u.s. central command releases new images it claims provide further evidence that iran was behind last week's attack on oil tankers in the gulf of oman. in the region rising iran declares a further rollback to its compliance with the landmark 2015 nuclear deal if steps are taken within the next 10 days to shield it from the effects of u.s. sanctions. a report about alleged u.s. cyber attacks on russian power grid raises questions about whether donald trump is being briefed by his intelligence services on their operation. and. to the international community for asylum after reportedly suffering years of abuse

from their parents in the kingdom they join a growing number of women looking for a way out of the gulf monarchy. for broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow is international thomas. the pentagon has announced it is sending $1000.00 additional troops to the middle east citing the hostile iranian behavior in the region earlier on monday u.s. central command released new images purportedly showing iran removing an unexploded mine from a tanker that was a time last thursday in the gulf of oman artie's takes a closer look. the u.s. navy has released photos of the incident that took place thursday in the gulf of oman just off the shores of the islamic republic of iran the incident happened and

we now have these photos from the united states navy and these photos are in full color and they purport to show the same as what earlier black and white footage released by the pentagon also showed they intend to show a centrally we see in the image a speedboat approaching the ship and removing an unexploded limp in mine now this matches the earlier footage and according to the pentagon this shows that iran must be responsible for the attack because they say that the iranian speedboat was on the scene fast enough and removed the unexploded limpet mine with such precision that therefore that proves that somehow iran must have been responsible for the attack this is what we've heard from u.s. officials iran is responsible for the attack based on video evidence and the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded limpid mine the pentagon took the very unusual step of identifying the aircraft that actually took this footage apparently these are still from footage taken from a m h 60 our

surveillance helicopter that was flying above the scene and apparently imagery at lower altitude drones were involved we have p. 8 maritime patrol craft also involved in the surveillance so essentially on thursday june 13th about 40 kilometers or 25 miles off the coast of iran we have this attack taking place roughly at dawn the 1st ship that was hit was a norwegian craft the other craft that was hit was a japanese own petrochemical tanker and apparently the craft from norway that was hit was can to it was carrying a flammable hydrocarbon mixture that it was traveling between the united arab emirates and taiwan and the japanese craft that was hit was apparently hit twice into. 3 hours now the united states has said based on its photographs and video that iran is responsible for the incident however jobs

a reef the foreign minister of the islamic republic of iran says the opposite he says that iran is not responsible for this attack and did not carry it out and he cited the fact that iran was 1st representative has responded to that statement by claiming tehran is blackmailing the international community and calling for increased pressure on iran or to you know neil was joined by igor john of to discuss where the latest developments leave the nuclear agreement. 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. 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 and 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 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 are 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 ridiculous to cite secret data in this case appears you've already 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 when they 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 what does

seem that trump has backed himself into a corner somewhat he has been so vehement in this stance in the election campaign. that 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 are 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 a political analyst and a commentator shabbir sonali who believes that 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 under 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 a set 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 is are but trying go 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 or not 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.

and the press of treason is dangerous we describe the obstacle to the government before publication so 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 blood 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 if indeed some agents are doing it without informing the president then this indicates a hypothetical cyber war with russia because we have previously said that our strategic and essential the konami spears have been on the cyber attacks from growing many times in our agencies are countering these attacks you know order to prevent any harm to our economy russia has consistently tried to initiate international corporation to find any type of cyber crime unfortunately our american partners have never taken a stop on this option to do so this time in the past too 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 mess 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 to spend it after using the platform to ask the international community for help the pair who say they have been suspected or subjected rather to sustain to be at the hands of their father used one of their videos to plead for asylum abroad. my father took a little boat and island nation in 1900 he is looking for us no. trace. so on do you mean rights and giving nations into only human rights activities to help us move to

a safe country. shortly after the suspensions twitter reinstated the sisters 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 now the 2 girls have been detailing on the site how their parents allegedly abused them physically and verbally sometimes even causing injuries that warranted medical attention they're now in turkey having escaped while on a family holiday there human rights advocate roger sterling 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 by sweets we have to question them and what their protocols are to protect people who are at risk in this 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 one. 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 joked that denying her access to technology might have been more 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 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 strolling again and believes that as the number of such cases rises everything must be done to give oppressed women a voice. over the past year we've seen cases such as cyclists ringback he fell we've seen a house 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 heis 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 a 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 of some civil authorities within the countries to the u.a.e. authorities to saudi but they're not taken seriously and in fact in leaks they christened mental punishment ethan did by way of ahmed killing. there's a backlash brewing after ecuador's government granted the u.s. permission to build an airfield in the galapagos islands that story much more coming up after a short break this is our 2 international. one else seemed wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me i'll get to shape out of this thing. and in games from. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we just in the common ground.

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international now egypt's 1st democratically elected president collapsed a during a court session in cairo on monday and died shortly afterwards of a suspected heart attack local media busy reports that mohamed morsi who led the country from 2012 to 2013 was standing trial over espionage claims he has. 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 if one can call it 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 we need to 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 directions feeling that this revolution of these it actually not achieve much and had gone full circle so it was

a time when you had an atmosphere of electric change when dissipating of 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 had 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 been in prison where his health is be deteriorating for quite some time and there were a number of concerns that were being expressed he had the death penalty this was there overturned and now he was facing a. good or has granted the united states permission to use one of its for him to go on because islands as an airfield bug the government in kyoto is

facing a backlash for what critics are calling a violation of the country's constitution or to saskia taylor that. the galapagos islands home to the giant tortoises birthplace of darwin's theory of evolution and it'll wear you rocked to sleep by the sound of lapping waves and the gentle hum of american planes you know as you know you know i love those i've mentioned that the galapagos is our aircraft carrier it is our natural carrier because it is shores us permanent replenishment did deception facilities and it is a 1000 kilometers from our coast united states is going to take charge or improving conditions especially refueling eager bad watches 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 but it's just a small catch a minor inconvenience really but i could during constitution doesn't allow foreign military bases on its soil but no fear says the defense minister it's not a base pesetas it's a funny little. gathering place going to. the u.s. 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's covering all the costs but perhaps unsurprisingly not everyone's 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 soul 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 correa he i'm going to washington by

closing one of the largest u.s. bases outside the states 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 no who's been in power since 2017 it was miranda who decided that a son should outstayed his welcome at the embassy in london we all know the fallout from that 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 pilots israel has renamed the time a settlement in the occupied golan heights after the u.s. president to markets appreciation for his recognition of. israel's claims that sovereignty over the territory of 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 and with the exception of the us the international community regards israel's occupation of the syrian territory as illegal we asked historian marc shulman for his thoughts on the implications of the move. 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's a truman village there's 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 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 trump 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 up as a present a united states therefore let's keep bibi netanyahu as prime minister because no one can replace him. one of the doesn't mean i'll be back in about 32 and

a half minutes more news this arch international. in the world in which there are the americans that the chinese the indians the russians excedrin europeans can only be a player at that global top table by standing united and we are already united on the economic front and we increasingly understand that we have to do so also on the defense front. starting really in the 1980s under reagan at that or in deregulation you had the fed. takeover and their sole purpose at that point was to try to squeeze workers completely out of the

global economy so wages never went up real terms sensed that but stock markets keep going up and the reason to justify this is that the fed will say we need to try to take care of deflation even know that they are causing to you tyson in an environment where their money printing is increasing the debt. you know world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for. the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.