consequences to the sanctions. the political effects, naming and shaming the actors, is a tied and tested method and there is no more explaining to be had. going back what glenn said about the carrot and stick situation another biden is in office, we will see this more, i don't think the u.s. as a carrot left in its bag of tricks to bring any nation into compliance with international law, because i think they have exhausted everything they have, and sanctions tend to be the first thing they go to, but they don't move on anything else. sami: glenn, did the biden administration liberally perhaps engineer these sanctions and a way not to impact russian economy so severely, by not going after the secondary bond market? >> that is good point. sanctions are accrued to a, always. but it is also true that the u.s. and every other country tries to calibrate sanctions to send a message as clear as it can. so i don't know, i think you are surmising about the sanctions being done in a manner to send a message, and yet leave it

sanctioned 8 russians it's going to stop the u.s. embassies and missions who are hiring russians of a 3rd country nationals to work in their missions this can affect everything from drivers and cooks to analysis stuff. and also it's been suggested by the russian foreign ministry that the u.s. ambassador here goes back to washington for consultations because russia's ambassador is in moscow for consultations police in the u.s. city of indianapolis say it's still too early to know the motive behind says day's mass shooting a gunman killed 8 people and injured several others at a fed ex facility yet entity of the attacker who killed himself hasn't been released members of me at malls alstad political parties ethnic leaders an anti the protesters have formed a national unity government they say it's aimed at restoring democracy after the marriage she killed in february. 9 per a democracy activists in hong kong have been sentenced for taking part in anti-government protests in 2019 among them is veteran campaign a martin lee and media tyc

over the sanctions move. well i mean with hate to play this year all sound the we want to leave peacefully as a peaceful nation and what if that ravaged the rush of the growth in europe just look at the map or 90 $9.00 to $1.00 and look at them out now will where the borders where was nato in $1000.00 names and where is it now where was the soviet union in a going along and where is the russia now and it was all done without a single shot russia wanted to be crowned with the west at that time unfortunately we were here yearly deceived by the west and leadership primarily of the by the united states but also by the european union but of what it doesn't mean that we want to restart a cold war to what is going on around fortunately right now is that the united states and europe are joining your brain into a new africa you know like africa and latin america where there are areas where the soviet union and the united states led their proxy wars in the 1980 s. where it just struck you will argue proxy wars well unf

lift the sanctions. compliance from the u.s. side is lifting the sanctions. compliance from the iranian side to continue to accept the measures within the jcpoa, which is the most intrusive inspections among all members and most limit iranian nuclear program like a cap on 28% or 90% enrichment cap to below 5%, cap to a stockpile come and a lot of other commitments. therefore, iranians need to go back to full compliance commitments currently there complying at 50% and they need to go back from 50% to 100% and the u.s. needs to start from 0% to 100%. this is compliance for compliance. nermeen: ambassador hossein mousavian, you mentioned primary sanctions in place before the trump and you wrote earlier in a piece that primary sanctions must be abolished. could you explain what those sanctions are and to whom and what they apply and how they differ from the hundreds and hundreds of sanctions that the trump administration then imposed? >> before the nuclear deal the previous u.s. administration's imposed sanc

in these sanctions. yeah it's as you mentioned it's sanctioning essentially these you know to number of companies but it's also same chain a series of other into jesus intially in russia that are accused of being involved in interference in the election this goes all the back to 2016 right so interference the 26th election as well as those they say are involved in this kind of cyber espionage we're talking about 100 private firms 10 intelligence officers on top of all that are going to be expelled from the united states and forced to leave the country because they say that those intelligence officers are working on behalf of the russians so. the whole thing is over cyber hacking is over the election interference you said at the beginning here president biden has said that he wants to or he's already had a phone call with president putin he says he wants to kind of ratchet things down even have a summit between them a brand how difficult is this at the same time that you're launching a new fresh saying si

