speech before or. do you guys have a secret any security positions i've been to that david jack me again. you see people get all their cars and i'll see you coming in no hard and it seems like they'll hurry up and run into the house like they don't want to they don't want to talk to your get your mail or anything like that. i just want to go. and do this. just try every day. give me. the u.s. plans to hit iran with a new round of major sanctions later on monday we look at how washington stance on iran seems to be pulling in different directions. the trumpet ministrations middle

east peace plan is rejected by palestine with critics accusing washington of trying to bribe arabs into making political concessions to the israelis. also this hour the parents of critically ill posting in infants taken from gaza better equipped little israel are being denied access to their children and i said come it's much harder to obtain for adults. and italy and the e.u. are at loggerheads over the country's mounting dad but the deputy prime minister much may also be threatened to resign that as rome proposes a new kind of bond which brussels sees as a threat to the euro. you're watching or to international bring you a live news update from our studio here and moscow welcome to the program. the u.s.

is piling more pressure on iran with a new round of major sanctions to hit tehran later on monday the escalation comes in response to iran's downing of a u.s. military surveillance drone which the islamic republic says violated its airspace but washington has expressed doubts over who's really to blame for the attack but expect the president to announce an additional round of sanctions in response to iran's downing of an american unmanned vehicle president also had doubts as to whether or not the downing of our unmanned aircraft was actually authorized at the highest levels but we were not convinced that it was at the highest levels. the drone downing prompted a furious reaction from washington initially preparations to strike iran or minutes away from being put into motion before donald trump intervened he later claimed he wasn't calling off the attack just postponing it but he also says he doesn't want to kill me buddy unless it's absolutely necessary political opponents of the

president accuse him of creating his own crisis was president trump's decision this week to call off that strike the right one. so it's like somebody sitting. to a basket full of paper and then putting it out he helped create the crisis and then he stopped the attacks. as r.t.c. goes down and reports washington's messages regarding iran are getting increasingly mixed. just do it to run a marathon or to start a war as good a motto as any now according to iran the so-called b. team of instigators ran out of breath whispering in donald trump's ear obliterate iran into a beating it's just do it the b. team being advisor john bolton the emirates israel and saudi arabia a rare moment of unity between the latter bolton tried so hard apparently trump said this i have to have some people i have dubs and i have hawks you have some say

. john bolton is absolutely a hawk is up to him he'd take on the whole world at one time ok it was almost mission accomplished until the u.s. president decided otherwise at the last moment and saw all hawks turned against him there and the way that he announced it it shows weakness and it's not in our interests but what happens when our adversaries understand that he's never going to follow through with president trump was being urged by outside advisers not to carry out the strikes we don't know who they are or why he would share with them people not in the chain of command or in his defense circle incredibly classified information about a military strike on iran critics went as far as to accuse donald trump of changing his mind under the influence of tucker carlson a celebrity faux anchor now something fastings happily the very people in some cases literally the same people who lured us into the iraq quagmire 16 years ago

are demanding a new war this one with iran the president to his great credit appears to be skeptical of this very skeptical and truly the media has never come closer to serving as the 4th branch of power even john bolton the mother of all hawks had to take trump side saying that the president. didn't just chicken out neither iran nor any other hostile actor should mistake us prudence and discretion for weakness our military is rebuilt new and ready to go if if he you know started out with the wrong decision and had the advisors saying to attack iran you know people would criticize and then if you cancels it then they'll criticize them for you know not. showing resolve it's kind of assumed by a lot of people that the democrats are not the war party but it's not

a party of peace and a lot of democrats want to show their toughness by saying you know we've got to stand up against iran and it could be just that as trump himself has been saying that he's neither a sinner or saint everybody was saying i'm a warmonger. and now they say. and. i think of neither you want to know that i'm a man with common sense and that's what we need in this country's government says not starting a conflict with world war 3 potential is good sense indeed he had when it comes to other statements on iran by trump and his servants alike well see for yourself we are prepared to talk to iran without preconditions right but iran needs to understand that we will never allow them to obtain a nuclear weapon so is it no preconditions or one precondition it's like telling a kid they won't get candy until they eat their greens but then immediately giving

