you mean. threaten them with a. moves to attack. their approval. also coming up on the program fresh fears in germany over the possibility of fighters returning home as the government admits it has lost track of around 160 extremist militants who travel to syria iran. university intends to offer academic positions within its programs exclusively to women sparking debate also the discrimination. inequality if you like reciprocating process such doubt any higher group of people just to give something

to another group of people. coming from moscow every hour of the day you're watching r t international my name's union o'neil our top story and perhaps his most threatening twitter i burst it the u.s. president warned he would. if a tax anything american quote the threat followed around saying the white house will suffering from a mental disorder over u.s. plans to extend sanctions on the country this is mr. but message did you want to send him your tweet this new message you know i'll tell you of the messages when they're ready to have to let us know. when they're ready they'll let us know very simple to negotiate me let me do whatever doesn't make any difference whatever they

want to do i'm already have an exit strategy for iran if war does break it. either going to need an exit strategy or i don't need thanks in strategists. well some u.s. lawmakers have reacted strongly to the idea of war representatives from both parties voted to repeal the 911 era law a military strike against iran without the approval of congress. this amendment affirms what president knows and believes unfocussed unconstitutional and ending wars in the middle east make america weaker not stronger congress must result to ensure that any military action is carried out constitutionally and last week we watched president come within minutes of striking iran and evolving the united states in yet another trillion dollar war in the middle east present from complaint ending costly wars overseas but given the advisors he chose and his recent risky actions he's not living up to that promise now we have members of congress coming

forward one democrat and one republican putting forward an amendment to the national defense authorization act that would not allow for any funding of a u.s. military attack on iran without the approval of congress the bill would prevent the president of united states from taking action against iran unless there was statutory or congressional authorization for him to do so this bill has some pretty widespread support now us president trump was recently interviewed by the hill and in that interview he stated that he did not believe he needed congressional approval in order to take measures and strike against iran this is what trump said in the interview do you believe right now that you have the authority to strike iran without congress i do i do believe that i like the idea of keeping congress abreast but i wouldn't have to do that this has been a longstanding disagreement if you look at recent u.s. history many military actions by the united states in places such as vietnam or

libya have been taken without congressional approval been carried out simply on orders of the president now it's interesting to note that there has been voices criticizing trump for the input. a new war against iran one voice was that of mowbray cooksey is a republican member of congress from alabama and he said that in washington d.c. there seem to be some forces that are pushing for new wars without thinking about the consequences for the military military families and others who are affected by the decisions this is mobile rocks there are a variety of political influences in washington d.c. that love it when we flex american military muscle and they don't seem to care one twit about our men and women in uniform who are risking their lives and sometimes giving their lives well it is interesting to note that recently the united states did come apparently 10 minutes away from a strike against iran apparently there were 3 locations in iran that were to be hit

by a u.s. military strike however trump called off the strike 10 minutes prior to it taking place now that was in response to iran shooting down a u.s. drone now this drone that iran shot down iran says it was in their territorial waters they were defending the territorial integrity of their country however the united states maintains this drone was in international waters and that it was an unprovoked attack all eyes are now on washington d.c. as many voices around the world are deeply concerned about the danger of conflict between the united states and iran killam up in their will donald trump has also claimed that the real reason the iranian people are suffering is because their government spends all of its money on her and the white house continues to insist it's not seeking regime change in iran there is one group it would perhaps like to see take power there. sometimes i get the impression

that trump knows what the iranian people want better than the uranian people he his government congress talk so much about how the iranian people want the said that this is good for them and matts bad for them it's almost like they knew each other obviously the people of iran are great people you know i know many of them i live in new york have been there very much less 2 half years but i know many arabians living in new york and they're fantastic people personally i have my doubts about the iranians trump knows being representative of the entire nation but whatever there is one group of the rains that the white house and friends knew very well could even say that pounds were jad dean hutton or the people of iran will make for sure they've been busy bees lately last friday they got together

in washington protested powerlessly calling for regime change and the removal of iran's supreme leader. we've always been saying no war no appeasement but change by the iranians and they've shown that in uprisings that it's what the across iran where they chant just like you hear in the background we want regime change in iran and that's that never mind what moves the rain ians the ones actually in iran think on the matter but i digress american politicians love these guys mek they were almost called them you stand for free or iran where you stand for democracy you stand for human rights keep up your fight. those who love and cherish freedom in our country and throughout the world stand with you stand. you're

