really iran they'll spray the only thing this game is lacking is the goal so plenty of chances particularly from spain iran were also a lot on their back food producing there are several dangerous chances in the box but i think the atmosphere in the stadium deserves special mention as i said before the iranian friends are outnumbering the spanish or maybe maybe even five to one and that is clearly in the stands the iranians are using some sort of this was their last so it's pretty much south africa two thousand and ten mode here very loud coming old throughout the game and that's the iranian way of applying psychological pressure on the opposition it seems to be working the spanish players i'm not seem to be on their sharpest best so far we'll see whether nil nil or the other score remains of the five to forty five minutes. or less figure out of today fifty minutes played at the kids on the arena and it is still goalless but the waves of spanish attacks are coming thick and fast the now if you're around hold

out for this it will be a surprise but maybe shouldn't be a big one given the results we've seen so far and it's amazing twenty eight world cup join me at the top of the hour we predict michael we will analyze all the action for you. hello and welcome back i'm going to today and we continue our special coverage from headquarters now in moscow with the world cup getting massive attention on social media two one british pair has found himself in hot water over his comments on twitter alan sugar who is also the star of hit b.b.c. show the apprentice was forced to apologize after posting the following tweet about these. senegal's squat the offensive tweet showed the team with photoshop bags and

sunglasses and sugar making a reference to beach sellers after the backlash he took the tweet down but noting he still thought it was funny he eventually made an apology saying he had no intention to offend anyone artie's host and former english football is stunned cullimore has extensively covered racism in sport he described to us his reaction to the scandal. disgusted. but not surprised and launch sugaree seen as a liberal voice to me is a black britain that can go back thirty forty years ago when i was a child and suffered horrific rises and to see all coming out and people not mikee in genuine apologies and actually go in the other why you're seeing in the most stupid in the most demeaning why their rights is and this is at the very. forget of british society this is a load it is a jewish law and i tweeted lighter on if this was

a black britain that would have tweeted something similar about the israeli national team they would be fired he would certainly be potentially be arrested alan sugar so i can then that's wait and it will be carry on regardless on a lot of journalists in britain and across the political spectrum he needs to now come out and mike an apology you know all put this challenge to the b.b.c. are you going to keep. the house of the apprentice do you think. i lie in a late level athletes from an african country. is anything other than rice is a metaphor is rice's and he has no place on british television the b.b.c. has responded to in a statement pointing out that no chicken has apologized but called him on him to do so unreservedly changed a mocked. to a historic win for japan over colombia and fast walcott twenty tanned and they're fast after

a south american nation in the tournament and japan fans and winning hearts off to the stands at the usual waist and later left after taking take a look. it's fair to say iceland and their fans have made a big impression at this tournament not just with their play but also with the now famous viking from the clap and it was on show again on tuesday in the last of on don fan zone known back home as the guys a sound it was used this time to mark the birthday of iceland

a friend ragnar sigurdsson. in other news now europe has lashed out at the u.s. decision to leave the u.n. human rights council off to washington quit the international organization accusing it of hypocrisy and political bias the e.u. foreign affairs spokesperson said the decision may undermine the u.s. role as a country defending democracy and human rights across the world she added that the e.u. will still cooperate with washington to defend human rights whenever possible british foreign secretary boris johnson in turn dubbed america's decision regrettable.

israel welcomed the u.s. move prime minister binyamin netanyahu called it a courageous decision against the hypocrisy and the lies of the so-called un human rights council analysts believe the us withdrawal is a consequence of washington's relations with israel too long to human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias as president trump said at the un general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with egregious human rights records sit on the human rights council and the council's continued and well documented by skins israel is unconscionable. since its creation the council has adopted more resolutions condemning israel against the rest of the world combined israel has thanked the united states for their move withdrawing from the council and there have been widespread reactions from elsewhere the secretary general would have much preferred for the united states to remain in the human

