to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. washington orders u.s. officials in iraq to evacuate as soon as possible of to raising the alarm on the international stage over a suppose it increased threat coming from neighbors iran. security in the future of russia's relations with washington lead the way in discussions in sochi president putin calls out washington putting the iran nuclear deal for painting tehran as the bad guys. so the u.s. attorney general investigates the legality of the evidence used in the russia trump the newseum froebel doesn't question the findings of the report.

and coca-cola is latest campaign in norway sparks anger from some as it features a crescent moon as part of its logo to coincide with run a. good evening to you watching r.t. international leave iraq now as fast as possible that's the dramatic warning that has been issued by washington to u.s. employees in the country comes amid a heightened sense of urgency from the american side of what it calls the increased threat coming from iraq's neighbor iran our correspondent and hawkins in the studios been following this story for a. very very dramatic perceived threat from the iran what is going on. u.s. relations have a history of being complex and dramatic but it seems that tensions have now reached new. new heights with this security alert issued by the united states through its

not emergency personnel in iraq calling on most u.s. government personnel to leave as soon as possible from their embassy in baghdad and their consulate in arbil now why the sudden panic well the alert actually mentions no specific reason for the evacuations of course u.s. officials have in the past referred to what they call as substantial threat to u.s. personnel relating to so-called the raiding activity called the. activities of u.s. iranian proxies rather in both iraq and in syria it's unclear though as to what exactly these threats are or indeed as to why the level has increased and now what is clear is that the u.s. does want to show they're taking things very seriously and there is a clear and present danger. 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 now

of course u.s. forces and u.s. workers in the region both iraq and syria do face an element of risk due to the volatile situation and conflicts the presence of armed groups there but again officials have so far failed to offer an explanation about recent developments as to what exactly these threats are and how exactly the reigning threat would actually manifest itself what we do know is that tensions were wrapped up last week when the united states sent an aircraft carrier group to the region complete with bombers that was a move described by to iran as psychological warfare iran also stated they're not looking for conflict bad looking to avoid a war with the united states that's something echoed by washington of course as well but really the root of the recent troubles between the u.s. and iran was trumps withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal that was moved criticized by the other countries party to that agreement and that was accompanied by constant threats of new sanctions that label each other's militaries as terrorist organizations and constant saber rattling as well now indeed germany millan's have

also suspended their training operations in iraq the germans citing risk of potential attacks from iranian proxies though again the german defense ministry has stated there is no specific threat so interesting there and the situation of course is of grave international concern to multiple countries russia one of the country saying they've received no reassurances from one from paya regarding these tensions with iran and they are anticipating escalations in the region so certainly things sewing a very little sign of calming down here lots of worrying sounding rhetoric many thanks for that update dan hawkins there although amid all that alarm over iran a senior general in the united states led coalition in syria and iraq appears to have refuted the idea of a heightened threat level with more details is kate partridge. 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 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 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 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 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 commander and america central command share the same intelligence have similar information on terrorist locations airstrikes and danger zones how can i give statements that are so different the

u.k.'s ministry of defense has distanced itself from the remarks made by the british major general claiming he spoke in the capacity of a military officer in the u.s. led coalition in iraq and syria it added that his remarks speak about a specific area not the overall geopolitical situation in the region major general great i was speaking about a very specific area in which the u.s. led operation inherent resolve operates he wasn't speaking about the weight of geopolitical situation in the region but considering the specific area he's talking about is iraq and syria i think his words might hold some weight. under law in the lineup for a desire to his professor of political communication at the university of tehran good to have you on for the situation in iraq obviously unstable of late but the u.s. is suggesting that things are getting worse talking about a substantial risk from iran would you agree the program militias are posing

a substantial risk. yes if the u.s. is planning to attack iran they would probably attack u.s. forces but you don't have said that iran is not interested in a war with the united states and the friends that iran has in the region are not going to attack u.s. forces unless you're on is attacked or understand or attacked so when you see this type of hype you can't help it but to learn their love the united states did when they wanted to attack iraq in 2003 coming up with. bogus intelligence. issues that that's really. something that should be taken seriously and the same people john bolton used to be working you should work for the u.s. government that these u.s. national security advisers. and he wrote an article in march of 2015

