as we have petitions to go to sleep with a little new of those the girls who swear this will cool just to whom she shouldn't feel you should cook door for the one who's you would be. glad to marry putin calls out to america and other nations for not practicing what they preach and not only when it comes to trade wars the russian president's assessment came at the st petersburg international economic forum speaking alongside other world leaders. british prime minister theresa may officially steps down as the leader of the conservative party and now the race to replace her is on

with 11 candidates eyeing the job. in the league to audio recording reveals the hidden misgivings of u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh about what may follow if venezuelan president maduro steps down. our broadcast studios mask of this is r t international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us. now world leaders have taken to the stage in st petersburg including the russian and chinese presidents in a lengthy q. and a of the international economic forum president putin told the packed congress hall that america's push for dominance could be a driving force towards something more than just economic disputes our correspondent at the formulate the trend go and. who was the moderator at the event signature session gave us a taste of the made of it. why wouldn't you meet him without any conditions or you

did i refuse i wasn't invited you know what kind of negotiate a trump is he is a wonderful businessman at 1st he terminates an existing contract rights and then he stops playing by the rules and then there are forced negotiations and in the end he gets a deal which is favorable to him that he wants the same after something similar happened to japan what will happen was you. maybe i have announced this question in my note before. you see it is good i asked it well generally that you hear and asking questions but now i was here last year the year before that this event was always moderated by western journalists this time though when it was you know questions about russian

meddling or russian interference but you had many other things to talk about that are very important for this world right now right holly willoughby had one plenary session that was dedicated to the russian heavily into the american elections and it was worth going into that one more time and the time passed and we had the reports it was obvious that there's no doubt about that was that. there were a lot of things that we could have discussed in terms of china russian cooperation . wrote falco for a shit. russian economic. tokenization sure and i think it was very indicative acela that. person could then present see if they were post their diplomatic you know my question state what answer me straight forwardly that when i was asking them about the trade or because i did believe it is the most important economic topic of today between china and america they were

sort of hitting hinting at a. american site starting war but they wouldn't be blamed the americans are a very tiny that but most of them pretty much agree that. they could not be that global war on the global economy and free trade with protectionism and isolationism and if you want to leave together in one world that we better do it together so if we just make it clear for viewers so pete was talking about the you raise an economic union start is an equivalent of the e.u. so to say but when it comes to the former soviet republics in russia but you were talking about trade wars that was of course the number one topic because you were sitting right next to vladimir putin and the chinese leader xi jinping now i just want to play you a segment of that discussion when the leaders they were quite metaphorical in the way he answered sophie's question let's take

a listen. but you know if you're unhappy with fleas in your fur coat you can simply throw a fur coat into the oven it's that same sea of us natural 30 new chairman z. has explained the tariff war as a fight between globalization and to globalization the question is where does russia stand in the fight for the economic superiority get this ship loses a good chinese when the tigers are fighting in the valley a smart monkey see. of the way and watches how it then thank. so you see the presidents are not giving me this but it's clear who they're talking about and it's clear that they are not the ones war initiating this conflict when it comes to the economic international battlefield plan that's what i meant that were very diplomatic in their answers because both of them are way to france to actually point fingers at anyone in particular but i think well understand that

they meant america and they meant that we didn't start the straight for america started and it's a mess that we need to clean up together because it is not a good thing for the world economy and then we went on to talk about russian sanctions we got to the russian sanctions or we got to that point a bit later and the line up of the panel was very interesting as well because we had the leaders of. the biggest country russia the 2nd biggest economy china of course there's no disrespect to the smaller countries but the e.u. members that were there on that title there are perhaps not the most important voices in brussels but still they have something very important to say and it was great to see how you dug into the matter with them they were saying that in many cases. even though they support the common position of the european union.

