative. police are accused of cracking down on press freedoms after arresting reporters during the weekends yellow vest protests. and us democrats pledge to present a united front page president trump that the unredacted version of the military russia collusion will be introduced in congress on may the.

right have you with us this evening this is arctic. prices shot to six month highs ahead of the u.s. announcement that it will scrap exemptions on iran crude imports secretary of state . julie confirmed that washington will not extend waivers its granted to eight countries. today announcing that we will no longer grant any exemptions we're going to zero going to z. or across the board seems like washington d.c. is looking to escalate its campaign against iran to isolate iran now in his announcement palmdale 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 any nation or entity interacting with iran should use its diligence and err on. 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 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 when you go to china always opposes unilateral sanctions and long 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. video as he took to the streets of tehran to get reaction to washington's latest me. your mobile time if you want to. know what we have to get out of this who took our supreme we decide we should do you this is an opportunity over the last ten years we have found ways that allow us to keep exporting so i'm not at all worried in this respect kind of runs on oil exports but pressure would marry raining and it's us who are bearing the brunt. easter sunday bomb attacks that left two hundred 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. and special forces

also a blow if a van near one of the targeted churches witnesses reported it an impulse that since the explosion on something. that was thinking anything we heard a loud bang and we fainted 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 to christian communities affected one

that was a friend and with all the victims of such cruel foreigners. on their even check is an author an investigative journalist and joins me on the line now very good evening to you on the right so that claim has been made that an international group was involved in the attacks what do you think of that plane. well the question is what is this international group or could. you have done the standard there are tens of thousands of troops she hardly cognizant generous rolling the ball out there to defeat in syria. what is happening is that many fighters tried to sort of the great that it was syria by

devised by turkey. dropped out of boats mycelium rabia actually moved to places like indonesia they were. expelled from syria they moved through the egypt the southern philippines and through other places it's the same situation as out there the alcoholic war. device was sexually army supporting which i had been against the so that you know so these. jihadi car that beat all those that are or are you see is for other groups even a little. charities may donate to northwestern china or make sure it is being produced in syria these people out of. all they don't ensure. there is a mold let is thrown possibility that what happened. actually. the result of all of this of this movement now they have done the standard the city of was

a very powerful training ground for the most of them deployed with the u.s. with their breasts or its allies so this is good be one of the places the bands we know that some will divide it up obvious down right now. outside. some of them are back in southeast asia so this is extremely dangerous situation and probably still as i said we still don't know. this was one. world unified that was in x. files or who is screen term syria but it is very possible that. the health minister has said that the islamist group and i hope i don't finish ation right how he'd jump shots was responsible for the bombings we don't yet know

the extent of any international assistance but blaming this great which i would venture is globally. a little known organization are you surprised that pointing the blame at this group or i am sure i said i don't agree we don't have to wait for some time. to lot of more actually. which fraction of this group below i worked and she long the civil war i'm familiar with the company i work the book we call it what one of the truly happened but this is. a different situation as i said. tens of thousands of dollars she hardly called it a certain hour all over asia. very difficult to chart a truck to get the southeast asia truck to get there. in the middle east this is

a very new development but i think expect such a deadly particularly. ok my guess is how all three investigative journalist on the village check and i thank you. donald trump suing a democratic led congressional committee for trying to obtain his financial records for the past decade claiming the demand is politically motivated this is after the democrats requested an unredacted version of the 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 undertake an impeachment nonetheless i think what we are going to have to decide as 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 yeah i can foresee that possibly coming that there's another information there not only

obstruction of justice but also on collusion or conspiracy whatever you want to call it to move forward with impeachment on this president. says that there was no from russia collusion during the twenty sixteen election campaign but couldn't determine whether there was obstruction of justice carried on by the president in the karen has been assessing how the lengthy investigation ended with calls to evict from the oval office. for the past two years robert muller special reports have been the darling of news thought her mother's celeb status skyrocketed after he was tasked with answering one simple question have to know 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 cost list the anticipation for the premiere of the final report was

