none of the therapy is to. our charm. absurd really harsh things that happen in life. in the stories that shape the point here in our team u.s. president donald trump says he called off an air strike on iran because he doesn't want to kill anybody unless it's absolutely necessary. i don't want to. raise. i don't want to go out there. but it. looks exactly. venezuela's opposition party is accused of spending humanitarian aid on lavish hotels drugs and prostitutes and a total of 4 hours that's how long president vladimir putin spent answering questions from the public his annual q. and a session covered domestic and international pictures.

oh there good morning the latest developments and a look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to be watching weekly here on our t. international. now the u.s. president donald trump called off a strike on iran just 10 minutes before you to be launched he's since said he's neither a warmonger nor duff but a man with common sense and that he doesn't want to kill anybody unless it's absolutely necessary. one thing i want to know and i want to know it accurately is accurately called how many. will die i don't want to kill on the radio i don't. have friends. many friends i don't want to kill hogger. or anybody. let the sad movie this is the constant attack was meant to be in retaliation for

terrans timing of the u.s. military surveillance drone over the gulf region strait of hormuz iran said it was ready to add to its collection of down trends if washington violates space kind of reports in terms of words he seems to have indicated it could have been a human error he pointed out that it could have been a general or some other official who made the mistake of ordering for the drone to be shot down i find it hard to believe it was intentional if you want to know the truth i think that it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid our iran is said that the drone did indeed enter their airspace and violate their territory and that they intend to go to the united nations in order to prove this they say that it was in the southern part of their country that this drone entered their airspace and that they shot it down for violating their airspace at this point we've got the iranian foreign minister condemning the united states for what he calls economic terrorism the u.s. wages economic terrorism on iran has conducted covert action against those and now

encroaches on our territory we don't seek war but was jealous lead to fend off sky land and waters will take this new aggression to the u.n. and show you that the u.s. is lying about international waters now the u.n. secretary general antonio gets here as is calling on all parties to remain calm and exercise restraint i strongly hope that. the situation will be contained because as i said and i repeat the world does not really need any measure of confrontation in the russian president vladimir putin. he said that an attack on iran would be potentially disastrous which i'd like to say straight away that a military conflict between the us and iran would be a disaster at least for the region it would be an outburst of violence with terrible consequences it's very hard to predict what would happen in the case of military force being used now many observers have noted that it seems that the white house is powerless and toward iran has been rather consistent this is how the

united states has approached iran during the trumpet ministration threat their neighbors are spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare. major destabilizing influence in the middle east to spread death destruction and we've been trying to do is to get the un to behave like a normal nation now the united states recently sent a 1000 new troops to the middle east region in response to a supposed threat from the islamic republic of iran now on june 13th when 2 oil tankers were attacked the united states blamed iran for the incident however iranian officials rejected those accusations outright and said that it was actually their ships that were on scene to rescue the sailors who had been hurt and take them for medical assistance so at this point all eyes are on the middle east region all eyes are on the u.n. where international bodies will be hearing and taking up this issue and all eyes are on washington as

a response from the united states could be very possible with the plane going does increase washington is ramping up its economic pressure on her on with new sanctions to hit republican monday. people in new york what they thought about the prospects of u.s. military action against iran. can you imagine a situation where it would be you would be in support of a war with iran. it was the last one was another war and then another war then another you know the thing is other ways. to solve problems and they go about things open assassinations and bombing other people and we knew about it you could prove it i think we need real proof that some type of activity is actually happening where people are losing life losing land where some type of injustice is happening at the hands of iran but at this point i don't really know that that's necessarily true a terrorist attack on you know innocent people you know something like $911.00 happens of course the response is this is necessary and immediate. is war the

answer to that maybe not maybe but i still think personally we should find a different solution besides war we've been to many wars a lot of people have died in doesn't seem to make the issues go away alas iran is having majlis against the whole war so i think the country maybe can resolve his own issues without other countries interference now i can say is i hope nobody gets hurt i hope for world peace. senior iranian national security official at the sham county to tell us that iran has never attacked anybody but he's ready to retaliate . all have rules. you can find out trump statements always different for example statements from yesterday and today he also contradicts white house officials such political matter is devoid of logic and common sense we do not take seriously his threats and contradictory statements but in the end it must be noted that the islamic republic of iran is not iraq or afghanistan we are

