the. u.s. air force claims a missile that was launched at saudi arabia from yemen on saturday was a rainy and made that despite tehran's denials that it supplied any such hardware to rebels in. three people or injured near a school in the french commune of blood is a car that rounds into a crowd. and wiki leaks founder julian assange says the u.k. prosecutors have admitted did lead to an e-mail exchanges concerning his case. because he didn't see you thanks for joining us this hour my name's neil harvey this is r.t. international. go straight to our top story

a ballistic missile fired by yemeni rebels and targeting the saudi capital last saturday bore in rainy and markings that's according to a senior u.s. air force of fish. then i read more of these are businesses. as they demonstrated and there are pictures there that to me that connects the dots to who i am in terms of who supply. missiles and their capability or forty's and are investigating how the missile was smuggled into yemen which is under an extensive arms embargo saudi arabia earlier accused iran of direct military aggression by supplying missiles to the rebels will she run tonight. some i am going to end it while we do not even have the ability to transfer missiles to yemen it's the missiles and they've managed to increase the missiles range. it's called commentator and writer abdel bari atwan thinks that it's too soon to make any

conclusions about the origin of the missile. and be surprised that this. was manufactured in yemen itself that we. believe manufacturing missed size by dating in technology we haven't seen any proof yet that could be part of that american incitement against iran are we going to witness some sort of attacks. are we going to witness some sort of a. it's actually a military arms in libya which is. we don't know yet but it is it is very very significant moves from the american side and back to. meanwhile saudi arabia has been accused of declaring war on lebanon and those strong words coming from the leader of lebanon's hezbollah political militant group. a lot of good. vs the saudi arabia has declared war on the entire nation of lebanon not just has belonged in lebanon. to configure your cross this story jacki which is complicated

very clear is that the tensions are rising in level exactly and the leader of hezbollah actually went on to claim that the lebanese prime minister is actually being held under house arrest by the saudis calling that an unprecedented in for intervention in lebanon's internal affairs and that's because lebanon's outgoing prime minister hasn't been seen since last week when he announced his resignation in the saudi capital and what's more surprising is that harare's own party back in lemon levanon who is in opposition to has also think the same thing that he was forced to make that resignation speech by saudi arabia and that he's being held there against his will even reportedly asked france who has close ties with the lebanon to look into the situation and they only came up with the statement that they think that he is free to move around but clearly not one hundred percent sure there whereas the united states state department only added further confusion to

the mix with the comments that they made. in terms of the conditions of him being held or the conversations that their visions of him being held as you detention. 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 driving and i i don't know personally where he is or. so clearly western powers don't have a real concrete idea of what his condition is either but putting the question of his whereabouts aside there's also the focus of his record resignation speech that's something that's also very important to note in that he specifically an article a attacked iran accusing the country of planting discord and destruction and interfering in arab countries also warning that to hit their hands of influence in the region would be cut off and in the wake of all of that saudi arabia saudi arabia and three

of their allies actually urged all of their citizens to leave lebanon immediately and that's a very frightening and open ended situation you know why should they leave what's going to happen there and here's where you sort of need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture in the region and that's when you have to look at saudi arabia and iran specifically. the two countries have of course been locking horns for years and while there's no direct conflict between them it's always been done through proxy wars and lebanon is in fact a prime example of that hariri the prime minister who resigned his living leadership was supported by saudi arabia whereas hezbollah who wields massive power in the country was backed by iran and that leaves lebanon caught up in between those two major powers at the scene and a number of countries we're just talking about yemen the missile that was launched

from yemen they're also caught up in the mix 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 where iran backed with the rebels that are fighting the very government and you can also look at syria again same sort of situation there are backing opposing parties saudi arabia is. pro assad so it's everywhere in the region and all these proxy wars are sort of coming to a head is. the fear that this could push the region into a potential potentially bigger and more direct confrontation and i think if anyone's of the wounded what you know political interference in other countries looks like this is a very good test case i think to look at many things checking. into the news now cia anti torture whistleblower and frequent r.t. guest john kiriakou was invited to speak at the e.u. parliament on national security whistleblowing but he was removed from the panel at

the very last moment and pleased to say that i can speak now to john kiriakou himself to shed some light on the story. john just take us through them what happened there and while your appearance as i understand the new panel didn't go through. right i was invited to speak on two separate panels at the european parliament day before yesterday and the first one included a representative of the bernie sanders organisation people for bernie unfortunately that representative said that she could not appear on a panel with me because i'm associated with sputnik radio and she didn't want the appearance of bernie sanders appearing to endorse the russian media and so i was removed from the panel no one ever asked my opinion or anything they just removed me from the panel and then one of the greek members of the european parliament instead did a one on one interview with me for greek national television i did appear at

