not even broken wings ditto. for generations of the marines. sweat and tears on r.t. . saudi arabia points the finger at iran over last week's drone missile strike on its oil refineries citing the sophistication and direction of the attack evidence that iran is to blame. israel's main rival political parties are close to form a coalition of the neither managed to secure a majority wrangling though over who will head it israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu or opposition leader. the u.s. keep silent over allegations venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president has links to were drug that accuses the country's previous leader hugo chavez though who died 6 years ago of the same thing. and

a new report reveals that thousands of children in nigeria were being held in dire conditions without trial over their alleged association with terrorists we spoke to one of the authors of the report need to describe severely overcrowded cells 20300 detainees have to. live from moscow just called 3 pm here the russian capital and daniel hawkins review tuning in from thanks for joining us in the program. the united nations has sent a team of experts to saudi arabia to investigate last week's drone and the missile strikes on the kingdom's oil refineries the u.s. says it's confident iran is to blame and vows to impose new sanctions on tehran just last saturday a dozen cruise missiles and over 20. drones hit

a major oil field and processing plant in the east of the kingdom the attack which yemeni hooty rebels claimed they carried out knocked out 5 percent of the world's oil supply it also saw the price of the product rocket. looks at what evidence has been presented so far it has been decided that iran did it and that start an opinion or a finding with the result of an investigation that's a decision guilty this was an iranian attack we were blessed that there were no americans killed in this attack but any time you have an act of war of this nature there's always a risk that could happen rob is doing what trump does best signing pieces of paper bringing to bear a slew of new sanctions against iran to come into effect within 48 hours and it isn't done and we'll see what happens we'll see what happens i think we have a lot of good capital that we have to do something we'll do it without hesitation

the americans who weren't attacked of already decided what happened then who is guilty the saudis who were attacked and have all the day bree and bits and pieces of the missiles are still working on technicalities like evidence and proof let that sink in. the attack did not originate from yemen the attack was launched from the move and was unquestioned be sponsored by iran it's not in the range of yemen's capabilities if it was them who conducted the attack this is one of the missiles we have recovered and we have information that leads us to the source that these kind of components were made in iran. so what they found is the weapons were allegedly made with iranian components they were fired from the north the direction of iran and its neighbors so cutting to the chase it was iran that's what you're going to say right. the rain regime and the i.r.g.c.

are trying to hide any evidence of the components and the technology i'm sure we will spot a launch site we are working and whoever is responsible about it will take the accountability not once during the presentation that the saudis specifically say that iran did it and there's no love lost if they could they would say it but technicalities but saudi arabia won't do brave journalists will too happy to undeniable evidence of a reign in aggression and it almost has the fingerprints of the revolutionary guard and its influence over the hutu rebels tonight u.s. intelligence indicates the unprecedented attack on saudi oil fields originated from iran our top intelligence officials think iran did it and so does our top an intelligence official donald trump course 1 may ask what on earth saudi defenses

were doing at the time they've got the 3rd biggest military budget on earth one of america's best clients the country's livid with patriot and other anti missile systems $80000000000.00 a year should protect you from a score of drones and missiles no. the news conference from the saudi arabian defense ministries press secretary is a catastrophe for saudi arabia they've shown they cannot prove or know exactly when the cruise missiles and drones were made from exactly with that attack was launched or why a defense systems could not prevent that attack the only thing that might be iranian related is that maybe some of the equipment some of the technology that the who these have might have been incorporated into the attack but why why or why is anyone complaining especially the saudis since the u.s. has been providing the bombs and the aircraft to the saudis to bomb yemen for 4

years so the who with these are just responded back then again to those saying it's iran because there are alleged iranian components in the day bri doesn't that mean that the u.s. is responsible for horrific massacre in yemen i mean sure saudi arabia dropped the bombs but those say made in the united states more likely than not arabia has been clearing the shelves of american arms manufacturers recently by this logic there's no need to investigate or collect evidence it's american bombs it has got to be america for. an entire country reduced to misery and pain untold thousands dead more to

die but you know what it's the oil refinery in saudi arabia the book wires vengeance meanwhile who sees who claimed responsibility for those strikes are threatening to carry out similar attacks this time against the united arab emirates . family what are we saying to the iraqi regime if we carry out just one single operation against you it will cost you dearly today for the 1st time we announce that we have dozens of targets within our range in the u.a.e. some in abu dabi and those can be attacked at any moment so. let's cross live now to the middle east expert ali risk for more on this thanks for joining us good to have you on the program today as we heard there are no 2 minds about this threatening more strikes a and they've got targets already figured out within range do you think we're going to see more drone attacks from whoever carried out these strikes or possibly other other assailants and then in the near future. well if the war on

