well you know. the. u.s. is imposing new sanctions directly against iran supremely leader in the wake of the drone shooting look at how washington stance on the country seems to be pulling in different directions. the trump of ministrations middle east peace plan is rejected by palestine critics accusing washington of trying to bribe arabs into making political concessions to israel. more critically ill palestinian infants taken from gaza to better equipped hospitals in israel being denied access to the children with exit permits much harder to obtain for adults.

thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. iran's foreign minister javad zarif tweeted that america despises the plug and wants war after washington introduced major new sanctions on tehran including against the country's supreme leader the ayatollah. escalation comes in response to iran's downing of a u.s. military surveillance drone which the islamic republic claims violated its airspace . today's action follows a series of aggressive behaviors by the iranian regime in recent weeks including shooting down of u.s. . drone as i guess everyone saw that one and many other things and many other things aside from the individual drone you saw the tankers and we know of other things that were done also which were not good. these don't go to do is we . speaking usually vaguely and in circles but you got to the point which is more

sanctions we've had so many of them already was different about these latest ones well neal you know what they say if you 1st don't mix don't succeed try try again washington's assuring everyone that these new sanctions are going to be highly effective just like the ones that came before sanctions have been very effective in cutting off funds go into the or just see in other people and you know i can only presume i'm not going to presume why they're doing things but these are highly highly effective on locking up the iranian economy with sanctions certainly have been effective at making iranian officials crack jokes at american foreign policy their foreign ministry spokesperson was poking fun at the whole idea yesterday saying that there was nothing left for the u.s. to sanction within iran but the effectiveness of new sanctions isn't the only thing washington might be a little confused about one minute the u.s. is out for punishment and the next they are not sure if if the people there

sanctioning are actually the ones to blame their confusion is clear in some of vice president mike pence his recent statements let's take a listen to expect the president to announce an additional round of sanctions in response to iran's downing of an american unmanned vehicle but we are not convinced that it was at the highest levels. now sanctions are a far cry from the air strike the trump apparently stops last minute strike which washington estimated could have killed around $150.00 iranian civilians if it were carried out let's not forget but some like senator bernie sanders say we shouldn't give trump all the credit for that was president trying to decision this week to call off that strike the right one. so it's like somebody sitting. to a basket full of paper and putting it out he helped create the crisis and then he

stopped the attacks i'm so confused listening to all those habits i'm not sure they really know what they sanctioning iran for tubs and i think this same confusion detectable among america's european allies are not always behind them when it comes to iran and perhaps this yeah that's true actually this confusion in disagreement has stemmed all the way back to 2018 when the u.s. pulled out of the nuclear the iranian nuclear deal and put new sanctions on iran. and the signatories included the european union whose officials were very upset at this unilateral withdrawal and still secretary of state mike pompei expects them to fall in line with what he called a global coalition against iran that he mentioned during his diplomatic visits to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates meanwhile what is trump saying about his allies let's take a listen i don't care about the europeans europeans are going out and making

a lot of money the europeans are fine but they're going out in making a lot of money. now if the formation of a global coalition seemed unlikely after those statements talks between the u.s. and iran are even more of a pipe dream on the one hand washington says it's looking for negotiations with iran without preconditions and on the other hand it's sanctions the sanctions sanctions on the head of the iranian foreign ministry. will be applied in full force next week so how negotiations without preconditions are supposed to happen when iran's foreign minister is already being penalized it's hard to tell but my colleague don of goes into the details of these contradictions this contradictory stance of the u.s. towards iran in his report was let's take a look at that. 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 turn 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 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's side saying that the president didn't just chicken out neither iran nor any other hostile actor should mistake us. and discretion for weakness our military is rebuilt new and ready to go if if he you know started out with the

wrong decision to head 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. 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 yet 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 what do 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's taken 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 talks where it is i want to one talk to any ayatollah or you're 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. meanwhile the u.s. around tensions and expectations of a sanctions increase soon or prices on the way up again this monday earlier today they rose to the highest level seen so far this month u.s. west texas intermediate at 50 $750.00 a barrel while brant oil futures reach $6404.00 a barrel prices jumped significantly last week after a run shut down that u.s. drone saw brant surge by 5 percent and west texas intermediate up 10 percent. meanwhile again embarking on his usual twitter diplomacy on trump was called on other countries to protect their own ships in the strait of hormuz he claimed those nations received so much oil through it and yet it's u.s. forces that have to patrol the area and yet to get no compensation. ok explain to us because a political and economic analysts are getting. some people are warning iran might

respond by shutting down completely the strait of hormuz if that was to happen what impact would it have on other countries in particular european nations. well look from a purely economic angle of course it will have a huge impact. many commentators in our little analysts say that anything between 25 to 40 percent of global oil passes through this 29 kilometer stretch of water between. oman and iran. very very important piece of water which would have an have a huge impact on the global economy we really haven't come out of the crises that we had the financial crisis over 10 years ago both europe and america have had very low interest rate really to support their economies so that it doesn't go

haywire but as soon as the oil prices shoot up it will have a significant impact and there are some sort of economists who are saying that if there is a full blown crises in the gulf region prices go could go up $250.00 even $300.00 now if that happens one can imagine what the impact is likely to be on the global market the stock market will come crashing down all kinds of other challenges will be phased by the global economy and certainly europe is in no position to sustain that kind of increase or hike in the oil price overall i think just a purely economic and financial situation would be catastrophe for japan for india for europe and many other countries if this situation is

