we've got an amazing situation developing here in america one of our politicians has an openly admitted in congress that the u.s. dollar is that threat from been quiet. president warns iran against any aggressive steps raising fears of a new conflict well russia's foreign minister urges washington to resolve the crisis ahead of his talks with the u.s. secretary of state. to. compel you how the u.s. is going to deal with the crisis that was made by washington's unilateral decisions e.u. foreign policy chief calls for an engine to deescalation between 2 iran and washington after the collapse of the wrong nuclear deal. which is prosecutors say they will

reopen a sexual assault probe against wiki leaks co-founder julian assange will seek his extradition from the u.k. . and the u.s. china trade war has global stock markets off to beijing retaliates to u.s. tire it was. a very warm welcome to you watching r.t. international with me and he aaron now we start with some news just in from washington d.c. police have been to the venezuelan embassy to a victory group of activists soon been occupying the building since president nicolas maduro was diplomats were expelled last month these are some of the latest pictures we're showing you from the embassy right now. the blockade started in

protest against the u.s. move to recognize venezuelan opposition leader one why do it was the country's leader activists from several antiwar groups who've been preventing diplomats representing whined oh from starting work at the embassy they accuse the u.s. of planning a military intervention in venezuela so far the standoff there is ongoing and we'll keep you updated as it develops these are live pictures we're showing you right now from the embassy. the u.s. president has issued a warning to to run after his decision to limit its obligations under the 2050 nuclear deal donald trump was also reacting to saudi arabia's claim that iran sabotage to all time because we'll see what happens with iran at the do anything it will be a very bad mistake if they do anything i'm hearing a little stories about iran if they do anything they will suffer greatly we'll see what happens with the room meanwhile the e.u. has urged the u.s.

secretary of state mark pompei are to deescalate the situation over iran america's top diplomat made an unexpected visit to brussels for talks with the e.u. ministers paid all of her small. michael. very clearly today from the 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 might pump aoe was in town on this day he wasn't supposed to be here he was supposed to be moscow he did turn up and this is what represented the for foreign affairs have 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 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 of 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 is in its. agree with other e.u. states the nuclear deal is necessary for our security and it's going 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 livin the dream and there are new sanctions to do from europe because iran has so far all respected the commitments we give has undertaken this commitments are not respected the question of very considerate or 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 meanwhile russia's foreign minister says he plans to confront his u.s. counterpart on how washington intends to resolve the iran crisis will be meeting my

pompei when sorting later on tuesday. 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 ensure 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 the remains 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 . middle east analyst cover your friends the army believes the iran nuclear deal can still be rescued. iran has given 60 days to europe to clean up its. commitments are starting to see a renewed effort on the part of europe to do exactly that and awfully the meeting serves as a fresh reminder to the army. corps who policy toward europe is speeding and europe

is determined to be just as russia and china are so i'm cautiously optimistic about the lives. of really 3 of the other signator it is to join forces and preserve the deal. between our global peace and america's need to make a u.-turn under policy at the ball negotiated with. prosecutors in sweden have reopened a sexual assault investigation against wiki leaks co-founder doing a science but now seeking an extradition warrant against the science once he once he serves its prison term in the u.k. 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 sun dress dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy last month the woman had made the allegations against him and said she would like the case to be reopened and that's precisely what has happened stockholm has requested julian assange has extradition to sweden take a listen to what the prosecutor had to say at a press come. 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 suspect the mysterious songe committed rape and now the statute of limitations on this case expires in aug 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 model 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 assange over 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

a 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 the 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 wiki leaks. published the iraq war logs which are those neat government sort of diplomatic and military files they were deeply embarrassing to washington there's now that the tour 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 claims to have been assaulted by a slow engine in 2010 welcomed the decision to reopen the case she said this week this legal system needs to show that no one is above the law we spoke to wiki leaks editor in chief kristinn hrafnsson he believes sweden was pressured into pursuing the case against islam. julius ours has always been ready and willing to cooperate with this way this investigation throughout the years and that he will welcome this opportunity to clear is the name and. get this matter over and done with there are many of the normal t's in this highly regrettable politicized crosas with pertain to julian. worldwide ready. the crown prosecution service in the

