this deal when we've worked on it with our partners the key role in signing this treaty was played by iran and south and by the united states and we were close we helped. in the crosses over reaching an agreement. and so we deserve. it is regrettable that. this deal is collapsing because we always had for maintaining in some way after the signing of the deal that actually going to be iran. became the most transparent the most onerous country in this respect in the world and the the i heard from. officials that iran is completely and fully implementing. the. deal still our american colleagues decided to do it

decided to withdraw. just sad but. we were constantly in contact with our anian and counterparts and. we believe of course it would be prudent. for iran to remain. part of the deal. and maybe some of our european friends wouldn't be happy to hear this but it's. the europe and the americans who are withdrawn the deal is collapsing and the europeans can cannot do anything to save the deal they can or to work with the rand to. somehow offset the losses the economic losses iran will suffer but once he makes the decision to withdraw from really any kind of a deal or anything everybody will forget that it was the u.s. who initiated the. of the deal and everyone in the world the global opinion will be

it is iran's fault some of us are but i'm glad i have told about. what i have told is that. on many occasions i don't believe that they have any reason to withdraw from the deal and i have said that on multiple occasions you will see what happens next among them russia is not a fire brigade we i cannot just go around saving everything that's burning around us we have played our part and we are ready and willing to play this part in the future but it depends largely not just on our spot on our partners on the europeans on the us and on iran itself. but. fortunately i don't have a large to add to that the i.a.e.a. after was inspected arar news 13 time use comes.

every time. it was approved there to run complied with every obligation and took a bullet according to the joint comprehensive plan of action often ascensions since always by the united states well that's. the decision america made us an inch an inch or so these sanctions stay did not only help them to promote international relations it was for the internet there was no sufficient grounds for source of acacias was draw on their minds trust. you were believes. hard nosed into the facts that the us after it pulled out from the joint of the heads of learns about. sanctions against. and then

that was very provocative parallel to that shift that all european companies that would continue cooperating with drugs would be essentially to do. you know i love you so to you and to you and we can see how things will be growing further on you. do you hope you show us please that relation with certain kompany is hard more important than its relations with iran the e.u. . so far hasn't it's come up with the. mechanism which would help in person to continue cooperation with iran being on that for over a year to remember how it all started in vienna and integration when decision to create such a mechanism was 1st announced it's very labor work so we decided to support this

year to run and the impression i have you. is that any additional pressure on the run. is going to. undermine the political relations even further as we. will continue much we. see the probability of that happening but if the us continues putting pressure on iran that. leads to certain a. crisis can happen as it happened either rock couple of years ago in europe no one of wants that to happen. and the last question possible surely thank you very much of a better offer see which i have questions to both presidents actually because he doesn't use a club it's of clothing store following the story. fresh and i have the relations in the dialogue between russian or sue is different to that of between. russia and

the e.u. trade is better and the quality of the dollar has a better how much do your thing so you should save peat corporation between russia and or steer the e.u. . you've got the e.u. tough line on russia has been subsiding and now we have pragmatism coming out thing that assumption but it's been well sanctions are always an obstacle because they are legitimate. without taking into account the. charter this is the dream which was the practice of the. of our western counterparts this is what they do. i understand i believe that nothing should be done in a unilateral way but russia is ready to find a compromise that is ready. to search for solutions of the most difficult

problems in. music sure. but not through sacrificing our fundamental our essential national interests you know but still we are. very. we're not rigid. we trade turnover with. the you even with the u.s. we had a 20 percent increase of trade yes the total amount is negligible but we still saw a role growth and so we saw growth in terms of turnover with europe on the whole before the crisis it was over a $400000000000.00 now it's a reach to $300000000000.00. last year it was about $200.00. and so

would rose by the bow by about 18000000000. and. we export a lot of energy to. there was see an increase in the price of energy. oil and gas and that's. partly explained that but we've also had very good relations with france with italy with germany with austria. well if this is developing we are happy with the way it is developing of course it would be better if we had no. political obstacles. in the at the anything that really motivated to prevent us from reaching our full potential of europe. may be on the it will tell you about. the european union countries themselves through their sanctions i lost about

