was. in the stories the shapes the week u.s. president donald trump says he canceled an astrakhan iran because he doesn't want to kill anybody unless it's absolutely necessary. i don't want to be on the radio. i don't want to go out there. but it. looks exactly very good. but as well as opposition parties accused of spending humanitarian aid on lavish hotels and drugs the prostitutes. on 4 hours that's how long president putin spent on certain questions from the public is that he will q. and a session covered key domestic and world issues.

alone welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest headlines and a roundup of the stories that shape the week but 1st u.s. president don trump called off a strike on iran just 10 minutes before it was due to be launched he since said he's neither a warmonger nor a dove 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 told how many people will die i don't want to go on the radio i understand i have friends. many friends i don't want to kill a 100 year betty or anybody. unless it's absolutely this is. the council attack was meant to be in retaliation for 2 wrongs downing of a u.s. military surveillance drone over the gulf region the straits of hormuz it wrong

said it was ready to add to its collection of downed trees if washington violates its space on the scale of more pain how small. 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 us 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 confrontation in the gulf 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 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 oleson 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 and or ran around major destabilizing influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos we've been trying to do is to get the world to behave like a global 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 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. art see new york as the

blame game ramps up washington is tightening the economic screws on to iran with new sanctions to hit the islamic republic on monday 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 the thing is other ways. to solve problems and 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 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 the issues go with. iran is having my legs against the horse and 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 office official john connelly says while saran has never attacks anybody it is ready to retaliate. all have rules. you can find our 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 in the 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 leaked documents appear to reveal that officials from one quiet ows movement have been embezzling aid 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 thousands of dollars from each other thousands of dollars from an aid concert on the colombian border were apparently spent on hotels prostitutes and luxury goods by 2 members of the party they were in charge of overseeing the humanitarian aid artie's my dad's here for ports. 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 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 thorazine. 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 drop in corruption. that we could use fall sick children instead of being spent on food medicine that has been used to both 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 has led along with others in the us pro attempt of february 22nd 23rd is a complete failure for those forces inside of venezuela and colombia have been using the money to enrich themselves for luxury in 5 star hotels 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 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 benefits well people. the president of georgia resulting russians to continue visiting a country with tbilisi insisting it's a full tourist and foreign journalists last 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 mount protests $240.00 people have been injured in the demonstrations including 80 police officers and a producer at artie's raptly agency. it was.

cool think. the. market could walk a dog or the situation got very heated there was suppressed by it and then the crowd geared up for another storm stone sticks and bottles were thrown from the side of the crowd to a special forces fired rubber bullets and deployed tear gas. protests erupted after russian amp a 2nd gavrilov sat in the chair of the georgian parliament speaker this happened during the opening session of a multilateral parliamentary assembly meant to promote orthodox christianity the georgian opposition prevented people from taking to the podium afterwards we talked

to gavrilov who told us radicals are attempting to disrupt the already complicated russia georgia relations president 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 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. earlier the georgian president blamed the russian official for what happened saying the protests benefit nobody but the kremlin she could sure to visit subarus to return home due to the anti-government demonstrations and the kremlin responded to the accusations or the phobic provocation that's how moscow

described the 2 days of large scale rallies in the georgian capital 1st testers are now demanding the government resign a new rally is being held right now in the country's capital tbilisi so far it's been perceived proceeding without incident we spoke to the former acting president of georgia burjanadze she believes the government has been fomenting the russian fence. the rushing toward 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 that year 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 penzance over a good deal of that country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government. excellently unbelievable how i'm competent is the government

and it's absolutely sure full nervously upon me the government did not being fully implemented authorizing georgian 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 right and right now 2 years they seem. to say sincere pretty numbers of people in their political goals and 2 are just strengths in these 2 russian really exists in a serious part of the georgian population to only one who girl could be blamed for the east and all shouldn't be absent and what will be irresponsible is that is the government and stupidity of this government. coming out of the u.k.'s ourselves to saudi arabia will come under review after an appeals court signs with peace campaigners against the government story and more in just

a few moments. some time all shows were like a honeypot everyone believe that it was all on stable and on the reliable of russia but the store that everything. it was great over there russian businessmen wanted to do business in the west 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 the student whine about. my objection or breaks it is not that i 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 as

a certifiably insane. join me every thursday on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. come back. to saudi arabia could be on the line after peace campaign is won a legal challenge over the potential use of the weapons 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 is appeal court judges are now demanding a review here is what the opponents of the armed cells of the kings of had to say right off the verdicts. this goes to the very top of the conservative party we now need a judicial review in the whole arms 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 versus 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 licenses and make the decisions that took to continue to grow on licenses those decisions are a little full and they have to go back and reconsider because decision might affect the u.k.'s largest defense contract to be a systems as riyadh represents a significant part of the group's business since a saudi that bombardment began in 2015 the u.k.'s licensed 4700000000 pounds worth of weapons person is the 2nd biggest exporter of arms to the saudis and is the u.k.'s largest military export contract with no end in sight to the conflict c.n.n. is on the brink of collapse you may find some of the following images disturbing.

since the beginning of the operation the saudi government has been insisting it's fighting the healthy rebels only without targeting civilians meanwhile in the face of strong criticism at home conservative party ministers have been a pains to stress that it's not the u.k. which chooses the targets in yemen a former british politician we spoke to says a general election could be a game changer. 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 the conservatives who have taken this line of strong support for sales to saudi arabia and so there are probably will need to be a general election for that to change and that is more likely to succeed perhaps than the legal challenge. for the russian president's annual q. and a session received more than 2000000 questions from the public bottom appears

in spent some 4 hours on thursday answering more than 80 questions on various subjects including international issues you can watch the full session in full online and here are some of the key points. it's better if the american side shows interest and 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 with trying to find problems and telling lies if you. will be sure we're 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 which 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 you this is a tragedy and we mourn its victims through such tragedies are unacceptable to. me i think of the. thanks for joining us and i see international went back in betty minutes with the latest of the of that.

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