online you guessed that is the end of a 40 tee shot from the mountains of least only grow where. a u.s. navy seal accused of multiple war crimes including a brutal murder in a combat zone is acquitted by a military court as a key witness claims responsibility for the killing. were tested in tel aviv burned cars and throw petrol bombs after an israeli ethiopian teenager was shot dead by an off duty police officer. a tale of true stanford finds it's revealed the 14 say list who died in a deep sea vessel fire in northwest russia gave up their lives to save their money . and supporters of julie the songs react with anger to a british foreign office promotional video about free speech conference calling to

defend the freedom of the press. hello and welcome you are watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow and the carrier now military court has cleared a navy seal accused of multiple war crimes of all key charges as well as the controversial nature of his acquittal edgewood gallagher's trial once again raises questions over pentagon conduct overseas morgan has the details. the military court in san diego has acquitted gallagher on 6 out of the 7 charges that he faced involving the killing of civilians he was convicted on a charge of posing for a photograph with a corpse which is a violation of the rules however of the maximum sentence for such a violation is only 4 months in prison and he's served 9 months in pretrial detention so at this point he is indeed

a free man now it appears that his acquittal was essentially hinged on the testimony of a of a navy seal medic who testified that he himself was responsible for the killing of the the ice still fighter who was captured the teenager that he himself was responsible for this this fighter's death and that it wasn't any gallagher now it's interesting to note that this navy seal key had been given immunity so he cannot be charged for this killing now when the verdict came in the family and legal team of eddie gallagher was triumphant huge victory huge we call to gallagher's huge victory for justice it was stealing like we're finally been betrayed after being terrorized by the government that my husband bought for for 2 decades in the war on terror he's proud every major enemy of the united states he was a right sis and noble individual and his name has been smeared in flanders interact with the mud now it's important to note that it was any gallagher's own platoon

members in the navy seals who turned him in saying that he had shot civilians and that he had posted a photo on social media of the corpse with himself holding the head of the still fighter and holding up his knife saying got him with my knife however he has been acquitted and at this point we've seen donald trump tweeting out in support of any gallagher saying his wonderful wife andre and his family entire family you have been through much together glad. i could help that's us president donald trump however there have been many voices on social media that have seemingly accused eddie gallagher of being guilty of these crimes and said he is a war criminal saying that his acquittal is a bit of a disgrace and hurts the image of the united states around the world so quite a bit of a mixed reaction on social media to the acquittal as caleb mentions gallagher was found guilty of posing for a photo with a corpse then just

a few hours ago he was sentenced to 4 months of confinement he's already served double that time though in the form of pretrial detention but if you see a little thing have both his rank and pay reduced veteran and or the captain want to hill who we heard from earlier believes that it would gallagher deserves the admiration. i think it a gallery because he's a hero not just to the united states and united states military but to the world because he's over there fighting isis which is an enemy that very few countries are willing to put forth troops and resources to can to fight themselves so he basically is being charged with premeditated murder for an isis fighter in my mind and i'm i'm just a simple man here but that sounds like an oxymoron that you would send a navy seal to go fight isis which is a cancer upon humanity yes or humans but they've made themselves to be monsters and so they should be treated as such and so when you say that you're going to charge someone with premeditated murder of isis in a combat zone little own

a navy seal i just think that's completely contradictory doesn't make any sense. violence flared up in tel aviv during a rally in on the of an ethiopian israeli teenager who was shot dead by an off duty police officer. was. that like it was it was. thousands took to the streets in what appears to have been a spontaneous demonstration some clashed with riot police and others that cars and rubbish bins on fire the officer who shot the teenager said he felt his life was in

