why aren't people more concerned. little your little. shorts with the 1st w. w do you fly from berlin a deadly attack in a luxury hotel and pakistan at least one person is dead after a gunman burst into the hotel in the town of to watch are also coming up. freed hostages say thanks to fallen heroes tourists rescued from captivity and burkina faso pay tribute to the french commandos who were killed in the daring raid that fruit and. washington ratchets up the pressure on iran as

a naval strike group heads to the persian gulf to back up a u.s. aircraft carrier and bombers already there washington says it's responding to threats from terror on. welcome to the show at least one person has been killed in an attack in the port city of gold watch are in southwestern pakistan reports say at least 3 gunman entered a luxury hotel and opened fire killing one security guard a military spokesman says guests have been evacuated but the situation was ongoing a group called the bolo just on liberation army has claimed responsibility for the attack. french special forces have rescued 4 foreign hostages from the militant group faso 2 soldiers were killed in the overnight raid in the west african country

france has about 4 and a half 1000 troops in the region as the leading an effort aimed at fighting jihad as insurgents which is considered a relative success so far but at a cost $24.00 french soldiers have died since 2030. first appearance in freedom after a harrowing ordeal 2 frenchmen and a south korean woman arrived at the presidential palace in kenya fasteners capsule for an audience with the country's leader. one of the man managed to find a few. thoughts go out to the families of the soldiers and to the soldiers who lost their lives to free us from this hell give them we wanted to offer condolences right away. the man received in neighboring b'nei on may the 1st touring an area france's longer advised travelers to avoid amid fears the hostages would be 100 over to jihadists and molly french

president manuel micro gave the green light special forces to raid that captain's camp. that raid left 4 kidnappers dead as well as 2 french commandos centric to appear from. the team also stumbled across the south korean and another american hostage managing to free them both. the forces have been in. the operation. they were about 15 cannot be soldiers in attendance but there was also collaboration in terms of intelligence which led to the success of the alteration. jihadist groups of long been active across but kenya faso in mali and the violence seems to be spreading france has some 4 and a half 1000 troops in the region to combat the threat and most locals back their presence. we still need to increase our efforts to strengthen security with good

collaboration between africans and other countries abroad to really find a solution and bring all these evil spirits far away i mean if it's because they were. the hostages are now heading home to their respective countries where they will be welcomed by political leaders and their families. a un agency for refugees is calling for. search and rescue operations to be stepped up in the mediterranean after one of the deadliest ship wrecks involving migrants so far this year at least $65.00 microns drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of tunisia on friday the tunisian navy was able to rescue 16 people survivors said most of those on board the boat were from bangladesh had departed from libya on thursday. italy's populace government often faces criticism for its opposition to mass migration but as long pursued

a close port policy and stands accused of restricting the work of humanitarian groups on friday 30 people who were skewed were allowed to disembark in lampedusa of the southernmost point of italy after other european countries agreed to take them in but italy promptly seized the rescue vessel and the far right interior minister. declared in a tweet that this would be the last trip for the ship. risk youth from a sinking ship. an italian boat the morri julio run by a humanitarian charity save them 40 kilometers off the libyan coast. the city migrants including 2 pregnant women of 5 children according to the ngo are just a few of the 00s of people who have already attempted to cross the mediterranean this year. according to italy's anti migration deputy prime minister. italy's ports a closed to illegal migrants but these people landing in lampedusa cicely

a lucky italy's prime minister giuseppe come say allowed the ship to duck the more a journey of stuff pulled the migrants but this might have been its last mission. if spoken to salvini about the mara journey and we agree on the police seizing the ship. where the ship was already on a warning. for. this ship is one of the very few rescue ships still in operation in the mediterranean continue said other european union member states had agreed to take some of these people a sign that the e.u.'s migrant distribution agreements are working albeit on an ad hoc basis although far fewer people are headed to europe than at the peak of migration in 201-5000 still take the perilous journey every month and a summer brings better weather conditions the number of attempted crossings is likely to increase. the united states is applying an assault ship and a missile battery to the persian gulf to bolster other military vessels already in

the area the u.s. said the move is in response to a possible threat to u.s. forces in the region by around but they didn't specify the nature of that threat iran on the other hand has dismissed the claim the newly deployed vessels are the u.s.s. arlington which transports marines and landing aircraft as well as patriot air defense missiles they will join the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier that's already there. for more i'm joined now by a middle east analyst welcome to the show the u.s. claims here on my end the preparing to conduct what it calls offensive operations against you. us forces or its interests what evidence is there for that there's been a lot of the discussions in american media about some media claim that they say that they have sources in the intelligence community that intelligence has been inflated not mischaracterized but inflated by the by the white house look if we want to look at a possible scenario we should probably look back at the history of the middle east