calling for a military strike on iran so you don't is not going to attack u.s. forces unless iran is attacked by u.s. forces and if the u.s. is planning to attack iran they should be worried about the response that they will get from. in that case why do you think the u.s. is ordering it personnel to evacuate. by all accounts from iraq. you know that makes us worry here when u.s. plans. is planning a military attack on a country they want to reduce their footprint. so by reducing their personnel in iraq or elsewhere in this part of the world this could be a sign that they're actually planning to attack iran. we don't know why they act in this manner. there's a 2nd possibility of this continuation of the psychological warfare. we have 2020 and actions in the united states the most important thing to the president's

promise to get reelected. as he has people in the united states criticizing his iran policy so many different issues that you can look at but one thing that i can tell you from tehran is that iran is not interested in a military confrontation with the united states so i'm not sure why they're doing what they're doing but you know we have to look when we when you look at the u.s. history you see false flag operations you see different types of initiatives when the u.s. wants to attack a country they come up with excuses so i hope we're not seeing a repeat of history it's easy to talk about the you know the us being in iraq and being concerned about things happening around i think sometimes it's important to take a step back and. just ask the question why is the united states in iraq. that's a very good question they attacked iraq in 2003. looking for

weapons of mass destruction realize that was another example of false information false intelligence politically driven into the us and then they ended up staying in iraq until president obama took us forces out and then we had trump in the white house they got about 5000 troops now and in iraq without any justification it was iran that cut rid of isis in iraq and we're not sure what they are what they are doing there in fact president trump said that the us has spent almost 7 trillion dollars in wars in iraq and afghanistan and haven't gotten much out of it so i hope that your reporter in washington would pose that question to someone in the defense apart for it good to speak to thanks for coming on r.t. for the saudis my guest professor of political communication at the university

thank you terribly. the rounds of conversations in the russian resort of sochi the president putin and the russian foreign secretary have been holding bilateral talks with chinese u.s. and european counterparts question tao iran's global reputation has been damaged by a situation initiated by washington morell must order from the black sea city a little later this hour. the u.s. attorney general is listening best to geisha into possible misconduct relating to the report specifically william will see if the law was broken and trying to establish whether the colluded with russia however will give the same scrutiny to the part of the program pleading there was meddling by moscow in the morbid describes 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 in 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 comey personally i figured as a citizen investigate what investigated 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. after all they did send an informer who posed as an assistant in order to meet with trump's aide now this informer stefan 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. the dictionary definition of spies surveillance or spying a term i don't particularly like it's not a term of art used by intelligence people it 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 well let's not forget that the feds clung to the now discredited stealed 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 human 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 in durham will no doubt be looking into whether or not that is legal now let's also not forget that chuck schumer waived his fist on behalf of american spying agencies take on the intelligence community they have 6 ways from sunday to get back at you everything related to the trump russia investigation seems to be 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'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 cable mup and r.t. new york. political analysts lee rockwell says that little u.s. public appetite to question the russian meddling narrative. they all know there's no evidence of republicans democrats malar. bar i know that there are a lot of americans who have same view i do want to know where the evidence is. but i think the you know the is the establishment the media both political parties. they're all saying one thing and i i don't know that the american people will ever see it will they demand it like to think that they would but i'm i'm afraid i don't believe that i'm afraid this is just going to go on and on and on and pompei o bolton. and the administration the democrats the republicans in congress

the media they're all being the same drum and they're all lawyering and we just have to hope that. president trump will pull back. we just have to see. has been controlled to see no way up to coca-cola launched a special edition of its logo to mark the muslim holiday of ramadan that's the end of this after the break. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room

see. if we ever need an anti-war movement it's obviously now trying this hyper aggressive foreign policy faces little resistance from the mainstream media in fact numerous liberal news outlets function as a cheering section for the president where is the moral outrage. welcome back 3 days of high profile talks wrapped up in the russian resort city of sochi tuesday the russian president met with the u.s.

