i i i. i i. chief says it's vital to our situation around the iran nuclear deal to the u.s. state stopped by. russia's foreign minister said tuesday. that he's looking for. the stars to. compare you how the u.s. is going to deal with the crisis that was made. in the new swedish prosecutors who said that they will reopen in an investigation into

a sexual assault allegation made against wiki leaks founder julian assange. extradition from the united kingdom. and the united states china trade stock markets plummeting this is after beijing retaliated to the latest u.s. punitive tariffs and penalties on $60000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods. thanks for joining us this is our team into. the european union has warned. against escalating the situation over the iran nuclear deal crisis comes as america's top diplomat made an unexpected visit to brussels to speak with the human . michael until her death very clearly today from from the us the most responsible

attitude to take is clearly should be and that of maximum maximum restraint avoiding any escalation on a military site well this was a meeting that was all set it was all planned there was supposed to be sitting down the e.u. foreign ministers as well as the high representative for foreign affairs federica mockery me she's essentially the use overarching equivalent of a foreign minister they were supposed to be sat down talking about libya they tried to do that as much as they could however might pompei oh the u.s. secretary of state he decided he was going to be turning up. of course that has apparently put the cat amongst the pigeons if i listen to some of the people i've been talking to among the diplomats in brussels federica mockery they're far from happy that my pompei o was in town on this day he wasn't supposed to be here he was supposed to be in moscow he did turn up and this is what represented the for

foreign affairs had to say when it came to the iran deal they need to keep it alive we. still invite iran to comply with all its nuclear commitments and that is a full determination on the european union side and also all that understates expressed that today very clearly and continue to implementing it for all of the nuclear deal that it and federica mockery and he said all of the parts of the iran deal just then because last week iran said that it would not continue to uphold all parts of the deal the 2015 deal that came on the anniversary of the united states saying that it would pull out wholeheartedly from the agreement now the u.s. decision to do that donald trump's decision to unilaterally pull the u.s. out of it it caused an awful lot of problems and it saw a lot of a u. nations member states also brussels that said. of condemning the united states for

doing so now we've also started to see some of the 28 member states starting to to question iran well ideas when it comes to whether they should stay in it should the uranian government decide that they want to pull out wholeheartedly from the 2050 nuclear deal of it's we agree with other e.u. states the nuclear deal is necessary for us security and it's gong to prevent iran from obtaining nuclear weapons 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 of today nothing could be worse than iran leave in the agreement so there are new sanctions to do from europe because iran has so far always respected the commitments it has undertaken is this commitments are not respected the question

will be reconsidered this is the 2nd change of schedule it is many weeks for those that travel with mike pompei of the u.s. secretary of state that things that have been changed at the last minute just last week it was supposed to be coming here from helsinki to berlin they ended up going to baghdad this time around they're supposed to be going to moscow they end up in brussels they are heading off to russia for tuesday at a meeting with sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister and we can certainly expect iran to be pretty high on the agenda this is foreign minister says that he plans to confront his u.s. counterparts on how america intends to find a way out of the crisis occurred it is over the iran nuclear deal sergei lavrov is set to meet with the secretary of state mark compo this tuesday in sochi. so after those dismiss that i'm suing you will produce tomorrow or last mike compare how the u.s.

is going to deal with the crisis that was made by washington's unilateral decisions i hope tomorrow's talks will be frank iran has the right to partly suspend the implementation of the nuclear deal if other parties don't keep their commitments in shorts 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 iranians to do what they want 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 notably however foreign minister lavrov said that they plan to have an honest discussion face to face this question with my pump air tomorrow and see how things out things will go from there let's go analyst side mustapha. run has options if the deal falls apart. if it fails and if it collapses then you know tell ron would go for in carrying costs on the west especially the us in various areas beginning with the nuclear capabilities that iran has also iran seems to have a very good and serious option for exercising strict check and inspection measures in the strait of or most before it shuts down the strait actually iran also has the

option of ending its measures under such strict economic pressures its measures against the flow of the refugees and displaced people who are moving from the eastern borders to go to through iran to the western borders to get to europe iran is spending lots of money in order to stop this flow of refugees and displaced population and it could draw up peace efforts and allow them to move to europe then you would see at least 3 and a half 1000000 people get so your all and that's a catastrophe for europe that's why the europeans should realize that they will pay the cost if this nuclear deal collapses and falls apart. prosecutors in sweden have reopened an investigation into sexual assault allegations against wiki leaks co-founder joining a son swedish authorities have dropped the case in $2017.00 and they now say the seeking and actually addition warrant against

