i. was. an american iranian t.v. reportedly set to appear in a us. remain a mystery. with reports of the past t.v. being subjected to violence. jeremy said started saving a key cold war era nuclear arms treaty with the us pull the plug on the agreements

as russia wants washington to move could threaten global security saying it's ready for dialogue. and is britain's prime minister rushes to conjure up a new deal a leaked document suggests a second referendum could be on the cards. it's nine o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from last year with mina welcome to the program. an american born journalist who was reportedly arrested in the u.s. without being charged earlier this week is set to appear in court this friday according to her son has shamim works for the english speaking iranian news channel press t.v. and was detained at st louis airport fifty nine year old hashemi was born melanie franklin into her an african american family in new orleans and converted to islam

following the nine hundred seventy nine iranian revolution since two thousand and eight she's lived in terror and been a prominent journalist on percent of the press t.v. as shammy was reportedly visiting relatives in america and was thought to be filming a black lives matter documentary. the f.b.i. has so far refused to comment on anything relating to his family's case artie's contacted the u.s. justice department for comment too but so far they've chosen not to respond there on his call the arrest on u.s. soil illegal while press freedom groups are calling on washington for an explanation. we are concerned by the arrests are doing was for iranians say to be marzia hashemi and call on the u.s. department of justice to immediately disclose the basis for her detention for the past five days whether she is being targeted for her documentary work about black lives matter or as a retaliate reaction in response to the iranian government's detention of american

citizens only the case would be an agrarian violation of democratic norms we have serious concerns about a credential and we urged american authorities to clarify the situation. tensions have been high between the u.s. on iran's installed trance rival in office with washington recently accusing tehran of fabricating charges against four u.s. nationals some of being handed a lengthy prison sentences last year washington also abandoned the iran u.k. deal effectively shutting down constructive dialogue between the two countries and the iranian foreign minister has called for the political games to stop she is a famous children she's done nothing but journalism and the rest of this is how she really is a very clear affront to freedom of expression a political abuse of innocent individuals. i believe the united states should release. the. live night to macias friend.

leggy in august thanks for coming on to the program to talk about this now firstly less established when the last time it was that you spoke with the family. yes i've been in regular contact with meyers is children who are all in america. i spoke to her daughter sarah just an hour before coming on as you mentioned them as is an american born american citizen she's a journalism graduate from the united states she studied at louisiana state university and graduated many decades ago she has decades of experience in journalism and her family are very concerned and they have very little information of what is going on they know she is detained without charge and they are very very concerned about you say you spoke to her daughter about an hour ago before you came on. what was your conversation about are you able to tell us what was said.

look at the moment there are very many questions and very little what we do you know what the family do know is that magazine was taken in tunnel flight you have the correct information there in the lead up but actually many press outlets incorrectly saying that she was arrested coming into the united states that's not what happened was he was in the united states she was taking in an tunnel flight from st louis to denver where she was detained and then she was transferred to washington d.c. the only the only information and contact the family have had with matters here is a telephone call to her daughter on tuesday where they received information from him as he told her daughter that she had his job she is a muslim woman who was his job a veil covering such as will time wearing at the moment that that was taken off against her will. was taken without her job on that she was given only

a short sleeved t. shirt in contravention to her own islamic dress code that she that she was and that she had to gain another t. shirt just to be able to cover some of her head she also. told her daughter that she wasn't in athens given adequate food because she was not given muslim option or a vegetarian option on tuesday the only conversation they've had with her she told her daughter that she only been able to eat a cracker or some bread that came with that food since being detained on sunday so as you can imagine her children are very concerned not just about what seems like civil and religious rights violations that she was describing to her daughter on the phone they're also worried about her health and my eyes is a very active john the lest she puts me to shame you know i'm just about half her age and she works twice as hard as i do but she does have some health concerns she has heart palpitations that when she gets them she must take medication she has

fainted before because she skipped meals so as you can imagine that concerns about her health as well more than anything the children have been saying to me that they want information as you said the f.b.i. is up until now in the authorities not responding to john mystic requests in the united states and internationally for information about why this is being detained without charge the information they have been given recently is that seems to be because she's a material witness but again no information about the case yeah i mean not just the f.b.i. that they've refused to comment so far as to the reason behind the detention so that obviously there's speculation going around as to the reasons why and we can only hear what she said through her children at the moment that's right isn't it so . what i believe her son has said is that her mother. has suggested that her mother could be a material witness watch in your opinion it if it was true what could she be

