markets the world of business community members attend the forum to address today's financial issues. watch our special forum coverage on r.t. . they do anything they will suffer greatly we'll see what happens with the rug the u.s. president fires another warning shot it stops complying with some of its obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal that with the move from secretary of state comes the on his way to russia on a mission to thrash out a solution to be escalating crisis also to come venezuela brands a us police raid on its former embassy in washington d.c. of violation of international law with activists in the compound saying they are trying to prevent an illegal takeover and a u.s. military school publishes a decades long history of washington's interventions in the affairs of other

countries. as a coup god and the saudi arabian shift ended by protests at various european ports failing to pick up an arms delivery that activists say could be used to kill civilians in the. morning welcome just on 11 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the u.s. president donald trump has issued another warning to iran threatening serious consequences if it restarts its nuclear program. we'll see what happens 9 with iran if they 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 road well that statement does come amid media reports claiming the trumpet ministration has drawn up plans to send 120000 troops to the

middle east that seeing case he ran attacks american forces or starts working on nuclear weapons in a few hours time the u.s. secretary of state might pompei or is meeting his russian counterpart sergei lavrov in russia's black sea resort of sochi that so you will discuss the crisis surrounding iran and meet fears washington and tehran edging towards war but it has more now on what to expect from the matey. in short the situation is incredibly dangerous now what with an entire u.s. aircraft carrier battle group now stationed on iran's doorstep with trump himself threatening iran with suffering shouldn't misstep radians saying that they'll defend themselves and that they're ready for any eventuality the situation as i say incredibly dangerous what's worse it is right for an escalation perhaps an unintended one and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov said he tends to have

a very honest conversation with his american counterpart that arms when you will produce needs or we lost mike pompei you know how the u.s. is going to deal with a crisis that was made by washington's unilateral decisions iran has the right to partly suspend the implementation of the nuclear deal if other parties don't keep their commitments. the us secretary of state at the last moment diverted from moscow to brussels where the europeans were holding a session on the iranian crisis sergey lavrov said he had little doubt that the americans would exert tremendous pressure on the europeans in order to get them to pull out of the arabian nuclear deal but judging by by all appearances the americans were unsuccessful europeans came out in a statement they said that they condemn the united states for threatening the iranian nuclear deal and the rain ians and. the raining nuclear deal themselves

they also said that they're very concerned about a potential escalation we are living in a crucial delicate moment where. the most relevant. activity to take the most responsible attitude to take is clearly should be at maximum maximum restraint avoiding an. any escalation on a military site the iranians to losing patience they've said that since the other signatories of the reigning nuclear deal aren't abiding by their commitments namely to shield to protect the iranian economy from sanctions sanctions that the united states has reimposed back in november it's almost a year since they pulled out of the rain in nuclear deal the europeans were supposed to offer a trade mechanism protect the iranian economy from those sanctions to allow the

arabians to continue to trade with their oil their financial sector their banking they haven't been able to do so or haven't been willing to do so the iranians have now pulled out of 2 commitments to sell excess uranium and to sell excess heavy water and they're threatening in 60 days unless the other signatories of the reigning nuclear deal abided on of their commitments that they'll restart work and desired and construction on their nuclear reactor in all this is going to be a lot to talk about here and saw it she with me a putin sergey lavrov and compare all said to me but people are looking at things realistically here and by all appearances neither the united states nor iran planning the u.-turn anytime soon. more against the of their reporting from sochi well the middle east analysts kind of a f a r c r b does belief the iran nuclear deal can still be rescued. you know and

has given 60 days to europe to clean up its side and live up to its commitments and we are now starting to see a renewed effort on the part to do exactly that and hopefully the meeting. as a freshly minted to make as. new policy toward euro be speeding and europe is determined to side was to deal just as russia and china so i'm cautiously optimistic about the lifespan of. this significant is to join forces and preserve the deal in the interest of global peace and americans need to make a u. turn on their own u.s. policy come back to the table negotiated with the ends well iran is not the only country washington has tried to bend to its will on these kind of more pain looks back now at some of the governments that have been on the receiving end of u.s.

special operations. ukraine yugoslavia libya one of these countries have in common well you guessed it uncle sam has been involved the u.s. central command recently published a study that's now being dubbed the pentagon's scholars guide to overthrowing governments the joint special operations university published its study they looked into research of special forces operations of the us military across the planet from 1941 to 2003 special operations university is an entire academic institution dedicated to studying the art of war here's what their research found that the report divides us special ops into 3 categories disruption coersion and regime change 68 percent of the operations were disruptive only non-disruptive cases took up 32 percent they were divided between coercion and regime change sure the highlighted cases of the 3 categories.

