dear dear. dear lonely old video store i'm allowed to hear some of my look from moods. of predatory. in the headlines this morning just bluffing russia's foreign minister says he doesn't believe that there's any real appetite in the u.s. for military intervention in venezuela. european commission president downplays concerns that euro skeptic parties are set to make up president of gains in the bloke's upcoming elections. and russia continues to mourn the victims of sunday's plane crash in moscow that killed forty one including a twelve year old girl. good

morning issues of the seventh of may live from moscow is kevin owen with you here at international this hour with your world news round up starting with this that russia's foreign minister has said he doesn't believe there's any real support for a u.s. military intervention in crisis stricken venezuela even among top officials he says in washington so he made the comments following talks there's american counterparts mike pompei zero on the sidelines of the arctic forum in finland has got the story . the number one diplomats of america and russia have finally met and we were hoping to understand if there is at least a slight chance that moscow and washington could be on the same page when it comes to venice well off when surrogate talked to the media he thought it wasn't a good idea to shed light on any of the details pretty much but he did respond to my question about mike poem barrow's statement from this weekend that russia must

get out of venezuela and also about the possibility of cool said intervening militarily when you start a loose. consent to do this alone we tried not to concentrate on those statements which are publicly discussed because they are being affected by many factors the don't have anything to do was real politics we concentrated on the real politics incentives from my contacts with the u.s. american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose this move to reaction immediately after this i asked the russian foreign minister if that included american diplomats and to that he simply answered yes but the real question right now is though whether that is really the case because many times we've heard from the most high ranking officials in america the phrase all options are on the table

including the military one and when secretary of state pump air was heading to europe the journalists were reporting that on the plane he said that nicolas maduro can no longer be in charge of this country he believes he is simply not able to do that even though he is de facto the leader of the country and i can tell you that the government in venezuela understands that they could end. up having to brace for the worst case scenario just listen to what their foreign minister said when he was in the russian capital on sunday no sort o. put it out but i quote get us and we are ready for all scenarios the first includes diplomacy dialogue and peace and i think if the u.s. prefers the military part we are ready to resist to have an army police where our people and we are ready to destroy any army no matter how powerful it is so essentially the most influential powers on the opposite sides here the government

at any cost with door and the self-proclaimed president one quite go are finally in touch on this president donald trump house poke into president fly out of our potent the top diplomats have met but it is unclear whether that would still lead to a peaceful resolution of this longstanding venezuelan crisis from a british diplomat william alanson told us he doesn't believe a the united states will actually lower an intervention to topple president nicolas maduro these are empty threats and there are threats all vanity that threats of looks like the wounded bear wounded line but as long as. there's a lull in particular with russia and china support international law i don't see the possibility of an overt u.s. intervention at all because that would be extremely dangerous for the world's

ability and cause major problems all the american economy in fact if you look at the economic multiplier effect and other financial factors going on at the moment whereby gold is being bought and the dollar is being turned away from except the exception so i think it's empty rhetoric rhetoric frankly and the reports claim that many leading u.s. publications have demonstrated clear bias in the coverage of the crisis in venezuela has a look at the findings of the media watched of their. making

use of the us military personnel here say that but sadly it's something that's on the television and the national assembly has determined that the election of president is or was illegitimate there needs to be a new government. why

so allergic to the word coup if you look at the definition because they recognize that these words have a meaning long as you say why is if you can lie about just the media point of view don't you think one of the first question that one should ask is why what authority do you establish for the list of why those say i have the ability to supplant this person has no question. i find it fascinating. that the media not known for being poor. is salo dare i say willing to support the position of the tribe of ministration regarding the your own administration being removeable so where is the balance. good question we asked the number us media outlets for comment on the watchdogs findings on the allegations of bias if they get back to us and let you know what

