and in fact, because of that news website claims to have been blacklisted by british intelligence, soft, exposing government surveillance practices declassified u.k. says it's being told by the g. c. h 2. o. hungary lawmaker resigned his seat in the european parliament off to being caught at a party in brussels. that media are describing as a mostly male will cheat. diplomats were among the gas iran. * ups the ante over the mud to over its top nuclear scientist, to hunt down criminals and seek revenge.

just gone 10 pm here in the russian capital from the whole team. a very rude welcome to well, let's start off by talking about how an investigative news website is claiming to have been blacklisted by british intelligence. declassified u.k. is known for exposing military activities and government surveillance reporting, from english capital. it's the saudi, the classifier, the u.k., and the head of investigations. matt ken are these a form of financial times. journalists, they've been blacklisted by g c, h q, and a number of internal e-mail showing that staff are being told not to engage with., that doubt that declassified u.k., blacklisted by g. c, age killed. britain's largest intelligence agency, internal e-mails from shell, which will not been gauging further with math canada, declassified head of investigations. the day he published what the agency privately disparaged as a negative long read about its secretive schools program. according to declassified,

u.k. one particular line of investigative journalism is what got the backs up of a program run by the intelligence agency. looking into going into schools and teaching children how to conspire, brute force cyber attack. the website have also got quite a long history of looking at other aspects of the things that britain's military and government in general are getting up to. the older members question is assumed to refer to lifton and colonel moore and our bodies who completed tofu conversion training in the u.k. delivered by royal air force aria of personnel. in 2011 to 2012,

we've been hearing from joe that it's groups like reporters without borders who have described this mode of operating by g, c, h, q, m, by the government as being trumpy. and this is yet another worrying example of the u.k. government, imposing arbitrary restrictions on media deemed to be critical to trampy unmoved as her no place in british democracy for a few years. though all the criticisms that press freedoms of being clamped down on in the british government. so as far as this latest incident is concerned, it doesn't bode well for those who are concerned about press freedoms. we spoke with british, our left yvonne, sorry, there we go. spoke and back again, british on the stove on ridley, she thinks the targeting of a declassified u.k. follows an alarming pattern of governments cracking down on any form of reporting that they disagree with. britain is

a country which likes to pride itself in treatment of speech, and this goes completely against the grain quite why the c.h.p. was made. this decision is silly. it is a journalist's job to ask all could questions to be critical of the interim nation . beatrice seems so, you know, journalists don't do their jobs to be popular. quite the reverse. and, you know, this, this little has already been likened to a tribune style decision. and of course, this is what we've seen in the white house that when journalists absent this president, donald trump, they get blacklisted, or are asked to leave the, the white house, press corps, and for g, c, h, q, to do this to a journalistic organization. is

astonishing. a hunger and member of the european parliament has resigned after admitting to attending a private party in brussels. that mocha media are describing as an orgy. they get together happened last week in defiance of a lockdown, and was broken up by police. about 25 other people, all mostly men were present at the party above the gay bar to european diplomats were among the guests, according to police, the hunger in or make a tried to flee by climbing down a drain pipe at passer by reported to the police that he had seen a man fleeing along the gutter, he was able to identify the man, the man hands were bloody. it is possible that he may have been injured while philine now according to were found in his backpack in his resignation. last 2 years of who is a member of hungry is ruling,

the party admitted that his behavior was irresponsible, and he apologized for breaching the lockdown rules, but he denied carrying any drugs. well, let's cross live now to david cohen this former member of the european parliament for scotland. david, it's not often they give me such a salacious story to talk about life and i'm going to make the most of it 5 thing i want to ask you as a former m.e.p. . and i mean, you've been up parties, i'm sure you've been around these people, is this normal behavior amongst your former colleagues in brussels? well just just as david was about to tell us all the most interesting things that will happen, we seem to have temporarily lost him, but i assure we'll be trying to get him back on to the end of that sentence was temporarily david cohen, former member of the european parliament for scotland 4

