u.s. was quote ready to assist through the international red cross that if treated as the i.c.r.c. president noted the red crescent can't receive any funds due to illegal u.s. sanctions u.s. should own up to its economic terrorism the red cross has denied making those remarks a cover madani former deputy head of iran's department of a bottom and says the world is ignoring the disaster he treats the level of international attention to it on unprecedented floods is surprisingly low people of iran are in need of help and attention regardless of international politics let's get more from tehran joining us now is our media have r.c. he's if he's tehran correspondent i mean good to see you what is the situation in iran right now hello and thank you for having me situation in iran right now is that well the flaw has reached southwestern parts of iran the risk operations going on and who's a storm has basically declared him to be in a state of crisis right now and it's mostly because the body builder of. a flooded and he is. going toward the city and threatening more city in capital of forces which is home to about more than a million and a half people. now it in for mr mammadov odds ar

u.s. to tighten its restrictions on cuba. should the u.s. decide to sanction companies doing business with the caribbean island it would affect thousands of european investors the e.u. envoy and have bene protested a little we believe that this will harm us all that it will be self-defeating obviously this will create even more confusion more deterrence and more confusion for foreign investments and. for the e.u. the change to u.s. policy on cuba comes at an awkward moment just as brussels prepares to negotiate a trade agreement with washington spain which is heavily invested in cuba says it wants the e.u. to challenge the u.s. move at the world trade organization. i'll speak about trade agreements the u.s. and china seem to be moving closer to one top u.s. trade representative steve nugent are reportedly preparing to visit beijing next week for top level talks. aimed at ending the trade dispute but some sticky issues remain the u.s. says beijing plans for a state backed companies in robotics and other tech sectors violate its commitment to open up the chinese market media reports a final agreement could be slated for late may early june. imus and as throwing in the towel in the fight for a share of one of the world's biggest online markets says it is pulling out of china the company is closing its online store there on july eighteenth it's a significant setback for the online retailer company has struggled to

u.s. to tighten its restrictions on cuba. should the u.s. decide to sanction companies doing business with the caribbean island it would affect thousands of european investors the e.u. envoy in havana protested that was you know we believe that this will homicide it will be self-defeating obviously this will create even more confusion more de terence and more confusion for foreign investments and especially. for the e.u. the change to u.s. policy on cuba comes at an awkward moment just as brussels prepares to negotiate a trade agreement with washington spain which is heavily invested in cuba says it wants the e.u. to challenge the u.s. move it the world trade organization. or preliminary results in indonesia's election point to a victory for the incumbent president djoko. is on course to win fifty five percent against his rival the former general or votes of bianco the result could be pivotal for the country's reputation as a tolerant muslim country the election campaigns brought the country's huge voting public out in force. they pulled out all the stops to get voters in election officials dressed as superheroes in the hope of maximizing turnout. it's all about this man sitting president joko widodo comfortably on course to be reelected as leader of the world's third largest democracy. let us unite again as a nation as brothers and sisters who share the same motherland. as after these elections let us develop and nurt

u.s. to tighten its restrictions on cuba. should the u.s. decide to sanction companies doing business with the caribbean island it would affect thousands of european investors the e.u. envoy in havana protested a little we believe that this will have it it will be self-defeating obviously this will create even more confusion more deterrence and more confusion for foreign investment. for the e.u. the change to u.s. policy on cuba comes at an awkward moment just as brussels prepares to negotiate a trade agreement with washington spain which is heavily invested in cuba says it wants the e.u. to challenge the u.s. move it the world trade organization. germany's biggest lender dodge bank is in trouble again this time for an alleged involvement in a twenty billion dollar money laundering scheme involving the russian mafia dubbed the global laundromats in a confidential internal report by the banks and the financial crime unit seen by the guardian newspaper admits the scandal hurt its brand it also states the bank could lose customers investor confidence and market value over its russian criminals with links to the kremlin use the scheme between twenty ten and twenty fourteen to move money into the western financial system investigators say the cash involved could total up to eight hundred billion dollars. now let's bring in the financial correspondent in frankfurt. is there a big uproar now going on

