in the stories that shapes the week u.s. president donald trump says he canceled that 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 go out of it. but thanks a lot that we've. done as well as opposition party is accused of spending humanitarian aid on lavish hotels drugs on prostitutes. and 4 hours that's how long president putin spent on certain questions from the public is on your q. and a session covered key domestic and world issues.

i love and 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. u.s. president donald 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 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 is accurately told how many people will die i don't want to kill 150 arabians i understand that i have friends that are great many friends i don't want to kill 100 here betty ford everybody. alleges that we did. the council to talk was meant to be in retaliation for 2 wrongs downing of a u.s. military surveillance drone over the gulf region strait of hormuz it wrong said it was ready to add to its collection of downed if washington violates it says space.

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 endlessly defend 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 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 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 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 in toward iran has been rather consistent this is how the united states has approached iran during the trumpet ministration of their

neighbors are spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare. major destabilize. influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos but we've been trying to do is to get the wrong to be able 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 mopp an artsy new york is the blame game ramps up washington is tightening the economic screws on to wrong

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 suppose it was the last one was another war and then another war then another you know things other ways. to. go about things open assassinations of 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 of 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 horrors i think the country maybe can resolve is always issues with other countries' interference and i can say is i hope nobody gets hurt i hope for world peace seanie every new national security official allegation conny says well to run has never attacked anybody it is ready to retaliate. or have whose . you can find our troops 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 pos

hardships the islamic republic has been standing firm and never attacked anyone and will not do that 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 leaks documents appear to reveal that officials from those movements have been embezzling aid phones 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 to install it will take note washington not only are the opposition the 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 his party they were in charge of overseeing the humanitarian aid artie's more advanced you have reports. sex drugs and rock'n'roll aren't something you'd associate with a humanitarian aid concert wrongly that 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 this way those people are not suffering so much back then the freshly self-proclaimed president of venezuela called in the military to

defect join him and top all the corrupt regime. and 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 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 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 has led along with others in the us. a chance 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 venice 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 russians to continue visiting her country with tbilisi insisting it's safe for tourists and foreign journalists to moscow temporarily bans 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. was. was

think. the. market could walk a dog or the situation got very heated there was rest bites 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 and deployed tear gas protests erupted after russian m.p. sergei gavrilov sat in the chair of the georgian parliament speaker this happens 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 god for a lot who told his radicals are attempting to disrupt the already complicated russia georgia relations. because gentlemen you 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 blames the russian official for what happens in the protests benefit nobody with the kremlin she cut short her visits about every still return home due to anti-government demonstrations and the kremlin responded to the accusation. arrest the phobic provocation that's our moscow describe the 2 days of large scale rallies in the georgian capital. protesters 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 proceeding without incident we spoke to the former acting president of georgia and not burjanadze she believes the government has been fermenting anti russian sentiments the russian border and relations are really very difficult and sensitive issue for us aside and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m.p.e. litter of door again. is that something which is just creating a problem what stability of the 3 or something which is the just part. of that country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government had absolutely unbelievable how incompetent is the government and it's absolutely sure for me that the government did enough people improvement of relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive in this

the direction of politics call. themselves the pro western and that right now 2 years of these are hard to say so you see a pretty numbers of people in their political goals and 2 are just strengths in the russian really exist. the only one the girl could be blamed for are the eastern shouldn't be. responsible. government and stability of this government. which is arm sales to saudi arabia could be on the line after peace campaigners won a legal challenge over the potential use of the weapons in yemen. they claim the lucrative contracts breach international law and contribution to what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis which is appeal court judges are now

demanding it were a few here is what the opponents of the arms out of the kings and had to say right after 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 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 licenses and make the decisions they 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 represent a significant part of the group's business since the sound of that bombardment began in 2015 the u.k.'s licensed 4700000000 pounds worth of weapons britain is the

2nd largest exporter of arms to the saudis and is the u.k.'s largest military export contract with no end in sight to the conflict yemen is on the brink of collapse in my 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 the 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 say as

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 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. of russian president sanyal q. and a session received more than 2000000 questions from the public that i appear to spend some 4 hours on thursday on surveying more than 80 questions on various subjects including international issues you can watch the full session online and here are some of the key points for you right now. 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. are going to use if the mayor's alinsky 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 from kiev. 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. but over the hour. and a rerun of its stumbles mayoral election the opposition candidate acrimony who has once again claimed victory the vote was widely seen as a political test for turkish president reject tayyip erdogan and his party the

rerun was ordered by the government after it was claimed the march election was rigged the vote back then also saw the opposition candidate defeat his ruling party rival the opposition candidate acrimony is going to be the city's 1st american 25 years who is not from president out of one's party he most the campaigns are urban poverty after turkey slid into recession him only his 1st victory was an old in may after claims some officials overseeing the vote were not civil servants as required by law after today's victory and i'm only said he's ready to work with the ones government despite previous claims by the turkish opposition that the decision to rerun the election was politically motivated and not legally justified. this is not just an election for the istanbul great municipality at the same time it is a day it is a vote to repair the process the nation has experienced in this democratic process . i am ready and willing to work with you president. but it will analyst use that

everyone believes that a once 4 wheeler from the 1990 s. of who wins istanbul wins turkey is now an outdated model. this is a watershed moment while the times in the hell you read it we have to realize this is a little action in the end the oil makeup of turkey has greatly changed the importance of many and it will be an provinces. it didn't doubt exaggerate this victory beyond the local election is just not right national politics general elections are a totally totally different monster in turkey it's an area where president of the most biggest easy to read candidate and his ministers are very experienced people going so we're going to have to see how the c.h.p. is going to be able so rational and their top level cabarets go into a general election in the future and will they be able to strong against present

out who want to be our. national school leavers have gathered in the country's northern capital some pages to mark the end of 11 years of studies and this year's celebrations did not disappoint. i. think. the week. every year the city holds the events known as the scarlet sounds festival and then comes from a novel by 20th century russian fantasy writer alexander queer just like in the book the high point is the appearance of

a wind vessel with scarlet sails symbolizing the beginning of a new life the passage of the ship is accompanied by a light and fireworks show as well as live music. well thanks for joining us here on r.t. international my colleague andrew follow will be with you at the top of the hour with your monday morning headlines it is the. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be cross this is what the 43 of them or can't be good for. industry always in the water as in the house. question.

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