on the right side of history right in fact the united states has big plans for these mujahedeen great expectations they have destined to rule the declared policy of the united states of america should be the overthrow of the mullahs regime in tehran and that's why the 429 t. we hear celebrate in tehran thank you for. now that introductions are over let me tell you about them or just dean of iran it hasn't been 10 years since they were removed from america's terror lists still in plenty of others make killed anyone who didn't like shootings assassinations bombings targeting police iranian officials civilians just for supporting the government americans both in iran and in america and yet since they renounced violence they would taken off these

blacklists the department does not overlook or forget the mujahedeen had exposed to acts of terrorism including its involvement in the killing of us citizens in the run in $2970.00 s. and an attack on the us soil in 1902 the department also has serious concerns about the mujahedeen hynix as an organization particularly with regard to the geishas of abuse committed against its own members oh yeah they don't just target others they target each other to the best traditions of every crazy cult human rights watch says abuses carried out against dissident members range from beatings and imprisonment to torture and threats of execution coding to h r w one guy tried to need them with dean would you believe it for this. humus crime he was kept in solitary confinement for 8 years scientologists you've got nothing on these

guys aside from maybe influence the recently released documents makers who organize dozens of meetings with us politicians interviews features articles with big media begs the question of course where do they get the money to rain ians on donating make has almost no support in iran the answer is well they do the odd job according to this alleged conversation between mack members released by iran. did our best to blame the iranian regime for the oil tanker blasts the saudis have called maryam rajavi office to follow up on the results to get a conclusion of what has been done and the possible consequences look at it this way whoever's financing them isn't doing it because they're nice they aren't you know the saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend even if he's a murderous crazy cultist apparently unfortunately united states seems to be very

fond of using terrorists i mean they meet to using terrorist this is a very very dangerous group not because it has any hope of ever being in iran and ruling there but they are very dangerous because they're a cult they are just they do not understand it 1st in human rights and they're terrorists there's no way they can replace any government in iran and that i can i would bet on it it's not going to happen i don't think american plans but then america would like to tell them. so that they would continue their activities not because they have been able to we know with the iranians to their side. but this move to another headline stories the german government say's it's lost track of iran 160 years long make state supporters who travel to syria under rock to join the ranks of the terror group the admission from the interior ministry

which came in response to a freedom of information request has led to fears that some surviving fighters may try to return to germany with the story here is peter all over. the best estimate suggests at least a 1000 people left germany to go enjoy an isis and following a question from a member of the bundestag to the interior ministry it's been revealed that in 160 cases those identified as extremists have disappeared without a trace occasionally such individuals could have succeeded in escaping and all disappearing in an attempt to alleviate fears of isis terrorists living among german society the federal government has said that they are convinced that it would be extremely unlikely that anyone who had traveled to join isis would be able to come back to germany and live or noticed however the m.p.

that 1st raised concerns says she's not convinced considering the jurist the fragmented protection of the ease external borders it is particularly worrying the federal government has a patent taken no further measures to prevent the uncontrolled reentry of isis militants 2 thirds of those who have left the country have german citizenship this presents another issue what to do with those who want to return to germany well in the case of isis supporter. he was currently being held in a kurdish jail his lawyers are suing the german government they say has a responsibility to bring him home from our point of view the federal government is constitutionally obliged to bring fabien back to germany it has not fulfilled this obligation for political reasons the lawyers maintain that there is a german constitutional obligation for the government to protect the fundamental rights of their citizens even when they are held in foreign nations and his younger brother who's location is unknown traveled from the central german city of castle

to syria to join isis in 2014 their father says he was a should be and would be released if berlin requested it however he believes the germans turning a blind eye to. situation the german government would prefer it if my children on the other islamist would just disappear forever here's the thing it isn't that easy for the german government to intervene even if they wanted to and there is no indication that they really do germany currently has no diplomatic relations with syria and the federal government doesn't recognize the kurdish y p g group who is holding. hard in the case of the at least 160 people who travelled from germany to join isis and remain unaccounted for or berlin doesn't know whether they are alive or dead whether they remain in the middle east or whether they've come back here and if they've come back here whether they pose any potential threat to society the german government and the security of the secret service

intelligence services seem to know exactly how many people left germany to go to syria and to iraq and to fight with one of those armed groups and suddenly they say now we lost track of them germany seems to have been sleeping officially they didn't say a lot about this and certainly they have no real policy about this this is nothing that's happening now and the discussion is being put forward through the media are through the facts on the ground they will be forced to do one thing or the other eventually and our society is not really aware and cannot really imagine what these people are might be up to we need a public discussion about this without stigmatizing without being a racist or big but the german society and the politicians have to be more realistic about the threats. to let's move on now to the netherlands where a top dutch engineering university house triggered