danger after you started throwing rocks at him the teenager's family has demanded an immediate investigation the ethiopian community and his father often described mistreatment at the hands of the off thora t s a spokesperson for police described what happened. there were a number. suspects that were involved in a fight in a local park a police officer who was in plain clothes he approached those individuals and requested to see their id what happened was is the situation developed and they started throwing stones at him he was hit in struck by stones and he felt that he was in a life threatening situation he responded by drawing his weapon firing to the floor busy and what we know is that the bullet struck the floor and then unfortunately struck one of the men who was taken to hospital in serious condition and then later in the evening passed away since the burial of the individual that was unfortunately killed number one there's an investigation taking place as to what

happened and number 2 the israeli national police are dealing in focusing with what is the fact that since the funeral which is unfortunate i mean a large scale riots in and around almost all of the major junctions across israel protesters attacked civilians police offices throwing petrol bombs as well as burning vehicles well just over 3 years ago there was a similar incident and it took months almost 2 years in order to rebuild the trust and this is $140.00 of them was recent incident has taken both the unity unity as well as the israeli police to a level in an area which we didn't want to reach it's obviously going to take time but we're focusing on the period that we're in at the moment which is dealing with the protests calming the situation down. roic navy officers sacrificed their lives saving colleagues and the civilian experts on board when a deep sea vessel caught fire on monday our senior correspondent my ghastly i was in a city in the month close to where the tragedy occurred. the atmosphere here in the

city of moments because gloomy it's in the air it's in people's faces the expressions you'll be hard pressed to find a family here and more months without relatives or a sailor in the navy so the strategy has struck everyone personally it has really affected people here over russia there are commemorative services being held in churches all over russia people expressing their condolences laying flowers we've had condolences pouring in internationally the pope has expressed his sincere condolences to those that died in this incident those that suffered in this unfortunate incident to raise it may the prime minister of u.k. of the u.k. expressed her condolences as well what was especially striking about this unfortunate incident was that out of the 1414 sailors who died 7 of them of captains 2 of them heroes of the russian federation all professionals all high

ranking decorated veterans of the navy we've learned about the incident itself as well it happened aboard a military deep sea scientific research vessel it was out in the barents sea off the coast of mormons conducting scientific research in the hydras field when a fire broke out and one of the compartments the crew acted professionally story they began fighting the flames they evacuated a civilian industry representative that was on board shut the hatch behind them in order to prevent the fire from spreading and consuming the rest of the submersible perhaps killing their colleagues the other crew members that survived and unfortunately they got the fire under control but they perished juta asphyxiation because it is a. submarine that's acted heroically in a critical situation from a compartment that was engulfed in fire they 1st evacuated this. villain in this

true representative then close the hatch behind him to prevent the fire from spreading throughout the deepwater vessel the head of russia's navy is now personally in charge of carrying out an investigation of the last 2 weeks in establish what happened how it happened and who was responsible the 14 sailors who acted heroically heroically in order to save their colleagues and the vessel itself the submersible will be presented to the state on as vladimir putin is being kept up to date on the investigation itself and the state has promised to support all the support it can offer to the relatives of those who perished in this unfortunate tragedy. britain has summoned the chinese ambassador as the bilateral dispy grows ever the response to the hong kong protests has artie's from london with more. that summons of the chinese ambassador to the foreign office comes

after he said that relations between the u.k. and china had been damaged following comments by the foreign secretary jeremy hunt and those in regards to those protests and not to the phone calls let's have a look 1st of all of what jeremy hunt had to say previously about this we urge the authority is not to use what happened as a pretext for oppression but rather to understand the root causes of what happened which is a deep seated concern by people in hong kong for their basic freedoms are under attack well since then the u.k. government is also announced that export licenses or item such a c.s. gas and riot gear and grenades have been banned china as a result of those protests that china is period seeing that the u.k. has waded into a song for an argument and the ambassador the johnnies ambassador to the u.k. said that those who would immediately occupied the hong kong parliament earlier this week should actually be condemned as more break is that was also following

beijing accusing jeremy hunt the foreign secretary of having colonial era delusions that some of this into what the spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry had to say it seems that he still indulged in the post illusion of british colonists and this persisting with the bad habits of condescending in pointing fingers at other countries internal affairs. well they also went on to say it's hypocritical of the u.k. to talk about democracy in hong kong that issues with a given that when the phone call was a british colony for very long time they would no elections held that will jeremy hunt the foreign secretary gave this response to that. message the chinese government good ruination is between countries a based on mutual respect and honor in the legally binding agreements between them that is the best way to preserve the great relationship between the u.k.

