it. was in your. view west withdraws its embassy and consular staff from iraq citing an alleged threat from iran back to force and. president putin seeks a more cautious approach to iran those 3 days of high profile talks in southern russia with key global conflicts are in the spotlight. the u.s. department of commerce with the chinese tech giant pile away on the trade blacklist after president trump signs an executive order banning the use of equipment that poses an alleged security risk. and the u.s. attorney general investigates the legality of evidence used in the russia trump collusion probe.

a very warm up warm welcome you're watching us the international with me thank you aaron. the u.s. government has ordered all non-emergency staff to leave iraq over an alleged threat coming from forces controlled by wrong earlier we discussed the alleged radians threats with artie's daniel hawkins. seems now although that he's have reached new heights the u.s. has issued a security alert all its non-emergency personnel in iraq asking them to immediately depart from the u.s. embassy in baghdad and from the consulate bill that's an order that relates to all non-emergency personnel now why the sudden panic well this security alert mentions no specific threats or reasons u.s. officials have of course previously referred to what they describe as substantial threats to personnel relating to reign activity in the region in particular their

iranian proxies in both iraq and syria it's unclear though as to what exactly these threats are or indeed why the threat level has jumped now what is quite clear is that the u.s. does want to show it's taking things seriously and that there is a clear and present danger from iran or its proxies to americans in the region we'll see what happens 9 with iran if they do anything it will be a very bad mistake if they do anything i'm hearing little stories about iran if they do anything they will suffer greatly we'll see what happens with the right of course u.s. forces and other u.s. workers in the region do face a level of background threat it's a volatile area rife with conflict and armed groups on all sides of hostilities nevertheless though officials haven't explained these recent developments and how any sort of iranian threat would actually manifest itself to harm u.s. personnel tensions were wrapped up last week when the u.s. deployed an aircraft carrier group complete with bombers to the region iran has described all such moves as psychological warfare. stating that they're not looking

for confrontation or war but they would respond to anything they viewed as u.s. aggression that some. view of echoed by washington as well now the route that these recent troubles this reason this collation was of course trumps withdraw from iran nuclear treaty that was criticized roundly by the other signatories party to that agreement it was followed by the threats of sanctions saber rattling and retro. on all sides now germany and the other than several suspended their military training operations in iraq interesting enough also citing the risk of potential attacks from iranian proxies although i do have to out the german defense ministry have also added there's no concrete threat once again and the situation is of international concern to many countries moscow one states may have received no sort of reassurance from what compare on resolving these tensions they are predicting an escalation in the gulf in the coming weeks and months so certainly no sign of

things cooling down any time soon a member of the baghdad security committee says iraq is not facing any danger from iran despite claims from the u.s. . it is no sign of the internal threats or any challenges as we see it from internally in iraq the problem between iran and the united states just seems to still. be a gauge or outside the walls of iraq isn't this just see to this matter it is considered here. a show of will between the 2 countries the 2 are 2 powers and we don't here in iraq we don't believe that there will be a real. war between the 2 sides we think it's just. a war of words despite the security concerns a senior general in the u.s.

led coalition in syria under a rock has questions the idea of a heightened level artie's kate 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 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 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 well if both a senior british commander and american 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 us. pacific area not the overall geopolitical situation in the region major general grange i was speaking about the very specific area in which the u.s. led operation inherent resolve operates he wasn't speaking about the wider geopolitical situation in the region but considering the specific area he's talking about is iraq and syria you think his words might hold some weight because 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 they share the same intelligence and if they're to blair in 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 iran also dominated discussions in the russian resort of sochi president putin and his foreign minister met with

officials from china the u.s. and the european union we'll bring you up to speed on those talks later in the program. u.s. department of commerce has placed the chinese tech giant far away on a trade blacklist this comes after donald trump declared a national emergency to protect national computer networks from so-called foreign adversaries. foreign adversaries are increasingly creating an explosive vulnerabilities in information and communications technology and services which store and communicate vast amounts of sensitive information the executive order says that these are foreign adversaries are a major national security threat of course china has said that there has been no evidence that while weight does not follow every country's laws and that while we work through ugly with the chinese government which is what the u.s. is a very much concerned about this comes days after the u.s. and china failed to meet a trade deal intellectual property that has been

a huge concern of the united states from china now the u.s. has threatened time and time again to countries who continue to use while way products these chinese products and have said the. they will row back on sharing intelligence with these countries who continue to do business with them australia and japan so far have been to countries who have it here to the us and not using up while away however just recently the u.k. and germany said that they would allow 5 g.'s a huawei with limited access into their countries and the us has already been angered by this information the us bans this chinese company from doing business here in the us and this can also delay then 5 g. in the race for tech and the us really banning while way is critical here as china continues to fight that race for 5 g. meanwhile 5 g. technology will be rolled out in the u.k. this summer mobile operator vodafone has confirmed that its new network will rely

