is headed with this current line of policy is what you're saying we did hear my pump aoe say we just want iran to act like a normal country what are we going to actually see from the a rainy and government here is it going to change its stance well my pump aoe has laid out really in bishes strategy the so-called maximum pressure broach and he also outlined 12 far reaching demands or goals for u.s. policy which cold not only for a major behavioral change inside of the iranian leadership in terms of the nuclear policy but also in terms of their domestic and regional policy but basically it's at least from an outside perspective but also for you know a more insider's perspective really hard to believe that being the reigning leadership is able to actually fulfill these demands from the outside perspective it looks a lot like the build up to the war between the u.s. and iraq in 2003 doesn't this rhetoric that we're seeing i think that's. reason why especially the europeans us so carefully trying to deescalate and that's also why you see these recent moves of spain and specially great bri

has considerably increased its military presence in the persian gulf but pump aoe denies that the trumpet ministration is preparing for war we're looking for iran to be a working normal country and that's our ask and we have applied pressure to the leadership of the islamic republic of iran to achieve that we we fundamentally do not see a war with iran iran's leadership also denies it's heading for conflict now pump aoe has returned to washington on his european tour allies and rivals alike warned him against war. but let's get some analysis now as sasha loman america expert at the german institute for international security affairs welcome to the show thanks for joining us having is this is start of a deescalation in the gulf well i feel you know these processes hardly controllable and it's a huge potential for misperception so steps on both sides are perceived to be offensive even if they essentially meant to be defensive do you think it's reassuring tehran nonetheless that pump ayos butt out there talking to people talking to russia talking to the e.u. well i think it's kind of reassur

secretary of state mike bump aoe insisted that america does not want a war with iran. the islamic republic of iran has engaged in an escalating series of threatening actions and statements in recent weeks the response of the united states and our partners and allies has been clear we do not seek war meanwhile tehran has refused to negotiate with of the united states and says it does not believe washington will strike that came a day after u.s. president called for talks with iran policy director ad just foreign policy robert naiman thinks that it is america which is escalating the tensions. policing a missile is an escort already. and that's how i would blame i mean. that. ramp. course this is something we've seen before you know i think that they would send conflict enough. on purpose and they don't want. you know the ideal company for the military she would be having military confrontation with iran inflaming on iraq. so this is why i say they're not they are seeking war even if they move to escalate. their. i just for me i'm back with headlines about 35 minutes you'

secretary of state my comp aoe saying he has found no support for any military intervention in venezuela including among american officials. and israel reportedly agrees to a truce with palestinian militant group hamas after a weekend of deadly exchanges which sees more than twenty palestinians and four israelis killed in large scale air strikes and missile attacks. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our national i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the remains of all forty one people killed in sunday's plane fire in moscow have now been recovered from the charred. the aeroflot aircraft as you can see the entire rear section of the plane was destroyed by the fire the remains of the jet have now been removed from the scene and taken away for further investigation and just to remind you during its attempted landing the sukhoi superjet burst into flames after its tail struck the runway only thirty seven of the seventy eight people on board survived tragedy and people have been laying flowers and tributes. which has since returned to a full flight sche

is headed with this current line of policies what you're saying we did hear my pump aoe say we just want iran to act like a normal country what are we going to actually see from the arabian government here is it going to change its stance well my pump aoe has laid out a really big strategy the so-called maximum pressure broach and he also outlined 12 far reaching demands or goals for u.s. policy which kohl not only for a major behavioral change inside of the brain and leadership in terms of nuclear policy but also in terms of their domestic and regional policy but basically it's at least from an outside perspective but also for you know a more insider perspective really hard to believe that you bring in leadership is able to actually fulfill these demands from the outside perspective it looks a lot like the build up to the war between the u.s. and iraq in 2003 doesn't this rhetoric that we're seeing i think that's the reason why especially the europeans as so carefully trying to deescalate and that's also why you see these recent moves of spain and specially great britain to actually cau

secretary of state in sociology stay my pump aoe told russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that the u.s. does not wants a war with iran but would respond if its interests were attacks. we spoke a bit about the activities that are taking place in the middle east today with particular focus on the actions that iran is taking i made clear that the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror. has been slow growth in china's economy in april even before higher u.s. trade tariffs took effects across loads to 5.4 percent last month that's a drop from an 8.5 percent growth rates back in march. so the arabia state owns energy company around co has stopped pumping oil through a major pipeline after a drone attack the government says 2 stations were targeted on the east west pipeline it's a crucial supply line that transports socio from the eastern province to the younger ports on the red sea you see rebels in yemen say th

