well. the headlines this hour the u.s. secretary of state cancels a visit to moscow but plans to meet russia's president and foreign minister in sochi on cheese day where they will seek to result tensions over iran and venezuela . meanwhile the u.s. leader considers investigating presidential hopeful joe biden over his links to ukraine sparking outrage from democrats it is highly ethical alpha who will do everything. for. the eurovision song contest has just

got underway in israel and he's already improving control over ties in the country to tourists that pokes fun at its own citizens. but are they good morning is just gone 9 o'clock here in moscow you're watching international now the u.s. secretary of state has canceled what was to be an informal visit. to brussels at the last minute instead to let's find out what's happened there. is across the story for us good morning. why the change of plan then for mr. andrew good morning yes indeed the u.s. secretary of state mike pump was supposed to arrive in the russian capital one later on monday but at the very last moment his plans were changed because

of iran now as you've said instead he's going to brussels to discuss guess what iran and just ahead of my compare was trip to russia he shared with the media his plans the agenda the things that he was supposed to discuss with russian officials he's still going to do that but in another city and of course iran was on top of that list to iran is the major destabilizing in influence in the middle east and we aim to fix that our aim is not war our aim is a change in the behavior of the iranian leadership we hope the iranian people will get what they finally want what they did so richly deserve. i guess it is really tough for my compare himself and his team with all the changing of schedules in fact it's not the 1st time this kind of thing and happened is happening last week the u.s. top diplomat changed his plans twice because of iran so what's going on of

course the reason for that is to ron's decision to say no to some of the commitments under the so-called iran nuclear deal that was a landmark agreement signed in $2015.00 and runs decision came precisely one year after washington unilaterally pulled out of the deal so my pump aoe is apparently going to brussels to discuss the next steps with the european leaders and we can only guess how that's going to play out who's going to have the upper hand and this discussions but something very important here is that europe was slamming america for unilaterally pulling out of the agreement a last year now their rhetoric changed and at this point they're equally unhappy

with what sharon is doing. the decision you know we're on hasn't reached to vital compliance measures if they break that deal then there will be consequences in terms of how european powers react so we the iranians to think very long and hard before they break. the end of today nothing could be worse than iran leave in the agreement there are new sanctions today from europe because iran has so far respected the commitments we it has undertaken in this country commence and not just back to the question of how do we consider india so this could be a unique very special moment for. or the us administration and american diplomats could see this as a perfect time to pressure europe into withdrawing from the deal proposing a new tougher one and definitely more pressure against iran now she said.

he's saying going to go to sochi is need to meet with the putin and also as planned what else will they talk about then apart from the nuclear agreement. sure and my compare was supposed to talk to american diplomats he's callie's here at the u.s. embassy he was going to meet american students and american businessmen but no official talks with the high ranking members of the russian government were planned for the russian capital however he's still going to saw where he's got to discuss many things with sergei lavrov and in fact he's then meeting the russian president vladimir putin i can tell you that before that there was a long pause in direct contacts between the most high ranking officials of the u.s. and russia but that pause was broken exactly one week ago monday last week when

mr met the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and it was clear that 1st of all they met to discuss venezuela because that's a crisis that needs to be sorted out but then there's the usual range of topics that they always discuss it is ukraine that's got the new president we understand that the escalation of the crisis on the korean peninsula could be in the making because of further missile tests conducted in the north and also drills conducted in the south together with the americans we understand that kim jong un was in vladivostok russia so these are the things along with syria that perhaps will be discussed but going back to venezuela it will be very difficult for the officials to find common ground here because we understand that for now they are worlds apart on the issue. plenty of big things to talk about i can't think cd that was

a frank. i mean while the u.s. president on trump wants attorney general to begin investigating. the front runner for the democratic presidential nomination joe biden over his alleged meddling in ukrainian political affairs something biden denies democrats say trump is just trying to get rid of a strong opponent you should run off as more. he is an american politician of such scale that he might even get a holywood produced bio pic appearing in theaters his son is an entrepreneur doing business with other countries and some people suspect that the father of political shotgun is using his reputation of fire power to make sure his sons business doesn't sail into choppy waters this is what you may have heard in the news for years about donald trump and he's run from jr yet now it's the story about trump's