on equipment but the u.k. government has not yet decided whether to adopt the company's technology. we as a government are going through the process of making an assessment to what extent if we are able to use while we kids we couldn't stop the growth of china if we wanted to so we need to find a way of living alongside this big new power in the world let's bring in a guest now miss an executive director at the eurasia center mr rasmussen thank you for joining us on the program. where you along with 70 affiliates have been put on the trade block this in the u.s. now how will this affect the already difficult relationship between the 2 countries or. is this i think it's. the trade you know we. 1 were going on i think this. now but now to roy black with you while so many different.

yeah escalating the trade the trade war and all the war a mechanism that can honor while away the leading technology is 5 g. i think mr trump has already said that. you cannot afford to lose the 5 you raise and i think that one way that you know. that the us have things to put barriers up in the hallways direction so this movie is directly linked to the ongoing paris well between the time between china and the us. is this is this move the links to the ongoing carry fall between china and the us. i think. that what i what i think we're going to see here not just between that china in the us but i think you'll see the u.s.

try to tighten pressure other countries as well and they've already done that to some degree and now you're going to see that stretch across the other affiliate you know just today we're in discussions regarding another technology that has fall company bought a part. and they were fined over a $1000000.00 because inside the part was another part from north korea so the the supply chain is all incremental companies will have to be very careful of as far as acquiring and i think you'll see. if the u.s. continue to try to to. use leverage while way in their leading technology is a mechanism to. to basically carve out a section for us for us technology and to shut down the competitive nature of the of the industry but this bond that it doesn't just affect american supply is that

the conceit miss taylor has that will be most affected. does affect both correct but the wire supplier directly. folds while always buying supplies from the us as well as us the district supplying buying the pliers but i think also it's going to factor in the consumer side not just the company side. you're going to get forced into. you'll see a couple different things one i think while we will try to do. to develop their own technologies or find other alternatives to to us technology has started that they're using it in their mid they're equipped already and on the tumor side you'll see. basically a potentially could see a slowdown in 5 g.s. women taishan those that are armed with that to not go along with the hallway

buying. and. that could then impact impact on of different things a lot of different the new innovations and things like that could be could be it impacted and. it just creates a big mess as far as trade goes and i think that consumers overall will end up paying a price that some some point in time whether where they're not getting the type of industry and innovation that they're expecting or reduced opportunity in the 5 g. area or focus a you need to deal with this company and that's it and so really will shut down the competitive nature. that we're supposedly advocating. all of us in the senate that have directed the right to send a thank you for sharing your thoughts with us on r.t. . yes talk has taken a tumble recently due to contacts with china as american found i saw anything out.

the prices that we can get for our so i've been has put as. close to $2.00 a bushel below break even which is you know. nobody can can make that last very long and stay in business. at this point we are definitely not seeing any benefits it's just pain. however you feel about the chinese market and the way that they've treated. trade wise in the past it's it's

a fact that the chinese market is is has what has made us profitable in growing soybean hopefully in the end that the trade agreement is something that is very beneficial to me as a producer here in the united states but also to the people in china. the trade agreement has to be win win or it's not going to happen. on friday washington heights tariffs on $200000000000.00 worth of chinese goods beijing responded with similar accounts of matches china claims that america is actually benefiting from the trade war with china by cashing in on imports taxes. they had of the iowa soybean association told us that chinese terrorists will have a severe impact on the u.s. . soil being really been at the tip of the spear if you go in in the retaliation from the chinese over the u.s. trade in the chinese trade dispute but it certainly impacted the corn products from

the u.s. as well as livestock particularly pork poultry and of course a host of other non a group called your product so you know this you know the any disruption in trade between the u.s. and any of its major trading partners will certainly have an impact on farmers from a story perspective keep in mind that china currently buys is about 60 percent of all the soybeans traded in the world 60 percent so when the u.s. says destruction in their relationship to china it certainly is a major impact on soybeans about one out of every 3rd row or about a 3rd of the told to us soil being brought to italy would end up in china course today that's not happening. the u.s. attorney general has launched an investigation into possible misconduct when it's into the mother reports kind of more pain 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 the 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 investigate. 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 i guess that misses 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 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 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 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 the american spying agency's take on the intelligence community they have 6 ways from sunday to get him back after 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. r.t. new york political analyst rockwell says there is little u.s. public countless time to question the russian meddling narrative. they all know there's no evidence republicans democrats moller. 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 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 pump a 0 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. paris is host to some a hole in countering online extremism in the wake of the cries tech shootings in new zealand part of the focus has been on facebook which fell to prevent the terrorists from live streaming the massacre the social media giant has now announced a new one strike policy anyone sharing violent content without context what we blocked facebook has also pledged $7500000.00 for research to detect content now since prime minister called it a good step. social media connects people and so we must ensure that in our terms to prevent harm that we do not compromise then target all pillar of society that is freedom of expression but that's right does not include the freedom to broadcast mass murder and so new zealand will present