u.s. to tighten restrictions on cuba. should the u.s. decided sanction companies doing business with the caribbean island, it would affect thousands of european investoror you envoy - -- the eu envoy in havananarotested.. >> we believe it will be self-defeating. obviously, this will create more confusion, more confusion for foreign investment. reporter: for the eu, the change to u.s. policy on cuba comes at an awkward moment, just as brussels prepares to negotiate a trade agreement with washington. spain, which is heavily invested in cuba, says it wants the eu to challenge the move at the world trade organization. brent: we go to washington and our correspondent on the story for us. good evening to you, oliver. we have seen the u.s. tighten the screws more and more on cuba. what is washington hope to achieve by this latest measure? reporter: basically, the united states are trying to stop the flow of money into cuba and to punish those companies who are doing business with cuba. perhaps the most important action to look at today is the reimpose a of this of -- reimposing of the so-called helms-burton act which has exexted since e 1996 but was suspended since then. this allowed u.s. citizens who have property cononfiscated, , y were given the right to file a lawsuit against those trafficking in these properties, and that was suspended in order to protect european

u.s. to tighten its restrictions on cuba. should the u.s. decide to sanction companies doing business with the caribbean island it would affect thousands of european investors the e.u. envoy in havana protested it was you know we believe that this will homosexuals it will be self-defeating obviously this will create even more confusion modi terence and all confusion for foreign investments or just. for the e.u. the change to u.s. policy on cuba comes at an awkward moment just as brussels prepares to negotiate a trade agreement with washington spain which is heavily invested in cuba says it wants the e.u. to challenge the u.s. move at the world trade organization. or for more of this we go to washington our correspondent all over salad is on the story boards good evening to you all over you know we've been seeing the u.s. tighten the screws more and more on hugh but what does washington hope to achieve by this latest measure. well basically the united states are trying to stop the flow of money into cuba and also to punish those companies who are doing business with cuba but perhaps the most important. action basically to look at today is the reimposing all of this so-called helms burton act that had already existed since one thousand nine hundred six but was suspended since then and essentially what this house burton act allows us citizens who had property confiscated that they were given the right to file a

u.s. sanctions because the united states sanctions that's not to be they're not going to believe the sanctions under current circumstances and the negative should be in the u.s. and i think the timing of this meeting is very important and after the game meeting that's happening met that drops into the drops enough that. nothing's comes out from that reaching a confidence that will between that moscow and and young is more as compared to other countries and there are more chances that they can get on some sort of that consensus and to make some sort of that peaceful. erikson not in a human rights lawyer and peace advocate shared his perspective on the upcoming meeting. will get that reaction that for you very shortly. i really think this is an opportunity to get peace and put peace at the top of the agenda and have denuclearization be a consequence of that and i think building relations between russia and north korea can do anything other than strengthen peace in the region i think that what can come out of this summit is that president putin can take the have position a strong position one shared by president moon i believe in south korea and say we all supp

u.s. sanctions because the united states sanctions that's not to be not going to be lifting the sanctions under current circumstances and the negative should be in the u.s. and. i want to come back in a bit to those economic ties but first just on the issue of the nuclearization obviously the summits between teams are going to trump was successful in perhaps toning down the rhetoric the quite heated exchanges that were going on in terms of getting a peace deal through the sanctions the nuclear question that wasn't solved that was sort of one step forward two steps back do you think there's a chance that russia here could achieve more than that summit at singapore achieved could russia become a playmaker on peace efforts on the korean peninsula. a concrete dust devil between the muscular and and young is smaller as compared to other countries so i can get the muscle has more leverage and that ties up to one thousand one. hundred the muscle can do something more as compared to washington so i think that must be more elaborate on if you are gay and you are more chances that it can get on some sort of a consensus and to make some sort of that peaceful but a

u.s. disaster. >>> the move comes as tensions between the ron and u.s. have been removing forces from iraq. >> we should make sure that americans remove their troops from iraq because expelling them has been difficult. >> reporter: sanctions will be a big part of it including freezing of u.s. assets that the guard still has and the ban on american businesses doing business with them. they say will have little impact, but the president is insisting that it is having a big impact. >> we have impose the toughest ever sanctions on the iranian dictatorship. it is not the same country was when i took power. >> reporter: they have seven days to review the designation. if there are no objections, will take effect next monday. >>> stocks recovered from some of the losses today. they have spent the entire session in the red and down by more than 100 points right now. the s&p have large losses but is now back there on sea level. >>> boeing stock is actually down more than 4% as another lawsuit has been filed against boeing following the two deadly crashes involving the mac 737 airplanes. >> reporter: as more evidence has come to life, they have been forced to admit as recently as last week that they know that the software contribute not only to the ethiopian crash, but also to the l