$47.00 instances where study disruptive actions failed just less than half the time and attempts to strong arm foreign governments were more successful working in 3 fourths of the instances when it comes to overthrowing governments u.s. special ops or batting at $23.00 out of $47.00 attempted overthrows now the only overthrow conducted during war time was successful that's the war in afghanistan in 2001 but is success really the right way to describe the conditions facing those

countries the united states by entering the war against the taliban. post $911.00 resulted in the us seeing a reversal of all of the strategic gains and friendship. been achieved in central asia last also credibility in afghanistan the way they destroyed the credibility of u.s. strategic forces and u.s. prestige that the most shocking statements come at the end of the report where the authors say that these kind of operations will probably never stop these clandestine interventions of range from support to civil resistance movements to convert paramilitary operations to large unconventional warfare efforts in support of conventional military campaigns even presidents who prior to their election looked upon such activity with disfavor found themselves compelled to use it after taking office for such activity. in the latin american country venezuela which

doesn't pay to. he in the american military sites because the venezuelan opposition's representative in the u.s. has sent a letter to the u.s. army requesting a meeting for strategic and operational planning caracas has branded the move an invitation to plot a military intervention in venezuela and as well the government has also condemned a police raid on its former embassy in the washington d.c. is a violation of international law officers try to expel activists who claim they are defending the mission from illegal seizure they argue that the u.s. is preventing caracas is diplomats from working at the compound and trying to replace them with illegitimate opposition representatives police arrived at the compound in issued an eviction order to the activists most of the activists left after that although 4 of them did stay inside arguing that officers had failed to present an official arrest warrant. only. when they were asked more accurately the general to. say they were probably try to

get the. protesters have spent more than a month at the embassy u.s. ordered diplomats serving nicolas maduro to leave the sizes that recognizes opposition leader. has been this way this is just president days before the police raid the authorities cut the water to see the full handing protestors and eviction notice in person police did post one on the embassy doors stated that the u.s. recognizes why those people as venezuela's representatives and that the activists must leave investigative journalist max blumenthal thinks the u.s. authorities being overly aggressive. well there are 4 embassy protectors still inside they refused to leave after 3 others left today a notice was placed on the door written in verdad font signed by no one which claimed that one carlos vecchio were 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 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 for go i go 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 for the federal authorities to enter venezuelans embassy is a violation of the vienna conventions our article $22.00 and it is it could be considered an act of war. the way to kill a giant monsanto i was in broiled in

a previous the scandal offer a french media outlet claimed that the company was gathering information on influential anti pesticide to face with that consent french authorities have nash started to probe into that offer a complaint by the newspaper in a moment. there's a lot to this something to be learned that secret files were being kept on hundreds of people there's graphic is from one to 16 mapping now biggie actors and the debate on the life of seat in france who are distributed according to the. french paper claims that the so-called monsanto file dates back to 2016 and contained contains some 200 names they include journalists and politicians who have been critical of the company lamond alleges that the list was drawn up to sway views on life for sate based pesticides monsanto was bought by the german chemical giant buyer last year in

a $63000000000.00 deal by itself has apologized for the incident and is investigating the matter environmentalist in love yeah that was one of those on the list. i offered a successful in direct recession of the doors here contained information on our going to zation and its head we're concerned about that it might 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 organization will file a lawsuit or at least shed light on whether they have any other published data we're also concerned about the fact that the list mentions private persons politicians journalists who are pressured to support the company to secure its place in the market of compounds which by the way are considered to be causing the genic in fact today the company has a quite negative image which is fair. and it's also bad news by on tuesday to say

we're after a california court ruling because it ordered monsanto to pay $2000000000.00 in damages to a couple who claim monsanto a weed killer called round up gave them cancer is the biggest claim against monsanto so far the weed killer contains a chemical called life a site and when used on plants and crops it can end up in food the and also drinking more water and several studies have also shown that it can cause cancer however by and monsanto insists the roundup weed killer is safe but those who bought the cancer case against them disagree. really really really put on some more it was hardly a caption 1st. of all it's. i. had a little. head injury is it really is going to work or work out is for

45 years yeah it's about time they got held to account this was a clear statement to every single person in the world that they are concerned to have to cut it out do right by people with the words you're watching r.t. begin to take a quick break we're back with more news and tim. you

should. put themselves on a lot. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. something want to. be close this is what the fuck. up you could get. interested in the water. for 6. though again our society arabian shit sent to pick up weapons in europe has been hounded by protests along its journey in france activists succeeded him preventing it from collecting its cargo claiming that the arms could be used against civilians

in yemen now a french flag has been projected on the vessel in spain as you can see here however madrid does claim that the ship left their port carrying material that will not be used in a combat capacity countries are under increasing pressure over their arms sales to saudi arabia and showed it to be reports. well amnesty international has blasted several european union states saying they have failed to poll their obligations in regards to the arms trade treaty because they're selling 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 the obligations on the arms trade treaty and you common position on arms exports several states have food this test in the space of just a few days now the concern is that some of these weapons could be being used on the

front line in the war in yemen and could be being used against civilians now that yemen conflicts been ongoing since 2014 around 10000 people have lost their lives in the conflict and millions have been pushed to the brink of starvation it's been described by the united nations as being the world's worst humanitarian disaster and the concern from amnesty international is that if it is possible that the weapons being sold by e.u. member states to saudi arabia are being used in any way to perpetuate war crimes or to violate international law they're not means that they have broken the obligation when it comes to the arms trade treaty the voyage reminds us that it's preferred to allow lucrative global arms trade to continue to operate behind a veil of secrecy well amnesty points out that a saudi cargo ship has been making the rounds at several ports european states for

