this very bill in this black white situation i think we didn't support one bottle against the other party our men struggle is against the commission our main issue is palestine and the freedom of the list for your living has made her leader in israel your leader is a man that is money said he supported the rebels we know the rebels were backed by saudi arabia and israel and the united states and britain and away i think the decision of hamas was for years and years is clear. we are with the one who is supporting palestine we cannot be part of any internal conflicts especially in the arabic i'm just i'm a country is we have to light of the beginning of this internal. clashes in syria to to to help for a common ground for a compromise from both parties struggle is against the q patient our main issue is

by this time and accordingly we decide our policy and our slogan is limited only to the palestinian territories here inside historical palestine and we kind of people out of any conflict. so was it a lie when has well our sources said they encountered munitions that they gave to hamas in gaza which would then used against hezbollah in the fight against isis dietician al qaeda in syria i think it is it is not to simply again i don't have an idea about such news but we cannot be part of the conflict we are we are only waiting for support from all arabs and muslims and three people all around the world to support all of us that are against the occupation here in palestine talk about the name thank you after the break diplomatic crises nuclear threats and this information leading to the end of the world is this the ninth of november nine

hundred eighty three or the fourteenth of may twenty eighth and his arms company shares take a hit following korean demilitarized asian plans we speak to the stock of international peace research institute about which governments are spending the most on with a great boulder some more coming up in part two of going underground. the united states has always had a. new. tax on other countries. economic sanctions or are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is

place some military pressure on the countries a talking about. and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country. we have a responsibility for the hate. and we need to make rules for the rest of. those without us there would be. welcome back diplomats return to their respective countries nato war games played

out on battlefields and threats of war broadcast on mainstream media this sounds like right now but in ninety three conditions like these nearly led to nuclear armageddon here to explain how it's filmmaker and author of the world at war taylor downing his new book is called nine hundred eighty three the world at the brink jailor welcome to do we're going underground i thought world peace was a short after russian the arc of nine hundred sixty two refused to press the button during the cuban missile crisis one nine hundred eighty three is the subject of this book what happened and it was a very very dangerous year nine hundred eighty three people think the. cold war peaked with the cuban missile crisis in ninety sixty two october sixty three i actually argue that november eighty three the subject of my book is actually even more dangerous than what went on in the cuban missile crisis is partly because eighty three begins the early part of the year we've got reagan in the white house and aggressive u.s.

president who's using all his rhetorical skills to condemn and dismiss the soviet union he calls them an evil empire in one of his speeches in march of that year really insulting thing to say about about the state in the later in that month he launches what he called his strategic defense initiative which was very soon labeled his star wars program because he intended in outs that they would shoot down all incoming missiles in space they would build a shield over the united states so that no missiles could penetrate and come through that again really upsets the soviets so they take it at face value they believe it and they think that decades of defense expenditure the building up of a huge nuclear deterrent is all going to be made redundant overnight by this by this threat so the year is a dangerous year in terms of the rhetoric that the americans. piling up against the soviets the soviet leader was yuri and who'd only been there a few months he took over from an effort towards the end of nine hundred eighty two

and then in the summer of that year a korean airline famous flight cal seven veers hundreds of miles off course and flies over a very sensitive soviet military area crosses a naval base an air station misawa station nobody can work out quite how this civilian aircraft with all its modern gears moe's for navigation so last particularly over such a sensitive territory the soviets panic and in a major blunder they shoot down a su fifteen fighter pilot shoots down the korean airliner the worst casualty figures a week later by over two hundred ninety iranians killed by the u.s. on a six that's often forgotten but at the time in the year that absolutely ignites the pressures the tensions the atmosphere that has built up again reagan erupts he calls the soviet union a terrorist state committing

a crime against humanity and it looks to many people as though the cold war is actually going to go hot at that point the end of august one thousand nine hundred eighty three. the violence of the language really couldn't be more extreme is something that we haven't seen for a very long time on the part of these individuals you emphasize the language of diplomatic rhetoric is so important it is it's very it's very important because although the americans and the west had quite good surveillance upon the soviet union they could see where their weapons were based where their missile silos were they knew the numbers of aircraft they hadn't had a pretty good idea of the number of missiles they had none of these systems could see inside the mind of the soviet leaders so they had no idea quite what effect they were having upon. the soviet leadership upon the kremlin leaders and this is where the danger really like america was talking tough uncle sam was out there

shouting from the rooftops as it were. but with no sense of the panic this was generating in the kremlin and of course if you want anything from your intelligence organizations you want to know what the other side a thinking you can see what they're what missiles they've got what technology they have it you can't see into their minds and this is a huge failing on the american pop that means they get warm piling on this pressure as the year passes amidst all of this here in britain information is being gathered you talk about actually john scarlett the former head of m i six criticize well joe got over iraq gets a name check for managing these double agents which yes agents have been in the news over the script they're absolutely watching the news of this criminal affair we're reminded about three months of very much i mean espionage britain britain had in one thousand nine hundred three had this very important double agent he was a senior figure in the k.g.b.

