doctor trita parsi, between the united states and iran.si, thank between the united states and iran. doctor trita parsi, thank you for coming on for your analysis. to coronavirus now and the uk like other european countries has been battling a second wave of infections. on friday, a rare piece of good news. the r number for covid—i9, which measures the disease's ability to spread, has fallen below one for the first time since august. but it is a varied picture depending on where you live. our health editor hugh pym reports on the different approaches to fighting the spread. empty streets in belfast today, with northern ireland beginning a two—week circuit breaker lockdown to try to stem the spread of covid—i9. non—essential shops are closed apart from click and collect services, and pubs, restaurants and cafes can only do take away and deliveries. we are asking people, for two weeks, to please abide by the public health advice so that we can then come together in and around that window at christmas. as northern ireland enters a new lockdow

dr trita parsi.ident emmanuel macron has said the images of a black music producer being beaten up by police are a "shame" for france. three french police officers have been detained for questioning after a video showed the incident. it's sparked outrage in the country. here's journalist lisa louis in paris on what happened. well, there is really a lot of outrage here in france especially after another incident on monday when police officers evacuated a camp of migrants in the middle of paris showing a lot of force, beating up people — basically, taking people out of their tents and there is a lot of outrage about this here. people are increasing the pressure on the government. this comes as the government is trying to push through a new security law which would make it a criminal offence if you put pictures of police officers online with the intention to harm them. obviously, that's a very vague term and many people here are criticising that that new law might actually go against the presumption of

and earlier we spoke to trita parsi who is the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington. he gave us his take on the developments. we do not know yet exactly who was behind it, but we also have to be quite clear that that number of candidates are not many at the end, it is a combination of having the assets and the intent in the invasion to be able to conduct an operation of this kind, which seems to be quite the everyone going inside of the country. when gunmen and assassinate a person, it really reduces the number of candidates, know what unites and in the case of the israelis, we do have a long history of numerous attempts that were conducted by israel, according to western media, a cessation of science, esteemed 20072011 here. and just 3 months ago, according to the new york times assassination. so the number of candidates are not that many, and the israelis have a almost a win win situation. if the iranians respond and it brings about a larger confrontation, that is something that we do that. yeah, i was looking for quite some time if they d

earlier we spoke to trita parsi executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington. here's his take on the developments. clearly we do not know yet exactly who was behind it, but we also have to be quite clear that that number of candidates are not that many at the end that are they the combination of having the capacity, the intent and, or the shen to be able to curb ducks in operation of this kind, which seems to be a quite the entering one going inside of the country with the gunmen and then assassinated that person. it really reduces the number of candidates no more to the united states than is. and in the case of the israelis, we do have a long history of numerous assassination attempts that were conducted by israel, according to western media. cessations of scientists in the 20072011 period and just 3 months ago, according to the new york times an assassination attempt on. so the number of candidates are not that many and with the israelis having almost a win win situation. if the iranians respond and it brings about a larger confrontation,

i want to turn now to a trita parsi he is the executive vice president rather of the quinsy institute, for responsible state craft. and he joins us now from washington. d.c., very good to have you here with us. what you make of these developments. well, i think when you take a look at yes, clearly we do not know yet exactly who was behind it. but we also have to be quite clear that that number of candidates are not that many at the end, it is a combination of having the capacity, the intent, and that would be sion to be able to curb ducks in operation of this kind, which seems to be a quite daring one going inside of the country with the gunmen and then assassinated that person. it really reduces the number of campus no more to the united states and is. and in the case of the israelis, we do have a long history of numerous attempts that were conducted by israel, the cording to westmeath cessation of scientist in the 20072011 period. and just 3 months ago, according to the new york times an assassination attempt on. so the number of candidates are not that many and with the israelis ha

true the parsi with the quincy institute for responsible secret of credit. it's good to see you again. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you so much for having me. before we go, we want to bring you up to date on the men and women that u.s. president elect. joe biden is tapping for his new administration. women are, by far in the majority,, has nominated former federal reserve chair woman janet yellen to become u.s., treasury secretary, yellen will be the 1st woman to hold that posed if she's confirmed by the u.s. senate by says that is new economic team will help lift america out of its economic downturn, and in another 1st, the biden transition team announced the 1st all female white house senior communications staff in u.s. history. they include jen psaki as press secretary. she held a number of senior positions in the obama administration, including white house communications, director, woman the day is almost done, but the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter. wherever you find us, watch to see you t