a big state and have strong popular support both during the present but also past hardships the islamic republic has been standing firm and never attacked anyone and will not do that but if we are attacked the aggressor will regret it at the same time we strive for peace and security in our region that is the policy of sanctions and the economic war launched by trump against the iranian people will not yield any results this is a hostile policy that will be defeated as a result. by members of the venezuelan opposition have been implicated in a corruption scandal the documents appears reveal that officials from when and why days movements have been embezzling funds for personal use the money was intended for soldiers who defected and fled to neighboring colombia. humanitarian aid it is more a humanitarian robbery all the money from the famous humanitarian aid fund was

stolen of take note washington not only are the opposition liars but they are thieves too who stole thousands of dollars from each other. well thousands of dollars raised from an aid concert on the colombian border were apparently spent on a tells prostitutes and goods by 2 members of why days party they were in charge of overseeing the humanitarian aid not of gas the as this report. sex drugs and rock'n'roll aren't something you'd associate with a humanitarian aid concert wrongly it seems colombian authorities themselves a shocked and barris that what they've uncovered and to think it all began so innocently we need to try to help those who are not getting medical help help those who are hungry and today hopefully on the back of this concert we can start maybe

getting supplies into that to sway those people who are not suffering so much back then the freshly self-proclaimed president of venezuela called in the military to defect join him and top of the corrupt regime. we gladly armed forces welcome to the right side of history welcome to the soldiers who are today following the constitution welcome hundreds of soldiers did defect some with families some of the small children they scared to colombia they were put in hotels and by mid march it were living in the streets we are desperate we do not want to stay in colombia we want to return to venezuela but not in the current living conditions we do not know. how could this happen out of the 7 hotels that the soldiers were staying in all but 2 were being paid for by the un and the colombian government to hotels is all who and why do those representatives had to pay for

except they didn't according to the journalists who broke this story why and why do all of this a month ago. we couldn't allow for any bad managing of money to overshadow what has been a big effort on the part of all venezuelans that's why as soon as we had the information about the ongoing investigation we decided to send it straight to every impartial of dorothy the people who did this bear in mind were appointed by do personally and he only chose to speak with the story already public knowledge saying transparent investigation is needed also amazingly managing to somehow imply that the venezuelan government does involve culpable complicit and that guy duo doesn't cover up corruption which he kept covered up for at least a month obviously the actual venezuelan government has questions.

this huge drop in corruption poor to divert money that we could use fall sick children instead of being spent on food medicine that has been used to pay for the whole prostitutes expensive shopping trips and luxury hotels as do those allies why is his party which promises to cleanse venezuela of corruption and exercise the demons of the old regime why are these people blowing tens of thousands of dollars in aid money on prostitutes drugs and booze and live a concert that richard branson blair along with others in the u.s. pro champion of february 22nd 23rd is a complete failure don't force inside of bennett and columbia have been using the money to enrich themselves for luxury staying in

a 5 star hotel and therefore they're really showing what they're about it's about whining power for personal enrichment the corruption scandal is just one small part of what the us is engaging in this enormous assault a genocidal assault against the people well it's hundreds of millions it's chance of billions of dollars that the u.s. is stealing in the name of one way though stealing money from the venezuelan people . the president of georgia resurging russians to continue visiting her country with tbilisi insisting it is safe for tourists and foreign journalists that's after moscow temporarily banned direct flights to and from georgia russia's foreign ministry alleges that georgia's radical opposition is exploiting the visit of a russian delegation to man protests $240.00 people have been injured in the demonstrations including 80 police officers and

a producer at artie's ruptly agency. was the was. the. the. just not going to cut dog or the situation got very heated there was suppressed spite and then the crowd geared up for another storm stone sticks and bottles were thrown from the side of the crowd a special forces fired rubber bullets and deployed tear gas. protests erupted after the russian and pace are going to have a lot of sat in the chair of the georgian parliament speaker this happened during the opening of a session of a multilateral parliamentary assembly meant to promote orthodox christianity the

