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renege on its nuclear deal. of the e.u. desperately trying to keep the deal live and come up with ways to protect iran from crippling u.s. sanctions. british prosecutors say they will reopen in the investigation into a sexual assault allegation that made against wiki leaks co-founder julian the song and will take his extradition from the u.k. . and the u.s. china trade stock markets plummeting that's after beijing tallied so the latest u.s. punitive tariffs by imposing penalties on $6000000000.00 of u.s. goods. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q and moscow thanks for joining us this hour russian foreign minister says he plans. confronts his u.s.

counterpart on how america intends to find a way out of the crisis created the iran nuclear deal the secretary of state might pump is set to meet sergei lavrov this tuesday on the agenda is iran's threat to stop implementing parts of the $2015.00 deal last year washington backed out of the agreement and reimposed crippling sanctions on tehran. we cannot cross live to our correspondents covering this topic run gazi of and peter oliver rob let's start with you you're in sochi where lavrov will be meeting with pompei on tuesday what else did the russian foreign minister have to say. well he remarked on the situation regarding iran regarding the united states and its behavior towards the radian nuclear deal he was asked to comment on the situation and said that he has little doubt that the united states will apply colossal pressure on the european union 1 on other members of the u. of the u.n.

security council in order to get their way with regards to the reunion deal to torpedo it the european union is going to hold an extraordinary session with regards to what is happening in iran with regards to raney and threats to stop the implementation of the nuclear deal because of american threats american sanctions and the secretary of state the u.s. secretary of state might compel has canceled a planned trip to moscow in order to attend that session and as foreign minister sergey lavrov believes in order to apply again colossal pressure on the european union to suspend uranium deal the implementation of the iranian deal you know this is spend a special mechanism that the european union has created to circumvent u.s. sanctions to allow the iranians to trade with oil. to

get us you just russia and china together view the u.s. unilateral sanctions against iran as illegal specifically those aimed at exports from the country iran has the right to partly suspend the implementation of the nuclear deal if other parties don't keep their commitments. insureds now that the united states is left the iranian nuclear deal and is trying to get the european union to suspend to suspend its implementation of the deal. have a right a legal right to also suspend their implementation of the deal in effect the deal is collapsing because of the united states sanctions because of how determined the united states is to torpedo this deal and to get the arena to do what they want china the chinese foreign secretary for foreign minister also said that you know

sanctions may have a short term effect but in the long run they'll just end up biting the united states as well they also they also spoke about how you deal must stay in place china's also a policy of the iranian nuclear deal they also discussed how they're going to keep abide by the terms of the deal nevertheless the united states is as i said adamant and believes that iran must be stopped that iranian behavior is the stabilizing. 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. so there you have a ditz all in the air much depends on what happens to me tomorrow on whether the.

foreign minister the foreign 2nd secretary of state sort of the united states might manage to convince the europeans to suspend to pull out of the iranian deal and how will react to all of this new gibli however foreign minister lavrov said that they plan to have an honest discussion face to face this question with. tomorrow and see how things out things will go from there. or i'm going to have thank you for that report now peter we know that compound diverted away from russia and went to brussels instead to discuss the iranian nuclear crisis what more can you tell us about that. well i can tell you certainly very unexpected nobody thought he was going to be turning up in brussels on monday morning he did i can tell you that i've spoken to some diplomatic sources of mine that are in brussels right now being quite close to some of the meetings i can tell you that as far as those senior figures taking part in the the e.u.

foreign affairs council meeting that was taking place on monday they didn't know it was coming and in all honesty some according to some of them they're not that keen that he has come at all there was an extensive agenda to get through to how to deal with libya ahead of the news that mr pompeo would be arriving we understand that the high representative for foreign affairs federica maka really was determined to stick to the initial agenda as much as possible but with the arrival of secretary of state pompei o that of course has allowed iran a place on the negotiation table we can hear from me as well as the german foreign minister right now as they were making their way into the european foreign affairs council. he continued to fully support the nuclear deal with iran as full implementation it has been and continues to be for us. a key element of nonproliferation company physician at that nobody has been that he done so we'll continue to support it if. we agree with other e.u.