it's christ, street of parsi from washington, french friends, and money on my car has described the beating of a black man by police officers as an unacceptable attack that shamed his country. music. producer michel said claire was trying to enter his paris studio once for agents started punching him. the incident was caught on camera. this comes amid a nationwide debate about a new bill designed to restrict the filming of police while on duty. it is a disturbing video. 3 french police officers beating up a black man for 5 minutes in his own music studio. but the police officers don't know. michelle sickly has a security camera in the lobby. the entire scene is caught on film. in the clear use, it is sad to say, but my client was lucky to have a video to report these acts which may be isolated but still have to exist. otherwise my client would have been when it's his word against the officers. we know very well that it's the words of the officers that carry more weight said they would see a pattern that initially played out in the case of michelle. he was arrested and detained for 48 hours

trita parsi is from the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington earlier. he told me that any change in the u.s. stance on illegal settlements is in the hands of joe biden. i think what's really important to keep in mind here is that democratic presidents all too often have ended up accepting the limitations and the framework that previous republican presidents have imposed on them. and the question is, is there enough political will to really actually have to do that? and biden define his framework himself and define whatever limitations he has himself. instead of letting him be defined by a president, trump, or secretary of from feel. there has been a gradual acceptance of illegal settlements at something that the u.s. at 1st objected to later on, viewed as an obstacle to peace later on became more neutral towards to what we have right now. a complete embrace of illegal settlements and violation of international law. and i think in some ways from pos and trump in the stray, she may have gone too far to me have pushed it so far. that biden may have no choi

the more i want to bring in trade of parsi, he's the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington. and it's good to see you again, and i'll ask you what everyone, what everyone's been asking, who's heard this story? which switch do you believe? did this meeting happen or did it i suspect that it's quite likely that it did happen as also quite predictable that the saudis with deny it projected mindful of the tensions that exist within the well founded as to whether there is wisdom to such a movement. clearly we know that the current king is opposed to it and that it is much less forgiving over the israelis are doing to the palestinians. whereas m.p.'s seems much more eager to move in this direction in particular. and from of that significant challenges. and yes, as long as it's being in washington, it under miscreation, it seems quite likely that he would likely have such a meeting in order to use it to his favorite washington. we have seen that you ease decisions and recognize israel did not do anything to promote peace in the middle east,

and for more, i'm joined tonight by a respected voice in the geopolitics of the middle east trip parsis, an award winning author who has written several books on u.s. foreign policy in the region. he's also executive vice president, the quincy institute for responsible state for it straight. it's good to have you back on the date. let's look at what mr. pompei, you did today. a visit to the occupied golan heights and then a visit to an israeli settlement in the occupied west bank. what was pumping trying to do today? well, we can only speculate, and i think your reporting has all already suggested that this could very much be part of desire by on payola to boost his own bid for 2024 and maybe to be able to boost trump's 2nd bid. all of those things are valid speculations in my view, but we should not be forgetting though, is that regardless of their intent, this is going to have a real and frankly devastating consequences for the region as well as for u.s. security because these are measures that is locking in the united states in a posture in the middle east that makes it increasingly

so what is going on here for more i want to bring in trade of parsi, he's the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington. and it's good to see you again, and i'll ask you what everyone, what everyone's been asking, who's heard this story? which switch, do you believe? did this meeting happen or did i suspect it is quite likely that it did happen as also quite predictable that the saudis with deny it projected mindful of the tensions that exist within the well founded as to whether there is wisdom to such a movement. we know that current king is opposed to it and that it is much less forgiving of what the israelis are doing to the palestinians. whereas m.p.'s seems much more eager to move in this direction. in particular mindful of that significant challenges and b.s. is going to be used in washington under by the miscreation. it seems quite likely that he would like to have such a meeting in order to use it to his favorite washington. we have seen that you ease decision to recognize israel did not do anything to promote peace in the middl

and for more, i'm joined tonight by a respected voice in the geopolitics of the middle east trip parsi is an award winning author who has written several books on u.s. foreign policy in the region. he's also executive vice president, the quinsy institute for responsible state for it straight. it's good to have you back on the date. let's look at what mr. pompei you did today. a visit to the occupied golan heights, and then a visit to an israeli settlement in the occupied west bank. what was pompei trying to do today? well, we can only speculate, and i think your reporting has all already suggested that this could very much be part of desire by some payola to boost his own bid for 2024 and maybe to be able to boost trump's 2nd bid. all of those things are valid speculations in my view of what we should not be forgetting though, is that we've got as of their intent. this is going to have a real and frankly devastating consequences for the region as well. that's for u.s. security because these are measures that is locking in the united states in a posture in the middle east that makes it