10000000000 euros and this was taking that out of the salaries and of the results of the people working in europe and these are that weren't able they couldn't export to us and i hope that this will be overcome and we will be able to move forward in the future more successfully. because. only a wise. one is because. i think that we have already or were the worst. you know. as good as an idea that. we have certain well for requisite for those sanctions in all crimea. so. we have you know generally i agree with that mentality. those who are saying shouldn't they are you

are damaging to all of us. struggle to log but we just read directed our trade you know. for us if we used to. projects machine manufactured goods we used to sell apples and there are 3 now we mostly sell i would know how was the new in there i was clipped from and. it has changed. but still the situation is not satisfactory and no one is going to argue with that i think. thank you. we've just been listening into a press conference with lot of near putin and alexander around the president now of course that to mention the fact that the talks that they had today were friendly and businesslike and expressed

a desire to further the development of the ties between the 2 countries now the austrian president touched on relations between the e.u. and russia saying that he would welcome a betterment of the saying that even when there is disagreement it's best to keep the possibility of a dialogue open it comes as no surprise that the crisis surrounding the iran nuclear deal came up quite a bit with putin saying that the it was we got regrettable that the deal is falling apart we go live now to search and. has more certainly a busy few days for international diplomacy what we've been hearing. well as you said a very busy 3 days in sochi very high profile talks 3 days through and through today again little more focus on iran little more focus on the gas projects russia's gas projects even the european union. we heard for example the president

of the president of austria asked about whether his country's committed to various gas pipelines that are being laid from russia. from russia to the european union and they have said that they are the spite the united states busy threatening european companies russian companies with sanctions because of those gas pipelines and glad we have putin said he believes that that is all just unfair competition it isn't about politics it isn't about geopolitical reasons it's all about the united states trying to sell its own gas liquefied natural gas which is much more expensive to europeans and since it can compete business wise it's trying to force the russians out of the market under the pretext of political reasons and the austrian president said that there's no impetus for europeans to buy american gas

it's more expensive more cumbersome and that they're going to stick to the russian gas for now that is a very big question it is it is both the politicians and business leaders around the world for a while now and now we have some clarity the other big thing that they talked about is iran obviously it is a huge crisis ongoing crisis with. real potential for escalation escalation that would prove destructive worldwide now that we have a united states aircraft carrier battle group station next to iran now that we're hearing about plans potential plans for $120000.00 american troops to be deployed to calendar rod in the event of a potential complet conflict various american politicians talking about huge guided missile strikes on iran. dangerous situation europeans coming out united states behavior almost provocative. saying that what the united states is doing is

destructive it is counterproductive and that the best hope for iran for the crisis in iran round iran to guarantee that iran isn't working on nuclear weapons isn't planning to develop nuclear weapons ease the reigning nuclear deal of 2015 which the united states was a huge part of perhaps the biggest actor and which the united states pulled out of last year since reimposing incredibly painful sanctions on iran. very difficult conditions 12 points i believe that iran they say must abide by in order for the sanctions to be lifted most of those points have nothing to do with any of the nuclear activities the europeans saying that they support the iranian nuclear deal that the international atomic energy agency backs that plan that the european union

backs that plan china the united united nations security council everyone but the united states. so all in all very similar positions but very different ways of going about them for example the europeans promised the iranians that they would shield them from american sanctions they haven't been able to do so and again the austrian president being very critical of the united states for threatening european companies to get their way to get the europeans to pull out of the. nuclear deal nevertheless aside from those 2 topics it was much more relaxed this press conference both sides touting relations and trade political ties president inviting vladimir putin. for a concert next year so all in all very friendly but. serious notes about the most outstanding crises in the world. garcia bringing us the latest from sochi and

thank you. now as our correspondent just mentioned tensions running iran are now getting heated up more and more and leave iraq now as fast as possible with the dramatic warning issued by washington to u.s. employees in the country it comes amid a heightened sense of urgency from the american side or what it calls the increased threat coming from iraq's neighbor iran we're now joined live in the studio by daniel hawkins daniel the u.s. seems to really have gone into panic mode at this point and now it's evacuating people from the neighboring countries what's going on the iranian u.s. relations are complex to say the very least but this certainly is a new level of tension that we can see here the u.s. has issued a security alert all emergency personnel in iraq citing a substantial risk related to activity by the iranians that we don't know what form that risk is going to take we don't know what's changed in recent times to cause this panic this escalation nevertheless the state department does want the world to

see it's taking things seriously there is a clear and present danger now of course u.s. forces in work is in the region do face some background threat in iraq in syria due to the volatility of the regional conflicts the presence of armed groups this is an entirely different kettle of fish the calls for immediate out of u.s. personnel from the american embassy in baghdad and from the consulate as well specifically because of the threat so the situation is very much heated. their neighbors are spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare ran around major destabilizing in influence in the middle east to spread death destruction and. the leaders of iran are racketeers so as. death. and destruction behind every problem is a rare and what we've been trying to do is to get iran to be him like

