saudi led coalition airplanes to carry out an air strike on the ministry of defense in the yemeni capital of sanaa. the u.s. air force claims a missile that was launched in saudi arabia from yemen on saturday was iranian made this is despite your denials it had supplied any such hardware to rebels and. wiki leaks founder julian assange says u.k. prosecutors have admitted to deleting e-mail exchanges concerning his case. for our studios in moscow this is our national i'm john thomas really glad to have you with us saudi led airstrikes have targeted the defense ministry in the capital

of sanaa i would disagree also confirm those strikes they described massive explosions and say that coalition jets have been flying over the city a local journalist hussein. who is in sanaa now told us his take. it was three saudi air strike two. targeted the ministry of defense near the wall of sanaa city and third the strike lasted a good assad the neighborhood is about twenty meters from the ministry of defense and it has actually flattened the city home and damaging another nine houses in that area be able has been actually taken been taken from the rubble and they have a hospital but still get out of dozens of be able which is still under the rubble when i was on my way to this to do you still can hear. the fighter jets fly in. and i think with which the biggest fear is that if they target the same area

because i've just seen it if you. posted by some friend in on facebook which showed the devastation have been to this area in sanaa and a friend who lives there he told me that they are actually afraid to go into that area because out of known if used in this double strike in most. they conducted only a month for the last three years. earlier on friday a senior u.s. air force official said a missile fired by yemeni rebels and targeting the saudi capital last saturday bore iranian markings. when i read markings on the business. that's been demonstrated and there are pictures that take that to mean that connects the dots to iran in terms of who supply. missiles and that capability authorities are now investigating how the missile was smuggled into yemen which is currently under an

extensive arms embargo saudi arabia earlier accused iran of direct military aggression by supplying missiles to shoot the rebels which iran has denied. some i am going to and 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. political commentator and writer one thinks it is too soon to make any conclusions about the origin of the missile wouldn't be surprised that this. size was manufactured in the amount it so that we. manufacturing the size by dating in technology we haven't seen any proof yet that could be popped off the american incitement against iran are we going to witness some sort of attacks. are we going to witness some sort of. it's actually a military arms and lebanon 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 strong words come from the leader of lebanon's hezbollah political and militant group. saudi arabia has declared war on the entire nation of liberated not just his belonging in lebanon 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 lebanon who is an 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 lebanon to look into

the situation and they only came up with the statement that they think that he is free to move around 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. with him being held as you detention. i'm not going to put that word behind i'm not going to associate that word with it but where he is right now where is he is you know in this room i was writing i mean i i don't know personally where he is 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 resignation speech that's something that's also very important to note in that he specifically and ardently attacked iran accusing the country of planting discord and destruction and

interfering in arab countries also warning that the hit on their hands of influence in the region would be cut off and in the wake of all of that saudi arabia and three of their allies actually urge all of their citizens to leave lebanon immediately and that's a very fright. ming and open ended situation you know why should they leave what's going to happen there and here is 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 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 is backed by iran and that leaves lebanon caught up in between those two major powers and it's seen and

a number of countries were just talking about yemen the missile that was launched from yemen there are 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 backs the who's the rebels that are fighting the very government and you can also look at syria again same sort of situation they're backing opposing parties saudi arabia is and iran is pro assad so it's everywhere in the region and as all these proxy wars are sort of coming to a head it's the fear that this could push the region into a potential potentially bigger and more direct confrontation. beirut based journalist martin j. thinks that the recent developments in the region are part of saudi arabia's broader strategy to confront iran riyadh is rolling out an entirely new plan no to create chaos in the region where a recount. geopolitically isn't easy sure it's

a low hanging fruit there is a great momentum right now as we speak in this week in saudi arabia to try and create some sort of military strategy against iran to destabilize around or or any of iran's proxies in the region in the next conflict the next war that we see in the middle east is going to be bigger than anything else before because the stakes been great for rect up so high in the last five or six years largely due to saudi arabia's fault it's an interventionist policy in the region we've seen the emergence of hezbollah. and its proxies even stronger iran is growing as well is growing stronger more powerful in the region every single day so there's an awful lot at stake. and let's hope. that these these sort of instance don't push it into the into that war situation. if think tank called european values has launched a petition demanding the west confront russia's aggression and hostile influence in a more determined way documented boasts

