u.s. general confirms washington is in the process of bringing add defense systems into iraq to protect american troops from the potential of rain and attack that off the 2 marines were killed in iraq during an anti i saw peroration. lot of my putin could potentially run again for president if the public votes for new changes in the russian constitution next month also i had. thought as riots the fire that sweeps it in these prisons off to the states strict response to the spread of the crater virus.

you're watching r t international room welcome from myself and the whole team here in moscow. let's get started the u.s. is boosting its defensive capabilities in iraq the head of u.s. central command said this was in response to the threat posed to american troops by neighboring iran. we are also in the process of bringing air defense systems ballistic missile defense systems into iraq in particular to protect ourselves against a bit another potential iranian attack well just when many thought that tensions between the united states and the islamic republic of iran were starting to cool we have the u.s. central command telling us the opposite take a listen this is no easy task iran is persistent and is growing its arsenal ballistic missiles despite international condemnation

a rand remains the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism now it's important to note that the iraqi parliament has voted to end the presence of all foreign troops in the country however the usa maintains a military presence in iraq and now iran has other priorities than conducting a war games with the united states let's remember that iran has been pretty hard hit by coronavirus now it's also interesting that the pentagon refers to iran as the greatest source of terrorism in the middle east when just sunday we saw it 2 u.s. military personnel killed at the hands of the ice ill terrorists these are the 1st u.s. military personnel killed by i still sense truck declared the group had been totally defeated the coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to 100 percent of the territory we're doing a good job with those as we have just absolutely decimated eyes as we have won a good study says we've beaten them and we've beaten

a badly the isis caliphate. has been decimated in another short period of time like hours you'll be hearing hours and days you'll be hearing about the caliphate it was 100 percent defeated so despite the fact that 2 u.s. marines were killed by the ice still terrorists the united states continues to take the position under the leadership of the trump white house that your rob a country that has been key in the battle against isis is somehow the greatest source of terrorism in the region antiwar activist can stone thinks the u.s. military presence in the mideast actually increases the tolerance for conflict. we have to keep in mind that this so-called defensive capacity in a few hours could be changed to an authentic capacity and be used to target sites in iran the presence of the united states in iraq and syria is

a provocation to all the people in the middle east who want to reassert their and national sovereignty and territorial integrity and here comes the u.s. and and plunks itself down in the middle of the region and tries to recolonize countries such as syria iraq yemen all these things all the all that the us does is increase the tensions in the middle east it increases the likelihood of a wider regional war and even god forbid a world war. now let's head to syria where a fragile peace in the etna province is still holding with russia discussing ways to strengthen it and it's been reported that talks might even start withdrawing its heavy weaponry a cease fire was arranged last week 5 that had a 10 on his toughest counterpart off the fighting intensified and it leapt at the

end of february tut's it became involved in an escalation with the syrian army off to $33.00 of its soldiers were killed and as strike assistance on off the arabic has been traveling with patrols along the border. old folk i heard the ilk. now we fly over the u.s. and he's been one of the russian internet vehicles plus the oil reserve. near the american soldiers position.

now to discuss the question of we can cross live to on his story and charles horn tell thanks for coming on the program so reports are saying that tacky house withdrawn part of its heavy weaponry from a profit so it does seem that it's the fitting part of the opposition's onto the march 5th agreement in your opinion do you think we are seeing a step towards deescalation. well i hope so circulate let's hope that that is a step towards peace and certainly turkey is playing a very dangerous game you know you need it many of its neighbors mr early on the president just met with european union officials and they were not very happy they feel that he is trying to blackmail them by threatening to and each way he a tidal wave of refugees crashing into the european union recall when that happened a few years ago it gained quite a bit of electoral strength to the right wing populous in germany and it's late in

particular united states even though it is not happy with mr gore wants a coup are over but it's still it's in syria he has unhappy with mr earle month since he fought 80 since of air missile system from russia keep in mind as well that mr erlich won because you know you dated neighbors such as iran which is helping the outside regime in damascus which mr erdogan want is trying to destabilize and as well despite the fact that israel is not unhappy with the turmoil in neighboring syria the relations between israel and turkey are not very positive mind so mr erwan is playing a very dangerous game and i would urge him to reconsider his entire strategy not least because in 2016 he was almost overthrown with but a military coup and great to say that he elements that contributed to the crew are