in many cases they're against the end proportional sanctions and this is not the way to go right but actually i wouldn't agree with you when you're saying that the forces don't really matter in the u. because the sanctions they're actually reenacted the the latter of their voices do matter if either of them like i pointed out voted against the sanctions that the sanctions will be off so that was a very important point. to. yes and i mean you could tell that their hands are tied they couldn't say that we really want the sanctions to be all that we're part of the european union but that's like the usual answer that you european representatives and i mean we can understand them right because they're not in a position to go against civil unions but they're very clear about the message that it's crazy that even the people who are actually putting these sanctions plays. in 5 minutes are looking for ways to trade somehow with russia and this is double

standards that shouldn't be taking place and it is better for everyone involved for the sanctions to be honest i believe it's very important that you were able to get this kind of answer from the. british prime minister theresa may has officially stepped down as leader of the conservative party opposed she's held for 3 years scramble to replace her is on nominations for the party leadership start on monday with 11 candidates currently vying for the top job probably good takes a look at who's in the running. she's been burned by bragg that and now the woman known as teflon to reason is on the way out after repeatedly failing to push her e.u. withdrawal deal through parliament last month the pm finally announced that she'd be stepping down and she did it with a whimper rather than

a bang the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last. i do so with no ill will but with enormous during gratitude to power to the opportunity to serve the country i love there is looking at the number of candidates that have joined the race to replace may as prime minister may find themselves crying to and they're seeing what's going on here they've got no say in what's going on they can see there's 11 people standing up saying they want to you . know you always call me no it's even worse with this is going to be detrimental the long term of the conservative party sure officially the race only begins on monday but already there are in 7 leadership contenders with 2 having already dropped out and the british media is indulging itself pouring over the kaleidoscope of varying degrees of soft and hard bragg's it's candidates like foreign

secretary jeremy hunt health secretary match hancock or environment secretary michael gove although there is already one clear favorite. and he's already got donald trump's seal of approval no worse i like your my i've liked him for a long time he's i think you do a very good job but the tory leadership contest is a complicated process and past experience has shown that the favorite never wins so this is anybody's race each candidate has to have the support of at least 8 members of parliament from that conservative m.p.'s will be asked to vote several times in order to whittle down the crowd of power hungry politicians to just one

final head to head battle now that. the decision will be turned over to conservative party members that grassroots conservatives that could be hauled from down the road or tricia who lives next door and it is they who will ultimately decide who becomes the next prime minister with such a crowded field of hopefuls this summer britain is bracing itself for a political popularity contest like no other as for 2 reason may the woman that's been forced to leave 10 downing street before securing britain's departure from the e.u. will stay on as a lame duck leader her job now is to keep that warm for several more weeks until one of this lot finally takes over the top job we heard

from a member of the british are economic think tank who says serious battle awaits truces may's successor. well unfortunately she's left behind very very difficult situation for the incoming prime minister i think another vote unlikely in the short because this would be seen as not simply trial by those type of votes it leaves i mean it's kind of the mines the whole idea of democracy if you don't stick to results and then keep repeating the election over and over again until you get the result that the establishment wants so that would really really further undermine trust in politics nevertheless it's going to be very difficult given the that the vast majority of m.p.'s are probably you're not going to probably block any real breakthrough deal so if we get so pro breaks it's prime minister he's really he or she's really going to struggle to get through parliament and could even face a vote of no confidence to prevent the u.k. leaving with no deal which point he or she will probably have to call

a general election and that would be hugely risky. a glimpse into julian assange his life behind bars artie's video agency ruptly has obtained exclusive video footage showing him inside london's belmarsh prison. the video features that we can look founder looking quite frail and his 1st footage since his arrest and removal from the ecuadorian embassy almost 2 months ago was taken inside the high security prison where sandra serving a 15 minute sentence for skipping bail is wanted by washington to answer charges of soliciting and publishing classified u.s. government information or 2 was shot via edwards gave us an update on the supporters which. as you can see cheering us on check someone to muncie a to hear in this exclusive footage r.t. right please video agency has obtained that was it apparently shot by one of the inmates at the belmarsh high security prison here in the united kingdom where the

wiki leaks founder is currently serving his 50 week sentence for skipping bell in the united kingdom at the end of may we know that he was transferred. to the prison's health world and indeed here in the united kingdom the courts did decide to postpone a hearing at the westminster magistrate's court late last month due to his ill health as he was unable to appear and not even via video link and indeed the wiki leaks they too believe that his condition is worsening by the day there being a higher security guards or maximum security prison it's difficult for anyone but 4 julian spent 7 years combined in the ecuadorian embassy before their. medical treatment without most of the article 3 limbs now on top of that nonsmoker he was indeed visited by the un special rapporteur on torture. having said that british politicians here in the united kingdom including foreign

