it is going to take people. that. president putin hosts a meeting in southern russia with the u.s. secretary of state and says the 2 countries need to overcome by differences. a u.s. military school publishes a decades long history of washington's interventions that other countries up by some as like to guide. under saudi arabian shape is pounded by protests at european ports failing to pick up enormous delivery that activists say could be used to kill civilians in yemen.

a very warm welcome you watching our c international with me the key and the 1st step president putin has said that russia is ready to resolve its differences with washington he hosted amazing in sochi with the u.s. secretary of state after my pump spoke with the russian foreign minister there is a good look for goodness. we also want to restore relations with the u.s. i hope all the conditions for that are now being created this by the exotic way the moeller commission had been working in the whole it came up with an objective investigation and proved there was no collusion between russia and the us the thing we branded as start all nonsense from the very beginning. vladimir putin expressed hope that the preconditions and now are right for relations between the united states and russia which to be honest have been awful absolutely terrible the 2

biggest nucleus superpowers in the world refusing to as much as talk to each other all communications and until now frozen pretty much military communication. corporation the financial spheres and trade and culture and the both him and the russian foreign minister saying that they hope this might be a turning point. emphasizing certain spheres sudden topics in which russia and the united states could easily corporate such as oil production among the top producing countries in the world they could talk about the market supplying the global community global demand also afghanistan both countries have a lot at stake there russia especially with the terror that's being exported out of gonna stop all the drugs the united states likewise they could talk in north korea . north korea denuclearizing the peninsula

a whole host of topics expressing hope that now as i said could be the turning point. with his american counterpart they talked about every a hot issue hot topic in the world every crisis that's happening in the world right now starting of course with. a chunk of that time spent on that and. they agreed to disagree on venezuela where disagreement hires my russian colleagues to support the venezuelan people as they return democracy to their country. the united states and more than 50 other nations agree that the time has come for nicolas maduro to go he's brought nothing but misery to the venezuelan people. and we hope that right. support. for my girls will and democracy to use you in your stomach democracy can be imposed by force the threats coming both from u.s. officials and the opposition leader. who is always reminding us of the possibility

of military intervention have nothing to do with democracy. the russians and the americans both saying pretty much the same thing that venezuelans should decide what happens to their countries but how they see that happening seems to be very different the united states saying that russia china iran quba are interfering in venezuelan politics the russians pointing out that washington is threatening maduro the government of venezuela with intervention iran of course similar to venezuela diametrically opposed views on what to do and how to go about solving the iranian crisis which is fleda new here again both countries have very different views on how to go about resolving this crisis mostly moment we have many disagreements on iran now but the fact that we've started talking on this issue gives us hope that we will be able to achieve agreements if both sides show

willingness to do that and i made clear that the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror again russia but leaving that the iranian nuclear deal of 2015 along with the rest of the u.n. security council the europeans that that is the best way of going about and resolving this crisis the united states on the other hand pressing the europeans pressing other countries. to pull out of the iranian nuclear deal to pressure and sanction and hurt iran forced to change and do. what the united states believes it should do nevertheless even here but such opposed views. said that conversation and dialogue between russia and the united states should continue that

they should work on common ground try to find a solution to this crisis that is acceptable to everyone as indeed it must be in order in order to work the biggest takeaway is that they have agreed to talk they have agreed that dialogue rather than sanctions and militant rhetoric is the best way forward and they've agreed to reopen previously suspended and shut channels of communication military financial cultural which is incredibly incredibly important so who's just optimism but shrestha cautious from u.s. diplomatic. and washington will have to overcome some major obstacles to improve relations. i understand that the russians especially want to talk about keeping the lines of communication open they talked to the about the americans as their so-called partners and so forth they expressed hope that would now that the moeller investigation is over there will be some freedom for mr trump to pursue the way he

talked about during the campaign to improve ties in my opinion that is very unlikely to happen that if you look at things domestically or in the united states not just democrats but even republicans are still all over trump claiming that he is dancing to putin's tune they still accuse the russians of meddling in our elections and if we saw that mr pompei a warned mr lover of not to do it again even though the proof is not there that they did it in the 1st place i think that there will be very serious obstacles to any kind of improvement of relations hopefully as mr lavrov suggested they can get some of these working groups on arms control and other issues going with experts diplomats military men to come to some agreement on specific issues but i am not optimistic and u.s. military school has released a $250.00 page report detailing washington's efforts to days stabilize foreign

governments at the path until it's more pain takes up the story. be it naam 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 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 here the highlighted cases of the 3 categories.

