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Hello everyone, thank you for tuning into press tv, world news. In our top, Iran Security forces have thorted plans for assassinations of several senior sunny clerics, judges and members of the Islamic Revolution guard core that, according to irans intelligence minister, ismail khatib, said that irans adversaries made plans to carry out the assassinations late september, khatib at the assassinations are aimed at feeling ethnic and religious discord in the country. He said irans enemies are planning to foment in security along irans borders, urging shia and sunni clerics to remain vigilant. The new revelation came after Security Forces foiled a terrorist plot to carry out 30 simultaneous bomb attacks at populast areas throughout the capital tehran, two dozen dush affiliateds have been arrested. Now irans urge the International Community to condemn recent Nuclear Threat by the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against the Islamic Republic. Iran says regime threat to use Nuclear Weapons Undermines International Peace and security. Netanya us addressed at the United Nations General Assembly called for a credible Nuclear Threat against iran. Iran has vowed a resolute response to israel after the regimes Prime Minister threatend to use Nuclear Weapons against the Islamic Republic. Amir said irawani said israels threat to use Nuclear Weapons is serious threat to International Peace and security and the International Community must not remain indifferent or silent. The iranian envoy urged the United Nations Security Council to denounce israels reckless statement. Irans d deputy permanent representative to the United Nations has also announced israels Nuclear Threat against the country. Zahra ershadi is called on the International Community to force the regime to aband Nuclear Weapons, join the mmt and accept the iaa safeguards them. The Israeli Regime with the support of the United States has consistently opposed all initiatives aimed at the establishing a Nuclear Weapon free zone in the middle east. The position of hundreds of Nuclear Weapons in this region possess a. Threat to the security of the middle east and beyond. A vivid example of this regime outlawed action is calling for a socalled i code credible Nuclear Threat against iran, and of code, which was presently read by the regimes Prime Minister on 22nd september, 2023. Ershadi slammed tel avivs irresponsible threat, which he said was against International Norms and rules. Days earlier, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had address the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, calling for a credible Nuclear Threat against iran. Sanctions must be snapped back, and above all, above all, iran must face a credible Nuclear Threat. His office soon afterwards said that netanyahu had misspoken and that his prepared text said credible military threat. Iran says the International Community should reject and condemn any normalization. Of Nuclear Rhetoric and in particular the threat of use of Nuclear Weapons. Israel which pursues a policy of deliberate ambiguity about its Nuclear Weapons is estimated to harbor somewhere between 200 to 400 Nuclear Warheads in its arsenal, making it the sole possessor of nonconventional arms in west asia. Iran has repeatedly called of on the International Community to press the regime into coming clean its military Nuclear Program. Again declared that its Nuclear Program is totally, purely peaceful. Israel has a widely known but und Nuclear Program. According to the stockholm International Peace research institute, as of january, israel was believed to possess a stockpile of around 90 Nuclear Warheads, but analysts believe the regime possesses 200 to 400 Nuclear War Heads in its arsenal, making it the middle east soul possessor of nonconventional arms. The tel aviv regime has, however, refused to either allow inspections of its military Nuclear Facilities or sign. The Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty or the npt. On the contrary, iran has long been cooperating with the International Atomic energy agency, iaea, as a signatory to the npt. Tehran has repeatedly declared that its Nuclear Program remains purely peaceful as always and that the Islamic Republic had no intention of developing Nuclear Weapons as a matter of islamic and state principles. Iran proved the peaceful nature of its nuclear. Program to the world by signing the 2015 iran nuclear deal, officially called the joint comprehensive plan of action or the jcpoa, with six world powers, but the United States later quit it. Ever since the Islamic Republic of iran decided to restart its Nuclear Activities after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It has faced consistent threats from western nations and their regional allies, especially israel. The tel aviv regime. Has launched sabotage attacks against irans Nuclear Facilities and assassinated its nuclear scientists. Several Iranian Nuclear scientists were assassinated between 2010 and 2020. Israel has pressed upon its allies that irans program is malicious, partly as smoke screen for its own Nuclear Program and its scores of undeclared Nuclear Warheads. What i call in english whistleblower to inform the world about Israel Nuclear secrets because because no one speak or no one report exactly what is going there. In 1986, venu duped israels vaunted Security Apparatus and smuggled a camera into the secret demona plant. His photographs exposed the worlds greatest Nuclear Cover up. What he showed was that israels nuclear arms program was far bigger and much more powerful than anyone had even dreamt possible. Enough material every year for 10 bombs. Netanyahu, israels longest serving Prime Minister, has campaigned against iran for almost 30 years. Israel has always turned a deaf ear to International Calls on nuclear transparency, and it is never allowed any inspections of its Nuclear Facilities. Israeli forces have detained. More than 135,000 palestinians since the alada against the regime broke out in 2000, now that according to the Palestinian Commission for detainees and exdetainee affairs. The Commission Said detainees hailed from all sectors of society including women, children and the elderly, during that period period, that is nearly 21,00 palestinian children were incarcerated, in addition to hundreds of academics, journalists and Civil Society activists. Report said over 2600 pounds palestinian women and girls have been also arrested and kept under difficult conditions. Regimes authorities have also issued over 32,000 administrative detention orders since 2000. Now this allows the regime to detain palestinians indefinitely with no charge or trial. Palestinian