states the nuclear deal is necessary for us security and its goal is to prevent iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. or just last week iran said that it would no longer commit to all aspects of the 2015 nuclear deal. this came a year after the united states unilaterally pulled out of the agreement all together it does leave brussels and it leaves the 28 member states of the european union in a very peculiar position they are absolutely condemned the united states for pulling out of this deal particularly federica mockery need the high representative of foreign affairs basically the e.u. equivalent of a foreign minister for the 28 member state bloc she said it was a disgrace that this is happened she was on the verge of tears at some point because she put a lot of her own hard work into it now we are starting to see some of those 28 member states starting to look towards terror and saying if you pull out of this whole heartedly well this isn't going to work well for anybody iran has agreed

to vital compliance measures if they break that deal then there will be consequences in terms of how european powers react so we urge the iranians to think very long and hard before they break. the end today nothing could be worse than iran leave in the agreement there are no sanctions to do from europe because iran has so far always respected the commitments it has undertaken is this commitment or not respected the question of do we consider it. or bear a thought for those that travel with secretary of state pompei oh they haven't known whether being coming or going for the last 2 weeks just last week they were expected to head here with the secretary of state to live in that was counseled at the last minute they ended up in baghdad this monday they were expecting to be going to moscow they've gone to brussels but of course mr pompei o on the rest of

that press corps that follows him around will be heading on to sort of cheat on cheese day for meetings with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and well if i was a betting man i think iran might be pretty high upon their agenda peter oliver bring us the latest from berlin thank you. we go live now to independent journalist luc roommate for more on this welcome to the program now the french foreign minister has said the u.s. is partly to blame for creating the risk of international anarchy which could lead to confrontations between governments do you think that that's going to far. i don't think so i think it's your opinion of all the ministers of foreign affairs who are in brussels today $28.00 of them plus prime ministers something like 70 hits of state and minuses of foreign affairs they have an agenda and suddenly you missed the boat invites himself after having canceled the spill as the then the want to moscow is going to such

a tomorrow i mean well this is it seems like panic football for the europeans and the pair was not really both of them you hope for that i cannot get any she said it we have an agenda we've got to stick to it and we might find some time for mr gbagbo today what is the message of prop 8 that's the question because it is again asking to europeans to get out of the j c p r way of the iran nuclear genie agreement ino knows the answer already the european have said no we don't want to we think the iranians respect their commitment so could it be that. with the typical attitude of donald trump it comes not with the biggest example of this time but with a big carrot maybe as a trump said a few days ago last week even reminded the year a instead they could call it not john kerry but that they could call him old trump

to discuss and that america was ready to help the iranian economy get out of stagnation if of course iran doesn't stop all nuclear weapons or is it a way for trump to do like he did in north korea you know or not talk allowed to obtain response later being nice this time it's a possibility of course we know that saudi arabia is behind the united states as well as israel and these 2 at least don't want to deal with iran all. now as you mentioned it's unclear how much face time pump ale will actually get while in brussels so how much do you think is there a chance that he'll get what he wants from this visit not say much if what he wants is for the europeans to get out of the commitment because of a draw the answer will be no it will take much more time for the. diplomacy in europe to align. for or against iran on this so it will take

much more time you can all play panic football like that and come here and be there the next day and arrange everything in half an hour on the coffee table it doesn't work like that i mean the diplomacy as we'll be all set is something different mr looking as a gentleman any you know when he speaks actually. developed by the american or the city it's probably the opinion of most of the europeans. now on one side we have the u.s. and on the other side we have terence demand for the e.u. to save the deal which will you think influence brussels more. well brussels can't do much europe has tried to have this special purpose vehicle s.p.v. would allow theoretically companies to sell to continue selling all dealing with iran for services or mines but nonis taken advantage of it it doesn't work and the