still in place not least the rest of the births of the turkish air force who were cheek by jowl with u.s. air force officials in a major air base in turkey. now we know that just came back to it we know that it is and in large part controlled by different minister groups now i'm quite doesn't seem to have thought much of the sway over some of the more radical the hardest ones do you think they would be between sure that those groups opposed the cease fire i don't think so i think that the genie is out of the bottle mr i want to open the box but it's not mr earle all alone there have been disturbing reports about religious zealots from france letting it live i dare say that peres could probably stop that if they chose to do so paris is also playing a dangerous game because that's what speak their french troops in west africa

fighting religious zealots at the same time france is not able to stop its own nationals from flooding into it with problems in syria who bear a remarkable resemblance to those francis whiting was known for so all in all it seems to me that western european nations need to get their act together as well as turkey getting its act together and what's your take on the general young solution for obviously we know that the syrian government must control all of the region back in 2015 what do you think the chances of them regaining control as i think the chances or damascus regaining control over it look problems or rather how i particularly in light of all the pressures on turkey which is supporting the religious zealots will not be able to withstand the pressure not least from iran and russia not to mention all of a sudden this domestic routes here is so. and just in terms of the short term what

do you think despite these reports that they are potentially would join heavy weaponry do you think we're going to see a flare up of tensions i mean we have had cease fires broke down broken before well in the short term because the mistake of. the religious zealots of bill or. however in the long term. well at least little souls along with the spirit of the force that they're speaking of damascus can go around speaking of russian speaking of a lot and i think that in the long term look as though it were. robards what a certain a complicated situation we're going to paying and i own a many thanks that was historian gerald horne feel insight on your time.

and russian is flawed may appear to now has been ruled out staying in power if that's what the people want the suggestion was fos made by an m.p. as the duma discussed potential changes to the constitution however the president said it would be up to the people to decide in a public vote next month and of course it would also have to be approved by the constitutional court now ali and my colleague and your father was given more details by more i have. so my reported mr putin say exactly well his speech his address to the parliament was basically a summary of why this is needed why these constitutional amendments are necessary he also address the number of points additional amendments that the parliament had come up with among them was an amendment that would potentially lift the constitutional limit on the number of presidential terms anyone president can serve here blag me of putin was asked whether he supported it to which he replied no.

for the long room society should have guarantees that the regular change of power will be ensured we need to think about future generations should i consider it inappropriate to remove from the constitution a restriction on the number of presidential terms look he said russia has had its fair share of revolutions upheavals changes in power you know every time people expected something better to come of it and every time what they got was the opposite of corruption mass deaths it's been hectic not only putin says there's no more appetite for revolutions in russia but people want change and this is you know this is inside everyone of us we want you blood and he says the point of a limit to the number of times a president can serve is to make sure that there's a new ideas new faces coming into the government all the time taking russia into

a new level evolving helping keep up with the times but glad mia putin was also asked of another potential constitutional amendment of the reset of his presidential limit so potentially allowing him to serve another 2 terms given how wide reaching these constitutional amendments are they're changing almost every aspect. of life for russians and here's what we're putin had to say on potentially that. the 2nd proposal means removing the restriction from any citizen and the incumbent president inclusively and allowing their future participation in the elections its citizens to support this amendment during the vote on april 22nd this option would only be possible under one condition if the constitutional court gives an official ruling that this will not contradict the laws of the constitution worth mentioning is that vladimir putin didn't say whether he would run for another

term if the constitutional court deemed these potential amendments regarding resetting his presidential terms as legitimate as legal you know that's still up in the air and how do you think the public would react to this then if they had the chance to vote on what people people are going to react differently i mean likely of putin's support his support levels his poll numbers away up he still has a majority support an overwhelming majority support but he this is his 4th presidential term ease an old face and he said himself that you know new blood is needed new faces are needed in government people people want new people want evolution. and here again people will be voting only on whether vladimir putin is allowed to run for another 2 terms this is a whole host of issues and amendments and people will be voting for

