today i'm announcing that we will no longer grant any exemptions we're going to zero. says it will no longer exempts any countries from its sanctions on a rainy in oil imports suggesting its own crude produced by gulf allies as. french police are accused of cracking down on press freedoms after arresting reporters during the weekend demonstrations. and us democrats pledged to present a united front over clues in peach president trump on news that acted version of the probe from russia collusion will be introduced in congress on may first.

live from moscow watching our teams and national. thanks for joining us this hour the oil prices have shot up to six months ahead of the u.s. and elsewhere that will scrap exemptions on iran crude imports secretary of state judy confirm that washington will not extend waivers to eight different 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 showing the old ways opposes unilateral sanctions and low u.s. jurisdiction china's cool peroration 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 or a play video agency took to the streets of tehran to get right means reaction to washington's like to snow. your model haim if you want to prosper. we have to get out of this who is our supreme we should do you this is an opportunity over the last ten years we have found ways that allow us to keep exporting some not at all worried in this respect. all experts put pressure ordinary brain and it's ours who are bearing the brunt. response of the us move around has threatened to block the strait of hormuz the world's all artery transporting over a third of international crude iranian foreign and nuclear affairs expert. told us america's actions are forcing soran into a more combative stance. the us is seriously escalating this unilateral economic warfare against iran jeopardizing economic wellbeing

and people putting iran against the wall and therefore one should naturally expect a stiffer reaction for i mean iran which me in the form of implementing their threats industry that of. the u.s. is urging courser to war with iran using all kinds of excuses. journalist organizations have condemned french police off to reporters were detained on saturday during the twenty third consecutive weekend of yellow vest protests. looks into the store. 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 gaspipe glantz and also lexis and we know that the paris prosecutor has said that they were arrested for participation in

a group to commit violence degradation now the interior ministry has been talking about the arrests. yes it said that the police arrest these officers are out every week they're out to try and make sure that there is safety for the demonstrators and the journalists 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 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 is that as being just right and it has gone even further saying it believes that some journalists are being specifically targeted there is a question the merging is their determination to intimidate journalists we have an impression some of them are being targeted since the yellow vast movement appeared

the number of incidents targeting journalists when they're filming or photographing how to work the press and nimitz the coverage of events which represent crucial public interest. what journalists have been confronted with for months by security forces on the universe movement is unprecedented and very dangerous they interfere with broken only possible ways those journalists are not given nexus their press cards are taken away they're told we don't care about you cause you won't get through their equipment is taken away and broken their shop with them to ride guns as if by mistake obviously by accident they're kneecaps of their tact and the injured in various ways this has been captured in numerous videos and photographs we have received already more than thirty complaints. 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 in the streets to try and control those protests last saturday i twenty three there were some sixty thousand offices 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 they would protest is filmed screaming at the police go kill yourselves let's take a look at the violence that marred yet another protest. so what can put out the fire of these protests that have been going on for so long in france president michael in hopes of 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 will actually call the protests will it well i'm not so sure because so far nothing has been able to stop these protests. trump is suing a democratic led congressional committee for trying to obtain his financial records for the past decade claiming that demand is politically motivated and soft democrats requested an unproductive version of the report to be passed to congress on may the first part is now considering whether to start ph with proceedings are going to trump. it may be that we undertake an appeal 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 the report says there was trump russia collusions during the twenty sixth the election campaign but couldn't determine whether there was obstruction of justice by the president. has been assessing how the lengthy investigation saga has ended with cool trump from the oval office. for the past two years robert muller to 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 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 the latest 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 globes. 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 age group. used 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 a 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 would 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 one 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 that larry king hosts the political show on r t spoke with a former foreign policy advisor to trump's presidential campaign george papadopoulos he was the first person charged under the rest of the ocean and pleaded guilty at the end of twenty seventeen the full interview had to all to dot com for now though here is a quick 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 more 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 to real the three o two and figuring out how this entire investigation started. for i'm going to fish will say an international terrorist network may have been involved in the country's devastating east suddenly bombings we'll have more on that in just a few moments time. i . they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. i want to be. two going to be closer this is what

before three of them all can't be good. i'm interested in the why. the housing crisis was the result of securitizing mortgages that were resold to dozens of times and then like goldman sachs was betting as are all clients and they were engaged in massive fraud again belled out by timothy geithner and as 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.

welcome back to the program schools of pretty sure skeptics will be elected if brussels forces the u.k. to hold a u. parliamentary elections next month that's the thought warning from britain's trade minister. european parliament's warned fifth to disrupt if and resentful u.k. members of european parliament and british m.p.'s again reject the reason that the votes till next month the day off to the vote the u.k. will take e.u. parliamentary elections meanwhile top level disagreements over the u.k. taking part in e.u. elections have been voiced that the e.u. parliament i fear dead it will continue. i fear that it will prolong the indecision and i fear most of all that it will imports the becks of mass into the european union and moreover that it will poison the upcoming european election the u.k. has the right and. to take part in this election i also

can't agree to establishing a second category membership with even wolf an independent member of the european parliament thinks that the rise of u.k. euro skeptics can force brussels into a rethink in direct talks. if you get fifty euro skeptics or even thirty euro step to which i think would be a reasonable number you have to see where the concern is for the european royalty they know that this election is a big election for the european union because they expect and the polls are showing that about one hundred sixty to one hundred seventy euro skeptics will come from germany sweden italy hungry poland and if you add thirty british m.e.p. the number of that flu could be up to about two hundred and two hundred opponents of the european union could make a lot of trouble 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 brits out. state of emergency is now in force in sri lanka following a spate of bombings on easter sunday that left two hundred ninety people dead and hundreds more injured and measures will allow police to detain and interrogate suspects without a court order fishelson the country said on monday that the attacks were likely carried out with the help of an international terror network. 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 this ranking government has accused the local islamist group of carrying out the bombings it also says it received multiple warnings about possible terror attacks but failed to

act on information on monday there was a further explosion in the capital colombo special forces have been trying to diffuse explosives in a van used by the attackers it's not yet clear whether anyone was hurt. 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 and.