rights council the u.s. 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 general secretary of the palestinian national initiative. says that withdrawal shows how biased the trumpet ministration is to israel. this is american withdrawal from the human rights council reflection of how serious the problem is with minister issue which has become totally biased it was a true. even to the american interest and i think withdrawing from such an important human. rights council. undermines all the

claims from the side of the american administration that so much about to moderates that is very dangerous very good situation it has undermined completely the ability of the united states to play at all in only peace in the future and it is definitely affecting good reputation of the american administration. and this is also linked to many other issues but on the issue of who moderates this is going to be a very serious loss for the american policy. the number of terror attacks carried out by radical islamists in europe has doubled in the last year that's according to a newly released report your poll says the number of attacks reached thirty three in twenty seventeen way up on the thirteen of the year before the official death toll from the twenty seventeen attacks was put at sixty two meanwhile the latest opinion polls are believed to believe the main threat the constant face are

immigration and terrorists with nearly a third of those queer saying terror is now the most urgent issue the head of one of the u.k.'s main intelligence bodies g c h q recognizes that the concerns. these threats to be all complex global and none of us can defend against them alone in the last year we've played a critical role in the destruction of terrorist operations and at least four european countries. ok let's bring in david lo terrorism expert and university lecturer at liverpool john moores university in the u.k. thanks for coming on to the program david so the report shows the number of terror attacks has doubled in europe in just a year is it an anomaly or are we genuinely seeing a rise or do you think the rate will continue to rise as rapidly as it's suggesting . oh my dearest hope is the the number of incidents will drop dramatically i think it was an unprecedented year. last year throughout the whole

of europe we saw quite a number of low level attacks you know use of calls sharply bladed instruments like which is easy to relatively easy to carry out but the worst ones were certainly barcelona where they tried to use improvised explosive devices as well as parsons green in london again but fortunately the knowledge of explosives wasn't sufficient for for those bombs to detonate so we were very lucky but. i think lessons have also been learned every time this incident. while on what didn't go well and learn but what's crucial you know you listen to interpol is also your appalled of the there is cooperation between the policing agencies around the world to prove. i mean you mentioned these low level attacks nevertheless it appears doesn't it that the you know that it's getting worse certainly in terms of the international community and the european community we've heard lots and lots of debate about how

safe they feel one example of recent incident france when a man armed with a knife tried to push a passer bear by from a bridge again stirring much debate. whether that was a terror attack or not a is never a problem with defining what terror attack is and where can the line drawn. you know i think you're quite right trying to identify and there may be. an issue that's cropped up is this seems to be a delay between the policing. the police and officials declaring it was a terrorist attack because you have to be quite clear on this i mean what was interesting was in toronto a couple months ago we saw an individual drive a vehicle onto a road and his cause was involuntary celebrant know is that a terrorist incident or someone who. you know for reasons unknown known to themselves they want to carry out this type of talk to me and what the danger is

people saying how easy this relatively is this can be lessons of also being learned if you look at many major cities and towns and where there's open there. there are physical precautions taken obstructions and so on so learned from it but as you say in there with a knife attack i mean is it. an assault that's not so related or if it's a fatal disease or a murder it's not terrorist related this is crucial to try and determine what it is and what resources are put into it you know i mean david there's also obviously with the surge of these attacks last year and you said it was unprecedented. lot of finger pointing is well going on and prosecutor for example said that the main threat comes from those who have already crossed the border and now live in europe where does the blame like can we identify where that blame lies or a people again just trying to you know find answers to these questions.