a new livable minimum wage establishing marriage as something union between a man and a woman forbidding parliamentarians potential candidates with a jewel citizenship for running from running for high office so these are this is a huge array of changes that we put in here says that they're absolutely necessary that was the gist of his speech to parliament because times are changing. these are troubled nevertheless that is his take on how things will turn out if it is entirely another where the russians agree with him and the vote is next month in april and that is when people will decide ultimately whether the believe his words where they believe these amendments will make for a better tomorrow. now twin issue has been developing hour by hour italy has been dealing with its 1st full day med lockdown in a bed to stop the spread of the corona virus the number of infections nationwide

has now surpassed 10000 while the death toll has grown to more than 630 the country is the 2nd worst affected after china. i am a book to send a decree that we can sum up with the expression homes there will no longer be a red zone there will no longer be a zone one or a zone to ensure there will be at lea that it is a protected zone amid the tight new restrictions uprisings broke out in a number of jails prisoners that belong your have been writing since yesterday after they took over tail and set on fire in milan inmates were filmed on the rooftop body items and shouting freedom on the 6 detainees died in clashes in the northern city of medina meanwhile in the south in sicily right of sieves all present has gathered. the prisoners could be affected by 19 fire us prisoners all reportedly also angered by new rules which have seen for

many visits suspended. in other scenes citizens in the italian capital lined up in long queues at supermarkets on monday night off to the country's pm extended the knock down much as the entire country meanwhile some italians was seen fleeing from the epicenter of the outbreak that's in the north of the country to sicily in the south. of instant you know requires a strong sense of responsibility especially for younger one because for example i'm coming from the nato and probably put myself through voluntary quarantine and i do not think it is the right time to go exporting germs. in any case it is a question of respect for us and for others in particular because i'm 25 years old and her family members are. literally we're in a situation where finding a safe place is getting complicated so the situation is already out of. school it's

clearly that everyone takes on their responsibilities and that's appropriate precautions are taken both for oneself as for others. obstetrician gynecologist spoke with also about the risk of infection from covert 19 in particular regards to pregnant women. both the police who did the reports about the current developments we're getting from our colleagues in china say that pregnant women do not belong to the risk group only information about the peculiarities and complications we're getting so many from military sources i would like to highlight that there's not a single pregnant woman among the few corona virus infected people in russia and not a single child as far as i know all the information we're getting is from foreign literature i'm currently reading report describing the 19 pregnant women infected by mild corona virus 4 of them successfully gave birth and the crucial thing is that they did not transmit the corona virus to their children either by blood nor any other way if you do not belong to the risk group it does not mean that you do

not pose a threat to those who surround you or the elder population to your parents you should not relax it still had some fact trends from outside the u.k. who sobbed in the armed forces equal access against the government over the visa thing what about that off the shelf break. quite adoptions driven by banks failing and countries failing and now in lebanon they've got a huge crisis and of course big plans come to the rescue. let's

start with a spot of economics to wall street suffered its 1st automatic holton trading and more than 2 decades with stocks falling nearly 8 percent wild markets seem to be

slowly recovering so is the price of oil which also went into freefall on monday after a price war triggered by saudi arabia and in the u.s. the dow plunged more than 2000 points the worst one day point drop ever prompted by oil prices for the markets around the world we have a huge amount of it yesterday as a lot of investors repriced at all in the crash resort markets and 2000 point swing on the dow but what happens today business news now starting with the crude oil markets as they try to bounce back from their worst day since 100921 all prices plunged 30 percent on what's been dubbed black monday in the biggest single day for the iraq war it was sparked by a spot between top crude suppliers that's reality moscow who couldn't agree on a deal on production saudi arabia says it is slashing oil prices to

market for russia it follows russia's refusal last week to back an opec plan to cut oil production to bolster its price with moscow believing that would only benefit high cost producers in the u.s. russia is that a g minister had this to say about the situation. unfortunately our opec plus partners decided that their meeting to reduce oil production by the end of the year by $1500000.00 barrels and they did not consider any other options of course this led to the fact that no consensus was reached on the extension of the agreement and starting from april the 1st all countries who have the opportunity to independently determine their production policy only yesterday saw a very strong decline in world markets and accordingly oil prices this was primarily caused by me news that appeared on the weekend that saudi am co had offered its consumers an additional price reduction however today we can see that markets have partially recovered sharing about 7 percent growth we'll see how the

