This is r. T. International coming to you live from moscow im Kate Partridge thank you for joining us. Austria is making headlines across europe amid concerns that the newly formed Coalition Government the conservatives have joined forces with the anti immigration ostrem Freedom Party the right wing groups been handed some key positions in the government the foreign interior and defense ministers were all belong to the party. And the fun and all the left wing activists have gathered in vienna to demonstrate against austrias new Coalition Government theyre shouting slogans and holding banners to crying the right Wing Coalition as you can see one point the square where the demonstration is being held hes in gulf layers of smoke right police are at the scene backed by water cannon. Arties peter oliver looks at what the new government means past year and in europe. Theres been widespread condemnation of this agreement across many european Media Outlets lots of fears that this will lead to the far right side of that coalition having more and more say over politics in austria but we can look at what the Weather Coalition of put out themselves of what they say their policies will be we can expect that theyll be an increase in direct democracy along the switch small of putting big votes to the people in order to get their opinions on which direction the country goes in next but one decision there wont be put into the peoples hands like that its been confirmed that austria has no intention on holding in a brags that s. K. U. Referendum any time soon we can also expect tougher immigration control we could also expect the austrian government to push for an end to turkeys accession to the talks we can also expect to see this austrian government pushing more for an end to e. U. Sanctions against moscow. Regarding the sanctions against russia yes we would like for those to be lifted and we will try to play a part in this is a mediator to find a solution in the interests of yours so europe and russia can overcome the differences when you talk to people on the streets of vienna opinion still very split over the direction the country is headed in the arctic things so i think we have sinned as before it was triumphant brags that in england and i think that i was taking it and i really dont think its get going to go that its good throughout europe theres a return to the far right you can see this in germany as world with the f. T. Got a lot of votes and if someone speaks about the refugee crisis you get the impression that this could have been handled better. On the good naaman i think the far right are. Correct theyre working for the people doing what people who wants them to do so im in favor i am happy with the situation well twenty seventeen how see in the far right its rise to prominence in european politics if we look right at the beginning of the year of course we saw builders pushing hard for the the dutch prime ministerial race in their elections there we also saw Marine Le Pen in france be the number one challenger to emanuel grown in the french president ial elections where is here in germany where im talking to you from the alternative for Germany Party of they took up seats for the first time in the bundestag in germanys Parliament Well while sebastian could denies that he has any truck with the far right the fact that it had to go into coalition with the with the austrian Freedom Party has seen him heavily criticized. And then a patsy a professor dressed in Technical University believes the e. U. Will have to reconcile itself to austrias new Coalition Government with european governments wont take any significant actions against this new or strong government because on the one hand writing populism has been growing in all these countries in the selfconfidence of europe centrist leftist government has been shattered by this rise of right wing populism and on the other hand the former coalition between the p. And the. Not hard to europe law to austria law were they any policies taken which are contradictions to humanitarian. Rule of law standards of the European Union fearful european governments dont see any reason for harsh restrictions and even central to right now. Now president putin has called donald trump to thank the cia for vital intelligence which helped prevent. A series of terrorist attacks in St Petersburg. Joins me live now with more details well hi there jack it means so what more do we know about this call well according to both the white house and the kremlin a tip off from the cia russian authorities to arrest a number of people in St Petersburg over the weekend who are planning a series of terrorist attacks throughout the city the white house also released a statement on the situation calling an example of how there can be positive cooperation between the two countries lets take a listen based on the information the United States provided russian authorities were able to capture the terrorists just prior to an attack that could have killed large numbers of people no russian lives were lost in the terrorist attack as were caught and now incarcerated. Both powers confirmed that putin called to congratulate and extend his thanks to the cia and in fact the director of the cia. And the whole organization and according to the White House Trump then passed on the appreciation and complimented the entire Intelligence Community in the u. S. Now the warning from the cia the cia led to a number of arrests happening over the weekend and ive read that actually found large amounts of explosives and weapons and even a bomb making workshop in the city so as an internment promised President Trump that he would do the same act in kind and if the russian intelligence sources found any hints of attacks being planned in the u. S. He would pass on that information to them but i was