secretary jeremy hunt they believe that this is not a matter for exterior interventions and only a matter for the british judicial system here in the united kingdom so let's recap exactly where we are asked now of course the case was reopened after the wiki leaks co-founder was holed out of london's ecuadorian embassy last month he spent up to 7 years there fearing for extradition to the united states in that time he was confined to the premises and in the last year or so his internet was cut off and his connection to the outside world was severely limited now as i say the u.k. is currently reviewing extradition requests from both the united states and sweet and meanwhile though of course in the united states they've introduced 17 indictments against juventus on the lakes in may charging him on to the espionage act for that he faces a sentence of life imprisonment actually the sum of 175 years in prison if

found guilty however to his supporters including campaigners activists and indeed genderless they believe that judas on. say valiant campaign if a true in fact they believe you should be applauded and not pass a cute hit for simply telling the tree. united states continues to ramp up pressure on president government in venezuela announcing new sanctions against a state owned oil company but it seems that washington is still unsure about the future of the latin american nation and whether manure oshie would in fact step down and we don't hear a recording suggest the u.s. secretary of state is finding it difficult to unite the fractured venezuelan opposition into a cohesive force yours or to come up with commentary bike pompei always been caught making some comments about venezuela that were not intended for the primetime viewers apparently he's not sure who would replacement dural if his regime change efforts are successful there's just to keep the opposition united as devilishly

difficult the moment it's really. everybody's going to believe that if somebody says. president of that it will be people who believe they're the rightful heir if you're going through. pompei i was pretty clear about the fact that this discussion was not meant for public consumption so we got a favorable response i was this is what america's top diplomat said at the united nations when the lights were on and the cameras were rolling now we have a new leader. in venezuela who has promised to bring elections and constitutional order back to venezuela and security back to the region we cannot delay this critical conversation which has the world's attention for the sake of venezuela and the region we must support the venezuelan people and do so right now the mike pompei o isn't too concerned about what happens in venezuela after the current leadership is overthrown now let's not forget that the us meddling in the country's internal affairs is motivated purely by selfless humanitarian concerns about the

people so after regime change there are 40 plus contenders who will then fight it out for power now does that remind you of any recent events in current history take for example the us invasion of iraq dick cheney said that it would go well my belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators but there's been nothing but chaos and civil war in iraq since the usa invaded there are 288000 deaths so far and counting and dick cheney wasn't completely clueless listen to what he said in 1904 when she got to iraq and took it over took down saddam hussein's government the money you know put into place for take libya hillary clinton was delighted to hear that gadhafi had been put to the sword and we came we saw our died but now even barack obama admits that toppling the libyan government didn't come with a game plan for what happens next what he considers his worst mistake as president

probably failing to. plan for. the day after. what i think was the right thing to do in. the intervening. libya but who needs planning right after all the people of venezuela would probably love to have their homeland go the way of iraq and libya nothing says freedom and liberation like having regime change followed by civil war and thousands of refugees fleeing for their lives it confirms something that we you know long suspected but you know now you know it is out of the open that the opposition is so internally divided washington you know would take over the figures like marco rubio who favor a radical regime change scenario which involves effectively destroying the existing institutional structure that has been built in venice for those who are in the words of john bolton that to open up venezuela's busy oil sector to us and you know to really return but as well to the pre 999 status quo where it was

a reliable ally in the region and you know reliable agent of the u.s. opec to maintain a low while prices as u.s. diplomatic cables themselves acknowledge. president trump says things could be different between washington and moscow if the quote phony witchhunt to surrounding russia and the 2016 u.s. election were not still being pushed and speaking to fox news on thursday. well they have a good relationship with russia i think a church by the family which you know i did have a good relationship with russia is been close to 2 months since special counsel robert muller's reports that donald trump did not collude with russia to win the presidency but the fire has not died down us democrats are still desperately trying to find a way to impeach the president now building their case on instruction of justice allegations correspondent comments formally accuse there are those who support

trouble those who want him impeached and those who really really really want him impeached preferably now and in a painful way take for instance this particularly enthusiastic new york times contributor who has gone and written up actual articles of impeachment to save everyone's time i suppose or maybe just a hobby of his who knows others c.b.s. have impeachment track is literally counting congressmen who are calling for trump to be impeached like kids opening chocolate filled advent calendars $63.00 now out of $535.00 senators and representatives just a few 100 to go and trump will hiring just need a reason you can't impeach for annoying tweets about noxious hairstyles or nonexistent collusion all that's left is obstruction when

