about america one of our politicians has an openly admitting congress that the u.s. dollar is that threat from big quiet. please send to the venezuelan embassy in washington to a victory group of pro madeira activists the standoff is now only going. president trombones iran against any aggressive steps raising fears of a new conflict russia's foreign minister urges washington to resolve the crisis head of his talks with the u.s. secretary of state. tomorrow or the last might compare how the u.s. is going to deal with the crisis that was made by washington's unilateral decisions their foreign policy chief calls for an urgent deescalation between to iran and washington after the collapse of the iran nuclear deal.

prosecutors say they will reopen a sexual assault probe against wiki leaks co-founder julian a songs and will seek his extradition from the u.k. . a warm welcome this is r.t. international with me they care and now we start with news from washington d.c. where police invented the venezuelan embassy vic's a group of activists who've been occupying the building since president nicholas majoris diplomats were expelled last month artie's michel greenstein is that with the latest. downside of the venezuelan embassy in georgetown washington d.c. now as you can see and here behind me the secret service have now entered the building as of this morning the federal authorities posted a notice on the front door saying that anyone inside the embassy was trespassing and that they recognize the u.s. government record. the government of the mr one why don't our opposition leader

from venezuela as the president so they posted the trespassing notice and recognize the opposition leader as the president like they've been doing and the opposition's ambassadors of so-called ambassador said that anyone who refuses to comply with this order would be arrested now according to the embassy protection collective via their post on social media from earlier today they are all out of this and busy as of today and just for background basically the u.s. state department on april 24th said that anyone who is representing the government of nicolas maduro who are made in this embassy would be trespassing but something interesting of course as you know happened on that day which is that the activists who supported nicolas more duro did not leave they saw this as an illegal takeover of venezuelan sovereign sole soil by both international and venezuelan law and they said that they would be here to defend venezuelan sovereignty now they've been staying this embassy living here up until today on up until a couple days ago they had full power as well as access to water but as you know

u.s. authorities did cut that recently now i'm saying here seeing what will happen what might unfold it looks like no one is coming out of the embassy right now but on both sides we have protesters very loudly either showing support for nicolas maduro claiming that the u.s. government is illegally trespassing and also we have supporters of the u.s. government and the u.s. backed opposition leader one guy joe declaring that the trespassers who were inside were the ones violating international law. that's not fossilize to our gas investigative journalist max blumenthal to discuss this further. thanks to for joining us on the program how do you see this standoff playing out i mean what will happen if the activists refuse to leave the bells ring. well there are 4 embassy protectors still inside they have refused to leave after 3 others left today a notice was placed on the door written inverted and a fine signed by no one which claimed that one carlos vecchio are the legitimate

representatives of the venezuelan embassy but it wasn't clear this was posted by any federal authorities secret service entered the embassy everyone thought they were going to arrest those inside and instead they left closed the door behind them and those 4 embassy protectors are still there so what does this mean here is one possible scenario which could mean a titanic defeat for one who i doze forces there could be an embassy protection agreement between venezuela's government and a friendly country which would allow that country to move in as a custodian for the embassy and allow switzerland to take over the u.s. embassy in caracas and this would mean a deescalation of the conflict and the possible nail in the coffin to provide oh i don't know if that's going to take place i know there are negotiations underway but it's very telling that the embassy protectors were allowed to stay inside. the activists claim that the police all violating the vienna convention bantering the

embassy is not something you would agree with. for the federal authorities to enter venezuelans embassy is a violation of the vienna conventions our article $22.00 and is it could be considered an act of war for them to allow a parallel government which is unrecognised which controls no institutions of government is essentially a fake government what it said would absolutely be an act of war and carlos vecchio the fake embassador appointed by one of the nonexistent president has issued a letter today to south com the southern command of the u.s. navy calling for their assistance and he's signaling that he would use that embassy if he gained control of it as a lobbying shop for war so this is what the embassy protectors have been standing up against is this the push for war and its protest assassinate gaining some attention do you think it succeeded in undermining the u.s. government's policy on venezuela and its recognition of their venezuelan leader if

the protection agreement goes through that i described before this would be a massive defeat for go i go in a victory for activists american activists who've taken their own initiative to defend international law if it fails it was still a moral victory that exposed the truth face of one quite knows forces in washington as they unleashed racist tirades against embassy protectors and activists is they behaved violently broke into the embassy vandalized it. would also be a precedent set here if they were able to gain control which is that this could happen to any country's embassy in washington under a coup attempt and it would mean that the law of the jungle is in play and i'm not sure if even the trump administration as erratic and warlike as it is wants to take that step into the wilderness now the u.s. recognized back in january but it's now midnight and mature i was still in power and control is a military thing washington with expecting him to hold out this long. well you know

there are some who say that trump got bad intelligence that this was a failure of the intelligence community which might be misnamed but i actually think that trump is being manipulated by his national security advisor john bolton who gave him false intelligence and now trump is angry at will he's angry at pompei oh he's angry at pence unfortunately for trump he's cornered and it's unclear whether he's going to pull the plug on this as one wide attempts to keep his failed coup alive after 3 failed attempts 2 days ago that quite only managed to get several 100 people at his rallies so it seems like this whole thing is sputtering to a halt and the u.s. is just going to simply escalate sanctions and investigative journalists not spin with all thanks for joining us thanks for having. us president has issued a warning to iran not to its decision to limit its obligations under the 2050

nuclear dail donald trump was also reacting to saudi arabia's claim that a wrong sabotage to oil. we'll see what happens 9 with iran and they do anything it will be a very bad mistake if they do anything i'm hearing little stories about iran if they do anything they will suffer greatly we'll see what happens with the run meanwhile the e.u. has urged the us secretary of state might pump air to deescalate the situation i've ever known and america's top diplomats made in an expected visit to brussels for talks with the ministers artie's peter oliver has more. michael feel 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 will 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 o 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 on continuing to implementing it for all of the