a panel later in the afternoon with the cuban ambassador to the european union and several other me peace but that first panel i did not participate in so as earned it was. warm he said she wasn't allowed to be on the same panel with the what was the reaction to that. you know i laughed when she first said it because it was so ridiculous that i thought she was joking and then she walked away and one of the aides handed me an updated schedule and my name was was not associated with the first panel and i said so what am i supposed to do she want to be on the panel with me so so i'm taken off the panel and instead they took me to a television studio to do this greek television interview how do you know it was a joke i mean how do you feel about this when you think about the fact that you can be scrapped from the palm because one person or so doesn't want to appear with you

well you know that's politics in america right now isn't it where where everybody blames the russians the russians the bad guys for absolutely everything and and they feel like they can't even risk even a tangential association with the russians or with anything russian for fear of being branded by their political opponents it's ridiculous it smacks of the one nine hundred fifty s. to tell you the truth it seems to me the logical thing to happen in a situation if someone has an objection to somebody else appearing alongside them whatever the merits of their argument is the you know if i don't like somebody it's my choice to step down not to have them replace what i'm to freedom of speech is exactly exactly what happened to freedom of speech you know i wish that i had better understood what was happening as it was happening but like i said a moment ago i thought it was a joke in the beginning and before i could even process what was going on two of jacked the decision had been made to remove me and it wasn't until i was doing the

television interview that i finally said to the m.e.p. wait a minute did i get thrown off that panel and he said well we didn't want to make a problem with the other guests and and i thought wow ok well american politics rears its ugly head even in brussels but what has the actual reason for it been explicitly said to you. yes when the one who is the representative for people for bernie said that she had run the idea up the flagpole which means that she consulted with her superiors and disappear ears told her she said that while they were supportive of me as a person as an individual and supportive of the fact that i blew the whistle on the cia's torture program the fact that i was now associated with the russian media meant that they could not appear on this panel with me it's quite remarkable seems to me there's no limits now to the toxicity of anything connected to russia and one

commentator as this russia gate which striking again i mean would you agree with that is that is it that simple if you're associated with russia you're tainted by association yes i think that's exactly what's happening right now in the united states and the thing is we're at the very beginning of this whole process this is only going to get worse as we move our way closer and closer to national elections here whether it's the two thousand eight hundred congressional elections where the two thousand and twenty presidential elections it's like a red scare all over again where people are going to be accused of being in the pocket of the russians that if you don't participate in this montra of the russians being behind every problem in the united states you're weak on russia and you're un-american and that's what we're seeing now being being laid as groundwork. a minute i want to overstate this but i'm working for r.t. i understand kind of a you have a sense of what you are going through here i mean we go way back to the days of mccarthyism here is it you know what shout for the reds under the bed is it that

bad yet or is it heading in that direction. it's not that bad yet but i believe i believe that it's heading in that direction the odd thing about this is that it's now the democrats that are leading this charge it's the people who who call themselves progressive and liberal that are leading this anti rush in charge and they're the ones pointing fingers we see it in the mainstream media we see it on c.n.n. and fox it amiss n.b.c. it's not the republicans so it's like role reversal compared to what we saw in the one nine hundred fifty s. the only a question is this point how far can you go telling the public one thing without backing it up with any kind of evidence because there doesn't seem to be any evidence anywhere along the line to kind of to back up any of the accusations being against the russian government being against big and anybody associated with us as such as yourself how far can they go without actually stumping up some evidence

what you know that's probably the single most important point and this is something that i say all the time and forgive me if i sound like a broken record but the intelligence community and the cia director over the last several years they've told us that there was no torture program we know that that was a lie they told us that there was no extraordinary rendition kidnapping program that was a lie they told us that there was no secret prison system that was a lie they told us that they had not hacked into the senate intelligence committee's computer systems that was a lie now they tell us that russia is behind trump selection and hillary clinton's loss they provide no evidence they tell us to take their word for it well why in the world would we take their word for it when everything else they've told us is a lie. another development anti american has been ordered to register as a foreign agent i mean it's it's basically been accused of trying to interfere in the election and trying to favor one candidate hillary clinton now if that was true i would want to know that i want to know if an organization you know. the american

via the internet i would want to know the truth but there's no evidence put forward i just wondered what your take was on the story you know no literally zero evidence no evidence whatsoever this is very simply a brash political move being pushed by the democrats and now by extension by the justice department to silence r t this has nothing to do with the fact that that r t is a representative of a foreign government there are lots of different organizations here in washington that are representatives of foreign governments i mean nobody has yet pointed the finger at apac for example or it's c.c.t.v. or the b.b.c. the b.b.c. is owned by the british government this is very specifically anti russian it has nothing to do with the news and instead it has only to to do with domestic american politics well very sorry you've been caught up in all of this tended by the russian

association thanks so much for coming on to r.t. and telling us all about it my guest john kiriakou former cia analyst and white leisure marti's own guest of how to enjoy their share of naming and shaming along the way european think tank recently branded them useful idiots. thank you. i mean you called me a useful idiot useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions on r t there are thousands of us doing it behind his record is the same strategy we attack persons instead of talking about what's next why stop me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one hour stretch beyond the rock i should be sent to the town of london because i'm

