the u.n. security council rejects a u.s. sponsored resolution to extend an arms embargo on iran with only 2 members of voting in favor. if you reject the election results dello russo says it will hit the country with sanctions meanwhile the thousands arrested during the mass anti-government protests are beginning to be released and amid claims of widespread police brutality this week one doctor shares her experience. there was the women were in line on the floor and the men were in the next hour they were constantly beaten so badly maybe just how long this was. and tensions spike in the mediterranean as francis says it will bolster its military presence there to monitor turkey's activities in disputed waters.

are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our g international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have moved us by now the u.n. security council has rejected a u.s. sponsored resolution to extend the arms trade embargo on iran only to members including the u.s. supported the draft while russia china both voted against it and other members as well including the u.k. france and germany they abstained the embargo was imposed in 2010 and is set to expire in october under the joint a comprehensive plan of action the 2015 deal to impose controls on iran's nuclear program for more on this let's cross live at your skill and who is joining us from new york now caleb what does this decision mean and why does the u.s.

put the question on the table at all. well the resolution put forward by the united states would have extended the arms embargo against iran now france germany and other countries have been very vocal about the fact that they oppose the united states' decision to unilaterally withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement and furthermore they oppose putting new sanctions on iran now in the lead up to the vote at the u.n. security council u.s. diplomats were very adamant that they felt this arms embargo must be extended here's some of what we heard. i call upon all think you are to council members to wake up to the real world implications of allowing this arms embargo to lapse the security council central purpose is to promote global peace and security failure to extend the arms embargo would make a mockery of that fake twitter responsibility on which the united nations was created now prior to the vote in which this resolution failed mike taylor said

the united states feels that if this arms embargo is not extended as it was not that the united states will impose the snap back mechanism in the iran nuclear deal and snap back the sanctions on iran this is mike papantonio the u.s. secretary of state i want to as i said i want to be 2 kids we're deeply aware that snapback is an option that's available to the united states and we're going to do everything within america's power to ensure that that arms embargo is extended and i'm confident that we will be successful. now the snapback mechanism in the iran nuclear agreement was essentially put in place so that if iran were to violate the j c p o they would then face the penalty of an immediate snap back of the sanctions however let's remember that it was not iran that violated the agreement and the agreement

was not withdrawn from by iran it was the united states that pulled out of ukraine it so un lawyers are going to have to look into the legality of the united states imposing the snapback mechanism when iran has not violated the agreement now currently mike pompei o is in vienna talking with officials from the international atomic energy agency they say that iran has fully complied with the nuclear deal and not violated my pompei oh says however it doesn't really seem to be a about the nuclear deal anymore this is mike bomb peo iran must provide full transparent and immediate cooperation with the i.a.e.a. we can't allow the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism to buy and sell weapons i mean it's just not. so it seems that the trumpet ministrations policy of imposing maximum pressure on iran and quote ripping up the iran nuclear deal was essentially put to a vote at the body that leads the united nations and it seems that this policy of

the trump white house seeking to escalate tension with iran was overwhelmingly rejected. and there we know that as the story develops we'll stay across of course as you always do thanks for that for more on this at less cost a live now to joshua landis who is the director at the center for middle east studies and professor of middle eastern studies at the university of oklahoma thanks for being with us here on our team international. so. why is the u.s. still pushing the resolution despite russian and chinese hands that a veto. well united states as you know has a maximum pressure campaign on iran they want the iran government at least the way they put it to change its behavior radically in the region as we know we just saw the new agreement between the u.a.e. and israel the united states has said it's going to put sanctions on his ball an

iranian client in lebanon it has put very crushing sanctions on the syrian government all the governments that are aligned with iran america is wants to pin their ears to all economic sanctions impoverish their people in the hopes that they they'll either overthrow their governments or put pressure on them to change so this is part of a much larger u.s. policy to help its friends saudi arabia israel and to her next enemies iran and of course russia which is allied with iran and to try to move them out of the region and to keep america paramount in the persian gulf the source of so much of the world's oil 50 percent of the world's oil supplies this is about control of the international energy supply. joshua i'm going to i mean i know it's not a simple answer as a yes or no it's not cut and dry but does washington actually have the right to unilaterally restore un sanctions as it threatens to do so especially as it is the

