last week and we discussed this peter what we saw in turkey was a turkey that is exploring its options we saw there going to the brics meeting we saw russia in all the brics members very happy to have turkey on board and we're seeing turkey now even examining even examining it considering its nato membership and this is huge is the geo political earthquake to see turkey it's like greggs it shifted it's like my friends it it's a it's a brags that here it is flirting right now it's the in the bazaar right now because i don't see them leaving nato any time soon but it's planting the seed we have options we have friends that's already been excluded from the united states weapons program i mean it's syria and all of that rhetoric between turkey and the you of was all full in the last few months so basically all of this adventure in the me there was that mr obama stopped it you know when he basically support the insurgency against the syrian government it backfired terribly because what did the united states want to do from their point of view of interests of the united states they wanted to

and turkey has come to this. she was built entire if the no leaving goes to great tree deals as opposed to the horrible food trade deals the drawing heritages your president of the country should not be allowed to come in and steal the wealth of all great you. what countries could he mean are stealing could be turkey the country's lira shed a quarter of its value against the dollar in just one week after trump's tweet about doubling existing tariffs investors are running away screaming inflation surging and turkey's leadership is bracing for an all out trade war the reason for such a calamity against an old nato friend was ankara's refusal to release an american pastor accused of both terrorism and espionage it's punishment time for a rebellious ally that tariffs that are in place on steel would not be removed with the release of pastor bronson and president her to one lashed out in defiance calling the u.s. move an attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them a slave to the greenback this is coming through

congress that tore turkey but turkey has the diet as the absolute right to purchase as five hundred missiles from russia have been objections from the next including to us that this put the create problems for over. its nato partners but i think at the end of the day at the end of the day turkey has the type to beef up its or didn't depend system including that she has the plan system and that the deal get this one hundred says is in place and it's going up i missed it overnight if i if i can ask you what the full by turkish ambassador to the united states from two thousand i want to two thousand and five what would you recommend for the american and turkish leadership to do to mend that high and get over this current relationship crisis. to come down on number one. and act i feel cool if you like and the first order of business is to dissolve this . story case all for a passive concert and this can be done according to turkish law by the turkish court and it to provide it could provide the chance for the two sides to it and i will other more serious problems because at the end of the day th

since turkey is. not a heavyweight player like russia or like united states so its capabilities are much narrower. dr hiatt agent cohen turkey expert from tel aviv university thank you so much for your time. that's our global news update for this hour and that's all for me as well but my colleague you know neal will be here at the top of the hour with the latest as always thanks for tuning out. this is my love hate relationship with the united kingdom i'm all i'm handy a lot of it because it's shambolic and fraudulent. and but he got paid it because thousands tens of thousands of people had their lives destroyed by r.b.s. . this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm barred chilton and thank you for being on board today bartlett nailer of public citizen is back and we look at the case surrounding congressman chris collins who as we reported yesterday was charged by federal prosecutors with insider trading wind to the federal bureau of investigation plus there's a new oppon

move an attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them a slave to the greenback but turkey's just one example of how the trumpet ministration treats longtime allies in fact many of america's friends have already been forced into the fray in a war of tariffs and sanctions canada had heavy steel and aluminum tariffs imposed earlier this year and trump perhaps thought the stars and stripes needed some protection from its northern neighbor who didn't take too kindly to it that it's kind of insult you move forward with retaliatory measures on july first applying equivalent tariffs as if that wasn't bad enough the us president went and slapped tariffs on europe today i'm defending america's national security. by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum brussels tried to hit back with restrictions of its own tried to appeal to the transatlantic solidarity special relations bonds of friendship but to no avail and it begs the question with such a long list of enemies the us is currently fighting from iran to north korea russia china why kick your allies i think this has bec

and turkey. president ever to juan and the turkish government i have a message on behalf of the president of the united states of america release pastor andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences approaching us with this kind of threatening language will not benefit anyone it is not suitable to use such language against a country like turkey which is still cooperating with nato to the highest level but we have learned a lot of problems with the and there are americans and turkey. made this branson issue will be tribal issue an american strike to oppress turkey you know to negotiate the other things this is a speck out of the hell out of the problems with the in america and turkey especially footlocker moment and all sorts of. fighters in syria why does the pastor bronson is really important for americans and we cannot understand that maybe because this is related to. the american elections coming elections in november but india and turkey never accept any threats from any country