who was reporting to british intelligence the m i six the germans john scott it was his mind. and it was really one of the very few sources the west had into what the soviet leadership with thinking certainly the k.g.b. leadership and they had started a program to look for signs of an imminent nuclear attack from the west and i think we now understand this has been repeated several times if you ask an intelligence agency to look for evidence of something they don't come back and say no nothing that can't confound it so they usually come back and say yes this is the evidence that we found and sure enough in the survey in the everybody wants to keep their job nobody wants to insult the political leadership that says this is a priority so they find evidence to substantiate whatever it is they're being asked to verify and that happens in the soviet union in one hundred eighty three when more and more agents are reporting back from the west yes here's another sign that the the us are preparing to go to war in october eighty three. truck bomb. take a set off in the middle of the u.s. marine base in beirut they were a peacekeeping force in the towards the end of the war in them in the middle east

two hundred forty marines were killed the americans put all their bases worldwide on alert maximum state of alert for other terrorist acts against them the soviets pick up on this don't link it to the story in beirut they link it to their big agenda which is are the americans preparing to attack so that this is another box ticked in the list of. signs of indicators of an imminent attack so again the temperature goes up a bit as and then we have the ninth of november and i say we've had massive joint major exercises in the past few days. and in your book able archer eighty three hey bill archer was an annual exercise that nato carried out it wasn't an exercise in which troops or army divisions or tanks went out into the field it was purely a communications exercise and the idea was to rehearse

a story in which nato had lost a conventional war with the warsaw pact the forces of the warsaw pact and needed to resort to nuclear weapons and it's the protocols for the launch of nuclear weapons that this exercise is intended to. and sure enough on the eighth of november the nato leaders those who are playing the war game ask for formal permission to launch a full nuclear missile attack upon the soviet union soviet radio listeners achieve tuning in to every part of this story and slowly the kremlin convinces itself that this is not a war game this is actually the real thing an attack is imminent all the signs of come together all this tension is built up the whole year of living dangerously has built up to this moment on the ninth of november when the kremlin leadership is convinced because they have plans to attack the west in the guise of a war game. they always assumed the west would attack them we don't want to give away the ending although we're all alive in the studio there's

a day just just briefly are we today in the similar circumstance i don't think we're in a similar circumstance and i think there are two which is i think there are lots of parallels between what happened in eighty three and what's going on in a very dangerous world we live in today we have again we have a very aggressive us president who's rhetoric now it's usually by tweet rather than by public statements but but i don't think he realizes the offense or the insult that he's causing by a lot of what he said is we have war games that that as you say can easily escalate out of control we have a very uncertain situation in which again nuclear weapons are being threatened i thought when the cold war was over in the ninety's living through that period i thought that's behind us that chapter of the use of nuclear weapons is close but it most certainly is and it's being threatened again today let's hope the recent events in korea will diffuse that but only a few weeks ago there was talk of a nuclear exchange in korea and one of the things that eighty three tells us is

that when these incidents build up and they often start with minor incidents when scenario escalates it's very difficult to put a lid on it it's very difficult to prevent it getting completely out of control gentlemen thank you. well from threats of war to the tools of war and from the u.s. to saudi arabia to russia who spends the most on their weapons of war joining me now from stockholm in sweden is dr ode flown she's the director of the arms transfers and military expenditure program at the stockholm international peace research institute order welcome to going underground there's so much detail in this report but surely people who love peace all around the world can take comfort your headline figure of one point one percent is an increase in real terms in the warfare industry twenty six seventeen. very low yeah love the number one mission is very misleading actually and what is theirs is that there's

a lot of different and solitaire trans military spending all going to world and since there is divergent and all and contradictory transfer in the n.b.a. tend to cancel each other out so if you have a very large spenders and just the us which is dominant with thirty five percent of the raw total with six iron and ten billion spending on that military arsenal and then you've got russia declining mint twenty snatch it still remains pretty much table and is the situation which senora the past four five years it's a plateau but is really misleading because in the end if you look at the regional and national level then you see a lot more diversity i want to get out of the united states and that surprising find from russia because we're told here in britain that we should be frightened of russian military spending that let's go do a written as great as one of britain's greatest allies saudi arabia nine point two percent one of the largest increases or the largest increase in the expenditure of a war for. yet not only one of the major driver for saudi arabia an increase in

lighter spending and then war and that it's been waging an er. i mean i think you can and there they are you can military families well placed you know that large war efforts are very very costly and to die isn't still there increasingly if you're spending in a country pretty clearly so it would be the same dynamic in saudi arabia that this saudi arabia employs a lot of weapons some of it coming also they look a better time to us and several other western european arms to do search and this is a very costly but together and this will push military spending upwards and also i mean saudi arabia also has. you know objectives of being an influential actors accurate in the middle east and even beyond to some extent so are there together on classical drivers up military spending. but you say the united states has a big warfare industry that three times during that russia however u.s.