situation develops but it seems to me that the panic that took hold yesterday has already partially subsided the market now more stable we got insight from analysts who told us that saudi arabia is paying a losing game. but he was an observer markets didn't see this coming you got the credit bubble blowing up again this is part of the 2008 financial crisis you know it turns out russia has the best hand at that you know a lot of coal oil going you know russia's cost of energy is about $7.00 a barrel ok saudi arabia has close to $3.00 a barrel russia has got no debt and they've been buying goal meanwhile in usa and america their cost is closer to $50.00 and this will be the complete this arrangement of the american shale industry saudi arabia and america are really that position that this international oil kolker game and i think russia's

all the 3 aces the current situation clearly the saudis are to blame they have taken a move to use only benefit the only potential advantage in the general strategic michael valley in terms is the surprise taddeo arabia vastly increased production to create a huge price drop and with potential for further price drops we're talking something some analysts fear prices could go as low as $23.00 a barrel which would be levels than the early ninety's and this move was solely precipitated by the saudi arabia simply because the russians did not go along with the previous proposal when in fact there was room for further negotiation what princella mind wants to achieve with this remains unclear because his oil production increase is also compromises the saudi states' ability to fulfill

its welfare function and therefore to keep domestic stability. u.k. on the fat trends from the commonwealth which has an international space station of states. formerly part of the british empire have criticised what they call the grave injustice that they could to ported m.p.'s from the ruling conservative party are now calling on the government to help form a service members with the complex and costly procedures to stay in the country it's hard to imagine people more entitle to live in our islands than those who have fought to defend them we need to look hard at these cases and ensure we support those who should have been able to stay all. this don't seem wrong i hope the home office will rectify this quickly and save these former british soldiers from the trauma of court proceedings and further delay under current home office rules commonwealth veterans who have served at least 4 years in the u.k.

armed forces can apply for indefinite leave to remain which is also known as settlement however many cannot afford the procedures which can cost thousands of pounds and those who don't apply could be forced to leave britain a veteran told us that that treatment by the government is appalling. we should not be in these a. 1000000 applications many locations. do you see me and refusing me all over. the armed forces from the from the. refusal isn't working in. which i have. only money. i mean there's room. for them and. i mean there's room. to do is. remain as. the wife of a british soldier from south africa has started an online petition to make lifelong

stay in the u.k. free for all commonwealth veterans and she shut her thoughts with us on the story. they have so our country they have fought for our country i mean my husband alone needs he's done 2 tours he's. streets urge do not you're a terrorist attack. they're not entitled to any benefits or anything. why would we charge is such a ridiculous amount of money for them to remain in the u.k. after death everything that they have done we lived life to children and it was come to be john's unseasonal i was a big lorry that so i said oh ok we need to start making sure that money aside and going up and up every year every day will go up the risk of my husband and. me having to explain to my 2 young children if anything happened to him genuinely career i think that they need to re-evaluate the course.

of the south that's had south america way demonstration by venezuela the venezuelan opposition. has ended with clashes between protesters and police thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched through caracas on tuesday with 10 thousands boiling over. demonstrators were hoping to reach the national assembly and renew a company and to oust pro-government rule makers before being blocked by a security barricade riot police them fired tear gas to try and discuss those crowds this was the 1st friday call by quiet dos since returning to venezuela from my high profile top to drum up international support in a bid to unseat president nicolas maduro the opposition media declared himself into in president often launching a movement to oust me during mass. that's how things are looking for now r

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle what is the difference between embarrassing gaffes and elder abuse joe biden certainly excels at the former and maybe is the big them up the latter we are told mention of mental health is off limits to what degree is the public have the right to know. cross talking joe biden i'm joined by my guest jan kearns in new york she is a g.o.p. strategist contributor to the daily caller as well as founder of women for a great america in washington we have jason.