them all the candy and it's not the only thing take this for instance when you think message they're trying to send you with this i think they want to negotiate and now how about this donald trump who stake in the time and pleasure of tearing into the iran nuclear deal but now once in agreement over his own i don't care which what kind of a deal it can be separate or it could be total one on one talk show. well it was also one on one talks when the ayatollah were going to resonate you can have nuclear weapons and if you want to talk about it good otherwise you can live in a shattered economy for a long time to such a consistent inconsistency doesn't help understand what exactly washington wants from its foreign policy people need to have a lot more certainty that they're dealing with somebody who has some integrity some sense of principle and when they say one thing they stick to it and trump is not that kind of a person you can't really bargain you know make make you know major deals that

affect the future of your country with somebody who turns on a dime and says something else. you know moments after he said something different so i think he's going to have a very hard time convincing iran and he's serious if he offers some kind of a deal to the. parents of critically ill palestinian infants who have been taken out of gaza for better treatment in israel are being denied access to their children that's because permits are far harder to obtain for adults are to met with the parents of 2 children who died while they were separated. ringback the lawyer and going to i was 7 months pregnant and they diagnosed it as early labor but since i had an in vitro fertilization they didn't have the necessary his abilities.

and my application was very urgent and i should have gotten approval very quickly from the coordination office because the lives of the mother or children could have been endangered but it took the coordination all those 5 days. to get us t.m. and they said my surgery went fine and the stitches would be removed in gaza i told them i'd list want to stay to breast feed the babies and they said no i kept crying it wasn't easy for me to leave them i didn't know they would leave or die and i went home devastated. just one day i felt so bad i was exhausted and at the same night i heard that one girl had died her name

was malott she died one week after i went home that. fatah said i'm going with after a while they told me the other child was not doing well they didn't say he was dad then they said he had to sit in the blood then they told me that he's heart stopped . someone called me from the cards nation office and told me you have 10 minutes to get ready and go pick up your daughter so my husband told me some jordan to go right now and pick her up in the ticket shop so much during those 3. psychiatry would do a lot of suffering and depression. saying gone all of it went away when i saw my daughter. israel justifies its land air and sea blockade of gaza by arguing that it prevents

local militant groups from launching attacks the un though has criticized it the israeli body responsible for coordination between the palestinian administration and television stressed to r.t. it assists in delivering health care despite having no responsibility for it physicians for human rights israel and israeli medical n.g.o.s says most children travel without their mothers or fathers according to them more than 7000 permits were issued for minors from gaza last year and fewer than 2000 for parents out of my job who's from the ngo told us more about the situation. there is no specific period to have a decision in inquiries for minutes it can be one month and it can be half a year we had cases where people waited for more than one year to affirm it or to have any kind of decision regarding their inquiry the situation between the kids

and a their parents influenced their psychological and social situation and we know that it also influenced and the process of the treatment itself. the trump administration's peace plan for the middle east has been slammed for even being officially unveiled for allegedly trying to bribe the palestinians into giving up certain political ambitions and offers them $50000000000.00 worth of investment in exchange for key concessions thousands of palestinians have taken to the streets in gaza to protest against a peace plan and insurgents are an american flags and portraits of the u.s. president marked with the words deal of the devil there demanding a complete boycott of the upcoming washington back peace conference in bahrain. explains why powell saying isn't buying into the money to. ease trump not generous not fair and merciful who outs would offer palestinians

such generous conditions such great perks and amazing bonuses that someone else is presumably going to pay for it don't call it the deal of the century for nothing you know and just as with all great deals it's totally secret political side and the economic side are 2 very robust efforts our thought was that it was better to put the economic plan 1st makes sense when you are offered a job anyone would 1st want to do how much you get paid rather than what the job is and this pays great $50000000000.00 in investment though they have no idea where that's going to come from a 1000000 jobs in what's left of palestine unemployment slashed to shreds and still the palestinians are unhappy 1st lift the siege of gaza stop the israeli theft of our land resources and funds give us our freedom of movement and control

over our own borders and space territorial waters etc then watch us build a vibrant prosperous economy as a free and sovereign people the plowden or well the pay will be discussed in bahrain this week and the palestinians are going and neither of these release which isn't great considering that this is the palestinian israeli peace deal we're not going to turn this workshop the economic situation should not be discussed before the political one as long as there is no political solution deal with an economic solution. what the palestinians need to understand is that the again some and good lose in this case you apparently lose most of your country but still make the gas and coast really nice 40 kilometers of pristine beaches millions of tourists with great palestinian coups even oh yeah about losing half