a massive debate over workplace discrimination after planning an academic recruitment policy exclusively for women men will only be offered a job if no suitable female candidates come. the fund to attract female employees a fellowship at eindhoven university of technology will boost research funds by some 100000 euro to spend on research and mentoring the institution hopes to fill a run 150 positions over the next 5 years in an attempt to correct what i know phone calls a gender imbalance. we attach great importance to equal respect and opportunities for women and men we are aware that we are suffering from an implicit gender bias we are now using the fact that plans to expand our academic stuff considerably in the coming is can be used as a means to make a big step forward in one fell swoop we discussed the move with our guests media commentator gina ludden and political activist kate smith with. inequality it's

a self reciprocating process inequality inequality breeds inequality because if young women don't see women in positions of power doing the jobs that they might want to do it slows their progress through without women at the top it's harder for women to break through so they're just taking this opportunity when it comes to discriminating specifically against men that's one problem i have with this but secondly and i think perhaps even even more more imperative is the fact that from this point on if a woman has a high powered job at that particular institution everyone's going to know that she had special advantages to get there honestly right now when i see men in positions of power i think most of them are only there because the system is totally set up to favor men i don't look around even you know the government big companies working but around the world when i see their board of directors and it's white guys white

guys white guys white guys i don't think i but those are the 10 guys best qualified to run this company as a woman in a male dominated field who has managed to do ok despite discrimination that i've definitely incurred as many women have i would still rather i would still rather fight and win then have a participation trophy which is what this is tantamount to yeah you know you've got you've done great but maybe you deserve to do brilliantly maybe you deserve an even better job than the one you've got maybe you deserve a better salary than the one you've got i think when i look around there are also women i know who have overcome obstacles but i don't feel like you know they've overcome obstacles but have they really reached their full full potential no you would have gone much further if you hadn't had to spend so much time and energy overcoming these obstacles but but i don't think that we do any groups anything in playing identity politics especially where we're shutting down an entire group of people just to give something to another group of people i think it sends a message that those people somehow weren't competent or nothing couldn't earn it.

i think that's very dangerous for women i think it's very dangerous if you're talking about you know hiring a doctor for a hospital i don't want to go to hospital and and look around and not be a doctor but this is an academic institution and much as i love reading scientific research papers i've never woken up in the morning i must have 600 milligrams of scientific research paper or i'm going to die this is not the kind of job which cannot possibly be left open for 6 months in fact it's very very common that these kind of academic positions are left open for a lot much longer than that but k k what if what if the research they're doing is for example on cancer or something and it's it's now postponed for 6 months how many people are going to die because that research didn't get out there in time because we were all obsessed with making sure once special group was equally represented i say let the best people in that hold on a minute and at least have the positions and i believe that women will be equally represented in that group because i think women are perfectly competent to get there we know when it comes to academic research that it's really really important

to have a wide base of people doing that research and there are lots of instances actually in the past where we've seen research being done by all male groups and when we look at the research when it's published we realize that it's not as widely a political as it could be because it's failed to take into account female viewpoints and female experiences so you know how many lives are being lost because research into all sorts of aspects of human life is being undertaken. to some significant news coming from porous front so struck a deal to hand over data relating to hate speech possible terrorist activity from the online platform discussing the agreement and what it actually all means or to use policy or. facebook has agreed to give up dr to the french authorities in cases where it will help identify those uses on its platform that are engaging in hate speech this is the 1st time that the media giant has if we to hand over identifying information regarding its uses that are not related to violence or terrorism cases

now france's digital affair is the minister has applauded the news this is huge news it means that the judicial process will be able to run normally it's really very important they're only doing it for france now it follows a number of meetings that were held earlier in the month between the french president emmanuel necron and the founder of facebook mark zuckerberg and also meetings between facebook's global affairs head and french ministers however a spokesperson for facebook says that this does not mean that the french authorities are being given carte blanche and that the media giants will scrutinize each and every request from the french authorities for the basic information in criminal hate speech cases he also says that in those situations where they feel that the authorities request is too broad or inconsistent with human rights or in some way is to be can be and is found they will push back at the moment facebook uses artificial intelligence to identify hate speech and it defines hate speech as

a direct attack on a person based on their ethnicity their national our region their sexual orientation they jammed they religious affiliation and they race. well there's another tech giant in the firing line critics are accusing uppal of helping to spread rather cool forms of islam after the company refused to remove an uplift haitian called guru busy software from its store in the us this point numerous calls for it to be taken down including from germany's domestic intelligence agency the up which purports to offer guidance on islamic law stresses that the sure. korea takes precedence over european law controversy it has also published anti-semitic quotes before deleting them that's in addition to teachings which have been labeled sexist. to say about its decision to continue offering that up on its store. guidelines require that i don't complain upsets him or offensive