i was very positive then so was it a case of this is now coming to fruition what trungpa promised best to us russia or russia relations is that a good sign well i would say its probably a bit premature for that unfortunately today donald trump is expected to roll out his First NationalSecurity Strategy and yesterday officials top Trump Officials who were briefing reporters on the speech said that while ties between washington and moscow have improved slightly after having a real. Just a few months ago its still often seen that the two countries interests just dont align or often directly conflicts with one another over one another so it doesnt look like thats going to be a complete turnaround their National Security adviser general mcmaster he also hinted that term strategy will be very similar to what the predecessors were meaning that russia is still likely to be in the top five what they see as challenges to American Security so this hint of cooperation might not yet be the light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you very much thank you. Well we discussed terms new National Security plan with strategic analyst Gregory Copley he believes russia has been kept among the perceived threats due to political pressure. The National Security paper reemphasize Russia Strategic threat well unfortunately yes it will largely because of the media and opposition pressure which which has always claimed that he did a deal with moscow in order to help his Election Campaign so he has to appear to be sure to even handedly against russia and to raise russia as a potential adversary once again yes there are points of difference between the United States and russia but the reality is that the President Trump will need to and does want to work with moscow on some global issues i think it was the middle east but most importantly against the peoples republic of china. Is that explains reportedly claimed responsibility for an attack on an Afghan IntelligenceTraining Center in kabul earlier today armed militants stormed a partially constructed building at the complex triggering intense fighting with Security Forces local journalist has the latest attack is still ongoing Afghan Special forces are fighting against a number of attackers who are armed with rocket propelled grenades semiautomatic weapons we heard five to about six explosions in the area almost about fifteen minutes or so and afghan officials are now confirming and one car bomb has exploded theres another one that the attackers that brought them with them its quite an embarrassment to say the least because these areas should be protected these are areas where Afghan Intelligence trains its members in new recruits and. Extruded is another facility that starts with providing security to other installations in kabul all across the country what we see these days is that militants are targeting kabul and other major cities which is almost. Front line for them in the last few months weve also seen americans and other nato countries pounding board i says as well as taliban positions and Afghan Special forces have been carrying out regular operations it could be a retaliation but certainly what we see more and more that the Afghan Government and its International Law is failed to prevent these attacks from taking place in kabul. Bitcoin has hit a record high of twenty thousand dollars a coin however the cryptocurrency is not just attracting the attention of financial speculators but also e. U. Regulators who are unhappy at its only mittie aunties sethi has more details what may be the most appealing feature of crypto currency is now under threat their opinion has agreed to tackle the anonymity of crypto currency holders and and cities now the a. T. M. Say the measures will be part of a larger package needed to tackle tax evasion and so far its been welcomed by europes Justice Commissioner who has hailed the decision as a breakthrough todays agreement will bring more transparency to improve the prevention of Money Laundering and to cut off terrorist financing but heres a breakdown of what these measures actually mean all uses the term crypto currency so how that pairs no identity revealed what else if youve got to have to amounts of crypto currency loaded on a prepaid debit cards the use of this will be limited as authorities will also have greater access to information including not. No bank account registers and if anyone can demonstrate a legitimate interest in the crypto currency markets youll be granted access to whats have a data you need these measures are interesting you especially considering the bank of englands Deputy Governor said it was too small to pose a threat to the Global Economy in a recent interview he likens bitcoin to a product rather than money this is not a currency in the accepted sense theres no central bank that stands behind it for me its much more like a commodity from the governors insights to the eyes of World Bank Many a questioning the potential threat of crypto currency is to the Global Economy now more than ever as the value of bitcoin continues to say perhaps the rise of brought change technology is threatening a very old and established Business Model of the Financial Sector we have something that decentralizes the money supply and threatens the Business Model of the banks of course its going to be pushback against is any crackdown on our rights prissie of the internet is always always has an excuse that its trying to stop Money Laundering always trying to stop terrorism paedophiles or whatever yes sure criminals are going to use this but criminals already use banks i mean so many banks have been caught out Money Laundering of scales and have received vast fines for gray and black money from the drug trade. Perhaps we should say you should close down our banks to this fair hasnt gone unnoticed