some new chance with the fans. because i got what was just the right piece to try to write a piece that i got not yet we do have but it would be just got called now i know not jobs through no no no not a job as usual but. i don't do. it you're young. you know she didn't used to have the o.l. law. that the state lab was was small over. what you should be doing but going out of the nest and without your downloading logano for such a good idea is that you should w.

bush to wean. them. away. and the great city manager at burra military which he joined as appear on the written shed his impressions off russia twenty eighty cents. a hug and enjoying the atmosphere at the festival what do you think of this world cup so i thought i had three. days of it to to read the book. you know the sort of thing to say cause people enjoyed being how many teams e.g. coach in c. and during the world cup five five five it's not a record that must be a lawyer you'll recall but this is very quick for me i don't look for the record though the global community coming together it must be like a drug is that we keep guns underlies it all but i like the style you don't like to make sure the risk of things. that's number nine that makes it go on the sunday

shows and people make sense and see the finished piece and it's also been that she she was in the j.m. eighty eight and going to a mission to kids kids i want is a bunch of no no by the i don't like you this is a new one don't know what their house. has to go on social media and make me say. when i russia founds will pretty much know for certain whether that team is through to the knockout stages and i'll be off to today's game between saudi arabia and europe why a win or draw for europe why is all that's needed saudi arabia will give it their old and i think it will be held at the rough stuff every.

meanwhile teams in group b. stop playing their second games on wednesday with portugal taking on morocco fussed about games taking place right here in moscow that will be tough for the americans and the athletes lions as they're also known taking part in the world cup for the first time in twenty years in iraq and central defender federal told us that his team will do that that. is a mix team there are players over thirty and there are some promising athletes under thirty such as iraq who plays for the damn southampton's buffo there are some very interesting players like the team's captain. from eventis he's

a very interesting player and the team's leader as well but above all we are a team a great team of players who work together we're like a family and we know that forty million fans are looking at us and they'll be supporting us all the way because we'll be representing our great country's return to the world cup after twenty eight break and to be honest there are a lot of hoops at home now and we'll do our best to give the homeland the performance it deserves you know that portugal's national football team known as the navigators make this happen the parents of the world cup stop christiane over an elbow holds the team record for the most number of caps and goals of course as fans all over the world. i'm off for the. number of fun.

to. watch. t.v. about three years now and the dream is finally becoming she went to college to take a lot of different things but i decided not to because i wanted to fling was the word. so those were the three things you love most about. that it was good. that you called it a friendship if you have it. for me does a problem for me because my country pakistan means that the study will be used at the world cup. hopefully i can spread a message of peace and love from pakistan to russia to football and eleanor's victory on a peaceful nation. also

playing today iran and spain iran currently top group b. after beating morocco spain in just one point after drawing with portugal i want to be well cup go through it with a marine you know try to stall on the up coming. spain and i think you will start as a very experienced coach with multiple. experiences in the in world cup. obviously spain spain i would say that spain we play is a lot selected for the walk of will be also a candidate for the extinction as amazing it is. their potential so i think spain but i relieved that. we'll be in a way where we're going to create some little problems.

spain hold the record for the most on beat and games in a row in fact twenty nine they also want to world cup not so long ago and twenty ten becoming the first european team to win outside europe iran and meanwhile won all of its twenty eight team world cup qualifying games it's the fifth championship for the team and some of the most dedicated fans on taking part but the first time in my. mind that i born and raised on iran. here. they are still what to me. that i. want. to force made. up to me and i. think.

the first. thing to pull the trigger is hold. every dollar that the russians. want so it's good to keep the space by the most important thing. that i. join me every week on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm sure. i'll see you then. survival guide books they say there's more to the story.

repatriations the rest of seven years. of the separate kaiser. after three years of conflict it has been estimated that out of a population of twenty seven point four million twenty two point two million people in yemen are in need of humanitarian assistance so why are the u.s. and u.k. so committed to the saudi war. this is also international the u.s. has announced it is leaving the u.n. human rights council secretary of state when other u.s. officials castigated the international body accusing it of hypocrisy and political

bias. president wants to move the ball forward from day one his called institutions are countries who say one thing and do another and that's precisely the problem with the human rights council as president trump said at the u.n. general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with the greatest human rights records sit on the human rights council for too long to human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias for a long time we've heard the trumpet ministrations speak highly critically of the united nations and specifically the un human rights council but now we have the dramatic move of the usa officially withdrawing from the un human rights council not being a member of this body that it's been a long critical of now we've heard from mike pompei o secretary of state and he specifically cited criticism of israel by the un human rights council as

