saudi arabia points the finger at iran over last week's drone missile strike on its all refined reciting the sophistication and direction of the attack is evidence that iran is the black. global security body interpol says at least a dozen suspected terrorist event to europe by crossing the mediterranean. on the u.s. keep silence over allegations venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president one guy joe has links to a drug gang about washington making the same claims against a country previously that relate to god chavis. plus a new report reveals thousands of children in nigeria were being held in dire conditions without trial over their alleged association with terrorists we spoke

with one of the pool because of the ripples. he described severely overcrowded sounds when 250 or 300 detainees packed into that was 10 meters by 10 years. very good evening thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. troops national security teams expected to meet a little later on thursday senior officials from across the government to set to consider a response to the drone attacks in saudi arabian oil fields that occurred last weekend the president though is still unclear or don't show and he's leaning towards i mean you may have some very strong here and we'll see what happens a lot of things could happen if we can have a peaceful solution that's good it's possible that that won't happen. the u.s. says that it's confident iran is responsible and vows to impose new sanctions on

tehran just to remind you last saturday a dozen cruise missiles more than 20 drones hit a major oil field and processing plant in the east of the kingdom it tank which yemeni the rebels claimed they carried out knocked out 5 percent of the global all supply which saw the price of oil rocket artie's looks at what evidence has been presented to date it has been decided that iran did it and that started opinion or a finding with the result of an investigation it's a decision guilty secretary do you gather any new evidence that shows who is behind the attacks and do you think you have a slam dunk case to bring to the u.n. next week. i think it's abundantly clear and there is an enormous consensus in the region that we know precisely who conducted these attacks was iran i didn't hear anybody in the region who doubted that for a single month trub 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 these undone and we'll see what happens we'll see what happens i think we have a lot of good capital and 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. not 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

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. if there are you raining 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 along side 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 it almost has the fingerprints of the revolutionary guard in its influence over the hutu rebels tonight u.s. intelligence indicates the unprecedented attack on saudi oil fields originated from around 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 countries 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 where the cruise missiles and drones were made from exactly with that attack was launched or why

a defense systems could not prevent that tank 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 responding back then again to those saying it's iran because there are alleged iranian components in the day bri does 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 be 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 that book wires vengeance. meanwhile iranian foreign minister mohammed jeffords a reef is warned any strike against iran by the united states or saudi arabia would lead to an all out war you in a sense a team of experts to saudi arabia to investigate last week's drone and missile attacks russia to this underline the necessity for an unbiased probe. it is important to make the investigation objective details are numb biased as the

allegations against iran that are not backed up by facts do not help the situation only intensify tensions in the region where the risk of confrontation is already heights on. american surface to air missiles known as patriots have miss our detection areas and kill zones as the russian defense ministry puts it these drone attacks are actually carried out in the middle of those areas at least expert ali risk believes that the case demonstrates the failure of u.s. and saudi arabian anti missile systems. well i think these attacks expose the limits of the capabilities of both the united states and saudi arabia and i think that the conclusion which has to be reached by the trumpet ministration is that it can no longer continue to support this war in yemen but rather it has to go into talks or enter some kind of a diplomatic process in order to put an end to this situation there's been numerous attempts they've been u.n. mediations they've been other diplomatic initiatives all of it has failed the other

states the trumpet ministration has in fact doubled down on its support for the war on the amman so i think that the many who feel this war given no choice but to escalate attacks with the aim of forcing the enemy to bell down and to put a stop to this war and to find some kind of another another supplement a peaceful settlement for the conflict that we have in fact seen in 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. after an almost 2 month large scale maritime operation the global security body interpol says it's detected at least a dozen suspected foreign terrorists from it is invented the continent by crossing the mediterranean auntie charlotte de biskit reports. this is operation she ran to

the idea is it to look for threats posed by foreign terrorist fighters who may be using maritime routes so forcing them at training in attempts to get into the showing you their way into the european union interpol of said that during the oprah show in the summer there were so one point she would 1000000 checks that took place this is checks that just looking at people's legal documents making sure that they all do they say they are and they say as a result of all of those checks they intercepted 12 individuals who they believe all potential terrorists interpol says it's always only god when information is shared between regions via into pools networks of the global level and every check border control or random search is a potential break in the terror investigation. well no further details have been released about those individuals such as where they're from or indeed which works they use to try and get into the european union but many will be concerned that