system as it were that is emerging a country like turkey it's going to go to washington still rather than brics bank be china because it's china and russia that have appeared in the newspapers as a big. scary enemy to two western edge of morning do you think. or do you think bricks and be really have a chance in the short term of being a force in this world well i was always against the politicizing the economic relations unfortunately this is the first of the effect of today but speaking about the financial capabilities of the brics countries it's more than half of the world and of course the economy of germany's bigger now than the economy of the united states if we're talking about in the purchasing power and by the way you know that most of the. projects that were. that were launched by russia in the european bank or for construction in developing which is in london most of them i mean all of them were stopped and going from london and it's moving from london and so all this project moved to the brics bank so basically we want to finance our activity now in the asia not in europe

to discuss syria so there's going to be a summit evolving russia turkey german front germany france. where is britain in all of this was a big a donor i know you're alleging there's a good question for the new foreign secretary because the the the position of britain is a little bit different from the position of the world community so we want to bring all the refugees back to syria and start the normal life in this country so what the british government is saying that first we should start the political process and then bring the refugees back to syria but the political process already started and that's exactly what we're doing. in a some other place including the geneva so basically the british go in with a little bit late with this activity on bringing the refugee hine journey in for us of course by the way fronts but dissipated in the humanitarian operation together with us just a few weeks ago to bring you a humanitarian aid to syria and they were when i asked my colleagues in the foreign office whether they are ready to join russia and france on this humanitarian. mission i di

turkey's vowed to retaliate against the u.s. off to washington impose sanctions on two officials in ankara over the descent of an american pastor. with these measures the united states has shown a real lack of respect for turkey we've shown patience until yesterday evening turkey will not be disciplined with this understanding and approach and wednesday the trumpeter ministrations slapped economic sanctions on two senior turkish officials and said any property they have in the us will be blocked in response turkey said it will introduce sanctions all of its own targeting to as yet unnamed u.s. officials besides blocking their assets anchor also says those targeted will be prevented from doing business with now the pastor at the center of that this beauty is andrew bronson he was detained in twenty sixteen in connection with an attempted coup against president obama's government that year he's accused of espionage and assisting terrorist groups a deal between the u.s. and turkey to secure the evangelical pastors release broke dow

when it comes to turkey obviously british jets of launched bombing missions or into lake airbase what is russia as they say which made stream media here or american media playing at your four hundred missile defense is a terrifying to think tanks within a mile of this studio and monsieur to one no saying this is i mean we have medvedev the russian prime minister saying this economic war coming from the sanctions which you heard about in turkey saying we may start looking for a new friends and allies and a lot of horror here about a poll in the past twelve months seventy percent of turkish citizens favorable to political economic and security alliances with russia are you actively trying to turn turkey from being a stable good nato ally of britain's into a course in order of course not first of all turkey is. in the fighting of the terrorists in syria and i think they took you made a great contribution you know just to eliminate the judges from syria ninety six percent of the territory is free today this is first as far as the. systems see four hundred they're simply better than the am

move an attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them a slave to the greenback but turkey is just one example of how the trumpet administration treats longtime allies in fact many of america's friends have already been forced into the fray in a war of tariffs and sanctions canada had heavy steel and aluminum tariffs imposed earlier this year and trump perhaps thought the stars and stripes needed some protection from its northern neighbor who didn't take too kindly to it that it's kind of insult to move forward with retaliatory measures on july first applying equivalent tariffs as if that wasn't bad enough the u.s. .