somewhat out of nowhere about a week ago we had a scheduled visit from secretary of state mike pump aoe to berlin which was called off at the last minute so that the secretary of state could travel to iraq to meet with counterparts there to discuss what the administration said were credible threats of iranian proxies planning an attack on u.s. resources and military assets in the region with very quick movement of u.s. military assets to the region and all the sudden we're in this tit for tat moment of escalation between the iranians and the americans and yet when u.s. officials such as mike pompei i have tried to make the case of credible evidence to european officials. it's been met with increasing skepticism exactly rick no act europeans definitely pushing back on this point even a british general saying yesterday he doesn't buy the evidence he's he's seeing and that is quite remarkable as as you know britain is part of the 5 eyes alliance partnership and and clearly a dispute over evidence the u.s. claims could potentially justify military strikes and potentially a war with iran and

who continue to support the murderous dictator dictator madeira pump aoe in london that condemning the odds on favorite to be the next leader of britain as well as possibly the next leader of the usa because mike gravel opposed to u.k. e.u. u.s. backed regime change in venezuela is running to be president in 2020 why did they hate us so so many places around because we kill so many people want to. put you to you have a certain arrogance you want to do want to tell the iraqis how to run their country and we can get up against 5 years and get off of carbon in years all we've got to do is want to do it just play get out of their country they're at you know silly and we insist on staying there the military industrial complex not only controls our government lock stock barrel but the whole art and my gravelle joins me now via skype from birmingham in california thanks so much for coming on the show before we even get to your campaign for 2020 what do you make of mike compare the u.s. secretary of state claiming in effect that you and jeremy corbin are disgusting for not supporting a coup in

after a highly anticipated meeting between the russian diplomat and his american counterpart my pump aoe the pair were meeting on the five of an arctic forum in finland as expected venezuela was the main topic for discussion of the possibility of u.s. military action at the focal point for journalists at the press conference following the top of the cross live now to our t.v. for trying to get in finland for us in the out from what we know how lavrov and pump succeeded and reaching any common ground on minutes well. jacqueline hi well indeed the number one diplomats of russia and the u.s. have finally met and as you were saying we were hoping to understand if there is at least a slight chance that moscow and washington can be on the same page when it comes to venezuela however like pump alehouse and spoken to the media all here in finland yet when. you talk to us about thirty minutes ago he thought it wasn't a good idea to share the details although he did respond to my question about mr pump a statement that russia must get out of venezuela and also about the possibility of the interven

secretary of state mike pump aoe is playing down talk of any military conflict with iran last week the white house announced the deployment of extra warships to the gulf region the commander of iran's revolutionary guard described the move as psychological warfare to pompei oh says washington does not want war with tehran. but i'm going to miscalculate our aim is not war our aim is a change in the behavior of the iranian leadership we hope the iranian people will get what they finally want what they did so richly deserve the forces that we're putting in place of course as we've had in the region before you know we often have carriers in the persian gulf but the president wanted to make sure that in the event that something took place we were prepared to respond to an appropriate way and as the secretary of state i want to make sure that we had all the political diplomatic tools in the right place and we want to make sure that we can provide the president with an option set in the had to in the event that the iranians make a bad decision well mr pompeo is due to meet the e use policy ch

and finally it was provided by the members of the trumpet ministration secretary of state mike pump aoe in the acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan held separate reefing sessions from both the house and the senate. patrick shanahan arguing that the recent deployment to carry a strike force to the region has played a role in controlling the crisis we have to turn attacks based on our repository of assets to turn attacks against american forces. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent iranian miscalculation. we do not want the situation to escalate. this is about deterrence not about war. or not about going to war we're ready to respond if we have to the best thing to happen is for everybody to calm down and iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalating nobody is talking about a military solution to the current friction with the iranians i haven't heard anybody discuss that pretty thank you all very much but the briefing still did not convince skeptical democrats make no mistake this president has a business tracing are it

and finally it was provided by the members of the trumpet ministration secretary of state mike pump aoe in the acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan held separate reefing sessions from both the house and the senate. patrick shanahan arguing that the recent deployment to carry a strike force to the region has played a role in controlling the crisis we have to turn attacks based on our repository of assets to turn attacks against american forces. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent iranian miscalculation. that we do not want the situation to escalate. this is about deterrence not about war. or not about going to war we're ready to respond if we have to the best thing to appen is for everybody to calm down and iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalating nobody is talking about a military solution to the current friction with the iranians i haven't heard anybody discuss that pretty thank you all very much but the briefing still did not convince skeptical democrats make no mistake this president and his administrative .

