i think. they do anything they will suffer greatly we'll see what happens with iraq the us president fires another warning shot it stops complying with some of its obligations under the 25th deal about withdrawing from secretary of state on his way to russia on a mission to thrash out a solution to the escalating crisis for. a us police raid on its former embassy in washington d.c. a 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 other countries. saudi arabian ship is handed by protests to various european ports failing to pick up an arms to liberate that activists say could be used to kill civilians. here in moscow he watching international. trump has issued another warning to iran threatening serious consequences if it restarts its nuclear program. we'll see what happens with iran if 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 road for

that statement does come amid media reports claiming the trumpet ministration has drawn up plans to send 120000 troops to the middle east seen case around attacks american forces or starts working on nuclear weapons but in a few hours time the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o is meeting his russian counterpart sergey lavrov in russia's black sea resort of sochi that say will discuss the crisis surrounding iran amid fears washington and tehran edging towards war. 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 step 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 intends to have a very honest conversation with his american counterpart because 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 all the parties commitments are you the u.s. 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 iranian 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

nuclear deal and the rainy incident. by doing. a deal them selves they also said that they're very concerned about the potential escalation we are living in a crucial delicate moment where. the most relevant. attitude to take the most responsible attitude to take is should be and that of maximum maximum restraint avoiding any. collation 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 iranian 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 in sochi with me a putin sergey lavrov and i compare all that 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 but i can see if there were middle east analysts kind of a efficacy abhi does believe the iran nuclear deal can still be rescued. iran has

given 60 days to europe to clean up its act and live up to its commitments and we are now starting to see a renewed effort on the part of europe to do exactly that and hopefully the meeting . as a fresh reminder to our make as the course of policy toward europe is speeding and europe is determined to side with the deal just as russia and china are so i'm cautiously optimistic about the lifespan of j.c. . ability of the other signatories to join forces and preserve the deal in the interest of regional and global peace and americans need to make a u.-turn on their own u.s. policy come back to the table negotiate with deary me and well iran is not the only country washington has tried to bend to its will. looks back now at some of the

governments that have been on the receiving end of u.s. special operations. vietnam 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 now the joint special operations university is an entire academic institution dedicated to studying the art of war here's what their research found the report divines u.s. 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 coersion and regime change here the highlighted cases of the 3

categories. because. of the. $47.00 instances were 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. singles countries the united states by entering the war against the taliban. host $911.00 resulted in the us seeing a reversal of all of the strategic gains and friendship. been achieved in central asia the last also credibility. 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 or such activity could next be used in the latin american country of

venezuela which appears to be in the sights of the american military the venezuelan opposition's representative in the u.s. has sent a letter to the u.s. army requesting a meeting for fatigue and operational planning caracas has branded the move an invitation to plot a military intervention in venezuela of the venezuelan government is also condemned the police raid on its former embassy in washington d.c. is a violation of international law offices to try to expel activists who claim they are defending the mission from illegal things here 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 war. absolutely. but never asked why

it was maintained the general should be able to. say they will probably try to get it into law well the protesters that have spent more than a month at the embassy the u.s. will get diplomats. to need to cite as it recognizes all position of. venezuela's president days before the police raid the authorities cut the water at the embassy before handling the story before handing protest as an eviction notice in person police posted one on the embassy still it's stated that the us recognizes quite as a people as a friend his wife his representatives and that the activists must leave investigative journalist mike spring does think u.s. authorities have been overly aggressive. well there are 4 embassy protectors still inside they've 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 violent. conventions article 22. and is could be considered an act of war. now the weed killer giant monsanto was in broiled in a previously scandal at the moment after a french media outlet claimed that the company was gathering information on influential and pesticide activists without their consent french authorities have now started a probe into that after a complaint by the newspaper le monde. to this something to be learned but secret files were being kept in hundreds of those graphic sixty's mapping out with the actors and the debate on the life of france or distributed according to. the french paper claims that the so-called monsanto files date back to 2016 and contains 200 names they do include journalists and politicians who've been critical of the

company i'm on the lead the list was drawn up to sway views on life for sate based pesticides monsanto was bought by the german chemical giant by last year in a 63 ball 1000000000 dollar deal by itself has apologized for the incident and is investigating the matter environmentalist nadine yet was one of those on the list. successful in fact other success of the doors here contains 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 all the people to our organization will file a lawsuit to 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 carcinogenic

in fact today the company has a quite negative image which is fair weather was bad news for buy on tuesday after a california court ruling it ordered at monsanto to pay $2000000000.00 in damages to a couple who claim monsanto winter killer called roundup gave them cancer is the biggest claim against monsanto so far the weed killer contains a chemical called life to sate and when used on plants and crops it can end up in food and also drinking water and several studies have also shown that it can cause cancer however by air and monsanto you do insist the round up weed killer is safe although brought the case against them disagree. really really really put on song song for a. caption for. all our lives.