u.s. forces in the region after the resignation. and president trump is saying he should know better than to be thrown into another disaster. what's your answer? the u.s. is considering sanctions on the lebanese -- the head of the parliament of the lebanese speaker because of his ties with hezbollah and iran. can you confirm that? secretary pompeo: on my most recent trip to beirut made clear to the lebanese leadership including conversations with speaker barry that america was not going to tolerate the rise of hezbollah inside the country, that it wasn't in the best interest of the lebanese people to have an armed terror group underwritten by the very iran that we're speaking about today continue to have significant sway inside of that nation by use of force. this isn't about political parties. this is about armed forces inside the country of lebanon. we made clear we will continue to evaluate sanctions for all those that were connected to the rest that was created to the lebanese people. as for the first question, i have seen the foreign minister make many statements before. we have made clear both publicly and privately that an attack on the united states of america is something that they ought to think more than twice about. reporter: i asked you this question two weeks ago. what has changed? you have listed them as a terrorist organization. will you treat them like isis and al qaeda? note, primee minister netanyahu says he wants to annex the west bank. what is your reaction to that? will that undermine the peace plan? do not havempeo: i a response to either of those questions. when you say target, you are talking about the department of defense does. i'll allow them to respond to that question. reporter: how does this affect e.u. trade? since the irgc is involved in most parts of the iranian economy, the question, including banking and everything else, how does this affect those relations? number two, you said often you want to bring iran back to the -- this is aimed at forcing iran back to the negotiating table. do you believe this would help bring them back? or is that no longer your aim here? >> i think what we said before a we want iran to behave like normal nation. there are 12 things we needed to do in may of last year. that is the mission of this designation as well. we want to achieve the outcomes we laid out back in may of last year to get them to do the simple things like not launch missiles into saudi arabia, risking american lives each and every day. remind me of your first question. >> how does this affect things on e.u. trade? >> there is more risk. case that the irgc amounts to a significant piece economy through kleptocracy. it is difficult to know whether they are involved. effort is an anonymous undertaking. those will require more diligence be done by every considering doing things that are second and third orders removed from what you might think of as a traditional connection to the iranian economy. this extends to your point about trade. we will make that decision in due course. this extends and creates clarity around most transactions not just in europe but all over the world. thank you all very much. >> we have the secretary of state, brian hook. the associated press. >> i am curious. this has been under consideration for a while. one of the reasons has been for not doing it today that it creates complications in iraq, lebanon, and elsewhere for american soldiers and american diplomats. are there any exclusions, waivers, however you want to call this, that would allow the kind of contacts, particularly in iraq, that american responders were regular troops officials with iraqi who by virtue of the station interact with the irgc personnel. >> i will do the first part. the irgc has been threatening american troops almost since its inception. whenever we impose sanctions on iran, it it is usually followed threats.e of what endangers american troops in the middle east is an irgc that operates with impunity and never has its ambitions checked in the middle east. we are taking a new approach to this of sustained economic pressure to deny them of the revenue it needs to conduct its foreign policy. we know the irgc has been a principal architect and enforcer of iran's foreign policy since 1979, the way the ayatollah designed the regime. they are trying to shape the favor,east in their working as a powerbroker and military force. they assassinate drivers not only in the middle east, but in europe. equiprganize, train, and the militias in the middle east. they assign a network of militant groups. they killed over six -- we think it is important that layer ofadding a additional sanctions on the irgc to make radioactive those sectors of iran's economy that are influence or controlled by the irgc. >> i am not talking about threats to the u.s. forces or diplomats from iran but from potential u.s. prosecution for violating sanctions, by doing that may be construed as providing material support to an irgc affiliate or associate. >> we are not going to answer hypotheticals about various cases that could be conjured up in the future. we simply do not have anything to say on that. what i can tell you is the united states has a strong interest in any iraqi government that is strong and stable and sovereign and free from malign external influence. the record of iranian involvement in the region is not a promising one. look at syria. look at yemen. look at yemen on -- lebanon. we want to make sure direct can stand on its own two feet. the middle east cannot be stronger without weakening the irgc. it is that simple. it is an instrument of iran's foreign policy and it has been that way for decades. what we are doing today is, in addition to the new tools this gives us, we are stigmatizing this organization. we are highlighting to th