secretary of states with venezuela syria and iran all up for discussion and speaking at a press conference today alongside his austrian council president putin gave his view on how washington is playing the iran card. makes the decision to withdraw from any kind of a deal everyone will forget that 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 huge 3 days here in sochi very big talks high profile talks 1st we had the chinese foreign minister then the u.s. secretary of state today the president a lot of topics almost every major crisis in the world now was discussed here of course they talked about iran. ukraine. was in the middle east syria yemen they talked about financial markets about oil about gas you

know all sorts of things but of course front and center was iran because it is really getting into the dangerous phase now the phase where everybody fears an escalation and today putin was asked about what russia plans to do to help resolve this crisis. among them when you find 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. the europeans the russians and the chinese have similar views in the arena in crisis they believe it's gone too far and that the best option for the world for all the countries involved is to stick to the iranian nuclear deal of $2015.00 and even the

europeans have called what the united states is doing is dangerous and provocative book of him personally have is that any additional pressure on iran is only going to undermine political relations even further in matter how much we argue about the probability of this happening if the u.s. continues putting pressure on iran to lisa the risks of a crisis as happened in iraq several years ago and in europe no one wants that to happen unfortunately this new easy solution to the arabian crisis but they they at least talk about it not by the way was the take away yesterday when might compare with the u.s. secretary of state visited today vladimir putin said that you know he he now has a sense that there's some willingness in washington to repair restart relations with russia they agreed yesterday that you know they disagree on many things they also agree to start repairing various communication channels hotlines for example

counterterrorism intelligence financial political. putin was also asked about a potential meeting with donald trump and he replied that at the g 20 summit if the americans willing if they want to start serious serious you know take serious steps towards repairing relations russia is always willing. 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 suppose. figures rallied outside the ukrainian embassy in moscow to support the journalist is the head of the real news agency ukrainian office he was imprisoned 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 a russian citizen. yes when you're on

a board france today it's the years since our colleague was imprisoned on the monstrous charge on lee 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 read this shameful creature from the history of modern ukraine that's the word now as it was tomorrow will be the start of korea's 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 or as long as the harassment down version of its logo in norway it features the crescent moon to celebrate the muslim holy month but not everybody is welcome the idea shame on you for promoting women

oppressing homosexuals terrorizing islam did you also make adverts with a cross in saudi arabia an easter 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 2 and 16 they represented almost 6 percent of the population. of coca-cola defended the logo saying it's part of the brand's commitment to diversity and inclusion and it's not the 1st time that the company's tried to appeal to muslims and its program campaigns. for example last year it's dutch wing run of facebook ads in which a muslim woman gets scornful looks but ends up making friends with a stranger political and social commentator of coca-cola that wants to be seen as engaging with muslim communities. think at the end of the day most modern

progressive multinational companies around the world would have policies to reach out to diverse communities coca-cola in particular you know their history you know they've had a history of about 30 odd years of being boycotted in the arab league nations after the u.s. would seem to been supporting israel since then they've tried very very hard to try and reach out to diverse communities and i think those people who are complaining about the faith of islam or their misunderstanding of the faith of islam really haven't got a leg to stand on and remember that norway is you know 5 or 6000000 people we're talking about 5 or 6 percent 2 or $300000.00 people muslims really this is a relatively minor thing there are lots of marketing campaign whether it's to do with the olympics whether it's to do with different times of the year so i think i have had a fair crack they want to be seen as somebody engaging with muslim communities where traditionally they've got a very low penetration and very low traction that's joining us this is our c

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering all the booms and busts of business and finance and the impact upon us all. in washington we're glad you're on 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 the any 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 surat group the institute for trying to america studies one that's a hand to analyze chinese markets and later players under fire as yet another court ruling comes in against the chemical giant r.j. correspondents are among those following the case and bring us the latest on stock 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 spy. person for the rebels told the associated press this is a message to saudi arabia stop your aggression our goal is to response to the crimes they are committing every day against the yemeni people saudi arabia initiated an overt military intervention in yemen in march of 2015 contributing to the development of what experts in organizations call the world's worst humanitarian crisis officials and saudi aramco said that the east west pipeline was temporarily shut off after the attack but supplies of oil and gas were not affected this marks the 2nd incident in recent days of a confirmed or alleged attack on saudi oil infrastructure. and for a closer look at global oil prices in the wake of this attack we're happy to welcome david mccallum any of mcalary financial david welcome to the show. thank you daniel good to be with you now 1st david markets are absorbing the saudi claims of attacks in saudi.