breaking news the u.s. air force claims a missile that was launched that saudi arabia from yemen on saturday was a radiant made that despite iran's denials that it supplied any such hardware to rebels in yemen. wiki leaks founder julian assange says that u.k. prosecutors have admitted deleting e-mail exchanges concerning his case. german police or thora to investigate allegations that matthew gangs have infiltrated its ranks and other state services. are getting me to manage the harvey this is art the international. purses are three

people have been injured in southwest france after a car rammed into a crowd the incident happened near a school in the community of blood and yak the driver of the car has reportedly been detained the reason behind the incident is still at this point unclear ringgit dates on that developing story as soon as they come in. another major story today a ballistic missile fired by yemeni rebels in targeting the saudi capital last saturday bore raimi and markings now that's according to a senior u.s. air force official authorities are now investigating how the missile was smuggled into yemen which is under an extensive arms embargo saudi arabia's crown prince has accused iran of direct military aggression by supplying missiles to the rebels in response the head of iran's revolutionary guard which controls the country's missile program denied giving weapons to yemen. i am i am going to end the world

which we do not even have the ability to transfer to yemen. and they've managed to increase the missiles range. every based journalist martin j. says that such incidents could spark further instability in the region but at this stage we really can't say we can't go into too much detail it's difficult to actually pin this on the hutu rebels when in fact they could have got those missiles from at least two other countries in the region so i think a lot of speculation at this moment nothing clear coming through immediately we're at a point now where anything any such instant like this could possibly spark something bigger and i think it's the first a great worry form from leaders in the region you know ever since trump came in and embolden the saudis with this and around idea any such incident really is not going to help so i think both sides need to be very careful about too much into this and taking things the next level. meanwhile saudi arabia has been accused of declaring

war on lebanon on the strong words come from the leader of lebanon's hezbollah political and militant group. saudi arabia has declared war on the entire nation of lebanon not just his belonging in lebanon. and he's actually very good joins me in the studio for more on this story jackie when you hear words like war obviously this is getting to a very serious level what's happening in lebanon so those comments come over the fact that lebanon's now former prime minister hasn't been seen since announcing his road resignation at that time he was in the saudi capital now both in the political party that the former prime minister's own political party fear that he was actually forced to say that resignation by saudi arabia and this in fact being held there against his well up to this point and western powers don't seem to know what's going on either france has said that they think he has the ability to move

around as he chooses and the united states state department has just added more confusion to the mix with a comment that came from their spokesperson. terms of the conditions of him being held or the conversations. with him being as you depend. i'm not going to put that word behind i'm not going to associate that word with that but where he is right now where is he is you know in this room i was writing i don't know for sure where he is now in the hariri is resignation speech he specifically attacked iran accusing the country of planting discord and destruction and interfering in arab countries also warning that their hand of influence in the region would be cut off and here's where you kind of need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture of what's happening saudi arabia of course and iran have been locking horns for years and while this is

a long running regional struggle the two are not actually in direct confrontation it's all happening through proxy wars and lebanon is in fact a prime example of that hariri the prime minister who's just resigned his leadership was supported by saudi arabia whereas husband law who wield massive influence in the country are backed by iran which leaves lebanon just caught up in the middle of this conflict between saudi arabia and iran and it's seen in a number of countries throughout the region we were just earlier talking about the missile that was launched from yemen that's another prime example yemen has of course been engulfed in their own civil war for two years now and in that case saudi arabia supports the government that was ousted in two thousand and fifteen whereas iran backs the who through rebels who are fighting back very government and the last saturday's missile was fired from yemen fired by yemeni rebels. saudi arabia's capital it's all just insanely intertwined or you can even look at syria

where they're backing opposing parties saudi arabia is of course anti assad where iran is pro assad and it just keeps escalating just on thursday saudi arabia and three of their allies actually urged all of. their citizens love about and that's sort of an open ended statement what does that mean why would they need to leave lebanon is there something that's going to happen there so all these small conflicts are building up and there's just always the past believe that it could push into a more direct conflict i think did a really good job of explaining all this extremely complicated on one side i was thinking i could explain that this is high level political machinations and then i thought on the other hand i could just say it's a very dangerous mess but thank you so much for bringing us up to date will stay with that story. now amid heightened tensions in the middle east the french president has paid a surprise visit to saudi arabia and when your micro met with the country's crown prince mohammed bin solomon said that the two hour visit was to ensure stability

