that's the thought of you. if you achieve that finish if you give. washington order certain u.s. officials in iraq to evacuate as soon as possible after raising the alarm on the international stage over a supposed an increased threat coming from neighboring iran. the u.s. attorney general investigates the legality of evidence used in the russia trump collusion probe although doesn't question the findings of the report. and coca-cola the latest campaign in norway sparks anger from some as it features a crescent moon part of the slow boat to coincide with ramadan and.

you're watching aren't international bringing you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. we leave iraq now as fast as possible that's the dramatic warning that's been issued by washington to certain u.s. employees in the country it comes amid a heightened sense of urgency from the american side over what it calls the increased threat coming from iraq's neighbor iran earlier i discussed the alleged iranian threat with. loraine 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 shape or 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 and there is a clear and present danger now of course u.s. forces and workers in the region do face some background threats in iraq in syria due to the volatility of the region conflicts the presence of armed groups this is an entirely different kettle of fish the calls for immediate occupation 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 in their neighbors are spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare ran around major destabilizing in the influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos 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 as the broad an entire aircraft carrier group complete with bones to that region it's a move that's been labeled by iran as psychological warfare iran has made very clear that i want more 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 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. well over the last 18 months the roots of this. conflict has been trumps withdrawal from the iran nuclear agreement 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 threats 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 run or 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 see militants days before that again we saw attacks on multiple oil tankers off the united arab emirates coast that was described as sabotage by immorality officials now terror on has denied any involvement in those oil tanker attacks they've said this could be a provocation designed to spark conflict they've called for an investigation suspects 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 receive no reassurances from want

compared to 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 iranian attack nevertheless the situation they said is down to their tensions with their american partners spain another country they withdraw 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 and concerns globally are growing of just how far things could be pushed to the brink. we crossed. lived here on and on come out who's a member of the iraqi national assembly and the secretary general of a syrian democratic movement now the situation in iraq has been increasingly unstable of late but now the u.s. is talking of a substantial risk from iran is that really the case here. sorry

the tensions are there you are right but even the american embassy alert for their citizens in iraq but actually on the ground there is nothing to this moment the americans are thinking that if something happened god for a bit of something heavy that proxies or those who are pro iran they may do so may they may become some threat on embassy and americans it is but till this moment there is nothing on the ground everything is normal we hope they can contain the conflict. the yellow cannot be rockets and bombs. on tuesday the iraqi pm said that things will end up well despite all the current rhetoric why doesn't he share this view about the substantial threat from iran well a very shady americans are. scared maybe there will be some reaction from the approaches but i guess i will say as a rock as government was friendly very friendly relations with both sides we hope

that you don't become a part of this conflict but oppose it to be a breach for peace and for dialogue between them. baghdad meanwhile continues to be plagued by terror attacks why do you think they are not choosing to concentrate on the threat from isis will instead. well i guess i will say both sides supported us fighting. till this moment both both for iraq and iran is 41400 kilometer border there is a mutual right could say interest and the holy shrines of the shia. in addition of their neighborhood of neighboring countries so in addition to the americas also here and support of us a lot we are scared of this conflict for sure but we hope that we keep on independent and try to bring peace not to become

a part of the conflict this evacuation order from the us has actually provoked germany to suspend its military training exercises in iraq at the same time a british general has denied there being any increased threat why do you think we're seeing such a contradiction. yeah that's right what the generals say till this moment is right by the americans maybe are taking taking care in advance of something happen then there may be some some reaction from their proxies we have a lot of the. maybe they are very pro iran they may they may behave in something not expected that's why the americans are taking such steps in advance the situation has also been complicated by tuesday's drone attacks on key saudi arabian oil installations carried out by what the rebels iran has been accused of supporting that although it would reject those claims is there any basis to claims

that this incident is being used against iran. boy this is very bad carry so what you say to us is very complicated again i will say since iraq is in the middle and friend and friends relation with both sides is very complicated for us for the government and some part of parliamentary blocs are very support for unthankful of iranian support during guises and others are saying that you have to we got to keep neutral it is very complicated for my government for the parliament it may cause some some division among the iraqis in parliament and even in government you know them cannot be member of the iraqi national assembly and secretary general of the syrian democratic movement thank you for your time and that the alarm over you around a senior general in the u.s. led coalition in syria in iraq appears to have refuted the idea of a heightened threat level artist partridge has more. the does seem to be rather