sanctions lifted. now as just before those negotiations resume there's been an important development on south korea says iran freed one of its oil tankers and the captain iran sees the south korean flag ship in january accusing its crew of oil pollution there's been tension between the 2 sides after south korea froze $7000000000.00 of iran's money as part of u.s. sanctions so what is the official line if there is $1.00 on this is this officially a coincidence that the ship's being released as these talks get under way. well iran never admits that this is a political reason what iran's position currently is what we're hearing is that this ship had been polluting and the prosecutor has taken a look at the case and because this ship and its crew do not have any previous breaches they're allowed them to go and it does seem to be a coincidence that this is happening whilst talks are taking place in vienna but also iran is very keen to get its hands on the $7000000000.00 that's been frozen in south korea we

it do you understand how sanctions would achieve stability. you see. what is proposed by the president of the united states and i i do think that a careful look at his statement. it's a very under healthy understanding of what the foreign policy is because. they are sending you know they. are sending a complete completely conflicting signals to anyone in the world. and of course most of all russia as to what they want what their policy is. and that it didn't mind. about 2 people. not very friendly to each other busy. calls us out of there and say calling him a liar. what are the other awful words and later on he says oh. look i want to have a good meeting with you we have a lot of. interest in common property business but you. this is no case here on foreign policy on the buyer of the software problem and we don't have to forget this this is a superpower and this is why it is very very important and to the point of view it this way to just. do you. hear a policy is clearly. knows you must i don't think we should be. having any business with th

these sanctions targeting ability of russia to borrow money.omething you think could change the behavior of president putin potentially? >> i certainly think the aggression in crime era -- crimea is a major reason for the sanctions imposed, and economic sanctions could be particularly detrimental to russia. as i said earlier, i do believe they are significant. i believe the economic sanctions will help to change behavior and also keep it in mind that a functional relationship between russia and the united states is what is necessary, and i do believe that it will get president putin's attention and it will be beneficial. anchor: are you concerned though, congresswoman, that ssia might be trying to draw the united states and nato into some kind of conflict over ukraine? >> you know, let me say this. is difficult i think to be absolutely certain about exactly what president putin is willing to do, but as i also said, russia really does not want conflict with the united states, because it is not really to their benefit, and we see what the conflic

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government agencies russia's foreign ministry has condemned the sanctions saying a response is quote inevitable. germany's coronavirus vaccination program is picking up pace thursday thursday saw a record number of daily vaccinations with nearly 740000 people receiving a 1st or 2nd dose but the country is also seeing the biggest rise in new infections since january health officials are warning of a dramatic situation in hospitals as intensive care ward fill up. this is the news from berlin you can find more headlines on our web site that's w dot com and also on our social media channels. the u.s. expelled 10 russian diplomats today and slapped some of the harshest sanctions yet on dozens of companies and individuals the list includes people close to president putin and a businessman with times 2 the trump campaign washington is blaming the russian secret service for election medley and for the solar winds hack a cyber security breach inside the u.s. government tonight president biden taking a hard line with russia doing what a former president refused to even talk about birds off in

our objective here is not to escalate the response to the sanctions is an obstacle. are just here is to impose costs. something to needs to understand that there will be a price to pay for degrading bilateral relations we can't predict what the impact will be but we still believe that when there is unacceptable behavior which a consequence is in place. also coming up the last week the corona virus infected a 160 people every minute here in europe vaccination numbers were predicted to be much higher by now and that was before scientific fears remove some key vaccines from the equation but i know of suffering blood clots is much higher for some of this over 19 and for someone who has thinking the us doesn't have a. the mill though to both of us doesn't evoke seen effective in reducing over 1000 hospitalization and but offending that's. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states into all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with washington's carrot and stick approach to moscow this week began with u.s. president biden calling russian president putin and s

just announced stronger sanctions and just a quick step but these sanctions have to be coordinated they have to be linked together to have the greatest possible impact and they're not mean together now the security council would be an ideal forum for that to happen there is opposition to that as we as we know no action was taken on on friday shown in light of that those countries were willing to impose sanctions or willing to impose an arms embargo a need to coordinate work together unify as so that they could have the strongest possible impact we haven't seen that happen yet but i'm hoping that it will. wouldn't that be going against china and russia and what will that meant. well china and russia obviously have concerns they expressed those concerns at the security council yesterday i and i know that they're not prepared to go forward with sanctions but because some countries are unwilling to move forward with sanctions it does not mean that other 10 countries can't and if you're willing to move in on the have the people of myanmar and treasure this regime which are using heavier weap

