more. in the stories that shaped the way karen r.t. 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. read. i don't want to go out. that. opposition parties 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 on trying questions from the public q. and a session covered domestic and international issues.

hello there the latest developments in a look back at the last 7 days to the watch and weekly here on r.t. and. the u.s. president donald trump called off a strike on iran just 10 minutes before you to be launched since said he's neither a warmonger nor does but a man with common sense and 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 accurately. how many. will die i don't want to kill. i don't want to kill. anybody. well the consulate attack was meant to be in retaliation for standing at the u.s. military surveillance drone over the gulf region strait of hormuz iran said it was

ready to add to its collection of dan drones if washington violates space it has more. in trump's 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 us 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 water is 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 with russian president vladimir putin recently said that an attack on iran would be potentially disastrous which i'd like to say straight away that a military conflict between the u.s. 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 their neighbors

or spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare. major destabilize. implodes in the middle east spread death destruction and we've been trying to do is to get the word to behave like globalization. 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 well as the blame game increases washington is ramping up its economic pressure on taran with new

sanctions to hit the islamic republic on monday. people in you'll quote they thought about the prospects if 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 things other ways. to stop. 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 a terrorist attack on you know innocent people you know something like 911 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 with. iran is having violence against the whole or that i think the country maybe can resolve his own issues with other countries' interference now i can say is i hope nobody gets hurt i hope for world peace senior iranian national security official ali sham county teller's the iran has never attacked anybody but he's ready to retaliate. all have rules rules if 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 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 movement have been embezzling aid 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 that all the money from the famous humanitarian aid fund was stolen of take note washington not only are the opposition the liars but they are

the 2 who stole thousands of dollars from each other. while thousands of dollars raised from an aid concert on the colombian border were apparently spent on hotels prostitutes and luxury goods by 2 members of why those party they were in charge of overseeing the humanitarian aid is artie's murder against the reports. 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 barrister to 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 them 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 skeptical on beer they were put in hotels and by mid march they 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 all got up and 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 why 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 drug corruption poor to divert money that we could use fall sick children instead of being spent including medicine that has been used to pay for alcohol 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 championship 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.

power for personal enrichment the corruption scandal is just one small part of what the u.s. is engaging in this enormous assault a genocidal assault against the people of it 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 venice well people. of the president of georgia is aging russians to continue visiting her country with the police insisting it is safe for tourists and foreign journalists 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 mind protests so far $240.00 people have been injured in the demonstrations including a police offices and approaching a. plea agency. was

was. the. the. just not thought could look at 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 special forces fired rubber bullets into mccloy the tear gas. protests erupted after russian and pacer could have had 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 then people from taking to the podium afterwards we talked to mr gephardt a lot of you told us radicals are attempting to disrupt already complicated russia georgia relations but my only see 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 slow goods 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 it is the early earth the georgian president blamed the russian official for what happened saying that the protest benefit nobody but the kremlin she could cut short to a visit to better race to return home to the anti-government rally. the kremlin

responded to the accusations of provocation that's how moscow described the 2 days of large scale demonstrations in the georgian capital protesters are now demanding that the government resigns another rally is expected on sunday but we spoke earlier to a former acting president of georgia and you know she believes the government into police has been fermenting anti russian sentiment. the russian border generalizations are really very difficult and sensitive for your us aside and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m.p. in the chair of 2 idea and speaker is this something which is just creating a problem what stability of the country or something which is there just touching in the plan and sense of morality of the country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government had absolutely unbelievable how and competence is the

government and it's absolutely sure full no the clean up for me the government did not fully implement authorizing georgian relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive in this the direction 2 of political parties who are calling them as well as themselves as a pro western and right and right now 2 years of these. are hard to say sincere probably not to the people in their political goals and are just strengths in these 2 russian really exist in a serious part of the georgian population to only $100.00 girls would be blamed for the east and shouldn't be absent and would be irresponsible lazed. government and to be duty on this government. so to come in the weeks leading. to saudi arabia will come under review are from the appeals court sides with ace campaigners

against the government we'll have a look at this in more detail in a couple of minutes. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development that only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to. have to be right to be close that's

what before 3 of them or can't be good. interested always at the water's edge. welcome back. to saudi arabia could be on the line after peace campaign has won a legal challenge over the weapons potential use in yemen they claim that the lucrative contracts breach international law and contribute to what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis british appeals court judges and i'm demanding a review well here's what the opponents to the kingdom have to say right after the verdict. this goes to the very top of the conservative party we now need

a judicial review in the whole arms i suggest 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 judgment the government should fix our system has been a brutal condemnation of u.k. foreign policy visit in 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 the course asian might affect the u.k.'s largest defense contract to be a systems is riyadh represents a significant part of the group's annual earnings since the saudi led bombardment began in 2015 the u.k.'s licensed 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 contracts with no end in sight to the conflict yemen is on the brink of collapse. well since the beginning of the operation the saudi government has been insisting it is fighting the who thing rebels only without targeting civilians meanwhile in the face of strong criticism at home conservative party ministers have been pains to stress that it is not the u.k. which chooses the targets in yemen a former british politician no we spoke to he says it is time the government changed too. at

a time when most of british attention is focused inevitably on bragg's it it's really important that we do look at 2 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 be conservatives who have taken this line of strong support for sales to saudi arabia and so there 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 eva 2000000 questions from the general public this time. in men spent about 4 hours on thursday on showing more than 80 questions on various subjects including international issues where you can see the full session online but say here are some of the king points that will make. it's but i think if the american side shows interest and we are always ready for dialogue or what we see what is happening to us domestic politics this president will always look back on the race he's in right now got up and some of the american establishment are speculating about our country's relationship with trying to find problems and telling lies. we sure are going to use if we want to mayors zelinsky went to paris and said he would not talk to the separatists representatives of these unrecognized republics if someone even how well they resolved 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 it this is a tragedy and we mourn its victims such tragedies are unacceptable. i don't mean i think it was too much in the weekly here not internationally to have a company this morning plenty of stories for you to see that at our website you can find that.

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