i. don't know what. they have in moscow headlining this morning the united states could potentially be smuggling tons of weapons and ammunition to militants in syria according to leaked documents obtained by a bulgarian journalist today to tell this story bringing you. also entered a new phase around and says it will set limits on nuclear research and development now under about 2050 nuclear. states to save the. planet the british prime minister get a major blow is then please pass a bill to block a no deal departure from the e.u. . and the un report highlights the potential role of the us britain and france and human rights violations committed in yemen as the countries continue to sell

arms to saudi arabia. first a warning for the september for a good morning welcome to the program and kevin owen here are the latest how far world news update from that international moscow 1st washington is seemingly caught red handed smuggling arms and ammunition from europe to syria according to a report by a bulgarian investigative journalist based on a bunch of leaked files as accusations continue to mount an r.t.c. goes down off takes a closer look at the evidence this morning. from the start of the war in syria anti-government factions have been enjoying well a gun before all inclusive some pieces fell into their hands as spoils of war where the others came from nobody knew it seemed until now because apart from me de blowing hatred towards assad all these rebels i saw and self-governing jihadists

they could have another thing in common a big wealthy arms dealer lurking in the shadows. able gary an investigative journalist has claimed to have exposed an elaborate network of private american companies which have been buying weapons from serbian manufacturers and shipping them to the middle east the journalist managed to get through a labyrinth full of fake trails and dead ends designed specifically to cover the tracks to the network's command center the pentagon. in one instance an american company 04 industries used a british broker as its middleman to buy mortar shells from serbian manufacture acoustic and this e-mail says a learner is a direct proof of that and it was business as usual up until the moment one crew

sic was about to get paid because none of the companies that dealt with wanted to wire the money instead they wanted to finish the transaction and through a nother 3rd party british company and this raised all sorts of red flags. bearing in mind that the payment will be affected by the company that is not the buyer according to our law and foreign exchange operations we will need the consent of the serbian government i.e. the ministry of finance in order to be able to apply at the ministry of finance we necessarily need a tripartite agreement verified and signed by the buyer sierra 4 industries the seller holding corp crew sick and the legal entity that will affect the payment charles kendall and partners limited. it was so suspicious the serbs even questioned if the final destination for the armaments would indeed be the pre-agreed location which was no not the middle east but harmless

innocent romania. the draft in jesus is to pick it states the following place of delivery. to china and a base rumania according to the above it should be clearly mentioned that the goods will be used in romania including the purposes of use and the goods will be shipped to romania they weren't used in romania it seems once the money was finally wired of washington's memory was void clean instead the ammunition was flown to qatar and ended up in syria according to the journalist the banker gone so far there are private american companies or your company is. very far off to you from bikini if they feel so you know are they still think. these are really really like you like. using different

thanks after the websites like this that people are like a problem finding information because they are all using to think like number 8 like this game is using. and much like birthing their weapons via their proud. nation would be syria or react to americans these 2 they even visited crusade to troubleshoot any potential insurgence on behalf of the seller i also can't buy one or that you are and that i'm one of the united states the european that are in what is not a government officials and proud that there is this. back in the or the letter box. and laying around. organized there are.

less than a year on the same 2 men were awarded for. arming rebels in syria. the little affair with the serbs was far from a one night stand type of deal for the u.s. they shipped tens of thousands of munitions into syria drowning the country in arms for years we've worked to stop the civil war in syria and all the leave the human suffering we wanted to reach out to syria for industries remember the american company that initiated the deal with the serbs and imagine our surprise when we found out that the company barely even exists it has no listed phone number no email and just 5 yes 12345 employees not exactly a shock. it was done of reporting that well apart from the company that you just

mentioned we've tried to reach out to the pentagon and to the cruise it company for comment we'll bring you those comments as when they come back to us meantime former u.k. army officer chose hsu bridge says there is no reason to doubt the authenticity of those lee documents. it's an impressive piece of journalism by any standards i think to produce what she at the track that she's produced and apparently convincing evidence if these documents are genuine and so far at least there's been no indication whatsoever despite the opportunity to given to people so far to show them as not genuine if that genuine these documents are indeed as dion herself suggests they are indeed explosive in a revelation so really what it shows is that long after we all know of course or many of us know about this operation timber sycamore that was launched by the us was run by many years by them a covert arming and training project for syria's rebels supposedly moderate rebels . but of course invariably many of these weapons and it up in the hands of what

