from the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly n r t international hello and welcome this week washington and it will impose new sanctions against russia over the poisoning of former russian double agents surrogate script and his daughter back in march moscow has strenuously denied any involvement in the incident russia's prime minister sais that further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war and moscow will be forced to react economically politically the u.s. measures will come into rounds the first places limits on financing an export especially on a number of national security goods the second wave in a row in three months time will have diplomatic relations as well as banking and imports and the society takes up the story. when it comes to global disagreement sanctions that the u.s. weapon of choice as russia's number two at the u.n. put it let us welcome the united sanctions of america well russia has been on the receiving end of plenty of them they stem from allegations of election meddling military aggr