and peace in the region the visit follows a speech by matter where he suggested that the nuclear deal with iran should be revised. less interest in the situation we face now this agreement of twenty fifteen is no longer sufficient it should not be reconsidered or eliminated but it should be completed with necessary point. where president micron's proposals don't seem to sit well with many in the european union the blocs foreign affairs representative frederica morgan really is adamant that any sort of revision to the accord is out of the question it's very important to keep the nuclear agreements as it is negotiations renegotiation is not possible in our view and so you do not change an agreement that is delivering outside of the agreements in the proper forum for months once it's very clear that the nuclear deal implementation is preserved by all sides for including iran. present micron's prominence on the

international stage hasn't gone unnoticed by the media time magazine slapped the french leader on its cover accompanying the photo an inscription reading the next leader of europe however a footnote below indicates the whole thing is slightly tongue in cheek as it reads if only he can lead france you can discuss this further now joined on the line by luke editor in chief at the purple a magazine good evening what do you make of this time cover it all looks very impressive on first inspection depicting macron is it an acknowledgment of his achievements or was it really making fun of the president. well he has said no because the venom of course is a footnote if only can lead fronts. there are points in the sense that all seen him with president trump inviting him for dinner with his wife or the wives of the eiffel tower so it was very presidential and indeed that's what he

wants to be you wants to be the president some call him a new napoleon i prefer jupiter jupiter the king of the gods that's probably what he would like better than the polio ease again clearly easy young man from the from the school of the elite and wants to manage fronts in a presidential way so he doesn't like for example that trump uses twitter all the time so he said you need to distance with the people you know and that's why the people feed this article and some also use some words that nobody dares use or would if they had before using like the daily and all the people who are creating havoc just outside the place where he is he uses the cameras of the world by the way he doesn't allow the press to be close to him anymore so the honeymoon with the press is finished. t.v. crew with him only one camera following him everywhere and he talks to the people

through the camera through indiscretions that things of the kind so imani very well to me it's a bit like tony blair in his way of managing the media and managing the way talks that brought so east not to bet so he could become indeed the leader of europe if because merkel is very weak and there is nobody else in the group of visit there are very good people very nice people in the central part of the eastern part of europe austria of course but these are not europeans in the sense of the present european commission they want an other europe and most of my core has them as enemies sort of. but he could be the leader of the western european. attitude that c. minus great britain of course so it doesn't mean that many countries. i just chuckled slightly when you mention tony blair and all explained now because michael just visited saudi arabia the region of course is in is in huge turmoil. and i

suspect he's trying to play this kind of tony blair role i mean he's going to come in and he's going to be the great negotiator brings peace to of conflict i mean do you think that's what he's trying to do and if so easy doing it to try and bring peace or is he doing it to kind of build this is kind of his own reputation is trying to build its own reputation you've seen him with president putin invest you're not he knows how to world can people what in france france's wonderful buildings i mean trump and the idea for tower and over so for for president putin now. to dubai to meet the shaikh there in. dubai and i ease in in saudi arabia a very quick brief encounters to try to to organize the agreement of the europeans with saudi arabia not to start a all out war with iran he wants to play

a role and i think since he is that young he's thirty nine he has a lot of energy he could be the tony blair of the next decade lou great speech appreciate your thoughts my guest editor in chief of the purple magazine thanks. british prosecutors are reportedly admitted deleting e-mail exchanges with the swedish counterparts regarding the case of wiki leaks founder julian assange is now this happened back in two thousand and fourteen churkin reports. following a freedom of information request by an italian journalist who has been following these son's case for many years it was revealed that the crown prosecution service here in the u.k. had apparently deleted the e-mail exchanges with their counterparts in sweden following the stepping down of a lawyer in the u.k. side back in twenty fourteen and despite the fact that this journalist who asked for this information had said that it's actually according to her incredible that

this information would be destroyed and that they must have something to hide the crown prosecution service have said that whatever information was deleted despite there being impossible for them to get this information back they're saying that this was something that had no legal implications in the astonished case now according to the weekly leaks founder himself he has tweeted that the u.k. prosecution prosecution destroyed all their e-mails the u.k. told sweden not to interview me back in twenty eleven and twenty thirteen and sweden wanted to burn after reading those e-mails that's according to julian the son now we can also tell you that there is a lawyer in an upcoming information tribunal surrounding these latest developments that are going to be heard in london next week who has said that these potential revelations could have had some impact on the amount of time that the a sound case has dragged out for we have to remember that julian assange has been staying here at the dorian embassy in london since the summer of twenty twelve and