a reason for the usa withdrawing from the council's continued and well documented bias against israel is unconscionable. since its creation the council has adopted more resolutions condemning israel against the rest of the world combined now israel has thanked the united states for their move withdrawing from the council and there have been widespread reactions from elsewhere and the secretary general would have much preferred for the united states to remain in the human rights council the u.n. human rights architecture plays a very important role in the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide and now we've heard from the executive director of human rights watch mr kenneth roth he responded saying quote the trumpet administration's withdrawal is a sad reflection of its one dimensional human rights policy defending israeli abuses from criticism takes precedence above all else he went on to say other governments will have to redouble their efforts to ensure that the council

addresses the world's most serious human rights concerns un human rights council has been quite critical of the united states in a few areas there has been a recent report on poverty in the united states saying that government policies by the u.s. government have not been addressing the economic rights of the population there have also been concerns widely expressed about the treatment of migrants in the united states most recently regarding the issue of the separation of families along the u.s. border from there we have heard from the president of the u.n. human rights council and he said that the u.s. withdrawal is a topic that should be explicitly discussed by the council we did hear from nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the united nations and she said that the usa would be continuing to push an agenda of human rights around the world however they would no longer be participating in the un body we spoke to ramsey bode of the palestine chronicle he thinks the us leaving the council is actually

a good thing. since trump has been in power the u.s. has further cemented its policy of isolation isolationism of dung and sham did not just reach the council but also other international institutions and other american commitments under international law the paris protocol and so forth and so on now i think the just basically decided to do what's in my opinion is a positive thing remove themselves entirely from the human rights council i see it's a positive thing in this is that the u.s. presence in these institutions has only served to target its enemies and to protect israel and its interests. the palestinian family has been barred from entering a public swimming pool in the southern israeli city of kitty had to go out of the reason that was given was that they are not residents of the city we spoke to the family who think it has more to do with their religion. but. it was

a holiday and we wanted to go out we called the polling period gatt and they said we can come when we got there someone went out of the office and told us that no one can get inside today except for the residence of kerry at get young people who are in front of us arabs as well said what do you mean you said we could come in why are you saying no now and i realized that this all happened just at the time when my wife with her headscarf came in and that was the moment when he decided not to let anyone in for eleven years i've been working on different projects bringing together jews and arabs and creating conditions for our joint life here for our future. and it was sad i don't understand why they make a difference between jews and arabs we're all children of adam yes we have different religions but we are all people as i was so upset when they did let us in i felt that it was racist i feel that we arabs are a minority here we are outcasts and there's a similar case in a small israeli village of. public swimming pool there allegedly has an undeclared

rule of separate hours for jews and for bedouins the regional council told us that it's the bedouins who asked for a separate i was blaming them for the tensions locals though are divided over whether such a policy is right. it shouldn't be like this and i think this is swimming pool should be boycott and no one needs to go to the swimming pool if the simply did it . is equal for both of the sides i think you're quite ok this area has many people living in here and this is very very long to tell people what they should do and shouldn't do people need to leave legally without anyone telling them when and where they need to go where they can go to as well as between the jews and the business disability. but in this industry well it's really employees have already called for the practice to be ended saying it violates an anti discrimination law well that just about wraps up the program for this hour here when r.t.

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i'm after a time say while mainstream media and politicians are give me nor nato nations cup ability for the mass displacement of millions around the globe we're going underground own world refugee day coming up in the show and of samarra shipped by u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson the defense secretary gavin williamson to poland can britain be a credible force against russia but on the heels of monday's report on britain's preparedness for war we speak to former first siebold and counter-terror minister of milord west and there's bankers and academics meet today at the european central bank's annual gathering in portugal will the soon to be third largest economy it's really easy talking to the e.c.b. in the near future we speak to at least former treasury director and chief economist professor at the renzo couldn't go well so in this week's headlines the campaigns to gain dignity for the homeless and regain dignity for that at all the civil war coming up in ten days going on the ground the first today superpowers of the middle east trying to win in the group stages of russia twenty eighteen saudi