a long list of signatories who as it is claimed are heads of think tanks as well as security experts however as it turns out at least one of them ended up on the list without ever signing the petition itself is irish journalist byron mcdonald we spoke to the man himself to get a firsthand account of what exactly happened. never been an artsy correspondent definitely not i've never worked for artsy television and stage actually so but you know i know what this is about i think i have i think i've worked out two weeks ago approximately dorky where that twelve days ago i wrote an article which exposed our george soros response for twenty five percent of the funding of this lobby group in prague european values and that was after the smear two thousand three hundred twenty seven prominent or two guesses useful idiots that included a person for stephen fry will i am you know you guys kremlin agents according to your useful idiots for the kremlin according to this lobby group even mr t. was on the list i mean many grown up watching the eighty might as well i never saw

him as a as a criminal stooge they mixed up larry king with larry date that which was the longest and you know i think they probably i would instantly because of this and i think my impression is that they probably got a realists and they also had you know at a joke list or something over some reason that mercy's get or that would be my guess and what look i'd like to say from you guys i don't know of european values but they don't represent europe. and what they're requesting is they're pushing george charts of values and american values that can only accept your of their corresponds to their values which are also in the world locus rights they are people who regard. great many europeans in fact perhaps the majority of people on the constant as not being european enough and those are not european values that appears when donald signature is no longer on that list the same a think tank has recently come out with a list of useful idiots you know the notion that they used to in reference to all our guests as you heard brian mentioned there.

thank you. i mean you called me a useful. idiots go expressing my opinion there are thousands of us doing it behind his record strategy we attack. instead of talking about what's next why stop me from getting this close to the white house i'm with pink why not ban the color pink one hour stretch i should be sent to the town because i'm a traitor the we'll put up with this you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out good company i'm in good company. because. switching gears now

british prosecutors have reportedly admitted to deleting e-mail exchanges with their swedish counterparts regarding the case of wiki leaks founder julian assange it happened back in two thousand and fourteen countries on associate you're going to has more. following a freedom of information request by an italian journalist who has been following the asuncion 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 the

individual was a lawyer in the c.p.s. extradition unit discussing matters relating to extradition proceedings which concluded in twenty's twelve the case was therefore not long before the e-mail account was deleted. 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 according to julian assange now we can also tell you that there is a lawyer in an upcoming information tribunals 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 case has dragged out for 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 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 campaigner peter tatchell believes these deleted e-mails could have had a significant impact on the 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 rejoin the sound. and the only way this was found out was because the italian porter who made that f.l.y. request to the u.k. authorities just made a similar inquest in the swedish authorities and she was then given the and redacted version which confirms that the crown prosecution service in the u.k. did indeed advise the swedish prosecutors not to come to london to interview sound if the prosecutors come to london and interview julian a songe as he said he was willing to be interviewed then this long drawn out case of continued all these years german police are investigating alleged to infiltration of the force by organized crime one that after a short break you are watching t.v. .

i think. the old situations are coming back and the stand pulpit. russia is they are not in favor of nato is coming. to the border for russia but of the other side i think it came back the old repression of confrontation that's a mistake of the west especially by the americans but also on the other side of. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject it. so when you want to be president. some want to be. actually going to be this is what the three of them will be good. interested

always in the water. and welcome back you are watching arch international live from moscow now german police authorities are investigating claims organized criminal groups have infiltrated their ranks and other state services and after a police union claimed members of an arab underworld clan managed to sneak in insider into the berlin force to clear indications that large clans have an infiltration strategy and try to keep certain family members away from criminal activities so that they can lay to infiltrate state services. however berlin said police chief has it denied all allegations that the scandal comes just in two days

after the city's police academy was accused of enrolling violent and criminal trainees artie's peter oliver has been investigating the story for us. amid accusations they with violent or even criminal recruits and its economy things were already looking bad for billons 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 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 their way is to. create terror of. it because in the police academy the new government in berlin has less. to do theatre. for the first phone for two three person or for people by evolution big crowd who accept that it's was. good for them to infiltrate. doing last weekend 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 us an example 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 racket tearing prostitution criminal revenue streams and it's for those reasons that people directly involved in law enforcement and the citizens of berlin. well to