u.s. forces in the region after the resignation. and president trump is saying he should know better than to be thrown into another disaster. what's your answer? secondly [indiscernible] the u.s. is considering sanctions on the lebanese -- the head of the parliament of the lebanese speaker because of his ties with hezbollah and iran. can you confirm that? secretary pompeo on my most recent trip to beirut made clear to the lebanese leadership including conversations with speaker barry that america was not going to tolerate the rise of hezbollah inside the country, that it wasn't in the best interest of the lebanese people to have an armed terror group underwritten by the very iran that we're speaking about today continue to have significant sway inside of that nation by use of force. this isn't about political parties. this is about armed forces inside the country of lebanon. we made clear we will continue to evaluate sanctions for all those that were connected. to the rest that was created to the lebanese people. as for the first question, i have seen the foreign minister make many statements before. we have made clear both publicly and privately that an attack on the united states of america is something that they ought to think more than twice about. reporter: i asked you this and he would weeks ago didn't seem to know. what has changed? you have listed other terrorist organizations, will you treat them like isis and al qaeda? and separate note, prime minister netanyahu says he wants to annex the west bank. will that undermine the peace plan? secretary pompeo: when you say target, you are talking about the department of defense does. i'll allow them to respond to that question. [indiscernible]reporter: how does this affect e.u. trade? since the irgc is involved in most parts of the iranian economy, the question, including banking and everything else, how does this affect those relations? number two, if you -- you said often you want to bring iran to the -- this is aimed at forcing iran back to the negotiating table. do you believe this would help bring them back? or is that no longer your aim here? secretary pompeo: we want iran to behave like a normal nation. we said 12 things they needed to do back in may of last year. that's the mission of this designation as well. so that's our purpose. if you said what's the intent? to achieve the outcome we laid out back in may of last year to do the simple thing like not launch missiles into saudi arabia and risking lives. reporter: how does this affect things on e.u. trade? secretary pompeo: here's the simple question to that. if you're a general counsel for a european institution, there's more risk. it is absolutely the case that the irgc amounts to a significant piece of the iranian economy through pure ep to be rasi-i -- kleptocracy. and it is the case sometimes difficult to know whether they are involved, that the diligence effort. i think this will require more diligence be done with businesses that are considered second and third orders removed what you might think is a traditional connection to the iranian economy. this extends to your point about trade, you asked about oil waivers. we will make that decision in due course. as we move towards may 2. but this absolutely extends and creates clarity around those transactions that creates risk for companies not just in europe but frankly all over the world. reporter: what is the goal to shut down -- >> we now have special representative for iran brian hook and assistant secretary for counterterrorism will take additional questions. >> this has been under consideration for a while, previous administrations have considered it as well. one of the reasons has been for not doing it to date that it creates complications particularly in iraq and also in lebanon and elsewhere for american soldiers but also merican diplomats. are there any exclusions, waivers, carveouts that would allow the kind of contacts articularly in iraq that american commanders or regular troops might have where people -- iraqi officials by virtue of their station they have to nteract with their personnel. >> the irgc has been threatening troops. almost since its inception. whenever we impose sanctions on iran, it's usually followed by a range of threats. what endangers american troops in the middle east is an irgc that operates with impunity. and never has its ambitions checked in the middle east. we are taking an entirely new approach that is significant and sustained economic pressure to deny the irgc and the iranian regime of the revenue it needs to conduct its foreign policy. and we know that the irgc has been a principal architect and enforcer of iran's foreign policy since around 1979, the way the ayotolla designed the regime, and they are trying to reshape the middle east working as a power broker and military force. they assassinate rivals not only in the middle east but europe. they organize, train, and equip militias. in syria, they direct a network of militant groups and in the case of iraq, they have killed ver 600 american servicemen. we think it's important to in this case today, we are adding a layer of additional sanctions on the irgc to make radioactive those sectors of iran's economy that are influenced or controlled by the irgc. i'll let nathan answer your second question. reporter: i just want to make sure, i am not talking about u.s. threats but threats to them from potential u.s. prosecution for violating sanctions by doing something that may be construed as providing material support to n irgc affiliate or associate. mr. sales: we are not going to answer hypotheticals about various cases that could be conjured up in the future. we don't have anything to say on that. what i can tell you is that the united states strong interests in an iraqi government that is strong and stable and soverign and free from malign external influence. the record of iranian involvement in the region is not a promising one. look at syria, look at yemen, look at lebanon. we have an interest in making sure that iraq does not take that road and able to stand on its own two feet as a strong and prosperous country. in its own right. mr. hook: i would add one thing to that. the middle east cannot be more stable and peaceful without weakening the irgc. it's simply not possible. when you study their 40-year history, it's impossible to allow th

should be fooled. >> woodruff: the classification cludes u.s. sanctions that will take effect in one week. in turn, iran's security council today put u.s.ces on iran's list of terrorist groups. we'll take hea deeper look at significance of today's move later in the program. three u.s. service members and an amerin contractor died today in afghanistan. pentagon officials said they nere killed by an improvised explosive devic bagram air base, north of kabul. three other u. service members were wounded. the taliban claimed responsibility. activists in sudan say attempts by security forces to quash a sit-in protest set off widespread violence today. protesters wereng deman president omar al-bashir step down. soldier was killed trying to protect them. it happened in khartoum, where at least six people have died in clashes since saturday. online video from the weekend showed thndous massed outside the defense ministry, one of tha est rallies since they began in december. in libya, the death toll from anghting between rival li factions topped 5erpeople, as ealibyan forces struck tripoli's only functioning .irport they're battling troops aligne