administrative detainees have frequently resorted to openended hunger strikes to bring attention to their illegal detention which violates international law. A demonstration against the legal arrest in detention of a palestinian italian researcher by israel has been held at romes larges University La sapienza. There are hundreds of students are calling on the government to act immediately and secure the researchers release. Max chibili has your story. Kaled alkaizi is a palestinian italian researcher and student of the department of oriental languages and civilizations at the Sapienza University of rome. On august 31st, he was returning from a trip to bethlehem with his wife and fouryearold child, when the Israeli Occupation forces arrested him a checkpoint on the jordanian border. El kaizi has been detained without any formal charges since that day. On thursday, hundreds of students from Sapienza University staged the demonstration against israels unlawful practice of detaining palestinians indefinitely without charge or trial, see risks being held in prison and definitely Italian Government doesnt take a Firm Position on the issue. Elkis is currently being held at the petva Interrogation Center that is notorious for torture and inhuman treatment. His detention has been extended to october the 1st of a quote National Security concerns. Some members of the Italian Parliament have tabled a parliamentary inquiry on the legal arrest and detention of alkaisi by Israeli Occupation forces. However, the Italian Government. And has so far done nothing or very little to protect the rights of an italian citizen, unlawfully seized in front of his family. I dont know for sure if there is a connection between italys government and the media, if our media are subjected to some form of pressure by the government, what i know is that the executive seems to be more interested in protecting its political interest rather than one of its citizens a latest report by the United Nations special coordinator for the middle east has found that 1,264 palestinians are currently held in administrative detention by israel, the number, according to the un envoy, is the highest in over decade, max chivily rome. Officials in russias kirsk region sayy a Ukrainian Drone strike has hit a substation in a border village. Cutting off power to some areas, the kursk Regional Governor says a drone dropped two explosives on the substation, and as a result a transformer caught fire and hospital plus five settlements were cut off from power supply, total of 10 drones were down over krissk at night, that according to the Russian Defense ministry, it says two drones were also down over neighboring border region of belgrad and another one over kaluga, western russia, ukraine has been se bring up drone strikes on russia since june, russia says its repelled most of the attacks downplaying their significance. And after decades of unending wars in faraway territories, the us military is seen alarming surge in suicides among his troops in recent years. Now this problem has become so serious that the defense secretary loyd austin has approved over 100 recommendations to a curp suicides in the us military. Recommendations followed reviews of 11 us military sites which include thousands of interviews with military personnel and civilian staff. They focus on increase quality of life for Service Members, improving their Mental Health services, revising suicide, prevention training and improving firearm safety. According to the pentagon, more than 500 Service Members and 200 other dependents took their own lives last year, pardon, in a 2021. Thats the latest year for which numbers are. Available says approximately 70 of Service Members who died by suicide used a gun. Now based on the pentagons data, suicides among active de Service Members increased by more than 40 between 2015 and 2020, and the number jump by 15 in 2020 alone. The United Nations human rights experts have harshly critized systemic racism in the us criminal justice system. They say certain practices in america. In prisons amounts to affront to human dignity, in the report, experts especially turn the spotlight on the plight of people of color in us prisons, it said black women are shackled during childbirth and as a result, many lose their babies, the experts added the black mill inmates are forced to work in plantation style conditions, which amounts to comparary form of a contemporary form of slavery. He also raised the alarm about widespread use of solitary confinement saying its applied to sp. Proportionally to inmates of african descent. Report based on testimonies from 133 individuals in five us cities as well as those collected from f detention centers. A us media report say the countrys main Autoworkers Union is likely to expand its historic strike against three car manufactures over low pay. We discussed this earlier with our guests in our news review program. Here it is. Time now for the news review of this bulletin. In the United States, the main Autoworkers Union might announce an expansion of a historic strike against the top three Car Manufacturers if there is no progress in talks over new labor contract. Us media reports say the union will announce new targets for the strike on friday, if it concludes that it has not made enough progress. This members will. Joined the strike at noon friday. The union went a strike against general motors, ford and stalantis on september 15. Its the first time it ever stuck all three automakers at the same time, but its. Struck only Assembly Plant for each company at that time. Hundreds of thousands of us workers in various industries walked off the job this year from Hollywood Screen riders and actors to nurses, hotel staff and pilots. Experts blame rising income inequality, especially at soring prices in the current flagging us economy, among other reasons. Charles simmens, as professor of human rights at the mary gur college and from detroit and we have john edminds, professor of uh finance at bapson college, well last joining us on the phone, welcome to you both, charles simmons, let me first start with you, you know, when you look at this autoworker strike, its not just about pay, i mean it is, but theres so many different facets to it in terms of uh whos asking for the pay increase, if you can give us a brief synopsis what this is all about really so we can get an idea, well thank you for inviting me uh um, let me say that much of the reporting about labor issues, um, when the when you get economic report generally, from business perspective, it doesnt give the history of the conditions of workers and the the Economic Conditions and actually the physical conditions of workers in the country. For