u.k. was ready in the driver's seat in this case it seems according to the e-mails that were obtained sort of surreal information requests everything that came to julian as well as these this is a little sized it is very hard to see that the opportunity to install the fair trial is read in in the u.k. i or in the united states especially because that is exactly what all pertains to and on would actually do since those days to post trial for publishing the truth. trade war between the u.s. and china has sparked a sell off on global stock markets that's after beijing imposed import taxes on u.s. goods worth $60000000000.00 in response to u.s. tariffs on friday washington hikes tariffs on a $200000000000.00 of chinese goods the latest hit fatality exchange between the 2 countries came after trade talks failed to produce a deal china has already imposed levies on imports from the u.s.

worth 110 $1000000000.00 and the latest measure targets $5000.00 goods ranging from coughing beef and bear to t.v.'s president tran tweeted the china needs to strike a deal with the u.s. to end the dispute i say openly to president xi and all of my many friends in china the china would 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. trump insists that america is actually benefiting from the trade war with china by cashing in on import taxes but his chief economic advisor appears to disagree doesn't and says china doesn't china it pays the terrace they may suffer consequences but it's us businesses and us consumers who paid correct and yes to some extent yeah i don't disagree with that again both sides both sides will suffer and there is economics with such

a pay to all told us that is told is the dispute with china could do huge damage to the us economy. that they've got trouble has staked a claim in the mind of his supporters to be this great negotiator and and they you know i don't i think he believes on some level that he can win a trade war when the fact is that in almost every historical instance that i can think of trade wars tend to result in very be reasoned losing but no winning the u.s. and china have the largest g.d.p. is no world there are 2 of the biggest traders so i can't think of a country in the world and probably not a consumer or very few at least who would be affected adversely by this trade were the way to resolve this would be for both of the nations to get out of the way and that each individual firm in consumer firm an individual who's in who's trading whether it's between the u.s. china or any other country pursue their individual interest i mean that's what this is about it's an individual assessment whether or not you'd be taking advantage and

trying to be like to say that the u.s. is a trade deficit next to and that's a tremendous miss. representation as a matter of fact the u.s. does have a trade deficit with china it is a goods but it has a massive trade surplus in services unfortunately there's a lot more often this that can become can come out of this. anti-war groups are raising the pressure on a new country that sells to saudi arabia on friday a saudi ship that was due to load weapons at a northern french pull it was supposed to set sail without them if the activists blocks the congo so it depends. but i must be international said that several european union states of actually failed to meet their obligations when it comes to the arms trade treaty and that's because they've sold weapons to saudi arabia with arms that will likely be used in the war in yemen the bar has been bouncing off european ports like a pinball this is

a serious test of countries resolve to uphold their obligations under the arms trade treaty and common position on arms exports several states have food this test in the space of just a few days the concern is that these weapons that are being sold to saudi arabia could be used against civilians in the conflict in yemen this is a conflict that has been going on for several years since 201410000 people have been killed and millions have been left on the brink of starvation it's been described by the united nations as the world's worst humanitarian disaster in it saying that no e.u. state which suspects that this is happening is aware that its weapons could be used in war crimes should sell any weapons at all to a country that's doing that the voyage reminds us that they prefer to allow lucrative global arms trade to continue to operate behind

a veil of secrecy amnesty has said that in the last week one saudi ship has been making its way around several european states trying to pick up arms containers of weapons from the states now we know that last week that that ship actually talked in antwerp in belgium and we understand that it received a shipment of ammunition now it then try to fix it and fail to visit some other european states now we've heard from the belgian foreign minister who is ignored which that there is concern about the sale of these weapons you know you would be good to see. deliveries to saudi arabia if it was shown they had been used on going conflict such as in yemen which case the regional government must make that decision with normal result now here in france the french defense minister that's florence parley had actually confirmed last week that france was due to load more

