the top iranian nuclear scientist is killed in to run by on known assailants. iran calls the killing and acts of terror and points the finger at israel. we look at how the killing may impact the iran nuclear deal after the us president elect joe biden had been hinting you wanted america back at the negotiation table. for french officers are suspended for beating up black man in paris. after a video of the incident goes viral follows a wave of anger in france against a controversial bill that could ban police from being filmed in public even in neighborhood. my screams, he told me, you know,

ask what's going on. i explain and been attacks and he wanted to call the police, but it was the police. it's outrageous. and a relative of a civilian reportedly killed in a u.s. drone strike in yemen says he continues to live in fear that's as a top court in germany rules. berlin can legally distance itself from american operations conducted from german soil. a very warm welcome to you here at r.t. international. my name's donald quarter taking you through your world news stories this hour. welcome to the program. scientists labeled the father of iran's nuclear program has been killed on the outskirts of to run in response. the u.n. has called for restraint and to avoid any actions that could lead to an escalation . local reporter gave us some more details about the killing, which iran has branded an act of terror. senior iranian scientist was killed

on a highway near tehran. there's not much detail about the number of people involved in the attack, or number of people killed in the incident in a skirmish tack to place some 75 kilometers outside to iran, north east of tehran, near the resort city of stat. you know, apparently he did. traffic was quite less than usual in comparison to the other days. and did the terrorists apparently caught into the vehicle of the scientists newsmedia say, dad, there was an explosion. and then there was a gunfire. berridge of gunfire bids been the security officials and do sasson tactic, which is killing on the roll is similar tactic those attacks that carried out

almost a decade ago. there was the result of such assassinations on a rainy and scientists be claimed live top iranian scientists. raney and officials have pointed the finger at israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has previously accused the slain scientist of being the driving force behind iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. artie's spoke with my colleague, you know, neal earlier. well, we're getting all indications that this was a well coordinated, complicated attack on the man that some western intelligence agencies have flagged . as the person behind iran's alleged covert nuclear weapons program to rand firmly denies wanting anything like it. so this situation is nowhere near. something in which the killer just points a gun at the victim and then shoots and kills here, it was much more complicated. like i said,

because explosives were used and there were even reports that this could have been a suicide attack. then gunfire followed the explosion which left the vehicle with the scientists marked. so this explains why the iranian defense ministry called this a terrorist attack from the very beginning, but all of that couldn't kill the man. immediately he was taken to hospital where he died. so once again, here, we're talking about a prominent iranian nuclear scientists. he had a team of bodyguards trying to protect them, but that couldn't save his life though the world i think is waiting to see what to run is going to do. has to be any clue as to what the reaction, the initial reaction from tehran, senior officials, like, what have they been saying about this? who did this? and what's going to happen while the iranian foreign minister is making it clear once again that iran purely treat this as an act of state terror. jawad zarif is

pointing the finger at israel, and also he is demanding international attention. terrorists murdered an imminent iranian scientists today. this cowardice with serious indications of this really rule show desperate war mongering of perpetrators. iran calls on the international community and especially you see and their shameful double standards and condemn this act of state terror. well, so far there has been no response from israel and charlie at this point. we cannot make any conclusions about possible connections between this murder and also the rhetoric that we have been hearing from israeli officials on iran's nuclear activities. but the fact is that 2 years ago and $28.00 taking the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu called up the name of the murdered scientist and accused him not only of being behind the alleged military element of iran's nuclear

program years ago. but also he accused them of continuing to covertly run the program up until present times. remember the main focus of the so here's director right here. and this is the generally is to announce the closure project. but then the special activities, you know, what the special activities will be carried out under the title of scientific know how developments and in fact, this is exactly what iran proceeded to do. continue this work in a series of organizations over the years. we just put this in context, the story of the iranian nuclear program, at least in the past 2 decades, has resembled a game of nonstop ping pong. if i may put it this way, that is to run constantly repeating and trying to convince the international

community that its nuclear activities are purely of a peaceful nature. and then also the anti to ron international law, be led by israel, constantly repeating that iran is only trying to fool the world. however, it seems that a bit more than 5 years ago, israel and its political allies, started losing this game of ping pong because the most important international players, including the us and russia, were able to hammer out the so-called iran nuclear deal. and in fact, international observers were let into the country and they didn't find any proof of military activities on iran's nuclear sites. though at some point the status quo was broken because of a decision by donald trump administration to quit the deal which led to a situation in which to iran decided to abandon some of its commitments. there. you have the tension and an extra wave of the so to say iran's nuclear crisis. and now