a witness to. again many questions no answers yes that is what sam has said that she's he's been told by authorities that she's a material witness but they don't know for what oldest son has say and has told the media that well why is this why is this happening in this process and it's raising many questions if they had questions about full marzia in regards to an issue she would have all of them that is what some has said look children have been subpoenaed as well and they have no idea why you can imagine how worried they are for that mother and how nervous they are about the situation massey is an internationally known journalist and she's been a journalist for many decades she is an american journalist and she has been detained without charge without information so it's truly very concerning yeah i suppose i should all just for those who are wondering are still wondering why she

has been arrested to your knowledge is there anything that you think that she might have been involved in that would justify this arrest. journalism is not a crime you know the international federation of journalists just tweeted out exactly that about my case they have asked for immediate clarification as to why she is being detained you know cat the council of american on american islamic relations a saying the same thing the family is saying the same thing as a journalist she's american born she resists america regularly to see her children she is a grandmother she visits to see her grandchildren her entire family in the united states she has the rights to do journalistic walk for whichever outlet she chooses to do in any part of the world that she chooses to and she also has the right to travel freely as a journalist and as a citizen throughout the united states she's

a journalist unless. we're saying now donald trump's america journalism is a crime you know i have no other answer to that the children the i.f.j. cat other organizations they are asking for information as to why she is being detained and the speculation is rife i mean american human rights organizations there they say they're concerned as well and she may have been targeted for her documentary work on the black lives that matter movement but something the son said that she was also involved with at the time could that be a reason. how very worrying if it could be a reason i don't want to speculate at this moment as you can imagine my zia has been detained since sunday we have very little information and i think it would be up to her legal team to make a comment at the appropriate time but. how very worrying if. covering

a story like black lives matter would lead to this kind of detention really is a lot of question as i said there's a lot of questions is this now the new norm in america is this politically motivated there is a lot of questions and at the moment the most important thing is to get answers in genesis in america and news outlets in america who have been contacting the f.b.i. and authorities for clarification as you've just mentioned as well and not getting any information yet they be also trying to find out which jail she is in and they can't seem to get any clarification on law either now there are reports that she will appear before court this friday what are you expecting to happen. yeah again even on that from what i understand is that things are not clear that they were there were the family were told that there will be a hearing on friday and that was backtracked it's not clear if there's going to be

a hearing today the children of being subpoenaed one of the sons was set to appear and then was told that it's a closed court. the picture at the moment is rather confusing there is a lot of questions. and you know. you know in a way it is it is a the call of the i.f.j. on the family and can other human rights organizations in the u.k. in the united states and elsewhere in the world for that information you know there's not even clarity that when she might once she might face court face court or very difficult to find out what detention facility she's in for forty eight hours her children receive no information so we have this limited amount of information it's important that someone like myself talks about it at the same time i'm sure you can appreciate i don't want to give facts that aren't correct the key thing is that this detention has happened it happened while she was in the united

states she wasn't traveling into the united states she is a journalist she has a decades long experience as a journalist she is a u.s. john this graduate and this and the family is saying to me every time i speak to them they have no idea what's going on they literally have they have no reason to believe that that she would have to be detained they don't understand if she needs to be a witness to something they have no idea they have no clue what that might be and they don't see why it would have to happen in this way when magazine would have been cooperative if someone had come up and asked the authorities asked her any questions you know but she's just been trying to get on a plane from st louis to denver and she's been detained and taken to another city and as she has told her daughter she has been it sounds like she's been mistreated and it sounds like her civil and religious rights have been contradicted in some way and i guess i mean you know if you go back to according to the children what

they've said about her treatment which sounds pretty horrific as you described yourself has she been able to talk about any support that she's been receiving. they got that one phone call from she does have a court appointed lawyer now. as i said things are in flux so we hope that there will be more clarification in the next twenty four hours as to what is actually going on she has received a lot of support from around the world just before i came on air for example as i said as you said magazine works for press t.v. and she's covered many different types of stories often stories that aren't focused on so much in mainstream press for example she has. covered issues for the islamic movement in nigeria and the detention of chefs exactly in nigeria and i was just being sent from nigeria pictures of a protest where hundreds of people had come out. demanding the release of my eyes

and you know this is happening all over the world in the u.k. i know that is happening in the united states so mars is a very well known journalist around the world you know press t.v. is an international news station at the end of the day and has viewers from around the world in my eyes is known for her previous journalistic work too so there is a lot of moral support for for as i said the international federation of journalists has asked for an instant clarification care has asked for clarification and the family just want to know what's going on here i mean we have to kind of look at the relationship between the u.s. and iran don't we nargus and you know communications are so low now that you know they only communicate through swiss diplomats apparently and they've been tensions because of the nuclear the posing of sanctions and detention of journalists american journalist if we look at political motivation as being