arabia plays euro why saudi arabia blamed along with the raise of may for the world's worst humanitarian crisis yemen by u.k. labor leader jeremy corbin bombs exported from britain are being dropped on yemeni children by saudi pilots trained by britain if they're all war crimes being committed then as the un suggests they must be investigated isn't it about time this government suspended its arms sales to saudi arabia no was the answer as for iran which is playing spain today in tatarstan in russia twenty eight hundred group b. the national security advisor of britain's military ally the united states wants to overthrow its government we should provide material financial support to the opposition if they desire it we should work with intelligence services from other. saudi israel to provide more pressure there's a lot we can do and we should do it our goal should be regime change in iran well in that kind of talk let alone the tweets about germany have alarmed the international community one of britain's strategic defense goals in

a world that would arguably be more dangerous should the usa militarily attack iran well this week the u.k. commons defense committee said british defense spending should rise from two percent to three percent of total g.d.p. joining me now is former counter-terror minister and former first sea lord admiral lord west thanks for coming back on you like this report which rear admiral says britain would not be a credible military power should spending not go up i haven't read the report completely in detail but i'm aware of the general thrust of it and indeed i've spoken with the with the head of the house comes defense committee to listen i know him quite well and i think the general thrust of it is correct there's been a real hollowing out of britain's defense forces there's been talk of two percent and extra money and things but the reality is that the two percent was made up using things like war pensions military and civilian war pensions and you can't

fight with civilian and military war pensions so they built into this two percent of g.d.p. which never in the past it was never in the past included but it was from twenty fifteen on words what is announcing conjuring well it's money that has to be spent it's question whether you put it in there don't put it in the other nato countries in fact do use it but we've never used it in this country up until this last this last time that's fair enough surely but there are here exactly hides the fact there's been a drop in how much you're spending on defense so you'd agree with the three percent that is i certainly think it's i think probably we do need three percent i think very unlikely the chance will find that but we have a plan for a make a balanced force we want to achieve not hollowed out and all there the. there's no doubt that the moment the money is not there to ensure that happens so this modernizing defense program that. williamson is actually running through the immediate moment it will be very very interesting to see what comes out of that and

strategists will be looking at these they will this equipment to fight who. well you never know here and he's going to be the report seems to suggest as well as asymmetric terror and the new york and former counterterrorism russia is the enemy here well certainly some of the actions by russia are worrying and i think therefore it makes a lot of sense to consider that no will she take further or more dangerous actions and if she will she's you know we've got considerable i have been to rehab aeration for the average russian you know they're tough soldiers and they're tough sailors and they're brave and one needs to think hard about you know how seriously foresee any kind of battle between british and russian soldiers it really. i see here wolf is rather it's rather like you know do we think there's going to be a war you know as plato said only the dead of seen the end of wars i mean what is really difficult is ever predicting anything like you know that i fought against we were never thought i'd be fighting it and i've had people friends you never thought would be friends very dangerous but it was

a military man what you got to do is give your country capabilities the commute whatever whatever happens you've said that i mean putin is dangerous so how careful has britain been and has to be does it have to be in the current situation i think i find it very hard to understand some of his actions some of the things that he's allowed to happen i find that odd. because what i you know as i say i like the russian people what i would like is actually to see those sort of actions stopping and i would like much more dialogue and i mean i made a point of going along to the victory event. in may for the end of the great battle to war because there wasn't senior british representation and i felt there should be because twenty five million russians were killed fighting the nazis and that's quite right so i like that swing but some of the things that have happened are very surprising and indeed i don't really understand why they've been just to figure well let's look at a series of them there's the fact that russian s.s.n.

has are actually deploying into our into our home territory in greater numbers than they ever have before s.s. . and these are attacks nuclear attack submarines why we know there are no submarines in russia of the coast of russia not we're not deploying them in great numbers up there and we've hardly got any and we don't know doing so well i know jolly well they're deploying on greater numbers than ever why that's extraordinary they're doing more runs into wards our air space than before well in to our especially running towards when they go into the air control zone and then they come towards you cater and then turn away once we've responded ok once or twice but they that's been happening more than more than ever why we know the why do you think it is we know that the takedown of the media station in paris was taken down by russian networks we know that story was a takedown of the media station in paris where they took it offline the whole thing out of cyber attacks took an online we know i mean there's a there's