and china is talking about the reference that to the one country 2 systems agreement that was something that was signed when hong kong was handed back to the chinese and it gives the our englund to move freedoms such as economic freedoms but what we're seeing at the moment is tensions between the u.k. and china are ratcheting up over those protests. julian assange the porters have mocked britain's foreign office for posting a video demanding freedom of the press across the world ahead of a conference on free speech. with the rest of the current examination we're going to have. the promotional video that you've just seen has been posted on the foreign offices twitter feed and it's to promote the upcoming conference on press freedom the irony

is that amongst all of that for the emphasis on freedom of speech and freedom for the press there's no mention anywhere of julian assange which was something that wasn't lost on his supporters who said plenty of things below on that twitter feed you have to believe in freedom before you write about it today julian assange just birthday wish him a happy day in your prison this is hilarious considering you're currently doughtery one of the premier journalists about who came up with this complain take action to free a son jeff you mean it the fans media freedom well as well as that promotional video the foreign office also had on its twitter feed videos about imprisoned journalists and also called for people to follow the hash tag defend media freedom of course which is very much just passed by jeremy hunt the foreign secretary and the conservative leadership party candidate as well as amal clooney the human rights lawyer who in the past has represented julian a song though this is rather ironic because it's come on the $48.00 birthday of julian assange and in love in his hometown where his father lives there have been

celebrations and collaboration's off the wiki leaks founder of course mixed feeling for. the overjoyed. with the stress. of constant. court. to win over. all those 9 years that jump ship some or so far into there were basically going back to that extradition claim by sweden for alleged sexual assault all the way back to. 12 in those years in the meantime julian assange has been fighting to clear his name also to fight extradition he's also fighting extradition to the united states and that's that's in relation to chelsea manning and all those alleged war crimes that were very exposed by her in the leaks that were provided to wiki leaks and so while the u.k. is preparing for this conference on media freedom in melbourne they're having this

party but also this sort of commemorations with julian assange and also protests in the meantime the 48 year old himself is spending his birthday in belmarsh prison in star so use london because he is in breach of his belt editions that's what they imprisoned him for for 50 weeks and also waiting for that for us extradition hearing that will take place in february next year. the e.u. parliament has elected its new president to italy's david says the leader of the socialist and democratic faction but every peers have yet to approve drugs or young because success that has european commission chief leaders proposed german defense minister vonda lyon she will now need the backing of a majority of the $751.00 m.e.p. as she is known as a federalist supporting the creation of a think of united states of europe sovereign nation and an e.u. army she would become the 1st woman to head the commission which has helped her win support but not everyone his thoughts on her candidacy especially as leaders suddenly scrap the establish nominations system requiring her to have formal

backing of a party group. on the line is our weakest minister that's apparently enough to become commission president o'sullivan's alone is unacceptable as head of the e.u. commission for social democrats we cannot simply throw the top candidate principle overboard because the results of the election didn't suit some heads of government . leaders have also put forward a new head of the e.u. council who would take over from donald tusk they've opted for belgium prime minister sharon's michel however this pickles though doesn't sit well with many in the european parliament like the party any peas are particularly angry as michelle openly mocks britain's departure from the blog commenting on van the lions nomination as you were pm commission chief a german m.e.p. maximillian clarke told us his country woman has a track record of failure. all established parties promised only send qualified politicians. and what they are now doing is

