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iran announced their rollback into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal if steps are not taken within the next 10 days to shield it from u.s. sanctions. a report about alleged u.s. cyber attacks on russia's power grid raises questions about whether donald trump is being briefed by his intelligence services on their operations. and 2 sisters in saudi arabia lead to the international community asylum after reportedly suffering years of abuse at the hands of their parents in the kingdom they join a growing number of women looking for a way out of the gulf. it's
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9 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all the international live from our studio with me in a deity welcome to the program. iran has announced it's to be a production of low level in which to pursue passing the stockpile limits set by the 2015 nuclear agreement and it's happening soon. time on june the 27th we will exceed the 300 kilogram limit on reached uranium allows under the nuclear deal after that we will continue to increase the speed of production drastically. a white house representative has responded to that statement by claiming to iran is blackmailing the international community and calling for increased pressure on iran you know nail was joined by dan off to discuss where the latest developments leave the 2015. the deal is
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falling apart so it is pretty much as big as it gets because iran is giving a final warning in 10 days they will start enriching uranium beyond the limits set by the deal and i'm not talking just a civilian sort of levels they could easily reach those levels of in richmond that would constitute a weapons grade level of enrichment and which could lead to iran obtaining a nuclear weapon and i mean ron is saying that it is a tit for tat measure they're saying that if the united states if they had dropped out of the deal a year ago last year. this whole year iran has been very patient but they're saying well if one side is not you know not following the deal then why should. relations between the u.s. and russia have been on this dying words spiral i think it's safe to say for quite some time but it did come in the renewed focus didn't it this month totally i mean just last week to oil tankers were attacked. there were explosions basically in the gulf of oman and the united states for instance they were very very quick to pin
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the blame on iran for doing this so some middle eastern allies they jumped on that bargain as well have a listen we are confident that we can take a set of actions that can restore deterrence which is our mission so you say a full range of options does that include a military response force. sometimes even obvious things must be. and does it in his current firm stance against iran's aggression in the gulf of amman in the persian gulf as well as in the region in general. regime did not respect the japanese prime minister's visit to iran it replied to the. one of which was japanese one thing all those clips we just saw have in common they're all u.s. allies what about other global reaction what's europe saying oh well interesting thing about that video is that those are pretty much the only u.s. allies that with washington on you know on this whole thing are pointing the finger
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of blame at iran and saying yeah tehran had something to do with it when it comes to europe they're known as the trust the not as trusting i should say as saudi arabia and israel and we call upon sober assessments and wait for some credible evidence to be presented which it is ridiculous decide secrets in this case ready in the last days we have called for the maximum restraint the world cannot afford another crisis especially in an area like that 1st of all we need to investigate who is responsible for the attacks so we can say this or that country was responsible without providing any evidence run by the way they said that if they indeed wanted to have something going on in the gulf of oman if they wanted to block trade to block this trade route they wouldn't have needed a diversion to do so they would have done it openly saying yeah we're blocking it they're saying that in military is strong enough to do it out in the open you know
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be a play by the rules so we can clearly see that there are a lot of there's a lot of distrust when it comes to washington's claims and there are not many people are on board and some inside the u.s. government blaming for ceding this distrust the problem is that we are struggling even in the midst of this solid evidence to persuade our allies to join us in any kind of a response and it shows just how isolated the united states has become so what does seem that trump has backed himself into a corner somewhat he has been so vehement in this stance in the election. campaign . is tehran. nest of evil this cradle of evil now europe doesn't doesn't want this happening europe doesn't do is not engaging in this sort of rhetoric i mean people inside the us government people in washington are not on board they are blaming trump for that and so really trump
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has quite a lot in front of him quite a lot to do if he wants his policy to succeed. in iran based political communications professor. to u.s. pressure. anonymous is that some people in the white house is that they would be able to push it on and it would be able to. have the sanction of the track even the i mean i wouldn't do much. you know especially after today that this was wrong you know it is not it's. fine that this is going to upset president obama but hopefully he would be upset that people like john bolton have given him the advice that iran would continue to follow the moment that one so i think is understanding that some of the people who are. giving good advice and i think their job is in mind because.