yemen continues i think yes we will see more strikes where they would be against saudi arabia or the united arab emirates the statements which were just showing and by the spokesman i think showed very clearly that the attack which was launched against the saudi oil facilities was an attempt by the who are these to force its enemies or its main enemy saudi arabia to put a stop to this war i mean this is something which is not getting our enough attention i think in the international media and you know yemen has been the subject all out onslaught ever since 2015 more than 4 years it was march 2015 and so i think what the horses are trying to do as i said trying to force the enemies to back down and put an end you know there's been numerous attempts they've been u.n. mediations there's been other diplomatic initiatives all of it has failed the other

states the trump administration has in fact doubled down on its support for the war on the yemen so i think that the many who are thieves were given no choice but to escalate attacks with the of forcing the enemy to bell down and to put a stop to this war and to find some kind of another another supplement to peace. settlement for the conflict just look at the bigger picture are they waiting a foreign minister mohammad javad zarif he's warned that any strike against iran by the u.s. by the saudi government would lead to a direct confrontation possibly an all out military conflict here do you think that's a likely scenario given the recent all of the hostilities on the strength of the rhetoric coming from both sides. i don't think so no i don't i still don't think that the trumping ministration who's willing either to to go to war itself or to support saudi arabia if saudi arabia wants to go to war. i think

that it's become very clear that trump is not a war president that's something which i think we can conclude ever since the downing of that american drone by iran back back in june trump as we all know backed down from a strike on iran from then it became very clear that trump is extremely reluctant to resort to military force trump has also announced sanctions when you announce sanctions that basically means you're not ready for war your opting for another choice or you're going for the option he's sent his secretary of state my compiler to the region to visit saudi arabia and you wear the. pump oil also hasn't spoken about military options or i've also read reports that american vice president mike pence met with members of congress and according to congressman lindsey graham pence also didn't make mention of any real military options so i think everything one of this points to the direction of no military action but that doesn't mean

there won't be an escalation. we could we could see we have in fact seen the trunk administration and on sanctions there's talk now about cyber attacks which could target their own but as for all out war i think that is very unlikely. of course. big client of military equipment from the united states of a purchaser. has been playing down the well disposed failure of us made our defense systems in saudi arabia failing to intercept these these rockets these drones do you think this is damage control coming from washington do you think it's going to work. i think it is damage control and i think that if you look at the recent to military developments which have taken place in the region and beyond the conventional capabilities of state armies have proven to be very very limited when it comes to confronting these unconventional methods like using drones.

non-state actors have proven to be very successful in using drones and it doesn't seem to be or these conventional militaries these states up until now don't seem to have mastered the way to confront these unconventional conventional capabilities so i think it will be quite a long time before they are able to successfully reach a way to counter these drone attacks and that makes the saudi conventional in the military capabilities very limited you know regardless of how much saudi arabia spends on these military systems on these armaments which are boys from the u.s. and from other western countries and this i think will be limited because you have other non-state actors other players who have mastered and have become very capable in using these crn new methods you know like drone attacks missile attacks and other similar attacks or other similar military measures committal east expert and

analyst thanks for joining us here on r.t. great to get your take today on that story thank you. and the leader of the israeli opposition has stressed that he would have to lead any coalition entered into so after a snap general election failed to return any party with a majority the current prime minister benjamin netanyahu is also vying to head a unity government. bennetts is a nasty form of broad unity government today the nation expects both of us to accept responsibility and work together some call in the new benny let's meet today at any hour to advance this process is that is the mission of the hour we cannot go to 3rd elections there's no reason to oppose it. according to the election commission we have received $33.00 seats and netanyahu did not achieve the bloc that he had hoped to achieve citizens of israel want to the unity government even

after previous elections and they want it now i was talking about it almost for the whole year i intend to create a wide unity government with me is the leader. well with 97 percent of the vote now counted netanyahu is center right look could block is 2 seats behind the center left blue and white alliance which also failed to get a majority on wednesday netanyahu said that if the government isn't led by him it will be a dangerous government that receives its mind it from the arab parties he served as the country's prime minister for 10 years of course now in a row a stint that could come to an end but let's cross live now to political analyst ronen for more thanks for joining us good to have you on today now given the opposition leader opposes leadership this is a bit of a stalemate isn't there is this likely he's going to step down or will be some sort of compromise that can be arranged here. well you know surprises taking place

