because. it was. the big u.s. imposes sanctions on iran a supremely in the wake of a drone shooting with a good how washington stance on the country seems to be pulling in different directions. the truck administration's middle east peace plan is rejected by alice died with critics accusing washington of trying to bribe arabs into making concessions to israel. the parents of critically ill palestinian infants taken from gaza to better equipped hospitals in israel say they're being denied access to their children. to. a very warm welcome to you watching r.t.

international with me making arrant great to have you with us some news just in for you now russia could soon regain its seat in the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe the human rights body has just voted to allow the russian delegation to attend the summer session but it's so fun clear what russia's role will be the country was stripped of its voting rights back in 2014 that was after the reunification of crimea with russia and the outbreak of the conflict in eastern ukraine we'll bring you live analysis on this story later this hour. iran's foreign minister java serif has tweeted that america despises diplomacy and wants war that's off the washington introduced major new sanctions on 2 wrong including against the country's supremely leader ayatollah come and say the escalation comes in response to iran's downing of a u.s. military surveillance drone which the islamic republic claims violated it says space. today's action follows a series of aggressive busy behaviors by the iranian regime in recent weeks

including shooting down of us from. the drovers busy i guess everyone saw that one. many other things and many other things aside from the individual drone use of the tank and we know of other things that were done also which were not good and not appropriate if you don't succeed at 1st try try again washington is assuring us all that these new sanctions will be highly effective just like the ones you know all that came before the sanctions have been very effective in cutting all phones 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 and these sanctions have been indeed highly effective at making iranian officials crack jokes that american foreign policy their foreign ministry spokesperson poked fun at the whole idea saying that there was nothing left in iran for the u.s. to sanction anymore but the effectiveness of these new sanctions isn't the only

thing washington might be a bit confused about one minute the u.s. is out for punishment and the next it's not sure if the people they're sanctioning are the ones to blame at all and this was really clear in some of the vice president mike pence his latest statements let's take a listen to a couple of them we expect the president to announce an additional round of sanctions in response to iran's downing of an american unmanned vehicle the president also had doubts as to whether or not the downing of our unmanned aircraft was actually authorized at the highest levels now sanctions certainly are a far cry from the airstrike that apparently stopped just moments before execution a strike which washington estimated may have killed around 150 iranian civilians if it were carried out let's not forget but some like senator bernie sanders think that trump shouldn't get the. it for that was president trying to decision this week to call off that strike the right one. so it's like somebody sitting you know

. who. could pull a paper than putting it out he helped create the crisis that he stop the attacks and there's a little confusion it seems about why the punishing iran even among the u.s. still seems to have spread to europe and some of the u.s. allies always behind america when it comes to sanction iran yeah that's true this confusion and even disagreement between washington and its european allies goes all the way back 220000 when the trumpet ministration pulled out of the iran nuclear deal and renewed sanctions on the islamic republic the signatories included the european union and their officials were very upset about this unilateral withdrawal still secretary of state mike pompei o expects them to fall in line with the so-called global coalition against iran that he mentioned in his recent diplomatic visit to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates meanwhile what is trump saying

about his allies let's take a lesson 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 and 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 you have washington who says that says it's ready for negotiations with iran without preconditions and on the other hand it says that sanctions on the head of iran's foreign ministry will be in full busy force by next week the foreign minister. zarif so our negotiations supposed to take place without preconditions if the foreign minister is already being penalized it's hard to tell but it begs the question of whether there's been some sort of meat miscommunication between trump's war hawks and doves or if this is just part of the political strategy. we heard from coverage sam lowe and attorney and middle east specialist he says why that while the white house seems to lack a sense the white house seems to lack a heron's position on iran it's

a big miss washington these days to be missed not by the law but the one decision that has to be made. busy back from the he was in the security room with. my comp your. john bolton and the director of cia and they didn't even. buy the. they wanted to lunch and they didn't have. one. so we can say that in washington it's the special in the west wing of the white it's that big of the mess but meanwhile the us iran tensions and expectations over a sanctions increase is that has seen you all prices on the way up again this monday and it is a they rose to the highest level seen so far this month u.s. west texas intermediate 57.50 dollars