on how he and this is to save a life from doha also coming up secretary of state mike pump aoe makes an unannounced visit to iraq as tensions continue to mount between the u.s. and iran. for their lives thousands of syrians leave it live as government forces and their russian allies bomb the revel how province. and we'll have the latest in the crackdown on the opposition in venezuela. but we begin in sudan where the military rulers have agreed in principle but the opposition's proposal for a transitional government's but differences remain over the length over the interim period sounds who will eventually lead the country have a morgan has more from the capital khartoum. nearly a month after ousting its president of three decades army bashir sudan's military council and the opposition coalition attempts to form a transitional government don't seem to be getting easier the opposition presented the ruling council with its vision for the transitional period in early may on tuesday the military council responded. with. the document. doesn't mention the other political forces that are par

foster a fair and balanced trade conditions and this came one day ahead of today's visit of my pump aoe in berlin the u.s. secretary of state and of course medical he'll once to appeal to the americans she wants to remind them that you know the uni lateral approach is not the way to go that the americans should together with the germans and the europeans find common ground in terms of trade policies and conrad stay with me as we look at something else another report in this case the value of the turkish lira tumbling for the first time since october one u.s. dollar is worth more than six lira and investors feel increasingly unsettled by the domestic political situation and turkey is going through an economic crisis prices there are rising and the general public is increasingly critical of president everyone was now ordered a rerun of a municipal election which is a k. party was defeated. back to conrad now briefly how bad are things looking for the lira. you know that even in turkey is nearly twenty percent and the economy is expected to shrink in turkey this year by at least one percen

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has been stepping up its anti iran rhetoric secretary of state mike pump aoe made an impromptu visit to iraq this week accusing iran of posing a threat to u.s. soldiers in the country just days ago the u.s. deployed a carrier to the persian gulf the trumpet ministration policy is to exert maximum pressure on iran and their sanctions are hitting hard iran's oil exports are down and their currency has taken a dive things are getting tight for tehran. correspondent teresa tropper is with me now in the studio tracer good morning to you you spent a lot of time reporting from tehran for us where do you see this going to do you see a chance of compromise between the u.s. and iran well that's of course very hard to tell right now because congress ramped up pressure ever since this country left the nuclear deal but iran on the other side has so now now have surprising amount of restraint so far. because the government and the people want to keep the nuclear deal in life they were a few supporters of it in the first place so they don't have any interest in escalating this conflict any further

has been stepping up its anti iran rhetoric secretary of state mike pump aoe made an impromptu visit to iraq this week accusing iran of posing a threat to u.s. soldiers in the country just days ago the u.s. deployed a carrier to the persian gulf the trumpet ministration policy is to exert maximum pressure on iran and their sanctions are hitting hard iran's oil exports are down and their currency has taken a dive things are getting tight for tehran. correspondent teresa tropper is with me now in the studio tracer good morning to you you spent a lot of time reporting from tehran for us where do you see this going do you see a chance of compromise between the u.s. and iran well that's of course very hard to tell right now because donald trump is ramped up pressure ever since this country left the nuclear deal but iran on the other side is showing up now have surprising amount of frustration so far. because the government and the people want to keep the nuclear deal in life they were a few supporters of it in the first place so they don't have any interest in escalating this conflict any

secretary of state mike pump aoe warned against what he sees as a threat of chinese influence over digital infrastructure as a matter of chinese though the chinese government can rightfully demand access to data flowing through their way and c.t.e. systems why would anyone grant such power to regime that is already crucially violated cyberspace its official security repeating that it's a brochure sort of information with trusted networks this is exactly what china worlds they want to deprive the rest room alliances through bits and bytes not bullets and bombs. joining us is yen's carter our markets correspondent on wall street now makes case has been almost inevitably linked to the u.s. china trade conflict as well as the lao washington led campaign against china's weiwei how much will our case ultimately mean for u.s. china economic relations well probably at this point not that much what we saw on a wednesday was just the prelude to this trial is going on for months from the even for years and well overall china and washington are hoping to settle their case. much earlier talking about t

secretary of state mike pump aoe said the c.e.o. of your way is lying over the company's ties to beijing the u.s. government put huawei on a trade to blacklist last week banning u.s. companies from doing business with it a market reaction has been negative for us hopes of a successful resumption of trade talks between the world's top 2 economies decline . you are way hasn't been out of the headlines very often recently but this week found itself at the very center of the ongoing trade conflict between the u.s. and china several u.s. firms including google restricted access to while away in order to comply with the u.s. barring order foreign companies such as japan's panasonic are considering doing the same u.s. secretary of state mike compare says wow is dishonest about the extent of its ties to beijing that's just false to say that they don't work with the chinese government is a false it's just the way c.e.o. and that at least isn't telling american people the truth nor the world several chinese government spokespeople spoke out a