in 1903 when the most deadly attack on u.s. troops in the middle east in the most deadly attack on u.s. troops since the 2nd world war that time was conducted in beirut the us marines lost 241 lives in this attack and they blamed an iranian proxy organization for this so i think the americans are having such a scenario in mind however i think the most dangerous situation is that anyone could conduct such an attack for example the islamic state that would benefit from a from an escalation of the conflict between iran and the united states so many stakeholders are there and i think that makes the situation very very dangerous at the moment so you're saying this is not purely political pressure they're actually acting from a position of fear no force not i think i think they want to demonstrate strength and trump security advisor john bolton has made this clear multiple occasions that he wants regime change in iran he says we don't want war and trump says he doesn't

want war but that's not the point if you corner the iranians to that extent you have to bear in mind that the iranian security establishment including the the sitting president sitting president rouhani they are used to conflict they have been war for 10 years during the iran iraq war where they were actually in charge so they used to pressure and they used to this situation however the iranian population is suffering here the currency was vomiting from the economic warfare that is being conducted on iran and the point is nobody in iran really knows what to the u.s. one to do it is quite clear that iran is not going to take down the flags and say we surrender so. what exactly does the u.s. want to do trump dropped his number so to say to the. consul who is representing the american interests in iran and he said i want the iranians to call me so the iranian social media are quite casting about it they make lots of jokes they say yeah drop his number like like a boy in a in a in a club was dropping a number to a girl however like you know there's

a lot of yes cynical optimism also involved that this is just a bluff but i wouldn't be so sure that the situation i think the situation could as could escalate rather quickly even if nobody wants war but you just said trump asked iran to call him how likely are they to respond to that offer. well president trump has said before that he would like to meet with president reagan president rouhani he said that after ranting about iran and basically personally insulting him so no wonder that rouhani did not respond to this. i think it is possible that direct negotiations could start but the point is from the rating perspective about what this is exactly the point they have left the steel and in front of the world of the national of the international security council somehow the iranians have have the moral high ground at the moment because they have complied with this deal and i think this is rather the the problem it's not just

about meeting like trump handled the north korea case where he just like met with kim you know on the side like he's a wonderful person we get along but still about what does he want to negotiate and what does he want to talk about that has been a deal since 2015 which was successfully implemented and i think unfortunately this gives every argument to the hardliners in iran who say like you see we've been we've been fooled we've been disappointed we have been. basically you know our confidence was in vain well actually talking about this this nuclear deal of 2015 iran just this week and now is that it will stop complying with some of the parts of this this agreement what are they trying to achieve with this is this the only leverage they have and what does the country think about it seems so it seems so they from iranians the iranian government says the europeans are somehow the government was for this deal and so they have to sort it out and since we have nobody to turn to we want the europeans to fix it and the main demand from it from

iran is that the europeans should somehow guarantee that iran continues to function you selling oil over the europeans don't even really have the instruments for that at the moment to guarantee this and we could go no into the details the financial aspects of why does difficult but i think the iranian strategy. tactic has been so far to mount pressure on the europeans and us the europeans to some o. sort it out. i think the europeans are not that willing and that powerful at the moment to sort it out even though they want the deal to which remain in place and the iranians know that at the same time the rains have given some time and the steps that they have taken not to implement the deal at the moment are not major and they can be there reversible and again thank you for these insights thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. the u.s. says it's preparing to raise tariffs on all the reigning chinese imports affecting another $300000000000.00 worth of goods this after

a 1st round of terror fights took effect as negotiations in washington ended without a breakthrough china says the 2 sides will continue talks in beijing. scuffles have broken out in hong kong's legislative assembly pro-democracy and probe aging lawmakers clashed amid high tensions over a proposed law that would allow extradite to mainland china at least 4 people were injured. cuba's introducing widespread rationing as it struggles with an economic crisis chicken eggs rice and soap are among the basic products affected cuba is blaming the u.s. trade embargo but analysts say the collapse of aid from venezuela has hit cuba just as hard. in the in this league of the title race will go down to the very last day of the season after byron munich failed to beat rb leipsic the bavarians

thought they'd score the winning goal just after half time but lamb carets goal was ruled out for offside the match and nil nil that gave dortmund a chance to remain in the title race and they took full advantage with a nervy $32.00 victory over disallowed or if one game remains in the bundesliga with biron only requiring one more point to seal the championship. a take a look at all of the other results so far on the penultimate weekend of the season braman one away to hoffenheim will say it and then it got take the relegation play off place after beating volves book that results mean that result means norberg are relegated after their 4 nil loss to mention plot behavior coups and shock of drew $11.00 and over also relegated despite their win over fiber and berlin beat out school for 3 in a thrilling game and the very sunday frankfurt hosts local rivals months

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