by the minute so rapidly that even shortly before we go i just got on the air i just got a push i just got our breaking news that netanyahu is somewhat disappointment that guns is refusing even to meet him so keep developing and and show progress while time goes by i'm not going to be surprised that words will be changed from one side to the other back and forth. i do believe that the. one thing is certain or almost certain here there's never going to be a 3rd round here 9999 percent certain here i think we are going for as said by those 2 leaders for a coalition unity government and now everyone they think is trying to play the tough guy here who is going to be the one who will get the mandate to be the leader who will serve under whom by any by any position by also by this ministry by this

portfolio and you know it's a coalition so it's a it's a negotiation psychology here that's the main thing i'm seeing here behind the scenes. certainly is a tricky situation because guns has agreed to a coalition of principle as the just one headed by netanyahu so do you think by saying this by making this offer he's trying to score political points or he's just playing a game of bluff hoping that that anyone who would call him. i think that. he knows pretty well that. he knows he has he knows he has to break his word when he was pledging i will never ever seat with netanyahu but i will replace him he knows that technically there is no other option of doing that unless he is joining the the arab parties which are by definition. and call by each and every change through you know to eliminate the jewish state

and they always hogged terrorists from hamas and they always praise hamas and hizbullah suicide bombers in all their. daughters and loved ones. as i said before we got to your previous question i'm not in the i'm not certain it's a blow off by the essence it will remain as a unity government. but you know as i said before it's kind of hard to it's going to hard to imagine that for this moment everybody trying to you know to gain some negotiation points everybody trying to you know to bend over the other one's hand now and just to see who blinks 1st but in the end of the day 90 percent once again i would emphasize 90 percent there is still a likelihood for 10 percent which is otherwise there will be an israel in the next month or so unity coalition government between the blue and white led by benny

gantz and likud led by bibi netanyahu. and what does this mean in terms of the operations against hamas which you mentioned in gaza are they still going to be on the table and also what about roddick's ation of some of the areas in the west bank that netanyahu has promised do you think that is. not happening do you think it's going to be delayed or was that all political point scoring as well. well there was no talking about an extension of west bank there was a pataki about annexation of the jordan valley and parts of the north of the northern part of the dead sea that is a complete different things the jordan valley is by israeli consensus and the integral part of israel. it is true though that benny gantz haven't highlighted it high enough as bibi netanyahu has asked for what's going to be the fate of these areas. if you know whoever is going to be the next prime minister

as long as long as he's going to have a good relationship with president trump you know in the end of the day everything revolves around the president trumps decision my best bet that there will be this sort of an extension of the jordan valley and and the dead sea because after all both right wingers and left wingers in israel they consider the jordan valley and in the oven part of the dead sea as one of israel as for hamas. no too much of you know there's no too much of explaining here everybody wants him most to be vanquished. and some say that it's just inevitable to go through another unfortunate round of military operation in gas. it's matter it's more a matter off when rather than the matter rather than the question of if it is unfortunate to admit it but if hamas would not rain down itself as far as far as far as all the analysts are concerned it's only a matter of when rather than

a matter of if we're going to find ourselves once more and israel gaza war. heated time in israeli politics even wrote in to me about the analyst thanks for joining us here today and all too good to have you and yeah. there's been a new twist in the standoff between venezuela and the united states with caracas now urging washington to reopen diplomatic ties this comes after president nicolas maduro entered into talks with office parties and relations between the u.s. went downhill in january when donald trump officially recognized the opposition leader who would go as interim president of the country has recently been linked to venezuela and drug gangs something washington seems unconcerned salty's more reports so we've got a tale of 2 venezuelan presidents we've got interim self-proclaimed president one grade 0 and we've got not nicolas maduro but his predecessor the late leader hugo

chavez now both of them are being accused of ties to drug cartels here's a picture of one wedo with the leaders of a drug gang this duo is infamous in the criminal underworld and the photo is dated february 22nd when great it was in colombia trying to sneak across the venezuelan border since it surfaced one good way to as shrug it off as no big deal. in the middle regime protects the drug gangs so they're trying to divert attention the real question is how they go to hold of that picture thousands of people get the food to stay with me and the images get passed the road towards sue who was the sense of what's up picture to the leader of the socialist party. now the u.s. state department also says that it is no big deal wedo still receives full u.s. backing but when it comes to hugo chavez the story is a big deal never mind that it's more than a decade old in that hugo chavez is long dead they say that he tried to flood the