instance, they the business reports generally report the condition of the health of the stock market, but but less than 10 of the population in the United States states own stocks, so so much of that reporting isnt isnt even relevant to uh people working in middle classes. Um, i want to go back into some history, you know, since 1970 theres been a uh, the wages have been stagnant, so we talking about 50 years, the wages have been stagnant throughout the United States and the real wages have decreased compared to the cost of living over the past 50 years. And so what uh what has happened in in the midst of continuing rising prices, workers have gotten into deep debt, mean so were in a consumer economy, many of much of the working classes and middle classes are deep personal debt, okay so john edmonds, i wasnt going to go back to uh as far back as i guess there charles uh went, but i was going to look and ask you at this point, what happened in 208 when the financial crisis it and you had these big three being bailed out by the government . I think the um other workers did or the United Auto Workers to the union um did a favor for these uh Car Companies if im correct in my uh facts here uh that uh they werent going to get the same pay as the older or the ones that uh were there before the 20away financial crisis until things got going in a matter of speaking but uh yet they have waited long uh now theyre striking because they say you know were were left behind isnt that one the reasons here and uh of course, it is, it is one of the immediate reasons that certainly is. Okay, and john edmons, before you continue, and and you know whats amazing is that you know these Companies Got bailed out by the government, so uh, why are the ceos, as i guess there um, charles mentioned, getting the pay increases, and not the workers, ultimately, since the government was responsible for bailing out these companies, at least they should Pay Attention to the workers, go ahead, well, i think we should talk about the general disparity of the uh top stratum versus the what used to call the middle class, now you call it maybe the lower class, um, and the other, the other problem that that that is beligiring the automobile business is they dont really need as many people as they used to need, so uh, im very glad that the other person is from detroit can verify the population of detroit a peak in like 1979 and then declined pretty much steadily and then doing a a minimal rebound, but they cant really rebound since they didnt need to take back as people when the when the recovery came and then you do mention 2008 2009 when the automobile uh companies were uh so close to bankruptcy that uh fords bonds almost got downgraded to junk category and it was only through political intervention that the rating agencies did not downgrade them to junk categories so its an Old Technology uh capital intensive industry which is also labor intensive, but now is skill intensive. John edmins, professor of finance at bapson college, welsly mass. Charles simmons emeritus, professor of human rights, Mary Grove College from detroit. Thank you to you both. Thank you, with that we come to an enfince edition of the news. Mein name ist lena, ich bin 21, komme aus. ahm dorf prozelten, das liegt im spessad 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, gott, wenn du da bist, die menschen bisschen von islam erzahlen und so und meiner begeisterung. And welcome back everyone, you pardon, youre watching press tv world news, now speaking a meeting of the dprks parliament, leader kim jangun emphasized Ongoing Nuclear development in the face of what he called the worst threat posed by the us and regional allies japan and south korea. Piongs representative to the. Un had also made a similar remarks about growing Nuclear Threat that the us poses to the region at the United Nations General Assembly. Sall comes with south Korea Holding its First Military parade in a decade, and press tvs frank smith has a covered for us there for south korean capital soul. Leader of the democratic peoples republic of korea, kim jong un, addressed the Supreme Peoples Assembly of the dprk this week, emphasizing the countrys Nuclear Weapons policies. The dprk has been steadily developing nuclear and missile deterrant as it views the u. S. As a threat, a position recently outlined by the dprk representative at the United Nations General Assembly. Owing to the reckless and continued hysteria of Nuclear Showdown on the part of the u. S. And its following forces, the year 2023 has been recorded as an extremely dangerous year that the military security situation in and around the Korean Peninsula. The dprks assembly unanimously supplemented the constitution to quote deter war and protect regional and global peace by developing Nuclear Weapons to the highest level. Politics in south korea have motivated the norths military buildup. The trial relationship of the us, japan and south korea has definitely given. Reason he thinks to improve or enhance or increase his Nuclear Capability exponentially, that was the word that he used in translation. Analysts also suggest the us and its increasing Alliance Relations in the region have spurred pyong yangs drive to increase its nuclear and missile capabilities. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have increased since the election of president yunsuk under president yun who came to office here and may of 2022, joint us south korea military exercises have resumed, which pyong yang views as a rehearsal for invasion. South korea has been eager to display its military buildup with its own drills as well as those with the us, and earlier this week with the First Military parade in a decade through the capitals downtown. Franksmith press tv, soul, and thats it for your latest here on press tv. Everyone, thanks for tuning in and goodbye for now. Hossain and ibrahim are standing on the ruins the house overlooking the school in the Northern Gaza Strip town of baid hannun. The israelis rounded them up and killed 16 of them where they stood, mostly children, and wounded more than 55 others. The children were playing in the street, some were playing on the swings. We were surprised by the explosion, but when we turned round, we saw the children had become shreds of flesh laying in the street, some were injured and some others were dead. My uncle shaban, jamal and muhammad were among those who died. Every child of palestine now carries with them memories of explosions, of screams of horror by the. 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Israeli authorities have also issued more than 32,000 administrative detention orders during that period holding palestians indefinitely with no charge or troll