your country part under certain circumstances i think israel has the right to retain some but unlikely on of the west bank i get why people think this is going to be a deal that only the israelis could love i understand the perception of that i hope everyone will just give the space to listen and let it settle in a little bit yeah i forgot to mention draft of a plan have leaked and according to them palestinians will be forced to give up 60 percent of the west bank it will be forbidden for palestinians to have an army and they'll have to pay israel for protection for ever and if they refuse to go along the us will sanction them to kingdom come also they still have no idea who pays for all of this if it's private investors the palestinians will then have to pay them back presumably if so in effect the palestinians have been asked to. told to give up most of their country in exchange for

a loan hill of the century more like deal of the millennium if you go by how absolutely one sided and absurd it apparently is this is. does not show that the us is. a fair. mediator between the palestinians and the israelis basically referred to a mr burleson years are not capable of ruling themselves this vision violates international resolutions and international law. and denies the palestinians their basic rights and in fact makes it almost impossible or next to impossible that means that israel would be allowed to continue to come carol resources the palestinians in the west bank and the stickers on them and that means that it's no longer possible to have

a sovereign viable palestinian state. the race to be britain's next conservative party leader and thereby a prime minister is in full swing but it's going news debate between the 2 remaining candidates could now be canceled reports front runner johnson has pulled out of the former foreign secretary does get the top job his premiership could and he pulls from have huge consequences for scotland artist explains. the moment he's trying to be as diplomatic as possible ever since the campaign began take a listen to what he sounded like his most recent debate in talking to ask about me . determination. and what i want to do for the for the country and let me just tell you that when i make a promise in politics about what i'm going to do i keep that promise and i deliver so really boris on his best behavior but he's had to dodge all sorts of questions

in relation to bragg's it because his own says leave a lot of wiggle room as to that how we departure date from the e.u. and also his private life or raul with his much younger girlfriend has been dominating the headlines here and in the midst of all this there are the results of a very interesting poll carried out by a panel based in scotland using a sample of over a 1000 scots and that's found that overall at the moment in scotland there isn't an appetite for independence there isn't a majority wanting scottish independence it's a narrow margin 49 percent want independence versus 51 percent of scots who want to stay in the u.k. but crucially that fine balance tips toward scots wanting independence if you add one crucial factor it's blown it's got scruffy has its boris johnson if he is prime minister then 53 percent of scots say that they would want

in depend. it's for that country while just 47 percent would be against it and this really strengthens the argument of scotland's 1st minister nicolas sturgeon who says that having boris as prime minister would strengthen the case for independence this was her answering a journalist's question as to whether boris would make a good prime minister no in a word he was a foreign secretary with a risible tanya he didn't display any basic competence seriousness of purpose is not job and i find it actually quite hard to get my head around but knowing everything we know about him the tours are even contemplating putting him into number bush on some really hasn't done himself any favors with scotland really an old opinion column of his when he was a journalist has thrown up some pretty controversial statements this was dating back to 2005 and in relation to gordon brown but take

a listen to what he had to say about scott gordon brown as prime minister would be religious not just because you don't popping into fearing high tax and complicated of life but mainly because he's a scot and government by a scot is just not conceivable in the current constitutional context what this poll really shows is that even if the johnson win is almost inevitable here and it does feel that way scotland is going to be a thorn in the what now seems to be future prime minister's side he's not liked north of the border and judging by this survey if he's in charge the likelihood of another pressure for scottish independence is much higher. still to come brussels is left on impressed by italy's latest idea on how to deal with its debt amid fears well is edging closer to leaving the eurozone story and more in a few moments.

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welcome back italy has raised the stakes in its conflict with the e.u. over the country's debt crisis deputy prime minister matteo salvini has said he will resign if brussels doesn't approve his proposed tax cuts comes after the italian parliament proposed a new way of debt payments so-called mini bots a form of financial bond which brussels apparently sees as a potential threat to the euro. taylor has more. one always feels bad for the e.u. as if the public humiliation of 17000000 brits saying they just didn't like it wasn't enough now it's got another troublesome child on its hands it to me now while it is