spending has been declining and it was unchanged when it into the seventy's yet there's been that issue of the domestic level of the domestic political level and terrorist until vote for the current budget would just been right they were constraining the u.s. military the u.s. overall government budget including a military budget were constrained by control that limited the. amount of resources devoted to different terry only had securing that it could go around just understand that not that much from this time around they are still constrained by previous year funding so that explains largely their stability underspending compared to last year it's pretty much just sinking really get into details of the level of funding however it's been mentioned a lot that next year could be an increase it's still hard to say there whether it's going to happen on at the end the mystic problems domestic political problems related to debt finance of the country the debt and deficit and military spending

all together it remains to be seen how this one a lot in next year and finally and briefly israel that other nuclear state in violation of u.n. resolutions difficult to assess their increases or to move out of the five percent but to exclude more than three point one billion dollars a given to the israeli government by the u.s. taxpayer yet we don't guarantee u.s. military aid because it's actually the u.s. taxpayers it's a weekend that's true but one billion to the u.s. they're making even though it is really the easy regularly that actually benefit from this three point one million different i mean there's no account from the israeli taxpayer so this is why are excluded the israeli major expenditure is there it is extremely difficult to put together and our rats and bits and pieces that are spread out within different agencies and if it. ministries that we have to pull together to help experts in that country in order to make up artist image and we

just think this is an estimate now for us there might be a little bit lower a little bit higher but it's not particularly transparent we have no idea how much the nuclear arsenal he's going to find an estimate for instance which isn't enough for all nuclear countries actually and a lot of them don't don't need anything and some of the figures and i have been published are not particularly clear or do you know definition or not congress is that she meant specifically mentioned that israel is definitely not one of the most transparent and that media would not drop floral thank you and that's it for the show will be back though on the wednesday would offer the apparent disappearance of . a former permanent representative of the o.p.c. w. gives us his take on the mysterious script of affair until then you can keep in touch with us by social media we'll see you wednesday sixty five years to the day of the death of room in the french jazz guitarist just go right.

to. the politics in washington up and driven by the fossil fuel energy lobbyist a cut of gone into renewables ten twenty years earlier and those jobs would be in place generating good paying jobs in america would be part of a growing world beating industry because they coude out to those lobbyist they got stuck in the call business which up liberated by the gas business which is a dodgy time for a lot of reasons and i was going to be obliterated by chinese led revolution in some. of you never know me. well here you'll meet one also what is the future of the transatlantic alliance in the era of trump and the prehistory of the next to the

middle east. dozens of palestinians are killed by israeli fire while protesting along the border as tensions flare over the united states' controversial move to jerusalem. this hour a british tabloid newspaper rumps the fear factor one month before the world cup kicks off in russia using a photo project to highlight this of pose a threat to football violence but the photographer say's his words being taken out of context. for their efforts to save the.

president meets the un atomic watchdog chief in the wake of the us walking away from the agreement. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know neal welcome to the program this monday marks the deadliest day in the israel palestinian conflict since twenty fourteen galluses health ministry say forty one people helping killed by israeli soldiers while protesting close to the border over seven hundred more have reportedly been injured the violence comes celebrations are held in nearby jerusalem over the official opening of the united states embassy there it was previous. in tel aviv but has been moved following donald trump's decision to recognize that this speeded city as israel's capital back in december the

controversial relocation has triggered major demonstrations right across the occupied palestinian territories. if you. medics in gallons a say of the forty one people killed by israeli snipers six were children the

palestinian government has issued a statement calling on the international community to put an end to the blooding massacre numerous human rights groups have also issued statements condemning israel's actions. let's cross live now to journalist mohamed tom male in ramallah in the west bank where some of the protests over the embassy relocation took place today mohamad to describe what happened there today it's around six o'clock there in the evening now are things quieting dawn what's unfolded throughout the day. today was marking the seventh morial of the. prompting many palestinians to hit the streets in demonstrations not only to moralize this day but also against the u.s. decision of relocating their embassy from. to jerusalem here near the columbia military checkpoint many palestinians marched year considering this checkpoint to