organizations such as the united nations have found his detention to be arbitrary and service swedish prosecution have already dropped the and rape allegations that were brought against him initially so obviously these this is now seen as quite crucial information in terms of what this could have meant for the amount of time he has been staying here in london. let's bring in jennifer robinson now she's a down the street chambers barrister should be representing the eternal italian journalist at the tribunals jennifer what are you hoping to come out of this tribunals. obviously we're trying to find out more about what exactly the role of the u.k. a crown prosecution service has been in extending joining the songes arbitron detention the united kingdom is a breach of its international obligations it's found that he's arbitrarily detained and a large part of that decision making process was the way in which this case is being handled in the fact that he has been offering his testimony to the swedish prosecutors for seven years since i first was involved in his case in two thousand and ten what we didn't know and have only just found out through this freedom of

information led litigation is that the c.p.s. was advising the swedish prosecutor not to come here now we know that she was later found in breach of her big ations by the swedish courts the international working group an arbitrary detention found that the u.k. and sweden was in breach of their international the gay sions and now because of this we know that the that the u.k. had a role and playing a part in this this case could have and should have been resolved back in two thousand and ten and now we know that the u.k. played a key role in in extending his attention. does this revelation suggest that british prosecutors have been completely impartial. it is the british prosecuting service plays the role as the agent of the swedish prosecution or thorazine we have been offering his testimony for a number of years this case could have and should have been result in a proportionate manner which you understand to whom involved this was prosecuted coming here this which prosecutor has done so in numerous other cases since two

thousand and ten and the question to be asked is why this wasn't done in julian's case why was it that the swedish the british prosecution authority was advising sweden not to come here this case could have been dealt with a long time ago and it's a result of that failure to come here that joanna songe has remained in detention for so long do you think the deleted emails could actually change the photo to julian assange. i think that serious questions are being should be raised with the u.k. authorities around the accountability of the crown prosecution service and an internal review about the way this case is being conducted it could have been resolved a long time ago and the fact that they had been advising the swedish authorities not to come here contributed to that delay contributed to the british government being found in breach of their international the geisha and there should be an internal review there should be an internal data retention policy that would allow that kind of accountability process to take place now that we know that they've delayed that information will be asking them to answer to that in the trial been on

monday and it remains to be same what will happen you previously represented julian assange and his interest he's effectively been under house arrest the reality. for years now in london is is there any. stage in which you can see him actually leaving the building without being arrested. of course the reason that he sought asylum in the ecuadorian embassy is with respect to the ongoing united states criminal investigation that investigation like the british authorities approach this if i litigation has been a complete lack of transparency we are concerned about the risk of ex extradition should he be should he walk outside of the embassy and one of the requests that ms maurice he has asked of the crown prosecution service here in this if i while litigation is what correspondence the british authorities have had with the united states about his potential extradition we are obviously continually concerned about that as a result of the more recent announcements by the attorney general of the united states jeff sessions saying that prosecuting wiki leaks founder mr sanchez is

a priority we are concerned about the statements of the head of the cia. accusing wiki leaks of being a hostile non-state intelligence agency and in those circumstances there is a very real risk that mr assad would risk being extradited to the united states if he was to come out of the embassy now these proceedings in hole between the swedish prosecutions conduct of the case and the lack of transparency around what the u.s. intends to do with mr sanchez contributed to his ongoing detention and it's time that there's transparency around this and a proper in in investigation about why this is taken so long to resolve jennifer thanks for coming on to speak to is jennifer robinson dirty street chambers barrister. police authorities are investigating claims organized criminal groups have infiltrated their ranks and other services that's after a police union claimed that members of an arab underworld clan managed to sneak an insider into the berlin force. indications that

a large arab clans have an infiltration strategy and try to keep certain family members away from criminal activities so that they can later. however berlin police chief has denied the allegations the scandal comes two days after the city's police academy was accused of enrolling violent and criminal trainees peter oliver has. made accusations there were violent or even criminal recruits in its academy things were already looking bad for berlin's police force but now it's got a whole lot worse with the arrest of an intern which is a ruptured into a deeply embarrassing scandal the twenty year old female student is accused of illegally copying photos of people wanted in a police operation and sending them on it's alleged she was planted in the force by one of the city's notorious our mafia clans we forwarded the allegations to the police and this was all we received a response berlin police have launched

a criminal investigation into a twenty year old student from the berlin school of economics and law she's accused of revealing state secrets is it true that the suspect has migrant roots yes. those who devote their time to studying the mafia clans of berlin say attempts to increase diversity in the police as left the door open to infiltration the way. of. it because in the police academy the new government in berlin has less. reform the. v. for the first phone port three person for people by dilution big crowd who accept that it's was good for them to.

