tragic conflict. again you know what is the endgame here because i mean we're just reading the stats i mean this is a country a humanitarian situation that is winding down very whiney out of control in a very serious way i mean cholera i mean something that is virtually wiped out in the world this comeback in their vengeance there and there seems to be no cry whatsoever from the media i mean it makes them culpable go ahead charles. or if there is outcry as you've already kind of hinted at it's at a humanitarian situation that seems to have risen out of nothing but this is a famine that there are hundreds of thousands of children not in education but there is as you say for the second year running now the danger of a cholera epidemic breaking out as if this is got nothing to do with the thought that this war has been visited upon this people by saudi arabia and its allies

but particularly of course what's missing from the western media coverage is that this war this assault on this country as you point out one of the poorest countries on earth and facing terrible predicament for its people that this assault on this country is enabled totally by britain america and france particular britain and america in supplying the weapons that are being used against the yemeni people and of course study after study from independent organizations from monitoring groups human rights groups as well as the u.n. itself have shown repeatedly that there has been almost no care taken to prevent civilian casualties we're talking about the humanitarian situation that is largely been caused by the blockade that is in place that is preventing medicines and food surviving as we speak even fighting going on of course the assault has been launched on the major held port by the saudis and. again with british and american and french not only material covered by providing the material it's

the logistical support the intelligence the refueling and arming capabilities but the weapons themselves but also diplomats and propaganda video not to can pop a gun to her for example it was britain france and america that blocked the swedish and it's initiative a few days ago to actually call a ceasefire and that was actually virtually absent from u.k. and u.s. media coverage and one other aspect which is quickly mention what the catherine mention and to support what she said. it's interesting about the iran i'm going to you mention always being brought up but in three years no actual hard evidence has been shown whatsoever even by those that claim that iran is back into the tubes to prove that i mean i should be sorry i got a job i'm going to jump in here and we have to remember that in december of last year the pentagon admitted it had troops on the ground we're going to go to a short break and after a short break that short break we'll continue our discussion on yemen state with our team.

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only in the spirit in the reason the president said from the watch musical blood coming from the. winter with him and he that. and then you have no new move can you. hear michelle i . this is kentucky. boys you could walk. a comb and he says he was almost no coal mines lived. all the.

people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever have to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. welcome back across the uk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle remind you we're discussing the tragedy you know museum. ok let me go back to catherine on skype in brighton well as we've already pointed out in this program and you put it quite definitively in the first part of the programme. the people of yemen do not want to be occupied they are proven over the

last three years to be quite resistant to that even though the casualties are high in every single way there has never been any doubt solid documentation that iran is helping militarily or any in any kind of meaningful material way so what is facing the saudis in the u.a.e. in the in the emirates i mean it doesn't they get to have a land invasion in occupied i mean the people of yemen shown didn't themselves to be quite resilient to the onslaught that they've experienced over the last three and a half years go ahead catherine. well yes. i mean historically yemen was nothing they did in that you know the ultimate in power actually you know gevalt been allowed yemen to have a great degree of autonomy and it really goes to show you know this i would not really get a brushing up on the history bearing in mind that yemen is actually a direct neighbor when it comes to you know immediate trivia i don't think it's going to happen because no with it i mean even the south of yemen might actually give up and actually open it's already kind of done it already to you know open up

itself to you know the u.a.e. of saudi arabia a very much doubt that the north will give up because you know they all are very different people together and fool very obvious reason they understand that a new location would mean an entire genocide for them because saudi arabia is very thick there in its approach and has made sure that you know the the onset a lot of the resistance movement in general and northern yemen globally has been legal and that this you know these are title and therefore should be obliterated we tend to forget this you know this idea not just that uganda victory what they're trying to do is a ninety eight an anti you people because if they're really just standing there with just belief and the tradition and you know forget to do two bits about this to put in casualty and understand that they no collateral damage you know this i would have all connected the school to pick the maximum damage on civilians because he was the people to rise up against the resistance movement not understanding that the resistance movement in itself is made out of the people that are legit to me