a feeling of security by people around the world that we can't attribute things d.c. h.q. n.s.a. are better at attributing than anyone else in the world and we are able to attribute we can't explain how we do it because that would that the people know so we know when someone's done it so to pretend and say well we did i mean we know now those things are you know don't do them i mean that's that would be my let's let's not do that we let's let's i mean. you know a rusher is a an important country on the world stage they don't need to do that and now that they all prices are going up brant crude is gone up dramatically over it well over eighty it means that the financial problems in russia are not as bad as they were let's try and actually have a dialogue let's stop doing silly things both of us and try and you know try and not see each other as enemies so what do you make of when the head of the ministry of defense said shut up and go away to russia i can't remember in which context he said it was if some a vent but it happened i presume the script of the alleged poisoning by yeah well i

mean it's not it's not a phrase i would have used again i have no doubt whatsoever that someone high up in russia was of a was aware of that attack on in i'm no doubt a top you know i want in our view to oslo in the face but i have no doubt see that it is in some agencies interest to create tensions between nato and russia this is a point again and again it was made by president trump. i mean i just don't i mean i've you know as you know i was chief defense intelligence and i know a lot i know a lot about the age and you've been critical of our intelligence has been used in people at times in some places and there have been times when used but that's not the way the aides and i know very well the agencies are full of their full of pretty good people who are working hard trying to look after our security and that's just not that's just not what stung by them so so i you know that doesn't have any resonance with me at all. and you know think i'll be governed but particularly on a daily basis because of counterterrorism things and of course we give we give

information to russia when it comes to terrorism as well you know we need to work together about this sort of terrorist threat there is which is an extremely worrying for all of us. part do you think that if the british government believes with complete certainty that let me put in order that the assassination in england it's a bit strange then to be cooperating on anti terror well that's what's known as real but it's rather like in you can think that someone is of loathsome and ghastly person i'm not saying that exactly about put in let's say someone like a sad some of the things he's done have been horrible but equally he has a head of state there he is a fact of life on the ground you've got to deal with him i mean rush rush job dealing with him i think we have been silly in trying to pretend he's not there but given your experience would you assume the strategy is in the intelligence services and those responsible for strategic thinking like that aren't being listened to by politicians or this is the base research coming out saying no asset must go as of course the british defense secretary repeatedly said over the course of the i think they're on the sad thing i think they're probably been some advisors within

whitehall who said he's so gassy got to go we don't like him all these things have happened and some of the things are true he has done horrible ghastly things and i don't think there are enough people with with their head screwed on saying well actually here's a fact of life on the ground this is a reality and the other thing is there are no good people and he's i mean i forty countries there's no good guys you know i mean americans tend to like people with white hats or black out you know white that's a good guy. a little charm said aaron. you know they're great they're gray and i'm afraid you know if let's say of so sad and his let's say wrestlers regime went you would find there were three million alawite some christians who were refugees all being ordered to be killed i mean very little man ever whichever way you go there are really nasty people and you've got to. you know you're very careful course amongst it and be very careful what you say and be careful with your use of words and it's like that if that's the case in syria where i think most people believe that britain's strategic ideas with overthrowing us ended up in nothing the world

is now costing about iran what's your take on what britain should do in the face of don't trump these national security advisor desiring regime change in tehran that well i'm very disappointed about the the agreement that she had with iran that trump has effectively said i don't like that. there's no doubt that. if one goes back in time before the green lantern little bit before that to go to the stage where certain present netanyahu was very keen to do an attack an israeli attack on the nuclear facilities in iran that would have been an utter disaster. and my worry now is with the with this agreement you know being in flux that again you know israel may think you know maybe now's the time to actually take a hit at these nuclear facilities make sure they can't happen if israel did something to iran uranium is quite understandably would would assume that the

americans were involved in it even if the americans hadn't given it the go ahead so the americans have to work on the basis that the iranians would think that so we would have a war which would involve iran israel ever and the gulf states against iran britain would be pulled into that. area because we're well because we have a base in bahrain we're fully involved so without because of the iranians would see us as being part of it so therefore you might as well be involved in it rather than take all the flak and be shot at blown up not being part of it so i see it as extremely dangerous i think is very very dangerous and yes of course we could you know with with america and all the allies we could take out the bulk of their new capacity in the ones they've had no way you know we know at least the mo but they had stopped doing it they'd stopped doing it yes all right in the future they could start again they had stopped. now they'll be a lot of the street the hardliners in iran saying well to hell with this we should stop it.