prefer doing last week an anonymous letter was sent to the earl in chief of police purporting to be from a long serving detective it claimed that arabic mafia families were using the berlin academy to infiltrate the force something the city's police union says that currently isn't any proof of. at the moment we do not have any cases where there is clear evidence of that but we do understand that criminal organizations like these clans have an incentive to try and infiltrate government organizations like the police and that's why it's so important during training that we identify who belongs as part of the police force and who does not. go to who are these arabic mafia clowns that it's claimed run ins criminal underworld among kind. of it's impossible to put a percentage figure on how much criminality they account for but if you look into

it then yes they are present in all different types of crime revenues drugs racketeering prostitution criminal revenue streams and it's for those reasons that people directly involved in law enforcement and the citizens of lynn. i want to know if the police force has been compromised by criminals peter all of us. more news and interviews after this short break. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super manager killian erroneous and spending to the twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else i want to do because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful

game great so one more chance with. the base it's going to. elect elite. welcome back the u.n. says ten the civilians are confirmed dead from a u.s. air strike in afghanistan on november fourth but the u.s. military investigation into the incident included as province found that there were

no civilian deaths the u.n. assistance mission to the country says that it interviewed new risks of fivers medics and witnesses it has enough evidence to conclude civilians were among the victims furthermore reports suggest the victims were civilians quote forced to retrieve bodies from earlier fighting and speak now to independent political. glazebrook down the un reports at least ten deaths the media same more than what why would the us military investigation come up with nothing. yeah well it's a good question and i first of all like to say that my thoughts are with the with the families of the victims which are which is so so so regular have been over the last sixteen years of u.s. and british air strikes in afghanistan. so why did the u.s. food no civilians because of course they're always trying to downplay the civilian casualties caused by there was wherever they may be in afghanistan in particular so

and if i under trunk we've seen a huge increase in civilian casualties in the first nine months of this year we've seen a fifty two percent increase in civilian casualties in afghanistan compared to the same period in twenty sixteen sixty eight percent of those are women and children of those casualties so of course this is not an aspect of trump's. korea that he wants to he wants to publicize he will very much presented himself presented hillary as the kind of war candidate who is going to ramp up aggression him and he presented himself almost as a peacemaker who is going to have better relations with with russia and better relations with everyone else and stop intervening in foreign wars and so on so it's just so he doesn't want to do to admit the fact that this diminish huge increase in innocent deaths being killed by u.s. airstrikes in afghanistan but it goes back before trump of course always civilian

deaths have been downplayed don't forget the u.s. in its drone strike death calculation metric does not consider military age males i men from the ages of sixteen to forty five or something like that as civilians in any circumstance so they're always automatically ruled out as being civilian deaths so the so that systematically downplaying and white washing the extent of devastation caused caused by the air attacks and that's been an ongoing feature of the afghanistan war for for sixteen years and. it raises the question dan i don't know if you have the figures of how many civilians have been killed over the course of the sixteen year conflict must be a big number but given the results of u.s. military investigations can they be trusted to carry out investigations into themselves in the future no of course they can't of course they can't we seen this time and again with the attack in the in the house on the hospital in can do year and a half ago or so. complete whitewash kind of report that they they put out into what

happened there and this is this is ongoing so fair credit to the u.n. mission for having the. guts to publicly contradict the u.s. army's official report into this and actually conclude that there were at least ten civilians killed other agencies have put the deaths. closer to seventeen. in their in their calculations of this one particular airstrike on saturday even the afghan government who is supposedly the ally of the u.s. in this in this fight immediately contradicted the u.s. report and said that they had reports of civilian casualties so know that they can't be they can't be trusted and they've proved this time and again i think that's i think that's clear dan appreciate your views independent political analyst . get back to our breaking news story this hour three people injured in southwest

france after a car rammed into a crowd artie's correspondent charlet dubin ski is covering the story for a serving us up to date charlotte what do we know. well what we know is that around four o'clock local time here in france the driver of a car rammed his vehicle into a group of people outside a college in the french commune of blood neck which is said down in the southwest of france near toulouse now we understand that three people three students were injured in that incident including two has said to be in a serious condition in hospital or now being treated for their injuries now we understand that those who were injured were students and were also of chinese origin in that community now the french media are reporting that the driver was known to the police however he was not on any security watch list and we understand that the police are treating this as

a deliberate incident the twenty eight year old driver was said to have been known to the police because he had some previous minor offenses including some offenses including drugs but just to repeat he was not on any security watch list at the moment three people injured including two c. recently injured following that incident in the southwest of france on friday afternoon. so there live from france r.t. charlotte dubica thank you charlotte. you are right up to a very busy news are i'll be back with the latest for you at the top of the hour. a very warm welcome for stan collymore. over the next few days international teams rick. the plan is to going head to head preparing for the world cup emotion extreme including my beloved england who play their old nemesis the germans

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