u.s. sanctions are to blame for venezuela's collapsing economy. there are people leaving venezuela absolutely that's true because u.s. economic destabilization and sanctions have laid wreck to the economy billions of dollars literally confiscated and sanctions we should remember sanctions are a weapon or literally because of sanctions venezuela is receiving now they it's been reduced eighty percent their essential medicines that means even basic things like insulin are now in short supply to cause them as well or their purchase what they did purchase for years on the world market and it's become a routine weapon on the part of all street why should that to force for peace that comply with completely unjust economic demands. israel's at burnie i mean who has managed to clinch a victory in the country's general election and will now serve a record fifth term as head of government the opposition conceded defeat on wednesday evening but also issued a stern warning to the prime minister. we did not win in this round i respect the voters i respect their decisions but i look around and see the ultimate tool for victory in the next round i want to inform netanyahu and the coalition we are going to make your lives hell we will turn the knesset into a battleground. although netanyahu came out on top in the end it was a tired run race the prime minister's likud party and the centrist blue and white alliance of his rival benny gantz both won thirty five seats but likud is expected to form a coalition government commanding a sixty five seat majority in the one hundred twenty c. to knesset one leader in particular was quick to applaud the netanyahu success. i'd like you graduate to be that it looks like that race has been won by him maybe a little early but i'm hearing what it wanted a good fashion so he's been a great ally this election has been a referendum on mr in a time the aus personal profile mr in a time you know is under has been indicted conditioned upon a hearing where he can state his own defense and therefore you know that's very much what this election has been about and analysts here are saying and i joined them that that is not enough to win an election having said that it is going to take a substantial amount of mr netanyahu has time however even if the hearing his ability to defend himself in a hearing even if he fails in that effort legally he is entitle to continue as prime minister until. a trial and some potential conviction which would take a good couple of years so there are there it is it is fully within the confines and the sanction of israeli law that a sitting prime minister can continue to rule to leave the country even if he's been indicted. well most voters probably only took a short walk to the polling station one israeli entrepreneur traveled all the way from san francisco bringing in more than one hundred ex-pats to make their mark in the election as an israeli citizen i have the moral duty to comment and. state my voice and i felt like this is a very crucial election. to actually go ahead and make their fourth not just to call myself but to be to organize a group of people who could actually come and vote my expectation was that we could bring. we could increase the number of voters. in general and show some kind of like an example for everyone to go out and vote and by that to increase our participation and hopefully the more let less extreme government coming up with these election. on prior to the vote the israeli pm valid to extend sovereignty in the west bank by illegal settlements there something that was hailed by the right wing but raised many concerns among palestinians they say regardless of the election results israel's approach towards them will remain the same. as palestinians we see no change in the end all the israeli parties and all these names of israel against palestinian rights and interests whoever the winner is in the israeli election we will be under occupation and these governments will change nothing for us. so we think that the u.n. action and what is coming next from the new government probably be headed by the extreme right he will only present police teams with more land stolen more killing more violations neglecting the palestinians international legitimacy israeli elections in general were competition between the right and the more extreme right as far as policies towards palestine is concerned what netanyahu did is that he secured the right of the fundamentalists the rise of the fundamentalist right in israel the students of that. group that is known for its fascist and racist views that was outlawed in israel and and considered a terrorist group in the united states these will be the allies of benjamin netanyahu in the upcoming government and they will be competing on how hard line their policies towards palestinians will be in a nutshell it will be a platform of no no to palestinian rights note that a palestinian state no to the one nine hundred sixty seven borders or international law and certainly no to a future promising any prospect of peace just