secretary of state might pump aoe was in london meeting with british foreign secretary jeremy hunt the two men standing beside each other praising shared values and interests and at the same time standing at opposite poles on the iran nuclear deal. on the iran nuclear deal it is a very important achievement of westen diplomacy that despite all the problems that we have in the middle east today iran does not have nuclear weapons and its neighbors have not responded by getting their own nuclear weapons and. the section from power and i are one in agreeing that it will be a massive step back for that region if it became nuclearized we've made a decision different than the united kingdom has with respect to the j.c.b. away and so. iran's decision to depart from the j.c.b. for us mostly is about their decision to work on their nuclear program and i'm confident that as we watch iran's activity that the united kingdom and our european partners will move forward together to ensure that iran has no pathway for a nuclear weapons system you know as the us secretary my computer there speaking in l

has been stepping up its anti iran rhetoric secretary of state mike pump aoe made an impromptu visit to iraq this week accusing iran of posing a threat to u.s. soldiers in the country just days ago the u.s. deployed a carrier to the persian gulf the trumpet ministration policy is to exert maximum pressure on iran and their sanctions are hitting hard iran's oil exports are down and their currency has taken a dive things are getting tight for tehran. so where does this leave the iranian nuclear deal was good the view from brussels that's where our correspondent terry scholz is joining us tonight good evening to you we know that the european union has spent the past year trying to rescue uranium nuclear deal why has it for when so short. well it has rescued the iranian nuclear deal the deal is not dead despite the united states pulling out in the united states wanting very forcefully for that deal to be defunct so it defies some people's odds even that the deal still exists but what has happened is that the u.s. has put so much pressure on the other signatories on european union compani

is urging the you to walk away from the deal your secretary of state bank might pump aoe was reportedly making a surprise stopover in brussels but the diplomatic chief says there are no concrete plans to meet with a top u.s. diplomat. so the pressure is on for the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal to convince iran to adhere to the agreement the e.u.'s top diplomat meeting her counterparts in brussels in an attempt to salvage the iran nuclear deal it has been and continues to be for us a key element of military federation an appreciation of the global ian in the region so we'll continue to support it as much as we can with all our instruments and all our political will this is very well known i think both in washington and in put on under the 2050 nuclear deal around agreed to let the international atomic energy agency monitor its nuclear facilities and enrich uranium only for civilian purposes in return economic sanctions on the country were lifted. the international atomic energy agency says iran has been meeting its side of the bargain but the u.s. withdrew from the deal last

and finally it was provided by the members of the trumpet ministration secretary of state mike pump aoe in the acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan held separate reaping sessions from both the house and the senate . patrick shanahan arguing that the recent deployment of a carry a strike force to the region has played a role in controlling the crisis we have deterred attacks based on our repository of assets to turn attacks against american forces. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent iranian miscalculation. we do not want the situation to escalate. this is about deterrence not about war. or not about going to war we're ready to respond if we have to the best thing to appen is for everybody to calm down and iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalating nobody is talking about a military solution to the current friction with the iranians i haven't heard anybody discuss that r.t. thank you all very much but the briefing still did not convince skeptical democrats make no mistake this president and his administration are i

and finally it was provided by the members of the trumpet ministration secretary of state mike pump aoe in the acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan held separate creeping sessions in both the house and the senate. patrick shanahan arguing that the recent deployment of a carry a strike force to the region has played a role in controlling the crisis we have deterred attacks based on our repository of assets to turn attacks against american forces. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent iranian miscalculation. we do not want the situation to escalate. this is about deterrence not about war. or not about going to war we're ready to respond if we have to the best thing to happen is for everybody to calm down and iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalating nobody is talking about a military solution to the current friction with the iranians i haven't heard anybody discuss that r.t. thank you all very much but the briefing still did not convince skeptical democrats make no mistake this president and his administrator itching

and finally it was provided by the members of the trumpet ministration secretary of state mike pump aoe in the acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan held separate reefing sessions from both the house and the senate. patrick shanahan arguing that the recent deployment to carry a strike force to the region has played a role in controlling the crisis we have to turn attacks based on our repository of assets to turn attacks against american forces. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent iranian miscalculation. that we do not want the situation to escalate. this is about deterrence not about war. or not about going to war we're ready to respond if we have to the best thing to happen is for everybody to calm down and iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalating nobody is talking about a military solution to the current friction with the iranians i haven't heard anybody discussion are you thank you all very much but the briefing still did not convince skeptical democrats make no mistake this president has a bit strange itching