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. the government temporarily blocked social media in the wake of the attack saying it was done to stop the spread of false information harvey discussed the movement's implications with journalists vincent cassel and derek brown's. a lot of show you start happening with the social no warts all over the world and more and more going around out of concern with what could happen. to free use of the snowball it's all over it's now being looked at as a as a negative role that's being played by the likes of facebook if we look at the christchurch attack in new zealand and now the fears that the authorities in sri

lanka the tool of social media over the last decade has been used in a number of great ways you can look at the arab spring you can look at the growth of the independent alternative media in the united states and really around the world you know they want to prevent certain hate content or hate speech from spreading and so even before it spreads we're now starting to see actively suppressing of access to the internet maybe access to facebook the governments of the world as well as the tech companies and some of the media are promoting and portraying social media i have difficulty accepting that they are and simply doing this out of the kindness of their hearts and out of to keep the you know the people from having access to graphic content i do think that it benefits governments of the world once they start censoring certain parts of the internet what is happening all over what happens for instance and. that creates. some governments both want to prevent. speech to explore after

one of do situations the problem is that you are at the same time you are preventing the people to communicate for instance in atlanta to use what's. going to popular a lot of people cannot communicate with their own families there is that i mean we can't just say the government is making it up can we have seen the darker side of humanity does emerge in in the wake of terrorist attacks the negative element it is a reality is that anybody who has been involved in any sort of media creation whatever type of content creation you do whether writing articles making music. you know but broadcasting park you get really ignorant hate for sometimes ugly despicable comments online and there are people who you know they do this anonymously you can find things on the internet right now that are much more graphic than anything you can see in the new zealand shooting video you can see much more graphic things on hollywood films and on you know the nightly news but those things are allowed to continue to be on the web when there is

a terrorist attack floods of information come in pictures videos comments and claims and it's increasingly difficult to know just what is true than awful lot of fake stuff that's put out and i would make the argument that increasingly deliberately fake information is being spread now how on earth do you try and organize control these situations and filter the information soon all the time. people trying to create three information not baldoni. it's not nothing new for a journalist generally it's always through that simply trust check real or not so that we can do the same job. in moscow conference on international security organized by russia's defense ministry starting on tuesday and of the event we spoke exclusively to the country's deputy defense minister on the key security issues facing the world today. because they

honestly hold the u.s. and nato rhetoric does not change the russia threat is a mantra regardless of the fact that it's fake that cliches are mostly used by european partners there is every reason to believe that it was created to justify their own aggressive moves against russia nato continues its eastward expansion deploying extra troops and powerful weaponry closer and closer to the russian borders russia will be forced to respond to these activities in an appropriate manner but as president putin said it will not require any extra military spending . cities give up on. syria as well as its neighbor iraq will to a large extent dominate the conference the plenary session and special breakout meeting will discuss the issues of refugees returning to syria creating the right conditions for them delivering humanitarian aid but not only that it is offering

all kinds of other assistance that would come from across the globe. the situation in venezuela continues to be very challenging you are aware of recent developments and again it is the us that is to blame it came up with a list of enemies today it is venezuela and then it's cuba or in nicaragua they have ignored or rather trampled on international law and rules of decency the u.s. is unlikely to benefit from the use of force the odds are that an external attack might rally the nation behind the current government painting a negative image of the u.s. that's all for this hour join us again at three am moscow time for the latest global news updates we'll see over. what is a bit coy and big one is magic coming up a new type of digital currency decentralized digital scarcity chancellor on the

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hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle what is the definition of insanity doubling down on the conspiracy theory and why rush it may be the key to peace on the korean peninsula. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dimitri he's a political analyst with spook nick international and in nicosia we crossed alexander christopher oh he is the director and writer for the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let me go do i cyprus first. i really have to say watching the panels angelus panels on c.n.n. and and miss n.b.c. it looks like a psychiatric. ward and they're all going through some kind of group therapy they can they can even get past denial so they're doubling down that's what i'm calling

this program your reaction. yet peter i you know i really hope that they release an underage back did mueller report because you had the first time that they that they suffered this breakdown which was when barr gave his four five page summary they couldn't accept it now they have the redacted mueller report a month later and they still can't accept no collusion no obstruction i really really hope you did they release a third report so we can call the next cross talk triple down because they won't accept anything other then you know taking taking trips out of the white house in ariz judge john. suit in handcuffs when they've lost their mind yes but alex there will there certainly will be more reports but it's going to be the other shoe dropping it will be very interesting how they cover those reports are demon is that it's just part of the business model i mean they don't know what else to do

other than attack the president of the united there are many reasons to attack donald.