weapons on to this saudi ship. arms delivery. greenman 2 issues made a few years ago. however it came a little bit unstuck with protests taking place outside the port of large that's because there was a leaked investigation in the last month a show which alleges that the french government has been made aware by secretive military notes that weapons sold by france society arabia could have been used on the front line in yemen and could have been used against civilians and that has caused huge concern here because of that those protests went to the port and that shipment wasn't able to take place the president might call us also spoken out about this last week he confirmed that he had had confirmation from riyadh that's the capital in saudi arabia that those shipment of arms wouldn't be used in the conflict in yemen but despite that many people here in france are unhappy and easy

with the idea that france is selling weapons anyway to saudi arabia and the controversy continues as this saudi ship continues to go around european ports attempting to load weapons from several states and human rights organizations have just said that enough is enough and these on shipment sales how to stop now. middle east analyst believes e.u. countries are unlikely to stop selling arms to saudi arabia despite the public pressure. also all the weapons come from western europe and north america so all weapons used in yemen are coming from the west and north america and it's not just the activists there's a lot of people in government even a year in washington that are starting to raise the flag that we're selling workers are killing and not just killing they're making the lives of millions of people miserable the half the people of yemen are starving because of the war with saudi

arabia unfortunately the suffering of individuals does not carry that much weight with government decisions so the activists the human rights need to put effort into making governments care about these things and stop the sale of the of those weapons or at least put some restrictions on their usage saudi arabia has been the largest importer of weaponry for the last 5 years running is anybody going to give up that money fortunately doubtful. german chemical giant bear has been ordered by a california court to pay $2000000000.00 in damages to a couple who claimed the round up gave them cancer is the biggest claim so far against monsanto the firm which produces the weed killer and is a by beta roundup contains a chemical called life estate when used on plants and crops that can end up in food and drinking water and several studies have shown that it can cool this concept

however bay and on sun toe still claim the round up with killer is safe. meanwhile bear also has to contend with another disputes have a monsanto the firm allegedly compiled a hit list of key people with influence over pesticides across europe french authorities started a probe into the story off to a complaint from the newspaper of the moment. bits of the. fact we. just took off you deserve. to have yours. all the french paper claims the so-called long santo file dates back to 2016 and contains some 200 names it includes journalists lawmakers and politicians who had been critical of the company's practices lamond alleged alleges the list was drawn up to sway views of those against the use of life as

a base pesticides monsanto was bought by the german chemical giant last year in the 63000000000 dollar deal bear itself has apologized for the incident on now opened its own probe into the case nadine. activists from the future generations group was one of those on the list. the dicier contain information on our organization and its head we're concerned about that you may also has private information obtained by monsanto in any case it is known that these procedures are illegal there is no law that allows collection and storage of private data on people our organizations will file a lawsuit to at least shed a light on whether they have any other unpublished you know to preserve our core we're also concerned about the fact that the list mentions private persons politicians journalists who are pressurized to supply the company to secure its place in the market of compounds which by the way are considered to be carcinogenic

in fact today the company has a quite negative image which is clearly the situation in france has become active specifically over the guy from. the national center for cancer disease research life this it is the man herbicide produced by monsanto which probably can be carcinogenic when johnson and seems we've been watching a huge backlash from some farmers from the our great culture sector as a whole here. the pentagon is said to have developed a secret weapon it's a mistrial with blades nicknamed the ninja bone is designed to be more accurate than explosives and thus reduce civilian casualties in drone strikes kill of open house today south. 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. as if you know from some other planet north giving them a basic right of proving their innocence i mean it it violates 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 texture 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 and 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 fanned 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 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 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 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 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 busy. room reduces actually so i think this is a. propaganda whatever you want to put it that way to make people look there's a kinder gentler way of killing people want to. throw the nation where. you want to declare if you were right kind of person you're talking about. actually you know also a whole notion of a sas nation where. her stories are generalized as thought we aren't so. well we have we've asked the pentagon to comment on the reports and we'll let you know when we get a reply. well those are the world news headlines for this hour we're back in 30 minutes with the latest who will see them.

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