2020 democratic rival joe biden and his son he has already got a trump trademarked nickname and in fact has been on the president's mind for a while one of the democrats. said that he he sleepy person. said that he heard from a lot of foreign leaders and they want him to be president of course they do so they could continue to rip of the united states and. i said general community because. i felt like joe biden to but this time it's more than just junior school style name calling because trump suspects biden pulled quite a number of diplomatic leavers to have a prosecutor who was making his son's business difficult fired outrageous behavior

if it had happened in america and perhaps even worse though since all of the above allegedly happened in another country in ukraine in fact before announcing his presidential ambitions biden gave plenty of reason for speculation. a commitment from poroshenko they would take action against the state prosecutor they did you not get the hugo hours i so you know i guess. a 1000000000 i'm going to be leaving here i think it was about 6 hours i looked as i'm reading the 6 hours that the prosecutor is not fired you're not getting the money oh son of a. you're fired trump almost sent his lawyer rudy giuliani to ukraine to investigate but giuliani canceled this trip because the fallout was ferocious explain to me why biden shouldn't be investigated if his son got millions from a russian loving crooked ukrainian only gold while he was vice president and point

man for ukraine ukrainians are investigating and you'll follow dems are interfering election is 70 months away let's on the streets now and when i say ferocious i mean for roche yes it is highly unethical for the president's personal lawyer to tell me what visuals from a foreign government to see if they can influence somehow the upcoming presidential election we've had enough of them we will do everything we can to the breaking of the wall it's a very it's a trail of democracy to work with other countries to affect our elections it's just a flat out betrayal seriously mr president or jew horses stop this persecution it's funny though the democrats never seem to like it when the tables turn even if there is hard you know hard seeming evidence that something could be very foul here after

all they've conducted this false investigation for the last 2 years costing taxpayers millions and millions of dollars really just abusing this president has family why would the democrats not now say that if there's an allegation of a possible president out in front of an election why would the democrats not want that followed through on why would they even want to nominate somebody who looked this suspicious to me they should be the ones calling for the investigation. and the scandal shows the intensity of america's political desire for justice while trump must go down by you than can get a pass after all is everyone's favorite grandpa. or despite the allegations that joe biden does remain the most popular candidate to become the democrat's presidential nominee he is tied to it for his strong commitment to the party ideals although it does saying he can change his position

on issues like others from the party i voted for. i voted like i like most democrats somebody were like i got over 700. kilometers of. people are driving across the border. very. very very good wife writes we've gotten very good. care there's on public on every single one mexico we can't wall ourself off the problems that are not bound by borders drug trafficking climate change can't be built. not. crime bill before us will certainly do some good. it will authorize some badly needed funding for better fences and better security along our borders maybe they'll need a moment. they do want to alligators in the well you know secure our borders with

technology personnel physical barriers if necessary and some places we will not build a wall instead we will build an economy where everyone who wants a good job can get one. meanwhile the british conservative party would suffer a crushing defeat if the general election were held today according to a new poll in a further humiliation the survey also found the new party would beat the tories with the current main opposition labor coming out on top the breaks of policies leader nigel farage says the frustration of british voters has reached a boiling point. we've got a 2 party system but now serves nothing but itself there is a complete breakdown of trust between the people in this country and our politicians and frankly they revealed themselves to be grossly incompetent where the new poll found the froggies party would snap up

a sizeable number of seats in the house of commons while the tories would lose a record number of them pays in their worst ever electoral result it also suggests to the labor party would emerge victorious from an election that fall short of reaching a majority and with european elections looming large to the break the party is also on track for big wins in brussels the u.k.'s 2 main parties have already been punished by voting in local elections recently held earlier this month to raise amaze conservatives lost a 3rd of their seats there in some councils while the opposition didn't do much better we asked people in london why voters are turning their backs on the traditional parties really both parties are but each of the labor and conservative in terms of delivery of bricks the general public they're so fed up with the situation we go to break i think people are losing steam he said he'd disappeared the polar bear to be in for it in the old people's trees by the government who