because. of the 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. those countries now 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 prides their election looked upon such activity with disfavor found themselves compelled to use it after taking office this is a function of ideology it's a function of germany has nothing to do with cost and it's not simply nothing to do with the interest of the american people the american people made a more cynical but they're suffering quite astonishing levels of poverty and misery massimo ians over 40000000 in poverty and health care rising crame poorer days ation along racial lines we know that the us mainstream media is notoriously

lacking in deep analysis doesn't our secession questions and indeed in many respects it is no longer there to hold the powerful in the government to account on behalf of the people but to hold the people to account on behalf of the powerful in the government and us this is to do with a small coterie of new york or fanatics in washington who are no in control of trumps foreign policy and of course all the various other and histories that benefit the military industrial complex so there is no money to be spirit when it comes to trying to affect these monica adventures meanwhile the u.s. government says it stands ready to support venezuelan opposition forces in their efforts to overthrow the madeira government and a representative of the venezuelan opposition has sent a letter to the u.s. army requesting a meeting for strategic and operational planning president to do as government has branded the move an invitation to invade. caracas has also condemned a police raid on its embassy in washington d.c.

as a violation of international law officers tried to expel activists who've been occupying the building since materials diplomats were expelled last month police arrived at the compound and issued and a vixen order some of the activists refused to leave saying the officers failed to present an official word. with the rest more. general to be. was writing to morrow the protesters of spends more than a month at the embassy they want to prevent representatives of those where lists are putting. from taking over the embassy days before the police raids local authorities cut off the water supply to be embassy official in the victualling notice was earlier posted on the embassy door is that the u.s. recognizes one doe's ambassadors as foreign officials. lanka has imposed curfews armbands social media sites in response to weeks of civil

unrest since the easter sunday bombings the chief of police issued a stern warning. this small group must stop the dangerous game it's playing with the lives and property of innocent people we will not allow the country to be reduced to allocute by those who use force on innocent civilians has been plagued by riots and looting since last month's terrorist attacks which claimed more than $250.00 lives since the start of the muslim holy month of ramadan mosques that have been vandalized and stalls torched on monday one muslim man was killed by a mob media commentator mohammed schiff eak told as the situation is being complicated by problems within the sri lankan leadership. those a big power struggle going on between the prime minister and the president and i'm back in itself once led to paralysis in government being able to protect communities. there's been a curfew there's been

a structure the social media but they need to go beyond that and start providing security and safety for muslims who are supreme in this where you want the ramadan you know these extremists who are torturing mobs and attacking innocent muslims they don't represent the christian faith the christian faith is one about tolerance it's about the rule of law it's of our. neighbor are giving protection to minority communities as we have in the u.k. so i think it's a real worry that if the government doesn't step expose by the safety security and turns a blind eye then those extremist though try to see confined to cheer and course harm will use that as an excuse to do that finds. a son of israel's prime minister netanyahu has accused germany of funding anti israel non-governmental organizations and despite the german foreign minister recently we stay thing the country support for israel. 70 years ago today on the

11th of may 19th 49 israel was admitted to the un as a 4 member on this occasion the federal government would like to reiterate that germany stuns also in the un shoulder to shoulder with israel who security and a right to exist must never be called into question by anyone anyway we will continue to support israel's legitimate interests to help strengthen its representation in the un and do our utmost to oppose any attempt to isolate or deliberate surmise israel it will be nice if you stop interfering in our internal business and stop funding hundreds of radical left wing n.g.o.s in israel seek its destruction use the hundreds of millions of euros used for this to fund hospitals schools and churches in germany a recent report by the israeli government claims germany and other european countries are funding so-called anti semitic boycott campaign groups these have been linked to militant organizations including her last report also claims that aid for palestine was finding its way into pension funds for terrorists however the