a list of all the sanctions that the u.s. house has to has to lift a list of from the us of what iran needs to do to come back into compliance with the nuclear program and the idea will be to get both of these things to happen at the same time it sounds easy it is going to be very complex. all right let's bring in our guests in washington d.c. hillary mann leverett is former u.s. diplomat and co-author of going to iran joining us from tehran ahmed was having a professor of political science at the iran university and in vienna tara crow former head of the verification and security policy coordination office at the international atomic energy agency welcome to the program hillary let me start with you today what is it that has fundamentally changed that allowed these talks to happen right now i mean there's been months of posturing by both the u.s. and iran did this come in any way as a surprise. i don't say it was a surprise but it is a new development and i think that the new development that essentially led up to this new d

trumper imposed sanctions on iran with more than 1500 measures.n responded by scaling back commitments and enriching uranium levels beyond the 2015 cap. european signatories have tried to keep doing business with tehran. i ran once sanctions lifted before it returns to the record. u.s. insists iran must dismantle some of its activities. our diplomatic editor is at the united nations. . he says the actions of the previous administration has complicated negotiations. >> all the key participants find themselves back in vienna. the austrian capital is aware the nuclear deal was signed nearly six years ago but so much has changed since that signing in the summer of 2015. it was the trump administration in 2018 that pulled out of the deal, preferring to go for maximum pressure policy against iran. many experts believe that did not end up isolating iran. in fact, it isolated on this ise u.s. with some of its closest allies. nearly all its closest allies with the exception of israel, saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. iran waited for a year and de

is apparently about to impose new sanctions for cyber warfare and interference in u.s. elections so does any of this any of these sanctions have any real influence on moscow's behavior not at all and i think the who will have a completely different agenda russia and the e.u. will start cooperating on the facts in the sport maybe for europe and i also think that for the americans the main advantage of diversity on the global stage is not russia but china and therefore. biden doesn't want to risk sending more troops to crane or weapons to create in a bind all of his military apparatus and military machine in europe whether they collect the situation which can to morrow a cure in check. but clearly in biden is willing to impose additional sanctions because it seems he's about to do so. what do you think how strong is the u.s. resolve to support ukraine we have heard that those warships that were supposedly going to be transferred dispatched to the black sea turkey says that deployment has been cancelled. in fact of the us never had the 3 openly that they sent out so there

fate lifted oh such as those sanctions that sanctions relief and the sanctions were put in place on the 1st time as a result of the nuclear issue trump then when and even reimposed those nuclear sanctions and then he sanctioned the central back again on terrorism grounds and the calculation was that the j.c.t. returned with only lifted that j.c.a. and the nuclear sections and it would not then be able to lift the sanctions if they were imposed on terrorism grouses wisha means that for the iranians no difference whatsoever will be made because the sanctions will still be in place but just on their name and the calculation is that it will be difficult for him to justify lifting sanctions on terrorism grounds mindful of the fact that there has been no negotiations between the united states and iran on that specific issue let's talk a little bit about the timing of these indirect talks iranian elections are due to take place in june does that please additional pressure on the uranium signs it puts additional pressure on all sides because once the iranians are actually in their election seas

are being presented in the media is you know sweeping sanctions severe sanctions is that your view of them and do you think they'll have the desired effect. in notions of the very little or was she moves. a little surgeon's ruge to russian arms. or the. requirement that u.s. investors not invest in the primary issue of the russians to forge but there was a lot of sound and fury on this isn't joe. biden illustration of the type of political offices who surrounded him there are talks 1st and then do. the. different approach of the russian search will be interesting to see how these 2 different approaches. the russian side 1st. so these 2 sides and talk recently have an interest in the phone call recently an american is saying they want to stable relationship with russia is that possible when just days later you then an answer will be sanctions against the very country that you are trying to establish these relations with. the assumption is that stable relations means good relations so i think that's where she says something i think that the people who put up the sanctions were present o

