u.s. ramps up the pressure on iran designating its elite military force the revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization. the move is welcomed by israel's prime minister who's facing a tough election race on tuesday some see it as donald trump's latest gift. to the u.s. leader recognized jerusalem in the golan heights as israeli territory. and italy's competition syrian minister forms an alliance of right wing nationalist parties saying that he aims to shake up the e.u. off the next month's election.

from the all see new center and mosque on lennon's color and brightness in your world news the big story we're tracking for you this hour in an unprecedented foreign policy move the trumpet ministration has designated iran's revolutionary guards as a foreign terrorist organization u.s. secretary of state my pompei are announced the decision on monday repeating ickes ations that the elite force both finances and promotes terrorism today the united states is continuing to build its maximum pressure campaign against the iranian regime. i am announcing our intent to designate the islamic revolutionary guard corps including its good force as a foreign terrorist organization accordance with section two nineteen of the immigration and nationality act this designation will take effect one week from today i got more of monday's developments from our correspondents kellam open in new york and in tel aviv. still be the first time that we've seen the u.s. government designate part of another country's government as a terrorist organization now donald trump in the statement he accuses iran of being

a state sponsor of terrorism financing promoting terrorism as a tool of state craft and we heard those words echoed by mike pompei o the u.s. secretary of state he said this designation of iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps as terrorists is intended to send a message to iranian leaders the leaders of iran are record piers not revolutionaries the radio people deserve better than to be governed by this kind of hypocritical and corrupt officials with this designation we are sending a clear signal a clear message to iran's leaders. including the mommy's band of thugs that the united states is bringing all pressure to bear to stop the regime's behavior we ask that our allies and partners around the world do the same in response to this designation by the u.s. government the iranian government has now declared the us central command the u.s. military to be terrorists and we've also heard from job he'd zarif the foreign

minister of iran and he has spoken out and said this is another move by washington that could lead to further isolation of the united states netanyahu for whom of mum . and nation of the g.c. fully understand its consequences for u.s. forces in the region in fact they seek to drag the us into a quagmire on its behalf. should my bets have been to be conned into into the us disaster the troubled ministration has particularly distinguished itself by escalating into rhetoric against the islamic republic of iran distinguishing itself from the obama administration that presided over the p five plus one nuclear negotiations but the trumpet ministration has escalated u.s. sanctions and hostility toward the islamic republic everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare or ran around this. bread death destruction and chaos behind every problem is a rare and the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism iran's leaders so as. death

. and destruction now it's important to note that fighters from iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps were actually key in defeating the i still terrorists however this organization that was key in defeating the i still die a terrorist organization you know made great sacrifices in order to fight against i still has now been labeled itself as terrorists by the us government ok thanks for outlining out for us let's go to tel aviv now and talk to a middle east correspondent. i guess there's one happy albeit a bottle of prime minister where you are there seventy one happy prime minister here the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he's hoping that this comment that comes just hours before polls open here in israel will boost his election chances he has thank the american president donald trump for these comments thank you my dear friend president donald trump for your decision to declare iran's revolutionary guards a terrorist organization thank you for responding to another important request of mine which serves the interests of our countries and the countries of the region at

the same time though netanyahu is facing tough competition not least of all from a strong military man many guns who is a former israeli defense forces chief now he has positioned himself on the same test of the israeli political spectrum so he is appealing to those who want netanyahu out of office he's talking about negotiations with the palestinians any sort also talking about limiting the number of times that israeli prime minister can serve in office to two terms having said this netanyahu certainly has his own advantages not least of all his close relationship with the american president donald trump it was the close working relationship that saw the americans recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel that saw the americans move their embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. so recognizing israeli sovereignty over the golan heights and now the latest figure in netanyahu is kept is the americans declaring that the

revolutionary guards are a terrorist organization for many years we failed to acknowledge the obvious the plain reality that israel's capital is jerusalem i will sign a presidential proclamation recognizing israel's sovereignty over the golan heights . and yet despite the assistance that trump has simply given netanyahu it is still unclear whether the incumbent prime minister will win b.c. makes sense these are the closest israeli elections in recent history and also one of the dirtiest there's been a lot of bad mouthing of candidates and a smear campaign so it's certainly at this stage unpredictable as to who will come out tops at the end of tuesday or since the announcement we've been sending out analysts about trump's decision than the extent to which is perhaps time to have an impact on the israeli parliamentary elections. any move against the i.r.g.c. would mean reinvigorating terrorist groups like the no stress and i saw or diana