last week and we discussed this peter what we saw in turkey was a turkey that is exploring its options we saw there going to the brics meeting we saw russia and all the brics members very happy to have turkey on board and we're seeing turkey now even examining even examining it considering its nato membership and this is huge is the geo political earthquake to see turkey it's like greggs it shifted it's like my friends it it's a it's a brags that here it is flirting right now it's the in the bazaar right now because i don't see them leaving nato anytime soon but it's planting the seed we have options we have friends that's already been excluded from the united states weapons program i mean it's syria and all of that rhetoric between turkey and the you of was all full in the last few months so basically all of this adventure in the me there was that mr obama stopped it you know when he basically support the insurgency against the syrian government it backfired terribly because what did the united states want to do you know from that point of view of interest of the united states they wa

financial markets currencies around the world take a pounding as the economic standoff between turkey and the u.s. escalates even. moments after midday here in moscow this is r.t. international a very well and. a string of attacks has rocked sweden three weeks ahead of september elections and we understand three suspects have been arrested one of them in turkey it's widely thought that the timing of the fires which appeared of being coordinated was not accidental and speculation is rife as to who carried out the attacks and what impact they may have on the upcoming electoral race. reports it's not even dark people look out their windows and see this. the first locals are just completely baffled and can't squeeze out a word a few moments later the erupt in sheer fury and they scream. that. their next thought is it even safe to leave their homes now. the hooded thugs smash up and burn mostly cars they know what they're doing they know how to do it the our team in the last few days there were almost identical scenes everywhere you see a flame i can swedish media say at least about one hu

the president in turkey has made it abundantly clear that he is in control of the central bank and i think that the take away what we should be learning from what's happened in turkey is that politics and central banks have good reason to be independent of one another so that the central bankers can come in in times of distress and do what needs to be done. i took a deep dive this week into other countries that are that are similarly at risk and a lot of it comes down to for example brazil and a new scandal broke out there today that's not going to help their economy again politics and economics clashing with one another because aca stan has got a big presidential election coming up in twenty nineteen that instability and the fact that the country has a lot of dollar denominated debt as does turkey of course these are the risk factors i think investors should be paying attention to going forward because i do think that turkey is probably just a sign of what is to come in the coming years yeah and we got you know turkey surpassed for the viewers that don't know surpassed the worst per

and then there is turkey and its detention of pastor and brunson turkish authorities say was tied to the twenty sixteen who attempt now trump says he wants him released. the united states will impose large sanctions on turkey for the long time detainment of pastor andrew brunson this innocent man of faith should be released immediately i have just authorized a doubling of terrorists and still and with respect to turkey as the currency the turkish lira slides rapidly downward against a very strong dollar our relations with turkey are not good at this time. but turkey is going at a budge and just like trump era one knows how to talk tough not talk about we are partners in nato and then you step your strategic partner in the battle we will do as the law dictates you cannot simply make sure you can bow down or by bus on us around meanwhile russia is not exactly caving in the face of sanctions yes it was possible which the but if some ban on banks operations or on their use of one or another currency all it would be possible to clearly call it a collaboration of economic war and it would

course with control to turkey's side. it is to be turkey that it will be affected more negatively. it does think that the trumpet ministration is making a bit of a habit of alienating its international friends doesn't it yes it does and. i think from brought this new era or good of eliminating almost everyone including the nato allies turkey also with the new with the with an article published. by presenter dan he said that turkey has other alternatives this shows that if this goes like that turkey. several of its server is listening entirely with the united states but it will distance most worldly now the trigger for the terror standoff was the detention of a u.s. pastor i can't that be further political as well as economic surprised by either side how far could discuss. i think it's more political than economic or economic measures are used in order to achieve a political goal because. pastoral branson is an evangelist christian country i understand that the people the. inner cabinet of presidents or close associates of president terms are all almost all of them are evangelists a

turkey rejected a u.s. request to let him return to his homeland brunson is currently under house arrest and izmir turkey and the turkish president of the one says the u.s. move is disrespectful. you know we've shown patience with the step america has taken does not go through to step taken towards a strategic partner in america has shown serious disrespect towards turkey. on wednesday the trump administration slapped economic sanctions on two senior turkish officials and said any property they have in the u.s. will be blocked in response turkey has said it will introduce sanctions of its own targeting the assets of u.s. officials in the country besides freezing their assets and says those targeted will also be prevented from doing business with turkey now the pastor at the center of the dispute is andrew bronson he was detained in twenty sixteen in connection with an attempted coup against are the ones government that year and he's accused of espionage and assisting terrorist groups a deal between the u.s.