more oppression this possession and i mix a sion while palestinians are expected to surrender and accept their miserable fate under this formula. a diplomatic dispute is brewing over the construction of a memorial museum at a former nazi death camp in poland warsaw has rejected several requests from russia to take part in the project eliciting an angry response from moscow here's artie's mundine a coach of. sabi bore was a nazi run killing center and any town secrets very few survive to average talent and scream course. another unit arrived once they were already undressed they apparently understood where they were being taken naked and all in fear they ran away the way could they run everyone rush to the bob watch fences and there they were met with the fire of machine guns and rifles many people died from the bullets the rest were driven into the gas chambers the fires were burning into late at night it's all flames illuminated the evening black sky with its terrifying lights the whole camp and the surrounding territory. like thunder the screams of people from the death camp six hundred people exhausted yearning for freedom rushed forward sheltering her a in this single impulse the jews of russia and. the netherlands and from the czech is a vacuum in germany in one thousand. it was only then that the tower guards realized that something was wrong in the camp and opened fire. unlike auschwitz there is nothing left of sabi bore the extermination camp was destroyed by the nazis after the uprising and trees planted to conceal evidence it ever existed but there is concern that key part. if as history are now being over look at the group this is a matter for the whole of europe to rule in the so people come. russians french and also people from other countries and that's what you know this pain the loss of people who were tortured there and died so that we never repeated the polish government started construction plans back in two thousand and fourteen for a new visitor center at the site of the former death camp russia says that was unfairly sidelines and the design of the museum especially as a soffit soldier was behind the here roy group fold and escape for sabi war the committee behind the project includes representatives from slovakia the netherlands poland and israel as the construction of the museum moved forward paul and opened the betting for those who wanted to take part in setting up the museum interior but again all three obligations sound by russian museums all private entities were not approved by war sell polish russian relations are complicated and certainly when it comes to world war two they were complicated so i think the poles rather take control themselves of the narrative they're afraid of the russian narrative and they also don't want to give russia too much credit for liberating poland you can use history as a weapon and the poles haven't weaponize in history as a as many people have been doing some may call it historical amnesia some like paul ince ministry of culture and national heritage say it's a logical decision the international steering committee made eighty nine amiss decision about continuing the cooperation between its current members who have already worked together for ten years in order to smoothly complete advance works on the new morial site the cultural standoff aside as high time avril one as remembered for their suffering and bravery let me remind you of something where seventy thousand verses of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp. after his broken house death camp was observed in poland latin reputing was not invited and given the fact that it was liberated by the red army i mean this is quite quite outrageous i would say so what we're seeing now is a continuation of this policy which is trying to. keep the russians out of participating in any. effort to present the history of sobibor and the suffering of the of the inmates there in the horrible mass murders that took place there. wiki leaks claims that its co-founder julian assange has been the subject of a u.s. led spying operation dating back to two thousand and twelve reporting from london here's artie's nisha setting. well tensions have been escalating over the past few days off to wiki leaks tweeted that julian assange could be expelled from the ecuadorian embassy within a matter of hours or days and now speaking at a press conference in london weekly said here in chief says there's been an extensive spying operation against julian assange within the and the sea itself this material gathered contains gigabytes of recorded phidias and already a material and photos as well monterrey songes every mason every visitor now these documents were shown in the press briefing there were also copies of legal notes from his lawyers and also video recordings of doctors assessing a ship a songe and taking blood except tra let's take a listen to the wiki leaks editor in chief about what was actually obtained. a covert. the extensive spying operation against the us within the ecuadorian embassy earlier

