it's on the on the cable stations the iran card is always almost always played first ok and there is not the there isn't a willingness to admit that our 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 that again i 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 whiny 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 benjamin's there and there seems to be no out 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 a humanitarian situation that seems to have arisen 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 fact 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 to arriving 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 if 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 the catherine mention and to support what she said. it's interesting about the iran i'm going to mention always be important 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'm going to unleash the sorrows 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 r.t. . this is says harlan kentucky. boy says he was very funny. a co money since he was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal

mines just said i'd. love to see these people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened 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 happening it's happened. welcome to maximize are plentiful survival guide. looking forward to a year that's without. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. you watch kaiser report. welcome back to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the tragedy known as yemen.

ok let me go back to countering on skype in brighton well as we've already pointed out on this program when you put it quite definitively in the first part of the program. the people of yemen do not want to be occupied they're 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 usa in the in the emirates i mean it doesn't. have a land invasion in occupy it i mean the people of yemen shown selves 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 intend that you know the ultimate in power actually you know gave all been

allowed yemen to have a great degree of autonomy and it really goes to show that you know the really good at brushing up on the history bearing in mind that yemen is actually they have direct neighbor when he comes to you know immediate to victory i don't think it's going to happen because no one that i mean eat the south of yemen might actually give up and actually open its already kind of done that already you know open up itself to you know the u.a.e. saudi arabia a very much doubt that their north will give up because you know they all are very different people together and full of very obvious reason they understand about solidarity i would mean an entire genocide for them because saudi arabia is very thick there and in its approach and has made sure that you know the law of the resistance movement in general and all of that and yet none globally has been label and you know the title and therefore should. obliterated we tend to forget this you know this idea not just that you're getting victory what they're trying to do it's an idea to the entire people because that they're really just standing there with just belief and the tradition and you know forget to tell bits about this shit in

casualty and on to found out they know collateral damage you know this how do you have to be a war to pick locks and that image on the seabed you know because he was the people to rise up against everything and wouldn't not understanding that the resistance movement in the self made out of the people they lead to me think that a lot has given by the people of god like it's not being created at ups and they feel a victory for their fellow by definition impossible their people will not to allow it but in the meantime we facing a catastrophe of people equal proportion because northern yemen is being based in mated for only one reason is that these people decided to be free in their own land in their own sovereignty so that the real question is are we actually winning in western countries to defend a nation such as saudi arabia and actually give up and forfeit all on rights to all who own sovereignty and own democracy because they think that what we doing but allowing a country to look for to declare war on another in yemen exactly let me go back to

mohammed in 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 we have around and considering the cast of characters that surround president trump i'm not hopeful at all and 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 rand's 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 around more sanctions eccentrics 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 away 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 he 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 it's in service 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 the 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 all the propaganda in al what 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 in 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. they said last year that

they are fighting alongside the sole would be the. u.a.e. backed forces which is not strange because that's exactly what happened in 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 try 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 of 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 peninsula does that cut me it does that does that make any sense to you i mean 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 in 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 they should be today 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 quickly equate to something like ten billion dollars. half of all britain's arms exports yeah 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 to 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 did. 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 news you know these battle for this because i don't think that 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 a seaport in northern yemen rather than be carrying 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

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this day seven of the fee for world cup in russia the final whistle is just flown in the last game of the day west and iran. on wednesday saudi arabia and morocco are the first teams to be eliminated from the tournament after going down to. the portugal respectively. we talked to the former before president sepp blatter who announced russia as the host nation back in twenty ten about his impressions of the current tournament is the best start ever because it's my eleventh's world cup and when they are both yesterday i saw it

a little bit is my vote. and in other news ease states 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. its eleven pm and you're watching international live from our moscow studio with mean a day or two to welcome to the program a whole week has now passed since the biggest party on the planet kicked off in russia but thankfully there is still another three weeks of the world cup to go for all the details as well as the latest updates let's go live to our special studio in the very center of moscow.

it's another beautiful site for you on this moscow evening i wish i could say the football has been so beautiful it might not have been the high scoring games have any of it intriguing in a very different way on wednesday peter schmeichel on saddam hussein three one nil results the last of which is just finished and it was spain which he was stuck confidently predicted they were going to be the round but it was kind of scrappy and often in this match scrappy yes and very very exciting in the last fifteen minutes iran actually had the ball in the net and we all thought that they'd scored but the linesman gave of side and it was taking two of our decision to talk about this later and it was the correct decision it was thought for a moment. we thought it was one one and it was going to be it was going to be an

even interesting more interesting and to the game which spain did it. as i said on many occasions probably the best team in this tournament. and you know they played the game exactly the way they had to do it and came away with three points which puts and firmly back in control of this group yet four points alongside portugal at the top you said that they would stick with this this game plan that the ticketek football the keep looking for an opportunity was nearly half time and iran were kind of on the ropes that the ways of attacks were increasing in frequency eventually the pressure told but it was very unfortunate i think so this was the goal that came from the strike of diego costa i don't know how much he knew about it on fifty four minutes just going to say you didn't really come from him did it and it was a ricochet. the defendant resigned was the last year he was really seen as a goal and it's the second time we see that goal scored with with