we're going to say about it. but europe's parliamentary elections now less than three weeks away polls are showing that euro skeptic parties are poised to make um presidency gains while the findings are causing concern in some quarters the eaves chief seems more relaxed at the prospect sheila toobin ski's call that story. the loan bells are sounding in brussels across the european union poll after poll showing voters are looking for change and that change isn't music to the is euro skeptic parties are intent on shaking up the house hearing from a recent poll shows marine le pen's national rally could top the ballot edging slightly ahead of president backbones republic march in italy the two euro skeptic governing coalition parties also set to reap the rewards in maine's vote and to the north the alternative for germany party believes it's about to build on pass excess it's also taking a stand so germany's future membership of the book demanding reforms are saying

equal campaign to leave the union really the pen since the revolution is underway. in this case is loose economic social demographic and the identity of the disaster our project constitutes a revolution peaceful democratic revolution aleutian of common sense this stoppage god isn't likely to go without a fight but it senses a change in the. standing united makes a strong forward to now country. to change to push forward the european project without giving any ground to those who want to see it fall back in this year twenty nineteen we must defend against nationalists and the self-centered this is our. anyone taking from the e.u. parliament has only limited powers it doesn't even propose the laws that it so it's actually the unelected european commission that comes up with those laws which are

then flushed out by a different structure the european council along with the european parliament so despite the polls showing the euro skeptic incumbents are about to shake up the e.u. parliament it seems it won't be. many sleepless nights nobody knows this but last time i rejected the canada cease of six commissioners presented to me by national governments do remember that governments merely propose commissioners it is the president of the commission who accept our cage their responsibilities what the parliament does have the ability for though is amongst other things resolutions and there are hundreds if not thousands of them for example expected recently to place in the new why didn't paul go on sales to saudi arabia because of the concern that they are being used in the war in yemen but this vote doesn't actually compel member states to keep the balance and in fact most powerful some

point to a lack of teeth from parliament as being the reason that they don't even bother to vote in its elections and in twenty fourteen voter turnout hit a record low of forty three percent perhaps of the real question is does it matter who you vote for because in reality even a seismic shake up at any peace level will tap any impact on the commission nor the council where it seems the power base remey. real and she. was in the congress this is a good deal of the. e.u. integration. e.u. policy on for another three years and. certainly. it's one of the most. democratic institutions these people. basically comparable to with you citizens that's why it's

wrong inference from the e.u. or the like the citizens this is totally disconnected lives rest of us don't feel part of the debate. russia is mourning the deaths of forty one people in sunday's disaster. moscow the aeroflot flight from the capital to the northwestern city of mud miles was forced to make an emergency landing at sheremetyevo airport it caught fire as it hit the runway there and was quickly engulfed by flames more than half of the victims were from the moment screeching. you. if you're in the future ships this is what you do for me doing if you wish to. use if still. if you go to those three removes but it's. the rules to come for you keep these routes it. put you through something that you teach you listen. closely.

this is. a. good. sort of survivors of the crash of return to moments to be with their families in the wake of the tragedy in the ocean off next morning as the stories of some of those who weren't so for a child. this is i'll be now a businesswoman and single mother she was returning from a business trip back two more months back to her ten year old son she was raising on her own he plays hockey and she was his biggest fan the flight was meant to be fun to be in a was traveling with a friend now somewhere in the same boarding queue will be in a huge gagne and twelve year old sofia the surgeon had been giving his daughter an escape from their gloomy northern home town to enjoy

a few days in the warmth of the moscow sun now they tiana welcome dalby no you've given the sophie and all other passengers on board the flight attendant was getting ready for yet another take off now three minutes past six in the evening the air. aircraft lifted into the skies from sheremetyevo airport a few minutes later than the first seventeen minutes of the flight went smoothly passengers in this seats belts fastened the sukhoi superjet ascended approaching a storm and then everything went from ok to bad and then straight to hell literally in a flash to call from the ball to widening the plane and apparent liking strike hits the jet now more than aircraft have safety systems to protect themselves from situations exactly like these but this time the lightning sends all communications systems on board of line the pilots send a distress signal make a u.