content we reviewed the up and did not find a violation of our guidelines so the man behind the use of we also cut a controversial figure he's the founder of the european council for fatwa research he's previously praised suicide bombings against israelis calling them the highest form of jihad. is also believed to be a leading figure in the muslim brotherhood a social and political movement that's considered by some countries to be a terrorist organization he's been barred from entering britain france the united states. do you care will not tolerate to presence of those who seek to justify acts of terrorist violence or disburse fuse that could foster into community violence i indicated to move good to him so that this person was not welcome on the to retrieve the french republic he will not come well a former head of the u.k.

counterterrorism security office told us they fuck up could have a negative impact on integration in europe. apple certainly in my experience asked a lot of questions when they're setting up typically where it's around this kind of subject the job that they use if that's not understood by those app developers those people that are actually also realizing this to go online and of course there's all sorts of dangers and now you know you could have terrorists actually passing information by the composite drawing or would let it through i don't think this sort of stuff actually aids integration it does really. differential between muslims and the rest of society so they have their own means and their own legislation as they would say the sharia law which should not be part of the laws of our country the european countries and any other computers that muslims choose

to live in that the law of land is the same for everyone. now within the next 15 years or so could a trip to space cost less than a round the world trip today that's among the discussions next thing going on. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. parts of jared questioners deal of the century have been made public and the reception has not been good focusing on aid and infrastructure the deal is silent on the most contentious political issues and for all intents and purposes the long proposed 2 state solution appears to be dead is the deal of the century dead on

arrival. one. time after time here we're going underground as president donald trump tries to kick off a palestine peace process in bahrain with his son in law. and alleged

a british war criminal tony blair accused of catalyzing a mideast war that killed wounded or displaced tens of millions and is trump threatens iran with obliteration coming up to show the end of u.s. a germany we speak to a former top i.m.f. official about the prospects for fundamental geopolitical power transformer nation for this weekend's japanese g. 20 summit and shooting for the stars we speak to britain's astronomer royal about armageddon and ways to avoid it from space travel to a post human existence all of them all coming up in today's going underground a 1st war ministers from nato converge and brussels today and tomorrow to discuss future conflict representing the usa will be acting secretary of defense mark s. a former top corporate lobbyist for a company alleged in this c.n.n. reporters being involved in civilian murder using images collected by award winning yemeni activist groups and independently verified by c.n.n.

as having been american made c.n.n. has been able to identify at least 11 separate. of coalition strikes on civilian areas using us made us lucky during the bus attack but also. yes raytheon is involved in the world's worst humanitarian crisis one in which britain still supplies weapons that threaten tens of millions despite last week's court order and now amid calls from u.s. politicians to halt the sale of arms sales to saudi arabia trump has put a former vice president in charge of the largest employer in the world the pentagon i have as i have concerns about the vetting process i will tell you judy my more significant concern as a member of the armed services committee is this tendency to be very cavalier about well we don't need to send you a nominee let's just have acting secretaries that suggests to me that the white house likes to run. the defense operation politically out of the white house john

bolton and others not according to president trump who appears to see advantages in unvetted acting members of his team so active if you're by greater flexibility a lot easier to do so that's the way it is too bad but what things war with iran there of the japanese g. 20 perhaps nato will today have one eye on japanese prime minister shinzo a bit he was with iran's president rouhani the time of the tanker attack in the straits of hormuz while the u.k. broadcasters ruggedly north as news of japan's ties with iran it made news around the world for instance in this clip from singapore japan is finding itself in a unique position as a strong u.s. ally and a friend of iran mr mediterranean the president hassan rouhani when he would arrive yesterday since that meeting trump was all but declared a full scale military attack on iran after claiming he stopped short of the monitor of 150 arrangements he declared further economic warfare not only on the iranian

people of sanctions but on iran's head of state to the response from jeff ron is making headlines. in the usa iran is the lashing out at the u.s. over a new financial pressure saying there will be no diplomatic end to the standoff this morning a rani and president hassan rouhani called new u.s. sanctions outrageous and idiotic his words now a spokesman for iran's foreign ministry said the measures equal a permanent closure for diplomacy so that if and no more diplomacy and then just ahead of friday's g 20 summit trump tweets about terminating u.s. so-called protection of world oil supplies traversing the persian gulf there was of clearly done so much to protect the middle east so after the tweet drops in iran point pops up on business channel c m b c to give just as to crude futures markets about who pays for maritime security.