and turkey are allies they're both not members of nato why is turkey opting for the s four hundred over other systems i mean is it normal practice for the u.s. to demand allies use particularly weapons systems other than others. actually kind of the is the problem with this is not really interoperability i mean obviously that's a question but there are many countries that procured military equipment from a number of different sources i think what's what's going on here released with respect to turkey is that because we have an estrangement relations with them that we are going to deliver any threats that we think are appropriate that will put pressure on mr everyone i think a lot of this revolves around syria and the fact that turkey is getting closer to russia and iran and hopefully wrapping up the syrian war but there are many things i think going on and under the table as well. that seems to be the case one thing that i've noticed lately is that the u.s. seems to be sanction happy if that makes any sense so why is the u.s. threatening sanctions in this case are there not better ways

or turkey a country of democracy. or how about the american officials here they are a extremist group in which i have been a coward who bombs the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. position is centered in this room. and let's not forget how america stood alongside the afghan wish i had been in its battle against the soviet union only to see that group later form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago so does america dealing with a spot and groups amount to sponsoring terrorism while the state department has a good answer for that i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding. president trump has announced a doubling of us of metal tariffs on turkey a key nato ally i have just authorized a doubling of tariffs on steel and on the menu with respect to turkey is their currency the turkish lira slides roughly downward against our very strong dollar a mini moon now b. twenty percent and still fifty

move an attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them a slave to the greenback but turkey's just one example of how the trumpet ministration treats longtime allies in fact many of america's friends have already been forced into the fray in a war of tariffs and sanctions canada had heavy steel and aluminum tariffs imposed earlier this year and trump perhaps thought the stars and stripes needed some protection from its northern neighbor who didn't take too kindly to it that it's kind of insult to move forward with retaliatory measures on july first applying equivalent tariffs as if that way.

turkey has vowed to evaluate against the u.s. after washington imposed sanctions on two officials in ankara over the detention of an american pastor rejected an earlier request by the u.s. to let him return to his homeland and andrew brunson is currently under house arrest the turkish president says that the u.s. is being disrespectful. you know we've shown patience but the step america has taken does not fit a step taken towards a strategic partner in america has shown serious disrespect towards turkey. while on wednesday the trumpet ministrations slapped economic sanctions on two senior turkish officials and said any property they have in the us will be blocked in response turkey said it will introduce sanctions of its own freezing the assets of u.s. officials in the country ankara says those targeted will also be prevented from doing business with turkey the pastor at the center of the dispute is andrew brunson he was detained in two thousand and sixteen in connection with an attempted coup against president government that ye

to treat a nato ally such as turkey in this manner. i think yes first time in turkish american relations and i don't mean by literally but also in the context of nato we have a crisis which both probably continue to increase and the turkish reaction is very strong and it is to be expected the american president will further undertake certain measures about the fact is the public in turkey is in anger and they do consider this as an act against the turkish national interest and it is considered as an economic war where the americans money play to the economy just as the passage of about what is more important of course this type of crisis between america and turkey will have further consequences for the regional and global developments i think donald trump is playing with fire for the american interest in the long run despite the fact that americans are very strong economy and they will destroy the troops it's going to mean in the sense of greatness but. not only the turkish people in the region the iranians the american the russians an

and turkey likewise condemning its nato ally. the latest clashes between the afghan government. have killed over one hundred civilians with washington apparently unsure whether it's cooperating or fighting the islamist group. the international launches a probe. within the organization are blamed on pressure of work. live from moscow to the world international good to have your company i mean you know. breaking news. international the house being for the last number of hours now u.k. police confirm they are treating a car crash in westminster terror attack during morning rush hour now a vehicle crashed into security barriers at the heart is a parliament in london injuring two people the driver being detained at the scene by police. on. our london correspondent on the say a church is the site of the incident last year how clear are we on the details of the incident at this stage. well you know the details have been sprinkling and throughout the last several hours since this incident took place we do know that the latest is a statement from scotland yard of confirmed that they do h

well turkey also rules out talks. you're watching our chief international coming to you live from moscow welcome to the program. police and britain have confirmed they're treating a car crash outside parliament as a terror attack the vehicle crashed into security barriers after injuring cyclists and pedestrians during tuesday morning rush hour the driver was detained by armed police who rushed to the scene the suspect who is now in police custody on suspicion of terror fences has been identified as a twenty nine year old british citizen he is not believed to have been previously known to british intelligence and is thought to be from the city of birmingham and the english midlands the head of the u.k.'s counter terror unit says the suspect is not cooperating police are now searching three addresses in the region however here's a video of police responding to the incident. at full speed to the westminster area. of parliament parliament this would normally be a bustling government area. it's always very popular with tou