a potential reason for this how dangerous do you think it is that the country is playing this tit for tat kind of you know using people as pawns almost a fast. reason behind it. well i think the united states is facing unprecedented times under the present presidency of donald trump who has a viciously. has a vicious animosity against the media and we can see that openly over the last few years and we do know that there is animosity with iran as well but how deep the dangerous for journalism and fool the rights of john of this and for the freedom of the press in the united states if the united states in essence what you are saying is that they using a journalist who may have been doing a journalistic what is either that she was doing journalistic what as an american

journalist or she was in her home country as a american citizen she would be plucked from a. foreman and from trying to take an internal flight and be detained in this manner it's too soon to say what is going on i of course would say that i hope she's immediately released and that she can continue to do what and she can come home to see her family had children and grandchildren and that she doesn't have to face such dangers i think the next we hope that there will be clarity as to what is going on and of course if there is any underlying political motivation to this this is something that i am sure. i would like to see that journalists across the world including in the mainstream press what's have of their view of press t.v. and whatever their personal view of the possible decision mises made to work at press t.v. that they will condemn this because journalism is not

a crime she should be allowed to travel and she is a joe citizen but she should be allowed to travel to a country where her children and her family are without having to face such a very difficult circumstance i know in my eyes they have known her for eleven years i'm a muslim woman myself who's veiled and it will be a deep plea traumatic and violating experience to have your veil taken off and your mug shot taken with your belt and it isn't without president and you know new york city had to settle in a legal case with three muslim women who had to face the same thing i think if i'm not correct they had to settle sixty thousand dollars each so there's something very dark going on in the united states at the moment you know there's islamophobia there's this anti iran sentiment there's this anti media and anti journalism sentiment unprecedented times in the united states and i fear that my friend i'm a journalist and she is a fair a journalist as has been victim to that and it's unacceptable and the lack of

information is unacceptable and the family is demanding to know what is going on with their mother their grandmother that aren't you know she is a sister she was traveling to the united states to. see her ailing brother she has the right to do so without fearing detention taking an internal flight. ok nargus mobilising thank you so much for coming on to the program a friend of the american iranian t.v. journalist detained in the u.s. and let's hope we get some answers to some of those questions very very soon thank you. now russia and journeys top diplomats have condemned washington's decision to walk away from a key cold war era missile treaty following a meeting in moscow they stated the move undermines global stability. after the u.s. leaves the i.n.f. treaty the whole system of arms control and the stability of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty will be under threat. we are really interested in saving

the i.n.f. treaty and russia can assist us in that but the i.n.f. treaty as it is now is not enough we need to expand it because there are plenty of new autonomous weapon systems including those in cyberspace and they should be regulated not only the u.s. and russia should be included in the treaty so other states as well like china the u.s. has said it will withdraw from the i.n.f. treaty agreement with russia at the beginning of next month moscow says it's invited us inspectors to examine the missiles which washington claims violate the treaty but to no avail. the i.n.f. a treaty was signed in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven by ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev and took effect a year later stipulated that both the u.s. and soviet union destroy all ground based missiles with ranges between five hundred and fifty five hundred kilometers. not only prompted i think. we're further exacerbated off the unveiled plans for an ambitious expansion of

america's defense capabilities. in defense and we're also talking offense you know you forget enough and see that again when we have the finest weapons in the world and we're ordering the finest weapons in the world america's just published the first review of its missile defense program in almost a decade and it besides plans to deploy twenty new ground based interceptors in alaska as well as new radars and sensors besides plans to use laser armed drones and stealthy f. thirty five jets the donald trump administration wants a leap in technological development the president is keen to get a space force we will recognize that space is a new world striding domain. with the space force leading the way. the u.s. president is talking about ok maybe not star wars but militarizing space for sure

the ultimate goal is to be able to take down enemy missiles even before they leave the air space of what the president calls rogue countries did call out north korea and iran but in the program review you'll also find russia and china we are committed to establishing a missile defense program that can shield every city in the united states our goal is simple to ensure that we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the united states anywhere anytime anyplace among the threats donald trump pointed out specifically were hypersonic missiles a system capable of launching such weapons called was successfully tested by russia at the end of december. the u.s. withdrawal from the anti-ballistic missile treaty which was the cornerstone in the field of nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and deterring an arms race has forced