a normal nation now the united states has pushed a military buildup in the gulf as well they've deployed an entire aircraft carrier group complete with bones to that region it's a move that's been labeled by iran as psychological warfare to iran has made very clear that war they don't see the conflict but they do reserve the right to respond to moves they see as an aggression from the united states now as you mentioned it is a volatile region that's nothing new but has there been anything specific that could cause such a reaction from the u.s. over the last 18 months the roots of this recent conflict has been trump's withdrawal from the iran nuclear agreement it was a move criticized by the other signatories to that international treaty was out or fired by constant saber rattling labeling each other's militaries as terrorist organizations of sanctions and constant verbal threats. we'll see what happens 9 with the run 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 right relations have also been damaged by incidents in the region as well each one seems to ramp up tensions bring the risk of conflict closer and run but rhetoric from the united states in fact just on tuesday we saw drone attacks on saudi arabian oil facilities just west of riyadh they were carried out by drones operated by who 3 militants days before that again we saw attacks on multiple oil tankers off the united arab emirates coast that was described as sabotage by m r r t officials now . tehran has denied any involvement in those oil tanker attacks they've said this could be a provocation designed to spot conflicts they've called for an investigation specs have been made public but nevertheless this won't help to alleviate those tensions that low to make things worse and of course the situation is also of international concern moscow has said they've received no reassurances from. those tensions with iran they do fear an escalation they're not alone in this germany the netherlands

they've recently suspended their military training operations in iraq although the german defense ministry have said there is no concrete threat of iranian radio that attack nevertheless the situation they said is down to their tensions with their american partners spain another country they would draw a frigate from that u.s. carrier group citing a change in mission and concerns over a confrontation so certainly things are not slowing down concerns globally are growing of just how far things could be pushed to the brink artie's daniel hawkins thing across the story for us thank you i mean the alarm over iran a senior general in the u.s. led coalition in syria and iraq appears to have refuted the idea i mean heightened threat level artie's keep partridge has more. the does seem to be rather a difference of opinion a breakdown in communication between the u.s. military central command and the coalition's 2nd in command over the threat posed

by iran though there's been no increased threat from iranian backed forces in iraq in syria we're aware of their presence clearly. and we monitor them along with a whole range of others because that's the environment we're in we're british major general chris cake of the coalition's deputy commander for strategy and information seems to refute the trumpet ministrations claim iran is mobilizing groups in iraq and syria to attack american forces with his comments also seem to contradict the claim terrine is an escalating threat to u.s. national security adviser john bolton has long promoted action against iran but the british general says there's little to fear there are a range of threats to american and coalition forces in iraq or syria we most of them all about forces is clearly one of them. and i'm not going to go into the detail of it but there are

a substantial number of militia groups in iraq and syria and we don't see any increased threat from many of them at the station press to explain the discrepancy gekas seem to limit his earlier remarks to a group of militia in iraq called the popular mobilization forces while some are backed by iran but the coalition considers them compliant yet later a u.s. military central command made a terrifying statement stressing iran is a threat recent comments from oh i asked deputy commander run counter to the identified credible threats available to intelligence from the u.s. and its allies regarding iranian backed forces in the region or so said navy captain bill urban he added oh are is now at a high level of alert as we continue to closely monitor credible and possibly imminent threats to u.s. forces in iraq well if both as. senior british commander and america central command share the same intelligence have similar information on terrorist locations air strikes and danger zones how can i give statements that are so different well

to help carry fire this r.t. has sent requests to operation inherent resolve and the u.k.'s ministry of defense so far there's been no response. we go live now to military analyst come on for more on this now the situation in iraq has been increasingly unstable as of late but now the u.s. is talking about a substantial risk from iran is that really the case here. i think this is more of politics from washington because this is in building up for the last 2 years and came into office because iran was clearly identified as a major threat to the nuclear deal was broken from the u.s. side and then sanctions were slapped on iran's g.c. so this is not complete surprise and probably the real threat on the ground is no different to what it was a year ago or 2 years ago but the levels of escalation politically have been going up every week since the last year. and