dollar turkey in turn has hiked a rates on key american products like cars and alcohol the u.s. though now says that sanctions will remain in place even if the pastor is released . what fortan this this one american to put global financial stability at risk. put u.s. base presence in turkey at risk put a nato ally alliance with a nato partner at risk for one american who's being put through the circus just so you're saying this is our faults turkey is our financial situation has been in the works for quite some time and it dates prior to the imposition of sanctions on august i believe was august the first so this is been in train for quite some time and even not blame the us government for that and yet all of a sudden stepping in on turkey's side is qatar which was approved fifteen billion dollars and a to help prop up the turkish economy. down court now takes a look at how the decades old of lyons between america and turkey spiral at this point. she was built the entire entire roof so no leading goes to great tree deals as opposed to the horrible food trade deals the drawing he

so wild turkey also ruled. in the evening here in moscow wherever you're watching from hello and welcome i'm in an o'neill our top story a major motorway bridge house collapsed in the northern italian city of genoa sending vehicles plunging one hundred meters to the grind the deputy transport minister ses at least twenty two people have been killed including a child we're just looking at live pictures right now at from the scene so much work going on with emergency crews our correspondent has been keeping track of this for the past number of hours. joins us now with more of the details just as we're looking. at the footage there it really is extraordinary of the aftermath of the deadly instance such a huge bridge so high up into the what's known about what occurred at this stage. yes absolutely dramatic pictures from the scene. transport minister has called the incident immense tragedy a talon journalists describing it as a take the bridge a massive construction was around one hundred metre high it's two hundre

turkey likewise condemning its nato ally. in the latest clashes between the afghan government and the taliban have killed over one hundred. washington. whether it's cooperate saying we're fighting. three pm here in the august fourteenth welcome to our to international in and. dozens of people are feared dead after a major motorway bridge collapsed in the northern italian city of genoa video has been posted online the moment the bridge came. the two hundred metre section of the a ten collapsed during a violent storm sending vehicles plummeting around one hundred meters to deploy at least two survivors have been followed and it is thought that a rather and a dozen vehicles were on the toll road when it came down out a run mid day at local time our correspondent joins us now for more on this maria this looks have been a devastating incident the pictures do not look good at all that's around what two hours since the tragedy happened what's being confirmed by this stage. well indeed terrible incident terrible video we just heard f

turkey's vowed to retaliate against the u.s. after washington imposed sanctions on two officials at ankara over the detention of an american pastor turkey rejected an earlier request by the us that adam returned to his home and andrew robertson is currently under house arrest the turkish president says the u.s. is being disrespectful. shown patience but the step america has taken does not fit a step taken towards a strategic partner in america has shown serious disrespect towards turkey. on wednesday the trumpeter ministration put economic sanctions on two senior turkish officials they said any property they have in the u.s. will be blocked turkey responded saying it will introduce sanctions of its own freezing the assets of u.s. officials in the country and those targeted would also be prevented from doing business with turkey other pastor at the center of the dispute was the taint in twenty sixteen in connection with an attempted coup against his government is accused of espionage and assisting terror groups a deal between the

you're back with r t international washington has hinted it could hit turkey with sanctions over its the solution to buy a russian made her defense system the u.s. has also warned against other nato allies having similar ideas you know it goes against our policy to have a nato allies such as turkey use an asse four hundred system part of the problem with that it is that it is not in iraq will with other nato systems and so we are against the having some of our partners and allies around the world potentially purchase s. four hundred seven would trigger katz's action i'm not going to get into that but we have made very clear what could trigger sanctions for other countries and entities around the world well the russian made s. four hundred missile system is capable of hitting multiple high speed or real targets within a range of four hundred kilometers the deal signed by turkey in russia last year is worth two point five billion dollars the first systems will be delivered next europe has been looking to bolster its defenses since the u.s. withdrew its patriot missiles from the syrian