german chancellor has consistently expressed her support for israel. oh you this is i strongly condemn all the anti jew or anti semitic crimes and i believe that the european union should try to pursue a realistic approach to the threat which terrorism poses especially for israel we stand by our commitment for the security of israel but we had some contrast in views on the story from a foreign affairs analyst and an israeli journalist. israel germany relations are quite a big us and the west it's kind of the most hypocritical show or in town because even if we go on the just not to back far in time merkel herself has voted at least 16 times in the un against israel defies trump resolution to recognize to respond while trying to convince the other eastern european nations not to follow trump she's also trying to fight trump sanctions over iran germany is trying to

undermine israel a sovereign 3 what would you expect other than saying we is stand by israel what do you expect other than that but reality is pretty much. the other way around tells you something about the atmosphere at the prime minister's residence and this should be a warri some people who care about democracy about understanding of the more core see and understanding will they or national law. here this seems to be very very hostile germany is the soft sport needless to say that germany's more sensitive to criticism coming from jerusalem because germany still carries rightly so good feelings for the for the process but this does not mean that those attacks are legitimate the world has a right to criticize the israeli occupation because the israeli occupation is

a clear violation of the international law anything is the duty of the world to stand against the end to his goals who fight it within israel and without outside israel to support them financially morally to supposed to really support all those fake 2 groups individuals who are fighting for ending the occupation european governments are facing growing pressure to stop selling arms to saudi arabia that story and more after the fact. guys are financial survival. customers go find your guest. there now

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welcome back the saudi arabian ship sent to pick up weapons in europe past being hounded by protests along its journey in france like to vist succeeded in preventing it from collecting its call go claiming the arms could be used against civilians in yemen now a french flag is being projected on the vessel in spain however madrid claims that the ship left their ports carrying material that will not be used in a combat capacity you countries are under increasing pressure over their arms sales to riyadh saudi by the ski of 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 arms that will likely be used in the war in yemen the bar has been bouncing off european ports like a pinball this is

a serious test of the country's resolve to uphold the obligations on 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. 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 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 then not means that they have broken the obligation

when it comes to the arms trade treaty the voyage reminds us that states preferred to a low 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 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 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 you would be good to suspend all deliveries to saudi arabia if it was shown that had been used on going conflict such as yemen which case the regional government must make that decision and nobody will 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 ship. and of bombs from france as part of the sales to saudi arabia and now this is what she had to say last week in regards to that. arms delivery. greenman 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 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 for 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 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. the french defense minister had insisted there was no conclusive evidence that french weapons were killing civilians in yemen saudi arabia itself denies targeting civilians claiming that it's only fighting who the rebels who seized yemen's capital in 2040. lot of

a puritan has ratified a new doctrine for the russian energy sector to counter the effect of western functions medina caution of 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 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 allergies lower taxes on industry and raise the level of l. and g. 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 as well and 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 draw many 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 dr in the updated version of that document was finalized back in november of last year but coincidentally signed the very same day mike pompeo made his 1st visit to russia as the u.s. secretary of state. oil analyst munter salim a say's the russian energy engine industry has so far managed to weather the thanks and still. the president putin's doctrine doctrine is very important for the future of energy and in russia and for the future

of russia's exports as well russia is now number one exporter of that as in the world at the same time and i share is the biggest producer of oil in the world to remain ahead of other countries and the incredible rationale threats are out of the continuous you as sanctions however your national economy managed to would stand the adverse effect of sanctions and get action economy actually is growing so that out of your threats that except if the aberrant kens decide to impose 3rd of the sanctions on russia but as i said russia is a 2 would stand at the sanctions. thanks for joining us on our national we're back in just over 30 minutes with all the latest theater.

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board coming up turbulence is on the rise in the middle east as yet another saudi oil facility comes under fire shaking oil markets gavan make alvey of the calvin financial joins us to drill into the details plus the trade war rages on but what is the impact across the pacific. group the institute for china american studies lend us a hand to analyze chinese markets and later players back under fire as yet another court ruling comes in against the chemical giant archie correspondents are among those following the case and bring us the latest on bayer stock reaction all of that directly ahead but 1st we have some headlines. a claim of responsibility for an attack on the saudi oil facilities leads our global report today as hoopy rebels from yemen say they are behind a drone attack on the east west pipeline near riyadh a spokesperson for the rebels told the associated press this is

a message to saudi arabia stop your aggression our goal is to respond.