promised to deliver breakfast but they promised delivery over a month ago i mean wasn't delivered she's failed to deliver on the record and it's 16 and there is no sign of it being delivered it seems the politics she's gumped up completely because of this the last strike some of the frightening stuff sees what she's trained to do she's tried to win the popularity contests but she's not. it doesn't surprise me that knowledge of wrote the book she's popular also so. washing out international we're going to take a quick break more nice and tame. live . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race

off and spearing dramatic development the only city i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out these days become educated and in gains from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and.

hello again the pentagon has reportedly developed a secret weapon modification of the how far misao to take out targets while minimizing civilian casualties deployed by drone it has been nicknamed the ninja bomb because it kills using blades rather than explosives. reports. drone warfare has long been part of the us government's war on terror and it's gotten ugly on more than one occasion. killing people by these drones basically sitting on a screen and eliminating people. dehumanizing them.

as if you know from some other planet not giving them a basic right moving the innocence i mean it but it's on the norms of justice on top of that it's all classified so leaking the methodology behind what human rights groups have called a method for extrajudicial executions can get you in a lot of trouble for daniel hale an n.s.a. officer and now suspected whistleblower that could mean up to 15 years in jail that echoes chelsea manning say she's just recently been released from jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury but she could return soon as she's already got another subpoena now to be fair u.s. leaders have long talked about their deep conviction over civilian deaths the architecture of the legal architecture around to the use of drone strikes or other committed strikes wasn't as precise as it should have been and there's no doubt

that civilians were killed but shouldn't have been. i think that over the last several years we have worked very hard to avoid and prevent those kinds of tragedies from taking place apparently it was u.s. president barack obama who ordered the creation of a new missile device that would increase the percentage and accuracy of these predator drone. and strikes and minimize civilian casualties it's apparently called the ninja bomb now it may be the pentagon's worst kept secret they have not officially confirmed it but so far several military officials have said that it's being used it's argued that the new missile might enhance the image of the united states in the countries that are already subject to u.s. military drone strike operations unlike a regular missile it doesn't explode instead it deploys 6 blades that fan out of its casing moments before impact blades are so sharp they can cut through vehicles and slice their target into pieces so we've got blades flinging through the air in

order to reduce civilian casualties sounds plausible enough apparently the new ninja bomb has already been used in iraq libya syria somalia and yemen now the mastermind behind the suicide bombing on the u.s.s. cole back in the year 2000 was apparently taken out by a ninja bomb in january according to pentagon reports so is this new missile the answer will it improve the image of the drone strike program in the eyes of the american public what do you think of the drone strike program. ok with it i know nothing about it it's pretty awful actually we have this thing now called a ninja bomb and what it is is it and when it detonates it sends blades through the air and the idea is this will minimize civilian casualties we can pick the terrorist we want to kill send the ninja bomb and fewer civilians will be killed you know that the blades kill the. terrorists and not the civilians it doesn't seem

like the you can target maybe specific people with that seems like you'll just. spread out a lot of. a lot of damage and i think that's also did a pretty good program number limit civilian casualties are going to do not that's not happening i think if somebody suggested that that. i had i don't think that is even real i don't think it really. rumor. actually so i think this is a. basically propaganda well if you want to put it that way to make people feel that there is a kinder gentler way of showing people. this. sense of nation which well it's international law and you my declaration of human rights i think this is some way of trying to placate the public in the united states and probably for more storage in the world with the technology stands right now the kind of person that they're talking about. central you know. and the notion of assassination

whether precise or general i was still totally unacceptable we have asked the pentagon to comment on these reports and let you know when we get a reply. the eurovision song contest has got off to a controversial stoss in the musical clip designed to promote tourism to the country was shown during the opening ceremony featuring jeans poking fun at themselves. just what you heard it's a lead and. thanks. to the price of the. elise you guys are acknowledging the occupation.