nuclear deal with it and federica mockery and he said all of the parts of the iran deal just then because last week iran's. said that it would not continue to uphold all parts of the day 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 us out of it it caused an awful lot of problems and it saw a lot of a u. nations member states also brussels itself 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 given its fire and 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 there are no sanctions to do from europe because iran has so far always respected the commitments we give has undertaken this commitments are not respected the question of do we consider it 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 he 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 tends to result in iran crisis so a lot of well we'll be meeting might pump air in sochi later on tuesday. after those dismissed that are absolutely will produce tomorrow i will ask 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 discussion with my pump air tomorrow and see how things out things will go from there when you least analysts cover your friends the army believes the iran nuclear deal can still their rescue. iran has given 60 days to europe to clean up its

live up to its commitments are starting to see a renewed effort on the part of europe to do exactly that and more fully their meeting serves as a fresh reminder to the army. corps who policy toward europe is speeding and europe is determined to which did be just as russia and china are so i'm cautiously optimistic about the life span of juicy pure. ability of the other signator it is to join forces and preserve the deal in the interest of regional and global peace and america's need to make a u.-turn under policy come back to the t. ball negotiated with. prosecutors in sweden have reopened a sexual assault investigation against wiki leaks co-founder julian assigns now seeking an extradition warrant against

a songe once he was he served his prison term in the u.k. police reports. 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 son she was 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 conference a little bit earlier on my new circumstances have brought about the need to revise

or preview. 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 will star 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 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 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 there is no government sort of diplomatic and military fire. they were deeply embarrassing to

washington says now that the 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 the lawyer for the swedish woman who claims to have been assaulted by a son in 2010 welcome to the decision to reopen the case she said the swedish legal system needs to show that no one is above the law we spoke to wiki leaks the editor in chief kristinn hrafnsson he believes sweden was pressured into pursuing the case against a song. julia stiles has always been ready and willing to cooperate with this way

this investigation throughout the years and i assume that he will welcome this opportunity to clear his name and. get this matter over and done with there are many of the normal ts in this highly regarded by politicized crosas with pertaining to julian's question. worldwide. the crown prosecution service in the u.k. was in the driver's seat in this case it seems according to e-mails that were obtained sort of so they do information requests everything that came to julian as well as these this is a loser sized it is very hard to see that the opportunity to install it will fair trial in sweden in the u.k. or in the united states especially because that is exactly what all pertains to and on what actually is there is to close trial for publishing the truth of. the trade war between the u.s. and china has sparked a sell off on global stock markets and i thought debating imposed import taxes on

u.s. goods worth $60000000000.00 in response to u.s. tariffs on friday washington heights tariffs on $200000000000.00 of chinese goods the latest tit for tat 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 one $110000000000.00 and the latest measure targets $5000.00 goods ranging from coffee beef and bear to t.v. as president trunk tweeted that 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 imports 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 yes to some extent and yeah i don't disagree with that again both sides both sides will suffer and there is economics was such a pita all told is the dispute with china could be a huge damage to the us economy. i think trump has 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 where

the way to resolve this would be for both of the nations to get out of the way and that each of these rules 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 interests i mean that's what this is about it's an individual assessment whether or not you're being taken advantage of and trying to be like to say that the u.s. is a trade deficit next to and that's a tremendous mis. representation as a matter of fact the u.s. does have a trade deficit with china it has a good 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. and several groups are raising the pressure on e.u. countries over the arms of that own self to saudi arabia on friday a saudi ship that was due to loaded weapons at all the french port was supposed to set sail without them says cell without the loss the activists blocked the kaga so it depends he has the story. but i must see 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 live with them 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 or is aware that its weapons could be used in war crimes should sell any weapons or tool 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 or weapons from those 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 failed 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 that had been used on going conflict such as the. regional government must make that decision. now here in france the french defense minister that's florence partly had actually confirmed last week that france was due to more weapons on 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 larnaca that's because there was a leaked investigation in the last month the show which alleges that the french government has been made aware by secretive military notes that weapons sold by france to saudi 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 has 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 the controversy continues as this saudi ship continues to go around the european ports attempting to load weapons from several east 8 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 public pressure . both saudi 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 weapons are killing the 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 california court to pay $2000000000.00 in damages to

a couple who came the round up we gave them cancer is the biggest claim so far against monsanto the firm which produces the weed killer owned by bayer roundup contains a chemical called to safe when used on plants and crops it can end up in food and drinking water and several studies have shown that it can cause cancer however bay and monsanto still claim the roundup is safe meanwhile bay are also has to contend with another dispute have among the firm allegedly compiled a hit list of key people with influence of pesticides across europe french authorities started a probe into the story after complaints from the newspaper le monde. from the. fact we. just took off it is a. horse. yours. the french

paper claims the so-called monsanto file dates back to 2068 and contains some 200 names it includes journalists lawmakers and politicians who have been critical of the company's practices lamond alleges the list was drawn up to sway views of those against the use of life as a base pesticides on santa was bought by the german chemical giant bayer last year in a $63000000000.00 deal bayer itself has apologized for the incident as an and has an hour and its own probe into the case now dean low over just an activist 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 they 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 organizational we'll file

a lawsuit to at least shed a light on whether they have any other unpublished and it was a little cool we're also concerned about the fact that the list mentions private persons politicians journalists who are pressurised to support 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 for city schoo the national center for cancer disease research that life this it is the men herbicide produced by monsanto which probably can be carcinogenic and seems then we've been watching a huge backlash from some farmers from the our great culture sector as a whole thanks for chasing us here international we're back in 30 minutes but the headlines.