us to respond by creating new weapon systems to overcome these missile defense systems there is no analogue of this system in the world according to the russian side the reason they're ramping up their r. and d. in strategic defenses is america's overblown military budget and everything it's being spent on parity means global security. and the leak a document shows that despite to raise amaze objections the government has been exploring the possibility of a second breaks at referendum the revelation comes after m.p.'s rejected the prime minister's original divorce deal this week plunging the country deeper into political crisis the papers set out a timetable for a second vote indicating that the whole process could take up to a year that includes seven months to lay the legal groundwork and a further three months at least for testing the question also discusses the

practicalities including the length of time necessary for campaigning initially media outlets questioned the legitimacy of the leak however downing street confirmed such a document exists while denying the government is actively planning for a second vote they said the paper is purely for illustrate of purposes and reiterated the prime minister's position that brags it will go ahead. there are those who want to see no deal and those who want to see a second referendum and potentially frustrate braddock's it a second referendum would lead to further division it's my duty to deliver on the british people's instruction to leave the european union and i intend to do so. meanwhile the leader of the opposition labor party has set out the conditions under which he would support a second vote jeremy coleman has said that a so named people's vote would be better than a no deal scenario despite the initial referendums once in a generation tag. all the options are on the table including the public vote option

which we made clear in our conference motion which was i have to remind you you know of this group by our conference last september little european union would extend article fifty if the government requested it to hold a general election or if there was a prospect of a second referendum so you're opinion would love for britain to cancel brix it but merely to for parliament to work out what border actually should be do with brics it two and a half years after the start date you would agree that. a recent poll has found that if a second referendum were to be held a majority voted for choose to remain in the e.u. it's the biggest surge and support for a main since the twenty sixteen bragg's it vote well live now to david curtin from the u.k. independence party david thanks for coming on to the program now that the u.k. government they're claiming a second referendum is not on the cards but that westminster has explored the

possibility how close in your opinion are we to another people's vote. well what should happen right now is that we leave on the twenty ninth of march on w t o terms because that's what's written into the law but the problem you have at the parliamentarians the m.p.'s are against the people the people's decision back in the referendum in twenty sixteen so i think over the next ten weeks the six hundred fifty m.p.'s are going to try to do everything they possibly can to extend article fifty overturn article fifty or have another referendum and to set themselves against what the people have decided and you've said david that we should the u.k. should be leaving on the twenty ninth of march but there is and you think that there's m.p.'s will try and do everything they can to prevent it can they prevent it that's the question. it is a it is a big question because what it seems looking at the opinions of m.p.'s is that

a majority of them all remain is a majority of them want to stay in the e.u. in some shape or form but there doesn't seem to be a majority for any one particular option i mean straight after the rejection of the withdrawal agreement which was was a very good thing jeremy corbyn then delayed a motion of no confidence in the government to try to then have a general election that didn't work because there was not a majority in parliament for a general election i really don't think that there's a majority in parliament for completely overturning breaks and repealing article fifty it's doubtful whether there is actually a majority for extending article article fifty either or or having the people's vote so without a majority for any one of these particular options we will leave. because that's what's already written into into law but there are question marks i mean

crisis talks are happening in brussels the plan b. has to be presented then there's another vote what if plan b. fails where does this go next another election possibly no dale drags it or even a return to the all these questions are being discussed in in the media all over the place at the moment on the way they are and it's really really running the debates that we had before the first referendum and i'm obviously in favor of leaving the european union with no deal on w t o terms and it is quite unbelievable and remarkable to me and people who agree with me the majority of the country the seventeen point four million people who voted to leave that we're actually really running the debates that we had before the referendum we thought you know we we trusted parliamentarians who said he. here you go it's your decision we will implement what you decide and here we are we've made a decision and two and

a half years later they are not implementing what the people decided and they're trying to do everything possible to overturn the decision of the people and so i think people are quite disgusted with a lot of the m.p.'s who are trying to overturn the results of the referendum but we can see what they're trying to do and so there's going to be a few weeks of chaos where they try again and again and again to overturn breaks it but ultimately i don't believe they will be successful because they are divided about what is the course of action they should take it i mean he obviously established you want to leave on the twenty ninth of march from the foreign powers johnson is claiming that the a will leave the e.u. on the agreed date in march that's not a quick listen to him the u.k. must leave the e.u. so the answer is to get back in the cab as it worked turn the wheels turn it turn

around and face the real obstacle we need to stop battling each other and focus our efforts on our friends and partners in brussels david you heard them saying that must leave the is boris johnson implying there's a bigger battle ahead with. it seems to be what the e.u. is saying that they don't want to extend article fifty and they certainly don't want article fifty to be withdrawn or overturned a bit i really don't think that the european commission starts and ban the a and then the goetia on behalf of the e.u. once you u.k. . piece in the elections and let's remember there are e.u. parliament elections on the twenty third of may.