taken to its full blown conclusion as the hawks in washington wanted to be. so is around threatening to close off the strait is part of the ploy to play this game with oil prices is washington doing the same thing because critics say that the u.s. policies towards iran are also impacting or prices would you agree with them. but look at the end of the day it's all price is geopolitical situation it's really a standoff between tehran and washington the other players are just minor actors if you like the european union japan even china and russia really effectively have no control over what was going on but the reality is that perhaps even the hawks are realizing that if you know their trigger happy attitude is taken to its full conclusion it will have

a dramatic impact on the global economy and that i think is probably the restraint that permitted mr trump to say that he stopped the attack on iran. at the 11th hour but you know this is really when mr trump says that he didn't want to get $150.00 irradiance kid but really who is the fooling america goes and bombs iraq bombs syria bombs one stand you know all over the place and people are killed in thousands and really no american president says anything about it and all of a sudden he's saying that you know he didn't want to kill i mean this is just hypocrisy and crocodile tears on part of from i think what is perhaps even bigger. sort of issue behind it is that mr trump is in his sort of cycle of 2nd

election to become president of a united states reelected. and really he's looking at that situation more closely that if war it does take place then his chances of getting reelected are diminished enormously xabi appreciate your thoughts my guest political economic analyst. the parents of critically ill palestinian infants who been taken out of gaza for better treatment in israel are being denied access to their children because permits are far harder to obtain for adults a party met with the parents of 2 children who died while they were separated ringback. the boy and his small 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 office 5 days. to get close to him and they said my surgery went fine and the stitches would be removed in gaza i told them i'd least 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. one day i felt so bad i was exhausted and the same night i heard that one girl had died her name was malott she died one week after i went home.

but there are sort of 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 card nation office and told me you have 10 minutes to get ready and go pick up your daughter so my husband told me some support and to go right now and pick her up. so much during those 5 months i had to endure a lot of suffering and depression but i think gone all of that went away when i saw my daughter. israel justifies this land and sea blockade of gaza by arguing it prevents local

militant groups launching attacks the un though this criticize that. israeli body responsible for coordination between the palestinian administration and television stressed is assists in delivering health care despite having no responsibility for its physicians for human rights israel and israeli medical and geo so most children travel without mothers or fathers according to the more than 7000 permits were issued for minors from gaza last year through the 2001 issued for parents. who is from the than go told us more about the situation. there is no specific period. in inquiries for permits it can be one moment in 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 separation between the kids

and their parents influenced their psychological and social situation and we know they're also influenced their recovery and the process of the treatment itself. the temple ministrations peace plan for the middle east has been slammed before even being officially unveiled for allegedly trying to bribe palestinians into giving up certain political ambitions it offers them $50000000000.00 with investment that they think change for key concessions the palestinians are taking to the streets in gaza to protest against the peace plan a mistake has burned american flags and portraits of the u.s. president marked with the words deal of the devil demanding a complete boycott of the upcoming washington backed peace conference in bahrain described as give explains why palestine isn't buying into the money talks. is trump not generous it's 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 know 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 aren't 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 get lose in this case you apparently lose most of your country but they'll make the gas and post 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 a 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. 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. you know yes the palestinians their basic rights and impact makes it almost impossible or next on possible means that israel would be allowed to continue to control resources. syrians in the west bank in east jerusalem and that means that it's no longer

possible to. solve group viable ready palestinian state. the race to be britain's next conservative party leader and therefore prime minister is in full swing but a sky news debate between the 2 remaining candidates has been cancelled after front runner boris johnson failed to reply to the invite and if the former foreign secretary does get the top job a new poll has found his premiership could have huge consequences for scotland auntie's polly boykin explains. 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 hallowe'en 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 towards 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 independence for their 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 know and want he was a foreign secretary with a reasonable time he didn't display any basic competence seriousness of purpose and not jump and i find it actually quite hard to get my head around but knowing everything we know about him through tours or even contemplating putting him into number bar shots and 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 go. 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 person the scottish independence is much higher how do you for him the idea that boris johnson might become. completely revolting boris johnson it's more like a more visible evil i've only tell you find i think isn't reliable i think is slippery. i think it's interesting with being in charge of the nation have taught i think is a frightening prospect i feel like there's a lot of people that would do much better job than he words don't like him don't trust him he's a liar he's been in. italy has raised the stakes in this conflict with the you over the country's debt crisis deputy prime minister matter salvini has said that he will resign if brussels doesn't approve his proposed tax cuts comes after the parliament proposed

a new way of pavement so-called mini bots for financial bonds that brussels apparently sees as a potential threat to the euro. explodes. one always feels bad for the e.u. as if the public humiliation of $17000000.00 brits saying they just didn't like it wasn't enough now it's got another troublesome child on its hands it's only 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 annoyed 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 leaving the euro zone. all the. girls are. here. the people who. doesn't seem to be very positive many better ways to actually deal with the payment of areas. does not require the creation of such instruments vons you know 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 tongue but then again france doesn't have a populist government manned by no euro skeptics. the song asks me to 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 that reportedly acted on behalf of the european central bank to help oust former prime minister silvio berlusconi. 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 governments make no attempt to hide it's the state of the block

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