Of hello and welcome everybody, its 11 30 am here in the iranian capital tehran, youre watching press tvs world news our top story for this half file irans president has hailed the successful launch of new satellite into orbit despite sanctions imposed by western states and at crippling the Islamic Republic space program. Right he said the launch has once again proved that. Threats and sanctions have no effect on ans determination to progress. He also thanked organizations and people involved in the satellite launch while urging to pave the way for the countrys rapid growth in space industry. On wednesday the Aerospace Division of irans Islamic Revolution guards core blasted off new three imaging satellite aboard a carrier dubbed or messenger. It was placed into orbit 450 kilometers above your surface. The irgc had successfully launched the home grown nur one and two satellites in 2020. And 2022 respectively. Have taken to the streets in a number of provinces to mark the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad with powerful message. An estimated 2 Million People filled the sub square of the yemen capital to commemorate the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad or molid. Supporters reaffirmed their pledge of allegionce to islam and its holy prophet while condemning western nations and the saudi government. They believe the west, along with the saudi government, are engaged in a campaign to deprate islam and hurt muslims feelings. Of while saudi celebrate hosting promiscuous and half naked singers and dancers from the west in the holy city, we on the other hand are celebrating the hosting of the birth anniversary of the. The leader of the revolution, sayidhi delivered a speech to supporters, praising them for their attendance. He expressed the birth of the messenger of god ushered in righteousness, of salvation and light for humanity, a time when the entire world was in a state of darkness. In his words, the western world and its allies are spearheading corruption and miss mankind away from god and his prophets. He also advised the west and the saudi let coalition to end their war and blockade on yemen. If the coalition aggressors are ken on continuing their blocked aggression and occupation of yemen, they should know it comes with severe consequences. Our dignified people possess a wide range of powerful means, the first of which is our faith in allah, our high morals and principles and our just cause. This gives. Us the full conviction that with the support of allah we will be victorious. The 2023 birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad comes amits peace negotiations between the saudis and ansars and that ending 9 years of war and restoring stability in the region. The moled is one of the most significant events which takes place every year to show how much muslims in yemen cherish and reveal islam. The prophet, they are chanting, which translates to, we are here to serve you, oh of prophet, press, Iraq Security forces arrested 14 suspects in connection with the dead fire incident a christian wedding ceremony in the province of nena wedding hall owner and some staff among the detanies, more than hundred People Killed and scores of theirs injured after gulfed a packed marriage hall. In the town of hamdania on tuesday night, the interior minister held a security meeting after president Abdullatif Rashid called for a throw investigation to the incident, meanwile people attended morning mass for those who lo lost their lives, several political and religious leaders including grand ayatollah ali alstani have already offered their condolences to the families victims. Iran also offeredces to the Iraqi Government and nation. The Iraqi Government has declared three days of national morning. Press tvs Baghdad Bureau chief navid behruz joined us earlier from baghdad, with more details on the incident. It was a big shock in. The fire started there and then uh immediately it is spread out to the whole hall and the roof collaps and then we witnessed the humanitarian catastrophe result of which in a matter of minutes more than hundred people the statistics we have had so far they have lost their lives more than 100 and more than 200 have been indani the iraki Prime Minister ordered the interior minister and the minister of health he has dispatched the two ministers there to go and uh be to see to dig out the reason behind the cause of the incident, the democrat peoples republic of korea has amended its constitution to enshrine countrys status as Nuclear Weapon power mid height and tensions on the korean peninsula, the north korean official news agency said the amendment was as the basic law of the state addressing the parliament, the dprks leader called for accelerated modernization of Nuclear Weapons to help the country maintain its strategic deterrents. Kim joon also urged officials to promote solidarity with the nation standing against the us and the west hegemonic strategy. The amendment came year after the dprk turned into law, the right to use