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most of. the big question mark hanging over washington is being kept out of the loop on aspects of foreign policy that audience being stand by in new york times article on cyber warfare which claims u.s. hackers attacked russia's power plant and isn't it explained what have actually happened it appears to be a no win situation at 1. 1 of the big stories of the weekend america is in the midst of a real cyber war on russia's energy grid at least as the new york times puts it they say a number of current and former u.s. officials told them an american computer code had been deployed inside the grid the grid of the biggest country on this planet was it russian hackers we kept hearing about all the time make no mistake the u.s. government has plenty of cyber warriors at their disposal within hours of the story
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circulating the twitter rant began an act of treason that's how he called the n.y.t. piece and after the usual metaphorical or not. washing of the paper down the toilet the president called the report a lie but the new york times is adamant there saying you are wrong mr president. in the press of treason is dangerous we described the article to the government before publication as a story notes president trump own national security officials said there were no concerns so we've been loved guessing if the massive hack actually ever took place that's a tough one but lot of reporters press secretary doesn't rule out this could have been the case when this president trump as far as i know denies the information about cyber attacks on russia if indeed some agents are doing it without informing the president then this indicates
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a hypothetical cyber war with russia we have previously said there are strategic and essentially can omics fears have been under cyber attacks from abroad many times in our agencies are countering these attacks in order to prevent any harm to our economy russia has consistently tried to initiate international corporation to find any type of cyber crime and fortunately our american partners have never taken us up on the stock market. so this time in the past to mr pascoe house for a short of blaming washington for the attacks but they've been out there and there's no doubt some kind of cyber war is on again the new york times was citing government officials without naming them though and so the question is who the hell is making decisions about this potentially enormous operation if the president is really unaware of the whole thing by the way not that long ago the american media was going nuts about russian hackers allegedly trying to screw up the u.s. power system some feared
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a true disaster was being plotted by the russians what are they saying this time around it's very clear that president trump isn't even asking to be briefed on the most pressing issues facing our country intelligence officials are not comfortable sharing intelligence information with the president of the united states apparently pentagon and military officials who are taking these series and actions against russia without briefing the president in full see how no one's using the word hackers when it's not america that's being hacked anyway this could really prove to be a great mass or another dirty game but with both scenarios in this story be it the president knows or the president doesn't rock bottom moscow d.c. won't get any better. as describing themselves as refugees have had twitter account suspended after using the platform to ask the international community to help the past who say they've been subjected to
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sustained to peace at the hands of their father to one of their videos to plead for asylum a port. my father used to live and. he is looking for a. trace. so only rights and given nations to only. to return to him to a safe. shortly after this is a pension is twitter reinstated the sister's accounts as well as that of a human rights activist who had been supporting them the social media giant has not offered any comment on its actions in line with company policy the 2 girls had been detailing on the site how their parents and allegedly abused them physically and verbally sometimes even causing injuries that warranted medical attention they are now in turkey having escaped while on a family holiday there a human rights advocate we spoke to says social media played a crucial role in helping the girls get their story heard. it's very important so
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anyone who's potentially at risk to publish their case it's going to help them find asylum lucene other instances we girls have just waited too long to get their story out and that's allowed the family to track them down and essentially take them back to saudi against their will we need to be using social media more often it's revolution what allies the way that we can deal with human rights situations like this but at the same time it's hugely risky because when we see accounts being suspended by sweets we have to question them and what the protocols are to protect people who are in the situation obviously they need to install more safeguards for situations in the case of assistance is not unique either it's estimated that around $1000.00 women attempt to flee the kingdom each year one recent high profile case was that of conan who tried to flee to australia via thailand after barricading himself in a hotel room she lost a twitter campaign and that eventually granted asylum in canada
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a saudi diplomat and later jokes that denying her access to technology might have been more effective than taking her passport. when she arrived in new twitter account and her forwards grew to 45000 in one day it would have been better if they'd confiscated her mobile phone instead of her passport. but the challenge faced by girls. being saudi arabia is a new government created smartphone app it can be used for mundane things like renewing passports and paying parking fines but also allows that male family members to track female relatives and prevent them even from traveling rather sterling again says that as the number of such cases rises everything must be done to give the pressed women a voice. over the past year we've seen cases such as secular teacher we've seen a house muhammadan we've seen here is from the u.a.e. and we're seeing more and more and i think as as each case is quite public and in fact my case was published it grew because inside saudi arabia is
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a step in itself to sort of promoting those more secure a secular belief system and the fact that it was since it is quite surprising and therefore that it's going to inspire more and more girls who are suffering abuse to really try to escape in and risk their lives to secure the kind of freedom from abuse that of course everybody wants i mean also in these women would like to report the kind of abuse they have suffered to also receives within the current choose to the u.a.e. authorities to saudi but they're not taken seriously and in fact it can lead to the increase in mental punishment or even death by way of articulating. democratically elected president collapsed during a court session in cairo on monday and died shortly afterwards of a suspected heart attack local media reported that the former leader who led the country from 2012 to 2013 was standing trial over espionage for more details we can