a british major general though has rejected the claims why do we see this contradiction theoretically they have the same information. though that's quite remarkable although british generals tend to be far more cautious and reserved than their american counterparts this has been the case for the last few decades every time the alliance fights together so you always see caution from the british side while the americans tend to be more gung ho but just as you said in your report there they share the same intelligence and if they're to blaring contradictions it doesn't really look good for the coalition obviously one of them is lying or at least it seems to be that there is clear misinformation from one side we don't know which one at this point germany has already suspended its military training exercises in iraq why is there been no official confirmation by the united states of this substantial threat. i think because there's nothing concrete there trying to link various activities of iran undoubtedly iran is operating in the region at

a heightened level but if you look at what happened in saudi arabia and the ships in the persian gulf the americans are trying to connect the dots and find a smoking gun which can say and iran responsible for all these but there is nothing official and that's why the british side of said this and all of the germans have pulled out their trainers and the americans are pulling some of their stuff out there is nothing concrete that say's iran is moving to words and action which would lead to war. the u.s. national security adviser john bolton has said that he is ready to lie for the sake of american safety does not put everything he said then in danger and doubt. absolutely and again john bolton is identified as a hawk on iran even before he stepped into the administration so there are various who will blame iran for everything that goes wrong and of course there is some justification there you know iran's interference in iraq yemen and other parts of the region however when it comes to going after an all out war at the moment there

is nothing to suggest iran is doing anything unusual barring it's usually pretty. what does america stance mean for the overall situation in the region. i think the extreme the tense and we also have to look at the tension between the saudis and the iranians the israelis and the iranians so there's almost a troika of us so the in israel who've been wanting at some stage some kind of action against iran whether it's because relativity is in syria or iraq or yemen so the current heightened alert or the increase of troops or the aircraft carrier moving in. obviously a lot of tension there it could lead to unintended consequences a slight mistake could lead to war but i think both sides of clearly say no one really wants real war this is just some kind of military psychological operations going on military analyst come on thank you so much for joining us on the program.

the u.s. attorney general has launched an investigation into possible misconduct relating to the report specifically he will see if the law was broken when trying to establish whether dollar trump colluded with russia however bar won't give the same scrutiny to the part of the probe concluding there was meddling by moscow more than has more . since 2016 the democrats have been pushing an investigation of donald trump for allegedly colluding with russia in order to win the $2016.00 elections well now the report is out and the verdict is no collusion and at this point it looks like cable news will not stop the noise about trump and russia despite the report being released well now we've got a new investigation to cover it seems the republicans are now pushing to investigate the investigators u.s. attorney john durham he is not a rookie by far he investigated the cia and revealed that they had destroyed tapes and evidence of their torture program he also investigated the f.b.i.'s relationship with mafia boss whitey bulger so when it was announced that he would

look into whether or not federal officials broke the law when investigating donald trump the democrats got antsy so did former f.b.i. director james calming and feared personally i feared as a citizen investigate what investigate that investigations were conducted what would be the crime you'd be investigating so it's a terrible cycle to start perhaps the f.b.i. does have a reason to be concerned after all they did send an informer who posed as an assistant in order to meet with trump's aide now this informer stephon helper has a long history in fact he was involved in cia spying during the 1980 elections trump says that his campaign was spied on however those who oversaw the operation strongly object to that wording you know you dismiss the dictionary definition of spying surveillance or spying a term i don't particularly like it's not a term a board used by intelligence people that has a negative connotation of

a rogue operation out of control not in compliance with the war and that's not the case at all now let's not forget that the feds clung to the now discredited steeled cia in order to apply for a warrant to surveil donald trump now a full 10 days before they applied for the warrant they were already questioning christopher steele's credibility and here's some language from a memo that surfaced. there is a technical heman operation run out of moscow targeting the election payments to those who recruited and made out of the russian consulate in miami it is important to note that there is no russian consulate in miami but the intel community presented christopher steele as being credible when they applied for a warrant to spy on trump now at durham will no doubt be looking into whether or not that is legal now let's also not forget that shuck schumer waved his fist on behalf of american spying agencies take on the intelligence community they have 6 ways from sunday of getting back after everything related to the trial for russia

investigation seems to be a widely contested the words presented by one side are presented as false and by the other side and amid all these allegations of dishonesty bias partisanship we're expected to believe by both wings of the establishment that what they are saying about russia and their allegations that it meddled in the 2016 elections is absolutely true. well i guess the american people will have to decide what they want to believe they will blow up and that are up of the day you're talking to us for now thanks for tuning in. a low in welcome across not we're all things are considered i'm here to live well if we ever knew.