Preemptive Nuclear strikes to protect itself. Kim also denounced joint military drills by the us, south korea and japan, calling them an actual threat to his. Country, peong consider such drills as rehearsals for invasion of its territory. Press tvs correspondent and so frank smith joined us with details on the dpr case constitutional amendment and its impact on the already volatile region. Well, these amendments really uh, put enshrine more previous law in north korea. That uh stipulates its use and development of Nuclear Weapons. In his speech, kim jongan leader, kim jongan called against south korea, the u. S. And japan, the worst threat, even referring to them as an asian nato, and the worst cause of war and instability here, he did, as you mention, talk about uh us south korea largescale military exercises, those drills were. Resumed under president jun, a conservative rightwing hard liner toward north korea, came power here in south korea in may of last year, resume those drills and even just a couple of days ago, for the first time in a decade, south korea held a large military parade, including missiles through the capital sol, and that further demonstrates south koreas and the us militarization. The of the peninsula, he also mentioned the Nuclear Consultative group uh the us and south korea that is planning uh its use or its deployment of socalled strategic assets, those are us weapons that could potentially deliver a strike, Nuclear Strike against north korea, so there certainly is increase in the security tension in the region. Moving now to the chinese city of hange where the asian games are underway, our correspondent samon kujri joins us now uh from the chinese city with the latest on the competitions there. Sammon, its great to have you with us, uh, walk us through uh todays results, how have our athletes done so far . Well bar, today was a gold day for the iranian camp, actually in wusu, we had two gold medals, expected, you know, yusuf back gold medal, also afchin and other at gold medal, man suria, one of the famous iranian athletes who have already um, was already world title, actually um and up uh by winning uh bronze medal unfortunately, but still in wusho we have muhammad safety, backed silver medal for the iranian camp, well in iran also irans Fencing National team Group Competitions won a bronze medal after being uh defeated by host country, china 41 to 45 and in table tennis news alaman and his brother made way into quarter final in a double match table tennis, so in general speaking the over standings of iran in the 19th asian games is that uh iran currently ranks uh among other um rivals by already having uh won three gold medals and eight silver and nine bronze medals of course we are waiting for coming days we have many more opportunity chances to win more medals you know but so far so good we had we can say that uh in terms of the quality of the athlets definitely we are ex high and definitely we can achieve more as the experience has shown and history has shown that iran uh stands of shoot in general speaking by uh winning more gold medals stands at sixth place in asia in overall standing but we have to wait maybe this time at the end of the games we can uh lift up our position and standings on the list thats back to bar and so before we leave you just one quick question uh what about the coming days uh in which whats whats left for uh the uh the disciplines where the iranians are expected to shine and bring us uh a little higher in on the medal tables and the metal standings . Well yes bar the you know iranians have always had a good record when it comes to for example wrestling both in greek roman uh wrestling and also freestyle wrestling and also in belgrade just the world competitions went on and you saw that the. To second after the united states, so definitely in asia, iran has lot to say, not just in asia but across the world, but when it comes to asian games, definitely irans wrestling is number one, definitely, so wrestling is one the high hope of you want to win a gold medal because we have International Famous renow athletes and wrestlers in judo and also weight lifting, we have lot of chances win colorful medals which definitely will inject force. And boost to the overall standing of one uh currently uh you know that as the host country china is standing first and it has already promised to win more than uh 200 gold medals. I remember that in the previous round the asian games, it had promised to win at least 200 gold medals, but it only china only suffice to winning 1999 gold medals, so this time china is here in full capacity. The full potential to to win most of gold medals and uh so close achieving that, but anyway iran, Iranian National teams are doing great and uh irans weightlifting is also high hope, wrestling is is of one of uh great chances for you to win gold medals and uh you know these are the the most better say main disciplines that iran can shine most uh at the 19th asian games. Thanks lot soman, i hope you enjoy. The evance pressed, someone