u.s. trade officials. >> we should do our utmost to avoid a trade war between the u.s. and europe on this question of sanctions and tb a case for airbus a tit for tat sanction would lead nowhere and would weaken the growth both in the u.s. and within e.u ly propose to my friends, especially to bob lighthizer i will have a meeting with him tomorrow morning to enter into a negotiation and to do something to found a consensus and a compromise between the u.s. and the e.u we have to avoid a trade war we are facing, as you just said, a slowdown both at the global level and at the european level the reason why there is such an economic slowdown is that there are trade tensions all over the world. there are trade tensions between the u.s. and china we should not add new trade tensions between the u.s. and the e.u. it will be a political mrs. take and an economic mistake, too >> meantime, the imf's managing director christine lagarde says the macroeconomic situation in russia is healthy. speaking in washington at the spring meeting lagarde add thad more deep and structural reforms are needed to boost russia's growth potential in january the imf downgraded the gdp forecast for 2019 and 2020 jumana spoke with the russian finance

u.s. sanctions are to blame for venezuela's collapsing economy. there are people reading that as well absolutely that's true because u.s. economic destabilization and sanctions have laid rock to the billions of dollars literally confiscated and sanctions we should remember sanctions are a weapon or literally because of sanctions venezuela is receding now. it's been reduced eighty percent your essential narratives that means even basic things like ends are now short supply because then as well their purchase what they did purchase for years on the world market and it's become a routine left on the art of all street why should that to force the cause why was completely unjust economic demands. a high stakes bridge and summit has been held in brussels where twenty seven the e.u. leaders have agreed with britain to delay brags that until the end of october let's cross live now to our europe correspondent peter oliver who has been following this well pretty much from the very beginning peter what is the latest. well the very very latest is in this is happened in the last few minutes to resume a has agreed to the deal being agreed by the e.u. twenty seven now that deal was to extend article fifty extend the break that deadline until the thirty first of october this year with a review of how things are going in june we're expecting to hear from both the nl to the european council president and john claude young the european commission president in the next ten minutes or so so i'll be back in the next hour definitely with them but what i can tell you so far is where were. the united kingdom will have to field candidates in the next month's e.u. parliament tree elections there's a lot of pressure on to reason make to quit now that's definitely what we're hearing. calming outs of the united kingdom at the moment a lot in her own party particularly from the far right of her party the g they're called the european research group saying now she must go. they want a new leader before the party conference season at least some of them are saying they want a new leader by next week. a lot of the as i said those who are the cities those that really wanted a break situation to go through are absolutely furious that they'll have to field me piece it's hard to see right now that there won't be either a general election in the united kingdom or a second referendum before. october the thirty first deadline what is interesting though away from the united kingdom and how that all affected is what effect this particular summit will have on the franco german relationship angle merkel was among one of those voices along with european council president donald tusk that was backing at a long term extension perhaps a year what was called the flex tension it was one year extension but if there was an agreement on how to agree to the withdrawal deal then that's when the u.k. would leave however a minute from what i hear was the well the outsider in the room he was the only one seeing not he was the one saying that there had to be a shorter term extension and that was all that would be granted otherwise he was demanding things like the the u.k. district of it commissioner for that period of time we were told in no uncertain terms by john claude young as i understand anyway that that does not happen. interestingly enough the money will not giving a press conference this evening usually himself and angler merkel would give a joint presser after events like this that's not happening tonight the thirty first will mean that the u.k. won't be able to take part in shaping who will be the next e.u. commissioner it's why that date's been picked because that's the end of john claud younkers mandate what is interesting enough though and this is from the e.u. election committee is the thirty first gives just enough time so that the part of the u.k. could hold a second referendum on membership of the european union. well if the exit wasn't enough of a horror show already filled with ghosts and ghouls and scary figures it does seem that it will be how will we mean that is the deadline there is going to be a summit in june that would have been happening anyway the standard quarterly summit for the european union that's going to be used as a kind of a check up to see how the the u. case coming along with its attempts to try and get its own house in order in order to try and leave the european union what this does is it gives a compromise it's not the long term extension that many including as i said mr to. merkel wanted it's also not the short term extension that theresa may said that she wanted initially she went in there wanting an extension only until june the thirtieth what it does though is it gives the e.u. the ability to say that our group doesn't force members out if the u.k. wants to leave the ball is now back firmly in the courts of westminster and they're going to have to make a decision of themselves because that withdrawal agreement despite all of this that's going on in the last i don't know how many hours that withdrawal agreement still will not be opened that is the withdrawal agreement so we're still left with the same old solutions this extension we have at the moment i don't know if it will be another extension granted at all because of how sick everybody in europe is with the with the situation with so many other issues that they want to get on with this counseling article fifty essentially counselling breaks it which would come with all of its own problems and then the third option of course is that cliff edge no deal breaks it which would cause well a lot of pain economically for both the united kingdom and the european union and nobody wants that in fact the european parliamentary president and mr t.r.t. said right at the beginning of this summit that was one of the eight red lines that can't be crossed. they can't be and no deal breaks it we've also seen paul ince in the u.k. push through legislation saying that no deal breaks that the reason for that is not put so well what they used to say in the old days when you went off the map there be dragons. all right artie's peter all over in berlin watching over all of this kind of scene you mentioned dragon is a kind of seems like an episode of game of thrones at this point it's better than any t.v. soap you've ever seen sure unfortunately unfortunately it has such an impact on everybody's lives that true that is very true and will get the latest from you in an hour of course all right more news after a short break watching the international. you know world's big partners through law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. capitalism relies on competition so competition means that if you winning ideas are winning companies you survive if you don't yell survive best survival of the fittest this competition. a corrupt such a bank is willing to finance dodgy deals then crowds out the good company and they end up with a lot of bad companies and it crowds out competition and you end up with a with a with a county capital cronies. are welcome back this is arching international. again spoken out against of the investigation into russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election slamming it as an attempted coup. it wasn't illegal investigation it was started illegally everything about it was for a few every single thing about it there were dirty cops these were bad people you like you know me you look at least peters brought these look bad people and this was a and it ted did this is this is simply takedown of a president right from statement comes the same day his attorney general william barr testified before the u.s. senate bar claimed during the hearings that spying by u.s. intelligence agencies was carried out against campaign. that well for the same reason we're worried about foreign influence in elections we want to make sure that . during a lecture i think spying on a political campaign is a big deal so you're not you're not suggesting now that spying occurred because you could i think there is a spying did occur yes i think spying did occur. joined by lawyer independent journalist and former correspondent for the wall street journal thanks for being with us here on our teacher national. thank you so william barr confirmed to senators what he believes that president trump has alleged many times that u.s. intelligence agencies had a surveillance operation against his campaign long before robert muller's investigation into russia collusion started in fact that it actually has been admitted by the f.b.i. that there was a counter intelligence operation. why would that be a big concern. well beca