and now that the year working on the woman is thinking of expelling u.s. army troops from iraq it seems that the u.s. has declared a withdrawal from syria as well sending the message to iran that if the us is not given a share in the middle east then the us is ready to turn the table over in the meantime tomorrow will have elections in israel this seems to be also a move in support of the israeli premier trump has done anything for netanyahu and this is yet another move to shore up his further and support strong support for netanyahu in the hold that netanyahu would reciprocate and support trump in next year's elections there was so many gifts that president donated to benjamin netanyahu before those elections that he's almost in over those of gifts i'm not

sure the last one would be perceived in israel is something that we live. change and he's seeing in the way that people who vote those elections side about an attorney oh yes or no it's own rules the only issue at stake almost the only issue on the table and they're almost the only sure which is discussed it shows that the way the north and you know is going either way brings israel or support from the united states this is something the voters might have in their mind but it would not be in their first priority. and you hear a skeptic alliances uniting within the e.u. borders with italian interior minister imitative self-made evolving to create a european spring comes we hear opinions parliamentary elections set for early next month. if there were. we are working towards building a new european which for me has become a nightmare put into focus family unity environmental protection and the future of

young people will do it as an alternative movement. many people are hoping they will gain a number of additional any peace in the european parliament that will allow them to have some sort of powerhouse that we haven't seen from you are a skeptic parties in the past. as he was launching this cross party this year a skeptic party across europe today was talking about working towards common ideologies which is in this sense the defense of europe something they believe the european parliament hasn't done very well in the past and the polls are showing that they all likely to increase the number of seats they hold next month's european elections let's take a listen now to what else mathias salvini had to say today you'll not find any extremists or veterans at this table the only nostalgics are those in power in brussels today he stated we're ready to build a new future this is the path to save europe because. of the bureaucrats and the

bankers the dudish government for too long so who are the key players in this particular block well today it was of course. with the league in italy but also the finns party were taking part alternative for germany and the danish people's party and we already know from last week that moving in the pens national rally in france is also on board with this new idea has also been traversing across europe trying to get other politicians to join in as well reaching out to the hungary's. and also to politicians in spain the netherlands and elsewhere across europe so the vision he's put forward is that potential. ten parties join forces potentially up to twenty of the elections and they're hoping that they can gain enough any peace to make a group of about

a hundred and fifty peace all from parties are they going to multiculturalism immigration and against the e.u. as it currently stands. it is the technocrats who is driving europe into a ditch and we will declare war on the. elite as the political forces in the brussels bubble want to present a christian culture for the not so secretive reason that if the masses of migrants and other countries drive back christianity then along with christianity it will be possible to eliminate individual nations the language you use is the language of division is that what france wants you to not at all divides friends is the massive influx of migrants so we know joins them together what i call my own interests all but water the problems that they face going ahead well many of these parties don't agree on all issues and as such in previous european parliament's that's meant that they haven't been able to join together to create one large group in fact they've

small formed smaller groups which perhaps haven't had the power they would like to have there are issues such as russia which for example we know that salvini from the league has praised president putin very often he's called for the end of sanctions on russia but that's not the view from the governing people. and let's also take a listen to what alternative germany said some of the issues that they face. we are dealing with very different parties they all have identical or similar positions on migration policy but a very different in other areas we must find a common platform if we don't find it will be ineffective we need to cooperate on key issues to strongly enforce our policy which is not possible with individual parties well if the polls all right and we all go see a rise in the number of nationalist parties from the right.

kind of form this essential this is going to. shake up politics in the parliament as we know it. because forty six militants have been killed and scores more injured in fighting near the libyan capital the violence has been intensifying since thursday when forces loyal to general khalifa haftar launched an offensive aimed at seizing tripoli from the un backed government that the united nations earlier called for a short ceasefire to allow for civilians to be evacuated but the clashes continued here's some video next from the airport in tripoli where military jets were seen launching an attack the shelling of the airport was condemned by the u.n. as a serious violation of humanitarian law libya's prime minister's accuse the rebel general who backed government in the eastern city of attempting a coup both sides of targeted airstrikes. libya's been divided since twenty eleven following the ousting and death of longtime leader moammar gadhafi the

country's now split between the government in tripoli and the west rival governments over into brooke in the added to all this are also the other militant groups active there including so-called islamic state the international community is deeply concerned over the recent escalation some of them including the united states have temporarily withdrawn their forces from the ground they say the situation there is too dangerous and it's unpredictable of washington's urge the rebels to immediately hope that military action against the tripoli government. insisting that the crisis can only be solved through diplomacy but that represents a marked shift in the position of the white house eight years ago. margaret coffey has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave. we came we saw that he died that. you would get rid of

