if they do anything they will suffer greatly we'll see what happens with the run the us president fires another warning shot at tehran after its stop complying with some of its obligations under the $2015.00 nuclear deal that's trump secretary of state touches down in russia on a mission to thrash out a solution to the escalating crisis. but as well britain's a us police raid on its former embassy in washington d.c. is a violation of international law activists in the compound saying they are trying to prevent an illegal takeover and u.s. military school publishes a decades long history of washington's interventions and other countries by some as

a coup guide. and a saudi arabian ship is hunted by protests the european courts failing to pick up an arms to liberty that activists say could be used to kill civilians in yemen. you're watching or to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. with fears being expressed by european leaders that america and iran are on the verge of war the us secretary of state my palm pilot is right now meeting his russian counterpart sergey lavrov in the black sea resort city of sochi tensions over the disintegrating 2015 iran nuclear deal well top of the agenda live now to sochi and more on causative rod can these talks help avert a potential disaster. well they could go to

wait for the conclusion but i must say though it is all protocol the meeting began on a cautiously optimistic note and i stress cautiously optimistic. i think pretty much most of the external mccarthy we see there are certain suspicions and prejudice from both sides but it's not a win win scenario for us just that mutual mistrust u.s. and russian security and causes concern around the globe so it's time for a new and more responsible approach to our relations and mutual perceptions we're ready to do that if my u.s. colleagues show reciprocation towards that i'm here today because president trump is committed to improving this relationship as as i think he said we have differences we each country will protect its own interest look out for its own interests of its people. but it's not it's not desolately we're adversaries on every issue. it's noting that the talks today they could

yield a lot or they could yield nothing the situation in the persian gulf is precarious it is on the knife's edge iran and the united states are on the verge of a conflict. we have now a united states and carry a battle group with well the assorted warships parked on iran's doorstep in the in the persian gulf and we have president donald trump threatening iran with suffering . 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 little stories about iran if they do anything they will suffer greatly we'll see what happens with the run. might compare who has been doing the heavy lifting for for trump by all appearances over the last several weeks he's had a very chaotic schedule making last minute alterations for example he was supposed

to visit in a meeting with chancellor merkel council that to go to to go to iraq and condemn iran there he was supposed to come to moscow just a few days ago but he canceled that as well to attend another meeting in europe and brussels and condemn iran then the foreign minister of the russian federation sergey lavrov whom he's meeting now said he had little doubt that the united states exerted colossal pressure on the europeans in order to get them to pull out of the iranian deal nuclear deal or perhaps condemn. behavior nevertheless the europeans have been very neutral they've both condemned the united states in its efforts to torpedo the iranian nuclear deal as well as being critical of iran itself going back on several of its commitments according to the nuclear deal nevertheless there's a lot to talk about and the russian foreign minister said he wants to have an

honest conversation with his american counterparts. compare 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. so the europeans like many other nations around the world very concerned that this situation that has developed between the united states and iran focused in the persian gulf that this could escalate escalate without anyone wanting it to. busy here we as i mentioned earlier iran is also losing patience it is said that it is suspended. its commitment according to the iranian nuclear deal it is it is stop selling excess uranium and heavy water it is also threatening that in 60 days the other signatories of the iranian nuclear deal all of their

commitments will also restart construction and development of its nuclear reactor the commitments we're talking about here is their promise to shield iran from sanctions to shield its economy its trade from sanctions and to allow the access to global markets that hasn't happened so as i say a lot at stake today a lot at stake and there could be serious progress made or nothing at all since neither the united states nor iran have shown much willingness to make a u. turn. more on going to sting across these talks for us in sochi throughout the day thank you. iran is not the only country washington has tried to bend to its will of course he'll moment has been looking back and some of the governments on the receiving end of u.s. special ops. 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 u.s. 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 that the report divines u.s. special ops into 3 categories disruption coersion and regime change 68 percent of the operations were disrupted only non-disruptive cases took up 32 percent they were divided between coersion and regime change you're the highlighted cases of the 3 categories.

because. the. 47 instances were study disruptive actions fail just less than half the time and attempts to strong arm foreign governments were more successful working in 3 fourths of instances. when it comes to overthrowing governments u.s. special ops you're 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 that it would be to achieve in central asia they must also credibility you know 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 have ranged 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 and such activity could be on the cards for venezuela which appears to be in the sights of the american military the venezuelan opposition's representative in america has sent a letter to the us army requesting a meeting for strategic and operational planning caracas has burnt of the move an

invitation to plot a military intervention and that as well. the venezuelan government has also condemned a police raid on its former embassy in washington d.c. as a violation of international law officers are trying to expel activists who claim they're defending the mission from illegal seizure they argue that the u.s. is preventing cruxes diplomats from working at the compound and trying to replace them with illegitimate opposition representatives police arrived at the compound and issued an order to the activists most left after that although 4 stayed inside arguing that officers had failed to produce an official arrest warrant. at. the ranch more generally. they would probably try to get. the protesters have spent more than a month at the embassy after the u.s. ordered diplomats serving nicolas maduro government to leave the site following its

recognition of opposition leader at $1.00 as but as well as legitimate president days before the police raid you want to apply to the building before handing protestors and a vision notice in person police posted one on the embassies doors it stated that the u.s. recognizes quite as people as been as well as representatives and that the activists must leave investigative journalist max blumenthal things u.s. authorities are 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. a saudi arabian ship sent to pick up weapons and europe has been hounded by protests along its journey and france activists succeeded in preventing it from collecting its cargo claiming the arms could be used against civilians in yemen now a french flag has been projected on the vessel and spain madrid claims that the

ship left airport carrying material that will not be used in a combat capacity you countries are under increasing pressure over there arms sales to riyadh challenge even the story. well amnesty international has blasted several european union states saying they have failed to uphold their obligations in regards to the arms trade treaty because they're selling weapons to saudi arabia 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 the country's resolve to uphold the obligations on the arms trade treaty and e.u. 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 frontline in the war in yemen and could be being used against civilians now that yemen conflicts being ongoing out 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 they prefer 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 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 and now we do know that the belgian foreign minister. acknowledge that there are concerns over these sales and this is what he had to say going to be you know i mean 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 that decision with mobile missile now here in france we had confirmation from the defense minister this 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 dually very.