a barrel brant oil thing has reached 60.74 dollars a barrel prices jumped significantly last week after iran shot down a u.s. drone was so great 35 percent and west texas intermediate up 10 percent. meanwhile they get embarking on his usual 20 different diplomacy donald trump has called on other countries to protect their own ships in the strait of hormuz he claims that his nation's received so much oil through it and get its u.s. forces that have to patrol the area and get compensation. ok let's just live here jack ross mess professor office collect call me now to discuss this further mr rasmussen great to have you with us as some are warning that iran might respond by shutting down the straits of hormuz how would that escalate things do you think. well economically or politically well economically you know we'll have a even faster increase in oil prices but that's all temporary i believe this this thing will be resolved as long as both timber and the meal cons don't control the

policy which is a question you know is trump running the show or are the neocons running the show one day it's one the other day looks like it's the other is a very fluid dangerous situation but you know if it shuts down the flow of oil i think your prices will go up again a little further but the prices will come down because the more fundamental want term though and you've got is you are sure producers are producing 12 and a half 1000000 barrels per day and they will continue to produce even more that's because they are mostly financed by junk bonds and a big amount of those junk bonds are coming up for renewal and rollover make sure they've got to produce even more oil and they will continue producing even more oil so i think in the longer run once this issue is resolved in the middle east here you know the prices will come down how far will you wait and see you know you've

got to understand that part of this and maybe not the you know the major part but part of this whole event is really moves by trying to keep the price of oil up there while the broader forces are driving the price of oil down and the source of always is a key is shipping for it so what it could this have an impact on your opinions it could if europe is a fact has might say be dragged into this standoff. well the u.s. wants europe to buy u.s. oil and u.s. gas i mean that's what the fight is all about to get europe to cancel the pipeline and that your gas pipeline from russia to force the europeans the germans in particular to buy u.s. gas well you know yes you'll foresaid the japanese and you'll 4 and trump will force the japanese force the europeans to buy more a u.s. oil a lot of this is not just politics a lot of this is all about you know the u.s.

maximizing the sale and the profits of multinational corporations that's what the trade war is all about and no oil and gas is just another part of that do you think trans business brain coupled with the fears of oil prices spiking might keep us safe from any real confrontation between washington and tehran. well i mean right now i think a lot of it has to do with whether you have the reckless neo cons driving the policy they want to war with iran they've always wanted a war with iran there are other forces in the united states political economic who are trying to hold hold that back but that's the whole trump administration you see you have the tug of. the more mainstream big corporations that are saying no no it's not in our interest to have a war and then you have the neo cons in the ideologists you have trumps here now and because most of the other traditional was the globalists unless the left the

administration and they're driving for a war for ideological reasons which one plays out here is going to be interesting to see but i don't think trump wants a war with iran going into an election year cycle as most professor office but economy thank you for your time. for. the parents of critically ill palestinian infants who have been taken out of gaza for better treatment in israel of being denied access to their children that's because permits saw far harder to obtain for adults he met the parents of 2 children who died while they were separated. in the in. ringback the lower 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.

were not on 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 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. and wished 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 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 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 jordan to go right now and pick her up just the same so much during those 5 months i had to endure a lot of suffering and depression but thank god all of that went away when i saw my daughter. israel justifies its land and sea blockade of gaza by arguing that it prevents local militant groups from launching attacks the un though has criticized it it's

the israeli body responsible for coordination between the palestinian administration and tel aviv stressed to r.t. it assists in delivering health care despite having no responsibility for as physicians for human rights israel and israeli medical n.g.o.s ses most children travel without their mothers or fathers according to them more than 7000 permits were issued for minors from gaza last year and syria than 2000 for parents god or much at least from the ngo told us more about the situation. there is no specific period to have a decision 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 harry any kind of decision regarding their inquiry this expression between the kids and a their parents informing for their sake logical and socially situation and we nor