but we always want to find answers and then answers are crucial because that will help us in the future to make plans and strategies. and to see if you know if legislation needs to change except. quite clearly i mean what we also saw was the coincided with the fall of the last geographical territory for the likes of islamic state. in fighters fighting to get back to europe he left the shows to go. so that's one cause of concern but i think what is also introduced the this is this news story is that the d.c. h.q. you can still see the work going on behind the scenes where four attacks in mainland europe were prevented. cooperation is vital so yes we're always looking for answers we it's easy to blame someone well i think we have to be careful when

we do that you know the genuine refugees coming from the middle east and the syria region and it's very easy to point a finger but i think that shows the. people's concerns you know going out and about because certainly when you look at some of these attacks the going out to enjoy themselves. and quite rightly go to enjoy yourself use of god and that's what you should do i can understand people's concerns yeah ok david thanks very much for your expertise terrorism expert. now a palestinian family has been prevented from entering a public swimming pool in southern israeli city of carry out the reason given was that they are not residents of the city the family think it has more to do with their religion. it was a holiday and we wanted to go out we called the pool in korea to get and they said

we can come it's when we got there someone went out of the office and told us that no one can get inside today except for the residents of korea 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 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 a joint life here for a future with an equally 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 so i was so upset when they didn't let us in i felt that it was racist i feel that we arabs are a minority here we are outcasts. there was a similar case in the small israeli village of marble in the public swimming pool there reportedly has an unwritten rule of separate hours for jews and bedouins the regional council told us it's the bedouins who've asked for the separate hours

blaming them for the tensions it also says the request was made on religious grounds locals though are divided over such a policy. it shouldn't be like this and i think this all should be boycotted and no one needs to go to the swimming pool if they did it . is equal full bowl of the start of the things you quote to keep this area has many people living in you this is very very wrong to people what they should do and shouldn't do people need to leave really without anyone telling them when and where they need to go or to came to there is violence between the jews and the business just the pollution is very innocent as the. israeli m.p.'s have already called for the practice to be halted saying it violates anti discrimination laws.

now back to our special coverage of the biggest event in football the fifa world cup spain are up one nil in their much anticipated clash with iran in cars than the goal came from a spanish striker diego costa in the fifty fourth minute and just minutes after iran also thought they'd scored but it was rejected after the referee consulted the new video assistant referee system join us of course at the top of the hour for all the updates on the latest games of fifa world cup. ok i'll be back at the top of the hour with more stories and of course of course our special coverage of the world cup see you then. it's. just. in that up that up the. last.

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle 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 four point five million children and women are suffering malnutrition while two point nine million people are internally displaced this is a humanitarian catastrophe by any measure so why are the u.s. and u.k. so committed to the saudi u.a.e. war on yemen. crosstalk in the tragedy known as yemen i'm joined by my guest well. he's

a professor at the university of the. in london we have charles shubrick she is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counter terrorism intelligence officer and in brighton we cross to katherine shocked and she is a senior analyst with the center all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated let me go to charles first. this war has been going on for three years i gave some of the stats encourage our viewers to go to doctors without frontiers and look at their side on yemen much more detailed much more gruesome i would even say what is the u.k. u.s. interest in this war against the country this is the poorest country in the middle east what is the thinking behind british foreign policy supporting saudi arabia and the emirates against yemen. i suspect on the one hand you've got u.k. and the u.s.

saying that some degree and we can come on to that later on their national interests are aligned with saudi arabia particularly against iran of course in yemen elsewhere and again you have to question i'm hoping hopefully later in a post we will do that in more detail as to why the u.k. and u.s. always seem to see their interests as being in conflict with iran in most instances but also there's got to be a aspect of this which is based on commercial interests of course britain and america supply vast amounts of weaponry and other equipment to saudi arabia the relationship with saudi arabia particularly it's not just saudi arabia involved here is one of course other gulf states as well all of which have very lucrative. commercial contacts with britain and the united states and indeed france and there has been certainly of the last few years a tendency for particularly united kingdom that anything that is saudi arabia supports pretty much britain and america are going to support also we have to

remember just really how important this relationship particularly saudi arabia is if we think about trump we think about. other government ministers united states and united kingdom their first port of ports of call when they've been put into office isn't their allies in europe or the states often it's usually going off to see two players both of whom are vitally important to british and particular interest one of those is israel and the other one always saudi arabia and so really i think this war is becoming increasingly an embarrassment not just war but the blockade in everything else that goes with it is becoming embarrassment to western leaders as invariably parts of it creep into media coverage because there's been a little account as yet of the last three creep creep but also if they will they will continue to support it catherine let me go to you in brighton ok so we've got a little bit of the background the the reason. if we can use that term for the british and the americans so what does fig three me. for the saudis in the us the

