in the stories that shaped the week u.s. president donald trump says he canceled an air strike on iran because he doesn't want to kill anybody unless it's absolutely necessary. i don't want to go on the radio. i don't want to kill you. but it. looks exactly. plus mine as well as 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 issues. you're watching the weekly here on our team a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us this hour . u.s. president donald trump called off a strike on iran just 10 minutes before it was due to be launched he said said he's neither i.e. war monger nor adolf 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 is accurately . how many. will die i don't want to kill on the radio and i understand that

i have read. many friends i don't want to kill 100 betty or anybody. let that really does. that cancel the attack was meant to be entirely ation for tehran's downing of a u.s. military drone over the gulf region strait of hormuz iran said it was ready to add to its collection of down drones if washington violates its airspace artist up and has more. 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 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 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 good spirits 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 needs any measure 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 a military force being used now many observers have noted that it seems that the white house is toward iran has been rather consistent this is now 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 destabilize. implodes to the middle east spread death destruction and . the trade. is to get. like. 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 were checked at 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. artsy new york as the blame game increases washington is ramping up its economic pressure on terror with new sanctions to hit the islamic republic on monday caleb asked people in new york if they would support a war 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 one thing is another way. to solve. 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 and doesn't seem to make. a less iran is having violence against the horrors i think the country maybe can resolve his own issues with other countries interference al can say is i hope nobody gets hurt i hope for world peace senior iranian national security official a sham conny told us to iran has never attacked anyone but it's ready to retaliate . all have rules. you can find our troops statements always different for example statements from yesterday and today he also contradicts white house officials such political memories 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 if we are attacked. regret it at the same time we strive for peace and security in our region the policy of sanctions and the economic war against the iranian people will not yield any results this is a hostile policy that will be defeated as a result. members of the venezuelan opposition have been implicated in a corruption scandal we documents appear to reveal that officials from one gliders 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 thieves to thousands of dollars from each other. 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 the white house party they were in charge of overseeing the humanitarian aid artie's 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 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 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 skate to colombia they were put in hotels and by mid march we're 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 u.n. and the colombian government to hotels is all 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. when 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. that we could use both sick children instead of being spent including the medicine that is being used to play throughout 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 led among others in the u.s. pro champion of february 22nd 23rd is a complete failure when michael's forces inside of bennett's well and. have been

using the money to enrich themselves for luxury staying in a $5.00 star hotel and therefore they're really showing what they're about it's about wanting to power for personal enrichment the corruption scandal is just one small part of what the u.s. is engaging in in this enormous assault a genocidal assault against the people of this 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 is urging russians to continue visiting her country with the capital insisting it's safe for tourists and foreign journalists that's after moscow temporarily banned direct flights to and from georgia russia's foreign ministry alleges that georgians radical opposition is exploiting the visit of a russian delegation to protest $240.00 people have been injured in the

demonstrations including 80 police officers and a producer at r.t. is roughly video agency. it was. the. 5th most of cattle call dog the situation got very heated there was rest by and then the crowd kid out for another storm stone sticks and bottles were thrown from the side of the crowd special forces fired rubber bullets and deployed to gas. protests erupted after russian m.p.'s have a gay couple of sat in the chair of the georgian parliament speaker this happened

during the opening of a session of a multilateral parliamentary assembly and to promote orthodox christianity the georgian opposition prevented people from taking to the podium afterwards we talked to governor who told us radicals are attempting to disrupt already complicated russian georgia relations. because jeff well 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 steria in the wake of protests to take power. earlier the georgian president blamed the russian official for what happened saying the protests benefit nobody but the kremlin she cut short

a visit to belarus to return home due to the anti-government rallies and the kremlin responded to the accusations a rusa phobic provocation that's how moscow described the 2 days of large scale demonstrations in the capital protesters are now demanding that the government resigns and the mother rally is expected on sunday we spoke earlier to former acting president of georgia burjanadze she believes the government has been fermenting anti russian sentiment. they're rushing toward generalisations are really very difficult and sensitive for your guest aside and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m.p. in the chair of dollar yen speaker is this something which is just creating a problem what stability of the current 3 or something which is they just type in the plan and sense of morality of that country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government. absolutely unbelievable how i'm competent and is the

government and it's absolutely sure form the clean up for me the government did nothing poorly implemented or crashing toward your relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive in this the direction 2 the political parties who are calling them as well as themselves as a pro western and that right now 2 years of these are hard to say sincere but you know to the people in their political goals and to you are just strengths in these 2 russian really exist in the serious part of the georgian population back to only one of her girl could be blamed for the east and shouldn't be absent and what will be irresponsible lazed is that is the government and stupidity of this government. coming up in the program in the u.k. is arms sales to saudi arabia will come under review after an appeals court sides

with peace campaigners against the government that story and more in a few moments. good holds and you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. somebody wanted. to go right to the press this is what the before 3 of the 4 if you could get. interested always in the why. question. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy from day

shouldn't let it be an arms race is on very dramatic to follow through the only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. and. welcome back british arms sales to saudi arabia could be on the line after peace campaigners won a legal challenge are the weapons potentially used in yemen they claim the lucrative contracts breach international law and contribute to what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis british appeals court judges are now demanding a review here is what the opponents of one of the arms sales to the kingdom had 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 licensing 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 judgment the government should fix our system this 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 licenses and the decisions it took to continue to ground licenses those decisions are a little full and they have to go back and reconsider the court's decision might affect the u.k.'s largest defense contractor be a systems as riyadh represents a significant part of the group's annual earnings since they saw the lead bombardment began in 2015 the u.k. has lice and 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 who through rebels only without targeting civilians meanwhile in the face of strong criticism at home conservative party ministers have been at pains to stress that it's not the u.k. which chooses the targets in yemen a former british politician we spoke to says it's 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 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 for sales to saudi arabia and so they're 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 over 2000000 questions from the general public and spent about 4 hours on thursday answering more than 80 questions on various subjects including international issues you can watch the session in for online but here are some of the key points. 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 if we. went to paris and said he would not talk to the separatists representatives of these unrecognized 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. 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 true we've presented our version of your best 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 or the deaths of the people on board which remain open to this is a tragedy and we mourn its victims through such tragedies are unacceptable. to you that was to you and now to some world news in brief ethiopia's government says it has successfully prevented a coup after gunfights in which a number of senior officials were killed the country's president appeared on t.v. in combat dressed to make the announcement the attempt to seize power by force was allegedly led by a high ranking general regional head and his advisors were shot dead in their office while the army's chief of staff was reportedly killed in his house. france's

yellow vests were back in action on saturday hitting the streets in cities across the country and paris demonstrators blocked public transportation around the city there were some clashes with police with a number of arrests made the 32nd consecutive saturday on which the l a bus have marched this time around some 12000 of them nationwide movement started in response to the french government's plan to raise fuel taxes back in october of last year and has since expanded into a protest against other unpopular government policies. and in germany hundreds of environmental activists stage a protest and an open pit coal mine demonstrators broke through police lines and entered the mine ignoring warnings at every possible landslide the activists want the german government to speed up plans to totally and coal dependency in the country another demo is expected on something.

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