their it also influenced their recovery and the process of the treatment itself. the truck administration's peace plan for the middle east has been slums before even being officially unveiled for allegedly trying to bribe the pot. stinson's it giving up certain political ambitions the plan offers benefits a $1000000000.00 worth of investment in exchange concessions thousands of palestinians have taken to the streets in gaza to protest against it demonstrate is burned american flags and portraits of the u.s. president marked with the words deal of the devil artie's my gansey ever. is 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 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 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 arsed 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. fair. mediate 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 control resources the palestinians in the west bank and the stickers on them and that means that it's no longer possible to have a softer and viable palestinian state about with them all off the shelf like. extra

. sometimes old shows were like a honeypot everyone believe that it was all on stable and on the reliability of russia but they thought that everyone 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 it's now it's the opposite they have businesses outside of russia was snatched less is frozen the whole blog the student whine about. my objection to breaks it is not that i like 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 there as a certifiably insane. join me

every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. come back to our top story now russia could soon regain its place in the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe the human rights body has just voted to allow the russian delegation to attend the summer session but some member states could seek to challenge the resolutions so it's so far unclear what russia's role will be the country was stripped of its voting rights back in 2014 after the reunification of crimea with russia and the outbreak of the conflict in eastern ukraine we're now joined by his man moran director of the pangea y. group to discuss this further welcome to the program great to have you with us at how significant a step is this for russia and its relations with europe. i think this is more

significant for the council of europe science ready many people as you mentioned are very much against this motion to toss but yet we still see this happening which i think was the question europe's role and maintaining human rights and also balancing that with it's going to seize all of the interests of the time russia thought of it because obviously the claim is they busy stop funding this upsetting and come for their $0.02 into it into their buy into their obligations the budgets of the irresponsible and now hopefully this will be regained in the point of view but you mentioned that all it would consist of the busy right. you have the head of the russian delegation says some member states could seek to block russia's foreign statements do you think that's likely. well we have to really see about that because the process that needs to be done has to be followed by having made a big step supposedly from this listening more more more more to say it

is a bizarre thing to keep in my way living for you believe it has less support because you're flexible the european commission is with these sorts of decisions we have to see if there is issues as operator of rights as so. much of him as could be a step tailored towards overcoming the long running dispute have the crimea and the conflict in eastern ukraine that's a that's a very difficult question out of if you are not time to answer here but i think you need to understand how limiting. states are where beings like crimea happen sanctions of terms of in terms of putting financial sanctions other countries for the strongest thing they can do. because if you're stronger is already rid of them you're a thing else available ready and so it's sort of conflict which already wants to be part of so this move by the european commission to all of them to stop them and i restate them is the best i won't cost you all over the issue really doing such and

such time so ready we need to understand this but we also 1st of all that exhibit going to be perfect it's always going to be executed but there's not much you can do that so it's a matter of pangea like replacement moratti thank you for your time. here. there is to be a person's next conservative party to and that by prime minister eyes in full swing at sky news debates between the 2 remaining candidates have been cancelled after frontrunner boris johnson fell to reply to van fights the former foreign secretary doesn't get to the top job and new poll has found his premiership could have huge consequences for scotland on his collar boycott explains. 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 halloween 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 base 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 it's 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 no 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 actually quite hard to get my head around but knowing everything we know about him detours or even contemplating putting him into number 10 boris johnson 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 absolute rageous not just because you don't popping into fearing high tax and complicates 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 a 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 for 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 hunted find i think is unreliable i think a slippery. i think you can trust him with being in charge of the nation at all i think it's a frightening prospect i feel like there's a lot of people that would do much better jobs and he words don't like him don't trust him he's a liar. or do get in touch and share your thoughts on our stories by following us on social media and join as a go top of the hour for the latest. it's

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ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime merry go round. to ignore middle of the room sick. hello and welcome the cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle with 10 minutes to spare trump pulled back from attacking iran reception of this new.