like waiting for the latest tyrants hino 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 what they thought was mr b. 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 that barr mischaracterized parts of the union in the summary and here's the like wait we paid thirty million dollars for that on a quest to seek out the scandal the democrats uncensored version after

a pause if there is juice in that report the dems are going to squeeze it out imagine what kind of thoughts could be concealed under all those were directed pages but is it possible to breathe new life into a dead duck well maybe it is the director's cuts all of the mother reports will include deleted scenes along with mothers and boss 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 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 have in the next four years with no mind to 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 for keeping the country more unified there's a big partisan divide. meanwhile larry king host of the politicking show here on r t you spoke with the former foreign policy adviser to trump's presidential campaign george papadopoulos he was the first person charged under the miller investigation pleaded guilty in october twenty seventh in for the full interview had to r.t. dot com now here's a preview. did you have a russian connection so 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 plead guilty well look at the time i pled guilty i had been violently arrested at an airport ok i was under sealed i thought i would only 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 more investigation was designed for one reason the one reason only and that was to cover up surveillance of use 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 feisty material the three zero two and figuring out how this entire investigation started. ok money is coming your way after the show bragg. and i was. wrong. but i'll. just tell all. yes to stamp out disdain comes to cancel. and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look

for common ground. 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 it is friends and now they go of that controlled demolition of the housing market is that all the housing is concentrated in a few as like blackstone as a gift from their friends of the central banks and the result is medieval. back journalist organizations have condemned french police after reporters were

detained on saturday during what was the twenty third consecutive weekend of us protests. 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 the names are gassed by the glance and also lexis 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 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 journalists to carry out these protests and also to cover these protests that have been happening since november every week since november here in france but that statement from the interior ministry then

goes on to say that if journalists are deemed to have 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 a threat 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 of protests and every week sounds a lot of offices are right on streets to try and control this protest last saturday i twenty three there were some sixty thousand officers deployed across france

trying to control those protests and we've also seen the protesters turning on the police in recent weeks pacifically on saturday where there were protesters filmed screaming at the police go kill yourselves let's take a look at the violence that marred yet another protest. leaking so what can put out the fire of these protests that have been going on for so long in france the president might call in hopes that the speech he's due to make on thursday 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. scores of british euro skeptics will be elected to brussels forces the u.k. to hold e.u. parliamentary elections next month is the stark warning coming from britain's trade minister. who asked we know european partners want to disrupt if and resentful u.k. members of european parliament if british m.p.'s again reject reason may's briggs's divorce deal next month the day after the vote the u.k. will take part in e.u. parliamentary elections in while top level disagreements over the u.k. taking part in your elections have been voiced that the e.u. parliament i fear that it will continue the uncertainty i fear that it will prolong the indecision and i fear most of all that it will import the backs of mass into the european union and moreover that it will poison

the upcoming european election i want to remind everybody that the u.k. has the right and obligation to take part in this election as long as it is certain member of the e.u. is just not subject to negotiation. they also can't agree to establishing a second got there to remember shit. independent pay for the northwest of england stephen wolf joins me on the line now very good indeed stephen great to speak to you once again from fox says fifty disruptive basically and he pays they're going to cause trouble do you think you got that number right you certainly have the right go. about with the brics occurred possibly about thirty members arriving who is definitely euro skeptics maybe

a few more from the group of you could write but it depends on whether there are any conservatives who are going to be a big number. and what kind of influence will that have on proceedings in in the parliament can they make much of a difference. well i think if you get fifty euro skeptics or even thirty euro skeptic which i think would be a reasonable number and you have to see where the concern is for the european parliament they know that this election is a big election for the european union because they expect it and the polls are showing that about one hundred sixty to one hundred seventy euro skeptics will come from germany sweden italy hungry conan and if you have thirty british m.e.p. the number there four could be up to about two hundred and two hundred opponents of the european union could make a lot of trouble in the voting in those selections for those who will be the