europeans nobody have to install it you know to answer to trajectory washington but it doesn't work so the reins like a good bit nervous everybody does iran turns to china or to iran to russia rather than europe because states you've got there is no official response from the europeans and we're really stuck into this you know the emergence of the key to it all. independent journalist who grew thank you so much for your time and joining us on the program. prosecutors in sweden have reopened an investigation into sexual assault allegations against wiki leaks co-founder julian assange swedish authorities had dropped the case in 2017 but they now say they're seeking an extradition warrant against a songe once he serves his current 15 week prison term in the u.k. played by reports. well these allegations date back to 2010 and the investigation into them was dropped in 2017 swedish prosecutors were unable to go

ahead with the investigation while a songe was essentially stuck inside london's ecuadorian embassy but when swedish prosecutors dropped the investigation they said that it could be reopened if the situation allowed so when a songe was dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy last month the woman had made the allegations against him said that she would like the case to be reopened and that's precisely what has happened stockholm has requested julian a songes extradition to sweden take a listen to what the prosecutor had to say at a press conference a little bit earlier on my new circumstances have brought about the need to revise or previous decision after reviewing the current state of diploma near investigation my assessment is that there are still grounds to suspend the mysterious songe committed rape now the statute of limitations on this case expires

in august 2020 so there isn't much time for the swedish authorities to act of course a songe also has a u.s. extradition request hanging over his head at the moment so there is kind of a legal muddle in place here and it a pity is that only the home secretary is able to decide which of these cases should take precedence and sort of potentially allow the more pressing swedish case to be prioritized and it looks now that it's going to be a political decision as to where a song potentially is extradited to fast technically he can be sent to sweden and the u.s. can then sort of update its extradition request and request that he be extradited over to the u.s. from sweden but. the u.k. would have to give sweden permission to extradite a songe to the u.s. as songes legal team would be able to challenge every one of those moves so we're

looking once again down the barrel of a very lengthy legal battle with 3 different jurisdictions in place now as songe has always rejected all the allegations the swedish allegations against him he's always said that he sought refuge in london 2nd or an embassy not because he was afraid of being questioned in sweden but because he was always concerned that the swedish case was simply a pretext for a more serious u.s. extradition request where he could face serious charges for his publishing activities and we keep leaks published the iraq war logs which there is no government sort of diplomatic and military files they would deeply embarrassing to washington there's now that new turia video. collateral damage which shows appears to show u.s. soldiers killing iraqi civilians the news today now means that we have 3 different

jurisdictions 3 different countries involved in this a songe legal saga he's wanted in washington he's wanted in stockholm and in the meantime he's in prison here in the u.k. serving out his 50 week sentence for skipping bail back in 2012. the lawyer for the swedish woman who reported being sexually assaulted by a songe welcome the decision she said it signaled no one was above the law and that the swedish legal system doesn't give special treatment to anyone. we spoke to wiki leaks editor in chief kristinn hrafnsson he believes sweden was pressured into pursuing the case. julian assange has always been ready and willing to cooperate with the swedish investigation into all of the years and i assume that he will welcome this opportunity to clear his name and. get this matter over ready and done with there are many of the normal ptes in this highly politicized crosas with the change of julian's. worldwide. the crown prosecution service in the

u.k. was in the driver's seat in this case it seems according to the e-mails that routines italy to information requests everything that pertains to julian as well as these days is politicized it is very hard to see that the opportunity to install to a fair trial in sweden in the u.k. or in the united states especially because that is exactly what these are all changed to an almost extradition to face trial for publishing the truth. well both stock markets are taking a hit again and the myth of china u.s. trade blows beijing has swung back at only this u.s. tariffs by imposing penalties on $60000000000.00 of american products the measures will kick in already next month trade talks between washington and beijing and then last week without a compromise on friday the u.s. heights levies on $200000000000.00 worth of chinese imports from 10 to 25 percent