entity that quintin the j c p o l. well that's the big question and i am sure that many people are saying it does not obviously the united states believes it does and believes that it's on the side of the good that iran has it as you heard this secretary of state say is the world's greatest supporter of terrorism of course there are many other contenders for that job this is a political designation in many ways because the u.s. just just accuse turkey of having a lead all the isis people go through 40000 of them into syria and iraq so there are other contenders for that. high bar but the united states is leading the way in this maximum pressure campaign and it believes that it if it can it should be able to get on its allies and europe to join it now of course that leaves russia and china who are looking at this very skeptically but even france is

looking at it skeptically the thing is a france needs american assistance it is taking on a campaign against turkey in the eastern mediterranean and there are many other you know the europeans are highly dependent on united states they need to stick together with the u.s. and i guess that's the major hope that the u.s. will be able to rally its people at least show the world that there is a division and that china and russia on one side the united states and europe are on the other side a lot of moving pieces here we're going to be talking about that france turkey situation a little bit later in our program a lot of involving political theater do you think that this is just a set up will this failure of this resolution be used to justify the sanctions. yes and we you know we saw the united states just took for iraq to ships it took all their oil out of these iranian ships that were pliant that were moving towards venezuela under the rubric that america has allowed to take iranian oil

off its ships because it's a terrorist supporting nation and and this is you know this is the ongoing battle so the united states is trying to lay this down and lay down a strict. demonization of iran so the world will understand it's intensifying pressure on iran and really it's up to the rest of the world to see whether they want to line up with that or not joshua landis director of the center for middle eastern studies and also professor of middle eastern studies at the university of oklahoma always interesting to hear your thoughts thanks for being with us here on arch international pleasure. switching gears now that used top diplomats have agreed to slap sanctions on belarus over what they claim was the falsified election and the violence of during the ensuing protests meanwhile those arrested in meant during a week of anti-government demonstrations have started to be released since the outbreak of the unrest police have faced allegations of excessive brutality earlier

today president alexander lukashenko said that he didn't have a problem with the conduct of the security forces although he did urge them to take a softer line meanwhile protests continue with the country's capital once again the main focus now these are images from the square in front of the main government building some protesters rushed to hug and hand flowers to security forces after they laid down their shields in an impressive move that is after crowds of demonstrators converged on the area striking workers from one of the country's biggest factories the mint tractor works were among them let's hear from our correspondent on the scene. in the square in minsk something absolutely unique and interesting for better or worse is happening here you can see the special police will move in the town insoles is standing behind me with the courage of the house of the government on the other side is where protesters have gathered everything is peaceful no provocations and says we can see officers put

down a shield is. that's the situation those minsk attractive factory workers arrived here with their banners. and nothing else is going on. people are chanting slogans let them go. but all of this is going on thankfully without provocation for now they certainly enforcement officers are just openly standing there look at this it's a unique picture i haven't seen anything like this before. with more on today's developments in belarus here's artie's more remarkable. all this friday night will see a lot of family who will let's see there are a lot of loved ones after almost a week long absence and that's because the bill russian authorities began releasing all those of protesters who were detained in that mass rallies that on sunday right

after the right after the presidential election in the roost now many of the detainees are being released right now have been sharing their harrowing experience this take a look it was just the right police asked us to show all passports but i didn't have one then they asked for my phone and saw what i had been feldman they said i should go to the van and one by a police officer grabbed me i tried to resist and he invited 5 others i said how are you going to look into your mother's eyes they shouted shut the fuck and hit me in the head while we were walking to the policeman so they called me a prostitute when we felt sick they said you can urinate on vomit we don't care. we should not stop the feds use we spent 17 hours outside without water or food or anything on the cell we were given only bread and water there were 40 of us in there we slept on the floor the men were beaten so badly that they screamed 247

they beat them to within an inch of their lives imported water on them and beat them again. and sent him i was not one person and he was detained to he my asked also to the put into the police man conditions at the crest and detention center there is much to be desired there are 30 to 50 people who once how no food just have 14 and human treatment. of interior ministry pledge that they will let all of the detainees go by the end all for this friday now so for around 2000 people have been freed and that's approximately a 3rd of all those who were detained during the week long almost a week long rally lot. among those people who were detained were medics as well let's take a listen to this firsthand account as it was the women were lying on the floor and the men who were in the next hour they were constantly me so badly great just how lonely it was a terrible how the bloody frozen high lanes were just what we heard every night the