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cross live to paulus paula what more do we know took us through what happened. well as you say mohamed morsi was the 1st democratically elected president of egypt he was also the 1st civilian to hold the highest office in that country that that brief of one comported experiment in democracy saw him serving only one out of 4 years of what was supposed to have been his term of office he was overthrown back in 2013 by general abdel fattah el-sisi who is currently the president of egypt it all back to the egyptian revolution of the 25th of january 2011 and we saw thousands and some nights a 1000000 people coming to takia square in downtown cairo i was. there at the time and i remember talking to particularly young people who expressed the hope that the country was going to go through radical change but what soon became apparent is that the muslim brotherhood which is an organization that had faced over the years crackdowns by the egyptian government it was also accused of carrying out
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assassinations or wanting to carry out various plots. that body emerged as the most organized and talking to the initial organizers of the egyptian revolution many told me that they felt that the muslim brotherhood had hijacked the revolution and so when you had elections in 2012 it was the muslim brotherhood who came to power and there was an expression that was being bandied about at the time that hosni mubarak who was the former egyptian president was now imprisoned in the muslim brotherhood and being imprisoned was now in the presidency so a complete flip around i was remember a lot of people telling me that they felt that the united states then was under president barack obama had this. it's double standards because for so many years it had supported hosni mubarak and then suddenly there was this overflow and you had the muslim brotherhood in power and the americans were very quick to support an organization that many in the international community have regarded as a terrorist organization now as far as morsi he did not last and powerful very long
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and in june 2013 millions went back to square and called on him to step down he refused and then a few days later you had the egyptian army that militarily overthrew him a month later there was a massacre which was known as the massacre in august 2013 i was also there at the time and human rights watch said that it was the day it was one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a day and there was some 1000 people who were killed i was in the mosque and would see corpses. minutes and family waiting and crying and it was it was quite horrific to actually cover that incident and then subsequent to that you have morsi who has been facing charges of espionage he's been accused of. colluding with israel and hamas and also he's been accused of killing protesters he has been in prison where his health has been deteriorating for quite some time and there were number of concerns there would be no express he had the death penalty this was their overturned and now he was facing
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a trial so at this point in time we're waiting to hear from the egyptian government as to an official statement as to what happened but it's very unlikely that his supporters the muslim brotherhood will come back on the streets because there really has been a crackdown against them in recent years and we said. ok paul it's clear they're reporting thank you very much paula for the of of your life thank you. ecuador has gone to the united states permission to use one of its a famed galapagos islands as an airfield but the government in quito is facing a backlash what critics are calling a violation of the country's constitution. taylor takes a closer look. the galapagos islands home to the giant tortoise birthplace of darwin's theory of evolution and it will where you walk to see by the sound of the lapping waves and the gentle hum of american planes as you know you love those i've mentioned that the galapagos for ecuador is our aircraft carrier it
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is our natural carrier because it is shores us permanent replenishment interception facilities and it is a 1000 kilometers from our coast united states is going to take charge of improving conditions especially refueling what is might now find some new star-spangled species across the sky because ecuador has just agreed to allow the u.s. military to use the u.s. go world heritage site reports claim the pentagon will now key panes on the historic san cristobal island for operations in the pacific ocean with the primary purpose said to be fighting drug trafficking so far so good that's just a small catch a minor inconvenience really the ecuadorian constitution doesn't allow foreign military bases on its soil but now if it says the defense minister it's not a base passaic it's a funny little gathering place going to look at the us to me for periods of no more than a week and the subjects to the protocol of the preservation of sovereignty those
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are my concerns gone also on the plus side washington's covering all the costs but perhaps unsurprisingly not everyone is happy about this latest edition. is not an aircraft carrier for gringo use it is an ecuadorian province patrimony of humanity patriotic ground that his vessel soul can reach such a level describes very well the government to represent now ecuador and u.s. relations hit a no no under former president rafael correa he got to washington by closing one of the largest u.s. bases outside the state's relations father soured one crank wanted wiki leaks co-founder to get the sound. harlem and sheltered him from the long arm of the u.s. justice department for years but things have been on the up recently thanks to lenin moran oh who's been in power since 2017 it was maranoa who decided that a son should outstayed his welcome at the embassy in london we all know the fallout
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from the whistle pro was dragged out by the british police slapped with 18 criminal counts by washington now frissons extradition to the u.s. and potentially a 175 years behind bars now coincidentally or not at the same time acquittals bank account got an almighty boost with a $4200000000.00 loan from math the international monetary fund where the u.s. has huge voting rights we all know friendships about give and take so at the end of the day what's a small national treasure when your allies got deep pockets. name is plastered across some of the most expensive and sought after real estate on the planet but now there's this trump israel's renamed a tiny settlement in the occupied golan heights after the us president to markets an appreciation of his recognition of israel's claim to sovereignty over the territory the hamlet is over 30 years old and has a population of just 10 people although israel now hopes it will be able to
