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to another group of. 7 am in 7 pm. right here in moscow this wednesday june the 26 welcome. in perhaps his most threatening twitter i burst yet the u.s. president has warned he would obey the letter rates around if tehran attacks quote

anything american the threat followed around saying the white house was suffering from a mental disorder over u.s. plans to extend sanctions on the country this is mr trump's few. but measure did you want to send your tweet message you know ok with the messages when they're ready to have to let us know. when they're ready to let us know for something to go to. 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 you. either get it in the exit strategy. i don't need thanks in stratagems well some u.s. lawmakers have reacted strongly to the idea of war representatives from both parties voted to repeal a 911 era law thought was a 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 we can not stronger congress mr zoellick to ensure that any military action is carried out constitutionally and last week we watched president show come within minutes of striking iran and evolving the united states in yet another trillion dollar war in the middle east present from complained ending costly wars see 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 potential of 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 mo brooks. 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. and happy we can go live now to franco frattini 2 time italian foreign minister and currently the president of the italian society for international organizations you're very welcome to the program sir the iranian president described the white house as being afflicted by mental retardation donald trump is threatening to obey literates iran with such language is this likely to boil over into more than just words do you think. well i think the language belongs to destructive and to a deterrent to these is a difficult moment no doubts between iran and united states but i think the reason the region needs not mainly from what is in the iranian new deal. is risk of iran can do.

in the era richmond of ukrainian but originates equally from walkies and not in the iranian nuclear the dead is the i would say the expansion of the regional power of iran over the region with dick connected concerns coming from close allies of trial like sold. and israel sold out many reasons that go beyond the rio check can be called race of overcoming the problem of stopping at reach ment of your rate these is the more complex number of reasons that behind this very difficult cries is the reality of being true today can i put out another aspect to this donald trump he really does appear to have shunned european concerns to what

extent does washington actually need its partners in europe to help solve this crisis if at all. well in my opinion the united states needs europe because europe has a long standing tradition all lead to go i would say presence in the broader middle east including in many terry in your area and i think the presence of european union and european member states how been seen always in a better way then america exporting democracy invading iraq and so on and so for so. europe represents a net good value for the united states if they want to solve the crises i am not so

sure that these prizes can be solved all where i would say. factually iran of a 1st trying this is not walking at all the european union the been progressive in one way they've launched a mechanism to bypass u.s. sanctions against iran the same in instax how successful has not been and do you think there's going to be repercussions because the e.u. has done not further down the line by washington. well i said when european union came up with this mechanism to abate pass it was a mistake why because if you choose a mechanism too bad past it means that you couldn't agree with the best option the best option is a political negotiation if you have to result on

a 2nd best option which is how to bad past that means unfortunately europe phased on its role of political ally pressing the united states pursue a ding president trump because a europe unfortunately is going through some changes to a new election. and europe is divided i'm not so sure that germany to be online and have to same opinion that u.k. and france so all those reasons led to where rome guinea should do like it tried to ban bats this led to a reaction from united states imposing counter sanctions to doze european companies making business with iran saw with sanctions and counter sanction we

cannot leave i'm sure you've been in similar rooms where discussions are taking place what can the actually do to act as a peace broker between the u.s. and iran how do you see them playing a role here. well unfortunately very sadly i can say europe has been losing is important political leverage to play as a political actor as i said before european commission is outgoing european commission is very weak members days are divided while addressing the issue of iran's top in more general tour the european tradition all soft power helping the united states is being downgraded in the last time if america and this is a question i'm sure a lot of people are wondering right now if america declares war on iran how does

europe react is it going to be forced to support the u.s. . well it enormous possible ways i am sure europe and european member states will be trying to prevent get to happen because a dead would be a nightmare scenario european union for sure doesn't want to tall to see again the war will do its border so i'm sure undies i'm sure europe and member states will be putting a lot of pressure on america and at the end i think america cannot do it having against their whole of european union and i would at need joe would be strongly against indicate

a strike against iran so my impression finally the president of united states at the end will do what he has done days ago when he stopped maynard's their way from the strike against iran well thank you very much for your time and your thoughts this hour we've been speaking to former italian foreign minister and currently president of the italian society for international organizations thank you. moving on to more world news this hour the german government say's it's lost track of iran $160.00 islamic state supporters who travel to syria and iraq to join the ranks of the target the admission from the interior ministry which came in response to a freedom of information request has led to fears that some surviving fighters man are try to return to germany bitter over as across the story. the best estimate suggests at least a 1000 people left germany to go and joy and 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 surest fragmented protection of the ease external borders it is particularly worrying that the federal government has a pattern 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's 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 whose 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 the. you ation 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. busy 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 shy it 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 us this is why nothing is happening now and that discussion is being put forward through the media or 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 they were going to crack on more stories in 90 seconds including a university in the netherlands offering talented academics a career changing opportunity but only to some.

