iran announces it will further rollback its 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 operation. and 2 sisters in saudi arabia pleaded with the international community for 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 monarchies. or

whether you're watching from home in the u.k. or from the united states this is our 2 international incheon thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right iran has announced it will soon boost production of low level enrich the uranium surpassing the stockpile limits set by the 2015 nuclear accord of the. time on june 27th we will exceed the 300 kilogram limits and reached uranium under the nuclear deal after that we will continue to increase the speed of production drastically and white house representative has responded to that statement by claiming tehran is blackmailing the international community and calling for increased pressure on iran you know neal was joined by you to discuss where the latest developments leave the nuclear agreement. the deal is 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 enrichment that would constitute a weapons grade level of enrichment and which could lead to iran obtaining a nuclear weapon and i mean iran is saying that it is a tit for tat measure they are 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 they. 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 in the go there were explosions basically in the gulf of oman and the united states for instance they were very very quick to pin the blame on iran for doing 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 try 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 rein in regime did not respect the japanese prime minister's visit to iran it replied to the foot by attacking 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 was. you know on this whole thing of pointing the finger of blame at iran and saying yeah tehran had something to do with it when it comes to europe

they're not as a trust 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 it's ridiculous to cite secret data in this case. in the last days we've 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 to 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 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 that 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 it 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 u.s. government people in washington. not on board they are blaming trump for that and so really trump has quite a lot in front of him quite

a lot to do if he wants his policy to succeed we heard from political analyst and a commentator shabbir. who believes america has proven it is no longer a reliable partner there is no fairness in the discussion that america wants and everyone needs to understand that america is the one the throat of the c.p.o. 8 america is the one who said we reject this mr trump came along very soon after of course at the behest of the persuasion of the hawks like bolton pump a and of course mr netanyahu trump you know it is his wisdom so we say decided that this deal was not a good deal and he was going to walk away from it without any real excuse and now you know they have put draconian sanctions upon iran for quite some time now even one of the c.p.o. it was around the sanctions were not completely removed you know sort of sanctions

were removed by america but a new sense of unilateral sanctions were added by america at the time to see it was signed so the whole thing was somewhat farcical unfortunately. there's a question mark hanging over washington is donald trump being kept out of the loop on aspects of foreign policy that idea has been suggested by a new york times article on cyber warfare which claims u.s. hackers attacked russia's power grid and as r.t.d. ilia the trickle comments whatever actually happened it appears to be a no win situation for everyone. one 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 circulating the tromp twitter rant began an act of treason that's how he called the n.y.t. piece and after the usual metaphorical flushing 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 accusing the press of treason is dangerous we describe the obstacle to the government before publication of those story notes president trump own national security officials said there were no concerns so we've been left guessing if the massive hack actually ever took place that's a tough one but lot of our putin's press secretary doesn't rule out this could have been the case. in this president trump as far as i know denies the information

about cyber attacks on russia them up or if indeed some agents are doing it without informing the president then this indicates a hypothetical cyber war with russia we have previously sent then our strategic and essentially konami spears have been on the cyber attacks from abroad many times and our agencies are countering these attacks you know to prevent any harm to our economy russia has consistently tried to initiate international coalition to find any type of cyber crime and fortunately our american partners have never taken a stop on this option because in doing so this time in the past 2 mr pascoe has fallen 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 with 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 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 and 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. ties won't get any better. to saudi sisters describing themselves as refugees have had their twitter accounts and spend it after using the

platform to ask the international community for help the pair who say they have been subjected to sustained abuse at the hands of their father used one of their videos to plead for asylum abroad. my father took a leap and in 1900 he is looking for us now. so only you mean rights and given nations into only human rights activities to help us move to a safe country shortly after the suspensions twitter reinstated the sister's account 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 have been detailing on the site how their parents allegedly abused them physically and verbally sometimes even causing injuries that warranted it medical attention they are now in turkey having escaped while on a family holiday there are 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 anyone who's potentially at risk to publish their case it's going to help them find asylum releasing other instances we girls have just waited too long to get their story out there 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 we have to question then and what the protocols are to protect people who are risking the situation obviously they need to install more safeguards for situations. the case of the sisters is not unique either it is estimated that around $1000.00 women attempt to flee saudi arabia each year one recent high profile case was that of coon who tried to flee to australia through

thailand after barricading herself in a hotel room she launched a twitter campaign and was eventually granted asylum in canada a saudi diplomat later job they're denying her access to technology might have been more if it effective than taking her passport. when she arrived in new twitter account and her followers grew to 45000 in one day it would have been better if they'd confiscated her mobile phone instead of her passport another challenge faced by girls that fleeing the kingdom is a new government created smartphone app it can be used for monday in things like renewing passports and paying parking fines but also allows male family members to track female relatives and even prevent them from traveling rather sterling again believes that as the number of such cases rise every thing must be done to give oppressed women a voice. over the past year we've seen cases such as cyclists heathrow we've seen

a half mama done we've seen hints from the u.a.e. and we're seeing more and more and i think that as ice age case is quite public and in fact moment mohamed's case was published and grew because inside saudi arabia is a step in itself to sort of promoting those more secure or secular belief system and the fact that it wasn't 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've suffered to also receives within the country as to the u.a.e. authorities to saudi but they're not taken seriously and in fact in leaks they christened mental punishment or even did by way of homage killing but there's a backlash brewing after ecuador's government granted the us permission to build an airfield in the galapagos islands that story much more coming up after

a short break this arc international. the tramping ministration is again obsessed with the random without evidence or facts iran is simply to blame for everything under the sun and then there is john bolton are his days at the national security council number. you know world's big partners new models and construe. it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than

ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back this is our team international now egypt's 1st democratically elected president collapsed during a court session in cairo on monday and died shortly afterwards of a suspected heart attack local media reports that mohamed morsi who led the country from 2012 to 2013 was standing trial over espionage claims as more. public morsi was the 1st democratically elected president of egypt he was also the 1st civilian to hold the highest office in that country but that brief one

comported experiment in democracy saw him serving only one. 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 dates back to the egyptian revolution of the 25th of january 2011 and all sounds and some nights a 1000000 people coming to tahrir 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 also remember covering protests that were muslim brotherhood demonstrations at the time and they were quite suspicious of foreign journalists there was a lot of clamp down on the media and you had for example who were seen as being a mouthpiece of the muslim brotherhood who initially had quite a lot of freedom and then had the officers raided so it was a particularly tense time to actually be reporting in egypt the other sense i got

was that there had been that history was being made and then eventually you had mubarak overthrown by what many told me was a dictator that was even worse because he came from the muslim brotherhood movement maybe in egypt or god as a terrorist organization essentially and they knew route to the military coup so many gyptian is feeling that this revolution of these it actually not achieve much and had gone through. so it was a time when you had an atmosphere of electric change when change was going to happen in egypt and then in actual fact not so long late not so long afterwards people feeling that very little has changed now as far as morsi who did not last in powerful very long and in june 2013 millions went back to tahrir square and called . him to step down he refused and then a few days later you had the egyptian army that militarily overthrew him and then

subsequent to that you have morsi who has been facing charges of espionage he's been accused of colluding with this well and has mass and also has been accused of killing protesters he has personally his health has been deteriorating for quite some time and there were a number of concerns there will be expressed he had the death penalty this was there overturned and now he was facing a trial. switching gears now ecuador has granted the united states permission to use one of its fame to go up of those islands as an airfield but the government including those facing a backlash what critics are calling a violation of the country's constitution if you saw scooter where it's a question of. the galapagos islands home to the giant tortoises birthplace of darwin's theory of evolution and it'll wear you rocked by the sound of lapping waves and the gentle hum of american planes you know as you know you love those is

but i've mentioned that the galapagos is our aircraft carrier it 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 or improving conditions especially refueling watchers 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 keep planes on the historic san cristobal island for operations in the pacific ocean where the primary papa 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 no fair says the defense minister it's not a base pesetas it's. little gathering place going to look at the us to meet for periods of no more than

a week and is subject to the protocol of the preservation of sovereignty those are my concerns gone also on the plus side washington is covering all the costs but perhaps unsurprisingly not everyone is happy about this latest addition. is not an aircraft carrier for gringo use it is an ecuadorian province patrimony of humanity patriotic ground that his vessel sole can reach such a level describes very well the government to represent now ecuador and u.s. relations hit a low note under former president rafael correia he got to washington by closing one of the largest u.s. bases outside the state's relations father soured one craig granted wiki leaks co-founder today in a silent asylum 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 he'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

from the whistle pro was dragged out by the british police slapped with 18 criminal counts by washington now faces 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 the i.m.f. 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 go deep pockets. donald trump's name is plastered across some of the most expensive and sought after real estate on the planet but now there is this trump heights israel has renamed a tiny settlement in the occupied golan heights after the u.s. president to mark the. appreciation for his recognition of israel's claims to sovereignty over their territory the hamlet is more than 30 years old and has

a population of just 10 people although israel now hopes it will be able to encourage more settlers to move there despite the fanfare though it is unlikely that trump heights will be officially established before the country's elections in september the decision is also likely to further inflame regional tensions since with the exception of the u.s. the international community regards israel's occupation of the syrian territory as illegal we asked historian marc sholden for his thoughts on the implications of the . 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 to someone who's living everyone knows that the way to get to a 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 love for president it's also 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 netanyahu 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 is close to president trump and president trump as a present a united states therefore let's keep bibi netanyahu as prime minister because no one can replace him. as america's trade dispute with china continues and the chinese made goods come under increased scrutiny there has been another big tech scare this time over circuit boards used in the f. 35 fighter jet. we are celebrating a lot of different approaches of many. private bi-polar fighters just the

way they say but by the force of the world when you knew that you had your choice. walk away is something that's very dangerous to them to their close ties to the chinese government or of attention for espionage. i think it's bread it's not. bad but it's a question of how bad it 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 because if you have anything with the chinese connection at

least it ought to be noted and the risks need to be assessed to have in the world's 1st face generation strike croft i think is really a cause for concern. these cause michael components on 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. or that doesn't for mail be back again the top the hour with more news this is. r.t. international.

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our disdain comes to advocate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. they put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject it. so when you want to be president. that's what the. 3 of them will be. interested in the water.

i. thank. you welcome to crossfire we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the trump administration again obsessed with the rand without evidence or facts iran is simply to blame for everything under the sun and then there is john bolton or his

days at the national security council number. some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we crossed a char. shoebridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counter terrorism intelligence officer originally crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate me going to charles 1st and in london let's talk about mike pompei oh yeah officially his title is secretary of state but isn't he really turning into the minister of mis and disempower mation this whole approach to the media explaining what happened in the gulf of oman the attack on 2 or oil tankers both actually going to japan while remarkably chav anees prime minister was meeting with the

iranian leadership.