a traitor brick me although we'll put up with a long time of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out i'm in good company i'm in good company you want to do this because we are free thinkers. british prosecutors have reportedly admitted deleting e-mail exchanges with the swedish counterparts regarding the case of wiki leaks founder julian assange it happened back in two thousand and fourteen and the story. 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 assange 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 serious questions must be asked about the role of the crown prosecution service had the swedes interviewed

a songe back in two thousand and ten one wonders whether this case would have continued to such a long time 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 this swedish prosecution has already dropped the 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. british human rights campaign a potential believes that these deleted could have other significant impact on the son's use case. and that does call into question what was deleted and why we know that in an earlier request the crown prosecution service responding to a freedom of information request did redact the fact that it had

advised the swedish lawyers not to come to london to interview. and the only way this was found out was because the italian reporter who made that f.l.y. request to the u.k. authorities made a similar quest to the swedish authorities and she was then given the unredacted version which confirms that the crown prosecution service in the u.k. did. advise the swedish prosecutors not to come to london to interview. if the prosecutors had come to london and interviewed songe as he said he was willing to be interviewed then this a long drawn out case of continued all these years. three people have been injured in southwest france after a car rammed into a crowd according to police the driver says that he did it on purpose with more his r.t. correspondent child driven ski 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 called mean of blood neck which is said down in the southwest of france near to lose now we understand that three people three students were injured in that incident including two this said to be in a serious condition in hospital although 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 to the police however he was not on any. the 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.

german police or thought is are investigating claims organized criminal groups of infiltrated their ranks and other state services after police union claim that members of an arab underworld plan to sneak an insider into the berlin force. clear indications the large arab clans have an infiltration strategy and try to keep certain family members away from criminal activities so they can later infiltrate state services however berlin's police chief has denied all of the allegations the scandal comes just two days after the city's police academy was accused of enrolling violent and criminal trainees artie's peter oliver has been investigating . amid accusations there were by lindh 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

a 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 are about 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 the lynn say attempts to increase diversity in the police as left the door open to infiltration the way is to. of. because in the police academy the new government can believe in. reform.

for the first phone port to three person or for people by evolution 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 dozens 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 berlin. i want to know if their police force has been compromised by criminals peter all of a r.t. berlin. to syria now where the liberation of the last islamic state stronghold in the country has been confirmed by russia's defense ministry a d mining operations now underway serious as that islamic state self-proclaimed caliphate launched three years ago is on the verge of collapse product that the units of our armed forces in

cooperation with paramilitary and allied forces have liberated abu kemal city in dairies or province the last stronghold of the islamic state terrorist group in eastern syria this is chief meant is highly significant as it represents the beginning of the islamic state project's collapse in the region. could interest defense ministry some terrorists escaped the city and headed north days before the operation which was supported by russian airstrikes they're worth every clashes for countries took part in liberation and it's been a long road to get to here at one point i still controlled more than half of syria's territory the terrorists left a trail of destruction in no way think for example the ancient city of palmira.

i think is right because the have looked at how the caliphate has crumbled. when you slam it state of iraq and syria declared statehood in two thousand and fourteen the world was not ready no one knew what to make or how to deal with these seemingly bloodthirsty zealots their very brand was terror. of feature to at the time it seemed like isis came out of nowhere it seized a huge amount of territory it had its own army its a corner me currency laws and courts tens of thousands worldwide came to join it and the international community veggie reacted with the u.s.

coalition together a coalition to resist isis i can announce that america will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. our objective is clear we will degrade and ultimately destroy all eisel isis suffered its first major defeat in the syrian city of kabbani we were there filming the u.s. airstrikes and i remember it as an incessant barrier that all but pull over arised kabbani. there isis lost many of its veteran fighters though that didn't stop them they enjoyed many more victories but not the overwhelming success of the early days

things would get worse soon in september two thousand and fifteen russia join the fray it was the beginning of the end for isis within half a year isis suffered a hugely symbolic defeat in the ancient city of palmira. the going was rough isis had its comebacks but the trend had changed russia also began bombing the jihad its oil trucks and tank is their cash source and as those trucks burned the iraqis and kurds backed by the u.s. led coalition attacked isis his biggest city mosul it would be a long and deadly battle waged by two successive u.s. presidents a battle that would leave a city of two million

a devastated direct. whatever the cost those coalition airstrikes worked they beat isis and would use the same tactic on the isis is syrian capital raca. the final nail in the caliphates coffin was the syrian army's offensive on their daughter a city that isis besieged for three years. it

is when you go there and look the locals in the eye speak to the people that suffered so much that you understand why this sacrifice that beat isis has been worth it these is the final chapter. the french president emmanuel micron's ego has been toyed with by time magazine which is putting on the cover of its latest issue accompanying the photo a flattering inscription that reads the next leader of europe but on closer inspection the covers not quite so forming a footnote below if only he can leave france in chief in the purple of magazine look really they believe the french leader early has himself to blame some call him a new and appalling am i.