sanctions against russia. because in that executive order it can only be described as a sanction sprit you know excited to russian entities and vigils have been sanctioned for allegedly attempting to interfere in the last year's presidential election stateside a range of financial technology companies top. get it for a parent cyber attacks on federal agencies 10 russian diplomats expelled russia's ability to borrow money also made a lot more difficult so it was pretty far reaching as it appears moscow's retaliatory measures too though it was interesting that joe biden claimed that really he took the sort of soft approach on russia that he could have made it a lot harder. on moscow which actually leads me to something which could be seen as quite confusing perhaps illogical about a lot of the rhetoric coming out of the white house that there seems to be a very big disconnect between what washington says and what washington actually does and not something that my colleague wolf looked into big politics is all ab

they didn't sanction a bunch of oligarchs. they didn't sanction the banks. they didn't go after those people close to putin that some people wanted him to do. in his remarks today, president biden made it very clear, we can escalate but we're trying to be proportionate now so we may engage later. >> ambassador mcfaul, i just have to ask you also about what you make of the biden administration making this disclosure today, in a sanctions statement that really was about russian interference in the 2020 election, they also gave us this clear statement that in 2016, when the trump campaign chairman gave internal trump polling data to konstantin kilimnik, this guy who's under indictment in the united states and now sanctioned in the united states as well, he turned right around and gave that to russian intelligence. so the russian intelligence service was given internal trump campaign polling data while they were mounting their effort to try to get trump elected in 2016. what do you make of that revelation today, that disclosure by the biden administration? >> we

sanctions for -- new sanctions announced today against multiple russian individuals for the solar winds attack, but on this case of whether russia put bounties on u.s. troops, no action taken. at least that we can tell. white house press secretary, jen psaki explaining that the intelligence community looks closely at the intelligence here, and they feel like this one is not nailed down. they have only low to moderate confidence that russia actually did this, jen psaki saying to get the white house that the intelligence community does have stronger confidence that the russian intelligence is actively involved with criminal gangs and networks in afghanistan and they want an explanation from russia about that. on the specific super inflammatory question about whether that extends to russia having paid cash bounties for criminals and fighters in afghanistan to target u.s. service members, no from conclusion. so, no sanctions or punishment for russia on that, at least for now. although the administration says that they are continuing to push russia on it while russia continues to deny it. fa

fate lifted all sections those sanctions that sanctions relief and the sanctions were put in place on the 1st time as a result of the nuclear issue trump then when and eve reimposed those nuclear sanctions and then he sanctioned the central back again on terrorism grounds and the calculation was that the j.c.t. returned with only lifted that j.c. created the nuclear sections and it would not then be able to lift the sanctions if they were imposed on terrorism grouses wisha means that for the iranians no difference whatsoever will be made because this action will still be in place by just on their name and that calculation is that it will be difficult for him to justify lifting sanctions on terrorism grounds mindful of the fact that there has been no negotiations between the united states and iran on that specific issue let's talk a little bit about the timing of these indirect talks iranian elections are due to take place in june does that please additional pressure on the uranium signs it puts admission of pressure on all sides because once the iranians are actually in their election

i don't think the sanctions saga ended with the sanctions that were announced in february.th interests in the west, to be sanctioned because that's where it hurts... you said — if i may quote you, you said, "the west must now sanction the decision—makers who've made it national policy to rig elections, steal from the budget, poison people." you said there must be real action against "the cronies and wallets of putin". well, as far as i can understand it, the really senior people that you are fingering, they're not on any of these lists. this is not true. it's a mixed bag. many people in the security apparatus are sanctioned in the us, in the eu, in the uk. they haven't sanctioned the so—called wallets of putin's regime, the abramoviches and usmanovs of this world. but i think this is on the agenda, both in washington and in brussels. i don't know if you saw it, butjust a few days ago, angela merkel said that germany was still committed to the nord stream 2 gas pipeline project, massive project with russia to bring gas into germany and into europe. we also saw the eu foreign