by the Bitcoin Community wiki leaks founder Julian Assange gave his backing to the Virtual Currency comparing it to the occupy wall street protest movements of two thousand and eleven a movement that tamed to fight inequality greed and corruption in the finance sector but regulators remain worried that crypto currency is a platform to avoid financial regulations whenever Tech Advances appear slow to catch up many countries and legal bodies have only recently started to address crypto currency regulation but dont worry it will take eighteen months for the law to be implemented giving you plenty of times the complete transactions enormously for now. Well Encryption Company founder poor rosenberg thinks the new restrictions could backfire what theyre doing is theyre attacking the companies that service the bitcoin market the people who make wallets the people who run exchanges and theres no reason that the people in the e. U. Have to use those companies they can go to others and indeed those Companies May close down and just move somewhere else where theyre not going to have these type of restrictions placed upon them. This is really these restrictions are a mere to cryptocurrency its a different type of system. Its an open question as to what will happen but i suspect that a lot of people will just not do business through the you. Now the r. T. Family is set to welcome a new member as were launching a brand new french channel later today the new studio in paris will bring news to france and the french speaking world it means r. T. 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Security council will reportedly vote this monday on a draft resolution to reject decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital the move is continuing to cause anger in the middle east. Palestinians have been involved in process and clashes with Israeli Forces for almost two weeks as a boston strong decided to end u. S. Neutrality on one of the most complex issues in the region with both palestinians and israelis laying claim to the ancient city the decision has been followed by a wave of condemnation from european and muslim leaders. Well the turkish president has been one of the loudest voices now announced plans to open an embassy in East Jerusalem where if an option a has more on how the Jerusalem Move is being confronted. Here we are in is jury still in the part of the state a considered by palestinians to be their territory so in this status may be supported by turkey now and cora has a general consulate here but the countrys president is now saying he wants to open an embassy here. Weve already declared East Jerusalem as the capital of the palestinian state but we havent been able to open our embassy there because jerusalem is currently under occupation god willing we will open our embassy there. The turkish leader has been reacting fiercely to Donald Trumps controversial recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel slamming other nations for a week response mr aragon appeared to be speaking home behalf of the moves in world when he claimed if we lose jerusalem then we wont be able to protect me dina if we lose medina we will lose mecca and caba the organization of islamic cooperation held an emergency meeting in istanbul wait hold on the International Community to commit to making East Jerusalem the palestinian capital. The us decision on your rousseau them because of its great. Historical and permanent rights to palestine. Jerusalem not see the United States the solution to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is a dangerous one it will threaten security and stability and frustrates efforts to resume the Peace Process boy yet as a mayor all every possible step must be taken to prevent the implementation of this illegal action by the Us Administration however there is one question that sticks out here what factors are never once made it possible for the us president to take such an outrageous act and its not just move nations reacting to the u. S. Recognition of jerusalem with violent protest all over the globe the u. N. Security council is now reportedly considering a draft resolution to abolish trumps decision thats following an emergency session requested by eight out of the. Fifteen Member States it is highly unlikely that the resolution like this could pass through the Security Council with america of course one of five permanent members with veto powers refinish r. T. From jerusalem. Where however it could be difficult for him to carry out the move the entire city is controlled by israel which calls it its indivisible capital jerusalem doesnt currently host any foreign embassies who same bakshi from the middle east Technical University believes orderings move has a lot to do with domestic ambitions and promises to other Muslim States picnic turkey can do it rather once again. Israel has. I dont know thats the turkey can do it in the foreseeable future but the dancers month is different the message for governments to consumption first of all the under second one these promises to do is the main program of the conference. Together of course more conscious of the rich can and should. Look at the physical of the palestinian state but it is not easy it is just a promise to more want to satisfy probably. Turkish. Also gives some hope for the Islamic Conference Organization but i do not expect that turkey to do it without understanding of. Russia is back to cold war era hostility towards the west according to British Foreign minister Boris Johnson hes been speaking ahead of his meeting this week with his russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov here in moscow arties anastasio churkin now joins me live with the details so high that nasser it seems the foreign secretary isnt very optimistic ahead of his first visit to russia or