are. here to change this is how it's going to work out reasons 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. they are on sad to have to cut it out and do right by people at the way it's you watching us international we're back with more news and take. this in petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing the key economic issues facing russia emerging markets and the world thousands of business community members attend the

forum to address today's and vital issues. watch a special forum coverage on r.t. . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on offer and spearing dramatic development the only way i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

hello again our saudi arabian ships and to pick up weapons in europe has been handed by protests along its journey in france activists succeeded in 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 to the vessel in spain as you can see here however madrid does claim that the ship left their ports carrying material that will not be used in a combat capacity countries are under increasing pressure their way with their arms sales to saudi arabia. reports. well amnesty international has blasted several european union states saying they have failed to poll their obligations in regards to the trade treaty because they're selling weapons to saudi arabia with the 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 e.u. common position on arms exports several states have failed 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 the 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 then not means that they have broken the obligation when it comes to the arms trade treaty the voyage reminds us that they prefer to

allow lucrative global arms trade to continue to operate behind a veil of secrecy well amnesty points out that is saudi cargo ship has been making the rounds at several poor 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 now we do know that the belgian foreign minister has acknowledged that there are concerns over the sales and this is what he had to say going to be you know who you would be good to suspend deliveries to saudi arabia if it was shown they had been used on going conflict there such as you humans of which case the regional government must make that decision on his own now here in france we had confirmation from the defense minister that's flawless polly 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. regards to babs. lou the arms delivery. was made a few years ago well that news was met with protests at the pool when it was announced last week 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 provoked lots of anger from people who wanted to stop that arms shipment from going ahead now president michael 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 arms 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 those sales to saudi arabia off their arms. well earlier the french defense minister said there was no conclusive evidence that french weapons were killing civilians in yemen saudi arabia itself denies targeting civilians deliberately saying that it focuses only on fighting who 3 rebels who seized yemen's capital in 24 to. a harvard university law professor faculty dean is losing his job after months of student protests

against him students objected to running sullivan joining the defense team of the disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein and although scuse me televen has since stepped down from the role the universe. he says it won't win you his contract the 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 in a couple center 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 some harvard graduates have voiced their concern over the decision pointing out that everybody no matter how unpleasant is intitled to a legal defense others went so far as to call harvard's decision embarrassing. well

harvard does space its decision on signals coming from students adding that the climate on the campus had become untenable human rights attorney jennifer breen though told us sullivan's case does 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 seen in recent years how some of these top tier law schools like harvard are sort of going down and how they train their attorneys 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

was street has suffered the biggest selloff since the beginning of the year hit america's ongoing trade war with china after beijing raised import taxes on $60000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods in response to fresh tariffs from washington on friday washington high tariffs on $200000000000.00 worth of chinese goods the latest tip for tat exchange between the 2 countries came after trade talks failed to produce a deal with 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 the to television sets present trump said that despite china's retaliation though 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 10 days 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 system that america is actually benefiting from the trade war with china by cashing in on name poll taxes alone his chief economic adviser doesn't entirely agree. 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 sides 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 women on the us and china have the largest g.d.p. in the world they're 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's who is trading whether it's between the us 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'd be taking advantage and trying to be like to say that the us is a trade deficit next to and that's a tremendous mis. representation as a matter of fact the us does have a trade deficit with china terms of goods but it has a massive trade surplus in service so unfortunately there's a lot more often this that can become can come out of this happens who up to date thanks for watching the back again and how for.

we've got an amazing situation developing air america one of our politicians has it openly admitted to congress that the u.s. dollar is that spread from client. manufacture to sentenced to the public will. when the ruling closest to protect themselves. in the flaming. lips and neither will. we can all middle of the room sick. to see on his attorney for you. or anyone who has

a little bit. more which. is a rule if they give you to you they get up. to no people you see posting it's going to include the it's good. that's the ticket. if you ask them if they're printed that you give all. this is boom bust broad covering the booms and busts in the world of business and finance and the impact upon us all again in washington d.c.

we're glad you're on board straight ahead on today's program the u.s. and china are trading blows again as china has retaliated with its own tariffs adding another layer to the ever growing trade saugus argy correspondent alex mahela bichon tom gandalf the a pretty burgess financial joins us to break down what the moves mean for our world plus big pharma is back in the big fire as drunk companies are facing heat for alleged price gouging barrows contributor to america's lawyer $1.00 just to him to sift through the scandal and finally the world of watching his meeting in new york at the consensus conference in rio on the ground are due producer brant job or is there and he'll bring us interviews from some of the top names and watching developments all of that is directly ahead but 1st we die straight into the headlines.