it added it's also raising penalties on all remaining chinese products beijing rejects america's claims that it didn't stick to earlier trade commitments president trump had warned that if china will be hit if there's no trade deal. i say openly to president xi and all of my many friends in china the china will be hurt very badly if you don't make a deal because companies will be forced to leave china for other countries too expensive to buy in china you had a great deal almost completed and you backed out. live now to international and independent china specialist and along beijing's foreign minister warns the u.s. pressure will only make things worse is he right. well i mean let's go back a little know why this trade offs broke down at the last minute because only about last week there was a lot of break also the noises or voices on those arias but all of us of.

the reports have it that charter at the last minute. the kind of legal commitments commitments to also article in foreign aid promise concessions now they realize asian on the chinese side is that china may have given in too much in exchange for too little and the americans have more consider anything at all not even sanctions and they. trauma administration wants ascension remain in spite of all the concessions china says promise. and the other side of the scale is that. china's economy has been stabilizing and the assessment has been that china can afford to outlast the trump

card from ministration even need be. because at the end of the all of the line. the kind of american coercive approach to this negotiations has been hugely embarrassing to the chance leadership and i remind it's really been this and all this so all. centuries all living really asian in the last century and so so on we've fiction i think the chinese that a lot of. thinking. in order to make sure that the ill is livable in china the liberal and expendable and also hoping that the american sign. any. concessions so that would be a more balanced. so that's the background but then of course the size amount of pain the entity. the chinese. this retaliatory measures

target inspired by products this suggest that all these products are carefully chosen to cause maximum damage to the president runs a constituency. but then china will be running out of paris very soon because. the us that is it's not exporting. anything near ready china's exports but on the other hand there are more parity with territory. leavers equaling services including u.s. companies raiding in china. including even the possibility of selling some u.s. treasuries just the sparkle of fear. in the u.s. stock market so i think that we are exposed to some ugly kind of actions on both

sides before the whole thing before the 2 sides can see the light of day meanwhile there's a great deal of correct through them which because don't forget these are 2 the largest economies in the world and they are the center of the global supply chain and they are the at the episode all these tremors cross markets around the world. and here we don't have much time left left but i did want to ask you what needs to happen for washington and beijing to renegotiate their trade deal once and for all so. well i don't think once we are always the answer but i think the emperor be troops who will. of course the tremendous restraint has to be given a little bit more. particularly the live in all all sanctions provided china's on the these commitments in one way or the other but i think that president from

doesn't see it that way. then i think they're both sides are now position themselves for a longer game so i think that we've been seeing some tricky waters. and at the end of the day who is hurt worse by this whole spat i think both sides as the economic adviser to the white house larry love the weasely and beauty of both sides was suffer but i think that the the reality is that when the initial terrorists were imposed on chinese products these were targeted against high tech. ready industries so i have products but now as the u.s. is widening the net there is net and then a lot of products will be called and most of these orders directly affect u.s. consumers u.s. importance and you are even u.s. manufacturers

a long time on. your export from from china of all these components for us factor so i think that their age on this side of the united states is slightly diverse of those 2 as well but i think that china. looking at the past experience has done the calculation that probably they could live with a longer trade war even lost the government from where ministration you talk about the damage to u.s. manufacturers so all that's not boost the u.s. economy as trump hopes. well there has been. there all this whole scale trade war. disrupting the supply chain. roiling the u.s. market is going to wipe out or a lot of the benefits all the recent tax cuts. under

the president from. senor which is really. use these tax cuts in all of the most economy but now with a straight war all the way because shows like all the benefits of a trade cut will disappear and it's going to hit the u.s. economy. as well of course wall street international and independent china specialist and our long and thank you so much for your time. thank you very much and. that's our wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook are up to the minute reports. donald trump's foreign policy is on school. called forced regime change and like a flu that won't go away russia appears to have a life. time

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