secretary of state might pump aoe was in london meeting with british foreign secretary jeremy hunt the two men standing beside each other praising shared values and interests and at the same time standing at opposite poles on the iran nuclear deal. on the iran nuclear deal it is a very important achievement of westen diplomacy that despite all the problems that we have in the middle east today iran does not have nuclear weapons and its neighbors have not responded by getting their own nuclear weapons and. the section from power and i are one in agreeing that it will be a massive step back for that region if it became nuclearized we've made a decision different than the united kingdom has with respect to the chase e.p.o. way and so. iran's decision to depart from the j.c.b. for us mostly is about their decision to work on their nuclear program and i'm confident that as we watch iran's activity that the united kingdom and our european partners will move forward together to ensure that iran has no pathway for a nuclear weapons system you know if the us secretary my company were there spea

and finally it was provided by the members of the trumpet ministration secretary of state mike pump aoe in the acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan held separate reefing sessions from both the house and the senate. patrick shanahan arguing that the recent deployment to carry a strike force to the region has played a role in controlling the crisis we have to turn attacks based on our repository of assets to turn attacks against american forces. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent iranian miscalculation. we do not want the situation to escalate. this is about deterrence not about war. or not about going to war we're ready to respond if we have to the best thing to happen is for everybody to calm down and iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalate nobody's talking about a military solution to the current friction with the iranians i haven't heard anybody discuss that are you thank you all very much but the briefing still did not convince skeptical democrats make no mistake this president has a bit strange itching for a

secretary of state might pump aoe was in london meeting with british foreign secretary jeremy hunt the two men standing beside each other praising shared values and interests and at the same time standing at opposite poles on the iran nuclear deal on the iran deal. it is a very important achievement of weston diplomacy that despite all the problems that we have in the middle east today iran does not have nuclear weapons and its neighbors have not responded by getting their own nuclear weapons and. section pompei and i are one in agreeing that it will be a massive step back for that region if it became nuclearized we've made a decision different than the united kingdom has with respect to the chase e.p.o. way and so. iran's decision to depart from the j.c.b. for us mostly is about their decision to work on their nuclear program and i'm confident that as we watch iran's activity that the united kingdom and our european partners will move forward together to ensure that iran has no pathway for a nuclear weapon system now is the us secretary my company were there speaking in london earlier

secretary of state mike pump aoe came to iraq on unscheduled visits because of what he said was intelligence on specific increased threats to u.s. interests in iraq the us has since sent 2 warships and b. $52.00 bombers to the gulf. mobilization forces under the command of prime minister idol of the little mahdi in his weekly press briefing he said iraq wants to play the role of a mediator between its 2 our allies and it didn't see any threats. of war iraq is currently stable up until this moment we have not seen any military escalation in iraq iraq has expressed this to the u.s. secretary of state iran is iraq's most important ally in the region sharing strong political economic and military and religious ties iraqi politicians and religious leaders have said they will not accept any interference in iraq's sovereignty by any country including iran. the conflicting statements about possible threats from iran has raised concerns that some parties in washington are exaggerating intelligence in order to build a case for some sort of military action against the country now the u.s. state departm

secretary of state mike pump aoe has met with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov and president vladimir putin in sochi despite recent tensions and disagreement on key issues discussed in their meetings all expressed a desire to restore the battered relations between the 2 countries. anti muslim obs in sri lanka have killed one person an attack mosques and muslim owned businesses the government has extended a curfew to a 2nd night hoping to contain the violence.

secretary of state mike pump aoe could be sent for talks with russia's president love him or. putin according to the kremlin spokesperson who said the proposed talks in moscow could be held in the next few weeks of course lives knowledge jeana culture over for more and what is normal at this stage we do know well the meeting between the russian president and the u.s. secretary of state stayed home pale may happen as early as this month now and may washington's top diplomat will meet a with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov in the resort city office sanchia and now the kremlin says a parallel a meeting where the president could take place there to now this will be a first visit to russia as the u.s. secretary of state and lavrov did however just to meet with him at the arctic summit in finland and that particular meeting showed that the two countries are still struggling to find common ground on a range of issues not only on vanessa well up but the use of the arctic as well. concerned about russia's claim over the international waters of the northern sea route includin

the phrase all options are on the table including the military one and when secretary of state pump aoe was heading to europe the journalists were reporting that on the plane he said that nicolas maduro can no longer be in charge of this country he believes he is simply not able to do that even though he is the. fact still the leader of the country and i can tell you that the government in venezuela understands that they could end up having to brace for the worst case scenario just listen to what their foreign minister said when he was in the russian capital on sunday no sort of put it but oh we are ready for all scenarios the 1st includes diplomacy dialogue and peace if the u.s. prefers the military part we're ready to resist we have an army police our people and we are ready to destroy any army no matter how powerful it is so essentially the most influential powers on the opposite sides here the government at any cost with dural and the self-proclaimed president why do so are finally in touch on this president donald trump has spoken to president vladimir putin the top diplomats have