even the us deems terrorists in syria that was all supposedly ended in 2017 when it was finally disclosed that it's actually publicly acknowledged that it existed and so now we've got evidence quite clear evidence if the documentation is true and again there's nothing to indicate that it's not that actually this program in another form has continued. iran's to accelerate its nuclear activities and a 3rd step in scaling back commitments agreed under the landmark 2050 nuclear deal . i know that we will take the 3rd step and we will announce it in 2 or 3 days in my view this is the most important that we are taking its impact will be really amazing we will give the e.u. 2 more months while we are taking this step to get back to the negotiating table. the move comes out of her we can deadline for european powers to help bypass u.s. sanctions on iran's oil trade shortly after washington left the deal citing alleged

iranian violations you may recall the international atomic agency though hasn't confirmed there's been any breach now iran's aiming to lift all the limits on its nuclear research and development global affairs and this pattern heads and believes to run tactics could succeed. iran is playing a very shrewd negotiations game they're sort of taking a page out of donald trump's art of the deal they're trying to basically dictate the pace of negotiations in this case or events as well they're dealing with 2 main parties which is the european signatories to the j c.p.o. way and then are also indirectly dealing with the united states this is designed clearly to apply pressure on europe and in effect indirect pressure on washington so trying to really putting direct pressure on washington obviously isn't going to work washington will escalate its threats and so forth so iran is seen this as

a possible solution to its problem to break the impasse on the deal that the u.s. walked away from by putting in direct pressure on the other $35.00 plus one countries that maybe they can do something to remedy iran which is going through a severe financial crisis right now as a result of a whole raft of sanctions being placed on it after the united states walked away from a deal that it agreed as a partner to when it walked away in may of 22 and. again a bill to head off a no deal breaks it is quickly moving to fit coming low in the u.k. as m.p.'s pos the proposed legislation it's expected to attend to the house of commons on friday for final amendments and that looks to be it then for the promised as breck's it plans for halloween at least i watched it all unfold. it's

been a tough 48 hours for a new prime minister morris of the joint so why not only just parliament not backing him on his brakes of structure he's also failed in his bed to get a general election something that. was the only option left at this stage either gordon and election the public don't go into an election the country doesn't want the election with this house because you know the old should be letting the public decide who they want as prime minister and i commend this motion to the house but in a damning defeat for the prime minister the motion on a general election was voted down by a whopping 242 votes which means he didn't even reach the threshold for the number of votes needed he was of course hoping that he would triumph in the polls and so go with a fresh mandate to brussels and negotiate a new deal with the european union it would of course also have given him the

opportunity to bulldoze through any of parliament's objections in the future while he had to alter your position jeremy equals and have for 2 years going to say mitchell welcomes the idea of taking on the conservatives at the polls when it came to this was lunch the labor party said that it would only do so once the no deal option was completely taken off the table this of course tops off a very dramatic day in british politics because m.p.'s voted in favor of an antique no deal corrects it nor which proposes it be today for a full time until chinese 2020 having passed through the commons with a majority of $28.00 votes this of course was the bits of blow for johnson who write off the herring results award of the implications it's a bill of goods it's going to be in the negotiation a bill that demands an extension at least until. next year and perhaps for many

more years to come with a bill that insists britain acquiesce to the demands of brussels and hands control to our partners it's a bill designed to overturn the biggest democratic vote in our history to try to seek to bring in the meantime unfortunately more politics more uncertainty and more frustration both inside the walls of westminster i don't the streets of the u.k. british academic alan scared believes the m.p.'s who voted for the pale are likely hoping there will be no breaks it at all the majority of m.p.'s don't want britain to come out of the european union there were appalled and horrified at the result of a friend them they then said immediately afterwards that of course is good democrats they would abide by the results but as you know because his own call on the become bold and they decided really they didn't want to come on the european union and

doing everything in their path. to delay exit but really the exit with the whole that we will stay in the european union we might they might try and get to have a 2nd referendum which would be pointless and be undemocratic but in any case they're doing everything in their. view ends accused america britain france being complicit in war crimes in yemen the report from the organization highlighted the role of arms sales to the saudi led coalition. there are certain states who are well known to be supplying weapons that includes united states it includes the united kingdom and it includes france to name but 3 the group of experts has recommended that 3rd states prohibit the authorization about arms transfers and refrain from providing arms to parties to the conflict this is because of the prevailing risk that such arms will be used by parties to commit or facilitate

serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. the us is the main arms supplier to saudi arabia followed by britain and france between 201518 washington sold weapons worth around $10000000000.00 to the saudis you can france trailed far behind with 2 point $1500000000.00 respectively one of the authors of the latest u.n. report shows garraway told us the continuing flow of arms indiaman is perpetuating the war. this is a collective failure of the international community as a whole and it is the responsibility of the international community as a whole and inevitably those people who supply arms have a greater influence on the parties and therefore have a perhaps a greater responsibility to take action to try to prevent violations there is no doubt that it is the continuation of supplier of arms to yemen that is prolonging the conflict he would report also called into question the findings of saudi arabia's joint incidence assessment team that body set up by claims to investigate

violations by the coalition in yemen with transparency and impartiality shells go again that told us the group's analysis in his view is superficial. the trouble is the coalition has not been cooperating with us and therefore we have very little information apart from what is in the public domain the press releases of the joint incident an assessment team produce are comparatively bland and so far as we can see they do not carry out a sufficient legal analysis what is needed is an independent and impartial assessment that is what we have tried to do but the difficulty with examining conduct a full still tease is it's easy to look upwards from the result but the result will tell you very little it won't even tell you what the intended target was and what we need and what the world needs is access to the targeting process so that we can find out what is going wrong because something clearly is over 5 years since the

start of the war in yemen children are bearing the brunt of the conflict and crew forces to charm latera who visited one orphanage in the country's capital sanaa. i was playing while i was ship book racing ahead the bomb exploded and so shrapnel flying in the interactions some towards me and then stumbling home only to find out that my family had been killed my mother and father my brothers and sisters they were old and new. at the time because of the war the number of all fronts has risen so much that the orphanage just can't house them it's bleak for this children many of whom have to leave right from the streets. there's much more to come this morning at this

thursday for moscow with me kevin owen including democratic presidential hopefuls look at what he said on the ground for 3rd rather debates with antiwar candidate criticize military spending drop as one of the stories recalled by that after this break. you know so many people. let them eat cake and then. gone back and they said you know. so i brought in actually. we brought in. this is a slice there. so this is what she suggests to. be eating because they run out of. this is

a. nicer version of there's a few in the cupboard let's throw that to the peasants. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic. only. i don't see how that strategy will be very critical. to sit down in. the. morning with a presidential election looming in the u.s. now 2020 the democrats in the ground the upcoming debates only 3 candidates in the pond have been put forward for a 3rd of this month too and he will candidates who criticize the country's huge military budget marianne williamson until he was pushed off the debates by their

own party kind of pope in rome. among the 2020 candidates vying for the democratic nomination is self-help guru marianne williamson she's one of the most googled candidates and known for her oddly spiritual approach i'm going to her love a false god this dark psychic force she's certainly trying to grab the attention of certain voters but it may surprise you that she actually has a strong appeal among a broad selection of rank and file liberals we don't have a health care system in the united states we have a sickness care system in the united states this is part of the dark underbelly over here. now she has criticized u.s. foreign policy and particularly the pentagon with nearly $740000000000.00 military budget but only $40000000000.00 proposed for the state department budget outsize commitment to brute force and that her with her in commitment to so forces up this

well no limelight for her she has been pushed off the stage of the upcoming debates along with antiwar candidate tulsa gabbert all thanks to the new rules of the d.n.c. there is a well strategized effort to smear me there is no doubt about that there are some very powerful forces that want to make sure i'm not in the 3rd debate so i must be doing something right if they work so hard to create that in this crowded campaign the antiwar democratic candidates seem to stand out however it's those centrist pro-war hawkish democrats that get all the spotlight take a recent poll from amman and a plus pollster in the united states now the results from this polling agency actually showed bernie sanders in the leaves ahead of joe biden but inconvenient poll results like that just end up getting shunned he's clear that the moment university poll published on mondays and i understood when we released top poll the picture it paints a diversion from us and the media has a role in helping the d.n.c.

to they target those who don't fit in with the establishment narrative they pull out the label gun. marianne williamson well she's a faith healer who doesn't believe in vaccines gabbert she's a pal of bashar al assad bernie sanders well he's just a silly old man who can't really be taken seriously he took on the bag but the bag clobbered him isn't that not a good message i think that would be a not good method and i've never given that method when you see false pretenses though u.s. officials determined bad aside didn't use these chemical weapons against his own people use or if i hear that about iraq right now it seems like the on written roles for the democrats are becoming all the more obvious step outside of that pro-war box and you are labeled a clank no matter how much the public likes you the democratic party run by the democratic national committee have a vested interest in keeping this nation the war they want to fund the pentagon war