people including a child, have been killed in a car ramming in the western german city of tria. the driver was arrested after crashing into pedestrians at high speed. more than a dozen other people are injured 4 in critical conditions. a 51 year old german citizen drove at high speed along a pedestrian area. it has s.u.v. police on local officials have recently confirmed, the driver was drunk and there is no world. there are no signs of the incident being deliberate or also claim the driver might have psychological problems. the president of the red cross has alleged governments to combat the spread of false information on covert fight scenes, which he called a 2nd pandemic. francesco, said the public were shocked. insta, take the job, could still efforts to counter the virus. we believe that the massive coordinated

efforts that will be needed to roll out the covert vaccine in an equivocal manner. need to be paralleled by equally massive efforts to proactively build and maintain trust. the red cross chief went on to cite surveys showing that in a quarter of countries, less than half of people are willing to take a covert vaccine. and as examples of fake news, he highlighted a popular belief that the virus doesn't affect young people or africans. and also claims that the virus has disappeared. and the pandemic is over. we spoke to emmanuel couple bianco, who's head of the red cross health and cad apartment. he believes public acceptance of covert vaccines over time. well, the reason one element, these is a new pandemic, a new virus that behaves in ways that we didn't know until a year ago. and we have been discovering it slowly, slowly, by slowly and so science is adopting to enable that. and communicating, evolving science is difficult, and that's why i think media scientist critiquer role to play,

to try to explain in very simple terms that what is up and going why changes may be happening. people at the moment of a very high level of vaccine hesitancy. and so right now we see that the only 30 percent of population in many countries would actually be ready to take the vaccine . we know that these, these will increase time passes by and people get more confident. and i think we have a role to play, to ensure that people feel comfortable confortable, that people feel trust towards the authorities. 2 words the. 'd scientist and 2 words, that means that we putting in place to keep everybody safe from all around the world. rushes delegation to the global chemical weapons watchdog has me and other members to stop using the w for political purposes. the own brutal campaign of the so-called poisoning of a russian blogger and in suing actions by germany and its your allies in the o.p.c. . w. is

a way to use this international organization to exert political and sanctions pressure on the russian federation. on monday, 56 of the 193 member states condemned the alleged poisoning of russian opposition figure alex, a funny. they released a joint statement urging moscow to disclose the circumstances of what they called a chemical attack. me as a reminder, fell ill in august on a domestic flight and russia and was taken to berlin for treatment. germany claims it found traces of another talk now of agent in his body, an allegation later repeated by w. . however, moscow says its own tests found no such substance on that bill and has rejected requests repeatedly for lab data. we spoke with alexander and his russia's permanent representative to the w. he thinks the claims against russia have a clear political moat. all partners in the p. c. w for the politicized new organization which would create deep divisions and

interrupt a normal work in the search for compromises. different countries interpret provisions of the chemical weapons convention in their own way. we should prevent any attempts to spread ones, only rules in place of the established conventions of international law, our western partners and their technical secretariat's, when it's convenient for them refer to confidentiality clause. under this pretext, russia has refused access to key aspects of the technical secretary, its report on providing assistance to germany in the case. but when western countries are not satisfied, they forget all about confidentiality clauses. the chemical weapons convention and international law must be strictly complied with, and only after that will have the confidence that we can overcome our problems and work together. iran is vowing to hunt down both behind the assassination of its leading physicist. top officials issued

a stark. 6 warning after the scientists funeral. iran, iran has stated before, is our definite policy independently give a reciprocal response to those who ordered and committed this crime with maximum pain for the culprits. and god willing no crime, no association, and no foolish should not be left by the iranian nation. we will certainly hunt down criminals until the end. they must know that they will be punished for their actions. had the assault took place on friday when the scientist was traveling in his car near terror on he was shot in an ambush and died of his injuries and hospital. iran has branded the assassination that act of state, terribly and israel on the us. up next on a whole can support from the shock waves that sent throughout the region. dr. morsi, in fact result, it was different things to different people, to his family, a husband and a father to his country, a patriot,