see on satellite has is given by the people of yemen it's not being created at ups and they feel a victory for the saudi ease by definition impossible that people will not to allow it but in the meantime we facing a catastrophe of people equal proportion because northern yemen is being discriminated for only one reason is that these people decided to be free in their own land in their own some frontier so the real question is are we actually reading in western countries to defend a nation such as saudi arabia and actually give up and forfeit all rights to all who own sovereignty and democracy because these. we doing a lot in a country are looking to declare war on another. exactly let me go back to mohamed in turn i mean considering the i mean we see some kind of peace overture process with north korea about nuclear weapons and then we got to go in the other side of the world and we have around and considering the cast of characters that surround

president trump i'm not hopeful at all on what's going to happen when it comes to iran i have a distinct worry that they're going to use this humanitarian crisis given the way the media works is going to say this is a ranch fault because of iran's involvement and that's just another of the box that is checked in this an agenda that looking at regime change in iran punishing iran more sanctions eccentric cetera and this is when they'll pull out the pictures this is when they're going to have the crying mothers and the skinny babies that's when they're going to start showing those pictures they have them all saved up in archive and that's when they're going to use that that's my supposition ok go ahead mom. i think it's quite obvious that what is i'm different in this part of the world is the saudi israeli alliance and their relationship with the white house and the united states political regime in general. in the cape for example just.

recently we saw another airstrike on book camel in the east of syria where either the americans or the israelis bombed iraq e. and syrian forces that were fighting isis so but this is something that the western media won't touch why because it's in the interests of the israeli regime is the interests of in the interest of the americans to keep syria unstable and to strengthen israel that is the criteria through which everything is judged and in the case of yemen we see the exact same thing because yemen is so opposed to saudi arabia the people of yemen are supposed. to saudi arabia they don't want to legitimize this resistance so they have to find a scapegoat and that scapegoat is of course iran whether it's in gaza whether it's in syria whether it's in iraq everything is iran and it's i think it's very racist the way in which western countries ignore and west the western media ignore what's

happening in yemen which is the greatest catastrophe so far in this century and. but on the other hand i think what's important is that the saudis are losing the war in spite of the prop propaganda and al gore data the saudis have been unable to capture the city they've been unable to capture their port they've been they face serious casualties we have from according to the resistance and yemen the americans have a command post and border and maha in support of the attacks we know for example that al qaeda in yemen as the head of al qaeda said last year that they are fighting alongside the soul would be the. u.a.e. backed forces which is not strange because that's exactly what happened in libya there was use overthrow as up and look at look at libya today just the fighting

right now that's been taking place over the last few days or what or what we saw in syria and of course in syria the western media likes to say that president assad has killed hundreds of thousands of its own people in reality it was obama and his allies that are responsible for these deaths and in yemen if you notice they always say it's for three and a half years now they've been saying ten thousand people have died and when reality hundreds of thousands of people have died but they tried to downplay the casualties in yemen to try to hide them even though hundreds of thousands of people have died from cholera from starvation and other sicknesses preventable sickness is and whereas in iran and syria they were trying to inflate it despite the fact that they were in reality the side that was responsible more than anyone else let me go to charles in london we ought to point out also that a lot as a number of international aid groups are leaving yemen because of the humanitarian crisis being there to help but it's getting to such a critical point that they can't even protect their own people or if they were charles in london be i looked at how the pentagon has reacted to all this they say

that they are solely targeting al qaeda on the on the arabian. does that cut me does that does that make any sense to you i mean i think they say but it seems to me that if they're giving logistical support than i guess all these al qaeda people are in wedding procession is all the time ok i mean it doesn't make any sense to me at all go ahead charles. you know america and britain often they're playing a double game they will say one thing in public and in private they're doing something else for example i would say that they urge restraint on israel restraint on saudi arabia and then behind the scenes it's clear they're saying that's all you're going to hear from us here is the next check for the next weapons load that you're going to use to carry out these humanitarian atrocities in the night in yemen it's absolutely clear that the one of the main reasons why al qaeda in iraq is still a problem for the west is because it instability in that country in the same way