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encourage more settlers to move there despite the fanfare though it's unlikely the trauma hyde's will officially established before the country's elections in september the decision is also likely to further inflame regional tensions as with the exception of the us the international community regards israel's occupation of the syrian territory as illegal we asked historian for his thoughts on the move and what its implications will be. usually you name something after a dead person right then israel there are plenty of things named after dead american presidents there's a lincoln street there is a truman village there is a kennedy forest i can name lots of things named after former american presidents who are long dead or you generally don't tend to name enough to someone who's living everyone knows that the way to get to president trump to love you is to love him back or to love him he loves to have things named after him and this was another attempt to show our love for president trump it's also
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a great way of underscoring in the next the israeli election that's coming again very very soon and that's considered a electoral plus for prime minister that the fact that he's close to president trump is considered something that israelis say well why would we possibly want to get rid of bibi netanyahu after all he's close to president trump of president up as a president ited states therefore let's keep being a 10 year always prime minister because no one can replace him. it seems the u.s. might be opening another front in its international trade war this time with its ally india and new delhi is firing back its impose tariffs on the further 28 american products as high as 70 percent it follows donald trump's refusal to exempt india from increased steel and iron minium taxes in the u.s. last year back then india threatened to increase its terrorists to 120 percent of a meeting with his engine counterpart later this month the us president has been
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accusing new delhi of not giving washington equal access to the indian market so what dipali in case you missed it team think of trade in the modern age. how do you launch a war without needing to fight a war in case you missed it the economy stupid. international access to the u.s. market used to be a bit like dating the rich girl next door when you were a voter was not easy or cheap but in the end it was worth their time for those u.s. markets are now and 11 at the end stage of a well that window access is now expensive and even if it was worth it you know it's going to hurt so we all know that america has the biggest military in the world just levels the cost of whatever country you're in there's a good chance that there is a u.s. aircraft carrier staring right back at you so now the u.s. is away from raising its economy in order to fight international disputes and
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dominating the market is i.c.b.m.'s. teetered you saying these intercontinental ballistic sanction ready to be deployed anywhere you need it advantages of the i.c.b.m.'s include causing misery to entire populations in countries you don't like without firing a single shot collapse the economies of your opponents and then blame the attack countries without actually having to deploy a single soldier and then accuse them of aggression and remember once deployed i.c.b.m.'s will work for decades with absolutely no effort from you just keep it fueled with a strong dollar you're going to leave the country very. traditional because it was . running sands are great to use against the likes of cuba venezuela last korea iran russia you know the bad guys the problem is you can't use them against the
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good guys which is why i don't know the difference administration has repackaged sanctions he calls. our it. allow you to target friends like mexico europe canada and especially your buddies in beijing because while solutions are used as punishment tyrants are just a normal part of global trade right the way the us has been using them there is no difference china has started fighting back though apparently they've started to prevent the release of american films this might all have a hollywood ending after all. as america's trade war with china intensifies and chinese made goods come and increased scrutiny there's been another big tech scare this time over circuit boards used in the f.
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35 fight jet. we are celebrating a lot of different approaches of many 35. dollars by. the way. by the force of the world when you do that you had your choice. walk away is something that's very dangerous into their close ties to the chinese government or of the tension in cyber espionage. i think it's bred it's not. bad but it's
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a question of how bad is. we have been completely in. the role of china and it is only now that people are beginning to wake up what people are concerned about and i'm one of those is if you have anything with a chinese connection at least it ought to be noted and the risks need to be assessed to have in the world generation strike croft i think is really a cause for concern. these parts michael components of the f. $35.00 are inspected repeatedly each stage of manufacture additionally exception p.c.b. has no visibility or access to any sense to program information and there is limited no risk associated with a minimal role in the program. but
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please stay with us going on the ground which is. not for not internationally and a documentary called. common action or times you were going underground ahead of tomorrow's 35th anniversary of the seminal battle of all grieve when thousands of margaret thatcher's police attacked striking miners in the name of neoliberalism coming up on the show as britain grew up as for breakfast prime minister did the man nicknamed mysticism pave the way for the end of the euro we speak to the former prime minister of italy about austerity and the impact of chinese communism and as
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the u.s. supreme court delivers opinions today is there a war on christianity or a war on the poor new york times best selling author david horowitz well a marxist dark agenda to destroy american christianity plus as a christian i certainly believe that's possible is it possible the doll trump has been sent by god to protect jews in oil tankers from the iranian menace all this of all coming up in today's going underground the 1st which have a conservative politician becomes the next u.k. prime minister there likely to be an enthusiastic supporter of brecht's it but our other european countries no one cause to undermine the neo liberal european project to here is a frosty european commission official announcing an e.u. attack on what may be the used 3rd largest economy come halloween the crime fail to deliver austerity only italy today we go public report under article $126.00 point city at the. benchmark in 2080.
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