basement was terrible prison guards were saying what's wrong is your life that's bad decided to act out and we lose war here because of some nonsense what kind of doctors are you if you're not doctors i don't know what you are werewolves that's the sort of thing they shouted at and a lot of swear words that i don't want to repeat they were also saying this when you were 1st held in the street everyone driving by was shocked doctors and white ropes on their knees been chained on to the had a machine that now protest in belarus have moved beyond the streets as factories bland send different markets began protesting expressing their solidarity with the bills at the mass rallies as well one of belarus's biggest tracks there's a tractor manufacturers well they suspended their operations partially after employees decided to walk out on strike now the prime minister all deliveries decided to visit at this plant and cut off to the strikers however they were not satisfied with what the meeting and now they're heading towards the russian capital

often minsk now they're calling for reforms 3rd calling to bring justice to those who were hurt during the mass rallies and they're also calling for the departure of president look at shango now the president himself all here reacted to the growing number of work your support testing and addressed the strikers by calling on them to get back to work and he also promised that all of the detention cases that took place over the last all almost a week will be investigated meanwhile in syria minister all bellew small he. he apologized to the people who are hurt during the protest in a statement earlier on friday as well now one of the 1st official results of the votes which took place last sunday was announced on friday and gave president lukashenko

a landslide victory his opponents as it mounted to cut off scale she dismissed the results statement it has absolutely nothing to do with reality as you call it she said that she will create a cold the nation council that will see to the peaceful transfer of power in the bill or reduce meanwhile this comes as the european union is also mulling sanctions against a bill or is germany and the european union have both expressed concern and support for science sanctions on the the bill or russian officials calling mass arrests off the demonstrators also a spokesman for german chancellor angela merkel she said at that point in post-election president bill reece was on except civil and the chancellor was shocked by what she had seen how these statements say came just to head off a special video called all feel euphoric ministers on friday who convened to discuss the measures that they will take on the situation in belarus

a professor at the french national institute of languages and eastern civilizations a burner where ski season european sanctions on bellerose has mostly a symbolic move. or discussion with in european union because they are in a difficult situation because on one side. they would like of course some political turn to changes in belarus but in the same time they don't want to go sir there is the most western countries and especially i think germany wants to have the negotiation with me i thought a moment the sanctions they're talking about are mostly symbolic and not really profound we will see how situation will with. the massive explosion last week in beirut destroyed much of the city and locals have been left trying to pick up the pieces not just of the shattered buildings but also

their lives one fashion designer shared the story. like i was always so happy we were facing the port i always sort is very artistic and inspiring because it's industrial enriching details now everything is rick's look at the destruction the wreckage i don't know how much time it would take to be rebuilt. there are no words to describe what my team and i are feeling but we can't but thank god that we're all alive and well no one was hurt he left this building 10 minutes before the blast hit and thank god no one was hurt that's the most important thing. is.

most of the hard work of 20 years was destroyed the mere seconds it was because of this tuesday explosion which went up just across the street. this is another challenge for us how we can get our hands on funds to rebuild they say there will be compensation but that's not certain and this isn't something we used to 11 and i hope we can get compensation to rebuild. this and thinking of coming out with a new collection inspired by this very heartbreaking incident my team and i are really picking up the pieces i really want to come out with a collection inspired by beirut the suffering of beirut. still to come as students in germany have inadvertently been funding of the radical anti for activist group with via their tuition fees more on that after

a short break this is our team international. summer solutions series imax guys are here with stacy herbert you know in a month in which we were meant to have the 2 party conventions officially nominated doll child for the republican and joe biden for the democrats the 10 demick has thrown the election into even more chaos than usual so joining us is great palast journalist author of many books including his latest out now skyrocketing up all the bestseller lists it's called outro stole 2020. i know. no shots. actually

felt. no. points your thirst for action. and. welcome back this is our team in turn optional friends is wrapping up its military presence in the eastern mediterranean this is after turkey began oil and gas exploration in disputed waters there pairs says its deployment is only a temporary measure but its relations with are already strained with more here's our. president matt corn has signaled that the along as tensions