a subject of an investigation obstruct that investigation or lies to investigators it strikes at the core of the government's effort to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable here's a question that's been giving lawyers migraines how or why does one obstruct an investigation an investigation that later proves he was innocent of the crime he was being investigated for the special count. report states that his investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities namely any sort of collusion with russia it's almost impossible to have an obstruction of justice no underlying crime what makes trump especially awful and obstruction is he voluntarily gave his investigators sometimes and writing material on how he allegedly tried to obstruct the investigation like when he reportedly told the then

white house counsel to get rid of mueller 5 and then allow that counsel to go and testified to mueller the faily new york times wrote a fake piece today implying that because white house counsel don my gann was given hours of testimony to the special counsel he must be john dean type of rant but i allowed him and all others to testify i didn't have to i have nothing to hide in fact trumpet boasted earlier about what a good boy he was being about how much workload he had provided to investigators the white house handed over 20000 pages of documents the 2016 campaign 1400000 pages 20 white house employees gave voluntary interviews it's like trump was building an obstruction of justice case against himself and on top of that he was terrible at it. wasn't fod investigated for

674 days and only finished when he was done so this is it if you can figure out how to impeach trump for trying to conceal crimes he didn't commit contact your local democrat immediately i expect anytime soon i'll be offering a reward it is not obstruction of justice and anyway again this was the obstruction of just. it's not for a court proceeding of course this was not a court proceeding this was an informal investigation through an executive agency an executive body and so because of that the elements are a little bit different it would have to be willful omission or willful concealment or destruction of evidence during an investigation which of course did not happen in this case i don't think in the end there will be any consequences for obstruction because i don't think obstruction can be proven i do believe that the democrats are still reeling in the democrats want to make sure that they are not

seen as having wasted $40000000000.00 of the taxpayer money in order to start or engage in an investigation and a spying campaign based on evidence that wasn't even legitimate so i think the democrats are going to continue to try i think that will be a term that continues to be thrown around just so they can save face because they're looking to retake the white house in 2020. the drug bust in central moscow has seen an investigative journalist for the online media outlet arrested as part of an investigation into getting russian police say that they collected further evidence during a sweep of the journalists apartment toward his double quarter commons. well medusa claims yvonne going over his meeting with the source when he was stopped and searched by police on thursday officers claimed they found bags of a suspicious powder substance on him which they later determined to be the drug known as bath salts during a subsequent search of his apartment other bags as well as scales were found according to the police he also told the media that go no it was denied

a lawyer for 12 hours constituting a violation of his rights but the police claim that they made a lawyer available to him in accordance with russian law going off himself claims that the police planted these drugs on him in a written complaint he also said that he was beaten and refused 1st aid in detention an accusation that the police also busy deny it now citing earlier threats against north allege that he allegedly received medusa is convinced of his innocence saying he was targeted for his journalistic work the internet publication going over works for is based in lafayette and usually publishes works of kremlin opponents in russian according to reports several opposition journalists were already arrested today and released for protesting in front of the moscow police headquarters. on the south american now in chile where renewed clashes have erupted in the capital santiago the violence during a protest led by teachers who are demanding better working conditions. thout

was several demonstrators were detained of the authorities used tear gas and water cannons to try and restore order protests mark a 5th consecutive day of nationwide strikes across on 45000 people gathered in the capital loan to demand a revamp of the education sector. based broadcaster al jazeera is facing accusations of double standards for reporting on n l g b t q march the channel has previously reported on similar events worldwide on its english language channel but qatar itself any kind of homosexuality with penalties of up to 7 years in prison.

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a true 70 years. continue to discriminate against migrants women and lesbian gay bisexual and transgender individuals. it may just be that. that cutter is trying to give some press freedom to al-jazeera it may just be that simple but it certainly is raising a lot of eyebrows while they are state state oh and i believe they do care about making a profit and trying to discuss news that appeals to their particular audience and so if the english language. version is trying to you know in some way pander or or just broaden its market for business purposes that's one thing

but if it really is that they're trying to do something that might be perceived is disruptive or somehow corrupting a marketplace i think people would have a right to be concerned about that or that there's a very well be back and let's say 30 minutes with another full look at you news you are watching our team when have. thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you. thank you ma'am i do i do you know for you oh my god i just peed myself a little bit yes i'm going to end us.