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can just say we want sanctions and then you member states have to go forward and put sanctions in place but let's look at russia for example that you and others imposed sanctions on russia after the annexation of crimea a couple of years ago and yet russia did not necessarily change its behavior but it had economic repercussions and that mounted the pressure on lady mary putin inside its country his country for example. why is this the business of the european parliament given that neither russia nor ukraine is about. well the e.u. has the power to impose sanctions on any counter erode the world to safeguard its values or to for its own security that's what you said yes that's not what i'm saying so it's imposed for example sanctions on myanmar after the military coup there and like security plays an huge draw when we're talking about ukraine this is russia because you're crying it's not an e.u. member we know that but it's on the european continent and imagine a war broke out in ukraine again or a conflict it would pose a huge threat on the european union. it's very distrusting in brus

the sanctions are measured.hese are not measures that destroy russia's capacity to operate in the international markets. these are ones russia can adjust to. if russia decides to retaliate, it would be proportionate to kick out embassy employees and these sorts of things, so i think it is a hopeful sign that joe biden wants to find a relationship with russia, realizing it will always be difficult, but that it should be possible to come up with, as he put it, a reason to work together on the most critical issues. ♪ anchor: the humanitarian situation in one region of ethiopia is deteriorating, with no evidence of the promised withdrawal of the military. united nations humanitarian chief warned that systematic rape and sexual violence. the security balance was told 4.5 one million people in the region need humanitarian aid. our diplomatic editor is at the united nations with more. james: the security council was briefed by the united nations senior humanitarian official. the briefing took place behind closed doors,

sanctions and tehran's commitment to the deal. meanwhile also on tuesday an iranian navy ship was attacked in the red sea it's yet unclear who was responsible as a bank has more now from tehran. what we do know is that this ship was attacked sometime yesterday morning now is ringing state t.v. is saying that this ship belonged to the iranian navy it was used as a base in the red sea it's been there for a number of years and it supports commandos that carry out operations to protect iranian merchant vessels and world tankers what the iranian state t.v. says is from piracy now we believe that this there was a mine attached to this ship that caused an explosion and this is a number of attacks that have taken place of iranian an israeli ships over the last few months there are reports that man my security forces have again shot and killed protesters during a raid at least 8 people are believed to have been killed in the town of kalak a in the northwest several more have been going to brazil has recorded more than 4000 coronavirus deat

sanctions on iran so as to what's prompted the release of this tanker then well it's really difficult to say because iran will never admit that it's holding a ship for political reasons and of course as you mentioned there are the $77000000000.00 of iranian funds stuck in south korea because of u.s. sanctions that this could be a goodwill gesture from iran trying to show the united states and europe that if they take steps iran will also take steps we also could be because there is talk of the south korean prime minister visiting iran to discuss matters with president has rouhani and of course what iran's position is that this ship was polluting the waterways and because it didn't have any previous infringements the prosecutor allowed for its release and again this does come at a political sensitive politically sensitive time you go she is in vienna and are set to return but negotiations are set to continue i think next week to see what happens but ultimately. iran's position is still the same the same all sanctions must be lifted and very fired by iran before they take any steps to r

the intent of these new sanctions is to deter russia. you say these sanctions are not enough. what other actions do you think the biden administration needs to take? >> particularly in the cyber arena, there are certain things that sanction just aren't going to deter. if the russians think it's in their advantage to steal certain information, whether it's trade secrets or national security secrets, they're going to try. and we are just going to have to really harden our cyber defenses. if we're really, really good, we might detect in advance maybe, i don't know, 25, 50, even 75% of planned attacks by russia or china. probably a lot less, frankly. the rest are going to get through. and so we need to make sure that, first and foremost, our defenses are much stronger than they are today. >> these sanctions also reveal a new acknowledged, public listening between the trump campaign in 2016 and russia. the u.s. now designating konstantin kilimnik, which we already knew. but now the u.s. intelligence is acknowledging publicly for the first time that kilimnik gave that information to

and if they are going to sanction is there any evidence that anything that the you has done to sanction russia has had any effect at all. the role of the european parliament is to put pressure that's one of their roles to put pressure on member states they can decide on sanctions they can say we want sanctions and then your member states have to go forward and put sanctions in place but let's look at russia for example that you and others imposed sanctions on russia after the annexation of crimea couple of years ago and yet russia did not necessarily change its behavior but it had economic repercussions and that mounted the pressure on lady mary putin inside its country his country for example why is this the business of the european parliament given that neither russia nor ukraine is about. well the e.u. has the power to impose sanctions on any country around the world to safeguard its values or to for its own security that's what you said this that that's not what i'm saying so it is imposed for example sanctions on myanmar after the military coup there and like security plays a huge