genocide i mean what what do they hope to what is the end goal here go ahead. the end goal was basically this iteration of the have would have cried to two thousand and eleven when the people decided to to rise up against the then you know regime where the us i would care about was in control of yemen and yemen's political future as well as economical future and i think that this is what they're trying to do trying to revert back to you know the situation that we had you know preaches other than an f. and that is not going to happen because people have learned that they have a right to political set determination and they understand you know the majority of yemeni on just on that so i would your idea is not that to promote greater yemen or even to promote a greater future for yemen but rather you know you have yet another country a client state that would remain forever tied up to yemen. i mean just very quickly when we talk about you know british and the u.s. siding with saudi arabia because of the fear and the enemy cities that have to

would see iran we need to be very careful here to understand that yemen is a proxy only in the eyes of britain and the u.s. because they reason the iranian influence yemen represents your graphically an advantage and it's sitting on very important waterways needed to really and of course because of all routes which is why britain and the us all are interested in yemen in the through play first place it has nothing to do with the fact that you want to have the na in yemen but rather because of the geography and where yemenis is situated in relation to iran and the rest of the gulf countries and i think it's an important point because we need to stop this narrative that iran you know has an interest in trying to promote unrest in yemen that's not the case if anything iran needs stability in the region to be able to itself you know you know stabilize its own borders and everything else i goes with that i think that i'm really glad you brought that up because there is a. and so to terminations issue in yemen that is never brought up in the mainstream

media and charles already brought up the issue that is always mentioned i'm going to go to mohammed now into rant it's all iran's fault as usual i mean you pick the day of the week it's russia's fault or rand's fault here now i'm willing to agree that iran may have some kind of involvement on some level now but not in two thousand and eleven that was what how this was sold so do you intervention in the first place here but it's always a rance fold it's a proxy war it's far more than a proxy war as catherine has pointed out go ahead mohamad into around this is one of the excuses that western countries in the western media use in order to justify the crimes being committed by their governments the canadian government american and british and french governments are involved in crimes against humanity and they are just as guilty as mohamed been solomon and the saudi regime and all this without them he couldn't be carrying out these crimes the americans are providing all sort of source of the just simple support so they need to justify it somehow

obviously for anyone who know for who knows anything about what's going on the yemenis do not have the ability to have any meaningful contact with iran there's no way that the iranians can help them in a meaningful way because they're completely surrounded the americans and the saudis and others have laid siege on the country they're preventing food from getting in there and forcing starbase starvation they've been doing this for years now and the western media they call it a proxy war or they try to somehow blame the victims in gaza in order to again justify their policies but it's obvious that this country is surrounded the overwhelming majority of the population is living in the areas controlled by. the law and their allies the popular committees and so on after all these years after

over three and a half years with all the internal foreign support american support european support mercenaries from from different countries blackwater and an american and french official military presence on the ground sudanese mercenaries after all you know with all the money that the saudis and their marti's are spending if they cannot capture the capital of the country that shows that it is the will of the people of yemen that prevents them from doing so that shows that the resistance against the saudis and the americans is in the gentleman and popular resistance but that's something that they don't want to see because that makes c.n.n. that makes the new york times the guardian the b.b.c. all of them run against their own government if they point these out that humiliates their own government position charles i have noticed that in what scant coverage there is on the cable stations the iran card is always almost always

played for so ok and there is not the not not there isn't a willingness to admit there are serious war crimes are being committed and i'd like to point out the the who these also have been accused of that in all fairness but this is a very tragic conflict. again you know what is the endgame here because i mean what 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 come back when there benjamin's there and there seems to be no outcry cry whatsoever from the media i mean it makes them culpable go ahead charles . only if there is outcry you've already kind of hinted at it's a humanitarian situation that seems to have risen out of nothing but.