that isis came out of the instability created by the west or at least largely fostered by the west in iraq and syria and now of course also as was pointed out in libya and so and then of course notice how in syria the existence of isis on the ground even though that is waning largely as a result of being crushed by forces such as hezbollah the iranian militia sudden russian air force and so on that the presence of isis is then used by the united states and britain as a justification for having troops and a presence on the ground and that's there's probably some element of that in why the americans are still active in yemen but the main reason is to support the saudi onslaught the saudis have proved again and again that regardless of the massive amounts of military capability they have that in terms of actually putting that to use they are not actually that competent heatedly and therefore they're largely reliant on western logistical intelligence and other support but let's put something as well throw something into the mix here for example three within the

last three years britain's arms exports to saudi arabia they quit equate to something like ten billion dollars. half of all britain's arms exports go to one country saudi arabia and that's on top of the massive saudi and incidentally also qatari influence that these countries have on the city of london in terms of of ownership. stocks and shares companies and also real estate and let's not forget as well the massive flotation that's coming up of the large part of the saudi sovereign wealth fund the oil fund that is going to come up in the next few months for which london and new york are absolutely falling to to achieve the flotation on their markets and so support saudi arabia for britain or at least the elites running britain and america as well when you look at political donations to the ruling elites running these countries the role of saudi arabia like israel is absolutely vital and the sad thing is that they put on one side the massive

lucrative gains that are to be had from continued this relationship is toxic relationship a country like saudi arabia on the other side is the suffering and the deaths of the creation of a humanitarian catastrophe which is largely not being reported in the west and certainly isn't being reported as anything in which britain and america are complicit. in this a lot of part of what you said charles just it's just shameful it is utterly shameful and having the media cover because of stock prices oh my goodness catherine there are reports that the pentagon is hesitating a little bit with the last major port who day. because they know if they cut shut that if they allow the them or it's to capture and shut it down then the humanitarian crisis just gets excel aerated somebody somebody in the pentagon is a little worried about this that's just reports i read last forty seconds of the program go to you catherine go ahead. i don't know if they really worried about the

humanitarian catastrophe i think they're actually worried that they're going to use you know these bottles for this because i don't think the resistance movement really allow it to who and they would throw everything that they've got against it so i think it's more to do you know having to do is very publicly very geo strategic you know with the poor in northern yemen rather than be caring full for humanitarian crisis because this crisis has gone on for three years and millions of people have already suffered and all in it continue to suffer so i don't think that washington is very appropriate hide you know by civilian suffering casualties i think it has more to do with a new thing very publicly a very important battle for yemen because you know we did our doesn't fool do. more than just the wall they have been saying in their meeting catherine i have to jump in here we've run out of time many thanks to my guest in london brighton. and thanks to our viewers for watching us here or to see you next time and remember crosstalk.

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it's day seven of the fee for world cup in russia european champions portugal have sent the first team packing from the tournament after beating morocco one nil. there are two more games in wednesday's lineup but one pits you require against the bottom of the table saudi arabia invokes the vong doghouse kicking off right now the game a secure table topping russia's progress to the knockout stages that's after its three one beating of egypt on tuesday. we talked to the former fee for president sepp blatter who announced russia as the

host nation back in two thousand and ten well tim about his impressions of the current tour. this was the best start ever because it's my eleventh's world cup and when i arrived yesterday i saw a little bit this my broke up with. the other world news stakes are condemning the u.s. decision to withdraw from the un human rights council saying the move may undermine washington's role as a champion of democracy. very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me making arrow no first stop let's talk football. well the whole week has now passed since the biggest party on the planet kicked off in russia but thankfully there are still another three weeks of the world cup to go for all the details as well as the latest updates let's cross live now to our

special studio in the very center of moscow. be. live with. it is another beautiful day welcome to our feast continued coverage of the twenty eight feet world cup. and let me just check yeah it's party time and the music's already begun its twenty four hour celebration these days here in moscow is the little carousel is spinning the merry go round of football that continues it's been see our seventh day on day seven coming up here in just a few moments first though let's get the latest on the game this just kicked off europe by saudi arabia playing in the southern city of rostov you go are they could

put their place in the knockout stage with a victory just a couple of minutes played it is nil nil at the moment saudi arabia of running the changes for different players brought in after that pumping at the hands of russia and europe why they'll be looking to do more of the same after their opening win. egypt and it's also a very big day for russia france because they understand if you go i can get a draw. rusher into the last sixteen it'll be official there almost and this will be the first time ever in the country since we're talking post soviet history a huge win for russia of course last night when they defeated even with their superstar striker mosul law here's how it happened i. i