this is yet another element to this the only issue of immigration the e.u. leaders are yet to agree a way forward on we know ministers will meet next week to discuss that but countries such as italy greece and rome said that they are shown during the heavy burden and they asked for other european countries to do more to help out and there is this concern that although the numbers in the last few years have been declining in the last few days it has been a shopping precinct areas such as greece leading to see is that they could be another story yet again a migration present my home was in italy on wednesday evening to meet the prime minister just sepic own sake and he said that it is time to listen to those countries on the up new up in the european union has not shown enough solidarity with the countries of 1st arrival particularly italy france is ready to move forward on this point i hope that together we can work towards a new stronger

a more united solution so i believe that here too we can defend a common position with the new european commission so that all countries competence debate in some form of european solidarity in this area be penalized financially and it's not just how to deal with the sheer number of migrants that europe has seen coming into the continent over the last 2 years it's also a walk they do when they hear and we know that the commissioner designate for the european union this local delay in this going to have to deal with it she's already been criticized the some of the things that she's put in place just in the last week or so she announced that the commission of that would be looking off to the grief over immigration i would be cool to the commissioner. the european way of life some accusing her of the using fascist rhetorical with that title including the president. who said he just didn't agree with the idea of this title saying

issue of immigration many elements to it and it looks like it's something that european union leaders and also their ministers will be discussing for many months . there's been a new twist in the standoff between venezuela in the united states with caracas now urging washington to reopen diplomatic ties when it comes after president eclipse madeira entered into talks with opposition parties relations between venezuela u.s. collapsed back in january officially recognize the opposition leader as the interim president of the country recently been linked to venezuelan drug gangs something washington seems unconcerned. and i'm open express. 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 who go 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 dueto is shrugged it off as no big deal for him in the . regime protects the drug gangs so they're trying to divert attention the real question is how they go to hold to that picture thousands of people get the food to stay with me and the images get passed the road towards so who was it that 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 and 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 intelligence in venezuela extradited but the judge in the case isn't buying it. because i couldn't have hoped for and if indifferent i'm innocent they have always made false accusations against me the dr i am very happy with what has happened. as the colombian opposition leaders say if a colombian politician wants be seen in a photo with those criminals he will be prosecuted he is the union his military a bloody media and political circles are trying to make the scandal smaller actually huge in venezuela colombia a loss 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. the leader of the israeli opposition insists that he will head

a unity government not been human netanyahu said to the prime minister's bloc and the opposition both failed to win a majority and i snap election. 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. i was surprised and disappointed by the fact that as of now benny gantz still refuses my call to meet the president called for unity and without a meeting between the 2 major party leaders a unity government cannot be formed. the position leaders statement comes after netanyahu called him to form a coalition with 97 percent of the vote now count is netanyahu center right likud bloc is 2 seats behind the center left a blue and white alliance on wednesday the prime minister added that if he doesn't

lead the government it will be quote dangerous receive its mandate from the arab parties he spoke to diplomatic analyst it on the road and he thinks that there will be a struggle for leadership of a coalition. netanyahu is somewhat disappointment that guns is refusing even to meet him so we are quite skeptical phase now 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. who's 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 in negotiation psychology here that's the main thing i'm seeing here behind the scenes. this is r.t. join me for more news after the break.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond short and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm sure. i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. here in dramatic development only and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

blood form for syrian conflict mediation never has spoken with one voice but recently disagreement between russia turkey and iran has become so stark 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. back to major attacks in afghanistan have left 50 people dead one was carried out by the taliban the other by the afghan government which mistook its target more details his local journalists. powerful suicide bombing targeted south and zabul province this morning killing at least 20 people according to local provincial council members and 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 would 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 in the 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 point now it's 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 the local

hospital the local provincial governor office announced their target was the dice militants. and terrorists 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 a 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 orrible conditions they described so little space that they couldn't turn over at night they were you