be the northern entrance to jerusalem and pushing these palestinians to demonstrate against american and israeli decisions and policies regarding the city. throughout the day there was a bunch of highs regarding violence in fact two hours ago during the the highest peak of violence was two hours ago here near the kalinda military checkpoint where the protestors and the israeli military forces clashed almost head on on the main street leading to the checkpoint between the checkpoint and the refugee camp nearby over the israeli military forces managed to push the protesters back near the entrance of the refugee camp when they withdrew many of the protesters actually advanced forward this had increased the tension of violence with the israeli military forces using rubber coated steel bullets tear gas canisters stun grenades and other armaments at their disposal against the palestinian protesters were mainly throwing stones and chanting against the israeli military forces this had increased as the day went on with things calming down but make no mistake this area

was a battle zone before with tensions still running high with the israeli military forces not backing down in remaining here around the entrance to the checkpoint as the protesters remain hidden among the houses near the refugee camp throwing stones while still chanting and challenging the israeli military forces with many protests happening across the west bank from ramallah to nablus to bethlehem and even hebron and other protests have occurred in the region as well with different places such as lebanon and even a man with some protesters going against the these decisions and rejecting these policies that are being presented by the americans and the israelis and this is the situation that a lot of palestinians and a lot of arabs unified against these decisions especially the palestinian people who have not been divided by any parties on or political lines in fact most policy . these are hitting the streets focusing on many on several major points including the right of return the right to jerusalem as

a capital of their future independent palestinian state and other rights including the freedom of movement and such so most of these palestinians are not even coming out of here for partisan issues or for the palestinian factions but for the kill for the cause of jerusalem and the against the relocation of the american embassy in the city itself. ok thank you very much for journalists mohammed's hum mail in ramallah in the west bank we're just seeing some fires behind you but it does look to be quieting down there on that checkpoint area mohammed thank you like. spokes person for the israeli military house released a statement saying the i.d.f. is trying to minimize casualties and stop the border fence being breached our message to the hamas is clear we will not tolerate this violence we will continue to defend all sovereignty our civilians and all border we will do so while trying

to minimize the amount of casualties but we will not let the rioters through and to harm israeli civilians that are a running distance away all concentrating on not border area which saw so many deaths today gasser journalist hidden dari has the latest. hundreds of thousands of college student protesters are still here and palestinians are still protesting for the philippine of may and tomorrow but not also protests on the fifteenth of may which is the not barred because times are fewer the palestinians were driven out and fled out of their homes in one hundred forty eight well so far palestinians have been protesting under the israeli forces have been at flying j. gas canisters and flying live ammunition we saw a lot of injuries and the height of the near the chest where this is very obvious that they're intending to go on these kind of thing is here we see women side milesian the man women children everyone is participating today everyone is here

today and everyone is here to spread the message of the palestinians that they are fed up with all that the patient will both sides in the conflicts have long held claims to the ancient city of jerusalem here's a brief look of the bot growing to about what's next after washington's and the scene. jerusalem is a city that's been a point of contention for nearly a thousand years ever since the first crusaders arrived to drive the muslim population away for nearly two centuries the area was governed by christian congress under the name of kingdom of jerusalem but the end of the thirteenth century had been a crusade of the holy land and up under muslim control with so much turbulent religious history today the area holds significance for christians jews and muslims alike all regard different parts of the old city to be their holy sites and since the formation of the state of israel in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight israel considers jerusalem to be its capital the subsequent conflict with arab

neighbors saw israel capture and annex the entire city of jerusalem the move has never been recognized by the united nations it stands firm on the idea of establishing the two state solution where israel and palestine exist independently so by president trump announcing moving the embassy to jerusalem he's underlined that the u.s. recognizes the holy city to be the capital of israel for the international community that goes against the notion that any change in the city status should come through negotiations and not a unilateral action as of now out of eighty seven countries that have embassies in israel the u.s. will be the only country to base its facility in jerusalem. areas of knowledge the u.s. embassy is officially declared open on our middle east correspondent paula slayer as the latest from just outside. well i'm standing just in front of the new site of the american embassy and as you can well imagine the atmosphere here is that an

historic event is taking place now the american president although earlier thought they was speculation that he could be here for the ceremony his not a variety of santa as you mentioned his daughter evanthia and her husband jared cushion at an event yesterday marking the sick asian invitations were sent out to all eighty six diplomatic missions in israel but only fifty three responded positively and included among them were the missions of paraguayan and guatemala both of whom are expected to move their embassies to jerusalem later this month there were also representatives from bulgaria hungary romania and the czech republic but very important there were no representatives attending from western countries belonging to the european union so that surely shows a growing rift within the european bloc now the americans have been putting a lot of pressure on countries to sign up and approve this move although there is a lot of resistance internationally to it we have seen the u.s. ambassador to the united nations and.