secretary of state mike pump aoe came to iraq on unscheduled visits because of what he said was intelligence on specific increased threats to u.s. interests in iraq the u.s. has since sent 2 warships and b. $52.00 bombers to the gulf. the popular mobilization forces under the command of prime minister idol of the little mahdi in his weekly press briefing he said iraq wants to play the role of a mediator between its 2 allies and it didn't see any threats. wore off iraq is currently stable up until this moment we have not seen any military escalation in iraq iraq has expressed this to the u.s. secretary of state iran is iraq's most important ally in the region sharing strong political economic and military and religious ties iraqi politicians and religious leaders have said they will not accept any interference in iraq's sovereignty by any country including iran. the conflicting statements about possible threats from iran has raised concerns that some parties in washington are exaggerating intelligence in order to build a case for some sort of military action against the country now the u.s. s

talking to among the diplomats in brussels federica mockery they're far from happy that might pump aoe was in town on this day he wasn't supposed to be here he was supposed to be in moscow he did turn up and this is what represented the for foreign affairs had to say when it came to the iran deal they need to keep it alive we. still invite iran to comply with all its nuclear commitments and that is a full determination on the european union side and also all that understates expressed that today very clearly and continue to implementing it for all the nuclear deal with it and federica mockery and he said all of the parts of the iran deal just then because last week iran said that it would not continue to uphold all parts of the deal the 2015 deal that came on the anniversary of the united states saying that it would pull out wholeheartedly from the agreement now the u.s. decision to do that donald trump's decision to unilaterally pull the u.s. out of it it caused an awful lot of problems and it saw a lot of a u. nations member states also brussels that said. of condemning the united st

the phrase all options are on the table including the military one and when secretary of state pump aoe was heading to europe the journalists were reporting that on the plane he said that nicolas maduro can no longer be in charge of this country he believes he is simply not able to do that even though he is the. leader of the country and i can tell you that the government in venezuela understands that they could end up having to brace for the worst case scenario just listen to what their foreign minister said when he was in the russian capital on sunday muscle don't open it but. we are ready for all scenarios the 1st includes diplomacy dialogue and peace if the u.s. prefers the military we're ready to resist we have an army police our people and we are ready to destroy any army no matter how powerful it is so essentially the most influential powers on the opposite sides here the government at any cost with dural and the self-proclaimed president one why do so are finally in touch on this president donald trump how spoken to president vladimir putin the top diplomats have met but it is u

runs decision came precisely one year after washington unilaterally pulled out of the deal so my pump aoe is apparently going to brussels to discuss the next steps with the european leaders and we can only guess how that's going to play out who's going to have the upper hand and this discussions but something very important here is that europe was slamming america for unilaterally pulling out of the agreement a last year now their rhetoric changed and at this point they're equally unhappy with what sharon is doing. the decision you know we're on hasn't reached to vital compliance measures if they break that deal then there will be consequences in terms of how european powers react so we the iranians to think very long and hard before they break. the end of today nothing could be worse than iran leave in the agreement there are new sanctions today from europe because iran has so far respected the commitments we it has undertaken in this country commence and not just back to the question of how do we consider india so this could be a unique very special moment for. or the us administration

secretary of state mike pump aoe put their allergy to peace and common sense on display as they bang the drums for war with both iran and venezuela mr bolton declared to reporters on sunday evening that the u.s. is deploying the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group and the bomber task force to the middle east in order to quote send a clear and unmistakable message to the iranian regime that any attack on united states interests or on those of our allies will be met with own relenting force. relenting force you say as opposed to golly gee whiz relenting force we normally reserved for helping allies meanwhile over in the state department could be a was rattling the saber over venezuela's refer.

pump aoe spent much of the talk discussing venezuela and he was completely forthright and honest about what's going on there literally. within a handful of days of the recognition that the crisis the humanitarian element of the crisis in venezuela had spiraled and spike that had been difficult this has been years in the making but it is taken as a step change in the wrong direction we were able to move not only food and medicine but water we were able to mobilize airlift from our military c. seventeen s flying to i flew in here from from colombia to take it to the border interesting interest. here's a here's a here's an idea can you send some of the water to flint michigan bad guy thank god yes thank you thank you thank you so natural and good morning coffee do you feel keyed six deliberate i won't say that event as well you know. i don't want i would have venezuela want our water considering our record of killing maiming stealing destroying would you want to drink our water. hi i'm the local warlord and i just happen to be in the neighborhood doing a little light raping and pillaging