turn and head back to moscow apparently they go in almost blind with limited communications they can barely get any aid from the ground they aim for an emergency landing on one of the runways but the aircraft is too heavy minutes ago we've had been filled to the brim and the pilots decided not to dump access fuel there's no definitive answer to why but the most likely theory so far is the didn't want to risk circling around a bustling aerial hub with only sporadic contact with the ground so weighty jets wheels slam into the runway and bounce right off it another attempt and the plane crash lands its tail hits the tarmac with such force it ruptures the tanks and all that fuel instantly catches fire and there's the blazing jet slides along the

runway passengers helpless trapped they sit and just watch the inferno engulf them. the jet finally comes to a stop and the evacuation kicks off by that moment the fire had already devoured the back and the middle emergency exits so there's only one way forward from the nose of the jet but tiana the flight attendant helps people through and down the chutes those who can walk those who can't and are passed out she literally shoves out of the door herself i'm alive only thinks to the stewardesses the girls stood there in the smoke it was dark extremely hot but they pulled people out and helped them get down the chutes now by ti-anna i helped

a total of thirty seven people survive the mayhem. you've gainey and sophia were not among them for all being his ten year old son in the stands at the whole curing will be deafening really quiet for a long time is mother will never achieve for him from them again the tragedy off and him senior once a happy wife and mother in an instant is widowed and left childless for her tragedy has come calling again she had already lost to a nice alina in a school shooting last year and now it's her husband and daughter and the unconditional hero she may have survived herself but she's still to make it through the day after day after day of survivor's guilt or entered by the forty one she couldn't help. it was done off the plane's black boxes have been recovered in

a live vest a geisha into what happens on growing that jets been removed from the runway its entire rear section was destroyed as we heard of the fire we are save ation expert david gleave his thoughts on what may have gone so badly wrong. i believe the flight control system was working ok but not in the usual mode of operation so it's quite right that the investigation will take some time to look at how the pilots were trained to land the airplane in that particular software mode. some of them seem to be the more. electronics equipment of the pilot training associated with that i would say that also the media are able to pick up and report the accident much more easily so the accident rate has gone up slightly recently but not significantly so we have ten to twenty years and we think let's get a little more evidence from the flight recorders in the cockpit voice recorder

interviews of the crew and then let the interstate aviation committee discuss with the russian certification committee what should happen to the airplane. is eighteen minutes past nine moscow times tuesday morning good morning for me kevin o. is still ahead on our to international donald trump and other twitter is china setting the stage for a further trade war escalation tell you about that when we come back. you know world big. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for

the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. in. the u.s. president stretch ratchet up tons of some hundreds of billions of dollars worth of imports from china the latest escalation of the trade war between the world's

leading economic powers comes ahead of a week of high level talks between washington and beijing aimed at ending the conflict with more of the story i'm told from his high risk negotiation tactics is caleb maupin. we're over two years into the presidency of the great deal maker mr air fired himself donald trump and it seems he is operating within my way or the highway strategy these are his latest comments on china the trade deal with china continues but too slowly as they attempt to renegotiate no trump is threatening a new tariff on over three hundred twenty five billion dollars. years worth of chinese goods now this all or nothing strategy seems to be a staple of the trump administration at this point we've got mike palm peo saying that no country will be allowed to import iranian oil 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 trump has demanded that russia stop supporting the elected government of venezuela with the russians but no right to get out. i want you next question the u.s. state department has demanded that turkey not by any russian ass four hundred missiles we've also made it clear to turkey that we have very serious concerns with its stated plans to proceed with the acquisition of the russian s four hundred missile defense system trumpets threaten the palestinian authority that money is on the table that money's not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace this will make a difference on how americans look at the un and on how we look at countries who disrespect us in the us and this will be remembered this all seems to fit a strategy that trump laid out in his bestseller the art of the deal the worst

thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it that makes the other guy smell blood and then you're dead no one can say the united states reeks of desperation however all of this doesn't seem to be resulting in better deals but rather no deals all the bombastic walk away is an rip up severs altered in no progress trump says my way or the highway and people around the world generally take the high way countries around the world are still buying iranian oil russia is still supporting venezuela at this point turkey says it still intends to buy s. four hundred missiles from russia and furthermore. the palestinians are sticking to the same firm position that they held before and while he's failing to make new deals trump seems to be breaking a lot of the old ones the united states will therefore suspend its obligations under the i.n.f. treaty the united states will withdraw. from the paris. climate of court. i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw

from the iran nuclear deal yeah the tough guy stuff might have worked pretty well when trump was selling real estate on madison avenue but is it going to work in geopolitics let's see what china does next donald trump certainly want to pay a one. time we. can meet with them and you can. download from. multiple. ability to made it work you know to. global. american inmates are trying to be. the age group would be trying to train world leaders who. could. spokes provoked another storm of controversy this time by burning in

australia breast cancer campaign that it claims was violating its nudity rules. those ads feature topless survivors of breast cancer covering themselves with small cakes the campaign was launched by the press council network australia together with the bakers delight chain last year it raised more than half a million dollars kirsten the c.e.o. of breast cancer network australia said that facebook had previously approved the ads well then said they violated its policy. we were so disappointed to hear that facebook had found that out very brave women and men who all had breast cancer we're told that they were probably too real into confronting to be able to have paid ads on facebook particularly in that forty plus age group use facebook to tell

their friends and family of things that are important to them so facebook has been important we have a plane trying to get in contact with facebook and still we have only heard through the made here in fact here in australia that they sent to us we needed to add educational messages this was very new news to us the only thing that we knew is that all the ads were allowed to happen but then again the day that we launched facebook said these ads were no longer permissible a spokesperson for facebook a strainer so that while she personally loved the idea of the ads didn't perform the plan didn't follow rather the platforms guidelines the policy does a lot of the posting of post mustek to me photos for ordinary users but for advertisers it seems rules are strict so twitter users have reacted to the move. violated the platforms needed to policy facebook seriously but this is ok this

is not to root for facebook naked garden indeed takes precedence over a fundraiser for a cancer survivors and sufferers this only illustrates the true agenda of the facebook mission statement so when a group use the facebook forum for a good cause they jump and it's been shifted down we spoke to human rights attorney jennifer braden she thinks the facebook needs to avoid selectively enforcing its rules. facebook would right now say that it has a consistent policy if you just look at the language of its policy but it is not consistent and how it in forces its policy is targeting in campaigns like this with breast cancer research or awareness but it's also targeting different political groups in certain things so it needs to look at how it targets so that it chooses to enforce its ban under because there are many people who have far more explicit ads that are not banned we're seeing that america has a silence prominent conservative voices were seen that is they silence other things other ads and they target these people they target those that they want to silence

that differ with them politically or socio economically and that is not ok we need to have consistency and we need to have platforms that allow the freedom of speech to come out rather than silencing the freedom of speech and using it under the guise of violating policies. so i think in the can so far the shoes are going from moscow and kevin zero in thank you for watching on t international. greetings and sal you take it. it's may talk watchers and now that spring has sprung here in the united states of america allergy season is in full gear. chew those terrible injury and while for most of us that means

a little sneezing some watery eyes maybe even the chinos or two but for the boys on team spring allergy season brings a sudden onset of well trigger fingers because this weekend we saw both u.s. national security adviser john bolton and u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe put their allergy to peace and common sense on display as they bang the drums for war with both iran and venezuela mr bolton declared to reporters on sunday evening that the u.s. is deploying the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the middle east in order to quote send a clear and unmistakable message to the iranian regime that any attack on united states interests or on those of our allies will be met with an relenting force. lending force you say as opposed to golly gee whiz relenting force we normally reserved for helping allies. meanwhile over in the state department could be

a was rattling the saber over venezuela's refusal to allow the united states to decide its leader when asked about his recent visit to the pentagon on friday pompei zero told a.b.c. news chief white house correspondent jonathan karl that he was there to quote make sure that the president has a full scale set of options diplomatic options political options options with our allies and then ultimately a set of options that would involve the use of the u.s. military we're preparing those for him so that when the situation arises we're not flatfooted when he says not if that's an interesting choice of words there mikey but is there any weight behind these w w e stop political promos for war or is this nothing more than sunday talk show bravado by the resident chicken hawks of capitol hill let's find out as we start watching the hawks. at the. rails.