government agencies russia's foreign ministry has condemned the sanctions saying a response is quote inevitable. germany's coronavirus vaccination program is picking up pace thursday thursday saw a record number of daily vaccinations with nearly 740000 people receiving a 1st or 2nd dose but the country is also seeing the biggest rise in new infections since january health officials are warning of a dramatic situation in hospitals as intensive care ward fill up this is the news from berlin you can find more headlines on our web site that's dot com and also on our social media channels. the u.s. expelled 10 russian diplomats today and slapped some of the harshest sanctions yet on dozens of companies and individuals the list includes people close to president putin and they businessman with times to the trump campaign washington is blaming the russian secret service for election medley and for the solar winds hack a cyber security breach inside the u.s. government tonight president biden taking a hard line with russia doing what a former president refused to even talk about birds off in

slapping more sanctions on. washington has to understand that there will be a price for the degradation of. the u.s. that is entirely responsible for. the found the investigative journalist group project. in which a c.n.n. director let's flip the channel is biased in favor of the black lives matter movement. words can kill the gauges now if you are to the british army regiment is told to use inclusive language to avoid causing. here in moscow you're watching r.t. international the german chancellor has been accused of attacking the country's democracy. pleaded with lawmakers to grant the federal government powers to impose regional curfews without the consent of local authorities it does come as the country grapples with the spiraling situation. we're slamming on the brakes nationwide i'm convinced a nationwide imagine see stop is overdue and urgently needed a lauren measures have a single goal to lead our country ad of this terrible phase of managing infections ultimately what i'm going to merkel wants is chang

but sanctions in retaliation for washington imposing restrictions on russia earlier in the week which came at the same time. deescalation we look into the mix messages coming from america. continues to rage. spreads propaganda. trusted name in news. stories from the past 7 days on the ride up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly r.t. along welcome the russian foreign ministry summoned the czech for talks amid a diplomatic standoff between the 2 countries it is in response to prague expelling 18 russian diplomats while accusing moscow of being behind a huge explosion. back in 2014 russia firmly rejected all the allegations. the accusations herb's surge especially as earlier the czech government laid the blame for the explosions at the door of the companies that own the depos this hostile step is a continuation of a series of anti russian actions conducted over the last several years by the czech republic one can also fail to notice the american influence by trying to win washington's favor as the u.s. imposes sanctions against russia the czech authorities have even out

sanctions in retaliation for washington imposing restrictions on russia earlier in the week which came at the same time. president. we've looked into the mixed messages coming from a. russian foreign ministry has summoned the czech. huge explosion. the expulsion of 18 russian diplomats also ahead in the program. a week of unrest in the u.s. state of minnesota over the fatal police shooting of a right continues to rage. the c.n.n. director is secretly filmed admitting his. propaganda some water dogs with the network slogan of the most trusted name in news. stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments this is that we can r.t. a little welcome. this week the u.s. and russia only sanctions on each other marking another low point in relations washington blacklisted russian companies expelled diplomats barred u.s. banks from buying russian debt moscow in return kicked out 10 u.s. diplomats and a number of officials from entering russia shortly after announcing the new sanctions u.s. president joe biden said he wanted to deescalate tensions with more on the mixed messa

election or worse sanction and apart from that the u.s. treasury will also be targeting a number of russian financial institutions and they've also designated 6 russian technology companies that they say provided support to russian intelligence services cyber cyber programs that frankly none of this was unexpected there have been reports that these sanctions were to come down for a while now but the white house seems to be taking a rather doxil approach to russia as in the statement that came before the outlines of all of these things and the moves that are being taken by the white house they went and called for a stable relationship with russia. the biden administration has been clear that the united states desires a relationship with russia that is stable and predictable we don't think that we need to continue on a negative trajectory however we have also been clear publicly and privately that we will defend our national interests and impose costs for russian government actions that seek to harm us. now this isn't the 1st time we've hear