going to actually see from the arabian government here is it going to change its stance well my pump aoe has laid out really a bishop strategy the so-called maximum pressure broach and he also outlined 12 far reaching demands or goals for u.s. policy which called not only for a major behavioral change inside of the ring leadership in terms of the nuclear policy but also in terms of their domestic and regional policy but basically it's at least from an outside perspective but also for you know a more insider's perspective really hard to believe that you bring in leadership is able to actually fulfill these demands from the outside perspective it looks a lot like the buildup to the war between the u.s. and iraq in 2003 doesn't this rhetoric that we're seeing i think that's the reason why especially the europeans as so carefully trying to deescalate and that's also why you see these recent moves of spain and specially great britain to actually caution against the slippery slope of military escalation but also it's kind of indicating that the united states is trying to be careful with regard

secretary of state might pump aoe that it fully supports the international nuclear deal with iran and called on the u.s. to show maximum restraint for pale crash the meeting of e.u. foreign ministers discussing the escalating tensions between his nation and iran and yemen's warring parties are taking party new u.n. sponsored talks in jordan it comes as who the rebels withdraw from a data stream ports and hand them over to un supervise forces coming at lengths that super surtees and that is it from love of. a by. talk to al-jazeera we are just back from yemen what was the glimpse of the country the few gulps we listen that children are deeply affected because of war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter just 0. the 2 men behind super 30 could hardly have more different backgrounds their partnership might seem unlikely but it works and we understand each other. there's certain things which we have in common and that's what makes us work together. to do something for me put a people would be pretty would have not had so much ladies wheat he's also one per

secretary of state mike pump aoe came to iraq on unscheduled visits because of what he said was intelligence on specific increased threats to u.s. interests in iraq the us has since sent 2 warships and b. $52.00 bombers to the gulf. the mobilization forces under the command of prime minister adl abdul mahdi in his weekly press briefing he said iraq wants to play the role of a mediator between its 2 allies and it didn't see any threats. iraq is currently stable up until this moment we have not seen any military escalation in iraq iraq has expressed this to the u.s. secretary of state. iran is iraq's most important ally in the region sharing strong political economic military and religious ties iraqi politicians and religious leaders have said they will not accept any interference in iraq's sovereignty by any country including iran. the conflicting statements about possible threats from iran has raised concerns that some parties in washington are exaggerating intelligence in order to build a case for some sort of military action against the country now the u.s. state department has ordered the

somewhat out of nowhere about a week ago we had a scheduled visit from secretary of state mike pump aoe to berlin which was called off at the last minute so that the secretary of state could travel to iraq to meet with counterparts there to discuss what the administration said were credible threats of iranian proxies planning an attack on u.s. resources and military assets in the region with very quick movement of u.s. military assets to the region and all the sudden we're in this tit for tat moment of escalation between the iranians and the americans and yet when u.s. officials such as mike pompei i have tried to make the case of credible evidence to european officials. it's been met with increasing skepticism exactly rick no act europeans definitely pushing back on this point even a british general saying yesterday he doesn't buy the evidence he's seeing and that is quite remarkable as as you know britain is part of the 5 eyes alliance partnership and and clearly a dispute over evidence the u.s. claims could potentially justify military strikes and potentially a war with iran and the

once again with secretary of state mike bump aoe saying that washington isn't ruling out sending in troops. military action is possible if that's what's required that's what the united states will do earlier pompeo suggested that they've been as well and president had been ready to flee the country but nicolas maduro was told to stay put by russia. literally. getting prepared to get on this airplane and out of the country before you stop stop really at the direction of the rush he was ready to leave this morning as we understand it the russians indicated he should stay he said during his the plane ready to go to cuba to flee and the russians took him off the plane and food bade him to leave the country. least be serious. responded as well accusing washington of launching at this information come pain to deem ol arisan as well and has spoken to his russian counterpart about the crisis in caracas so gay lavrov said that the united states' interference goes against international law and could have serious consequences. meantime the united states has banned american airlines from flying over a

things jim matters before he resigned in the gym at his wouldn't just wouldn't do him and i know pump aoe is a clear eyed guy about russia and so trump probably says he wants to do certain things with russia and pompei oh probably just doesn't do them. and so when you get inside the when you when you watch these situations you have to think ok what is pump ale want what is congress want what are the american people want what does trump want what is putin want and so it gets you know it gets sanded down and distorted and pushed in different directions based on all these different interests and so i don't think putin is running circles around anybody i think that putin has . a great he's in a very powerful position because he's unlike trump he doesn't have any constituents whatsoever he can wake up one day just decide what he wants to do you think is a very dangerous medium for the world and the part of your life mission now is to to rein him in right well i mean i say i don't have to think he is he is. there's no other head of state that invaded ukraine and invaded georgia and bombed innoc

