RT News - May 13, 2019 (17:00 MSK)

Russia's Foreign Minister says he plans to confront his US counterpart at their upcoming meeting, over how Washington plans to settle the crisis it created, over the Iran nuclear deal. In a sudden change of plan, the US Secretary of State heads to Brussels instead of Moscow to discuss Iran's threat to renege on its nuclear-deal commitments. That's as the EU desperately tries to keep the deal alive and come up with ways to protect Tehran from crippling US sanctions. Swedish prosecutors say they will re-open an investigation into a sexual assault allegation made against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange and will seek his extradition from the UK. The US-China trade war sends stock markets plummeting. That's after Beijing retaliates to the latest US punitive tariffs, by imposing penalties on 60 billion dollars of US goods.