grim 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 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 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 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 those sales to saudi arabia off their arms. the french defense minister insisted there was no conclusive evidence that french weapons were killing civilians in yemen and saudi arabia itself denies targeting civilians claiming that it's only finding who the rebels c.v.s. capital in 2014. still to come we've killer giant monsanto is accused of spying on prominent anti pesticide activists that story and more after this short break.

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welcome back lot amir britain has ratified a new doctrine regulating russian energy trade and tackles the growing challenges posed by western sanctions on oil and gas producers many to question of all reports . direction president has approved of the country's new national energy security doctrine and as it was reported to the date of this document was required to due to new challenges and threats that the country's energy industry is facing both internal as well as international the document consist of almost 20 pages that calls among many others to reduce the share of hydrocarbons in the energy balance to develop renewable resources of an energy lower taxes on industry and raise the

level of consumption of the document also orders to counter discrimination of russian energy companies in global energy markets restrictions imposed by certain 40 states on russia's oil and gas sector limit its ability to sell energy globally global energy tensions seem to play quite a role in geopolitics we all remember of the wave of criticism over the construction of the north stream to pipeline which plans to deliver russia's natural gas to germany now lately it was reported that 2 u.s. senators are working over a new bill to impose sanctions on russia over this particular project coming back to the energy doctoring the updated version of that document was finalized back in november of last year but sit down to lease signed the very same day pohnpei all made his 1st visit to russia as the us secretary of state.

we've killer joint month center is embroiled in a privacy scandal after a french media outlet claims the company was gathering information on influential activists without their consent french authorities have now started a probe after a complaint by le monde newspaper. learned that secret files are being kept in hundreds of people this graphic is from current sixty's mapping now biggie activists and the debate on the life of satan france who are distributed according to the influence. the french paper claims the so-called month center files date back to 2016 and contains some 200 names they include journalists and politicians who've been critical of the company alleges the list was drawn up to sway views. base pesticides on center was bought by the german chemical giant bayer it last year in a $63000000000.00 deal bayer itself has apologized for the incident and is investigating the matter environmentalist median lover yet was one of those on the list.

the dossier it contains information on our going to zeeshan and its head well 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 in people they should and 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 cost in the genic in fact today the company has a quite negative image which is fantastic they are stocks have had an almost 70 year low and a landmark ruling on monday

a california jury ordered its monsanto subsidiary to pay $2000000000.00 to a couple who say it's run up weed killer gave them cancer is the biggest claim against a subsidiary so far that we kill or contains a chemical called life on earth if when used on plants and crops it can end up in food in the air and drinking water and several studies have shown that it can cause cancer however bear and monsanto insists that roundup is safe but those who brought the cancer case against them disagree. but really. being the. son born. in the army can't she. lives. with. his teacher this economy's been doing corporate malfeasance for 45 years and the time they got held to account this was a clear statement to every single person in the world that they are on stand to

have to cut it out to do right by people like the way it's. at least 5 protesters and a police officer have reportedly been killed in the sudanese capital when an unidentified gunman opened fire it comes amid an ongoing sit in protest outside the country's military headquarters the rally followed the removal last month of president omar al bashir the protesters are demanding those who took power by force step down and create a civilian government earlier the ruling military council and protest leaders declare they have reached an agreement to form a transitional government the council claimed it would remain in power for up to 2 years. america's harvard university has caved to student pressure and fired a law professor and its 1st black faculty dean because he represented disgraced media mogul harvey weinstein well insolvent has since stepped down from defending weinstein however the university says it won't renew his contract or his wife's was

also a faculty dean on learning of the university's decision the couple sent a statement to harvard's student newspaper. we'll surprised and dismayed by the action 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 everyone no matter how unpleasant is entitle to legal defense others even called his decision embarrassing. harvard says it's based the decision on signals from students adding the climate on the campus had become untenable months of protests have included graffiti aimed at sullivan appearing on a university building human rights attorney jennifer brea mentalists the case sets 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 future 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 to defend somebody who's alleged of a crime this is a man and his wife who 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. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always go to our website or to dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. play.

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adding another layer to the ever growing trade saugus argy correspondent alex mahela bichon tom gandalf be a pre-birth just by natural join us to break down what the moves mean for our world plus big pharma is back under fire as strong companies are facing heat for alleged price gouging barrow's contributor to america's lawyer $1.00 just ahead to sift through the scandal and finally the world of blank changes meeting in new york at the consensus conference then we're on the ground argue 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 some headlines. and a turn from talks to more terrorists in the u.s. china trade relationship leads our global report today as china retaliates with their own levies on $60000000000.00 worth of u.s. exports to china the list of china's targets for new tariffs of 25 percent matching the new level of the trunk tears from last friday.