know if the police force has been compromised by criminals peter all of. the world anti-doping agency says it has gotten a hold of a new batch of intelligence from moscow anti-doping watchdog adds the information comes from the former water accredited laboratory in the russian capital it is in an electronic file containing all testing data from two thousand and twelve to august two thousand and fifteen this is after a number of russian athletes were banned for life on doping charges earlier my colleague neil harvey spoke with the host of capital sports on moscow's capital f.m. alan moore he believes money is very much at play in the world of anti-doping. president putin has drawn into you know the whole doping debacle specially with the state sponsored allegations that are attached to it he recently said that the watchdogs themselves though might not be that impartial see trying to turn turn things back

on to them he says they might have ulterior motives that his words were to win the international sports organizations including the international limpid committee which depends heavily on a number of factors like sponsors broadcasters and advertisers there are huge layers of connections and dependencies and the u.s. has a controlling stake all of those companies are based. so president putin saying that this could be political. critics of putin of russia will say well he's going to say that is new you know he's going to say anything to deflect but i was just looking at wider and and its funding and i notice that half of it comes from governments and of that three quarters comes from either european governments or governments in the americas so there is a political connection i suppose the question is to what extent could it be influencing their decisions hugely of this is this is a big game because right now in the world of anti doping it's a massive business these are not. nonprofit organizations these are businesses so

you kind of for example this summer this past summer were furious that they lost the rights to to test our fleets at the world chapters which of course were held in london it was sold it was tendered out to a different company so this is nothing to do with you know keeping sport clean in your sport in any case this is about business. three people have been injured in southwestern france after a car rammed into a crowd according to police the driver says he did it on purpose or it has. grown to 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 toulouse now we understand that three people three students were injured in that incident including pursue who is said to be in a serious condition in hospital all now are being treated for their injuries now we

understand that those who were injured were students and were also of chinese origin in that community 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. by the mirror of who turn and donald trump have exchanged hand shakes out of the asia pacific economic cooperation from vietnam but an anticipated formal meeting up between the two leaders did not materialize and healing is india now with more. here's how one of the most intice a painted scenes of the apec summit in the vietnamese city of all ravelled the heads of state were already lining up for the so-called family photo ceremony

wearing traditional yet that means outfits a lot about putin was already standing in front of the cameras and then donald trump came in here approached mr putin they shook hands and then we saw them standing together for the actual photo now here's another thing that i also noticed at the actual dinner table the hosting leaders right and left we saw the leader of china xi jinping and the president of russia vladimir putin while donald trump was sat somewhere on the opposite side we've seen the putin trump handshake here in vietnam but no formal meeting or talks that many many people here were really expecting i can tell you that journalists were on the brink of so to say harassing the officials on both sides russian and american about the possibility of the meeting but the formal meeting didn't happen maybe some other

time. white house press secretary sara centers said an official meeting could not take place because of scheduling conflicts on both sides but author and russia analyst mark macaulay told us he thinks the white house was afraid of how the president might look back. that's quite extraordinary that president would then shake hands with president putin and then somebody would somebody would put on the american side of presume would pull the plug and say no no no we can't go ahead because this would look bad back in america and it will do you harm. and the situation is toxic now because. american ministration really is afraid to meet any russian official because it could be misconstrued if he used by the political enemies back in the united states you have to talk through and agree how you're going to have the meeting what's going to be discussed and you work out what's

going to be the in the communique afterwards what you're going to say afterwards and obviously they couldn't agree and i take it that they couldn't agree because that the american camp was divided they didn't speak with one voice. and that doesn't from l.b. bag of top the hour with more news you are watching our two international. we'll willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people i've seen stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not the truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate

every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the burn pits would really literally send a v.a. broke and they don't want to pay it so the waiting in decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay and. call for help and get the middle finger to move using the model is. delayed and i hope you don't. here's what people have been saying about redacted in that it was doing exactly that full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to find you know really what it is that really packs a punch how an elite yampa is the john oliver of marty americans do the same thing we are apparently better than two thousand and six and see people you never heard of love redacted the night you're not president of the world bank though. i'm going to write me seriously send us an e-mail.

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