u.s. and north korea, tonight analysts watch to see whether kim jong-un, north korea's 35-year-old ruthless dictator is shifting to a more hostile stance against the u.s. the sanctions have bloodshot eyes, should be retaliated against. >> we must deal a telling blow to hostile forces who are mays takenly determined to bring us down with sanctions. >> analysts don't believe it is going to lead to immediate strike, instead, they'll strike back building up self reliance. the new warning as diplomatic outreach between kim and president trump if not dead in the water at least stalled. if that doesn't change, kim's statement could have more ominous meaning. >> up to and including north korea is not going to pay attention to sanctions and we will test these domestically developed missiles and weapons at a time and place of our choosing. >> 42 days after trump walked away from the hanoi summit with no deal on denuclearization, he met with the south korean president, moon jae-in. the president didn't address kim's new threat but said he was happy with the current level of sanctions. >> we want sanctions to remain in place. >> the president appeared to be open to incremental progress, but says the big deal is for kim to get rid of nuclear weapons. at another moment saying incremental progress would work. >> i enjoy the sum itmits, enjo being with the chairman, it has been productive, it is step by step. not going to go fast. i have been telling you that a lng time. >> tonight with kim jong-un wrapping up rhetoric, key questions are looming with both sides feeling the sting from hanoi, and holding their ground, how does this relationship get back on track? can moon jae-in help kick start it or is the south korean president showing limited chops. >> the only two players that matter aside from china is trump. i don't think he has a great deal of influence. it still comes down to what can kim and trump agree to together. >> analysts have a warning tonight for the white house that if president trump can't sustain his personal relationship with kim, the dictator could have a menacing partner waiting in the wings. >> i think one of the things that hasn't been looked at enough is the possible relationship between kim jong-un and vladimir putin of russia. kim is expected to visit moscow, to pay a visit to putin. the russians have also laid a fiberoptic line into north korea. this is really striking because of course north korea has very few computers and i doubt much people are gathering to watch the eighth season of "game of thrones" in pyongyang. >> and tonight, this is another indicator that may jeopardize the relationship. these are new satellite pictures of a key parade training ground in pyongyang. they show that hundreds of military vehicles are on the grounds. they say this could indicate there may be a big military parade in the works for this coming monday, april 15th, birthday of kim jong-un's grandfather. analysts say if they stage a big parade and show off new weapons, the dynamic between the u.snorth korea is going to take a hit. brianna? >> brian todd, thank you so much. >>> coming up, wikileaks founder julian assange is dragged out of the london embassy where he had taken refuge several years. he faces extradition for hacking military secrets. are more charges ahead? lease the 2019 is 300 for $329 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. with retirement planning and advice for what you need today and tomorrow. because when you're with fidelity, there's nothing to stop you from moving forward. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can't do anything about that. now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? >>> happening now. wikileaks founder julian assange arrested and dragged from the london embassy where he has been hold up seven years and facing ex

should know. the trump administration is reversing obama era policies on cuba by intensifying u.s. sanctions. the administration will now cap the amount of money u.sfamilies can send relatives to cuba to $1,000 a person each quarter. in 2014, americans sent $3 billion to family members. they'll restrict nonfamily travel to the island nation. it also imposed new financial sanctions on venezuela and ni nickelodeon wag what. >> the environmental protection agency is imposing new sanctions on asbestos. the rule further closes loopholes in a decade's old partial ban. it requires companies to obtain federal approval in order to manufacture or import products with asbestos. some public help nl officials say the ban doesn't go far enough because it fails to restrict the import of raw asbestasbe asbestos. >> and facebook uploaded information of users without permission users who signed up for the platform this e-mail information collected as part of a design change. now the social media giant says the contacts were not shared with anyone and fixing the privacy issue. all aekt iffffected users will notified. . a british diver who heroically saved young socc