a dictator you would choose freedom. thank you. senior correspondent has more on general half tells advance on tripoli and the international community's reaction. the un e.u. backed regime in libya the government of national accord g n a is fighting for its very life all but surrounded now by the army of their rival government in red here led by general hafta disapprobation is aimed against all groups considered by the international community to be terrorists we have security council resolutions according to which these organizations are classified as terrorist groups where this military escalation came as a complete surprise to us double it began with warmongering rhetoric from hafter which were the throwback to the days of dictatorship and total terror rule general

have to up and his libyan national army on a roll storming toward the capital tripoli the desperate g.m.a. have ordered their armies meaning the various islamist and militia groups that supported the counterattack on all fronts they've given this last stand the name the volcano of rage it's chaos worse both sides a pounding each other with airstrikes and the u.n. is panicking. and every heart. beat possible for its lobby or from station in and out on tripoli it's entirely possible that things will spiral out of all control the united states for one is already preparing for just that we will continue to monitor conditions on the ground and assess the freeze ability for renewed u.s.

military presence i was appropriate it appears they have a plan and they have the aces u.s. military presence is an x. hanging over libya at the drop of a had they can intervene. again trouble is the last time they had a plan it ended in disaster turned libya into a failed state so here we are one nation two governments and countless fiefdoms gangs militias and sects a grand battle royale with a prize worth fighting for the winner gets one of the biggest oil reserves in the world this is r.t. international the leader of the breakaway balkan state of kosovo has pledged loyalty to a nation it's just not the one you might first think of we'll explain all after the break.

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. i'm interested always in the waters of our. city. a lot again the prime minister of the breakaway balkan state of kosovo has seemingly pledged total loyalty to the united states during an official visit to detroit oppositions a similar it's what the u.s. stands for a most on the ground know it all i am an american soldier on the ground. ramos rather not also told the media the washington must support kosovo in order to push back against russian influence in the balkans he's a staunch supporter of the us and nato and in march even sacked a minister who was critical of the military alliances actions in the former

yugoslavia but despite his allegiance to the us i read in our maintains that kosovo is a fully sovereign nation and pursues its own policies political analyst nicola berkovic told us the cost of a previous comments were revealing. kosovo is clearly us an american protectorate today and her in ages telling the truth he is an american soldier and he even added executing orders so i think you can be more clear that what his job is today only cost of all represents to us and what it really is in the balkans today an american protectorate he wants to give the image of being an independent country don't forget that today kosovo is not recognized by seventh of humanity china doesn't recognize kosovo india russia. spain the vatican does and you can recognise cosa words and own country so you try to fight for that but. you still remain in the cockpit of the americans and he says it himself. how to handle foreign fighters returning home after joining islamic state has stumped the g seven gathering in front the group of the world's most advanced countries failed to hammer out

a joint position on the issue while the united states is calling on countries in europe to take back their citizens some states including france have a very different view. people who went to the zones in order to fight must be sentenced over there another issue is children and it's true that five children have been brought back to france they are all friends are abundant will be studying the situation of children on a case by case basis. e.u. commission claims some five thousand europeans joined eisel between twenty eleven and twenty sixteen the u.k. france germany and belgium are among the most affected countries and with ice a largely defeated many of those who swore loyalty to the caliphate are now regretting their actions. video agency talk to two former militants born in germany they both converted to islam in their teens because glass joined the islamic state terrorists in aleppo code worked at a national hospital in rocket here's what they had to say. the. comes in from his conscience when we first

arrived to islamic states everything was very new for us to tap into an arabic country with these houses apartments cars food weather bombings dead people dead children we saw everything during this time it was difficult to get used to it at that time one didn't understand much a month from the statement i first learned from rocco was very normal but during this time i began to see things things the highest did that i wasn't convinced were permitted under islam growing yourself up so that you can take your enemies with you into this killing civilians who live in france or america it's true. submission of the circuit that i'm one of its after approximately three months of working at the police station in iraq i separated from this after this i tried again and again to flee territory but it never worked out for various reasons

because our trying to get out to dry off several times that was why i was twice in a prison many executions took place you just couldn't believe many were arrested and killed they told us that our wives would be great we would be killed we would be beaten we wouldn't get any food we will be sold to the iraqi government or to the syrian regime. conservationist what if germany doesn't accept me then i will try to work here and to help in terms of finding terror organizations my three children were taken to france for me personally it would be of cool speedbird say they lived in germany with my mother i am of course one hundred percent against islamic states as i said it might be the biggest mistake of my life that we immigrate into reluctant to become homecoming of ian from by the mystic that we made absolutely kind of beyond them unfortunately we will be punished for the mistake that we made we deserve to

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