georgian opposition prevented paper from taking to the podium afterwards we talked to mr geffen often told us that radicals are attempting to disrupt already complicated russia georgia relations but you only see it as a president of the assembly i have the right to take this seat in any country where the assembly session is held in this case the place was offered by the georgian side the session was invaded by radicals who shouted threats to our lives we tried to continue but more radical activists showed up with cameras and posters with anti russian and insulting slogans we decided to finish the session in the hotel nearby radicals tried to storm the hotel they attacked members of parliament including me when we tried to leave i believe all of this is the races styria in the wake of protests to take power. well earlier the georgian president blamed the russian official for what happens thing that the protests benefit nobody but the kremlin she cut short a visit to bella ruse to return home due to the anti-government rally and the

kremlin responded to the accusations of phobic provocation that is how moscow described the 2 days of large scale demonstrations in the georgian capital protesters and demanding that the government resigns another rallies expected on sunday we spoke earlier to the former acting president of georgia and you know she believes the government into policing has been fermenting anti russian sentiment. they're rushing toward generalisations are really very difficult and sensitive issue for us aside and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m.p. in the chair of the idea and speaker is this something which is just creating a problem what stability of the country or something which is the just touching independence and so heredity of that country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government but it's absolutely unbelievable how i'm competent is the

government and it's absolutely sure from the clear for me that the government did enough people improvement of crushing georgian relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive in this the direction of political cartoonists who are calling them themselves as a pro western and that right now 2 years and they seem. to say sincere pretty nice a people in their political goals and 2 are just strengths and these 2 russian really exist in the serious part of the georgian population now back to only one who could be blamed for the east and shouldn't be absent and be irresponsible place this is government and stability on this government. still to come the weekly the u.k.'s arms sales to saudi arabia will come under review after an

appeals court sides with pace campaign this against the government but have a look at this in more detail just after. some time shows were like a honeypot. everyone believe that it was all on stable and on the reliable of russia. but they thought that everyone was great over the russian businessmen who want to do business in the worst because they feared some could take everything away from them in russia which now is the opposite dave business is outside of russia was snatched less is frozen the whole blog now the student whine about. my gesture brags that it's not that i'd like to hear you but it without the mollifying influence of the e.u. the brits are going to be exposed face on head on to people like boris johnson and

jacob riis mog who are who are of the certifiably insane. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. you're watching the weekly now british arms sales to saudi arabia could be on the line after peace campaign is one a legal challenge over the weapons potential use in yemen they claim the lucrative contracts breach international law and contribute to what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis which appeals court judges and demanding a review here is what the opponents of the arms sales to the kingdom had to say

right after the verdict. this the very top of the conservative party we now need a judicial review in the whole arms i've seen since system parliament has been shown to be totally broke we now need a public inquiry on this matter the government should not waste time in appealing this judgement the government should fix our system has been a brutal condemnation of u.k. foreign policy business been a very strong judgment against it we want to see action from the government the court has done its job it's time for the government to do its job the decisions that took in relation to existing license said and make the decisions they took to continue to grant licenses those decisions are a little full and they have to go back and reconsider what the court's decision might affect the u.k.'s largest defense contract to be a systems is riyadh's represents a significant part of the group's annual earnings since the saudi led bombardment began in 2015 the u.k. has license 4700000000 pounds worth of weapons britain is the 2nd biggest exporter

of arms to the saudis and it's the u.k.'s largest military export contract with no end in sight to the conflict yemen is on the brink of collapse. since the beginning of the operation the saudi government has been insisting it is fighting the healthier rebels only without targeting civilians meanwhile in the face of strong criticism at home conservative party ministers have been painted to stress that it's not the u.k. which chooses the targets in yemen a former british politician we spoke to though says it is time the government

changed. at a time when most of british attention is focused inevitably on bragg's it it's really important that we do look at the issues such as arms sales and in particular in this special case because so many people are losing their lives in yemen and really it's a difficult situation that has to be resolved and it's significant that all of the opposition parties not trust the labor party but also the liberal democrats and the scottish nationalists and other smaller parties have agreed really that this is not something that britain ought to be supporting it's really only the conservatives who have taken this line of strong support sales to saudi arabia and so they will probably will need to be a general election for that to change and that is more likely to succeed perhaps than the legal challenge. the russian president's annual q.