we have this murder of a rainy and nuclear scientist which will definitely have international consequences analyst for both iran and israel shared their thoughts about the killing. of course, this assassination is illegal and it's an act of war. he was a high ranking iranian official, when they see aspires, arrested in iran, or in a terrorist is arrested in iran, immediately western human rights organizations, governments, the media pundits, experts all say that they're innocent as if they have some sort of insider information. yet when these attacks are carried out, these attacks are carried out with the help of spies with the help of terrorists, and they gloat over it. and instead of condemning it, they go and you know, they try to make him look as if he's evil. so this is the hypocrisy that we see in the western media and among western governments. these laws will respond. so you

cannot put the blame on israel. everything is possible in the middle east and in prison. these bodies lead them identify them. and if they claim that is behind it, let's see if those people are really israelis right now. i doubt it very much, but we know a lot of the names of gauged in this project. their names were published. these are these really press a few times. that doesn't mean that this world is behind this assignation. the incident comes at a time when relations between the u.s. and iran are essentially at rock bottom, specifically after the trumpet, ministration. quit the key nuclear deal, which was struck back in 2015. artie's new york correspondent, caleb moppin outlines the tense diplomacy right now between washington and tehran. well, the trajectory of u.s. iran relations over the past few years has been quite negative. things have been

moving in quite a bad direction between the 2 countries. donald trump has presided over a situation where the usa and iran are moving further apart, and prominent iranians have been killed. back in january, donald trump ordered a drone strike directed against qassam solomonic that resulted in qassam somani death on that caused outrage throughout the region. he was a leader of the islamic revolutionary guards. he ran military operations against isis ill, to protect christians in syria. and in iraq, and he was designated as a terrorist by the united states. now, when he was killed, there were protests throughout the region. there was, there were protests in the arab world in pakistan, and yemen in turkey. there were also protests in response to that killing by donald trump. a huge amount of outrage. many voices internationally spoke up and felt this was a very unnecessary escalation of tensions between the united states and iran. and

we also recall that prior to that assassination, donald trump had withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal. he pulled out of the jay c.p.o. away and he said it was the worst deal of the century. this is donald trump. i recruit from the last administration was disastrous. if i didn't terminate that stupid, the deal was a disaster. the agreement that was, it was a disaster. now the escalations haven't only been directly between the united states and iran, but we've seen an embracing by the united states of netanyahu. and his feeling that there needs to be an escalation with iran in the region. you know, we saw donald trump move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. and recently we saw mike pompei oh, go on a tour of the middle east. and, you know, tout the fact that at this point, there are some governments in the arab world that have recognized israel. and it seems like the effort of the united states is to mobilize and polarize the region

between israel and iran. take a listen to my palm, pale thanks to president troop. the u.s. pulled out of the dangerous nuclear review with the wrong place, crippling sanctions on the union regime and then limited the mood to go some soon. be a record speaks for itself. during the trip administration, america stands with israel like never before. now, many were hoping that things may change with joe biden in the white house after all, joe biden was vice president under barack obama, and it was the obama administration that negotiated the iran nuclear deal, which donald trump pulled out up, however, and then are many, are looking at what's happened since the signing of the iran nuclear agreement in 2015 and seeing the united states pulling out of that agreement more sanctions being placed on iran, the killing of qassam solomonic. now there is the incident which took place today with the killing of this nuclear scientist. and many are wondering if that is really possible. is there really hope for the united states and iran to sit down

once again and make any progress in, in bettering the relationship between the 2 countries? it will certainly be difficult for a biden and ministration. if indeed they intend to take these moves, professor of middle eastern studies at the university of oklahoma, joshua landis believes the incoming biden administration will not want to make relations with iran any worse than they are right now. braun has many reasons to trust, distrust united states, but at the same time, there's a lot of pressure for a deal. the united states and in president biden, in his administration, are not going to want to get into a military confrontation with iran. it's lunacy for the united states to get into another war in the middle east, particularly with a country as powerful as iran. if they don't fix this year on situation and neutralize it in some way. they're going to be stuck in the middle east. this is a quagmire for them because iran is not going to put up with being starved to death