could you joining us from h. With the us has often said that its not after conflict with china yet is acted otherwise, especially when it comes to military sale, us is now negotiating to supply vietnam with a large arms package, including 16 fighter jets which could possibly be the largest arms transfer in their history. Us president went a three trip to asia recently. His trip included stops in india for g20 summit, then vietnam to upgrade their bilateral relationship. The purpose of this trip was to enhance us relationship regional countries, especially g20 format, but that is just a formal way of not saying the two. He has said things like, i dont want to contain china. Were not trying to hurt china. Americas goal is getting the relationship right . I am sincere about getting the relationship right, and one the things that is going on now is china is beginning to change some of the rules of the game. But his visit to vietnam, right after the g20 summit related a different message. The two countries signed a historic agreement to upgrade relations to the level of comprehensive. Strategic partnership, joe biden secured deals with vietnam on semiconductors and minerals. So important is vietnam for the us, that executives from google, intel, amcore, marvel, global foundaries, and boing met with vietnamese tech executives along with the secretary of state, anthony blincon for more deals, with semiconductors, the centerpiece of action plan adopted during byans visit. So what gives, why is vietnam so important to the us . Its pretty obvious, the us wants to rival china and at the same time, inflict economic damage. So much for biden saying were not trying to hurt china, but the u. S. Has other plans for vietnam, which was not announced yet. Uh, the us school in the Indo Pacific Region is to make china face a stiff competition, as it is called it. This in involves not only military sales, but also partnering with countries in such sectors as semiconductors, aviation and technology. This way, us aims to prevent chinas Economic Advancement so that it can retain its superpower status, which many claim it has already lost. After the us and vietnam elevated the relationship to comprehensive strategic partnership, there were reports that the us and vietnam were negotiating major. Steal, perhaps the biggest in their history, one that would involve f16 fighter jets. Here are some interesting facts behind us vietnam military relationship. Since an arms embargo was lifted in 2016, us arms exports to vietnam were limited to just coast guard ships and Trainer Aircrafts, so from coast guard ships and Trainer Aircraft to f16 fighter jets, what gives, by the way, russia has supplied about 80 of vietnams military arsenal, yet vietnam is just one of many countries that the us has been selling military equipment to in the asia pacific region. Here is one snapshot, ill spray aircraft to indonesia for two billion dollars, 2 billions and upgrades taiwan, 30 billion dollars to south korea, 2 billion dollars in attack helicopters, as well as support boats philippines and 23. 11 billion dollars. Japan for 105 f35, joint Strike Fighter aircraft and related equipment. No wonder china is angered. The us actions do not match its rhetoric when it comes to china. It is clear that it wants to militarize the region very similar to how it did with nato countries in europe. The target there being russia. The Chinese Ministry spokesman washington to abandon his cold war mentality to refrain from provoking an arms race in asia. China hopes that when developing bilateral relations and conducting military cooperation, really countries will effectively abide by the basic norm of international relations, abandon hegemany and cold war thinking, stop provoking confrontation and stimulating arms races, but that has fallen on uss deaf ears. The us has gone out to align regional country with it. Hopbunton issues like taiwan, north korea, and the disputed islands are cars. The us plays to its favor to do that, but the region will soon turn into a tinder box, if it hasnt already, and it would only take one spark like the taiwan issue or north korea for it to explode. In the us seven republican president ial. Hopefuls of faced off and the second primary debate for the 2024 election leveling attacks at the absent foreign president donald trump. And you know who else is missing action . Donald trump is missing action. He should be on this stage tonight. He owes it to you to defend his record where they added 7. 