a prized and respected scientists to others. though he was a threat that man affectively in charge of iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. we don't exactly know what motivated the killing, but if it had anything to do with removing a supposed threat in the interests of peace and stability, the result so far seems to be the reverse of the streets, a boiling over with anger. well fuck resort. it was given a state funeral and granted martyr status. iran is out for revenge. some hardliners are calling for the direct massive retaliation against those who they think are responsible. even the strikes on israeli cities are on the table. life for an eye says god's law and to ron is in no mood to let this crime go unpunished. an image of around i have to know that the rainy nation and the country's officials are brave enough to respond to this criminal action. when the term is raid,

the relevant officials respond to this crime. but this is now bigger than just tit for tat violence. it was in iran's alleged nuclear program, was the goal that's failed there. all this government has failed to continue this. scientists work with redoubled efforts should we will be more united will be more determined even for the continuation of your post. we will carry on with more and more power and the nuclear deal already in tatters after the us withdrawal is quickly fading. as the country's parliament looks to stop inspections at its nuclear sites, with the consent of m.p.'s to urgent action plans were adopted to lift sanctions. in order to return to the era of the nuclear energy boom. and to stop surveillance by i.a.e.a. spies with biden's incoming administration aiming for a new deal with iran there looking like they could get no deal at all by them will have to simple terms apologize. in some ways

he will have to come up with even more of a diplomatic concession than simply restoring the agreement. i think iran will need far more guarantees after all, even when president obama signed the deal. not also mentions were removed and iran never quite benefit economically. as hoped, and why would the iranians choose compromise in a rare moment of unity? they now have the support of everyone from turkey and iraq to the u.a.e. and even europe. we condemn this heinous murder and extend our condolences to the government of iran and the family of the deceased. the emirates condemns the crime of the assassination of cause or nor science to practice the greatest possible restraint. so as to avoid dragging the region to new levels of instability and

threats to peace. this is a criminal act and runs counter to the principle of respect for human rights. the e.u. stands for, for every action equal and opposite reaction. it was clear assassinating a sign to start to rein in the soil would stir up a hornet's nest reaction across the region and beyond. well, let's bring in our said, mohammad marandi, who is a professor of english lecture at orientalism at the university of tehran, jason pohlmann, a former israeli government adviser, and jim jatra, who is a former u.s. diplomat. welcome all of you. i want to start off with press professor sayed, can i ask you now? iran has blamed israel and is vowing revenge. what form could a retaliation take and how likely do you think it is? i think in retaliation is inevitable because the israeli regime has carried

out an act of war. it has carried out carried out an act of terrorism. and there is no other way to look at this. so the iranians will have to punish the regime so that it does not have been sent to carry out such an atrocity . again, when b. trump regime murder, its general sort of money, the person who more than anyone else on this planet was important in the defeat of isis. the iranians struck an american base in iraq, the al assad base with a host of missiles. so when the iranians aren't, are not going to allow us a much smaller regime, like the israeli regime, to get away with such an atrocity. the most important thing though that i'd like to add is that while some countries in the region did condemn this murder,

the european union didn't use the word condemnation. so that is, i think, quite revealing no one in europe or north america. none of the nato countries, any government condemned this, whereas if this was a european, if this was this happened in a european country, there would be outrage if you recall when a russian double agent was heard in england when he was allegedly poisoned. and we don't know if that was true or not. a couple of years ago, 153, russian diplomats were expelled from europe in north america. and the media spoke of this for weeks. but when an iranian is a murderer, and this, this has happened before, because we had 4 iranian scientists murdered during the obama years by the israeli

regime, with u.s. support when the iranian is murdered. now again, the europeans, they don't condemn it. so this double standard, i think, is very important for iran, ians, and since europe in the united states are protecting those countries that carry out terrorist attacks. iran has no option but to retaliate in order to prevent it from happening again. and jason, i want to bring you it now its role has neither can thought and nor can i do anything we had professed at talking about how does a president those 4 iranian scientists killed under the obama administration? do you think it was inevitable that the fingers were going to be pointed at israel? well, i get that. i also have no personal knowledge of whether or not is or would be involved . but, you know, at the end of the day, if we're looking where to point fingers, you know, the cold, needy endowment is due for peace, reckons that iran has sunk over $100000000000.00 into its search for nuclear