this is the price israel paid for a cease fire with hamas this is cringeworthy beyond words not in the slightest funny just offensive and bears. it starts with a joke about war. occupation then uses the anti-semitic trope that the jews are greedy which is perhaps unwise given rising anti-semitism in europe. and to semitism and resorting is set to music is a bad look israel. is great it's almost a 1000000000 shekels and all you managed to produce was an m to some music leap.

just to be clear the musical south side and was meant to deal with stereotypes about jews in israel yes also by using self-deprecating humor like we love we know off flaws and we're not ashamed to laugh at all of them. the whole thing is genius from beginning to end that small details the do is real and i love our own dumb to sure it really isn't and totally israeli. the french chef when later shown like many shown has denounced the anti russian and hysteria of the e.u. it does come after he was featured in a video game released by emmanuel crones youth movement in the form of a russian insect shot at the been skate the game

a try. as almost fight tooth and nail in the forthcoming european elections it seems that they've got a new weapon to utilize it's this video game now it's similar to one that we've known since the $1980.00 s. so it does feel a little bit retro and this is the main character here the idea is clear this is meant to represent natalie who is top of the list for all march in those elections and she is the heroine so if natalie was who is the heroine of this game who are the baddies well it's pretty clear on the right it's a marquee in the pen with the national rally and on the left it's usual nuke militia with france about this even a bit of donald trump thrown in there for good mix.

no collusion no obstruction to caricature. shies grotesque mar over to donald trump in the game although truth is not a european leader but an american one so it's unclear what do you has to do with it all i think is just p.r. and also just think of the p.r. so the aim of the game is pretty simple knuckly was trying to find the missing stars from the european flag and that's because they've been stolen by those baddies so let's find those stars. come on. earth. well the idea of using a video game to perhaps try and boost the youth vote isn't something new in fact it was done by friends back in. action this is of course the 1st

big test that matt cohen has been through since he was elected president back in 2017 so if he wants to avoid game over then perhaps you need to do more than produce a tutti game to fend off that mounting pressure from the left the right and the center and of course to raise those gloomy for. paris that's how things are looking so far today here on r.t. don't forget there are plenty of stories for you to look at at our website you can find that. there's an petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing the key economic issues facing russia

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time after time see we're going underground on the opening day of london's future artillery conference where events include increasing precision reducing burden sponsored by raytheon a company whose smart bombs are allegedly killing civilians in yemen coming up to show a very british crew on next week's elections an establishment conspiracy to overturn brecht said we asked the man who predicted the rise of corbin author chris smalling and we have documents from britain's national audit office casting doubt on democracy in britain disgraced defense secretary gavin williamson may have gone but the u.k. military set for the biggest privatization deal since the liquidation of karelians we investigate comparisons between neo liberalism and the circle of hell all this of all coming up in today's going underground but 1st it's 32 years since margaret thatcher denied to the house of commons any of the spycatcher conspiracy allegations about an attempt by u.k. secret intelligence agencies to overthrow the british government led by labor prime

minister harold wilson the book spycatcher was banned by the british government a fact no doubt not lost on the current labor leader jeremy corbyn there is an ongoing inquiry into secret intelligence activities against him with no real news on when it will report it was called when. number 2 john mcdonnell who appeared to get called in to trouble ahead of the last u.k. general election when interviewed about any possible shake up of britain's allegedly unaccountable secret services what about money for the security services how could we take that seriously when your shadow chancellor was photographed holding a letter which called for the abolition of m i 5 the abolition of a special branch and the disarming of the police given the terrorism has presided over 20000 police officers jobs being cut it was relatively easy for corbett about the way that question about security but only my 5 long suspected of dirty tricks against the left in britain he said this except since leaving the ball the m i 5.