a big if. the most important position in the 2 minister who failed in germany and who needs just a position to get her out of fire in domestic politics in every position she hold in germany she failed but i do believe that she will succeed when we get vinge when she gets an even tougher and even more important and more difficult position she got her offices in germany because she is very connected into the party establishment of a good americans for strong democratic union she's just a typical politician out of the system without having any record of successes. on donald trump has issued a stark warning to iran after the un confirmed it had breached the nuclear deal limit on your rainy and stockpiles. they know what they're doing they know what they're playing with they think they're playing with fire so no message to iran whatsoever. on the 2050 nuclear deal iran agreed to limit its stockpile of enriched

uranium to 3.67 percent however in 2018 washington with drew from the deal and imposed harsh sanctions against iran after a little over a year of escalating confrontation between the 2 sides iran declared it would surpass the levels agreed in the deal the reason cited iran says no parties to the dealing to in france germany and the u.k. remain committed to their obligations let's discuss this further south we were joined by caviar from the army former advisor to iran's nuclear negotiating team and john hunt jarkko director of the american coalition for democracy welcome both to the program now let's start a question to carve a please do you think donald trump is right in saying that iran's playing with fire here. will i really think the president trying to look himself in the mirror and see the 1st to see this more let alone the fire

that he himself has ignited with is irrational confrontation our policy toward iran by tearing an international binding agreement waging an unlawful economic warfare against a nation with this they didn't a stated objective of a strangulating iran's economy and then complementing that with provocative actions such as cyber warfare against iran and violating iran's tutorials sovereignty by assenting is a spy plane. airspace and so on and so forth so nor mr trump is wrong. biases are wrong the uses the iran policy. is and i agree with former vice president joe biden the self-inflicted disaster and we came very close to will get done just 2 weeks ago unfortunately the reason prevailed partly

because of trump's sudden discovery of the tearing capability that even a limited strike could a snowball into you know all out warfare and golfing ulysses' allies into each other and hopefully that will serve as a wake up call to tromp tool to step back from its confrontation of policy come back to the table that the us left unilaterally and you know resume diplomacy with iran because the us is that push right now is untied the atma see us that no ground war mongering iran iran violated the cheese e.p.o. way on many occasions and it was only a way it's only a stopping point on their ultimate desire to to enrich uranium to. develop a nuclear missile program and they continue to do it right after before and right after the signing of that agreement that agreement was never worth more than the

paper was written on they continued their aggressive acts they continued to produce the heavy water which even president obama had to buy from them in 2016 to try to cover up for the for the illegitimate wholly illegitimate regime in tehran they continue to violate u.n. sanctions on missile missile testing in weapon sales they've continued to destabilize syria destabilize yemen destabilize lebanon they're acting as a terrorist force in the middle east and incidentally not cope with not incident coincidentally they have no legitimacy from their own people people of iran are sick and tired of this illegitimate regime which is ruled them for 40 years and the revolution will come one day p. you know it's not too widely reported but people are marching in the streets every day all around iran not just in the big cities on the small villages but everywhere in response the eyes the world are on the regime

. it's not nonsense it's absolutely true you know it and you're very skilled at the art of project obviously haven't read the i.a.e.a. greenwashing has been doing 1515 i reports confirming it on full compliance with this on arrests obligations we did j.c. appeal you obviously haven't bothered to read even one single one of them otherwise you would not say that iran has violated any of 2016 nuclear twenty's not only that the. audit did want the water for you to know that the united states purchased every water from iran prior to mr trump tearing up that right recursion right you're violating the 3 away by continuing to produce its obligations it john. a question for you i don't disagree but you can you can lie all you like on that on the air i haven't even read the agreement i'm sorry sorry you are. forced to go and read listen iran is iran is it meant for you to show up on a t.v.