united states with cocaine and in spain they wanted the head of military and. in venezuela extradited but the judge in the case isn't buying it. i couldn't have hoped for anything different i'm innocent they have always made false accusations against me the truth is i'm very happy with what has happened. as the colombian opposition leader said if a colombian politician wants to be seen in a photo with those criminals he will be prosecuted the union his military and bloody media and political circles are trying to make the scandal smaller because he's actually huge in venezuela colombia and lost in america. 2 presidents 2 stories and 2 different approaches because why focus on the connections of your ally in the present when you can focus on the alleged connections of your enemy 10 years ago. r.t. new york has come up to help us through your art international short break we're

back with more news in just a few moments time. nor make its manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the merry go round with the one percent. nor middle of the room. blood form for syrian conflict mediation never has spoken with one voice but

recently disagreement between russia turkey and iran has become so stuck good not even the leaders try to hide it as the program run its course or is the friction really a sign that it's working. welcome back to the program 2 major attacks in afghanistan on thursday took place leaving 50 people dead one was carried out by a terror group taliban the other by the afghan government which mistook its target local journalists as more details. powerful suicide bombing targeted south and zabul province this morning killing at least 20 people according to local

provincial council members taliban claimed responsibility for this attack claiming that they have targeted the local intelligence campaign around but also a local hospital was damaged and many people have been killed and wounded there so the local officials said they try to transfer as many as they could to the neighboring province of kandahar this is happening while the talks between the u.s. and the taliban has halted and stopped and the fighting between these 2 groups i mean the government and the taliban has intensified in different levels in front lines as well as into cities and in the outskirts specially in the districts so we had heard another incident deadly incident there that happened in eastern part of afghanistan that u.s. backed afghan forces targeted a group of farmers that were there for harvesting pine outs and according to the

local officials around 30 people have been killed and local governor office saying that they have transferred 9 dead bodies and 6 wounded to a local hospital to local provincial governor office announced their target was a dice militants. and anti terrorist crackdown in nigeria has led to thousands of children being detained that's according to a new report from human rights watch we spoke to them about their findings. since 2013 nigeria has detained about 3600 children and in june human rights watch went to the northeast of nigeria where boko haram its most active and we interviewed more than 30 children who had been detained the vast majority of these children were never charged with a crime in fact they were never taken to court they never had the opportunity to

see a judge the children were denied contact with their families and held in or a book shins they described so little space that they couldn't turn over at night they were you know piled one next to the other they described it like being razor blades a pack many of them began losing hope that they would ever be released some thought that they would die in detention and children as young as 5 or reportedly held in overcrowded military detention facilities or little or no evidence they spent months even years there without charge with reports of sexual physical and mental abuse as well as overcrowding of the children of accused of involvement with the terrorist group boko haram the radical islamist organizations based the north east and lloyd syria that carries out suicide bombings as well as assaults throughout west africa and 2015 book a pledge of allegiance to islamic state many of the imprisoned children were rounded up by general thought were teetering military operations against the

terrorists. they are asked me if i was a member of booker her and beat me up when i said no they tied my hands and legs and hung me to a tree and continued to flow camy they flogged me and left me tied to the tree from morning till evening one person from my village was killed during the interrogation if you make a noise if you drink water without asking them if you go toward the door to get fresh air they beat you. the soldiers had girlfriends one of the girls from our village was a girl friend of a soldier she would usually take her out of the compound some ladies got pregnant in the cell and delivered while i was there. over 2000 children from detention since 2030 nearly all of them had been held without charge or thought at this point how many of them still remain in custody joe becker again says the government should make more effort to release them. nobody knows the current number

of children may still be in military custody nigerian authorities do not allow the united nations or independent organizations like human rights watch to access the military detention centers but what human rights watch is calling for is that nigerian authorities release any remaining children in military detention and transfer them to civilian protection authorities so that they can receive rehabilitation help or unifying with their families and reintegrating into their communities of a no jury military denies the allegations made in that report saying the children are kept in secure areas on a adequately cared for voss the nigerian minister of justice for comment they have yet to respond but sit with us our back in 30 minutes time with the latest boom bust coming up next.

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