leaders of the different parliament and also the committees and also who the rapid serves on the individual legislation so that is where the trouble could happen would they be able to have a direct impact on baghdad itself and the possible divorce they are no absolutely not you know the bricks it negotiations are with michel barnier in the commission and that also you saw there donald tusk that council has a big influence but i think the way don't make me an intangible pressure on the european union to settle things is if they do see large numbers of euro skeptics all joining up together creating problems in the legislative process delaying it slowing it down or maybe even stopping it and that will give an impetus for the council of the commission to perhaps say maybe we can renegotiate in some way so that we can get these euro skeptic groups out i suppose that's the balancing act

now trying to assess just how afraid are leaders of having a parliament full of rebellious i mean pace does that put an awful lot of pressure now on tourism a getting her deal through at the last chance. i think the reason mays under an enormous amount of pressure not only because it do go to a european election the polls in the united kingdom are clearly showing now that the bracks it fancy is going to top that but actually this conservative party will have its worst election in its history maybe even getting only four or six any peace we have in the local council elections coming up already on the streets they're saying that the take they can even mention trees a maze name and they're being really ridiculed on the doorstep and finally she's got this week or within that certainly in the next couple of weeks she's reached the number of conservative chairman in the different constituencies who have written for a special conference asking for her tension to resign or be removed well

we will await to say whether her deal gets passed than if not then we'll be on to the pin elections and maybe get a chance to speak to the head of your potential running for one of those positions person to speak to stephen wolf is my guess independent m.e.p. for the northwest of england and i wraps up this busy news hour i'll be back with the latest for you in thirty minutes. hotep international memorial awards twenty nine c. the now open for entries. media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work full terms of media or part of a global news conference to participate in sunday published works and video all written for. go to award dot altie dot com and then to now.

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i'm after to have to know what you're going underground while we're away we'll be screenings of your favorite episodes of this season coming up in this show phones high commission that i loved and speaks to going on the ground about china. russia brecht's it not turning the kashmir crisis into a nuclear catastrophe and u.k. labor leader german corbin tells m.p.'s to apologize before suspending them for perceived anti semitism but nothing from a pm he was on wednesday's judgment on a murder by those allied to the party that made theresa may british prime minister the murder of patrick lucan in his home in north belfast on sunday the twelfth of february nine hundred eighty nine was an appalling crime he was shot fourteen times as he sat down for dinner with his wife and three children we speak to the widow

and son of a murdered human rights wiped out for new can killed with collusion between m i five and terrorists all the civil coming up in today's going underground but first while the e.u. looks away from democratically elected politicians in court in madrid and today's demonstrations in france where thousands have been injured while not an american nation accuse your human rights abuses will be equally lord no not venezuela but the largest country in latin america brazil here is the now jailed presidential candidate speaking on r.t. to former ecuadorian president rafael correa before he was banned from running for president again. my party wants me to run for president i support my candidacy will. win the election it is possible to restore brazil's economy to make sure that we see economic growth create new jobs and help the poor become less pull they know that i can achieve those things if they don't want to but who are they because this is what lunas lawyer queens counsellor an internationally renowned

human rights barrister geoffrey robertson q.c. said on monday's show there is a mentality in the judge. why determent no matter what to keep him in prison so the whole scenario has a clear run would have beaten both so naro not according to the brazilian embassy in london they told going underground unfortunately the words of mr jeffrey robinson do not correspond to the truth in brazil the judiciary is fully independent and due process of law is faithfully observed the specific case of former president lula has already been analyzed by different judges and different levels of jurisdiction mr robinson suggestion the president lula's conviction to be politically motivated is completely absurd and detached from reality the full statement is on our you tube channel website certainly brazil looms over the u.k.'s post rex it landscape with perceived threats to deal with the most in our government on beef tariffs could be used for leverage against the irish but britain

is not only fighting a defacto self-imposed trade war with the e.u. it can.