and a session collected david see 1000000 questions from the general public that imitate him and spent about 4 hours on thursday soaring more than 80 questions on various subjects including international issues but you can see the full session online but here are some of the key points that will make. it's but i think if the american side shows interest we are always ready for dialogue or what we see what is happening in us domestic politics the president will always look back on the race he's in right now some in the american establishment are speculating about our country's relationship trying to find problems and telling lies. we sure are going to use if we love the mayor's zelinsky went to paris and said he would not talk to the separatists representatives of these unrecognised republics how will they resolve this issue but modern history doesn't provide

a single example of a conflict which was resolved without direct dialogue between the sides we need political will from kiev. and we did it everything we've seen presented as evidence that russia is responsible for everything doesn't suit us we think it is insufficient evidence it doesn't say anything we've presented our version of events but unfortunately no one wants to hear it until there is a proper dialogue here we won't find any answers to the questions about the plane crash and the deaths of the people on board which remain open this is a tragedy and we mourn its victims such tragedies are unacceptable. and that is how the week is looking as safe this sunday could have a company we're back again at the top of the.

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on. a welcome to worlds apart taking somebody for a ride has long been a synonym for fair treatment but the growth of blah blah car is calling that into question the ride sharing service has long shall be. and if they to france turning on a development and they can only buy this car ownership is increasingly losing its appeal around the world what's happened apart from that i'm now joined by nicholas press and co-founder and c.e.o. of blah blah carne mr breslin it's good to talk to you thank you very much for terror thanks for having me now when i read your interviews for the western as opposed to let's say russian media i'm always struck by how differently your portray your service because in europe you put a lot of emphasis on environmental concerns cutting the c o 2 imprint this social value but in russia it's all about personal benefit and the chip in this of the

ride other russians really so much more self-centered than the rest of the europeans yeah i mean it's an interesting question i think it's more like an evolution of the communication with the community i don't think it's that polarized . we all need talk about it going to be beneath it. all the the deicing and communication we do in france and germany does very much around saving money it's always the same it's always about saving money making friends and social benefits and meeting people because we connect people that would not have met those always in the environment what we found is that the 1st 3 years tend to be economy and social and then and especially you're right now in europe there is a lot more awareness around the environment especially for the young generation i think it's less true and. right now in russia i think it's just

a matter of time so i think it's more like a timing of communication than anything but overall again the way you portray it is very polarized it's just a continuum of belief around or putting i think there is much more emphasis on this individual freedom. conference car brings you here. you're in russia and i wonder if you sometimes. by choosing this specific marketing campaign for this market are discouraging the behavior that you would want to see in the future because i know that in france for example you are branching out into bass services as well but here in russia there is a lot of still a lot of. individual car ownership and some would say that you're also on a karting the bus service is in many of the regions. and plays and. you the passenger journey essentially we create take friends in russia but you know we could use in your country we are in 22 countries but the state funds in russia

as the the comparison here we building the same thing at the end of the day if you look at the fundamental of core putting your neighboring drivers to share very current best interest in those scores for the same story sharing cost social benefits and environment and in both countries we are we actually becoming also a distribution for buses in different ways so in france it was by acquiring a company from this and see if and we get our brand. on the road but all of the distribution on the platform now in russia we do the same in russia we have like 400 bus partners aggregating the supply. deploying the same vision and then adapting to local needs and look in specific cities and say that your enemy is an empty car see the economics of an empty bus see it including environmental economics is very different from an empty car see it as you try to

integrate more and more modes of transportation into into a platform i'm going to probe environmentally friendly ones. i think all of it is pretty much the same for. pain that deploying boards in europe right now is your aim to see so we could be getting on the 0 but i think it is to a bus as much as a car to go back to your 1st comment. i mean when i often say like you know the enemy's e.m.t. car we should not forget if you get interested to transport we're reaching awash in france in germany pretty much all over the world it's do buy cars the car is to be moved used means of transport if you could. car pulling a what we do is actually very very tiny today so the biggest expansion for us not in the next year but in the next 510 years is how do we built a better product with more trust more safety maybe a better economy contract between the passenger and the driver to convince more drivers to share very core passengers to seats now you mentioned that cars are

still the dominant means of transportation in the biggest.