a neat so we saw it in the russian game yesterday and here we see it again he hits the able crosses and he knows nothing about it and he goes in and diego costa has now got three goals in this tournament he will say you know i was in the right place i was heading forward heading for goal the intent was that he knew nothing about it he knew nothing about it but he was in the right place at the right time and this this is what good strikers that they do they place and sell exactly where they have to be but in all fairness it wasn't that many chances that spain created but and you can you can be disappointed with that but the reason for it was that iran was lined up very defensively that's six at the back then most of the times they had three right in front of them and then sa thousand moon about ten fifteen yards for the four but sometimes even he came back so six at the back and then fall right in front of them so a really tight and solid block but i have to commend spain for their patience and they just kept on playing pluck the ways they could say in football and eventually

it paid dividends and yes as a stroke of luck i use a clarence that hit the across to the but it's a goal and it's an off and then the just run the clock down and they did that perfectly but it transformed the game i thought at this point because it said iran had to find a second way of playing at this point and they did change they did put a second striker later on in the game and they went for it and at one point i mean we nearly lifted the roof of this place such was a shock and surprise it was such an incredible moment he looked like he branded scored against against all expectation and the video assistant referee came into play and this was the moment it actually read what happens is is the first this one here he hits it down and it hits number six. and he's enough of an offside position now you see the flag go are you but you just missed that but the flak goes up but iran celebrating the goal the referee said it is

a bit unsure on why he gave of side because initially we did spot it initially we didn't see that he had. his own player and came back so it was taking two of our devices than right he said that it was offside so the linesman and the referee and vive got it perfectly right and it was a bit sad because we were we wanted this because we wanted this tremendous finish to the game. which in many ways is crazy because who wants to be in the tournament because it's not good but just for that moment we want to kind of make the excitement but a perfect example of. how well it works and if you don't know what viler is. then. watch it peter schmeichel show that came out today i have a full episode and i think you can also see it on the internet and we have an interview with your highness sportsman who is the fifa main man involved and he

explains exactly what wagner is and i think it's quite an interesting thing and i think you hit a few of the run plays might be watching that to just try and understand i'm sure they probably still don't understand fully what happened that poor as it's a love hate to run play he thought he scored made run around for a good twenty to thirty seconds celebrating there was a mass pileup a place they thought they'd equalized and it's must have been a horrible realisation about point that borrowed over old what's also really interesting is that the color scare is the iran manager he said his team up really defensive and many times when you play like i should have you play on the waves this is how you play and as long as it's going good it's going good then spain scored and then it's not going good anymore now can you change is does iran. and have a plan b. and indeed took a put on your hand but caution who is going in the dutch as to be shown for twenty

one goals a season the first asian plant evidence become top scoring in a western european leak put him on and change the game play two up front and actually for the last ten minutes of the game iran totally dominated and they had and i won't say a chance after chance because that would be an exaggeration but there were plenty of opportunities they they they had. opportunities with process after the next and then right right to the very very end they had to throw in which was supposed to be long and he was doing the acrobatic one way made a somersault and the referee stopped him from doing it and he looked at him say ok i'll just put it down and put it to a guy across today and even then they had an opportunity so in many ways iran has shown us that this a tendency today defended fantastic against one of the best teams in the world and then they had the ability to change a little bit and i think you know they play portugal in that last game well that's my question do you think that they will go with

a more attacking approach because they've shown they can do it i think i think what they'll do is. that they will trying to keep the rinaldo quiet i think the lessons that we've learned from watching portugal against morocco and portugal and again spain is that portugal at this moment in time have not found any form they don't play was sitting and the one player that shining above everyone in the tournament is playing in that scene with that is of course ronaldo he's top scorer so far he's scored four goals so if you can stop him from school and stop him from taking part in the game then you give gone a long way to come back portugal if you like hasn't as no one else to step in. in that space that that judgment without the always leaves and one general shun all . later than he chances there's only been one chance to another player from the portuguese team in that two matches of ninety minutes and that just tells his own

and story so i think carlos cares who knows cristiana rinaldo really well he's had it with manchester united he's had him i think of real madrid he's had him also with portugal he knows him very very well he will try to keep him quiet and what we learn from the run today is that when you put the tactics on the board this is how we're going to play boys they can do it they were throwing bodies on on the line literally some incredible last minute lunge to to deny god no faulting iran's commitment they have to win now against portugal that would put a round through imports go out do you give them a chance or based on the the two different rounds that we've seen you see the table here said there a point to hyundai after when have you seen the defensive on the more attacking iran can they do it if i'm carlos curious no payout disappointed we lost this game i would be very pleased with my part of my players performance and i would think if i had this situation to choose a situation two games ago.