continue to rise between greece and turkey the situation in the eastern mediterranean is worrying tookey is unilateral decisions on oil exploration are causing tensions these must stop in order for a peaceful dialogue between neighboring and nato allies to take place but this seemingly didn't stop the french president from reinforcing france's military presence in the mediterranean it's confirmed paris will send to referee and fighter jets and the naval frigate fiat a move welcomed by the greek prime minister i thank president mccraw on for his cell a dirty emanuel necron is a true friend of greece but also a fervent defender of european values and international law the greek pm bill this as an act of solidarity but you only have to scratch the surface to see that there is more going on here in recent months process also found itself clashing with

turkey in the mediterranean. these past few days we have seen turkish warships deliver syrian mercenaries to libyan soil this is a serious and explicit in french amount of what was agreed upon in berlin i must reiterate the prerequisite for any political solution in libya is the cancellation of this document but with that incident still rushing from his mind it appears to have been keen to show solidarity with a fellow member in this case greece last month back on even cooled the sanctions against turkey over these purported violations in the eastern mediterranean now the arrival of turkey's new seismic civvy vessel this caught the attention of the e.u. the latest developments rick stream the worrying what is needed to be done is to engage in solving all the open issue. with principles of good neighborly relations

international and positive engagement with fronts now bolstering its military might to aid greece's plight greece is perhaps there feeling in bold and its place its military on high alert recalling naval and air force personnel from their holidays turkey for its part says it will protect its rights toys and interests in coastal areas and with fronts now wading into this part turkey's president is accused of provoking regional players into taking wrongful steps there is concern that this action by fronts rather than defeating the situation could in fact escalate it. r.t. paris. students in germany have been funding the controversial activist group without even knowing it this has come to light that part of the tuition pays to excuse me part of the tuition fees paid to cologne university there we go have been

going to the group for years now reports. the anti fascist organization have received a lot of press in 2020 with even the president of the united states chime in the united states of america will be designating and as a terrorist organization here in germany they haven't received that type of criticism but there is a controversy surrounding the use of university students fees from cologne to go towards a contribution to the group for the 2020 to $21.00 winter semester each student at the university of cologne pays $280.00 euro and $0.95 for $205.00 euro and $0.95 goes to the student council and is meant to pay the transport discounting worker's salary and for the department's work out of the 10000000 euro the council will take in around 8 and

a half 1000 will be paid to the student branch and to take its delicate because while auntie far on demonised here the way they are in the us a report by germany's internal security service the beer file has some pretty strong things to say about a k. and the groups it's associated with conservative student groups in turn and not so happy that they have to contribute to a case without choice it shouldn't be that every student has to subsidize a group that has been classified as extremist by the office for the protection of the constitution we regularly demand that the funding of n.t. for a k. be cut the majority of students who spoke to r.t. said they had absolutely no problem paying a contribution to our 8 k. i don't know how much the payment is but i'm sure it is not enough and it should be higher i think it's good because it's important to them. is dealing with

many board and social issues and they're less you know ended in. well. i think it's a good idea to go and. i think it does make sense and i think it is important and why political spectrum is represented and i see no problem that it is fine and from the student piece a k. has received funding from students at the university of cologne since it was set up 15 years ago neither the student body that doles out the funding nor the students themselves see any reason why that should change any time soon but while the name continues to be mentioned in trembling tones by those in power the group may find themselves coming under more scrutiny peter all of it. within the growth of the black lives matter movement following of the killing of george floyd some of the biggest companies on the planet were quick to publicly denounce racism but a recent poll shows

a few people actually think these statements are sincere the survey in the us found 7 out of 10 people believe corporate america's anti racism stance is just down to public pressure rather than actual concern it also found people split over whether such messaging is necessary at all. that's what black americans set out to make them. political commentator anthony bryan logan believes companies are only looking out for their own profits these companies are just trying to be virtuous and as consumers and they don't want to have any kind of cancel culture or to cancel coming your direction they don't want to get your stories they don't want to have

a negative reputation so to go out there is a thing as i always support black labs black lab matter it's all about just p.r. company relation is trying to appear virtuous and good in the ads of those that are out there protesting and also and as a of those that are out there sympathetic towards the protesters if a company had a reputation of being pro social justice and pro you know black labs and anti police for loans then it would make sense for them to have this stance now but if you're not that kind of company if there's a company that sells hamburgers or hot dogs i mean there's no reason for you to go out there and talk about anything political at all no reason whatsoever there's no reason to pick sags. international.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to the world of politics. i'm sure. i'll see you then. 1 september 90977. dollars city area like.