machine they want to from the different conflicts united states is in a prison. ensures that contracts for munitions for uniforms with boots with planes with rooms etc so to continue so you have a strong own vested interest in maintaining the current military conflicts the united states currently in so they would like to get rid of the different candidates who are or do not pose much of a threat you know most. polls have no much political support behind them they don't want to give the nest more visibility at this point. funny from how to read an academic that now lives in germany has spoken out against the racism and she says she's experienced the institutions where she's studying sort of he says she's being made to focus on topics related to

a cultural background is that of those she's interested in. and the past 10 years that i've been living in berlin i have either been subjected to racism or being treated at the next arctic object and this is affected me and others in my position in the ways we exist perform and creates i also often feel like a puppet expected to create a certain form of knowledge and might choices i feel are limited to either play the iranian woman card and enjoy the privileges and the attention that comes with it or subvert this approach and create my own which as you can imagine is a very challenging. normally many of my concerns are formed around my political identity and i think that's a privilege that i have but it becomes problematic when i am expected to work on a certain topic because of my political identity because i look in a certain way because i'm a brown iranian woman that i have to work with the subjects.

only get the attention if i do what is expected from me and is not only working with those subjects it's working in a certain way it's just for producing the same kind of image that already exists in the media also from the local source who don't call her mosque or this thursday morning folks watching this curve and others have a great day starbucks for the alex sullivan show on or off of this break. she stressed to me not long but last week they said that the british presence at the bill a budget that you had to pull a bus tour of. south asia was take your seat 10

days to taste it is easy to see which is quite a shock. given what you see does nothing like what you've seen in the states get your government to me and what you should. want to go to the source of your might your bonus for should be. it's a mistake so it's a bit of i'm going to let them touch your spirit over this interview thank you but please to teach the student actually a person the personal cost of a phone call or should stop them spinning. expressed shock.

welcome to the alex i'm unsure what we knew from the parliamentary party technics westminster to the underlying economic conditions against which this drama will be played i thought last week alex asked 2 of the u.k.'s most respected political commentators to forecast the moves i'm coming to muse of the banks to us and to me i was as positive as you and thus far i pundits have proved to be spot on in their suggestions of an earthquake chain reaction to the prime minister's move to parliament for much of next month i think if it looks as if the u.k. is heading for no deal will be an attempt for parliament to seize control of the executive that attempt will succeed and the speaker will facilitate it and a majority. he will vote for it and then there will be legislation instructing the prime ministers to negotiate a 6 month extension and that too will get a majority in the house of commons if it looks as if no deal does the only other

route i think the logic of this situation where you have a minority prime minister trying to force his will over a parliament which disagrees with him. then the troll that's allowed come of that would be an election court challenge a street demonstrations opposition parties forced together to seize control of the parliament to order people toward the rebels n.p.c. crossing the floor of the house fence of the selection and finally to the prime minister's bed for a snap election the forecasts of our commentators were pleased and this week's parliamentary exchanges me to speak of what he is recommending is yet more yet more did yet more give out yet more do they yet more uncertainty for business what we in this government want to do is deliver on the mandate of the people now he used to be a democrat the used to believe in upholding the referendum result can he say now whether

he would vote in favor of leave or remain and can he say now whether he's in favor of a 2nd referendum or not. let me go over. the prime minister failed to answer my questions about food supply that mentioned supplies and about the problems in hospitals he refuses to publish the yellow hammer documents and he talks about scaremongering where does the information come from other than his office in his government. this high political drama has the final chapter to come but today we turn to the economic backdrop against which this struggle will be played out alex interviews professor david blanchflower on his view of a coming economic future we've been in. a decade of very slow growth and the expectation is that we're going to see a 2nd decade because of the after incompetent so go and read the great masters go and think about how the world works but i was go back and read keynes and beverage

but 1st of course your tweets messages and e-mails in response to last week sure julian says i'm quite sure that the will of the people is much bigger than the bricks of what but the people never get the chance to vote about the other stuff therefore it's quite legitimate to ask if the brakes of what was the will of the people i don't question the results is julian luis's the relevant question though is how to scotland get out of this whole mess bearing in mind we didn't vote for bricks in the 1st place gordon says i nice balance from your 2 guests when they recognize that boris is most likely looking for a deal and not just guess so and to slam dunk with fear mongering many people thought mrs me was too soft on the new deal taking from the table we can top position. to introduce to some i did history and says who would lead a government to succeed johnson could i make a comparison and 948 arland an election give a majority over devil or finagle was the biggest party but their leader richard mccarthy was unacceptable so.