is it. Well kate ahead of this so first visit by u. K. Foreign minister to russia in five years Boris Johnson has certainly been been making some curious comments in his typical manner for starters he has drawn some comparisons between russia and sparta i was reading few citys history of the war it was obvious to me that athens and its democracy its openness its culture and civilization was the analog of United States and the west russia for me was closed no asti militaristic and anti democratic like spots or. Well Boris Johnson has also said that russia has not been so hostile to the u. K. Or western interests since the end of the cold war and quote now was speaking to the sunday times on the oh so popular issue of russian meddling he said again that he see no evidence of russian influence when it comes to the bronx and referendum if you remember in the past hes even used the words not of sausage of evidence but he has said that there is some evidence that there has been russian trolling on facebook now this might be in reference to some of the numbers released by facebook that have said that only two hundred people in britain had seen any adverts which cost just over seventy p. These numbers were certainly quite curious given all the endless talk about this alleged russian meddling and facebook influence when it came to that referendum now also ahead of this visit its curious that some of paranoia here in westminster are looking are nervous about what is going to happen when Boris Johnson finally gets to moscow for talks with his counterparts we have seen the chair of the Parliamentary Group on is russia and libor and he chris bryant published an open letter to Boris Johnson warning him of certain things that could come including things such as his food potentially being spiked some kind of influence to not let Boris Johnson get enough sleep things like honey traps why beautiful kremlin agents as well as maybe his phones being hacked or bugged hes also been warning to stay away from any drinking games and has been letting Boris Johnson to be weary of being alone in an elevator and making faces faces so that this doesnt get used against him in the future but that said Boris Johnson has made it clear by sort of repeating his mantra of beware but engage that he does plan to have serious talks when it comes to the situation in syria and specifically collaborating with russia to defeat isis terrorism so certainly lots to look for to look ahead for when it comes to this visit later in the week. It certainly doesnt associate youre going to london. How about more news at the top of the hour. Im after her to answer were going underground is today the International Monetary funds managing director Christine Lagarde was found guilty of criminal charges visits african nations arguably damaged by her organizations policies going on the show while the world condemns washington policy on the middle east by territories what about britains occupation problems in a time of brechts if we talk to b. M. P. New ones. Twenty years after his death about anga strike against westminster rule michele field the news and the head of a special hearing of the u. K. Home Affairs Committee with bosses at Facebook Google and twitter ask or for Dr Christopher john or why he thinks we should celebrate social media as part of a second winning still. Going on today is going on the ground for us to some of the most important numbers on earth today six individuals rather than a system appear in a london court over alleged manipulation of the euro interbank offered rate or euro bore what is it well its an average Interest Rate charged by euro zone banks it relates only to unsecured loans in euros unlike libel law which is linked to deals worth four hundred fifty thousand thousand Million Dollars thats a figure revised down from eight hundred trillion dollars by u. K. Authorities either way all that money was conceivably traded on alleged fraud human rights switzerlands u. B. S. Was fined thats the new two thousand eight hundred trillion Swiss Banking giant u. B. S. Agreed wednesday to pay five hundred forty five Million Dollars to settle a probe by u. S. Authorities into its role in manipulating interest in currency rates but all claims also paid up on hundreds of millions of dollars. But days after its c. E. O. Bob diamond resigned of the scandal he appeared to feel it not appropriate to talk about the then labor governments role in all of this he was questioned by the now disgraced former British Defense secretary michael fallon. To the final votes of your call. To the chair that you saw the. First. Sort of one point officials of the government of the. Members of the government which you believe a question the cast doubt on the british governments role in fraud unit Interest Rate setting who do you think they were. I would only be speculating if i told you what they were and i dont the disappeared to speculate. My recollection is paul didnt mention who he was referring to or i would have put it in there no one for britains Treasury Select Committee seem to appreciate the irony of the former c. E. O. Of one of britains biggest banks refusing to take part in speculation as for the cost of power lies and corruption the populations of western nations continue to pay for it in austerity and one region in western europe is arguably emblematic of collective economic punishment Northern Ireland yet whilst it may be a European Center for Child Poverty it also made out to take the post breaks that future britain while the rest of the world looks to the occupation of jerusalem after a decision by donald trump on its future is the arguable occupation of ireland and the future of its soft border that is determining negotiations about the u. K. s departure from the e. U. 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