know pile one next to the other they described it like the razor blades pack many of them something began losing hope that they would ever be released some thought that they would die in detention. the children as young as 5 were reportedly held in overcrowded military detention facilities on little or no evidence they spent months even years there without charge with the reports of sexual physical and mental abuse and overcrowding the children of accused of involvement with the armed terrorist group boko haram the radical islamist organizations based in northeastern nigeria carries out suicide bombings as well as armed assaults throughout west africa 2015 booker pledged allegiance through islamic state many of the imprisoned children were rounded up on a juvenile thought is during military operations again said great. they are smee 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 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 it was. the nigerian authorities have released over 2000 children from the tension since 2013 nearly all of whom have been held without charge it's not known at this point just how many of them remain in custody joe becker again says the government should make more of an effort to release them nobody knows the current number of children who may still be in military custody nigerian authorities do not allow the actions 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. you know jury military denies the allegations made in the report saying the children are kept in secure years and are adequately cared for we have us the nigerian ministry of justice for comment they have yet to respond. oh big drop today really appreciate you company this evening do stay with us i'll be back with updates on our top stories the much more.

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a period of about 6 months you have to shoot in growth and invest your eyes eisen occurring in other words the cells the mule in your body grow into the scaffold it grows its own blood supply so now this is fully integrated as part of my on it's a living part of my own. thank god to. welcome to the alex salmond show where we finalize our city's on economic conditions against which the bricks it puts could drama is

being played out last week alex interviewed 2 leading u.k. commentators about how brits it was influencing the economy and about how these economic conditions have influence brics it. from england professor richard murphy detailed the overlooked practical implications on companies of a new deal halloween bricks it cashflow is actually the biggest potential implication of bricks it i can see no one including the government in its yellow hammer documents has talked about who is going to pay the cost of lorries sitting for $2.00 and a half days waiting to get through dover from scotland former m.p. george caravan identifies how falling living standards had driven the politics of bricks that business manufacturing down worse than 7 years we've got a we've actually for the 2nd quarter g.d.p. is actually stalled it's down we're well into the 3rd quarter i suspect we may already be in recession in the u.k. this week we turn to the international economy where too late in commentators like

the world conditions which have favored the loach to the populist right professor carter's bhatia princeton university i guess that small countries have been able to maintain social cohesion in the face of global trends in a fashion which is eluded their larger neighbors in the past meaning the past the sixty's and the seventy's or the eighty's it was all about free market but. intervention or you know socialism versus conservatism and this has progressively changed to protection is. some kind of our social democrat globe but globalization package and in some countries i think that the 2nd one works pretty well especially the small countries are in big countries for some reason it doesn't seem to have the appeal or the or the state the capacity to do that and we interviewed the former chief investment officer of credit suisse michael o'sullivan about his new book the leveling which charts the way forward

pushed globalization don't be lazy and assume that globalization will continue we will go through a fallow period of 5 or 10. years internationally while the next world order begins to evolve and there's lots of hurdles there but 1st your tweets emails and messages in response to last week's show more access such an interesting episode of alex i'm unsure on what operation yellow hammer left out and it's a shocker he's also says richard murphy thanks for the creates clinicians on today's alec salmon shield terry says what an eloquent guest are really interesting interview with richard murphy thanks for another great show bartholomew says thanks ricky for recommend to me this episode of the alex salmon sure i should watch it more well we hope you do ed i preferred the 1st interview be asked to the 2nd interview dramatic political changes are always going to bring about economic destructions so i ask him if likely economic disruptions would also be

a good reason not to go ahead with scottish independence and see and as both interview suggested the world is headed towards recession anyways i never think that this is to break that advantage other than disadvantage and finally from sheila who says the main goal is to make a few people very rich see their transition. the level and what's next after globalization is a book written by former princeton academic michael sullivan it told us an analysis of the transition and world economics finance and power as either globalization ends i guess we need to new power centers and institutions the author tells alex why we all need to be ready for this change michael sullivan the the leveling you see the end of the globalization evils inevitable how can that be when we've got the great global companies destroying the pilot not the biggest.