a difference of opinion a breakdown in communication between 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 and 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 kc 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 where his comments also seem to contradict the claim tehran is an escalating threat 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 our 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 come on to and america's central

command share the same intelligence have similar information on terrorist locations as strikes and danger zones how can they give statements that are so different well to help clarify this r.t. has sent requests to operation inherent resolve and the u.k.'s ministry of defense the british ministry of defense has responded to r.t. at this point saying the commanders comments are based on the day to day military operations and he was not speaking about the water geo political situation in the region. meanwhile in the russian resort city of sochi the topic of iran was also on the agenda there are top level talks have been continuing following tuesday's meeting between the russian president and the u.s. secretary of state and speaking at a press conference today on long hard his austrian counterpart president putin gave his view on how he expects the situation to play out. makes the decision to withdraw from any kind of a deal everyone will forget the us initiated the collapse of the deal and global

opinion will be iran's fault i've said this to iran on many occasions i don't think they have any reason to withdrawal from the deal. well i'm not especially an r.t.s. more i'm gonna stand now more on lots of key issues being discussed over the last 2 days what's the latest. but a run for one has been front and center here and. 3. almost foreign ministers have visited here over the last 3 days the chinese foreign minister the u.s. secretary of state and today the austrian president and all of them how do a lot to say about iran specifically because the situation is tremendously tremendously dangerous at this point we have donald trump threatening outright the iranians with suffering should they should they not change their behavior should they keep their current course we have the europeans really scared of

a serious conflict happening and largely a putin was asked repeatedly about the situation regarding iran about. between the united states and iran he was asked for example today by the press what russia can do to sort of hold this crisis to resolve this crisis and to bring it to an end. among them when you were. a foreign brigade i cannot just go around saving everything that is around us we have played our part and we are ready and willing to play this part in future but it depends not just on us but on our partners on the europeans on the us and on iran itself. both 2 days ago the chinese foreign. today the president outlawed positions that are very similar to russia's with regards to how the settle the

iranian crisis they have said repeatedly that the iranian nuclear deal of 2015 is the way forward it provides a verifiable framework that you know a system by which one can verify that iran isn't pursuing nuclear weapons it works the head of the international atomic energy agency has said it works various world leaders have said it works various intelligence agencies have said it works but the united states has pulled out the united states wants more it wants aside from iran's nuclear ambitions it wants iran to change its political course as well which given the points it has outlined the demands of his made at the iranians baby a little too much might compare was challenge the night yesterday but he remains adamant he believes the united states knows the right course and is going to stick to it they've also threatened the europeans that companies with sanctions should they persist in staying in the iranian deal should they continue to do business

with iran and that is something that is really the europeans and they came out and said so today the president said that what the united states is doing is provocative it is dangerous and it isn't helping anything but the europeans 1st and foremost a move concerned about a real conflict a hot conflict war breaking out. of. the impression i have is that any additional pressure on iran is only going to undermine political relations even further no matter how much we argue about the probability of this happening if the u.s. continues putting pressure on iran at least to the risks of a crisis as happened in iraq several years ago and in europe no one wants that to happen. there's no easy solution to the radian crisis the positions of the various countries are just so different but that was one of the takeaways yesterday

one might compare u.s. secretary of state met with both the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and vladimir putin and that left i must say a pleasant aftertaste because there's a real sense of something being done something concrete being achieved yesterday vladimir putin today said he finally has a feeling that the united states is ready that there's some political will to get relations with russia off the ground to the sort of restart them to reopen communication channels be the intelligence be the counterterrorism economic financial political cultural and that is something that both sides agreed on yesterday to continue discussions to continue to exist bite. them agreeing to disagree despite the visions and various themes and topics being so different other than not might compare also came out yesterday with the you know with

a smile on his face. there's also talk about other facets of russian american relations and lived near putin said he plans or well he's open to meeting donald trump at the g. 20 summit very soon if the united states is up to it. artists mind konstam thank you for bringing us that report. the u.s. attorney general has launched an investigation into possible misconduct relating to the mohler report specifically william barr we'll see if the law was broken when trying to establish whether donald trump clinic with russia won't have the same scrutiny to the part of the probe concluding medaled picks up the story. 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 wall 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 dismissed the dictionary definition of spies surveillance or spying a term i don't particularly like it's not a term of war 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 steel down ca 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 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 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 at 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 biased partisanship we are 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 blup and r.t.