capabilities and indeed for nuclear weapons. now, at the same time, the arab gulf states institute reports that by the end of 2019, poverty in iran was at 33 percent. why is the country that is such a terrible poverty seeking to carry out mass murder of another nation while its not able to feed its own people at home? and let's look at who factories are. there was, he was a weapons specialist, a nuclear weapon specialist. now, a school that doesn't have a soccer team doesn't hire a soccer coach. and a regime that isn't seeking to carry out nuclear attacks doesn't hire nuclear weapons specialists. and really, you know, if condemnation is going to go anywhere, it must go to the, to the iranian regime that celebrated this man that carried him around in government. motorcade gave him a state funeral condemnation. and again, i have no idea who was involved. the condemnation does not deserve to go to the people that remove this man from a very problematic situation. condemnation only goes to the iranian regime who

continue to oppress their people and continue to seek the execution of another. you know, i want to come to you if the goal of the assassination, as a lot of people or a few men was to disrupt the iranian nuclear program. in your opinion, will it succeed? no, i don't think so, but i don't think that was the point of the killing. i think it was done in order to provoke iran into a response that they could then be used as a pretext for a strike on iran. if in fact the israelis were behind this and i don't think there's any good reason to suppose they were not probably with the collusion of elements connected to terrorist groups, like the ne k. . and i think this was designed to get the iranians to, to take some response with it, which would then justify a, an attack on iran, in what appeared out to be the closing days of the trump administration. although personally, i think far too many people are counting that as, as a, as an established fact. and i think we also need to keep in mind all this talk

about it by comes in there will be a big opening to iran or somehow get back into the g.c.c. v.o.a. . i don't think that's going to happen that resident. concessions being made to iran will see additional demands, for example, curbs on iran's missile technology would have nothing to do with the iran nuclear deal. the europeans will go along with this because they'll be so it's real. have donald trump out of the white house. i think we're embarking into a very dangerous uncharted waters here. the iranians, i think, will respond, but they'll respond in an asymmetric way. that does not rise to the level of a council's barely a prophet. i cannot bear and will confront that this attack could provoke iran. can to fight up, you know, weapons what will come out all, not well. 1st of all, there's no evidence that iran ever attempted to produce nuclear weapons. the i.a.e.a. has been deeply involved in iran's nuclear program. and after the nuclear deal, the most intrusive inspections in the world have been carried out in iran for years

. and there's never been any evidence that iran made such an attempt. in fact, iran which has the most advanced military technology in the region. and we've seen that how it has been used against the american al assad base iran which has that technological capability, if they wanted to produce a nuclear weapon they would have done so years ago. the only regime that has nuclear weapons in this region with the support and help of the united states is the apartheid regime in palestine and the nonsense about iran spending $100000000000.00 on developing nuclear weapons. obviously, such a person doesn't even know what $100000000000.00 means and the poverty in iran. i think the fact that under the sanctions that the united states imposed the maximum pressure campaign that the united states imposed,

we see that despite the hardship that the iranians have been going through, we don't see people living on the streets in iran or tehran, as they are living on the streets in parts of europe and the united states where there are no sanctions. so obviously iran despite all its difficulties and shortcomings. and despite the brutal and inhumane sanctions that the regime in washington has imposed, it hasn't been doing as bad as some people would like to see. but ultimately, the only way forward is for the united states to bow down to the reality of iran under after 4 years of what trump called brutal sanctions. because he wanted to brutalize the iranian people because he is a inhumane to human being. just like obama before him because obama implemented similar stanch sanctions and called them crippling sanctions. in other words, he too wanted to cripple the iranian people. after 4 years of triumph, the in the trump regime got nowhere with iran. iran gave no concessions with