. thought. but thought. and there were more than a few soreheads in moscow this morning most of the celebrations that place on the coast guard street right behind me it was alive to the sound of singing and chanting out so loud that we can regularly hear the celebrations here in the riot of noise in the capital they prevented lots of people getting a decent night's sleep among the former chief of president sepp blatter who shared his impressions of the tournament with us. as you arrived last night did you manage to get much sleep with all the revelers action the streets of moscow you see after the victory and demanded the big story of russia. until four o'clock in the morning into a hotel that it's impossible to sleep but after versus could put clothes on the floor

. at the arrival this second victory all for russian team qualified to for the next round and everything is open now it is actually it's made it a very very open to a very open group a and it's always a good thing isn't it when the host nation as a world cup has such a good start and told me this was the elementary this was the best start ever because it's my eleventh's world cup. i was in very actively. against the first match of the organizing committee of the of the host and that's important than just taken even more and now it's all gold it's all gold needs some says central for the whole competition and also it benefits the country as a whole doesn't it if he keeps it at ninety a psychological base also an economic boost as well absolutely and you know what this important also that this. russia you know where they have been you

saw her tape. so many doubts about the organization will the abilities sense on what will happen it started it started it started they for whom it. and especially if they are in the stadium is a van the full hour mentioned to say do football is good is not good at the best because in the first round you have to look a little bit but what is important is the television audience international russia is now in all the world in all the world by television mondal bizzle and this is very important how do you think that they are has had an impact on this while competing is a positive thing to think it's a negative thing by same it is it is not yet totally and ready to be introduced in a vote because the we are. would be good if the.

knowledge say the referees hit the television referees should always be the same group. because now they change every match and you know when the referee. according to the also think game it is always said if in the old pinion of to referee in the opinion of today three there is no one philo sophie to approach the days of the air and this must be it is new speed prove it because now there are some doubts. led seeing that in the future it will not create problems let's go back to the game that has come back to it all those matches that are coming out which is that we've looked at the opening there being fixtures there we looked at the results we do you think let's get let's get a prediction here do you think is going to win the world cup the winner of to find him after i know it is it is said it's easy to say that but.

already at the very beginning of one of the big teams of. those then depending if they finish first in the group or not then everything can change there because it is a plan which has been established there number one should always win the bird fifty is not the case then all the. possible solutions are now are. ok another day another christiane oh right now let's check out the result from the opening game of the date for portugal defeating morocco one goal to nothing it was a very early strike and it means that morocco they've been fantastic on the pitch to be fair they passed this game but they're out of the tournament for now though struck germany your spot while it had a from an hour ago just four minutes in but rocco went on to dominate that much in terms of possession and chances portugal having to hang on but they get the points and they keep on grinding out the result another great result for the another goal

for c r seven this is how the superstar described his feelings after. please. i'm very happy we won it was the most important thing for us because if we lost we could have been out we knew that morocco would try really hard but i managed to get a goal so i'm very happy. so what does this mean in terms of the top scorers in this tournament they're aiming for the golden boot awards right now though is at the top now with four goals we all remember that have trick against spain is now also become the top goal scorer in the european footballing international history he's aged want to head the hungary's parents push gas back in the world cup by russia's winger denise cherish the second just one behind or another with three goals and all lots of players still in the hunt for that coveted golden boot spain's diego costa england's harry kane romelu lukaku of belgium and russia's sube

are all still pretty close by with two goals each. crowds of fans were packed into the moscow found so to watch that portugal morocco game big screen there for people who didn't have tickets you hope can see is there for us. to go as you can probably hear from the noise and the background you know most before them i suppose said some fans who saw to mistake so adamant they were going to win the war must be underdogs but they were hopeful they could repeat their picture result nine hundred eighty six course quite some years ago now who just wasn't sent off though we got some comments from the fans no on the game itself but also no russians of moscow around the world cup the energy in the city really hasn't died down from the opening ceremony just about a week ago and if anything it's snowballed into a war on wall was there must be accomplishing in the streets some bridges all over moscow yesterday and this is what we heard from fans. toward that miracle was that she had played the most hard and had the best.