foreign minister a conversation with the russian president it is going to be a busy one for my pump aoe in this country and i can tell you that there was a rather long pause in direct contacts between top american and russian officials and this trip probably is a sign that the two sides are realizing that the rizzle lot of catching up to be done in fact they have already begun doing it last week vladimir putin and donald trump war on the phone for about an hour and a half on monday this week the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov had a quick meeting with secretary of state mike from pale in finland but perhaps that was just a rehearsal before a much more serious much more lengthy round of diplomacy and if you watch the news in the last few weeks for you it won't be a problem at all to realize to guess what is probably going to be up for discussion to ron's decision to stop playing by some of the rules of the so-called iran's nuclear deal venezuela needs to be sorted out ukraine's got a new president and north korea's kim jong un has been to russia to meet a lot of more potent nuclea

somewhat out of nowhere about a week ago we had a scheduled visit from secretary of state mike pump aoe to berlin which was called off at the last minute so that the secretary of state could travel to iraq to meet with counterparts there to discuss what the administration said were credible threats of iranian proxies planning an attack on u.s. resources and military assets in the region with very quick movement of u.s. military assets to the region and all the sudden we're in this tit for tat moment of escalation between the iranians and the americans and yet when u.s. officials such as mike pompei i have tried to make the case of credible evidence to european offish. ells it's been met with increasing skepticism exactly rick no act europeans definitely pushing back on this point even a british general saying yesterday he doesn't buy the evidence he's seeing and that is quite remarkable as as you know britain is part of the 5 eyes alliance partnership and and clearly a dispute over evidence the u.s. claims could potentially justify military strikes and potentially a war with iran and th

things jim matters before he resigned in the gym at his wouldn't just wouldn't do him and i know pump aoe is a clear eyed guy about russia and so trump probably says he wants to do certain things with russia and pump a 0 probably just doesn't do them. and so when you get inside the when you watch these situations you have to think ok what is pump ale want what is congress want what are the american people want what does trump want what is putin want and so it gets you know it gets sanded down and distorted and pushed in different directions based on all of these different interests and so i don't think putin is running circles around anybody i think that putin has a great he's in a very powerful position because he's unlike trumpy doesn't have any constituents whatsoever he can wake up one day just decide what he wants to do you think is a very dangerous for me and for the world and the part of their life mission now is to to rein him in right well i mean i say i don't have to think he is he is. there's no other head of state that's invaded ukraine and invaded georgia and bombed innocent

so pump aoe seems troubled by both china's and to russia's presence in the arctic speaking about russia first how legitimate is it for pump to warn russia considering its entire northern coastline borders the arctic ocean. well it seems like he's warning russia. in the framework of its proposed participation with china there's a un law it's called the convention actually that lists five nations that international law permits to bargain with each other over arctic resources like oil and gas and gold and diamonds and uranium which is extremely important in the world today due to nuclear weapons or nuclear power and the fact that no new raynier ms is able to be made so finding sources of it is a pretty big deal but the convention does not have china on the list of five nations and so russia is causing a potential problem in international law in pompei you are certainly aware of that china has no claim as pompei zero said and i think anybody can justify that russia is a popular. i'm going to use the word punching bag although is overstated diplomatically making russia an adversary and stand

secretary of state mike pump aoe has arrived in brussels for talks on the ram with his counterparts just minutes before his flight he canceled what was to be an informal visit to moscow though he intends to go on to russia on tuesday press council meeting with president vladimir putin a change of plan comes after tehran threatened to renege on its commitments under the iran nuclear deal before setting off for brussels impel gave an interview in which he outlined the u.s. position towards the country. iran is the major destabilizing in influence in the middle east and we aim to fix that our aim is not war our aim is a change in the behavior of the iranian leadership we hope the iranian people will get what they finally want what they did so richly deserved it wasn't expected boaties picked the right day to change these plans at the last minute because in brussels the foreign affairs council of the european union a meeting that means that all 28 member states foreign ministers. going to be in one place in one room as well as federica mockery the high representative for foreign affairs of t

secretary of state mike pump aoe finally visited his german counterpart heiko mosse and german chancellor angela merkel high time to put a good face on a strained alliance. germany is a great important partner an ally of the united states that's why i am so happy to have this time today with chancellor merkel americal also stressed the importance of transatlantic relations. and states is and will remain germany's most important side europe. but it soon became clear how big the differences are on iran for example germany is sticking to a deal to prevent the iranians acquiring nuclear weapons the us has long since withdrawn from that deal and is relying on sanctions. we've been pretty clear about trade with iran there are items that are sanctioned in their items that are not humanitarian aid for example is exempted the german foreign minister made conciliatory statements. we are going in different directions at the moment but i think we are aware that our goals have always remained the same and i hope we will be able to achieve those goals together. but at the moment it's difficult to find