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deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back activists to rein in venezuela's embassy in d.c. despite not vixen notice they are trying to prevent the venezuelan opposition from taking up residence in the compound opposition figures have the backing of the us which recognizes their leader one bardot as president meanwhile venezuelan amnesties and other countries are often becoming the subject of controversy as

peter all for explains. just a few moments ago the big players on the world stage were tripping over themselves to come out and recognize one is the legitimate president of venezuela we are ready to recognize one by do as interim president we will recognize him as constitutional interim president. we stand ready to recognize one guy joe as the interim president of venezuela. even send representatives to different nations around the world despite them not receiving diplomatic credentials in some countries like here in germany where we have a situation that the ambassador who sits in the embassy just behind me represents a government deemed illegitimate while the representative of the government deemed legitimate holds no diplomatic rank here in germany though that hasn't stopped quite those man from at least calling himself ambassador. to get anymore that in

venezuela we are living under a dictatorship there needs to be international pressure to end the a separation of power when we can have a real transitional government so we can hold elections then we can have our consulates and embassies full steam ahead for regime change as politicians and news networks cheated each official that defected from the madieu road government but then there was the failed coup attempt and the ball of aryan republic and the standoff outside of the venezuelan embassy in washington the. was. extremely efficient internationally. she stopped us and it really got into the years and that's what we're trying to say and it mentions in

international law. now with the german parliament tree inquiry finding that germany's recognition of quite though is president was shaky at best under international law the foreign ministry here is less than committed when it comes to talking about furthering relations in talks with the representatives of the man who would be leader of them as whalen it's a similar story in other nations in spain for example they also welcomed the representative of one without conveying any diplomatic rank basically it means that mystic why doe's representatives could meet and talk with foreign ministry officials but very little else despite european leaders joining in the cheese for a change early on in venezuela the reality today is they've taking a position it's much more on the fence but one of these days they're going to have to come down on one side or the other as they find out it can be quite easy to make big political statements but if you don't think through how they're going to be put

into action just cause more problems down the line. under who go and pay for germany's the last party things e.u. states and germany in particular have good reason not to recognise quite as ambassadors. foreign policy always recognize states but not individual persons and though we see all the. costs coming out of the situation because of why there was no real power as a real power this. for pragmatic reasons. still recognizing the embassy here and dealing with with them and called sort of story issues on the other hand the representative of wide or mr gates is recognized as a political representative of quiet all but not as an ambassador issue of. foreign ministries cooperated with the embassy of course which oh

it's because you cannot deal with real issues with a president who has no power in the country. ukraine has offered to free a journalist working for a russian news agency as part of a prisoner exchange with moscow. who is ukrainian was arrested in kiev on charges of treason russia's presidential human rights council has expressed concern over his treatment journalist and public figures right outside the ukrainian embassy in moscow to support the journalists shinseki is the head of the real news agencies office in ukraine he was in president in 2018 accused of supporting separatists in eastern ukraine is done by us region at the time he appealed to russian president vladimir putin for support asking to be made in russian citizen. when you have no good friends today it's a year since our colleague was imprisoned on the monstrous charge only because he

carried out his journalistic work it is a shameful page in the history of modern ukraine we hope that the new president will dimmers alinsky will find the strength and be able to rest this beach from the history of modern ukraine that's needed now is tomorrow will be the stilts of cruel 2nd year in the. ukrainian torture chambers without medical assistance in conditions equivalent to torture this brings shame on the country shame on legal authorities and shame on you korean society and we do hope that there will be forces inside ukraine that can say pick up the keys to his cell and set the journalists free. coca-cola has launched a ramadan version of its logo in norway it features the crescent moon to celebrate the muslim holy month but not everyone has welcomed the idea. shame on you for promoting women oppressing homosexuals terrorizing. do you also make adverts with the cross in saudi arabia this is getting too stupid if your company's using the crescent moon of islam in norway as

a marketing tool during ramadan i will have no choice but to boycott your products . according to the pew research center the number of muslims in norway is on the rise in 2016 they represented almost 6 percent of the population. coca-cola has defended the ramadan logo saying it's part of the brands commitment to diversity and inclusion and it's not the 1st time the company has tried to appeal to muslims and its promise campaigns. for example last year its dutch wing ran a facebook ad in which a muslim woman gets scornful looks but ends up making friends with a stranger political and social commentator mo and star believes coca-cola wants to be seen as engaging with muslim communities. i think that is overly cynical i think at the end of the day most modern progressive multinational companies around the world would have policy.