parts 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. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go to the press this is what before 3 of the more people. interested in the waters in the. first. joined me everything.

simon chill when i was speaking to. politics. i'm sure. i'll see you have. a look at the u.k. government has suspended exports of crowd control equipment like tear gas rubber bullets to hong kong the decisions being taken in response to the violence suppression of this month's protests in the chinese city states which saw millions demonstrating against a proposed extradition law for more on this let's cross to charlotte. tell us more about the decision. well yes weeks of protests in hong kong against that decision which has been suspended over the extradition law that was due to be introduced in hong kong now as a result of that we saw tear gas being deployed against the crowds and also rubber

bullets and there were many accusations of police brutality now as a result of that the foreign secretary jeremy hunt here in the u.k. has decided that they're going to suspend all exports of those type of products to hong kong citing concerns about possible human rights violations let's take a listen to what the u.k. foreign secretary had to say exactly. we remain very concerned with the situation in hong kong and i raised concerns with the chief executive on the 12th of june today. say our government to establish a robust independent investigation into the violent scenes that we saw and we will not issue any further export licenses for crowd control equipment to hong kong unless we are satisfied that concerns raised on human rights and fundamental freedoms have been fairly addressed. and streaming a strong stance there from the u.k.

government and it comes just a week after the u.k. government also announced that it would not be allowing any new licenses of exports of arms sales to saudi arabia and to its coalition partners in the war in yemen that followed a decision by the court of appeal here in the u.k. that said that those arms sales had been a new fall again citing possible violations when it comes to human rights now despite that decision by the court and despite the fact that the government says it will look at that decision the prime minister to resign may insist questions on wednesday said that the u.k. government will look to appeal that decision. we continue to operate one of the most robust arms export control regimes in the world. and we take our responsibilities on arms export licensing very seriously we're disappointed that the court found against the government on one the ground and we will be seeking

permission to appeal this judgment. so 2 cases of possible human rights violations let's took a look at the 2 together now let's start with hong kong 3 weeks of protests tear gas being used rubber bullets being used accusations of police brutality and dozens injured but not a single person killed as a direct result of those allegations of police brutality on the other hand you have the conflict in yemen which the saudi led coalition is involved in at the moment and what we have a close to 100000 deaths over 4 years the majority of them many say are civilians so what's the difference between these 2 different scenarios on the ground well some would say what you really need to do is to follow the money and when you look at what the worth is of those sales to hong kong it's apparently only around $1800000.00 pounds to the u.k. economy on the other hand in yemen arms sales since 2015 are worth more than

4700000000 parents it's a huge difference and some might question whether it's easier to take the moral high ground when there isn't much of an impact to the u.k. economy and that's what this comes down to a not really a stance when it comes to human rights violations thanks for breaking all the time for us this hour charlotte. well a top dutch engineering university we know triggered a massive debate over workplace discrimination after planning academic recruitment policy of it's exclusively for women men will only be offered a job if no suitable female candidates can be found to attract a female employees a fellowship of eindhoven university of technology will boost research funds 580-0000 euros to spend on research on mentoring the institution hopes to fill

around $150.00 positions over the next 5 years. in an attempt to correct what i'm holding calls a gender imbalance. we attach great importance to equal respect and opportunities for women and men we are aware that we're suffering from an implicit gender bias we're now using the fact that plans to expand our academic stuff considerably in the coming years can be used as a means to make a big step forward in one fell swoop or we discuss the move with our guests media commentator gina loudon on political activist kate's birthweight. 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 with around when i see their board of directors and it's white guys white guys white guys white guys i don't think i bet 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 any savers 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 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 and we keep the debate going there because crosstalk.

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