8 trillion to the debt, that set the stage for the inflation that we have, and i want to look in the camera right now and tell you, don, i know youre watching. You cant help yourself, i know youre watching, okay, and youre not here tonight, not because of polls and not because of your indictments, youre not here tonight because youre afraid of being on the stage and defend. Record, youre ducking these things and let me tell you whats going to happen, you keep doing that, no one up here going to call you donald trump anymore, were going to call you donald duck. During the chaotic twohour debate, the contenders also clashed with one another over several issues from china to immigration to the economy. Trump, still a dominant front runner skipped the event, as he did during the first debate held in wisconsin last month. Trump was rather mean with autoindustry workers in the battleground state of michigan a day after president jo joined a union picket line. Trump announced in august he would be skipping the debates because he doesnt need to waste time on his distant challenges. Meanwhile biden was a frequent target for the republican candidates who attack the administration for failing to stem the migrants crisis. Workers from italys bankrupt National Airline ali italia have staged a protest in rome. Thousands of demonstrators are calling on the government to reinstate their positions or at least protect their. Social safety net, our correspondent, max chiefly reports on that. Workers from the now defend flag carrier al italia met in front of the ministry of labor in the italian capital on tuesday as part of action called by the country space union cub unionists have been demanding consecutive government reinstate thousands of allitalia workers who have been left in the large following years of mismanagement and state back rescues. In october 2021, the 74yearold carrier al italia made its final flights in the end of an era italy, the airline has been replaced by the new National Carrier, ita. Non crediamo che ci siano. We do not think that under the current crisis, the government would be able to redeploy us externally. It is paradoxical that while im talking, the government is hiring workers from outside for the three new companies, alatalia has been split into. The new National Carrier italy. Only hired around a quarter of the estimated 10,000 alitalian employees, alitalian workers have been feeling betrayed by italys largest trade unions, the man you seen over there is a unionist, when he was hired by el italia, he was just basic pilot. After ita replaced al italia, he became a medium hall captain, and soon after a long captain, practically, the union he works for has sold the italian our contract off, incidentally he obtained personal gain for that. The deal which led to the formation of the new Airline Company ita also called for slashing the number of Airline Slots at rome and milan airports. Italys government has recently sold a Minority Stake of the successor of the countrys flagship carrier al italia to germanys luftanza. However, the European Commission has not approved the deal yet, decision. Im afraid the eu only wants to transfer more italian slots to germanys loftansa, having said that the deal is not valid as there is no discontinuity between the old and new National Airline, an italian judge has ruled the position of brussels on the deal nonbinding and us workers should be rehired, former alitalia workers believe that brussels has been planning for years to slim down the european air market. To only three major players, british airways, air france and luftanza, max chivilli, prestv, rome, thats a rap for now, but stick around, ill be back on the top of the hours and brief. The International Community became involved in mali following the adoption of a Un Resolution in 2013. Its an evil force that needs to leave our land, its been of no use, it has failed to deliver, give us few weeks and we will drive them out of country. I love our country and i love the armed forces. I think theyre doing a good job. We want new constitution for young people in mali. It will bring peace, prosperity and stability. Life without industry is unimaginable, it lets us travel, communicate and live, yet there a dangerous downside, our factories could produce pollution so toxic that just breathing might threaten your life. Some who never been sick were developing really bad coughs. And those who are already ill, some them were starting to die, its almost like a lid stuck over london, so all of those pollutants coming out of the chimnes and the factories got stuck creating this thick, slushy, slurry smog. Mein name ist lena, ich bin 21, komme aus dorf protzelten, das liegt im spessat in bayern, in der zeit habe ich erstmal dieses bewusstsein fur den islam uberhaupt entdeckt. Dann habe ich, ich bin habe auch jeden jede nacht zu gott gesprochen, gesagt gott, wenn du da. Menschen bisschen vom islam erzahlen und so und meiner begeisterung. Now entering its uh uh fourth day, were looking at press tvs news and briefs president has hailed the successful launch of new three imaging satellite into orbit despite sanctions imposed by western states aimed at crippling the Islamic Republic space program. Rice said the launch. Has once again proved that threats and sanctions have no effect on irans determination to progress. Iran strongly condemns desecration of the holy lord on in the netherlands. Terron says the dutch government must fulfill its responsibility and prevent repetition of such hateful acts under the guise of freedom of expression