a call to action in the name of christ church asking both nations and private corporations to make changes to prevent the posting of terrorist content online to ensure its efficient and fast removal and to prevent the use of live streaming as a tool for broadcasting terrorist attacks just to remind you back in march a gunman killed 51 people in 2 mosques in christchurch about 1500000 copies of the video posted on facebook in the 24 hours that followed the live stream. we have from privacy activist bill new media analyst lionel and anti terror expert jennifer britton behaviors that fuse on efforts to ban violent content on social media. you have an army not just with facebook but with twitter there's an army of contractors employees and other people who are there to immediately get it off right away as has been stated this happens with people that espouse certain political opinions and other ideologies and so now we're talking about you know

we're talking about getting off far more egregious things they have this technology not only do they have that they have hundreds upon thousands of employees of contractors of people whose jobs it is to sit there and to see what's coming up in the moment something that is violent that is agree just that it's horrific comes up they can shut it down and mediately monitoring no moderating in real time what these videos are and what becomes and is something some research to try and improve their ability to detect this in real time is sort of automated means which is absolutely necessary given the volume of content but the technology simply isn't up to it yet and that we need to go a long way to improve the technology so that we can have a better or do a better ability to moderates in real time using some form of all to motion the idea of somebody actually showing in broadcasting real time the slaughter of human beings make it even simpler what if this was an actual real time live stream of child pornography nobody would be even debating this i would say you've

got to fix this technology and now this is nothing to do with freedom of expression nothing to do with the dissemination of ideas in no way does it violate and by the way very quickly facebook has the most incredible celerity what it comes to shutting down and immediately knocking somebody off who are spouses a poll a little opinion just by merely supporting somebody so i don't want to hear anybody tell me. that the technology is not there or there's no way to monitor this because let me tell you something if this war something that was contrary to the zucker bird world view it would be awful for anybody even thought it so they're dragging their feet it's nonsense and they know exactly what has to be done and they're simply not doing it we need to recognize the fact that a 1000000 copies were taken down effectively and we need to actually take a hat off to facebook the fact that it did take down so many different copies what

do we do if there is an event that is not necessarily being filmed by the perpetrator but it's already being filmed by hundreds of thousands of other people be it the olympics or the world carp or the whole show any large gathering which is already being filmed i mean we had a pipe bomb go off at the atlanta olympics that killed 2 people and injured a 100 if we had had small bones back then there would have been any number of different videos being all being shot similar taney asli and i say dealing with all those in real time would be almost impossible but those were the potent perpetrators do you punish them is that reporter do you allow that what about people who are filming atrocities in miami more they're doing genuine reporter do you allow that if it appears to be atrocious attacks and therefore we actually have to be slightly more realistic than saying oh facebook's got the technology it could do it come on get your move together move on there are a far more complicated challenges. 3 days of high profile talks and wrapped up an

international resort city of seoul chief on tuesday the russian president met with the u.s. secretary of state with venezuela syria and iran up for discussion and speaking at a press conference alongside the austrian later president putin gave his view on how washington is playing the run card. once iran makes the decision to withdraw from any kind of a deal everyone will forget that the u.s. initiated the collapse of the deal and global opinion. it 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 the 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 were a foreign brigade i cannot just go around saving everything that is around us we have played our part and we're 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 u.s. and on iran itself the europeans the russians and the chinese have similar views in the iranian 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 to look after 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 ilesa the risks of a crisis as happened in iraq several years ago and in europe no. unfortunately this new easy solution to the arabian crisis but they they have talked 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. 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 the potential meeting with donald trump and he replied that at the g 20 summit if the americans a winning if they want to stop serious serious you know take serious steps towards repairing relations russia is always willing to back with more in 30 minutes say that. if we ever need an anti-war movement it's obviously now trying to hyper aggressive foreign policy faces little resistance from the mainstream media in fact numerous liberal outlets function as a cheering section for the president where his grave.