a songe once he served his 15 week prison term in the u.k. only boy has more. 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 sondre was dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy last month the woman that 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

their 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 in a pit 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 his 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 and 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's ecuadorian 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 are there is no government sort of diplomatic and military files they were deeply embarrassing to

washington there's now that new tourist 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. glue for the swedish woman who reported being sexually assaulted by julia song in 2010 the decision to reopen the case she said it signaled that nobody was above the law of the swedish legal system does not give special treatment anymore. i can speak to cook stokely who is a wiki leaks activists to speak to you thanks for coming on did this decision come

as a surprise to you. i'm not so much as a surprise but it's just another legal hurdle that joy is going to have to face. with surprising though is that sweden has had you know 6 years to. essentially interrogate us on they dropped that case the investigation back in 2000 and they let saddam's leave and then they put out a red notice after he got to the u.k. so it seems what is really disturbing is is that it's there's a lot of political pressure on sweden to extradite. you which is really really shocking right now is actually that the ecuadorian embassy in london has sequestered all of assad just belongings and is handing it over to the united

states and this is a great breach of. asylum law that the institution of asylum and it's you know it seems that everyone is out together and a sideshow is never a point try to hide from this investigation meanwhile the much of the mainstream media will report that he's been charged. and that has never been the case is it or that they say that he's always been trying to hide from swedish investigators and that's never been the case. but it seems that. again there's been political pressure and i would say it's mostly coming from d.c. to get him one way or. the critics will say that you know we can expose prominent revelations they thought it on in 2010 later on not yet become sexual

allegations against julian assange as i said that you know the claims against him a politically motivated what do you think of those claims. well i would agree that they're politically motivated. and it seems to me that. all along with this is it has been something that has been coming from pressure from d.c. but you know the the women. you know have said that they they didn't feel like they were great they said that they they didn't want him to end up in jail for it but what they really wanted was an s.t.d. test and he. was willing to do that all long the way you know there have been just. greatly. egregious crossing the line of what is normal law in how this investigation has been dealt with and

you know the un has said that he was being held. illegally. and apparently no one in sweden no one in the u.s. and no one in the u.k. really cares what the un has to say which is scary. you know it and it doesn't seem to me that assad has ever tried to hide from so it's. but but the way that it's been manipulated. through the media through politicians and so forth has really been to try to paint him as a bill and when you know all along it's been very much proven and we knew it now we definitely know it now that the u.s. has been trying to extradite him and that too assad has always been trying to. prevent it from happening. even the possibility clock is that he could face a son's extradition to the united states of the conspiracy charge and also to

sweden of sexual assault charges in the u.k. it seems we'll have a decision to make a lot of pressure on one or more particular judges to make a decision whether you think it's likely he would end up. i think it's most likely that he would end up in the united states you know the united states i think has more pull especially now that you know the u.k. strains a leader of the european union and. you know i think that. you know all along. that has been the case right or that it's been the 1st case that he's had to deal with was is this grand jury that started before these allegations of sweden. and i think that. you know the as we've seen with chelsea manning scase and we've also seen with many other whistleblowers of

the u.s. . you know they're going for a life sentences and they're you know trying to put him away for a long time. i think that there's not a lot of grounds there's not a lot of legal. action that could really be taken against him in sweden and so i think they're going to go. i could be wrong but you know if if they do get him into sweden. and washington d.c. is going to be the next they're definitely going to make sure that he gets extradited from sweden to the u.s. and that's been the concern the whole talk preaching it's on since a killing on this evening clock stukely is my guess wiki leaks activist. so finance the global stock markets are taking a hit again in the midst of china u.s. trade blows beijing has swung back at the latest u.s. tariffs by imposing penalties on $60000000000.00 worth of american products the

measures are set to kick in next month trade talks in washington and beijing ended last week without compromise on friday the u.s. hiked the levies on $200000000000.00 worth of chinese imports raising them from 10 percent to 25 percent or same penalties will be raised on all remaining chinese products beijing rejects washington's claim that it failed to stick to its trade commitments president trump had warned china would be hit further if it retaliated 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 complete it and you backed out. ok let's bring in a guest now steve keen is an honorary professor of economics at university college london very good evening steve my basic understanding of this is that the u.s.