the last week or so we know that it was able to dock it and twerp in belgium and it was able to receive a supply of missions there and since then it's tried and failed to visit several other european ports and now we do know that the belgian foreign minister has a. knowledge that there are concerns over these sales and this is what he had to say going to be you know who you would be good to suspend all deliveries to saudi arabia if it was shown that had been used on going conflict such as in yemen which case the regional government must make the decision of mobile missile now here in france we had confirmation from the defense minister that's flawless poly that that saudi cargo ship was also due to dock in the port of laughter in northern france and was due to receive a shipment of arms from france as part of the sales to saudi arabia and now this is

what she had to say last week in regards to babs. arms delivery according to him and 2 issues made a few years ago well that news was met with protests at the port of of when it was announced last week that's because there was a leaked investigation in the last month 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 provoked lots of anger from people who wanted to stop that shipment from going ahead now president michel also spoke about this last week saying that he had received confirmation from riyadh that any arms france sold to saudi arabia wouldn't be used in this way but despite that because

of the processed those on's were not able to be loaded on the ship and then it moved on its way attempting to visit ports in spain and now on its way to italy but the controversy continues and many human rights organizations are unhappy that any of these sales are taking place in the 1st place what they've called on is for european union states to now halt their. sales to saudi arabia all firearms. at the french defense minister did say that is no conclusive evidence that french weapons were killing civilians in yemen saudi arabia itself denies targeting civilians deliberately saying that it focuses on fighting the rebels who seized yemenis capital in 2014 middle east on the side believes new countries they are unlikely to stop selling arms to riyadh despite the public pressure. both saudi weapons come from western europe and north america so all the 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 here in washington that are starting to raise the flag that we're selling weapons are killing and not just killing they're making the lives of millions of people miserable now 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 there anybody going to give up that money fortunately doubtful. a harvard university law professor and faculty dean is losing his job after months

of student protest students objected to ronald sullivan joining the defense team of disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein and although sullivan has since stepped down from that role university says it won't renew his contract with a law professor was the 1st african-american to become a faculty dean at harvard his wife who is also a harvard dean is suffering the same fate on learning of the university's decision the couple sent a statement to harvard student newspaper we are surprised and dismayed by the actions of harvard announced today we believed the discussions we were having with high level university representatives were progressing in a positive manner but harvard unilaterally ended those talks or some harvard graduates have voiced their concern over the decision pointing out that everyone no matter how unpleasant is entitle to legal defense of those went so far as to call harvest decision embarrassing well harvard does say it is based its basing its

decision on signals coming from students adding that the climate on the campus had become untenable human rights attorney jennifer braden though told us sullivan's case does set a set a disturbing precedent. i am very surprised by harvard university especially given that this is from the law school at harvard i mean we're seeing in recent years how some of these top tier law schools like harvard are sort of going down and how they train their literature attorney students these students chose to become attorneys but they're feeling unsafe because a professor or a dean chose to take on a case the defense somebody who's alleged of a crime this is a man and his wife will have nothing to do with allegations of harvey weinstein so not only are we seeing a dangerous trend where innocent until proven guilty is off the books we're seeing a dangerous trend where anybody who does their job which is attorney is that have a right to represent that they're being punished they don't even have the right to employment anymore is absolutely unprecedented and should never happen again. and i

will street has suffered the biggest selloff since the beginning of the year amid america's ongoing trade war with china after beijing ready to import taxes on $60000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods in response to fresh terrorist from washington on friday washington high tariffs on $200000000000.00 worth 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 $110000000000.00 the latest measure targets $5000.00 goods ranging from coffee beef to television sets president trump said that despite china's retaliation the u.s. is in a strong position. i love the position we're in so our farmers will be very happy our manufacturers will be very happy and our government is very happy because we take it in tens of billions of dollars i think it's working out very well again we

do much less business with china than they do with us trump doesn't says that america is actually benefiting from the trade war with china by cashing in on import taxes although his chief economic advisor is a paid to disagree. president says china doesn't that china it pays the terrace they may suffer consequences but it's the u.s. businesses and u.s. consumers who pay correct and yes to some extent and i don't disagree with that again both size both sides will suffer on this 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 reason 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 won't 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 individual firm and consumer firm an individual who is trading whether it's between the u.s. china or any other country pursue their individual interest to me 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 mis. representation as a matter of fact the u.s. does have a trade deficit with china claims of goods but it has a massive trade surplus in-service unfortunately there's a lot more often this that count big can come out of us not as nice and i think don't forget that we've got plenty of stories for you to you at our website you can find that now seem to come.

in 2040 you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively few. political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still war here. is. spilling needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2014. those who took part in it invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic elite. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to

resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very time time to sit down and talk. please come. back in line at least 2. loads.