. and, and the united states isn't going to put up with iran moving towards refinement of nuclear of eurabia. so the 2 have to make a deal that they've proven that they can do it, and trump came along and rubbish, the whole thing, thinking that he'd get a better deal. and that what we've seen now is that the united states in a much worse position than it was 40 years ago and, and that the trump policy didn't work. so i think everybody is going to put their shoulder to the wheel and try to get back to some agreement with iran still to come . shameful. that's how the french president described the savage beating of a black man by police, which was caught on camera. the victim had reportedly been targeted for not wearing a face mask. all the details after this short break

as a drug administration comes when then those who dreamed up in executing the russia gate hoax ever be held accountable. will the media ever be held accountable for the role they played and should be now assume the deep state is truly the law. it's certainly being isolated. it's not good for your mental health. not good for your general for. status, may make you more. when you get infected, this also the issue of cross immunity with both a co bonafide. this is if you're not saying countering it's all supposed pros to pull. you may be more full to soft toll free to shoot you in the future. so i certainly do not think

a good suit people smell and that's very bad for people's mental health. it's back to the program. the french president has branded as shameful video footage, which captured the moments for police officers beat a black man in paris. michelle's eckler, who is a music producer, who was followed, bought to his studio for not wearing a face mask, you may find this security camera video disturbing.

there are also photos showing the extent of the man's injuries. again, some graphic imagery. a head shot was left with head and facial wounds as well as a torn tendon. he was initially placed in police custody where he spent 48 hours, and he was seen by a doctor only after that. the charges against him, of violence and rebellion were later dropped. following the emergence of this video, evidence then moved, if you see it, it was very hard when they fired tear gas that was at the back. i tried to call my lawyer. i tried to call a lot of people, even a neighbor heard my screams. he called me and asked what's going on. i explained it's been attacked and he wanted to call the police, but it was the police. it's outrageous. i can't even tell you what i'm waiting for

. i wish of course, that this never happens again to anyone. whether there are cameras or not, it should never happen. the police are here to protect us. so old media reports claim the officers were suspicious of the man's lack of a face mask and detected the smell of drugs. they also claimed he tried to attack them and grab their weapons. the 4 officers have now been suspended and a criminal inquiry has been launched. the shell's lawyer says the video saved her client from prison. they're hitting him with their telescopic badness. they don't stop hitting him. this video last for 12 minutes of violence. video is essential because my client was initially in detention, but they detained him accused of violence against a person holding public authority. so it's essential and it's extremely serious. if we didn't have this video, perhaps my client would be in prison for an extremely serious infraction. this incident comes as a new security bill is provoking widespread protests and friends if passed in january. it would make sharing videos or images of the police illegal if they could

put potential put these officers potentially at risk. a member of the committee against police violence told us that this new case shows why filming police in public is essential. we are again seeing police violence. the video from the security camera was actually taken by the victim. it's a private video. it proves that the police report was false. this is just one of countless cases in france. we are dealing with the have been lots of them recently . for example, the case of cedric which was widely covered by the media with police officers following him and reports on it. and then video proves it folks. the situation was different. unfortunately, the justice system seems to take the word of the police for this reason, video that captures the police in action is needed to start an investigation, as in this case. and secondly,

to provide sufficient evidence. according germany has ruled the country isn't liable for possible war crimes connected to u.s. . drone strikes, controlled from its territory, washington has coordinated a number of operations through their rob stein air base there. the last of the yemeni nationals has been the night the federal administrative court has explained that a general, a geisha for protection in favor of foreigners in foreign countries can exist. but southern choir is differently than the higher administrative court. well, this ruling in light signals that the german government has no responsibility to guarantee that u.s. drone strikes that are operated from a u.s. air base on german soil. that they adhere to international human rights law that they fall within the remits that overturns a ruling in a german court in munster last year, which said exactly the office. it's in said that berlin did bear responsibility. it

also went on to say that the german government knew u.s. missions that were being operated from the ramstein air base in the south of germany violated international law. and the case was brought originally back in 2014 by human rights groups representing the families of yemeni people who had been killed by u.s. drone strikes. one of those family members spoke to the press following the ruling at this case at the court in light sick. and he said, it is a severe blow. my family cannot live free from fear while these drones flying with germany's help hover over a community in yemen, threatening to bring death and destruction. u.s. drone strikes have targeted yemen for well over a decade. the main targets have been al qaeda terrorists operating on the ground, but they haven't been the only ones that have been struck. we've also, according to the, the bureau for investigative journalism, seen $200.00 civilians or at least $200.00 civilians with around 50 children,

also being killed in these airstrikes. now the european center for constitutional and human rights based here in berlin is described. the ruling is disappointing. one of their lawyers going even further on social media, he said that the court has chosen to believe the word of the government, the united states, that since 2001 has employed torture, kidnapping, and killing under the guise of fighting. again, it's terrorism. this clearly a lot of very high temperatures running here over this court ruling. in fact, reprieve the human rights group. that helped finance the yemeni family's court case . they are extremely unhappy with this ruling. what we're talking about here is a secret to cessation program that kill scores of civilians each. here it is simply unsustainable, and despite the ruling very clearly unlawful. well, earlier this year in may, the united states put out

