parents the top iranian nuclear scientist killed in tehran by on known assailants. iran calls the killing an act 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 he wanted america back at the negotiating table. for french officers are suspended for beating a 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 a neighborhood. my screams, she called me and asked what's going on. i explain and been attacked 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 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. a scientist labeled, the father of iran's nuclear program has been killed on the outskirts of tirant and response. the u.n. has called for restraint and to avoid any actions that could lead to an escalation . iran's envoy to the global body warned israel and the u.s. against any provocative moves. local reporter gave us more details about the killing, which iran has branded

a state 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, and skirmish tacked to place some 75 kilometers outside to iran, north east of tehran, near the resort city of stat. you know, apparently due to traffic was quite less than usual in comparison to the other days . and indeed, 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. bits 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 series of such assassinations on a rainy and scientists big claim. clive top iranian scientists, iranian 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. r.t.c. only patrik. i spoke with my colleague union o'neill 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. and then gunfire followed the explosion, which left the vehicle with the scientists bullet marks. 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? what have they been saying about this? who did this? 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 to wrists, murdered an imminent iranian scientists. today. this cowardice with serious indications of this really rule show desperate warmongering 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 he says, 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 proceeded to do. continue this work in a series of organizations over the years. now let me 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 the 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 that tension and an extra wave of the sort of say,

iran's nuclear crisis. and now we have this murder of a rainy and nuclear scientist which will definitely have international consequences . analysts from both iran and israel share 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 present these bodies and then to fire 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 were early press a few times that this doesn't mean that this is behind this assignation. 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 kaleb 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 nuclear review with the roane police crippling sanctions on the union regime and eliminated the mood to go some soon. a record speaks for itself. during the trip administration, america stands with israel like never before. 'd 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 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 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. well, the country is powerful, is 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 it crucially towards refinement of nuclear of uranium. so the 2 have to make a deal. now, 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. would you want still to come? shameful. that's how the french president's 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.

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welcome back to the program. the french president has branded as shameful video footage, which captured the moment 4 police officers beat a black man in paris. michel's eckler, who is a music producer, was followed to his studio for not wearing a face mask, and they find the security camera footage disturbing.

but there are also photos showing the extent of the man's injuries. again, some graphic imagery ahead. michelle 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 was only seen by a doctor after that. the charges against him, of violence and rebellion were later dropped, following the emergence of the video, evidence. and will do 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 and been attacked and he wanted to call the policeman. 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. she sees a local 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. michelle's lawyer says the video saved her client from prison if they're hitting him with their telescopic badness. they don't stop hitting him. this video last for 12 minutes of violence in the video is essential because my client was initially in detention. 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 potentially put those officers at risk. a member of the committee against police violence told us 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 folks, this is just one of countless cases in from 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. court in germany has ruled the country is not liable for possible war crimes connected to a u.s. drone strike connected controlled from its territory. washington has coordinated a number of operations through their rob stein air base there. now that the lawsuit of the yemeni nationals has been tonight, the federal administrative court has explained that a general addition for protection in favor of foreigners in foreign countries can exist. but southern quire means differently than the higher administrative warrant . where this ruling in light sig means that the german government has no responsibility to guarantee that u.s. drone strikes that are operated from a u.s. 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 would be 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, 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. he said this, the court has chosen to believe the word of the government, the united states, that since 2001 has employed torture, kidnap, and killing under the guise of fighting against terrorism. this is 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 sas nation program that kill scores of civilians each year. 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've killed no civilians in 2018 as well. but the 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 and let's say the germans move leitz. they are afraid of, disappointing. 'd the n.r.a., the united states of america and their government. but i think international law. 'd 'd and the human rights should stand in the middle of any decision although caught in the middle of any decision of the government. and there should be no. 'd pressure to come to it will crimes, and we have information information and this evidence as well that drones killing

civilians. and this has to be taken into account the german government test of the true. what happens in the base of writing style is under control of the us army. and so under the control in the last instance, you know the. 'd us government to allow mind to, to the mind of god if these should be close because this control issue for faster than light updates and 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 in about 30 minutes with more and i hope to see you then.

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