imposed sanctions on russia how much of a connection or otherwise do you see there. well must be some connection after all one of the interesting aspects of the story of 2 alleged russian agents who were became public at the time the script was news in britain where people who thought the church were doing identified russia in 2001 of the time. will also be interviewed on russian t.v. so it's very all this information that some czech media are saying was already known we were 2 services 2 years ago when you now become sort of so there's an element all politicization behind it i'm sure because we always cases that are inherently. political diplomatic issues you know go just. simply responds to events sort of what consequences. it does raise questions about how strong all the reports go how close. all these explosions and we are. still want to come or they sometimes over this. potential much more attention to russia in his place where ukraine is a potential bomb program but also it a player in its own right instance but there are people on the ground according to the d

president joe biden calls on russia to deescalate tensions after imposing fresh sanctions for alleged election interference and cyber attacks. hello i'm barbara sara this is al jazeera live from london also coming up i will involve my 5th privileged. proceedings draw to a close in a minneapolis court after the accused former police officer derek chauvin waves his fright to testify. battling a 3rd wave in france where deaths from the coronavirus have now hit 100000 the capturing an unprecedented here the images that caught the eye of the judges at this year's of world press photo competition. u.s. president joe biden has called on russia to deescalate tensions after he imposed fresh sanctions against moscow for alleged election interference and cyber attacks by then said his actions were proportionate and sists there is still room for the 2 countries to work together. i was clear. that we could have gone further but i chose not to do so to be i chose to be proportionate united states is not looking to kick off. in conflict with russia we want a stable predictable relationship russia co

hits russia with a raft of new sanctions saying that it's punishment for inaction interference and cyber attacks. again i'm adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. secretary of state flies into kabul to reassure afghan leaders they still have america's support a stroop skitt ready to leave. car bomb goes off in a busy baghdad market killing at least one and injuring many. a major 2nd wave of covert 19 infections accelerates in india where hospital beds and oxygen supply is a foreign shores. the u.s. has announced new sanctions against russia for what the white house says is the kremlin's election interference and cyber attacks the measures include wider restrictions on u.s. banks trading in russian debts and the expulsion of 10 diplomats in brussels nato announced that it supports any u.s. actions to contain russia's destabilizing activities russia's foreign ministry says that a response to the sanctions is inevitable but it's some of the u.s. ambassador in moscow more now from russia shortly but 1st here's our state department correspondent was in jord

fate lifted all sections those sanctions that sanctions relief and the sanctions were put in place on the 1st time as a result of the nuclear issue trump then when and eve reimposed those nuclear sanctions and then he sanctioned the central fact again on terrorism grounds and the calculation was that the j.c.t. returned with only lifted that j.c.a. and the nuclear sections and it would not then be able to lift the sanctions if they were imposed on terrorism grouses wisha means that for the iranians no difference whatsoever will be made because this action will still be in place by just on their name and the calculation is that it will be difficult for him to justify lifting sanctions on terrorism grounds mindful of the fact that there has been no negotiations between the united states and iran on that specific issue let's talk a little bit about the timing of these indirect talks iranian elections are due to take place in june does that place additional pressure on the uranium signs it puts pressure on all sides because once the iranians are actually in their election season it's not

and the russian foreign minister has published a sanctions list which includes top u.s. officials and direct response to new american restrictions imposed on moscow over alleged harmful activities russia's measures also include the expulsion of 10 u.s. diplomats and the possible reduction of washington's diplomatic mission in the capital earlier saskia taylor joined my colleague you know neal to assess russia's response let's take a look at the statement. the latest attack country by divided ministration cannot. it seems that washington does not want to accept the fact that in the new geo political realities there is no place for unilateral dictatorship and the broken scenarios of containing moscow which the us short sightedly continues to deploy when you risk further degrading russia u.s. relations we knew that this was coming in one form or another it was just a matter of time and on friday russia very demonstrative retaliated against those punitive measures that washington announced against moscow earlier this week perhaps the most interesting part is that 8 top level