a statement in which they said that they killed no civilians in their drone strike operations in 2019. they had put out a similar statement saying that they killed no civilians in 2018 as well. that these statements are highly disputed by human rights groups who've been working on the ground german left party member, martin dolls, or believes berlin should have resisted washington's pressure. i think the german government saying that german move they are afraid of disappointing. 'd the, the united states of america, their government. but i don't think international law. 'd 'd or of the human. 'd rights should stand in the middle of any decision or the. 'd court in the middle of any decision of the government and there should be no. 'd pressure to war crimes, information information and there is evidence that drones killing civilians and

this has to be taken into account the german government test of the true what happens and you know, this is under control of the u.s. army. and so the control in the last instance, you know, of the us government to our mind to, to the mind of cliff proteus, we should be close because this control issue for faster than light updates on all your world news stories. make sure to check out our website, r.t. dot com and follow us on twitter. that's all for now, but i'll be back with about 30 minutes in about 30 minutes with more and i hope to see them. oh, even sank us 2011 dead. and actually our price target for big oil even back when it

was a dollar. he said, based on the global 4 x. market on the gold market, we could see it becoming go to 100000 dollars. 6 months ago, i said ok, it looks like because it is going to challenge gold. therefore we got to raise our price target to $400000.00. but you're right, we have to also look at the price of gold here because a gold price could get cut in half because people are literally throwing in the street like garbage like about as well and all of our pain they're buying because instead of a low end, welcome to cross talk. we're all things are considered on peter lavelle as interesting. ministration comes to an end. well,

those who dreamed up in executed the russia gate hoax and will be held accountable . will the media ever be held accountable for the role they played? and should we now assume the deep state is truly above the law? to discuss this and more, i'm joined by my guest jim garrison washington. he's, a retired u.s. diplomat and former advisor to the us republican senate leadership in raleigh. we have ray mcgovern. he is a former cia analyst who led the cia's soviet desk. and ohio, we have reprocessed. you all are a boy eric. he is a professor emeritus of bowling green state university in ohio, as well as author of russia gate and propaganda. war and jonah crossed operates out of that. that means you can jump in anytime you want, and i always appreciate it. ok, let's go to ray in raleigh. re i ask, i guess,

rhetorical questions in the, in my introduction here, we have the german port still to be released, but we're in the, the last days of this administration. and there's very little interest in what we're interested in, but it's not getting much public focus because obviously other things are in play. do you, will we ever find out really the origins of this and will people ever be held accountable because they, they basically took capture of an entire administration and they are unapologetic about it. go ahead. well as far as publishing is concerned, unnamed, mainstream media, russia gate is too big to fail. it's like those banks in 20082001 is too many people committed to this legend. and so the mainstream media is not going to admit it. now, the only chance that many of us saw over the last couple of months was that president trump as he exited since he had pretty much nothing to lose would order

that they well, if he did sort of order didn't get it. he said, release everything, release everything, no reduction. i mean hello. and then 2 days later it became clear that he didn't really issue an order for that. and so it looks very, very clear that not even trunk and in his less staged. well, let's put it this way. he looks like a pitiable giant of the kind that nixon coined there, traced it on able to work his will on his subordinates 1st and foremost the head of the n.s.a. . and i just close by saying the head of his say has all the information anyone would ever want to shift should know about oldest. it's all recorded, it's all retrievable. and yet the acting defense secretary has now been instructed

by trump to order. paula, a sony, that general in charge of the n.s.a. release that information. so this is the deep state personified. you have recalcitrant people and i would just add that joe biden is one of them. i mean he was not an aide there. and if nims jimena, it was involved and he approved the persecution of flynn and the attempt to intimidate the president elect said 2 days later, though, you know, it said it's very clear that biden it is one of the people who's involved here. and so i expect not too much in the way of disclosure. you know, i mean, jim, we also have the head of the cia in a house building. completely unwilling to release relevant documents about this year. i guess maybe kind of jumping to the very conclusion of this because i think we're all like minded here in shows that deep state can win. and that's

a very, very dangerous thing for the if for any president going into office now, is this you cannot challenge the inter agency consensus as they like to say, go ahead jim. by yasser peter. i mean i guess as a, as a diehard optimist. i hope there's possibly some oil a truck can pull this out, but i don't think that's very likely at this point. and assuming that wind and registration does take power, which is the odds on favorite this point, i think will be no looking back at the interregnum is over. the hiatus is over. they had the fear that was sent into the system that some great orange disruptor was going to actually be of the commander in chief. and article 2 says, the executive branch of government, not the interagency consensus, which is mentioned nowhere in the constitution that would be over. i mean, as far as his releasing documents, that's right up there with his giving orders to get out. 6 of afghanistan or iraq or syria.