the 3rd biggest economy in europe it's also one of the weakest it's plagued by sluggish growth high unemployment and a whole lot of debt and the e.u. is getting a bit and noid that not enough is being done to deal with this debt crisis so it's issued a warning that it will take disciplinary action but the mediterranean countries got other plans and it's come up with a nifty way around it all many bots or bills of treasury that basically smoove you know it's the government would use to pay off people without using real money a bit like a lunch coupon but the financial elites aren't happy they say it's got all the signs of a new currency and marks the 1st step towards an even the euro zone. we are. the people who are. these many roads doesn't seem to be very promising many better ways to actually

deal with the payment of areas. does not require the creation of such instruments vaughn's it's holly and bones could absolutely do the job now the idea of the many bought isn't new similar techniques have been used in argentina greece and california also it's not like it is the only country in the e.u. to have spent for 10 years front also failed to meet its debt reduction targets that brussels held its tongue but then again france doesn't have a populist government manned by no euro skeptics. who food brussels. your rules say you cannot feed your child do you think i would respect brussels rules do you think i would feed my child it is decided to wage a war on the home front to aside from the many pots it's also proposed a draft law that would give the government the power to appoint members to the bank

of italy the e.u. is flustered fearing the board could end up less independent and more anti you and it's likely disappointed over the loss of an ally on the inside the bank reportedly acted on behalf of the european central bank to help oust former prime minister silvio berlusconi. they threaten governments that misbehave with financial destruction they cut off refinancing and threaten to kill the banking system they create a rollover crisis in the bond market this is what happened to italy in 2011 so you can sympathize with the e.u. the current italian government's made no attempt to hide its distain of the block the recent e.u. parliament actually saw populist euro skeptic parties win ground the threats it uses to dissipate and wayward member states are being bypassed and they're not exactly galloping ahead breakfast shown by resident a bit painful alternative you'd forgive the e.u. if it needed a moment to mop it brow we are sure to find some solutions to. go

out from the system to. we want to change this. because the us is a fuck of that is not working in the right direction so we want to fight the flexible way. ready to meet the true west of european countries because we all these groups of us and the just the. banks and so home we are not making. or not making big tourist of the. american veterans who don't respond to normal treatment for depression will be prescribed a cademy like drug the us department of veteran affairs has partially approved a controversial new drug amid rising suicide rates among retired servicemen and

despite lots of questions raised by psychiatrists and pharmacologists it will not be prescribed in certain cases with the correct authorization. the drug goes on in the name us provide oh it's made by pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson and it's intended for use when standard therapies fail it's not cheap though a year supply it would set a patient back more than $30000.00 a year however experts both in and outside of the government fear of the drug safety the possible side effects of the treatment range from hallucinations and dizziness to sedation during several years of trial 6 people who were treated with the drug died 3 of the deaths were suicide however the drugs maker says investigators established those deaths were not linked to the product and it continues to promote it as a breakthrough and medicine spray votto is the 1st new type of medicine for treatment resistant depression in decades we firmly believe that people suffering from treatment resistant depression including our nation's veterans deserve the

opportunity to benefit from this breakthrough medicine better and suicides are a big problem in the us on average 20 former soldiers kill themselves every day but a number of doctors reject the idea the new drug will make any difference the biggest problem at hand is not the drug itself it's the fact that instead of representing a revolution in mental health treatment as it has been touted to do as good to me is not a breakthrough at all spiritual was shown to have a very side benefit for patients in general but not for a man or people over 65 and that's mostly who the v.a. serves spirit is very unlikely to help most veterans using deviate and so it absolutely should not be included on the for military. we talk to the vice president of veterans for peace she believes government should work to improve standards of living for veterans rather than trying to find a new drug. or only kind of kicking the can down the road in terms of future problems it was 1st. prescribe opiates which became addictive been now we're

dealing with an opiate crisis and i can only imagine the kind of mean crisis that will become if doctors turn to prescribe being kind of mean on a routine basis so we are recruiting people into the military having them face on tenable situations and then frankly just trying to find a pill to fix it after the fact which only failed and drawing yet another drug into this situation without really taking a step back and trying to figure out what is at the root cause of the suicide after dominic is a. visitors to a beach on the island little italian island of sicily had been left trapped after sudden wildfires swept through the area and destroyed their vehicles and the local car park no houses had been reported but more than 50 cars were reportedly destroyed in the private car park in the town of noto a local mare has launched

a rescue mission to transfer those visitors now stranded to more safer ground firefighters have been deployed to various districts on emergency control centers been set up to monitor the situation across the region. that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always have to our website or to dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics for business i'm show business i'll see you then.