and for more now i'm joined by tripp parsis, executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft. it's good to see you again. try to, i want to just throw this to you. iran says that the murder weapon, or murder technology that was used was made in israel. so how realistic is a retaliation by iran against israel? how realistic is that at this point? well, as the previous analyst mentioned, the iranians most likely do not have the capacity of being able to respond proportionately, meaning that they would target. and he's really a nuclear scientists inside of israel. for instance. the broader problem though, is that any retaliation by iran, proportionate or not, proportionate. iranian would have great difficulty doing something that would not escalate into a broader conflict. then it's quite clear that for the last 23 years, the iran has been very careful not to give the trumpet demonstration ordinates on the al government, a pretext for a broader war. but it does not mean that they cannot retaliate in the erik's ways, and we've seen that in the past that the iranians h

earlier we spoke to a tripped up parsi, the executive vice president of the quincy institute for a sponsible statecraft in washington. he gave us his take on the developments. we do not know yet exactly who was behind a number of candidates are not ne, at the end, it is a combination of having the capacity, the intent and the invasion to be able to curb ducks in operation of this kind, which seems to be a quite the entering one going inside of the country with the gunmen and then assassinated that person. it really reduces the number of campus no more to the united states and israel. and in the case of the israelis, we do have a long history of numerous attempts that were conducted by israel, according to western media. that's nations of scientists in the 20072011 period and just 3 months ago, according to new york times an assassination attempt on. so the number of candidates are not that many and with the israelis having almost a win win situation. if the iranians respond and it brings about a larger confrontation, that is something that bibi netanyahu has been looking for quite some time.

true, the parsi with the quincy institute for responsible stake for the it's good to see you again. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you so much for having me. and to sports now, formula one. the racing and sunday's bahrain grand prix was overshadowed by a fiery crash. should the french driver remind girls he was slightly injured and he's been ruled out of next weekend's race. but i guess he was happy just to be alive and happy to walk away in one piece. take a look. this was the moment when formula one held its breath careers into a crash barrier and is engulfed in a ball of flame miraculously crucial in a marriage to relatively unscathed from the inferno. but this was an accident that seemed to come from a bygone age. no car had been split in 2 and a crushing 1991, while a crush had caused the car to cut fire since 1990. but there was an angel and gross on the shoulder, the halo. the titanium structure protects the driver from head injury. yet there was much skepticism when it was introduced in 2018, not least from the money whose life it's almos

aside, big al jazeera to her on parsi is the executive vice president of the quincy institute, a think tank focusing on the importance of diplomatic engagement and military restraint. he says the assassination reveals breaches of security in the role. he has been one of the most protected individuals inside of iran, mindful of the fact the israelis have engaged an assassination as in iran before and have managed to assassinate several iranian nuclear officials. some of them quite senior. so this was someone that they have tried to kill before and she failed, and the iranians knew very well that he was a target and there was no mass of security around him. nevertheless, whoever did this most likely, israel managed to get him. the danger for the iranians, of course, here is that is really reveals the tremendous breaches of security that must have existed in order for this to happen. it is taking place within a context in which the i.r.g.c. intelligence have been arresting, environmentalist, arresting academics and claiming that these people are spies all the same time that we're seeing.

and for more, i'm joined tonight by a respected voice in the geopolitics of the middle east trip parsis, an award winning author who has written several books on u.s. foreign policy in the region. he's also executive vice president, the quincy institute's for responsible state for it. truly, it's good to have you back on the date. let's look at what mr. pompei, you did today. a visit to the occupied golan heights, and then a visit to an israeli settlement in the occupied west bank. what was pompei trying to do today? well, we can only speculate, and i think your reporting has all already suggested that this could very much be part of desire by on payola to boost his own bid for 2024 and maybe to be able to boost trump's 2nd bid. all of those things are valid speculations in my view, but we should not be forgetting though, is that regardless of their intent, this is going to have real and frankly devastating consequences for the region as well as for u.s. security because these are measures that is locking in the united states, in a posture in the middle east, that makes it increasingly

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trita parsi for joining us on the knees out. thank you for having me. watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead on the program. iraqi supporters of a population cleric take over baghdad stari a square head of his parliamentary bit. as astra zeneca vaccine trials, the w.h.o. says more data is needed before any conclusions can be drawn. and from dying on the streets to international competitions. young, filipino chess player making big moves again. ethiopia's government denies that the prime minister has for jech to talks with to grain leaders international negotiate his push for a resolution to the week's long conflict. 3 african union special envoys met with, but in this ababa he told me, don't you speak to representatives operating legally in the region? a day ago, the army was ordered to carry out the final phase of its offensive and moving on to graze regional capital. a government imposed deadline for 2 grade forces to surrender expired on wednesday. well, the ethiopian prime minister's spokesperson, brilliant. describing the gov