imports a lot more than china imports from the u.s. so who stands to lose the most here. well. i think it's structure of the manufacturing supply change fundamentally the china itself has been diversifying away from america and sends its source of its. its export market that will now be going much into overdraw of. i think it'll it'll have a you know be injurious for the people who are trying to outsource manufacturing to china and send it back to america that's the people who are most worried by all this china has but i think a lot of the. you'd expect ocean of disruption to global economies excessively focus upon trade and doesn't look at the investment impact of all this and it's going to be a lot of investment going about the america and china to get away from the the bull in the china shop of course is don't trump. the speculation that beijing might dump

its holdings of u.s. dollars a limited at $1.00 trillion does that sound like a possibility. it's a possibility of us would like being held up by public. what people forget in this whole thing is they think you know if you you flood the market who's going to buy the answer is you not destroyed the federal reserve which has. the monopoly issuer of u.s. dollars and if you basically said i've got a trillion dollars worth of bonds to sell to you they'll say ok here's a trillion dollars what else you got. the what's being ignored in those arguments about closing up an economic process by dumping the bones is that it's not a market like if you dump all the oil on the planet will dump all the sauce the sold them you drive the process down we have a monopoly producer of draw u.s. dollars you can buy everything china has to put on the market in terms of the tensions that we've been seeing in this trade war why do you think some potatoes in

to the and a. sure he could have avoided that situation what you think is motivation was. well poppy that's what you and i are now doing we're talking about trump what is trump like hearing trump so it's probably the personality and it's also he's pandering for the next electoral round he wants to be seen as a tough god taking on china because his people who the the working class republicans who voted for on well on so lost their job by the relocation of american production to china and now he's saying i'm standing up for you're going to get those jobs back so this is actually very successful for him and he says how he sees his audience responding to him by provoking china it'll increase he's his chances of being reelected in 2020 he says that says that the the existing trade deal was brokered by china is that. sorry padma the u.s.

has claimed that china broke the existing trade agreements that they've come to do you think that's true. that's a sure as any other comment the door going to trump mikes i mean what would be going on is in the goetia of the chinese i'm a lot fitter of course be putting forward a slightly more preferential position for themselves than the would have been the initial position for the united states that would be taken as was breaking the agreement from donald trump's interpretation but as you any of you have said you have a dealt with the chinese negotiators in general the word yes comenius i've heard you're not yes i agree. you're an expert so i have to ask you this please tell me we're not seeing the early stages that will be the catalyst for the next financial global crisis is there a threat that this could make things worse down the road or no no i don't know i don't know i don't think there is a man mike my position is we had across the back in 2000 and i from too much private debt to a higher level of growth or credit growth or in the aftermath of that now we're living in a credit stagnation this doesn't have much impact upon it it may actually lead to

some stimulus because a lot of american companies are going to be deciding had enough of this outsourcing have enough of the houses bank or they've been in knightly and outsourcing little on what donald trump is now doing let's bring manufacturing back on shore and to do that they've got to borrow money and invest so that could actually win this is what trump was also factoring in i he signed you know just sort of street level economics yes we're going to stimulate the economy because 1st be forced to invest and hire people i'm sure a lot of people watching be breathing a little easier now many thanks for your expertise professor of economics at university college on a professor at university college london the king thank you. dear. friend tony said to develop a secret weapon a missile with blades nicknamed the ninja bomb is designed to be more accurate than explosive and thus reduce civilian casualties seen in drone strikes killing more than explains. drone warfare has long been part of the u.s.

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 teaching them. as if you know from some other planet north giving them a basic right of proving their innocence i mean it but. 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 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 or. 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 but apparently it was u.s. president barack obama who ordered the creation of a new missile device that would increase the percentage in accuracy of these predator drone 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 so is this new missile the answer will it improve the image of the drone strikes. 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 bomb right 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 that you can target maybe specific people with that seems like you'll just. spread out a lot of. a lot of damage i think that's also did a pretty good program them 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 busy. room reduces actually so i think that this is a. propaganda whatever you want to put it that way to make people feel that there's a kinder gentler way of killing people point of fact this is the whole assassination which. you my declaration of human rights a kind of person that they're talking about. this essentially you know possible and the notion of assassination whether precise or generalized is so totally

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after town so 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 bricks that we ask the man who predicted the rise of corbin author chris mullin 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 karelian we investigate.