show so if i can in such a case that i mean it how it's going to how it's a lot of people would agree that you know it was relatively relatively calm voltages until you know the u.s. unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear deal and then there's the escalation just kind of went from bad to worse what would you say to that. absolutely untrue of the theory and regime is complicit and are guilty of the death of a half a 1000000 syrian civilians since 2012 they are being illegitimate regime in syria the shahrazad regime they're doing the same in yemen they've taken over they have wholesale taken over lebanon they are involved in the drug trade from latin america they are propping up they helping to prop up along with russia. nicolas maduro in venezuela they've been a destabilizing force in more and more aggressive ever since president trungpa

started to push back and said we're not going to tolerate the a violation of this agreement and agreement that really was never worth the paper that it was written on because iran never was in compliance with either the letter or the spirit of that agreement they've continued their aggressive ways they continue to go off of the destruction of a member of the u.n. who is me is you know they continue to cause problems throughout the middle east and there they've lost all legitimacy people of iran do not like the regime nobody outside iran likes the regime and you know one day it will fall that's not the stated policy of president trump but one day this regime will fall a cab and arrest him for he behaves as if instead of marching in the streets of death to the usa the same data to go along is obviously an ideological. who has forsaken rational discourse what to say. you know slow getting into the iran and that doesn't work if you are true and you. are certainly i mean your life organizationally rex tillerson as well as james mattis the defense secretary while

showed up at the u.s. congress and said that this agreement is working iran is abiding by these big ations and isn't yet in the national interest of the united states to high ranking officials of trump if that geographical is already raising a lot of these war war mongering how war took to cause war war 3 and you have apologies such as you'll get right now maru arms clearly shares to reality mark and you know it's just the slandering the finance a rat gentleman and i have a question for cafe one could iran's uranium announcement be about other than it's trying to build a nuclear weapon. well you know under n.p.t. iran has legitimate right to have a nuclear fuel cycle iran voluntarily agree to certain restrictions on it

under the terms of the j c p o f and not that the europeans in particular have failed to live up to the 11 obligations to this agreement and are in defacto breach of the agreement iran is making proportional response by taking some distance from the agreement for the sake of actually saving it because the europeans should know that iran cannot be unilateral party to multilateral agreement they have taken a symbolic gesture by setting up this special financial mechanism by committing only a paltry few 1000000 euros to it whereas always a decade ago they pledged billions of euros for assisting iran many iran halted its nuclear fuel cycle so you know the europeans can be a stingy about it when they need that j.c.

pos is in their own national interest national security interest in in particular and now they are you know being very silent about trump's tearing up the agreement president mccrone he has called on iran just yesterday to you know respect the agreement where was he last may when trump unilaterally exited the iran eg we are in my period. you know all you have around the intermediary between us ron and john the u.s. president he's accused iran of playing with fire but isn't trunk calling off attacking iran which has 10 ministers spat is that not literally playing with fire . well he showed great restraint he values human life unlike the model the illegitimate baba's in iran and your your other guest. can call me a call mr bolton i assume mr bolton and mr pompei o warmongers but

but who are you who started this belligerent acts of belligerence who were the ones that were mining the oil tankers in the gulf that was the or the mother who shot down the the the drone there was in international waters that was the iranian model illegitimate regime over and over they've acted belligerently they've assassinated leaders in europe and all they're doing is is now that they're under a great deal of strain when they when they receive $150000000000.00 in the wake of signing the g.c. p.o. way which incidentally is not a full blood pledge treaty it was just an agreement with president obama and president trump had every legal right to withdraw from it but when they did that. they received 150000000000 dollars and they were never able to deliver any economic benefits to the people of iran who yearn for freedom who have a great and proud history and who are tired of living in squalor while the money

question in yemen and lebanon in latin america wasting the money of the iranian people instead of using it to develop the iranian economy so they really need people that have a bright future they have squandered it and stolen it and they again they completely lack any legitimacy whatsoever and they will they will be judged by history very harshly and one day as i said the revolution will come gentlemen that you think the lights but i'm afraid we're out of time cover for as the op a former adviser to iran's nuclear negotiating team and john hodges director of the american mideast coalition for democracy thank you very much to both of you. ok well that brings us to the end of our rundown for this hour we're back in 30 minutes with mall to see that.