regards to its sovereignty. so if by then wants to bring about stability in this region, the only way forward is for him to fully implement the nuclear deal. although i agree with your previous guest, i'm very skeptical about the biden regime. i don't believe that the deep state in the united states would tolerate this, but the reality is that after 40 some years, iran is stronger today than it was before iran's allies across the region today are stronger than they were before. and iran has endured trump. trump is leaving, and iran, this sonic republic of iran is still here, whether the united states and european support apartheid in palestine, whether they support isis and al qaeda alongside. so, dear aby and other regional countries, ultimately, the iranians remain steadfast and their allies in the region remain steadfast. and the only way forward is for western regimes to recognize iran in order for some

sort of detente and stability to be brought about in this region. and jason, i want to start, you know, israel's energy minister said that whoever killed the scientists is throughout the region and indeed the whole wild. my question is, how thoughtful or indeed how diplomatic is that coming from a government official i think is just quite simply stating the facts. and i'm so pleased that the professor brought up the i.a.e.a. because of course, the only person that the iranian regime wouldn't allow to speak to the i.a.e.a. was mystified. who was the weapons specialist who was developing the mass murder capabilities of the iranian regime. he talks about inhumane. he talks about ickes ations against other nations. he calls death, democratic regime, democratic administrations, regimes. this is just complete and utter propaganda. it's falling apart of the seems. iran is more isolated than the arab gulf states are normalization. normalization deals with israel are coming one after the other,

even israel and turkey perhaps may indeed have a new negotiation coming is rather lebanon of our negotiations on energy issues. i'm afraid he's just not, i'm afraid. he's just not looking at reality. the reality is iran isn't looking to join the nuclear club. it's looking to join the nuclear genocide club until the west continues the pressure to prevent the regime developing that kind of weaponry . the middle east will continue to be unstable until we see more normalization, more isolation of iran, and indeed a better future for the rest of the people as well. jim, i want to ask, you know, it radio and protestors were calling on a war with america over the killing of back in january. of course, we thought that the 2 countries came very close to a confrontation over the model of general sort of a knee. my question is, is this time different and how i hope it is different. i mean, i hope it is not different than we saw in the past. for example,

when the iraq shut down that american drone, that we were within many reports within minutes of attacking iran at the last minute trip, president trump called that off. after the radio response to the killing of general allen ellis, only monny there was some concern that there would be an outbreak of war, larger hostilities. i have no doubt that if the iranians, excuse me, the israelis were behind this attack, it was for the purpose of triggering an american attack on iran that one trouble drum print for the presidency in 2016. he promised an america 1st foreign policy. if we didn't get that, we got an israel saudi arabia, 1st foreign policy. it's interesting to me that even the saudis in the armor, roxy's, don't seem to be going along with the script on this one. so we could end up with a situation where the americans really don't feel they have the regional support. they would only have the cover of israel to launch an attack on iran. so i'm hoping war will not come under no matter what the iranian response turns out. to be not press aide, all that groups, i understand the speculation,

but all the groups inside iran who would be interested in giving up on any new detail coming for unlimited stockpiling, open retched uranium and who potentially could be responsible for this attack. well in iran, there are many different groups. we have different political parties in parliament . they were debating this today what, how to move forward. some want to many want to decrease iran's cooperation with the a and m. . and of course, the reason why they are, i was not allowed to speak to the scientists is because that he was the deputy. he was, he was not within their scope of authority to speak to just like they are not allowed to speak to the president or, or a minister. so again, i think people who don't understand how the i.a.e.a. works and enter national law and their relationship with seen by and iran when they

say $100000000000.00 were spent. and they just say words that don't have much meaning when they say the state of things, they say keep talking about how a regime that people are involved. whether we're talking these people, these people, and you know, they cannot tolerate other people speaking. so they have to interrupt just like the silence of the syrian people in gaza because they are the supreme assist regime by going back to what i was saying. that the, the, i a will have less ability to have oversight in iran because the united states helped this assassination. and the iranians will probably expand the scope of the nuclear program in response to u.s. support for this murder and assassination. and we have to remember that khan.